Long Uncommonly Poems

Woman, woman that I loved uncommonly
Several springs ago
When the weather was good and callow
When the wind whistled swiftly, low and slow
Oh! Woman, you were young, strong and sparkling
Darling, now you're deceased
Lying down and sleeping comatose...

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FROM BIKINI BOTTOM TIMES...

...Spongebob Squarepants...what...atoll...?
plunged into where,...no way...toilet bowl...
supposedly, when the ghostly hand ex-toll
ling praise from his late creator, and master

meow mind of popular Stephen Hillenburg
cast said main character in clean new role,
an unexpected greasy,...

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Byte size food begets best bedeviled egg head benefits 
re: visited today April 12th, 2023

Way before aye knew 
the name Fletcherism applied 
family and friends even 
Smetana's bartered bride
would (tongue in cheek) chide
tummy uncommonly 
(recherché)...

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L oving - and safe in your mountain air
O  how it feels -, lifted high above
V anity disappears - with a love so rare
I n the apex of loving strength - thereof
N aturally cleaving...

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From back streets, alleys and hedgerows they came,
all sorts of people with children and dogs
filling the Chapel like a hall of fame;
the smell in the air had a whiff of bogs.

The best beggar in Worcester,...

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way before aye knew 
     the name Fletcherism applied 
tummy uncommonly (recherché) atypical dyed
in the wool feeding and/or slaking thirst guide

did precepts sans hungry 
     deaf eating...

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re: visited tonight October 15th, 2021

Way before aye knew 
the name Fletcherism applied 
tummy uncommonly (recherché) atypical dyed
in the wool feeding and/or slaking thirst guide

did precepts sans hungry 
deaf eating beast impossible to hide
(the ferocious...

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When you are bawled with all sorts of insults when the sun sets,
Yet you are the uncommonly precious daughter all mothers wish for in the community
When your only heart's desire is serenity
When you play by...

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Now, as a general rule, sergeants are rather decent guys,
Compassionate, reasonable to a degree and uncommonly wise.
But woe to the private who incurs a sergeant's wrath;
That young feller is destined to tread a very treacherous...

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…ODE TO TREES…

Trees, like people...are
More than what they show...
Much, much more than
What they let us see

They’re sentient beings
In a sense we can’t know
Uncommonly communal creatures
Are the common trees

There exists a hierarchy
Just ‘neath the Earth
Where seeds,...

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I was startled 
when I heard the knock on the door.
I never expect unannounced guest
way out here.
I opened the door to find him
standing there---the biggest smile on his face.
Unsure as to attribute the glow about...

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A great giant man vanishes from the face of the earth
No help for the hoarse throated cries of his lamenting wife
How will we remember his pastures, like a sea of green?
His children too small to...

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Under the Constellation of Poets I see,
All I can say is, "O' boy, Wee!"
God is so good to me!
It is like Poetry Heaven & now I have the poetic key.
How the writings once were bottled...

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Thankless job, I think watching
as Thurman tries to teach the young man

The lad sitting up
on the tractor
like a proud young pup
is full of piss and vinegar
half the time not listening
and half the time telling Thurman
how...

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i wonder
     at the life lying in dust
  wonder at his frailty,
        his wrinkled skin,
        his...

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love lies on the side hypotenuse
from where that right angle is
often love's functions seem abstruse
lost at ocean's bottom with Atlantis

yet complementary, our numbers add up
by degrees are ninety, true and square
feelings pour right to the...

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At first I thought you were just being nice
To make a good impression on a first date.
"Her true self needs time to break the ice,"
I thought as we talked until it was late.

I saw you...

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Letters fall into place of words,
Comes naturally by grace,
Gifted in the penmanship.
A poet is born for such a time as this.
Bushy eyes fight the limited opening,
Reading on.
Mind invites the heart.
When the spirit flows,
The reader is...

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Skewers

Explaining the irony of
the wonderful choice of your gift
of Skewers

For our wedding
has escaped description
for far too long.

And they are quite long.
The skewers, silver,
balanced, stainless, and
uncommonly sharp.

The handles satisfy,
even before they 
plunge into unsuspecting
vegetables or seasoned,...

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The quicksand into which I now sink
Is my inability to creatively think;
Try as I might
The poems that I write
Are mundane and so commonly trite.

I must step outside of the box;
Find the keys that undo the...

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The Unsaved

I watch you from a distance. 
I see everything you do. 
Your life is hard, 
and the world is unkind, 
mostly, if only at times. 

I can not help, 
more than prayer, 
but do...

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CLOSET IN THE SKELETONS

The lady held ransom a heart locked tightly such as a vault
And only she had the keys to call our love to a halt
Many times I’d seen those cursed keys
She’d use them...

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Cool for late summer.
The cold leaves listen,
hang like ears
laden with rain,
but it’s not the rain that weighs,
for there’s a heaviness
in the reddening trees.
Ears and cups
but mostly ears.
In backyard hedgerows, animals
are still, unless they are disturbed,
moved...

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Living in this chrome,
I’m not free to roam,
Blistering hot,
Stuck in one damn spot.

All the world’s a stage,
Well mines more of a cage,
Nothing is for real,
Sunburn starts to peel.

Superficial vice,
Uncommonly nice,
Living day by day,
Sinning ‘long the...

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If I was Auntie Mame, I would be excited about everything.
Kicking up fun wherever I am invited.
Even places I’m not, but everywhere being the zing.
Bringing people together, making them united.


I would be like giant puppies,...

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