Long Twixt Poems
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The Bone Idol[First posted in 3 parts. Intended novel: time never allowed]
Prologue
This, Sir, is the prologue from before our tale begins
About the day our father did succumb to mortal sins
And left behind a man who would...
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Categories:
twixt, fantasy,
Form:
Rhyme
How I Got Richer and What I Did NextHow I Got Richer and What I Did Next
I struck a sly deal with some Wall Street investors.
I shorted 'em stocks that didn't exist!
But they got me back (those post-empty-nesters)
by making fake deals I couldn't...
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Categories:
twixt, allegory, funny, heaven, humor, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Canto Xx Hell TranslationOf new pains new verses must be composed
To give matter for the canto twenty
Of the canticle first, treating sunk posed.
I just was inclined with desires many
To thoroughly look at the open deep,
Which was moisten...
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Categories:
twixt, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
-mama Linda-You know some verse and poems are Fiction this is a True story that happen to me today...
______________________________________________________________
…Well, it’s 9:28 am…
On today August 16, 2019
I was on break twixt my job, of driving school children.
Was...
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Categories:
twixt, adventure, analogy, friendship, humanity, spoken word, surreal,
Form:
Narrative
Slow Gin and Astral Conversations
"Slow Gin and Astral Conversations"
A maze me?
I’m the architect
of my own destiny
he beguiled her
incessantly
from the depths of
his bottled up Carceri
she knew him
before he became
a complex
well-hidden
Piranesi
twixt your world
and...
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Categories:
twixt, dark, muse, symbolism,
Form:
Epic
Pulse of the Poet's AbyssIn my chambers where phantasmagoria undulate
not as vigilant watchers but as mnemonic parasites
I ruminate—
no longer a singular entity but...
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Categories:
twixt, emotions, gothic, halloween, imagination, muse, poets,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Conceits
"Conceits"
Such conceits
as veils between
our windowed worlds
torn torrential incomplete
mayst thou watch and learn
the one I spawned,
strength beats weakness
carried soft and harsh
one direction or the other
strength and weakness
both carried soft and harsh
ego and...
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Categories:
twixt, love, mother daughter,
Form:
Free verse
In It, I Saw Prometheus Chained and BoundIn It, I Saw Prometheus Chained And Bound
I was reading Salinger's, "Catcher In The Rye"
A follow up from Leo Tolsty's, "War and Peace"
I heard a voice say, "seek wisdom before you die"
Remember...
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Categories:
twixt, art, imagination, inspiration, literature, poetry, poets, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Obsession...inspired by 'Portrait Of A Lady' by T.S. Eliot
On winter days the view outside is nebulous at best,
within, the furniture is as it always was, and I am waiting,
waiting for a glimpse of you to...
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Categories:
twixt, angst, devotion, universe,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
The StoneThe tale below was carved one night
upon the stone, by candlelight
...most won’t believe, but some just might
.........most won’t believe, but some just might
...
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Categories:
twixt, body, death, fantasy, kiss, love, me, morning,
Form:
Ballad
Me and Me FirstThat soft-spoken Sovereign commands a big stick,
runs the world into ruins, once our bailiwick.
If asked why, He grins grimly, pale lips slightly pursed:
"Vindication? Straightforward: It's Me and Me First"
(To mesmerise people He needed...
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Categories:
twixt, political, society, world,
Form:
Quatrain
My Most Embarrassing MomentIt was many years ago now, before my wisdom teeth
had forced their way through my big mouth, they were still underneath.
I had an awesome job within the motor industry;
not building them, but selling: an ‘Executive’,...
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Categories:
twixt, funny,
Form:
Quatrain
The Crowing RavenQ, you; you cry, defy
call me a liar; open inside, simple design
I shout to the sky like a dying firefly
See the light flickering incessantly
a cosmic wave of energy mingling
an incomplete portrait, complete with hair...
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Categories:
twixt, bird, how i feel, raven, integrity,
Form:
Free verse
Swing Sets and Jungle Gyms(or swing sets and monkey bars)
A pitch perfect spring day
such as today April 8th, 2022
within quaint hamlet
of Schwenksville, Pennsylvania
in close proximity within mind's eye
to Lake Wobegon, Minnesota
finds me reminiscing...
When, scads of light years ago
(half...
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Categories:
twixt, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th
Form:
Free verse
Re: viewing the emotionally prosperous papa razz zee life I did not liveRe: viewing the emotionally prosperous papa razz zee life I did not live
The following poetic account
written more'n a dozen
dirty dancing decades ago,
while I (a socially
withdrawn Homo Sapiens)
one indigent Yahoo
groveled...
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Categories:
twixt, abuse, america, angst, bereavement, children, confusion, daughter,
Form:
Rhyme
Heaven's Lost Property: a Movie of My EmotionsA voice, a silky sweet voice i my ear
a whisper, a whispering question hanging in the air
but there's a conflict of interest
I'm no master nor hero
not even a zero, I'm just a boy
a boy craving...
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Categories:
twixt, anxiety, best friend, corruption, fear, feelings, first
Form:
Narrative
CrimeIs to borrow a quote from a hero plagiarism or is it in honor of his memory
Is to but recite the intelligence of a general man forgotten to forever etch it in history
Is it a...
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Categories:
twixt, hero, integrity,
Form:
Free verse
Memories To Bury Myself Alive'I DEFY YOU STARS! ! ! ! JULIET! ! ! ! JULIET! ! ! !
The sun to rise above all others
Gracing Earth with its mere presence
Eclipsing all other beauty to befall my weary eyes
Has...
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Categories:
twixt, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
Ruing the Emotionally Prosperous Papa Razz Zee Life I Did Not LiveRuing the emotionally prosperous papa razz zee life I did not live
The following poetic account
written more'n a dozen dirty dancing decades ago,
while I (a socially withdrawn Homo Sapiens)
groveled along (on a secret...
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Categories:
twixt, 10th grade, 6th grade, absence, abuse, anger,
Form:
Rhyme
Bane of DyscheziaBane of dyschezia
Constipation spoilt rare visit
with eldest daughter
(yesterday - November twenty sixth
two thousand twenty two)
currently housed near
Rittenhouse Square, Pennsylvania.
Less than twelve hours
after a cocktail comprising
handful of prunes,
four psyllium husk capsules,
plus three dulcolax.
Myself and missis
privy to...
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Categories:
twixt, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure, angst, birth,
Form:
Rhyme
The Evil EyeThe darkness, now descending, floods the city as it dies
while shadows lurk in legions 'neath the looming Evil Eye.
Its frozen stare envelops all, it penetrates and pries,
denouncing loathed dissenters to the keepers in the sky....
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Categories:
twixt, evil,
Form:
Rhyme
A Journey To Nowhere"......unknown destination
don't know if I'm livin or dying
a journey to nowhere
Never cut never mowed
And as I wander
As I often wonder
How did I arrive
Undertaking a journey
Unknown destination
Wholly unexpected place
How did I get here
Where am I heaven
My...
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Categories:
twixt, 6th grade, adventure, analogy, journey, meaningful,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Ready Aim FireReady...Aim...Fire!
In light of tension twixt
brinkmanship rumbling one
East Asian Tiger
country otherwise known as
"the land of morning calm,"
yours truly t'will invite
"freedom foo fighters"
tubby regaling with a jubilant aire
total mortal Kombat
levels threat of human warhead
bomb dubbed...
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Categories:
twixt, america, anger, angst, anti bullying, anxiety, bullying,
Form:
Rhyme
Seventeen HoursUncover
I have uncovered something of importance
Well importance of me
I admit
my attention has been shared
my attention has been stolen, distracted
but my public
you already know the details
but my public
you already know the stories
yet I call you here...
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Categories:
twixt, cute love,
Form:
Free verse
The Devil and His Bride -Part the First-Forty-Eight that parallel...
above which no man need go.
For there doth dwell the demon...
with his sultry bride from hell.
Water's frozen, sky's a'fire...
sea o'forsaken desire.
Doth sure now lure a'many sailor-lad...
'twixt depths of irk and ire.
So 'twas set...
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Categories:
twixt, adventureday, me, song, day, fear, me, song,
Form:
Ballad