Long Young and foolish Poems

The three enigmas of Turandot

The well of souls run deep in fabled lands of old.
Of China's ancient dynasty and the lost Great Tartary, 
a ballad of love and loss that must be told.

The Emperor's daughter,...

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“Dream On”

Hm, my heart as it slips out of my reach
Like the waves of the sea, flowing passed the palm of my hand
Do you know what I mean? You’re eyes are as blue and playful...

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I'm such a drama king
What kind of happiness can I bring
At the dinner table? Would they place a label on me?
I'm like a dysfunctional cable box...a beat-up TV 

Pre-chorus: I promise I'll be okay
I just...

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Oh, these trees, arms reaching as they
      did then, but even wiser ... perhaps I as
         well have learned another thing-or-two
 ...

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~***Part One of Vanish Away the Anguish series…read Part Two, Leaving You. Thanks***~

It’s horrendous…
This loneliness
Finding it hard enough to extraordinarily express
Myself when people don’t mind how big of a mess
I’ve been in…for an awful long,...

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Shadiness adores you
Bleakness is exhaustin’

Now, I’m so fatigued and my volume is set way low
Because you tore me down with social media craze…
You were there just for the temporarily show…you know…
Buy me black and blue...

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April 30 In Search of America 1975 – Hitch hiking Tales

When I was young and foolish
Broke and stubborn 
I hitchhiked across the USA 

Started in Salt Lake City 
Where my greyhound bus pass 
Was stolen...

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I have waited for the New Age--that Tranelike return to my Mediterranean Sundance Always and Forever missing the  journey of the Caravansary of old.
Hence, Only Time and the touch of the Rio Ancho, its...

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great expectations
anticipated in the 
poetic heart 
Havisham delivered
all and more for love, 
a separate unseen thief, 
tore the others’ worlds apart

webs like ectoplasm
from underneath a rock
scurrying swiftly out of sight
wrapped tight around a child
dressed in...

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I smiled when the world was ended. I pretended not to care.
I thought it only fair you see, to suffer such indignity with some restraint.
You may think it easy, but it ain’t.
I recall when they...

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Junior High
A lifetime ago
I made your acquaintance
Seasons changed 
Transitioning from a naive
Child into a curious adolescent
Experiencing love for the first time
Like a Butterfly
We spread our wings
Flying hand in hand
Taking a blissful journey together
To an unexplored...

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Yes these days were hard, tough, and stripped from fun. These days they give us unwelcomed memories, and unwanted fights. They forbid us from living, from being, from once and for all becoming family, becoming...

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Last minute love,
You left me with rebellion
From high above
You grand theft me with a smile of a million
But, you haven’t hurt my heart yet…

It was just rebellion kind of love
Let’s face it…
It’s nothing to be...

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Take it all away —
These thoughts of suicide today
Tonight, I’m having them big time, it’s a terrible crime
It’s not at all sublime…maybe, I can wait some time…

Remember me 
When I was young and foolish
Remember me
When...

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The regrets of a young man.
The foolish choices he made.
 

A beautiful little Soul, was torn, twisted and turned.
Her, free spirit would eventually crash and be burned.
Her, fragile heart would reach out, try to touch,...

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Am I a woman when i turn 18?
No longer scared to sneak dad’s old whiskey out of our Swedish glass cabinet
Maybe it was when i got that first crimson stain 
on my yellow frilly knickers...

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It was dusk
They were in a hurry
Paul, John, Jake and Larry
The darkness was creeping in
They lifted the earth
Covering the last piece of evidence
A wicked bunch of rebels
Young and foolish they were
They smiled at themselves
Mission accomplished!
Deeds...

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It sucks...
The batteries in my mouse are dead and abused
 the charge expelled from too much random use,
I should ,I guess 
 be more grateful of that which with I'm blessed.

It sucks...
The corn and sunflowers...

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To My Knees

As I started my life’s journey 
on a quest to follow this Glorious Son of Man,
Being so young so foolish and thinking I’m so strong
in this body why, I can do this, oh...

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A Violent Child

A young and very violent child the world will ask
how could this happen or be,
yet the Bible says a child left to himself will bring
shame upon his whole family.

Our country’s children even though...

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We were both 16, we shared many firsts with each other. First girl I ever kissed, First person outside of family that I told "I love you" to and we took each others virginity. We...

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April 30 In Search of America 1975 – Hitchhiking Tales  part one 
published in Tiferet Journal 2018 Poem-a-Thon 

When I was young and foolish
Broke and stubborn 
I hitchhiked across the USA 

Started in Salt...

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Line of inquiry: To which image should we cling?

“We have been here a thousand times before
Memory erased, each time we begin anew
Of hands held tenderly, we’ve lost the score
Each embrace virgin like fresh morning dew...

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My long-time love dumped me on Christmas Day,
	      	decades ago. He coldly said we were
		too different. His verbal sucker-punch
		was devastating. All became a blur.

		I crashed into a deep, dark, lonely...

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Moved into my first apartment, I was now standing completely on my own,
Called the telephone company to install my phone so I wouldn’t feel alone.
Felt pretty proud of myself, just didn’t realize how young and...

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