Long Warps Poems

An icy chill descends on 13 Beaver Veil Cottage as sisters Ester and Ellie walk gingerly up the steps on this wet and windy night.
This once charming pied-a-terre was now in a final phase denouement.
The...

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n icy chill descends on 13 Beaver Veil Cottage as sisters Ester and Ellie walk gingerly up the steps on this wet and windy night.
This once charming pied-a-terre was now in a final phase denouement.
The...

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*Image of Thunder & Lightning by Pixabay.

The Stranger
My life warps by its beasts of woes
depression dogs my day
at night, stress drains my restless soul
the wrongs have no delay

Myself am I, forsook decreed
hope laid by things...

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when Animal Farm is not a feeding manual

and Clockwork Orange strikes at midnight

Dali’s time piece warps under face value

and an eagle-eyed-cuckoo flies over its nest


beneath the cover of cotton candy clouds

she relieves herself into Magritte’s...

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Too fast! It hurts!
It travels at lightspeed!
Ruins calm. More than I need!
Help me please!
This monster brings me to my knees!
Wild eyed. Animal's panic.
No reason. Life is just Titanic.
Too much to see, need, read.
Copious substance.
Im a...

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I’d heard of Persephone, that beautiful earthly maid, 
Who’d vowed her love to Hades, although her mother forbade –
An enraged Demeter scorched the earth; a desolate paradise was made,
But Persephone visits still, embrocating this soil-...

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It starts in silence.
Deep down.
Where listening lives.

Not words—
older.

Older than moons wept for their orbit.

She stands.  
No mask.  
No shield.

The world draws—  
at her edges.

And she…  
glows.  

Shimmers to the slow...

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How many have ever heard the song "Somewhere in Time?"
       It's a song with only music and with no words or rhyme.
 "Fantasie Impromtu" is another one written by...

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The wise say: live in now’s benign presence,
In time to come nor in one duly dead, 
Buried in graves past stays so ever hence,
And dreams dreamt seldom change from grey to red.
We take greige fibre...

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(Where the streets are full of pity)

Last night! I met an old boxer
in an alley of cardboard;
he seemed glad to see me,
shouted me over for a fight!
I told him!
“Hey I’m not in your league”
“Young man.”...

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There is special interest in planet 
That orbit in a star's habitable zone great, 
Where it is possible for liquid water, 
A prerequisite for life on Earth to occur,
To exist on the surface simpley we...

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It arrived yesterday, manifested gradual and absurd,
started with the surrounding area dying first,
then the original picture of a missing itty bitty bird,
levitating and unmovable.

More people went missing as the days converge,
sure enough a new snapshot...

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Maybe not once in a lifetime,
                             ...

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FRAGILITY
Poem written for Body Possession Horror Poetry contest, Micheal Fulkerson, sponsor, 7/22/2025
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Locusts serenade me as I rock, 
suspended, in the soft embrace of my hammock.
The air is lovely and eerie, 
heavy with the ghost of...

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When we open up the door do you

anticipate the echoing reverb

Warps your perception with its rumble

Gazing upon the doorway to where

Gazing upon....

             ...

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Revenge is mine

(Inspired by the war in Ukraine)

My homeland is ablaze below
I’m watching from above
Invading wolf packs steal the show
It’s death I’m speaking of

They fill the space in endless stream
No end to foreign horde
One cannot...

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How dare goddamn Laura divorce him
     After thirty years arduous pre dawn sacrifice
     Menopause made her dismiss marriage on a whim
     Told Rod...

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In an instant my world went into a blur
All it took was one look from her
Forever immortalized
In the front and back of my mind
Its like falling into river of cocoa and cream
With marshmallow rocks found...

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As I sit upon these old porch steps, that I have always known
A weathered stoop, with gray floorboards, that shake with every wind
These creaks and groans,  the flaws and chips, ... familiar to my...

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Recumbent, crippled: a conscious corpse 
Life calling for me to follow 
Mentality, it warps 
Why does my skull feel hollow? 
As I wait for the shadows to fall down, to swallow

Emotions exhaust; they yawn, they...

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Poem written for “Alice Through the Wormhole” Poetry Contest, Tom Woody, Sponsor, July 2025

BUCKLE UP ALICE!
Buckle up, Alice, for the cosmos calls!

The stars beckon with a siren song of the unknown.
The air crackles, charged with...

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One may insist that spring will come if I just stand there,
I was, therefore, standing on the riverbank as he said.
The rain poured on the riverside where I stood
and when the water ran into the...

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In quantum mechanics particles remain entangled 
And connected over huge distances.
So that actions performed on one particle 
Still affect the others in the web or wave.
Einstein called entanglement "Spooky at a distance"
Because he couldn't explain...

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shrouded in a darkness, 
her kisses are only bittersweet, 
peering into the windows of her victims, 
tasting their dreams, 
tasting them.....tainting them.....

she licks the insides of her victims lips, 
with her sharp tongue, 
coated with...

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" Like a fish caught in a cruel net; 
or a bird caught in a trap,  
in the same way a person can be trapped;
by bad things that suddenly happen."
 
Based on Ecclesiastes...

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