Long Windup Poems

“Upon Waking”


Slumber has its upsides 
while the outside runs around
like a split fowlyard, 
cacophonous 
pecking at each other 
and at the ground…

Elsewhere, 

like dull background noise
through the fog of dream 
the sound of the gamble...

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MEGANS HIT - the Baseball Sonnet
There on the deck, I took a practice swing
tormented in the possiblity--
then hope was dashed--I found no hope to bring
up to the plate, when Ump cried out, "Strike 3!"

I was...

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MEGANS HIT
There on the deck, I took a practice swing
tormented in the possiblity--
then hope was dashed--I found no hope to bring
up to the plate, when Ump cried out, "Strike 3!"

I was the last to bat--in...

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MEGAN'S HIT
There on the deck, I took a practice swing
tormented in the possiblity--
then hope was dashed--I found no hope to bring
up to the plate, when Ump cried out, "Strike 3!"

I was the last to bat--in...

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MEGAN'S HIT
There on the deck, I took a practice swing
tormented in the possiblity--
then hope was dashed--I found no hope to bring
up to the plate, when Ump cried out, "Strike 3!"
I was the last to bat--in...

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It was slightly overcast, that day in April.  The crowd was cheering.  They always 
cheered for him.  He was over age, over the hill, and over indulged.  But, god how 
he...

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I was silently watching the two Mary’s sigh and cry, 
When the earthquake hit and I just wanted to cover, 
The ground nearly parted and there was no-one to chi, 
I hit the deck for...

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The universe revolves around patterns and numbers.
Like an insomniac knowing not the meaning of the word slumber.
To say it's a big place would be a gross understatement.
If it were a face we'd be living on...

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(fact)

The one thing I miss I wish I knew we're they were
I made a big mistake for those were my treasures indeed.
It's hard not having the things that you try to past down
To your young,...

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The beautiful red wagons, windup toys and spinning tops, toy trucks, cars, tractors, and yo-yos.  At the appropriate age, I usually received the 

appropriate Christmas gift. The trains, the tricycles, the play guns with...

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At first, I barely noticed your presence
all I saw of you was 
a swift turn of the head
no one else noticed 
but I did
Over time you became bolder
extrovert, out there
then, everyone noticed
when the spasmodic jerking...

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She didn’t know pt.2
The Getaway 

Making my get away I was walking fast.
Hiding the two bags of money in an old target shopping bag.
Walking with no witnesses as to which way I went.
It was all...

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As the sun goes west of my school building
day's tiring trying work starts to windup
ears tremble mildly to hear school bell ring
Joy quickens to brush away lesser thing

My own loving heart herds me back to...

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WEST WIND 2

Be willingly wise with worthy ways as us Westerners
cos winter wind of woes wanders about
like a wandering Wolf windsurfing in wildlife.
Winter windup waves of weird wonder

wondrous enough to bring back Wayne Wonder
and wheeled...

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Over a bridge
and past a bright green meadow
appeared a little squidge
an angry monstrous short little fellow

"Come, Come my Sesame Balanja,
Follow me to my CrossjaKanga!"

He jumped and he whelped
screaming such strange things
he motioned, and he dotioned,...

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Take a knife to the strings that attach me
Pull out the bridge pins, strum me with drachmae
Maybe then I'd have some worth for you to allocate
Maybe your role in the end was the devil's advocate
A...

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Looking high up in the sky 
I stand still in my balcony 
Thinking and about to cry 
Filthy thoughts are all that fathom me 

I am getting high with the air 
Thinking of the darkness...

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THE GRANDMA RAMP

My daughter handed him to me and ran out the door without instructions.
It’s been thirty years since I’ve been this close to a cat-like scream.

The bottles hang down like bats, perky nipples and...

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(feelings)

They say Beauty is skin deep. They lied.
Then why are they the first to whine.
They say they like girl's with small boobs.they lied.
Then why do they busy checking out the girl with a push up...

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Something's hiding under your bed

Inside your closet hides way your dread 

Hidden messages stuck inside your head

Something ticking away your windup heart

Feelings mixed, bitter and tart

Everything sweet has rotten away

Nothing keeping you up all day

Feel...

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There was no joy in Fenway
With Damon at the plate.
Our lead was 1-0;
The game was getting late.

The Yankee star could win the game,
Short hair upon his head.
The windup and the pitch came in,
"Strike one," the...

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Weebles wobble
   but they do fall down.

Once without windup whimsy weebles wobble writhing in wistful wiggly wattles,
they bubble, bobble, boggle, bottle and boondoggle coddles and dawdles;
a colossal ensemble debacle joggles and toggles the...

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