Long Verifies Poems

(Door bell rings)

 — The damn dog barks and a voice is heard. Arms stretch, forming a letter Y. A head shakes. Dimples become this smooth cheek; lips form a letter O... Exhaled respiration sighs; the break of...

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Times colours wrap around seasonal dreams
Weaving pictorial thinking with silken words
That sew themselves to the pictures you see,
While warp and weft combine to story tell
Of life within the veil of faithful hearing
As trials attempt to...

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Now, as I retire after 50 years and look back on my life amid the well wishes from friends and the realization that this old body can no longer handle what my brain still yearns...

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Written: February 23, 2024

Rumi Quote: “There is a voice that doesn't use words. Listen.”-

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Line of inquiry:

"discarding narrow...

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do you cry inside when i smile?,
does your heart try to hide?,
or subside,
feelings of jealousy and hatred overrides,
when you know i am happy,
and your rules i don't abide,
you see i have earned this smile,
you know...

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Improvements fuse to Inventor's efforts
       Nous flowers to dissect design
       Nurturing device surpasses old methods


       Onerous abattoir...

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We winter down south in Arizona
We stay down there six months cause we wantta 
My friend Bob is about six miles away
And often we’d get together to play

The model airplane field, was where we first...

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What is this strange place we find ourselves in?
Trapped in the open- we are free within.
Somehow the norms we always saw as true-
have been displaced by those we're not used to.

Some rules we follow for...

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Ailing armadillos advertising artichokes. But bringing back brilliance brought big booming bangs. Courteous cats creating canopies. Dogs do dare dream during digs. Energetic eggs evaluating effigies. Frying fortresses frees flamingos. Grateful goats grinning greedily. Hippos...

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Reality leaves a lot to the imagination        John Lennon

IMAGINING ONLY WHAT I REMEMBER

abrupt
the falling
cord’s tight and coiled serpent hiss
reality reverberates into space
imagination
makes haste
fetal position
tethered to a voice uttering...

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Einstein’s numbers predicted it.
Alas, this classic physicist rejected it.
Tiny, entangled particles in mutual dependence
Separated by the longest distances.

Spooky action at a distance,
We cannot grasp this miracle, 
Yet, science verifies the fact. 
Objects the size of...

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I would be creeped out, Lucilla said.
Making me wish I had not mentioned their visits.
Glad I had stopped myself when I did.
They are not frightening, I told her.
Spirits comfort me, they are proof that life...

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I hate that I love you,
Because that restrains me,
Stops me from loving him
The way I loved you
For fear of hurt and confusion
And my heart being broken
Beyond repair
I chucked up the deuces
Said my last good byes
But...

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This world that dials M for madness—
One for this, Two for that… what mess!
Blind led by blind, or by one blurred,
In this odd world ruled by password.

This world that verifies you’re you,
Robots nor robbers from...

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A flicker of light from each eye
Radiant blink of blue-winged firefly
Blipping waves of stardust amplify
Transitory illusions of grandeur apply
Dark shadows with fluttering beams vie
Only telepathic conduit mind's eye espies
Aesthetic appeal lingering memory ties
To the surreal,...

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Always Speak The Truth

Never tell a lie, speak the truth
Don't feel shy, speak the truth

Truth is grace, with shining face
Reflects one's glory, fills personality space

Truth is love, truth seed sow
Truth is gold, glitters and glow

Success...

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Playing Trivia Pursuit verifies I learn little
About things that don't concern people, animals, or us,
Biology, and zoology, I never fiddle.
And subjects like paleontology I do not fuss,
Median, means and mode in math to me means...

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