Long Tromp Poems

Here’s a penny for your thoughts… Dragon style!
One day Dragon wanted me to explain what Angels really are…. 
So, I told him Angels are God's special people who can fly… 
He got all excited... Cause...

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keeping low walking softly blending in
as a defensive buttress against you name it
shall we get back to categories vs. kaleidoscope
asked the autisticly artistic ship's doctor
his specialty more melancholia than anesthesia
I'll gladly tell you that much
which...

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Sheer Phawn was not like other jungle creatures. She did not blend into the landscape.
She was not fearful of the unseen dangers, or the dark shadows, or the lack of sun.
The secretive cloak of the...

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The dawn spoke her name like a silken secret
carried carefree by the tradewinds of lust and larceny
imported from the traderoutes of paradise and pandemonium, 
sequined with violet venom she venerates the virtue of volition
her love...

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Been through the rocks and bottoms
AND MY SHOES DON'T FIT
Climbing Mount Nebo, marched in Medigeo
AND MY SHOES DON'T FIT
Tried to follow you Lord, but it's too hard
CAUSE MY SHOES DON'T FIT
When I was seven my...

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IV.
Liesel looked down to the girl by her side,
her brother’s features were perfectly clear,
she hugged the small girl, and her fears vanished,
replaced by a cascade of happy tears.

She look up and cried, “Tell me, what’s...

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Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?


“Why Hast thou”?
My unripe hairy-brain makes its claim
to be the image of its Father.

My vision today 
could turn a green leaf brown, 
or scorn itself, seeing only 
the thoughts that feed it.

Forsaken…...

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Welcoming hearth warms us as we tromp in the snow.
Darling children in gorgeous Christmas outfits, as we all know.
They are passed around from Aunt to Uncle, especially the baby.
This Christmas is the best says Old...

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The orders come in, as does the stress,
sometimes the phone still rings off the hook,
They give us a quota every day
and the boss man will come by and look.
I feel my heart-rate staring to rise,
and...

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Tromping in the hall

A tromp tromp tromp out in the hall,
I wondered ghostly was it all.
So I said "come visit me", 
That’s all,
Perhaps it’s then I’ll see.

Click click of door it opened wide.
And shut so...

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...SOUL TUNES...

Regret. It sounds like a drum roll...

Sweat prickling down my forehead,
Leaving the stage now a tempting idea,
There it is…Tuba? Sax? Trumpet!

Outshine? No, just survive is the new goal!

Twice it calls out. Run? Instead,
One arms...

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Huddled over that old black radio
waiting for the final announcement
School canceled tomorrow!
Bedtime? We actually have to SLEEP?

Where am I? Is that light coming from...
No-No! Don't look out the window!
Then-how-what-when-where?
Oh me oh my, the door, the...

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One of the feelings that I love most, is feeling the sand between my toes.
One of the smells that is precious to me, is the smell of the salt and the sand and 
the sea.
Oh...

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Let’s all walk down to the International Café
Where gallivanting is allowed, and the antelopes stomp.
Let’s be merry, and daring, and a tiny bit gay.
We are all welcome. Let’s give it a shout out and a...

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I look out my window
and what do I see?
A blanket of snow
where fields used to be.

This blanket of white
that covers the ground
and glistens at night
is not made of down.

Flakes of snow fall down
from the winter...

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I shall not envy the upstart's polished gait, 
Or wish myself as old knights in diamonds
Hued to bamboozle familiar souls and eye, 
Flattered by aping pals and ersatz blondes. 

For swanky gait soon in quiet...

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welcome to the monster family stomp
tromp slap skittle scurry trip and tromp 
were those the rats so evil and furry?
monsters are afraid of these creatures, so hurry!


I think one just bit me down deep in...

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On Hollywood Boulevard

Grohman’s Chinese theater, The Walk Of Fame
Awestruck, frantic crowds tromp down the street
A swirl of accents divulge from whence they came
Myth and stark truth clash but rarely meet

A boulevard of tinsel, tourist mecca...

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My wife says I'm her hero
Her knight in shining armor
My tractor is my batmobile
Disguised as a simple farmer

I'll save those chickens from that fox
Each night when the sun goes down
I'll make that chicken coop safe...

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The redbud covered with lavender
Beauty exposed by a golden sun
Morn's cold damp air saturated
With crows, coos, cheer-up sounds 

So pleasant the surroundings
On this cold crisp spring day
Nature offers entertainment
If we stop and look at its...

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As the storm clouds gather over the sun
A tiny opening lets through beams of light
Still a swirling dark mass like a sea undone
Resting behind are beams of sunlight

Rain is needed and the clouds a delight
They...

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I am depressed she said
Her face leaked 
Chin quivering
I am lonely, I have no one

I cannot relate to her
I am never lonely
Never alone
Even in my dreams

My spirit guides raise me up
Shake me up
Roll me around
Tromp...

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Sheep with attitude did the cha cha cha
I am kidding actually, you know that Ma.
These two  arrogant ninnies take themselves too seriously
Their faces are always staid and staunch, I said deliriously.

They tromp around the...

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Everyone loves a new mother.
We give her pampering gifts.
Send her carnations and roses.
Promise her candles, warm baths, chocolates.
Tromp into the hospital bearing onesies with cute sayings.
Pretending the smell of urine is palatable.
Pretending to not hear...

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