Long Valdez Poems

The Alaskan Oil Pipeline

Nineteen sixty-eight confirmed the year
Of discovery by ‘Humble Oil’
To North America’s largest oil field,
On the North Slope of the Brooks Range;
A west to east Northern Alaskan mountain chain.
An area forty miles wide...

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Who Am I To You?

Am I just a stranger?
An online lover or a nobody 
That once who passes by 
In a lifetime of your stream ?

Maybe a poet?

A woman only good in sweet words.
Easily fooled...

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THE MUSHERS RIDE OUT  (part 2)  Arctic Dogsledding 
(continuation)

             But in the race-- the last sleds skid
    ...

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Ven-lyn A Valdez
May the magic 
of your pen rhymes
Like a beautiful song  
in grime
As the melody 
accompanied by a chime
Let it come for 
the music  to shine

Wems Henry Temmy
For lovely moments 
are designed...

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A TRAGEDY OF PRIDE ( hubris)
                       

In the Arctic nights the jazz born...

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Transformation-propelled was he as president
proactively working out his earnest intent
pursuing national goals along progress test...
such is FVR --- Fidel Valdez Ramos at his best.

Elected as the 12th Philippine head of state
1992 began his Malacañang date
bringing...

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How often will I turn my head
                            ...

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ABC'S OF LIFE

A is for the anger that makes a fool of me
B is for the best foot forward for my friends to see

C  is for the cuddling that makes me warm at night
D...

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Bored with a tawdry sanguine summer
Languidly 
She licks the brilliant summer blue 
            from the sun addicted sky 

Through naughty cloudy lips 
Sucks millenniums...

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His Velvet  voice
Rusty growl
Gentle pauses caress the veiled swell
             Her secret beneath a tailored vest
Radiant  warmth spreads
    ...

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FOGGY LOVE

                          Brazen world of white—meant for lovers by the...

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The Arctic Fire Bugs

Ice nights are the playpen
For the kids born to this land
 Skating rinks and bowling shoes 
Never touched a hand
Or foot that kicked at blocks of ice
As thick as you are tall
They...

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Eye remembered Juan Valdez 
The price of coffee has inflated along with all the rest of beans and things. 
There is a place called Starbucks and that is how many ewe should have of the...

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On the serpentine weave of winding roads
Where dust and sand is blown
I refuse to tender apologia
For the things I do not own;
Tumbleweed memories roll on by
Then all at once are gone,
What point is there in...

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Disappeared is time for one and all
Who leave their footprints by the sea.
High winds grab voices as they fall--
Secured in silent memory.

Stormy nights like anchors sink
To dig and take a-hold
And long beyond will form a...

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Shadows Reversed

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Pencil character sketches drawn on napkins, 
    greasy finger prints on door handles.
   with the smell of diesel 
    in the vest of the stations attendant, 
...

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Ok, so I'm exposed. But the bus stop sign wasn't. The situation is clear. I'm not. My out and about could turn to hit dirt . An out. My contrast were not so rare for...

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Tears in the tar
carried far
cry the dolphin
to a passing star
...help us…
see the gulls
who now don’t fly
see the whales
who search for sky
coast of destruction
while they all stand by….

experts tweet
executives meet
“fool proof plans”
don’t mean a thing
while seagulls...

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LOVESONG TO AN ALASKAN FISHERMAN

If tame you want 
Tis fool you’ll get
In fishing North high seas
But if you go a trolling
And you catch a fish like me
Prepare for love ---prepare for war
There’s not a moment’s...

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Valdez boats murmuring waves uphold
liberty falls run betwixt mountains cold
glacier bay form snowy hills by day
fogginess place on mesa mounts and lay
silent it stays for days like prayer take place
abruptly change their ways an be...

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Dr. Zhivago, 12 angry men  Valdez is coming Clear and Present danger Scent of a woman Armageddon Medicine Man

Top Gun the ninth gate Dangerous minds, Milk money wings of the dove
Cider house rules and...

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THE DAWN OF A NEW DAY IN ALASKA

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Remember this? On March 24, 1989, the Exxon Valdez oil tanker hits a 
reef in Alaska's Prince William Sound, resulting in an enormous oil spill. 
Though there were no human victims of the crash, hundreds...

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I've wanted to write to you for such a very long time
To tell the world in general that you're a friend of mine
Though I burden you with questions to answers that I seek
You stand so...

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