Long Unfilled Poems

[Now ShallowMan is quite content
receiving FactoidMan’s consent
to quibble and express dissent
as long as keeping covenant
with fingers crossed and belfry bent
when viewing Facts in sealed cement:]

SM
“The Facts you give me circumvent
those ‘truths’ your chuckles supplement;
although they...

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Beneath a misty veil of ‘Euphoria’ by Calvin Klein, she dares to dream of acceptance in a world of wanna-be Literary Giants who are members of an elite writer’s group, as she drives along a...

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Crown of Sonnets

Yesterday's poems now pages turned brown
Lay scattered, torn on the floor of my years
Written long ago with words I wrote down
When the ink was used to quell the heart's fears
These words of my...

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Little child
Your tiny hands hold a little flower
Delicately, you start weaving a story about peace
In your gentleness, you understand how happiness works
It is the sanctuary of warm softness in the heart
Free of all clouds and...

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O please don't be too late and miss the Great Escape!
O please don't be left behind upon the earth after the
Saints of the Lord have been rescued from certain

Death and destruction by our divine rescuer,
None...

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I.
When Sal rode slowly into Victorville,
he saw an empty street, buildings unfilled,
Sol half-expected this, it’s why he was here,
but even to him, it always looked weird.

The letter they wrote had been clear on the cause:
Vampires,...

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...“My mother said he did it to survive,
the farm was failing, the crops wouldn’t thrive,
he had to find money, so rode with them,
so desperate he’d go with criminal men.

“My father’s death was quite hard, I’ll...

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What am I doing here when there is no one to care, what I am doing here when you are all alone sitting over there. The days feel longer, the nights are very short and...

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And to all those I have wronged
I am remorseful
For my life is an enigma
And at times I lose my way
Like a mad dog that goes astray
Enslaved by tribulations
That fails to go away
And reason becomes an...

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ROHRBACH CAFE

Intimacy.

A place
of shared warmth, an atmosphere of muted shadows and candlelight,
where
emotions, profoundly sincere,
softly glow,
flare,
then wane
until, fully consumed, they are dimmed
and gentled
by intrinsic breezes of serenity.

A cafe
of quiet murmers, hushed revelations
among tables close,
but afar,
where
evening lit...

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I thought I shut down a long time ago, I bottled how I felt, my heart turned to stone. A wall I built so high and distance was my friend. But this girl caught my...

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An Echo Poem by Lora Colon and Brian Johnston

I Do It For My Heart by Lora Colon

Each morning my heart and I talk, 
It asks me why he went away, 
Like a child that can't...

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She crept through darkness
In the graveyard she dug
Looking for her love
Her one and only love

Her heart pumps scarlet drops
As her eyes search for the sorrow
Of black birds flying
Soaring through the gray clouds

She walks alone
In an...

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COMING HOME
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS

I Was Just a Teenage, Yet I’ll Not Forget That Day
When We Were Notified That My Brother Was an MIA
That Chilling Notice Was to Play Hard on Our Lives
A Long Lasting Memory...

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The Unwanted Guest
By Kevin Robey
March 24, 2013

He was there, that much was obvious to all
But he was unseen, as blank as the white wall
An unwanted guest, like the rodents that stayed
In the floor boards below,...

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For fleeting fame, a chance to shine
Her need for love and acceptance overwhelming.
Casting out all values and decorum
Her thoughts focused on only the prize she seeks

For fortune and celebrity outweigh the moral dilemma
Her sense of...

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I sat here in thought. 
About the woman I love. 
That of her beauty,her eye's,the touch of her skin. 
The thought of her fabulious curves that drive me wild. 
How I like to be making...

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That place you go between dusk and dawn,,
hiding the child within. 
Let it run free only when the door goes closed, 
and no one else can see in.

Those people that loved, who made a difference.....

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*Image of Between Doors by Hope.

As Shadows Mend

A lingering bravura form ... dawn midst twilight's brilliance,
It sprung a length of an unscathed course -- accidentally,
The mute vim snugly stamped unfilled, credulous of malice,
Flightiness stemmed from...

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I WEEP FOR THE DEEPLY DEPRIVED

Weep for the waifs in a world we call the third
The woeful ones with bellies empty of nourishment
They are trapped while Americans remain free as a bird
Children chided by a...

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In another place
 And in another time 
You said you would love me
You would be mine

In another day
And in another life
We could be together
You would be my wife

To many complications 
To many commitments already made
To...

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The cosmic design of the stars near and far
defines the astronomic architecture of the zodiac.
The night sky displays the harmony of primal pattern,
transmitted to everything that exists on earth,
decides their unknown fate in some astral...

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Cripple

Nature made me incomplete
She failed to give me two good feet
The left one’s fine,
It’s well in line 
But the other is rather bittersweet

It twists around to a great degree
A much disgruntled employee
Of a brain as...

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I look to my left and look to my right
There I see that no one else is in sight

No one but myself to invite
So with whom do I fight

I look deeply
And what do I see

The...

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As rushes meet the newborn sky
and dew damp moments briefly lie
upon a sleeping kingdom drawn
from quiet visions yet unquelled
and shaken dry by breaths of dawn. 

Serenity too quick dispelled
where silence just before had dwelled.
A tightly...

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