Long Uptake Poems

A perfect radiant day of golden complexion infused the Jefferson brothers to travel down the narrow path, a mile from their home to the Ebb Water Creek.
Their goal to hook a line of catfish was...

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I WISH I WEREN’T A FROG
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS



I wish I were a frog sunning myself on a lily pad
No cares or worries to drive me mad or sad
I’ll  play it cool, wait for insects...

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There was something about her smile that said something is not right.
Or that I am a pigeon; or that I am not totally on task or very bright.
But I am slow on the uptake, so...

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Do one knows the meaning of silk perhaps motion capture more over self-imagine, 
If material was a catch and words form patterns then let me paint the picture, 
Do one knows the meaning of silk...

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I met this girl,
Who is crazy sweet.
She’s beautiful
And confident,
She’s light on her feet.
Honesty consumes her,
She’ll tell it how it is.
If she wants to,
She will.
But force herself
Is one thing 
She wouldn’t do.
She’s crazy fun,
Loud and aggressive,
And...

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She romped and rolled around me in proud stiff pompous gait
I was not impressed by the ruffle of her skirt
Or the wicked laughter of the flipping imp
But I pulled up short for a word choked...

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And in the well-worn ache
of turning mourning,
there are no more tears-
for all is beauty-lathed
misery, held unswathed,
without fearing to uptake
hope's new sculpted shape.
A changeling exchanged
while flailing naked
in it's abyssal state.

And wholeness excises, to demean
only fruitless shoots,...

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You - amaranthine temptress!
Pay attention for a sec.
Let's give it a hap,
Ad-lib like vagabonds on the road,
Rambling to dusk in a single step,
Just before the first stars
Appear in our eyes,
With Jupiter for you under the...

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Trust is such a deliciously sweet thing
				     Who				
			     stole
		       the
strawberries?
Make the yellow-bellied canary sing

Confidence lost in an abandoned mind
Smoky sulfur 
and...

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No acknowledgement could be 
commensurate nar e'er 
equivalent to countless years (scores of orbitz  
of unexplored wonder) – left...
(with millstones around neck)

to atrophy on severe truncated 
limb mitts, now cause
for silent lachrymose as this...

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I
The East I sit, Sowilo I did gain
What is Sunna teachings today I say?
Sowilo rune lost ,found ,happy again
My problems will hopefully be at bay

II
Sowilo I’m  aligned with thee today.
Sowilo gives sunlight to my...

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these events and thoughts pass all over me,
like insects on a fluorescent screen,
a glitter, a moment, flicker of time,
a lifetime to travel in social slime!

memories are made, memories erased,
on the brain slate of nerves, bemused...

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With But Words

Lungs of time

Forever purging yesterdays fever and chills
clueless of ether's match for now
today's fresh intake of memories waiting
no longer a calm awakening
our ears await the sound

By chance

While morning may coughing bring
sending dream's breath...

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So oft I'd heard its soul intent
the performed center, not rebound
could bury once and then compound
the years between, cycle's renown!

Now given over to the Earth
no search or wandering can contain
the final call, summized in worth
and...

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The intellectual mind runs deep in disease receptors.
With mental illness rampant, the blitzkrieg type firing countless uptake inhibitors.
Even with this life altering handicap that suffocates the disabled brain so blind.
Intelligence is beyond that of 90%...

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"One Poem (That's It)!"

These words ring in my ears as I dream of a meaning
I'm hungry to post, have another heart taste,
such, that promise of sex might not tempt me at all!
Hark! Sharp uptake of...

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Landing lights blinking in the twilight,
Beneath the turbines howling blast,
And the scream of descent;
Stark and still, staring into midnight
As the neon rushes past
And the wheels connect cement.

Discourse babbled from the concourse
Walking through arrival lounge despair
In...

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So brightly lit, my birthday cake.
Such icing-on-dessert uptake.
My Autumn years illumined flight,
October with effulgent light.

Candy corn, shaped like fangs, I eat.
Orange-yellow, Brach’s honey-sweet.
Smiles, blinking pumpkin, in the night.
October with effulgent light.

The crisp and thrash, of...

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Squirrel mama gave me a shake
Your breakfast I just now did make
Would it be nut or a cornflake?
What did she bake? What did she bake?

Could it be a Christmas fruit cake?
Or a sweet cold chocolate...

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The wonder of a childlike kind helps keep the person younger and empowers him with the sensation of excitement that is essential to survive difficult circumstances. In addition to this, it infuses their surroundings with vitality,...

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