Long Untuned Poems

dust had gathered on her many memories in outlines and heaps

had sheltered her from full on attacks of pain and self lacerations

the broom with razors attached right next to the end of the stick


inside lay...

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Mirror, mirror on the wall,
Who's the fairest of them All?

If you were hoping for InterFaith Power and Light,
what might you need to better empower
and enlighten your community
during Earth's Great UnRaveling?

Perhaps Earth needs global power and...

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** The Weight of Ghosts *
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We do not truly realize how
Our lives are so crowded, thick
With spirits and messages.
We are as yet untuned to know. ...

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One day we will be, forever silent.
Where would we be without poetry?

As a child, I buried my heart,
drained from games death would play -
in adulthood, it still refuses to resurface.

Grim Reaper hides in the corner...

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My psychologist said I'm bipolar.  I told him I wouldn't have sex with either a male 
or a female polar bear.

Bipolar?  You gotta be kidding- I've never been to the north or the...

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How to break an addiction. Decide to live.
What can I learn from my pain. Danger.
And friends are merely friendly, live on independent
of your injury. You will not be missed in church on Sunday.

Grass. Weed, broccoli,...

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That one lost their tongue
somewhere along the way
long ago, the sound,
doesn’t come out the same
anymore, so they roll it up 
like a carpet containing 
a nakedly dead body
of blunt words 
like unplucked violins
untuned to how...

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In the age of deceit, will alternative history repeat                          ...

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I am 1,248 songs of complicated rhythm. Prose and verses tell a story of my decisions…my indecision. I am skin shaped, in 42 different shades of foolery, a life lover doing my best to avoid...

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In the seamless sky of my fervent freedom
I let the enraptured songbird of heart soar high,
gliding in the spring-rippled amorous breeze
that carried your jasmine fragrance to me,
until the splitting thunder storm surged in
from your hazy...

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Inconsiderate Brazen Boy 
Who knows not what good to do
You forget your manners
Respectful to none but those with a gun
And thus having broken all the rules
Inconsiderate Brazen Boy 
Who in spite of a good mother’s...

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LAST CHANCE TO DANCE
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS


Woke again this morning, sky dark and gray
Sun brightly shining, just another bleak day
The unending silence, fills the empty spaces 
Fading images my heart, frantically chases
You have left me, yet...

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Right away I saw the power of it,
knowing that the loan I made
would never be repaid;
that made me smile—
that secret, quite delicious irony
was mine  to keep within my heart.
My sacrifice had just become a...

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In the seamless sky of my fervent freedom
I let the enraptured songbird of heart soar high,
gliding in the spring-rippled amorous breeze
that carried your jasmine fragrance to me,
until the splitting thunder storm surged in
from your mirage...

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There's something so unsettling about nails on a chalkboard.
I cringe whenever I hear the tapping of pencils.
As obnoxious as loud breathing.
As disturbing as a bad Disney movie;
Nothing could be worse than off-key singing and untuned...

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For me you’re designed, mesmeric scarred moon, 
grace gleams in the convolute cradle of cyan night, 
slithers in the silken sky I create for you,
a turquoise trail you trace in my heart incised.

Thunder cloud surges...

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“Once upon a time” is how many stories begin
     stories filled with adventure 
where pages of magic and wonder are held within

But life’s not always a fairytale
    ...

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Aesthetic melodies that carries the waves to dance
The sweet voice of an opera singer flew by in the wind,
As the sparkling sapphire sea cooperates the tunes to enhance
Being forcefully driven to her seduction you are...

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A scratching at dusty glass from piano keys

In a lace attic catacombs chests
bathed in blue panic 
room stained window

Hiding from the tell to show
away bitter clown faces without
makeup to disguise frowns
from smiles 

Glass of Rose...

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  Frozen window a blackboard to write on
  a motivational boost 

  Smelling romantic moonlight
  can be a two-part problem - or shared enjoyment

  Sliding down the hill in an...

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Every morning I dance naked
Singing in the morning rain.
None are there to observe my antics
None to share a laugh or pain.

Well, the angels perhaps.
I'm sure they chuckle
When I reword tunes
From the radio's knuckle.

I'll sing opera,...

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You are angst poetry
          played on the strings
                  ...

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From my diary: Introspection 

We are a kaleidoscope of broken things, 
Angels with clipped wings;
Dyslexic writers, fallen knights.
We are an army of crushed mights.

We are the troubled therapist;
An untuned symphony, 
But we burn with our...

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Forgotten...
Sand of time pass over me and i fade away like the season. The sand in time droped over me and then my life was over like that, forgotten. Nothing to do to come back...

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you are a shell
god blows music
of bliss you are
a string god
caresses
green chords of love
just be you let
the god enter freely
prepare to receive
music flows
clean up your shells
tune up your strings
god surprises
be ready prepared
live in this moment
you...

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