Long Unscrewed Poems

The Five Secrets"

?????? I had this amazing dream .....

I had this dream. I dreamt I was in this room and there were bookcases from floor to ceiling on all four walls, with no windows. The...

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X Continues Marking Many Spots
                        by Odin Roark

Anonymous living suits many,
gypsy fever...

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When I was just a wee young thing 
I was taught life's lesson well    
Ere instead of childhood revelry 
mine would be a children's hell    
   ...

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Someone please
answer me 
I'm gonna scream
I was weak 
but Why'd 
I hide Beneath
The streaks n stains
for weeks and days
Feel so week
For these things
I feel i
Reak of shame
So now These
streams of pain
Leak down
my face
every day
I day...

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Someone please
answer me 
I'm gonna scream
I was weak 
but Why'd 
I hide Beneath
The streaks n stains
for weeks and days
Feel so week
For these things
I feel i
Reak of shame
So now These
streams of pain
Leak down
my face
every day
I day...

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Someone please answer me I'm gonna scream I was weak but Why'd I hide Beneath The streaks n stains for weeks and days Feel so week For these things I feel i Reak of shame...

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My verse has been chosen as Poem of the Month at Sherborne Abbey!

The curious offerings of sacristans
Are given in obscure humility
The symbol of the cupping of the hands
Enshrines the essence of this mystery
The dawn unlocked;...

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I have always been a fan of Kung Fu and Brue Lee
I so wanted to Learn the art and looked around for lessons
But although I travelled far and wide I found none not one for...

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At sunset one summer evening I stepped outside to enjoy
the summer evening’s sunset and water the garden plants that were
dying in the draught. So I made my way towards the hose spigot at the
back of...

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Notta easy grasper – days back I cross ole Jasper
neath the olden ground’s crooket pine tree
and, oh, bless be, things he tole there to me!

He wanna’d me to hear all bout watz truth –
he say...

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Song of a Warrior’s Bride

He counts on me for beauty:
His eyes blurred by bloody spurts of war,
Scarred by deadly blasts of bone
And tissue, his vision marred
By chunks of men that shook him down
Into the oozing...

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My city has been abandoned
by royalty for vultures to defecate and Hyenas to spit on.
The large hole left is a huge hindrance to every emotional functionality
making inactivity a coveted blessing to this feeling
which was once...

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A sad Reg Baker was kissed farewell by his wife and family,
before he boarded the evening train that traveled through his country.
He was as nervous as he'd ever been, because for old Reg you see,
had...

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That's right little ole lady it's here
once again, your birthday is back so
 let your aches settle in. What to get you?,
something old or new?, you kissed my
cheek and said, "your love will do".
To get...

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Unscrewed

She led me upstairs where I’d sample her wares
For a fee we had negotiated
She looked pretty stunning, my heart it was gunning
I longed for my lust to be sated

She sat on her bed and she...

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 That's right little ole lady
it's here once again
your birthday is back
so let your aches
settle in

What to get you,
something old or new
you kissed my cheek
and said,
your love will do

But to get a gift
is not just...

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rural sewage, twister tunnel runs
like water damaged dust and rat
feces soaking the lawn down to 
a dog in the ground a town over
rusted tin and pewter, twin-sized
coffin in the air with its upside down,
breathing shredded...

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I sat on the toy store shelf, feeling all bottled-up and unwanted.
The kids prefer to play with video games, these days,
rather than being outdoors with me.
Then one day, this little girl grabbed me down from...

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It's halloween I'm babysitting, little horrors crawl from their cradles
I'm not a happy chaperone, these kids are becoming quiet unstable 
Frankenstein's unscrewed some bolt, his head's hanging by a cable 
Dracula drank five Bloody Marys,...

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The reindeer unscrewed all their bulbs.
        Each nose of the famous of all
    rebelled of their Dad,
his youngsters’ so bad.
The night, with no lights, elves...

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Fireflies
 

Last night my son and I went out under the stars
And in our arms we carried mason jars
With holes cut in the top of the lids
We went out to act like little kids
Catching Lighting...

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Yesterday I unscrewed the top of the
homemade huckleberry jam you gave
me before you left for Lisbon. 
I took deep purple breaths to fill
my light pink lungs. 

It was such a necessary experience;
the vision of you...

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Never have I ever
Told my mother-in-law she's fat
Okay, I probably have
I lied, so I'm sorry about that

I've never locked the refrigerator
When she comes to spend the night
Okay, you know I did
I even unscrewed the light

I've...

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"Mary Jane here is learning to read", replied Miss Ava sheepishly with a slight shade of pink in her cheeks; subtle, but it told all it needed to tell. After all, she too was a...

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Physique in denial, irritating to bouncers
her numbers-to-flesh comparison on the radio is a smash hit
this ice, in a hot summer still slowly melts
making age-stunt her most engaging hobby
boys, half her age come to display lame...

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