Long Wake the dead Poems

A Stolen Memory
A Mirthful Chorus
By Sy Roth 


We surrounded him 
Asked to let go.
She stared at the misshapen face,
Unshaven sandpapery skin 
Eyelids a tabula rasa
Fluttery sere skin
And we could see the humor blossoming in his...

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[Continued from ‘Terror Bugs: Part 2 - A Freezer Mice Adventure’]
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London’s streets resembled an al fresco mausoleum 
They tracked a trail of body parts which led to a museum
A thousand Terror Bugs were massed, in...

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Screaming from his office was loud enough to wake the dead
by our trucking company foreman who was livid when he said,
“That useless bloody mongrel, that scum of the flamin’ earth,
has loaded up a truck with...

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This raggedy pew has, I’m sure, seen many breakdowns and pleas. I grip it with both hands and stare at the stained red plush carpet under my worn converse, something that aren't exactly acceptable at...

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He was a cowboy problem child
rescued by a mendicant sage brush sorcerer
resulting in his remembering everything
flawlessly insolently permanantly
birth death life things in space have a beer
owner of his own head at last
thanks to whiskey tainted...

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These two poems composed to honor this truly great poet,
Elinor Wylie....
 
(1.)
Heaven Smiles And Its Light Awaits
 
Icy winds have died, winter fled
Hope has sung, Spring has sprung
Love and promise have wed 
new life's radiant...

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To the gravedigger, dear sir
let the ivy grow and the rain fall in the stele
As a flower fall from Eden, I hear the angels sing
While I slightly twist and turn in the God’s acre, so...

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The evening dark and foggy as the children in their guises
with Mums and Dads in tow; collecting trick or treat surprises.

My porch, festooned with spiders, ghosts and ugly-looking gore,
signalled that I’d welcome them if they...

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Well some they say though straight or gay
Get fun from innuendo
While others wait ‘til dark
To get their kicks outside your window

Some do the deed without a sound
Some labour in the dark
While others roars would wake...

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We come from realms beyond your sight,
A council bound by cosmic law,
To warn you now of endless night,
Should mankind fail to mend its flaw.

The stars have watched your rise and fall,
Your greed that turns to...

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Life is short
Too short to read all the poems ever written
Talk less of novels and plays

This life is too short
To listen to all the music ever recorded
And certainly too short to watch all the movies...

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You never feed me.
Perhaps I'll sleep on your face.
That will show you.

You must scratch me there!
Yes, above my tail! Behold,
elevator butt.

I need a new toy.
Tail of black dog keeps good time.
Pounce! good dog! good dog!

The...

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Death is like a dream
Hope that keeps me wishin
I know I'm not going to heaven
I've done too much sining
Stars hanging in the sky
Like cherries I can pick
Teaching me a lesson
Somethings are impossible to reach

What's the...

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Continued from Part 1

The City’s blur? A sepulcher for Christians, Muslims, Jews –
Cathedrals, Temples, vacant now, enshrine their residues,
for churches, mosques and synagogues abide without a bruise.

No cantillation, belfry bells, monastic chants inspire
and Minarets, though...

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All 

As I look back these days, 
over the years that have gone by... 
faster than I thought they were moving
at the time I was living through them, 
I find I miss every moment, 
and...

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The ELECTRIC swerve of her lover's 
Words. Wooo! Her curves! How
Soothing. He loved and amused her.
Major Master Lover! Her emotions 
Were bare. His were BLAZING! HE
FLARED! ooh! Sweet my sweet love.
This is BUBBLING within me!...

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we no longer linger
we know the cost
we no longer dare
We  know how to care
we no longer mourn
We bury in a hurry
we no longer sleep
We rest at the best
We no longer greet 
We wave from...

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In the desert skies turn silent on the evening red
Sun continues drifting down the dunes to set
Burnt brown over quick sands sinking

Camels find a footing that is not there
Slip on the soft sand measured
While they...

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Six steeple towers, cold as steel, drab daggers in the sky!	
Their hallowed halls no longer call when breezes wander by –
for, filled with dread to wake the dead, they've ceased to sough or sigh.

Coiled candle...

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Make it not secret
I am your loyalist friend or your deadliest enemy.
Sky writers write my name among the clouds.
I am everything.

Nothing you have ever seen 
Nothing you HAVE IMAGINED.
And yet I see all thoughts.
I am...

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"If I have to telll you one more time to clean your room mister...
Clean that plate little man there are starving children
no you cant have a toy gun..youll shoot your eye out.
if you kep that...

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Walls of red dripping light
Heavy on my flight or fight,
I am the Igor gaurding these hallways.

Hunchback green with a crimson stare
Past the gates of Truth or Beware,
I reside on the house on the hill.

Floors that...

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Dad had left on urgent business,
something to do with a workers' dispute,
and Mum was at the next-door neighbour's
on one of her 'brief' visits.
Mary, the birthday boy's elder sister,
had just dished out the junkets.
Martin, known for...

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Do you remember some time ago
before push buttons or cell phones
when we were all on a party line
with the Martins, the Smiths, the Jones'?
,
The calls came into all the homes
we were assigned a certain ring.
Ours...

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One morning I was admiring our yard’s splendid beauty.
My kind spouse did the majority of the weeding duty.
The immaculate flower beds were bursting with color.
The dahlias, geraniums, and peonies welcomed the summer.

I decided to do...

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