Tamped Poems

I know you're out there
    I can hear you ... typing, rat-a-tat-tat
      I echo it, but place with intent
       each finger-step just SO
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Free association comprises ratiocination...

Bonafide catatonic doggedness,
nevertheless this stubborn stoic poet writ
afore and another feeble effort courtesy
exhaustive mental effort
he brewed den - brought about divine visit
analogously to solve mystery pinpointing
within suspense unveiling whodunnit.

Whereat your true
plane vanilla author's creativity
admittedly drastically did decline
bawling...Read More

Secrets well hidden in the forest floor
Tamped way down deep in a garden snake’s tail
Beyond anything beauty had in store
Campfire fires brought on by dark ale

Guarded and protected by faerie’s strong
Secrets well hidden in the forest floor
Cool winds through the...Read More

Aloof brother concedes duty evaded...

Foremost gratitude heavenly indebted,
jumbling kindling, linkedin mourning
numbness overlaid, pervaded, quashed,
routed thoroughly undermined vibrant
warbling, when xing yesterday's youth

zigzagging, accompanying blitzkrieg
cleaving deafeningly exploding,
formative grim homelife, indelibly
jabbing kid, (little me) nonstop,
overwhelming progeny, quintessentially

robbing, stunting, tormenting
unrelentingly vitality wrenching,
why xyst, zapping...Read More

Punkisimo
My own nonsense word
Laughter with my muse
Delightedly figuring out meaning
Enthusiastic gang singing on American Idol

Relaxdressica
Created on site, here and now folks
Misunderstood emotions
Tamped down into a meditative dressing ritual
Deals with taking off clothes and sleeping in the buff

Zebracillia
Invented cheerfully while we...Read More

Translated by Przemyslaw Musialowski 2/24/2019

this
went around to the outskirts of the country
and it smells of babyhood
a reminiscence of poems
about the stream and with Konopnicka*
from the sad chamber

the lucky ones 
walk around in the glow of the spotlight
look - like wedding
guests...Read More

Beautiful! Sparkly winter magic. Icy crystals smiled at us. A cheer went up.
Children who refused to wake up for school arrived on Deadman’s Hill by seven.  Happy laughter. Did you eat breakfast? Me neither.
We dragged our sleds up the...Read More

It was unseasonably
warm for Winter
sun shone bright
cool breeze blowing
but not even cold
and I was
just walking
along, not knowing
the world, as we knew it
was about to come apart
Then that piercing scream
ripped through my heart
heart pounding and
pumping, feet
pounding, running
suddenly cold all over
despite warm...Read More

This is a rubbish poem!
Since I was old enough to know better,
I was taught not to throw litter.
To scatter rubbish when out and about,
From our local bobby invited a clout.
Out back each house had a dust bin,
So called because all...Read More

They say that any dream is organised around a wish.
That a dream can often be the fulfilment of a wish.
Last night I dreamt.  I dreamt that we were gone.

Palaeontologists declared, after
years of painstaking escavation
that remains found tamped,
under a long...Read More

…the seeds of neo-Nazism are germinating  
Markus Nierth, former mayor of Tröglitz, Germany 2015

Germany’s rock candy windows and cookie like shingles make seeing the oven inside impossible. At first, the obsessive compulsive cleanliness of Nuremberg’s post-WWII streets is a...Read More

ODE TO MY PIPE

Whomsoever doth smoke this pipe,
Should be prepared for an easier life,
For the stress and strain of the troubled soul
Are as but vapour in its bowl.

When filled to brim with fragrant stuff
Then tamped well down, and lighted up,
The...Read More

Here we hid when we heard
A knock strongly---a sudden clattered upon the ground
Everyone indoor shrieked, trembled
Out...     out.....      we heard
They separated males from females
Sans bother how small we were
They guided us to...Read More

                 Ashamed
   I see what you have and I want it.
I am immediately ashamed.
   Indignant over the fact that these...Read More

final dismount, final ride
pasture waits for dappled roan
girth mark of the lonely byways
lather from the battles flown
dew eyed weary, spinal backed
stumble step'd and nostril blown...

stirrup brass with bugle hung
faded strap and leather worn
bridle twisted, crackled spur
broken packboard, blanket torn
carbine scabbard,...Read More

What later will be filled with squeals
And peals of childish laughter,
In desolation thus reveals
What comes before and after.

The vacant swings, with chains unclasped,
Hang waiting, so forlorn.
The silver slide, unoccupied,
Gleams dully in the morn.

The jungle gyms or monkey bars
Seem bare and...Read More

"To hold as 'twere, the mirror up to nature. "
William Shakespeare," Hamlet 1601."


Long ago another planted you,	
My cherished Ginkgo tree.
She tamped you in so carefully
And bequeathed you unto me.
Did she then live to see you grow
So stately and so tall?
And...Read More

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""Ricky Don't Lose-That Number, circumstantial-possibly."

""Cause and-effect; all-them-offered written around the rules of the Bible... all-of it
now-ruling.

Yes written around-walked on trampled upon tamped-down-deep in-within melded into the
colors-of the-fabric. Stationing-us there always-leaving-us chained to the ground. It's
all-Semantics; Roderick seeing the shape we're-in-today...Read More

How do we continue? 

When etched indelibly upon our being, 

are the scars  from love that has been abandoned. 

When the loss chafes the heart? 

With cold iron hands that leave us raw, 

as we traverse our days and...Read More

Seeds of remembrance.
Bulbs and tubers
tamped under soil,
a burial that isn’t death. 
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Between your fingers slip the diamonds of each day;
Seconds, minutes, hours as well
Are strewn like cinders in the muddy mire away,
Tamped and trampled where they swiftly fell.

Inside your palm, faint diamond shapes remain—
Outlines, etched from clutching tight—
These lines remind you...Read More

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broken, exposed ... raw-and 
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