Long Upstaged Poems

I grew up with rural Michigan white red-neck evangelical root systems.
These did not always feed my multicultural self/other liberation of the GLBTQ subclimatic root system
for regeneratively healthy instincts,
yet I learned to survive within this fundamentalist-alien-straight...

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What but ‘warmth’ speaks of ‘love’ to a child, to the aged,
Warmth all poems convey (that get launched from tome’s heart?)
I pray love gets displayed, found in stranger filled room
That you aren’t fishing for when...

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As the sun goes down
The feral cat’s prowl 
Looking for mice, searching for rats
In the alley, bins full of out of date
And yesterday’s wrapping.
A tribute to Consumerisms detritus

On the ground a smiling face
Colonel Sanders, blocking...

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Dragon really shouldn’t have borrowed the penguins, away from the Zoo.
Now he was their baby sitter at the lake, from morning till night, so true.
Not to mention a catasaurus was now stalking, his delightful little...

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I imagine one of the reasons we love the Christmas/Holiday season is all the kindness in the air…and how, when we stop to look around, we see magic everywhere.

Our city’s Old Time Christmas parade this...

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Kristel had some old scores to settle for good or for better

She had tried the violin with no significant results other

Than a crystalline chandelier shattering quite frequently

When she raised the bow after too shrieking concertos

In...

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                 A Timeless Connection

          Where can we find two better...

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Most guys have a Dream Girl,
they conjure in their mind.
They’re always much more perfect,
than a real one they might find!

But my friend Mike, was different.
He told this tale to me.
His was not a Dream Girl,
she...

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Every day I try harder, to be more and more like you.
To brighten up everyone’s day, like you always seem to do.
You smile and you joke, I laugh and I listen but nothing is ever...

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I would like to put on my shoulder
Nuclear Kryptonite that makes a SUPERMAN colder
Weak in the knees while chaos is at ease
Helpless Man of Steel who cannot do what he please
Luthor has let loose the...

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the drug wouldn’t condemn them to “hell,”
drug was always fair (did not discriminate),
didn’t ask for things it couldn’t have, 
never 
commented on their hair, 
always made them 
feel good, 
was always right, 
would be there...

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Clutching at straws — to be willing to try anything to improve a difficult or unsatisfactory situation, even if it has little chance of success

“And Then He Will Carry Me Away To His Castle, Where...

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‘BLACK SHEEP DRAWBACK’

Discouraged, anxious and unsure—pitch black tarmacs start their war
Petrified, panicked and distressed—uncertainty cracks amidst unwelcomed guests
Dissociated and desensitised a perfect attack—as nervous disposition follows predictable tracks
Another prestigious black tie event—suites and shoes will...

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GABLE’S ETERNAL LOVE

Frankly my dear, I don’t give a...
After all, my true love fell with wings!
No twig nor heifer could compare…

This screwball comic welcomed dawn,
dauntless in a restless time of war.

Fatter pockets than a king,
she...

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Behind the parchment screen and eye to eye Punch chided.
Who are you? Who is she? He’d point it out. You’d see.
No marionette with strings was he. Their paths collided;
Judy stands and faces his animosity

The play...

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Mirror melted, and I enclosed in solid space of ice
Intersperse images, direlict of other's maiming vice.
Mimicry is not a benign deceit as you would think
Incontestable illusions brought my race to this brink
Cramped with penury and...

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smoked thin cigars

with coffee.

 men were of no significance,however

her early sculpting career

made her appreciate the erotic

placement of

a

woman's

body.


you found her anywhere the wind blew

and jazz music played.

she was a runaway at 12

and a model at 16.....

Mother...

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Are you Okay about it?
Are you in disarray about it?
Then I have another question-
Have you prayed about it?

If you feel swayed about it,
If you feel delayed about it,
Then answer my question-
Have you prayed about it?

Did...

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It was the school semester of 1971,
I was a volunteer usherette at the university theater,
in order to attract more people for plays,
our uniforms were red hot pants and white blouses,
we seated the audience including wives...

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‘Mind negates, obscuring’ truth in a thought fog
Being but brazen attempts of our ego
To bemuse and confuse by such ruse, veiling light of God

‘So that under’ cloak of darkness, life an enigma
For worn, weary, wistful...

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Day in, and day out, from the ripe old age of five
I’ve take to sharp objects and whittled at their sides.

Plotting the precise angle with penetrating gaze,
the slant of slice, just so nice, as memory...

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Oh no!  What are YOU doing here?
I haven’t seen you in a year!   
But I’m sure it’s perfectly clear,
I’m still red-dress fabulous, Dear!

You thought you could steal my spotlight?
You sauntered in like...

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I got the Muse Blues
Where did my muse go
I got the muse blues
Tell me where did my muse go
Maybe down 'n Louisiana
Hangin' out with my friend Flo

I got the Muse Blues
My heart in a rage
I...

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Each child has talents and Dee always loved to skate
One night at the lake she was called up to the plate
 
The high school hockey team was “slip-sliding away”*
So call her a chauvinist; Dee wanted...

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I must have died,
but when -- I don't recall.
Some year, some day,
some crucial moment
came and went unnoticed,
upstaged, perhaps,
by a grocery list
or too-tight shoes.
A quiet time later, though,
when the world was out to lunch,
I thought of...

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