Short Claimants Poems

If you think that noone cares.
Bill collectors call, then I swear.
Try missing a few payments.
The "Do not call list" the lying claimants!
I, unwist!...

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wither
away not
to thee gifts reason

of art
wingless dove bestilled
on halfpace empyreal thy breast behooves
thee further

o'er yond clingiest fairgrounds
moor dawning flora
promising showboat sanctifying lightness
up from their beds and
to their feds and down
to their peds

all the same maternally presence clement
intimate cavernous fire claimants contest

a fleeting gesture
of unattainable love...

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My conscience came to a clearing,
Freed from clamorous cacophony
Of criers, critics, and claimants
  That commonly carp at me.

Calm, cool contemplation
Called out its care and concern:
Consider a commitment to courage
  Fortitude's clear-headed urn.

Calculating quickly a crisis,
I had come to the critical curve:
Could I commit to courage and clarity--
  Or into craven cowardice would I swerve?

My conscience had come to a clearing:
Could I conquer my demons this time?...

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