Long Timings Poems

After finishing a seminar based on demand and supply,
I walked out to the street and hailed a taxi going by,
and as I sat down in the seat, the taxi driver said to me,
‘my, my, your...

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Conflict
 
The priest ran
Scared to raise 
An ignorant army

On a darkling plain
Loading guns
With dummy

Faith. The froth
Rose arrogantly
In the test

Tube.  They heard
Eyes shut and saw
Ears plugged,

Contorted faces
Expecting the explosion
Any moment.

Slowly
Very slowly the froth
Spilled over

Leaving behind—would
The...

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Wind roams around bare footed
Her loose grey hair weaving every minute

A waning gibbous moon raising, at 11 in the East 
For the beings with Heart, it is indeed a feast. 

Incomplete, strained yet mesmerizing 
It's...

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Do I remember when...

Better breezes blew
Cleaner waters flowed
Teasing memory so... 

For I can hear them in quiet special times… can you?
Softly now, in your own silence… hear them…

‘Are we missed?’

___*___

I am old in age now
Quieter...

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Gliding gracefully, “G” came into my life.
Tall, lean, studious, specky guy.
His attitude was just too high!
He would never look eye to eye.
In a few months, we were cutie pies.
He told me, “He likes me, though...

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Mind is full head is racing, why can’t I just stop the pacing… 3 simple words as in “I am done” not worrying about the future I still have to overcome. 
The future isn’t for...

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Loverly lusting everything living life as it's lavish
Learning to Listen lastingly liking the letters tragic
Trusting in ever targeted tempering tantrums tethered and
Tempting ticklish touching spots toggling throughout timings
Purposely pointing passionate porous is as it's potent
Slipping...

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So is it just me or is toast weird
bare with me so
bakers train for years
To produce these
beautiful pillow bouncy castles of air caves
surrounded by mouth crumbling battlements
crusts that disintegrate at a tremble
they learn to knead...

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A Streetlight’s Prayer

How shall the torrent of light from
Other men’s redemption spent be divided, shared?
Can I be spared from such a valid question seeking
illumination?
What measure shall I take this night for day; timeless
In lesser stances...

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It was a strange sort of day
A Heavy treacley sky
That seemed  too thick
For any bird to even try to fly.
The city lay in waiting for 
Celebrations to begin
The Fiesta of Fiestas  
Days of...

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Time is timeless. Uncontrolled! Unquestioned!
Unfaultable! Unopposed! Unfathomed!
She keeps everyone very humbly tied.
The universe, at Time's command, gets swayed.

I can't decide my age. Time does for me.
I'm fifty today? Of course, she lies not.
I will not...

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They were born on different days,
on different years,
at different timings,
in different places..

They lived all away,
passing life, day by day
to wherever it goes,
whatever it takes..

Time flies by
and they grow old,
moments unite,
years gather aside,
days align,
and the clock...

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Edna Purcell
1912-1930

Dying a virgin was the least of my regrets.
Dying a chaste woman at 18 seemed a moot point.
I remember watching my momma die.
It was in summer, and I was 16.
Hopelessly disconsolate, that’s how I...

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Sun descends slowly to other side of mountains, I watch with wonder
Where sun goes, why other side doesn't have light I often wonder

Sun changes its colour from yellow to orange to bright red, I watch...

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How often do you regret,
Questioning what you suspect

To be an opportunity missed,
Wanting to do over, you wish

Another chance,
To improve your circumstance

Please let me try,
I won’t let this one go by

Without fear,
It’s perfectly clear

With fear,
Success is...

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We were sitting
In your house by the beach
And you were making us drinks

I think they were strawberry margaritas
I said to you
What kind of man
Drinks strawberry margaritas?

We laughed and laughed
Til we couldn’t laugh anymore
Tears running down...

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I dreamt of you again during the jaded hours where chocolate silk covered my soul tainted with morbid memories of where breast cancer had lingered long after hospice left the building I gazed through diamond...

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the empty timings 
of ford trucks six galloping horse's
and industrial
hushes of flint Michigan's or'r
 
of a solid notion 
covered above quiet gestures
where almonds 
and mustard seeds gather

throughout the earths
crestful daunting arches
that glowed gravely
within the abrupt...

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Something really happens strange in life ;
Which leaves us with life destroying,
Difficulties over miles and miles,
Those happenings with the tragedies in life.

My life is destroyed with the;
Arrival of certain occasional happenings.
The life is not life...

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so it seems you never asked my name
while the quiet storm felt the same 

so it seems the offering is quite fitting
within the evening time and table sitting

so it seems the clouds moved yet again...

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I believe, 
			therefore I breathe
			the collective id down at
			the mall.
			
			Salvation in the actions of
			our gridiron greats,
			our pro golfers,
			our game show cops,
			our East Village actors,
			our runway planes of even beauty
			that some how forgives me,
			bodes me on...

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The Vikings surviving
Travelling fighting 
All were uniting  
Ending enlightened

invasion surprising 
England arriving 
Provided a King 
Fought and did win

The Normandy Vikings 
My family were tied in
aligned with the timings 
Madness my mind thinks

Extraordinary findings...

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“You know it still hurts 
Sometimes I wonder why it didn’t worked,

May be we were not meant to be together 
But what was it with your promises to be with me forever,

May be for you...

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