Long Tripwire Poems

I Asked Myself A Rhetorical Question...

Asper daily expounding fostering
     inchoate manifesting mod
     er writ writing quality,
     solitary scrimmage tackling
    ...

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Besotted winged pollinators
roistering barrage drowned
amidst general insectivorous cacophony
indistinct auditory signals communicated

intermingled with bounteous wafting fragrance
midwifed edenic floral pullulation
sensate admixture viz colored spectrum
amidst unrehearsed extemporaneous

orchestral suite bedded lambs
amorous ewe man like bleating songs
nature all aflutter actively...

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3.28 parsec out
We’re making an impromptu flight change
Windstar is gonna have to make 
				a low-grav burn and turn
towards the Big Rocky asteroid belt border
It’s a risky nav maneuver for sure,
but every space outlaw has faced...

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He took a plane to Rapid City
Hoped the bike trip would be pretty
Took a cab to where the trail began—
He had the spark of a younger man.

Next day he cycled on the Mickelson Trail
Though he...

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She had been indoctrinated to believe her country was free
But she hit the tripwires, had nowhere to flee
She learned the hard way that what she'd been taught
were lies from a regime that couldn't be fought.

His...

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Does the feeling left linger on the tip of your tongue?
Looking for sense in these empty-full strokes
To overstep bounds missed in the rush
Begging to see behind the puppeteer’s eyes
      Too...

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Time is a tightrope...a tripwire...a twisted toy in bloody barbwire
Time is truth...more or less...where the rich and the ruthless write the history text

Time dissolves inside of dark dreams where life blood spews like volcanic lava
from...

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Mother buried hacked-up carp beneath 
pink rose mallow. She knew the filthy cats 
would come. A balled-up dirty rag 
and coffee tin of smelly kerosene 
were garrisoned behind a red berry twistwood. 
Mother would hide...

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As I understand, it bloomed in your past 
And lulled false security, teased the strings 
Of your heart, cleaved through your immunity, 
A hot blade through butter, 
Then cast you aside, trod your love in...

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Octane rush and howls the surging blood, 
  Racing uncongealed, mercury switched and primed, 
And in the veins detonates a nitro surge, 
  Swells the moon struck heart, ignites the tripwire mind. 
Love...

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