Long Twangs Poems

There are a select few people who are essential to my entire well-being
Embarrassed that I haven’t thanked you for the love you gave to me
I must tackle the troubles that double in size, strength and...

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Wordplay Beats Ban Adverse

In 2184 the thought-police declared war
On embellishment, feeling and emotion in literature and articles in any form.
Succinct 'plain English' was the name of their game.
Google's Knowledge Graph spewed out the answers to...

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A Polite Warning. The Following poem is somewhat steamy. Not explicit, but explicit in
inference. If this sort of thing offends you, then please be considerate and don’t read
it. Thank you. 

Naked Flamenco

( A sultry summer...

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I guess that is just how the old ballads are                         ...

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When you live on a farm and hear cockadoodle-doo
What do those words mean to you?

They mean pretty soon you'll hear moo,
and you'll have lots of work to do.

After a while, the horse will neigh, 
and,...

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I cast a line on pond to fish.
My lure plops,
and triggers circles to radiate out
as rings of ripples emanating
from the surface deformed, disfigured
by weighted lure on the end of the line.

My line sinks from view,
slack...

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In the beginning there was logos

Said Heraclitus!

In the beginning there was word
Said the Bible!
Sticks and stones 
Or words said
The sadistic torturers of all times!
When words are scarce, they are seldom spent in vain
Said Shakespeare.
Then he...

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In the beginning there was logos
Said Heraclitus!
In the beginning there was word
Said the Bible!
Sticks and stones 
Or words said
The sadistic torturers of all times!
When words are scarce, they are seldom spent in vain
Said Shakespeare.
Then he...

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In the hills of seven huts,
Where war is either a place or surname,
And dreams are translated into numbers,
And a number became a gambler's sad song,
I found God breathing through the pine trees.

Orchards in the hills...

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To be forever bent in a lack of better term
To lie still in darkness like a sad, blind worm
To eat your words as a form of grainy nourishment
To smell the dampness of your tempered encouragement...

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The tattoos, the body and the moonlit shine.
Lusting shadows, the winds of change;
Busting seams, subdued passions as they soar.
Tremors in the voice, the fascination of her moulds.

Swaying tides the occults, the mesmerism of her lips.
Churning...

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These four walls mean freedom, 
From the rain, suffrage and the stains, 
Liberty from oppression and religion, 
To make other songs and trains. 

No austere twangs or cold voice, 
No dais glutes or traditional figure;
My...

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A Villanelle Tra La La 
Tra la la-I couldn't stop thinking bout this song
Twas just so minuscule and kind
This I could never forget this verse twangs bings-bongs

That morn, hearing this new verse encounters so long...

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on crenshaw 
carousing in cavernous cafes 
slicing into earthen skin
the meat dancers bring it to a boil
they murder the rug
they scrounge for earth worms
the fish head girls bob like sea birds
telephoning purple mermaids for a...

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"Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from an autumn tree."

                       ...

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Las Vegas, Pigeon’s Paradise!

At the Angel Park Golf and Country Club
The pigeons sported neck scarves
Of iridescent iris, white and blue
As they hoped with expectations
Around divots in the turf,
Now filled with sand and seed
By a golfer's...

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Snapped down shirts, scuffed up boots
Puffing larger than life chests
Dime-store pokes, showing colors
Peacock struts and sailor jokes
Twangs from the jukebox
Begging for two-steps
Cheap draws flowing
Cue sticks chalked and
Propped on end.
Balls on the felt waiting to roll...

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Clattering coins 
forcefully flung 
inside a fragmented glass jar,

doleful howls full of misery, woe
nocturnal creatures arise,

rapid rotations, 
continual tornados

tedious echos beneath 
a derelict railway tunnel,

nefarious lightning 
strikes the thunder,

rolling immensely enraged
she roars fighter jets in...

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in sadness
i gaze upon your beautiful picture
wondering what it is like over there
with you

in laughter
i see your animated face
wondering what it feels like to feel an embrace
with you

in envy
i watch you laugh and smile
wondering who’s...

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