Long Trudges Poems

Trifolium pollinated courtesy bombus

Before landscapers mow swaths
across undulating waves of clover
(the father/daughter team
usually cut grass every Tuesday)
bumblebees alight from one to another flower.

Meanwhile, I lie splayed
mid morning June 28th, 2022
with stomach upon natural carpeting
quietly basking...

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George the Giant lives alone in his cave.
He is really big but not very brave.
He just wants a friend to have fun with all day,
But no-one wants to join him at play.

The problem is that...

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You know not why you're now here, 
just that you are bound by fear- 
(and a couple incised wires) 
watching me, enticed with pliers. 
Naked, cold, taught, and crying, 
you can't move, although you're trying. 
All stretched out, upon your stomach, 
odors...

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The Flower Seller

Amelia wares un- cuticled painted nails, 

She hop scotches a pirate on one leg, 

Tip-toeing long sun cast morning shadows,

beneath billowing hand stitched, salty sails; 

Under an early Sun, fingers whir in a...

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It’s over! Is your last sentence and final sentence.
You accused me of pushing you through the edges
Every time you’re giving up, I make a new entrance
Every steps closer is ruined by a thousand wedges
To remove...

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Life keeps going to find his purpose
he strolls across verdant plains and trudges up the hills
sometimes dejection follows rejection and distress
darkness engulfs
and something spooky emerges 
looming large to form something horrid…
a hideous hunchbacked hiatus.
Life slows...

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The sun shines in a friendly glow while the birds sing mating songs, searching for 
that lost bond of intimate natural longing. Greenery illuminates the path through the 
garden, colorfully decorating the atmosphere with contentment....

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There's a viscerally vial creature loosed,
Which is heinously hideous and vicious.
This barbarian monstrosity destroys people's vitality and flesh,
By raping and pillaging their lives,
Killing and ravaging entire families and villages,
Forever cursing all those it consumes.
I've taken...

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A knight in rusting armor trudges through the pelting rains. 
A warming flame, deep in his heart, a fire that heals all pains. 

Through wilderness in scorching heat; and dead cold of the night, 
he...

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Let Us Go To The Haunted 
Hollow

His feet slide across the leaves
Rustle. His eyes are teary
They glint white under the 
night sun
His body is tired, mind weary
As he trudges. Left foot right 
foot
Down an honour...

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Bug Destiny

Round tiny bug moves slow along the garden path
Avoiding traffic as it trudges along
Carries the hardened armor of its ancestry
Down there too, through the centuries
The weight of that nobility 
With it, on its back,...

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Merrilyn escorts John through the Western trudges, as strangest of strangles blocks the memerrical double
Her momentous reflection: sordid, drossy, and wide to portant throttles
As whips become kisses and fainting memories open with admittance
The sorest sense...

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Tired fingers drummed on bound leather,
white knuckled mountains held a fire post
high, giving away his position to everyone 
that drove by. A radio hums nervously,
keeping pace with the sore jointed thrumming…
but just barely. Heavy blankets...

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A huge Alsatian barks at a passerby stranger
as the pond geese honk sensing grave danger
Trudges back home a rangy lone ranger.

Big and little aubergines cast a purple shade
In the twilight birdsong begins to fade
Night makes...

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RE-INVENTING THE WHEEL


The universe rhymes with poetry of motion
Ecstasy expressed in lyrical expansion
Where nothing stays stubbornly static 
For the laws of motion aren’t erratic.

The rhythm of life is poetry in motion
Trudges on time with triple...

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for her sister's one hundredth birthday
      a new sweater purchase from a store blocks away
      a goal coveted, though for the aged, no such thing
...

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Burbling stream starts it's journey joyous and happy
Soon finds life is not that easy

Terrain is hard,  uneven, dirty
People around selfish

Everyone tells it "Once you reach a river, your problems will cease"

Joyous at this thought,...

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Hello, I’m Lenny and I’m a ghost.

Out walking the dog,
My iPod playing my favourite music,
I never saw or heard the speeding car.
Jess barked, I looked up.
For a moment I stared into the driver’s eyes and
Then...

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It takes a strong woman; 
to really stand by her man.
When the world is against them;
she still does all she can.

Through thick and thin;
the good and the very bad.
She keeps coming back
for the love that...

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Off to Kaduna my mind flies,
Off to Zaria my soul first alighted,
Gently ! Gently !! Gently !!!
Echoes the man behind the wheel.
He trudges on day-dreaming
Concerned not about our hues over cries 
His pace was like...

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angry because the role that led them
to the top,
is the only one that anyone remembers,
the actor/actresses trudges through
the rest of their career
as if this was their proverbial 
“cross to bear”---
but how many actors/actresses
are every really...

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Always an urge is in action, a basic urge
That sings, that moans, that groans, that stones
Whether animate or inanimate
The passion is everywhere

The leaves are always talking
In rustle, in bustle, in murmur, in whisper, in bang
In...

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I’m walking backwards up a hill.
A light turns red; I go
into the ocean with some cats.
There’s one that I don’t know.

He says, “Your clothes don’t even match.
Your shirt is inside out!”
I say, “That’s quite an...

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With shining eyes, the prettiest
advances leading all the rest.
She skips with glee beneath blue skies,
the prettiest with shining eyes.

The second, with a warming smile,
comes dressed in lace, and all the while
she lithely romps beneath the...

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