Long Tress Poems

November 13th, 2021 - Happy eighty sixth birthday
to my long deceased mom...
Harriet Harris née Kuritsky

My mother succumbed to a terminal illness
two score minus three orbitz passed away
no matter she fought tooth and nail
to keep ovarian/uterine...

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what i know

i know you know that i know your shadow
that i travel with it in the light day
i imagine and know the imagery shadow
that directs you in the dark side.

i know the shadow of...

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Let hope rely upon your Maginot
for swift retort has choked your Gallic might.
It crushed your will beneath its undertow
as diligence receded in the fight.
Your flailing forces teeter on defeat
and any hint of truce shall be...

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To the lord’s holy house did I this honest man so go,
On this Sabbath day of rest, to praise the almighty God
In the ancient chapel of worship, but low if I’d only
Known what lurked in...

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(Inspired by the film: 'The Fall of the Roman Empire')

She was with him

   in the great gore of battle....

Where skulls legion were cracked

   and limbs hewn from sword,

   ax...

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Human Birth,

The top of creation,
How lucky we are,
Only to know the value of this selected birth.
This body is a supermachine
It has the highest potential, 
to develop as an infant, 
to mature as an adult.

Development comes...

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The wind blows through the tress
Dry leafs falling to the frozen ground
So many people lives here
But they don’t make a sound

Snow like a blanket on the grass
Feeling the chill on the tip of my nose
Bouquet...

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sweet fragrance of perfume

          pheromones on satin sheets

                  ...

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The (former) Double Life Of Matthew Scott Harris

Dove finch he following iniquitous
     licentious, lecherous longing
     extinguished quite
some years ago,
     when eldest daughter
 ...

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As those two met
Overwhelmed with happiness he was, he says Is there anything you ask my love?
She demanded for a gigantic bowl with glittering stars
With Big Bang was created this universe ,bright enough to mAke...

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Sunsets; sky's colored; red, orange, and yellow
I walked by the frozen voices of the birds' songs

A lake accompanied my journey towards a "destination unknown"
The fish had to text their goodbyes, for darkness approached their royal...

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The bleeding of my eyes cannot
be over emphasis as the a weakness of my heart.
i have been brave thousand times to stop the 
black sky from darken my heart, yet my 
braveness was sold in...

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diploma acquired magna cum laude – double entendre

Xlv years elapsed since
I (former long haired pencil necked geek)
bid alma mater adieu,
the quietest kid, who never said boo
nobody discerned handy dandy blues clue
what yours truly thought,
cause figurative...

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They all were getting ready Buh it still far away said the trees.  
A tiny tree said what far away? Association with man the smell of their home and the joy of the season.
He...

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"Next Halloween"



Walking with strangers as parents look on

Speaking of the greatness the last house dropped in their bag

Giddy with sugar and the excitement of the night to come

Such innocence noticed by the horror behind the...

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No one will tell you it’s my time,
To come back and make people smile.
I am an occasion that comes ones a year,
When the whole season has been full of fear.
I come to drown away the...

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Colorful rainbows fill up the sky
Sprinkles of sugar falling like rain
Marshmallows banners of “I love you”
 from Cadbury chocolate planes

Mountain made of ice creams
 Milk and honey rivers flows
 And cotton candy tress
 Sweet juicy...

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There was a time a while ago when animals mattered.
Treated as species that aided men and there well being, they were special as they were gathered.
Now humans have brought many to the brink of existence.
Progress...

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Near the northern end 
Of the Tigris river valley 
there's the beautiful city of duhok 
Next to the boarder of turkey

A city of many fruit orchards 
A very popular tourist destination 
with a fruit canning...

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On the edge of silence 
beyond the mossy-muffled stone wall
a wind chime chants — faint, like falling sparkles of stars—
honeyed musings of a wind spirit on the move
from west to east a bridge of broken...

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Draped in blooming green,
Colored with a rosy beak,
Blessed with wings free as air,
With crazy dreams of naughty playfulness,
A carefree young parrot I am,
Taking refuge in prospering wilderness.
 
The forest is my abode,
Never failing to amaze...

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4:00 AM time to check the trot-lines.
Catfish and turtles strung out deep in the muddy waters
We would string the lines from cypress trees across a channel
And mark them with fluorescent tape so we knew which...

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Dog felt down, he never smiled anymore.
“I bet its because you're a bore!”
said Freda the Frog.
“Maybe,” said Dog.
So Frog did a trick, to make Dog smile.
And it helped him, just for a while.
“Oh, Dog, why...

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Not a love at first sight moment; 
These feelings grew slowly but strongly
Fed by the intensity of the magnified energy 
In your smile

Difficulties arose before our hearts
Separation of the fusion of our love's confusion
Fist kiss
Lover's...

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