Long Thundercloud Poems

Now this is a great story… But where to begin… Oh, Yes… I see… 

Our Dear Sheriff of CrazyLand lives in a town called ‘Nodding-off-Ham’
Where peace reigns supreme… and beside the ‘Oh-My-God-River’…
That does keep us...

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Married life was easy and I dearly loved my wife
We thought about the next step we would take
She brought up having children, and adding to our life
We never thought could be a huge mistake :)

The...

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In the summertime there were lots of cars and trucks moving up and down Cherry alley where I lived. Like the local bakery truck, many would stop to peddle their wares or deliver their goods....

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Gangsta politicians,
falling stars   ...   twinkling
of an eye 
	disappearing

Leper lips
	 halitosis blowing
Got there gun clips
and stacked deck 
	    poker chips ...
Sin City bullets overflowing

Body politic,
staph tongue infection
Still the voters...

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For in the end 
we are all broken,
falling to moments like this
Scattered the pieces of 
love never spoken,
lost in the whispers amiss

Thundercloud feelings 
now forming,
save me in spite of my tears
Clouds of the past darken,...

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No one’s exactly sure how this buffalo in the 1960s
Found its way to live in the heart of the city
How it separated from a sky stampede
How the great beast dropped its guard and refused to...

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Flung The monsoon midnight thunderings
When I thought of the thunder snow 
Deep into the darkness chattering 
Taking the summer sandstorm from out of my heart cold

Suddenly I heard some waiting 
Only this and a thundercloud...

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the quintessential beautiful day
but there is shadow etched in the patches of light
there is taste of misgivings in sweet afternoon air
the heart sketches its dreamscape
but distant thundercloud ripe with storm encroaches
but it is the image...

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A fine man of his time, has proper explanation
for our predicament. No good man would look him down even
if they disagreed on face masks. He stayed on the deeply alien Trump land
where fantasy reigned with...

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Rejoice, unknown of waking fall
Apart this longish bramble path
For lest we stand ‘bove lowered feel
And lone of echo’s loudest call
Of whisperings we shan’t conceal
Despised this threatened aftermath
Now formed of cost and promised wrath
If only but...

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The first concern: mysterious babies.
Please let's turn to a new perplexion:
the emergence of the grown-up things.
Alzheimer's, or catching rabies?

Faint, like changing fashion bouts? 
or a sudden busting-at-the-gut.
Lazy clouds plumping up
or a piñata thundercloud bottoming out?

Consider...

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To all who are deep inside your chambers,
asleep in your homes abroad.
Here comes the sound of drums,
decreeing new orders from God.

To all of you clovers and lillies,
wrapped in your frosty cocoons.
Can you hear the distant...

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In the lines of your quarried face
are granite truths and pastel mysteries
part time jester - full time thief of hearts
doubting the existence of great gifts,
tears in the fabric self worth.

In the violet crag of your...

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I can’t tell it all
The joy and sorrow we endure together 
We can’t forget the devil who stole our clothes and made us  Angora rabbit in Ankara Tavsani.
I remember our nakedness that was showcase...

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I would fly up high on whispering wings
unseen, unheard, so way above the cloud
and look upon the beggars and the kings
some poor, and others with great wealth endowed

I would fly up high on whispering wings
to...

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Selectively forgetful,
That's what my mother says -
When I'm called to do some work,
I escape in funny ways.

I'm running short of time now
But I'll tell you all I can
Of all my weird excuses,
Perhaps the worst made...

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An eagle soars above green crested waves
Of prariegrass riding on midsummer rays
An oasis of trees in the open grassland
With more life to show than is shown on one hand
For little is seen but a breath...

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Within my breast still boils like summer clouds
Passion and longing_ desire to be held
Like one afraid of summer's thundercloud
Feeling secure, warm, loved to his body weld

What happened to that flame; did glacier flow
Icing even small...

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Everybody knows
It's been a long road
Everybody knows
It's been a long road

I been tryin' hard
Not to leave my soul behind
I been tryin' hard
Not to forget who I was

And every thundercloud
That threatened my nice day
Well it made...

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The nearly full moon's haloed glow
Doesn't cast shadow on hedgerow
For it's almost hidden by dark clouds
Eerily peeks through leafless willow

The night's darkness could be shroud
Coat all eve's creatures in velvet proud
All that eerie green glow_which...

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behind me the door slams shut
i’ve entered into a time warp
my world suddenly imploding
a silence the size of a cosmic boom
enshrouding all of colorless morose 
liquified into blobs amorphic  
of hours converging into days

there...

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