Long Zounds Poems

Quatrain Poem (23 Stanzas)
Halloween Story-by Trevor McLeod


As a child I remember well
how Halloween would interest me.
When school would end and I'd head home.
The leaves ground low and chasing me.

The air was cool that I'd feel...

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Look
Just take a page out of my book
Call me Captain Hook
Because my hooks have you hooked
And don't you dare give me that look
You know you looked
Call me a spook
Because they dropped a nuke
Now I'm a...

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My daily walk for exercise has changed;
for there are souls along the path
I have not seen before.  Oh yes,
the regulars are there,
and smile at me, too often share
my miseries from ice and snow
and muscles...

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Upon the pond, where lilies float,
Two ducks did meet, each fine of coat.
Their feathers gleamed ‘neath gilded light,
And thus began their feath’ry fight.
Quoth Drake to Dame, with pufféd chest,
“Good wench, thy quacking lacks finesse!
Thy tones...

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Why did mares eat oats?
Mares ate goats!
And did does eat oats?
Nah! Dose oats never don' be eaten!
  And how did little lambs eat ivy?
  Little lambsy divy is what it is!

Just like Louie...

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Zounds!
longing for a 
merciful descent into 
the terminal ground 
where smoky eyes
semi-watch
streams of
semi-(dis)information
exhaled from
smoking brains
on a mission
to search &
deconstruct

ticking clocks
taunt
timely bombs
lost in 
purple blobs
of
orange haze
awaiting
purging deluges
sprinkled with
white bolts of
blinding hell

the raving
raven's
feathers flicker 
while 
flippant tentacles
grope...

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City Girl-Country Girl

I swore I would never live in a small town.
I wanted noise, people and the 
roar of the crowd.
Crowded restaurants, highways,
Exhaust fumes galore.
Sounds of police cars all over
town.
Lounges, theaters and 24 hour
anything!
Those bright lights,...

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Detritus 

Sitting there, honey,
Cleansed and bathed,
Scented with lilac and rose,
Glistening at your dressing table, and
Eyeing yourself in the chrome mirror;
I, as your guest, sit by and watch,
Astonished at your well-intentioned revealings,
Seeing your young beauty at...

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An alien spaceship landed today
Bouncing across my yard
Coming out was a creature, strange
Does he know he looks like lard?

Everyone on the block did come
For the strangest sight to see
Gawking and laughing they watched him come
Hobbling...

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Ascend 		Zion
Believers 	        Yearn
Collective 	        X-Ray
Deserted 	        Wells
Egocentric    	Vanity
Forgotten  ...

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