Long Unready Poems

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My poetic side COSMOFUNNEL
wordsmith thanks tumblr in his noggin
ofttimes triggering babbling brook 
to swell after deluge
becoming stream of consciousness runnel
carving, gouging, and liquidating topography 
qua zee mow toe natural formed...

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Now that Crimson Fire was gone
Fire Eagle needed to gain experience.
For over ten years he travelled the lands
helping people, learning from many other druids.
One day he knew he would be called up on to
take the...

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at last something broke you
and that something, it was you
you were closing your eyes
you were seeing it through

you blew up and sold
the world outside and within
and i fell on your black day
you showed me how...

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It’s become so self-destructive,
the weakness of our modern times,
to the point it takes our children,
pollutes unformed, unready minds.
Now this was always a real risk,
but it seems in the decades past,
when young adults did something dumb
we’d...

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Peyton, a thirteen year old boy
Looks on, pose for a photo; 
He’s in for a test with sound health 
Going to rejoin school   
After long break for crucial treatment
And awesome wait 
After the...

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I found Richard today -
November the Third.
Isn’t that just like Richard?

I don’t know.
I can’t say.
He died a fortnight-plus ago.
I never knew him.
I never gave him time.
To know me.
To show me.
How to know me.
And by him,...

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Vocabulist nonalcoholic punchdrunk stupor January 1st, 2020

Unlike the vast population swath,
with painful hangover
average celebrant merely
doth confusedly blink,
who devoutly pledge
new year resolution
to give up drink
immediately fall off wagon

as he/she eagerly downs
shot after fermented shot
while forearms link
with...

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let's speak of the unspeakable
the horrid, heartless, maybe headless tale

let's speak of small children, 
gaunt with indifference, both of and for
the sunken eyes, the distended belly
the insects hovering about...waiting

let's speak of hospital corridors
hushed conversations with...

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Life’s Timeless Driftwood

Peering back at the shadow stretching,
continuance knows well the peaceful silhouettes from horizon's light,
ancestral sequences having frequented one’s shore many times.

All is as it has been.

One’s longevity holds firm,
like isolated fingers protruding in...

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Cancel the thoughts you were thinking, 
The pressure in this place can crush,
Gravity causes my soul to start sinking.
Red painted hearts with death around the crust.


I will never trust because i am aware,
Cowards can never...

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A Pilgrim
(A song for 'Dia')

I come here at night's edge,
This parlour of hidden shadows
Questing for
Some measure of solace
From the bible black grind
Of mundane despair.

She is wearing white,
Tonight,
My Magdalene
My source of wonderment,
Thunder child
Storm raven
My crucible of...

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I came to you on enfeebled feet
Heavy of heart downcast in eyes.
And, in a flash, you threw your arms 
Around me in  such a loving embrace
The joyous euphoria of those who dare.
In a flash...

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13 bottles sitting on the wall
Suddenly there are twelve
But I didn’t hear the first one fall

12 bottles sitting straight
Now there are 11
The twelfth exploding in seething hate

11 bottles sitting in a row
Unperturbed by the passing...

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How surprising can a being gush out blood from another?
Or can the teeth of one taste the raw of his fellow's flesh?
How bad can a body with a soul rape an unready poor damsel?
Or can...

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The music is all around you, a form of wave that demands mediums for propagation
Listen to the sounds, melodies, the rhythms encircling around you
A signal sent demanding reception
The rhythms present even in your diversion
Echoing sounds...

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No way to dodge fiat decreeing death sentence 
for this rambling man
cheesy alias con commit tented mouse élan
Who felt unready to kick the can
On account of violating ban

Against abominable illegal mandate
With no way to commute...

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You Dream
You dream me a dream.
You and I careen,
wide-eyed and screaming 
wild cries, clutching the sides
of our Thunder Mountain cart
on its rickety wooden rails
that fail
and we swoosh--like a flume
into a silent lagoon of silver water,
our...

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The times have fallen hard now, to scenes played on 'unmade' roads
Without my volition, and despite intentions, goals;
Indifference took precedence; a lust of life was part,
The key to understanding then, as now,Was placed a piece...

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There are moments
When I don’t know how to pray
There are moments
When I don’t know what to say
There are moments 
When doubt and worry get in the way
There are moments
When I can’t see the light of...

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Drumming down
on my windowpane
an uneven 
rhythm

A broken pace
a sad girl
staring out
into the street

Rain clouds, gray,
dark, covering my
whole world in a 
sheet of cold

Icy water beating down
as I stare out
into the misty fog
alight with wonders
If only...

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A man reached me at the market that day.
He lifted two handcrafted seats on his head.
He urged, "Won't you buy my chairs?" Today.
Nobody took my chairs. All moved instead.

I recall helping others with daily duties...

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Jesse Forbes

1893 – 1911

Black Canyon.
Now, there was a place to be!
It is true I was born a brute in a Quaker Town.
Born a bad-tempered brute of a boy
In the two-room digs on Bailey Street and...

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I came to you on enfeebled feet
Heavy of heart, downcast my eyes.
And, in a flash, you held me to your heart.
And rose high to soar like a king in the air,

The bravado of those who...

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I came to you on enfeebled feet
Heavy of heart, downcast my eyes.
And, in a flash, you held me to your heart.
And rose high to soar like a king in the air,
The bravado of those who...

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little lips, little kiss, leading down, down,
suckel on the tender nippels, moans softly let out,
fingers trailing, lips following, still leading down,
jeans receding, blood is beating, hard into stretched skin,
tip of tounge and tips of lips,...

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