Long Tromped Poems

...“From that day on I was just a damned whore,
two years I spent in that place on my back,
when I had finally paid back what was owed
they tossed me out and they said,’That was that.’

“But...

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Dragon loves his penguins! Oh that we know quite well.
So…Dragon ask for their own little, silver, fire retardant, suits, do tell!
Oh Lord A Mercy! The little penguins dress up sooo very cute, too!
But leave it...

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She was a rainbow faerie 
in a butterfly world.
Where faeries were shunned
Considered gossips, thieves,
Ignored, pulled down, 
jeered at 
due to the butterflies’ preconceived notions
and belief in antiquated myths 

They had grown up thinking their rights
were...

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When my identical twin sister and I were about nine, there was a little brooklet
in our backyard.  It started out kind of like a tiny stream of water in a marshy bit of grass...

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They come in to gripe.
	They come in to bounce, ideas off me.
                       ...

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when it comes to baseball
there was one team that we shall
remember from it's past

it's the nineteen twenty seven 
        N.Y Yankees

amidst this legendary collection 
you shall find the...

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She grabs the tree topper and begins to climb the Christmas tree
We stand back and watch, no longer surprised at her audacity
Not family, not yet an in-law, yet she has tromped all over us today.

Enthralled...

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A grayish blue beluga whale arrived two minutes too late.
The whole committee yelled "no"  before half past eight.

Fifteen minutes later, a filthy, smelly camel tromped in,
Making the whole committee laugh out of their skin.

A...

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The raccoon was brazen
Bold, devilishly handsome
I fell in love quickly
I know. Raccoons are no good for opossums
But the heart wants who the heart wants.

We met on a warm day
in the throes of summer
He was eating...

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Broken battered angry deranged parents 
Try to break their children at an early age
So they will not be alone in their misery
It works with some, however, with others 
It completely backfires.

They take their pain and...

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Dreaming

Nothing is sure but maybe, 
imagination enthralls
you might find me if your looking 
when your dreamtime comes to call
if a rooster calls at midnight 
and the dog pees up the wall
and you tremble in your...

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When my heels tromped down the dark narrow path
Where the buck- even – trod
It was early fall, and the trees were half trimmed.
The sun flickered through the barren tops,
    and the greenish-...

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THE DEEP MYSTERY

The biggest animal species on earth was ever been,
the dinosaurs roamed proud the land of the Jurassic.
In fierce fights they were the ones to always win,
everything surrounding them seemed so very weak.

When they...

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He is a Benscar, a burly, beastly, bellowing, befitting ugly bug troll.
This was said by my older cousin who fibs, his name is mean mole.
I do not believe you, I said, because I was aware...

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Do not….
I repeat…
Do not not not not not
Have brand new carpeting put in
The same day as a rain storm and an 8-year-old girl's slumber party.

I am usually the fun-loving, happy, excited birthday girl’s mama.
I was...

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Holly McGilly was mean and rude to her mother today
Justice, the old honest hen heard her and was blown away
I will make that rude teenager take her rude words away
She took Holly down in the...

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My husband was normal until he turned fifty Mrs. Claus said.
Then he bought a red sports car and went a bit crazy inside his head.
He’s down at the Reindeer lodge disco dancing tonight.
He is grooving...

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They were once young warriors well trained Marines
Trained by their government...mean green killing machines...
They tromped through the jungles looking to kill,
Hoping to avoid dying with an ineffable feel!

For deep in the jungle  Vietcong all...

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They came last night
Sashayed and tromped through
A dreamy, semi-wakefulness
Snapshots of vague faces
Riffling pages of pageantry
Shuffling through suffering.
I failed to recognize many
Longed to linger with others
Applauded successes
Cheered failures resiliency
Reached to touch, to caress
The sinewy shadows of...

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I think of him, a thunder of regret floods my throat.
Trust given, taken and tromped upon.
I think of us, existing in half portions.
Glass clear I stood, unaware of the shatter of half-truths. 

Decidedly elephant gray,...

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