Long Unhearing Poems

Athenian Epitaphs II

These are ancient Greek epitaphs for lost family and friends, including dogs and other animals ...

Now his voice is prisoned in the silent pathways of the night: 
his owner's faithful Maltese... 
but will...

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I watch the sun fall from the sky
tumbling soundlessly, the horrid quiet deafening.
As I see it touch the horizon, the world burns
and clouds, like kindling, burst into flames
set afire, until their brilliant hues burn to...

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Easy to be cruel
against sublime unitarian longings
stewed in outdoor green/blue sunshine
reproducing universal solitude belonging

Within this multiculturally hued
resilient solidarity
I likely feel compassion's warm 
win/win communication 
in/on Earth's most gracefilled
vocationally sacred 
shared interfaith intent

To find every day,...

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Your Long Angular Feet

You don’t know me, but
I been riding here in this trundling lounge car
for two hours now, watching 
you and your long angular feet,
while rumbling over these burdened tracks,
to silent Garden City, up...

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Now there are special classes for those like me--
                    "special-needs" people. That sounds so much ...

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Ever wonder why a willow would want to weep
While dreams haunt you as you sleep
Somedays blur by
You try ,
But in doing what is  right, hold to your heart and fight ,
 is at the...

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Ever wonder why a willow would want to weep
While dreams haunt you as you sleep
Somedays blur by
You try ,
But in doing what is  right, hold to your heart and fight ,
 is at the...

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Oh, unfeeling God
Am I ever permitted to know
why the one who was still so much needed
was the one who was chosen to go?
With all my soul I beg of you
turn not your ears from my...

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I'm drowning right here as I stand on dry land.I need you to hear me and then understand.
With each passing day I wither and fade, I seek for a vessel as my cards all get...

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Hearts beat in shallow chests as brains tick in empty heads
Unseen eyes glitter as to small hands pull to big triggers
Money wouldn’t let go as it dragged the world behind it 
If bombs fall killing...

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crows feeding loudly in maiden hay field
in the noon sun
such a dark sound these creatures
such a ancient place they call to in the heart
'no good has ever come from this'
he recites to his unhearing heart
as...

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R E S P E C T
what does it mean to all society?
people have always been unwilling to see
that it's not about them and it's not about me

even with all the evidence right up in...

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The confusion of forever is often shown,
As one tries, to a youngster, to explain the unknown.
“How long is eternity?” they often ask,
To answer this question is a difficult task.

To simply say that it will never...

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Are you the one that blocked the sun?
That fired the bullet from the gun
That laughed aloud at what you’d done
To this fair land that cash built

That sat on high upon your throne
Surveying what you bought...

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My house bound kitty sits beside
the tightly closed back door.
I cannot let him out for fear
he may come home no more.

Bold coyotes watch our country home
for any chance of seeing
an unwary duck or chicken
or any...

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The wings blemish on the laminate panel.
The zany suit shudders at dainty muscle.
Sparkling splashes on abhorring emerge.
Brainless spirits shine over despot spurge.

Ill-mannered standards have been strengthened.
Wood chips were deployed to line neurally connected.
Despite laying the...

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Let us fall, once again,
into the oblivion of unknowing,
unseeing, unhearing.
Let us fall, once again,
into touch and feel and skin on skin.
 
Let me feel, once again,
your heartbeat beneath your shirt,
your breath atop my head.
Let me...

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As my legs grow into trunks and my arms into branches, the leaves of my leavings fall and sprout seeds among the grasses. 
Spreading my roots through the mud, bringing myself a sort of immortality,...

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Write it on the window,
in big bold letters.

Write it on the wall, 
in wet black ink.

Spray it on the overpass,
in bright green graffiti.

Write it with your finger,
on an empty desk
.
Yell it loud when you're mad,
tell...

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It was unfolding of the fear.
The blue sky was falling apart
and filthy brats would lift their shriveled arms
to hold it, for time being.

Something for everyone
to stay in emptiness of a palace:
spiritless, voiceless, unhearing
for the sake...

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It was unfolding of the fear.
The blue sky was falling apart
and filthy brats would lift their shriveled arms
to hold it, for time being.

Something for everyone
to stay in emptiness of a palace:
spiritless, voiceless, unhearing
for the sake...

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Huge bronze bells peel muffled engulfed by sea 
above unhearing in depths deaf to thee

drowned the dead the lost tsunami friends
not figuring quick and sharp their ends

black churning death coming from the sea
no distinction twixt...

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