Long Vexes Poems

SONNET 1
                         MY CHRISTMAS WISH TO SANTA
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The Bodhisattva of Boundless Will then asked in verse:
“O World Honored One of wondrous countenance, 
I now seek once more the origins of the One Who Hears 
And Heeds the Sounds of the World!” 

And...

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As she walks in the door
My heart skips a beat
Butterflies churn in my stomach
I freeze, unable to move
Unable to stop staring and glaring at this beautiful dream.

Faces around her are blurred as my view of...

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Each night lurid visions danced before me in the dark
staring with eyes of an eagle, sharp beak of a hawk.
I woke, and in the mirror, my face was white as chalk,
screaming with the brazen voice...

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A Letter from Anna, circa 1979

“My sorrow, when she’s here with me,
thinks these dark days of autumn
are beautiful as days can be.
She loves the bare, the withered trees
She thinks I have no eye for these,...

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it’s the groaning, spoken
a feeling, bleeding, bruising
remembering the broken
silence in the heart who’s losing

it’s the story, unfolding
dark as a shadow, stolen
by the ghostly, scolding
even my breath is swollen

it’s the distance between hope
and the futility of...

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True, I do practice the act of introversion quite a bit,
But why should I be blamed? To what am I to admit

When I am not the transgressor in question?
I am not typically one to act...

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Homelessness is so sad.
Slowly it crawls into you,
takes you from yourself,
lock you in a world you never taught existed.
The fright in the night is the worst.
You see ghosts of the dead and the living. 
Drugs...

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Dark And Tragic, When Fate Sets Its Black Hand To Decide


Icy cold had invaded, her heart became a hard frozen tomb
Never again would she allow love to penetrate its new armored shells
That night she had...

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oh, You ...

you found me again
unveiled amid the bosom of my dreams -
my consciousness peeled back
and flayed
tabled in a twilight mist
for the memories of you to feast upon
drowning in the fathoms of your gaze
your scent...

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A SOMBER SOMEDAY

Someday
someday when blazing blonde turns to grievous gray
yes someday
someday when the wonder which once was has patently passed impatiently away
someday
someday when joyful leaping is replaced by reaping muscles that ache
someday
someday when graceful grins...

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I chanced on him on my track to school
He was baronial and majestic as ever
Clothed in his outfit and elongated tunic
Clenching in his hand a printed work

The nugatory schoolboy in me promptly surfaced
As I proceeded...

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I will inform you once the shells are spoor.
When they're timorous around the seashore,
Just as mushrooms will grow around a grave,
If they shine like slight candles in a cave.

So, you and I will devour the...

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In times of old, the men were kings, and the women were sub servient. It kind of worked, although not fair. What’s interesting is, no one complained to much, Since it was the way of...

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And then ..
Poem
Lionel Derbyshire

And then..
The ribbon and the cuff link
Escort the gent..
That annoy
Man about a woman
On the long wait
Of her dress up
But then..
The afterward will
Be splendid
When the deal is done
The beauty of her
Smart on your...

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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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I hear voices and I hear vexes...I hear screams and striking matches
I sense evil eyes on eggs now hatching
I can see a sea of static now the smoke it makes me blind
I hear wicked wings...

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THIS TORTUROUS LIFE

Is this life make-believe?

I cope not with the life struggles that beset me
For they are hell-bent on wrecking me 
Forever seeking me out 
They harangue most grievously 
Damaging me irrevocably

No one it seems...

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There she sits pristine and demure
catching the center of mine eye
within a glint of thoughts impure
my breath exhales a forlorn sigh

Beyond few others to compare
a Duchess - far from being trite
I can not help but...

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So many people around the world
living a life of their own
there are good doers and then there are evil doers
there are rich and then there are poor


But what vexes me most is the way of...

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Harmonious co-existence vexes as
Ugliness of spirit overrides all sense:
Man, woman, young, old - locked in constant conflict.
Antagonistic leanings destructive, but
Nations are split by doctrine more than terrain;
Isolated, insular and self-serving.
Tempestuous relationships reign supreme;
Yawning chasm between...

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The Iron Lung

Haunting in the shadows from the Fifties' years
turning up for unexpected shock,
why does it recapture all my hidden fears,
whether having known its ways or not?

Panic pulsates deeply in the iron lung,
phobia that swells...

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bestow upon me your love
bless me with your beauty
to be in your prescence i feel so lucky
i delight to kiss your lips 
my heart for you love i feel
for my heart you did steal
gallop away...

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My heart soars throughout time.

On and on it goes, hovering through nothingness, seeking only my bosom.

It is not the winds of bliss that sails men,

It is the wings of grief that stirs me,

A whirlwind of...

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There is an oasis on mortality’s pock-ridden road.
Many hunger and thirst for it, but they find it not.
They live their lives carrying a burdensome load.
Unaware of the Son of God and what He wrought.

Explaining the...

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