Long Wear thin Poems

I’ve always been a prankster and a lover of a joke.
I love to see the puzzled look on an unsuspecting bloke,
when he looks around and lifts his hat - totally confused.
Some take a joke for...

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Fraught With IBS Irritable Bowel Syndrome...

today – late morning of November 4th 2022
sudden onset experienced whereby
whooshing waste naturally flushed out
ala mine body electric performed colonoscopy
diarrheal gangbuster instigated
maybe Machiavellian microbe
with powerful rectal surge
analogous to invisible plunger
forcing...

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You had that future retro look:  two thousand seventeen,
There was a slow and sultry permanence, a little slouchy lean
As you eased out of the taxi before it shot off to the right,
Who could have...

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[An Autumn kitchen a crucible of y e a s t and y e a r n i n g]

Samantha kneads dough with determined hands, she hears
    Hank's cry—"Vi vi an"—a phantom...

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Fraught With IBS Irritable Bowel Syndrome...

The earliest recollection with 
lower gastrointestinal eruptions,
viz psychosomatic induced distress
occurred when yours truly
quite a young lad, which specialist
invited me to ingest barium sulfate,
whereby the pinkish chalk like solution
traced a path...

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Cuz god made me a Lamb CooCooCachoo,
And Blake a tyger with the potential to do.
I am one of the Unhappy; we’ve seen an unsettling light.
I made myself an Unhappy; I had to search for that...

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Many a poet I know a fool
acting like they know-it-all
many a poet I know a tool
acting like "Mr Poet-all" 
unknowingly showing me 
their knowledge of poetry
has boundaries surrounding
ideas rebounding around 
their impounded grounds 
only seeing...

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Fraught With IBS Irritable Bowel Syndrome...

Rear lee if ever suffices as an apt poetic title
amidst bookish canon - while
this writer (similar to other aspirants
in their respective creative pursuits)
aware arbitrary perusers may deem vile

core body of...

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The house on the hill stood forsaken by time.
The gutters were hanging and covered in grime.
The windows were warped and the siding was peeling,
And spider webs spanned from the floor to the ceiling

The moon overhead...

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Life is a lesson you learn it as you live 
a schools education is given to a kid 
getting Grade A papers, isn’t that splendid 
but you’re a human being and that means you are...

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Today I learned that all is naught, and naught is all..
I have been seeking, unconsciously, unaware, 
Only to learn that all that I ever wanted to be was a seeker,
Out ward lies but a pale...

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I know of a young soul who lived 
By the lies and labels society and others
Projected and reflected on the screen of 
His or her mind.  Who was always lost in
The thoughts and ideologies...

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Panic or stage fright, oh my,
A crowd awaits, let me sit, oh why?
Better standing, oh the nerves,
Good morning? No, good afternoon it serves.

Oh dear, I don't even know what I'm saying,
How am I feeling? I...

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Me and you

You are blind, so you cannot see the truth.
You are ignorant, so you do not understand filth.

You are stupid, so you can't cover your shame,
You are stingy, so you don't want to see...

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I swear it's the last time I sit here
Staring at the ceiling, remembering,
No reason why, you just left,
I blinked and you were gone.

I pack my things and get ready,
You shot your arrow, struck the final...

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("Dark Pool Nebula #3", 2011, original oil)

Tilting at Windmills

In this modern world, in these modern times
adventurers of the spirit are looked down upon
at least among my family and friends.

It’s all good if kept at a...

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You Sang The Song I Sang To You

I heard a tapping on my heart
it woke me from my sleep.
I lay there quietly in the night
and then I heard you weep.

Rising from my body
my spirit then...

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Aging puppet

When I opened my eyes, I recall the weirdest dream 
I was an aging puppet time breaking my strings
Years ago, I enjoyed a younger life 
Now my strings are being cut by an age-old...

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I am more than a genetically modified organism 
That was constructed for scientific research. 
I am more than just pretty colors and silly talking tricks 
Caged upon this perch.

My body was created for a purpose...

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Words are predictable, 
body language is revealing.
Saying it like a fool, 
who are you deceiving? 

Spend your life doing nothing, 
telling it like it's something.
Lazy, lonely, miserable, 
Who are you this evening? 

Some people need...

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Like a sudden rain storm
Without a way to be warned,
All at once, out of the clear blue,
I stumbled upon you.

It started rather slowly.
But came upon me quickly.
And now, I'm losing grip and...
I'm starting to slip...

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Slam entry for contest

Being british through and through, what the hell!
Even here in England I smell the crude slick smell.
British Petroleum, BP, yes I said it!
Feeling to blame for the fat cats messed up S##t!

I’m...

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May, June, July, new Presidents and Prime
Ministers elected world-wide,
Politicians, crossing the floor, patronizing 
The other side,
Finally striving for what we all hope, 
Peace and unity,
But the yellow  canary haired man has for
Years acted with...

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What choice do I have but to listen to you I'm trying to be rational and give you the benefit of the doubt but the constant arguments we can do with out, you shout about...

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Quote: "There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.” – Mahatma Gandhi

In wars, innocent lives are the cost,
Their homes, their dreams, forever lost.

Starvation...

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