Long Unbend Poems

Dog Star

The clarity with which youthful vision perceives the world
Is increasingly fogged by the successive days of life.
Simple magnanimity is replaced by complex reservation.
Knowledge is replaced by uncertainty.
Hope is replaced by the leaden awareness of...

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You shelter me through tempest storms – indeed, you are my friend.

You never try to change my ways, instead you interblend;
I’m free with you and you with me, and neither will offend.

In spite of fashion's...

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I gulp a flame of desire
At the sight of your ecclesiastical attire
Being proxy for a pacifier
That elicits a comfort for my quagmire

Your smile, your smile 
A sun in a darkened profile
A moon that illuminates the...

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The casting of the rope imbues me with the power to sail away,
It seems like such a final thing though I know I’ll return some day.
My love I leave behind, for he wouldn’t sail the...

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It’s Tired of Spam I Am

By Elton Camp

And I’m not talking about the unhealthy treat
The one in a can that the taste is hard to beat

If I have to read another, I don’t know what...

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When you pack a life, you pack a soul.
A tapestry of memories, tales untold.
Each cherished moment, tenderly whole,
To be packed away, a bittersweet bold.
 
When facing mental and literal grime.
To pack for an unknown trip...

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Lost in stealth's memories evading time's awareness and penetrations from the speed of silence
Where hollow grounds open diverge
To the beginning of the subconscious rebirth
Where moments of monuments cherished will ever collide, rebind
Thoughts crescend, emotions diminuend
Performance...

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Only certain people possess the strength to be great
Each and everyday you have to unbend what they tried
to break. You have to be very aware of what
is at stake so you fake your way through...

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One step further
Two steps back
I’m going to hold my head up
And not show any lack
Yeah, I’m a survivor
And I finish what I start
And I am a very strong person
With a very big heart
I trust too...

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He stared me frozen;
stiff as a board.
A long hard stare; 
a gawk, as frigid as hoarfrost.
A cold stare, as cruel as words.

Eyes know my father’s smile, 
as broad as imagination.
That stare, that I alone know,...

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The prison I was kept in was small, dark and wet
I didn’t know how I got there or how long I would stay
Yet I had a sense of comfort and felt I’d be okay
And didn’t...

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How is it that you are real?
My dreams never created something like you.
I still have to pinch myself,
Because I’m amazed you are true.Tap To Copy
I always think of you, in my sleep, in my dreams,
I...

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Is not life for
love?
where is love in
animal?
...who has no
conscience
without a thought
they mate
...a passion without
a face
it only takes a
craving

I married an animal
incredible a hulk
despicable as
vulture
unbend-able a human
seeking nothing but
self
...too late i am
married!!!

Let me go if going
is...

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With first breath, the wakeful light of dawn sings 
an adoration of morning prayer
nature's eternal temperate sweet air, 
charmed ensemble of fluttering bird's wings.

Pink, yellow, blue buds up-staring unbend
Dance under breaking clouds that saunter by...

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The calendar is no longer a friend, its messages are clumsy
numbers working with the clock to drift her from men’s fantasy
that’s all she thinks of, life’s self acclaimed orphan
with a lonely heart, she curses every...

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He wears his depression
like a tarnished, tattered,
scratched and dented halo,

scavenged at some demented
yard sale,
bought and sold on the cheap

(But, oh! The price he pays -
priceless!)

His pants hang
dejectedly, sadly,
drooping and dragging,
two sizes too large

His shoulders, dripping
with...

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Vivid streaking prints line their sights
With reminiscing moments shared from a solacing pace transcending across swirling oceans
Trapped secrets gradually unbend as calming truths refresh
Wishes commemorate from the whistling feelings and thoughts shielded under the blankets...

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Silence in their congregation
Wisdom without translation
Turmoil inhabits infestation
Confounded in fascination
Our unspoken conversation
Immerses such a revelation
Unfold the transformation
As I vanish in imagination

Submerging into the forest I descend
Aspirations freeze and suspend
Oh the glorious woods defend
As the converse...

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Wide are eyes that weep in silence.
My spirit stolen, my opinion veiled,
fettered harmony at hand…
Wide are eyes that weep in silence.
Character stolen
My will the same,
Peace gained without comment,
Logic eludes rationale.
Chained as I am,
Shackled in time,
My...

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Into the wild scatter your docile dreams, 
Like animals from rusted cages freed, 
For seamless years hunchbacked by low-slung beams,   
Now through ceilings of boughs can boldly feed 
On oracles hung in the...

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Love Another Try
My Love Eddie
I never really knew you were just
another friend, But when I got 
to know you I let my heart unbend.

I couldn't help past memories
that could only make me cry, 
I had...

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I wish for my true love and dearest friend
Of such I find myself most undeserved
To have thee more, what grace did condescend
My life made full thy favor has preserved

I gladly then each day with thee...

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I never really knew you
 You were simply another friend
 But when I got to know you,
 I let my heart unbend.

 So I've fallen in love with you
 and I don't wanna let you...

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Chicago's been dubbed the windy town,
but Great Falls has that tag nailed down.
If you're facing Montana's fierce wind,
you're moving where you didn't intend.

Prairie grass rolls like ocean waves,
tumbleweed mounds resemble graves.
Aspen leaves' fluttery swirls abound,
scarcely...

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LXXIX 
Death always wins the struggle at the end
Despair without delay then comes unbend
Depress the mind that often would extend
Discourage hearts when all our strength we spend
Despite of this we seldom condescend 
Defeat to that...

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