Long Trap door Poems

"The Payload" 

The payload 
came crashing down
like rain expelled
from the fat belly 
of a ruinous pregnant cloud 
bilious with buxom promise

it came crashing down 
like school fish released 
from the tight confines
of a course rope...

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Galley slave to obsessive compulsive disordered behavior announces...

Fore score minus xv orbitz ago
from being centenarian
strong contractions forced me
to pass thru cervix,
buck naked bare lady,
I ranked as only grandson sharing
same surname as Aaron,
(mine paternal grandfather)
me the...

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How many more times
at deaths door ???

From the abortionist hook, I did escape.
Escape from, seems to have become my fate.

Death, around my body fell.
Grandfather, pulled me from the well.

Fell through the basement, trap door.
Straight down...

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The Punisher and the PunishEd

                           I

The Punisher needs the...

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Our family and Dragon went to the Mall, not so long ago, in fact just this week.
Looking for some Christmas gifts, on Black Friday, to put beneath the tree.
Suddenly before him, in a Winter Fairy...

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This nonestablishmentarian (Iman) kant riff!
Otherwise titled as: Thanksgiving
nothing more'n gobbledygook 
we stuff ourselves with.

Mine suburban outpost 
approximately thirty seven plus miles
southeast of where liberty bell marks
history upon cobblestone streets 
where sounds of silence 
from walking...

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I was giving a lesson on the Liberty Bell, as the daily Church bells went off.
Yes, you guessed it, Dragon wanted to ring them, suddenly he was aloft.
Before we could follow, he was out of...

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Believe 

She sat down at the kitchen table to read his letter. Her smile faded as she read his words.
She had almost fooled herself this time. How could she believe he would actually change?
How could...

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I will never forget my ex wife telling me that

... everything was wrong and everything was my fault ...


‘I won’t tell you what because you must find out yourself’


My world broke into two pieces or...

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Jupiter Joy Juice/ A day in the life of the twilight zone

Pulling off of the main road, the two ladies were interested in the odd looking space craft thingy atop a small structure.  A...

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I'm sitting in the garden
With my small son on my knee
He looks up at me with big brown eyes
And says “Tell me about Granda's tree”

My father planted a tree 
In nineteen forty two
He nurtured it...

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In the middle of the night
With sleep still in my eyes 
I stepped into my kitchen 
And received quite a surprise 

As I reached out my hand
And flicked the light on
There were balloons, confetti, party...

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They were as Jonah was,
cast down into the belly of the whale
They were soon to experience
every unimaginable horror on this ship of hell

On the voyage of the damned,
     you hear the...

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Tim had dreamt of magic mountains but was stuck in a snow globe

Luckily there was some antifreeze in the little dome on his desk

Used as a paperweight for discarded inked upon manuscript pages


A complete stark...

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MOUNTAINSIDE
                    
Always, there would be darkness hovering through-
out the bushes and trees, massive sky and earthen...

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There's lots of play to underwear. 
I'll try to be discreet. 
It stretches to contain my boys 
Who hang down t'wards my feet. 
Elastic waistband hugs my hips, 
Prohibiting their fall, 
Much better than the...

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the injustice of
the powder blue box
standing proudly
on the corner of
fifty-seventh and fifth

A symbol of division
extending the partition
between wealth and
everyone else

back around the way
the old shabby
half shingled house

was home to the
second hand charlie brown
size thirteen shoes

worn...

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He looks at the mirror and frowns at the image

	‘Is it the glass or my face that lies shattered?’

		Fault lines burrowed into borrowed time

			Tim wonders about censorship and cracks

He sees a crossdresser between sadness and...

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What does it mean
To be brave?
I ask myself this as I cascade
Coffee, pour the coffee
Overloading vacant round things
With handles that are supposed to make it easier
Make it so much more easier.. Then it seems
Supposedly 
Burning...

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"Dark and Dangerous Like a Secret"

As the faces of hell's thunder arose,
Thee inner shackles began to rattle and started to unlink;
While the flames broke and thy monsters sang, she silenced her demons.
The war within was...

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Robin Hood was captured
Thrown in the castle cells
Here he met an inmate
By the name of H.G.Wells.
Herbert George is fascinated
By the story our Robin has to tell
but he knows Robin will be executed 
When the church...

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when serendipity seemed merely a word in a world of bare futile meaning

in plain English my grandma’s ‘you never know what it will be good for’

appeared to be no more than kitchen wisdom on the...

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Learning to quit
Quiting the distractions
The obsessions
Need to bring everything under control
Looking for new perspective
New life habits
New ways of thinking and being
Being open to anything
Listening for a change in heart
A change in languange, a change in...

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A few years ago,
In the depths of 
my deepest poverty,
I felt like having a drink,
But I had no money
or car,
So now I had to think

Then I remembered
in the basement,
Where my dad had
long ago started 
to...

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press ganged or poetry


head on collision with the truth

beheaded by ignorance’s sword

full steam towards censorship


synchronized fabrication

redacted news to follow

blank lines on the page …


           ...

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