Long Thunderhead Poems

Crazy Horse Monument

Up there! On the Black Hills Mountain, 1
A work in progress sculptured in granite,
Of a stern faced warrior, strong and determined, 2
Unadorned in a war bonnet, with his hair flowing in the wind,
And...

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It is simple to laugh
at this sinister comedy,
ablaze with maddening duality.
A true scene of blood-thick bonds,
breaking never, but
somehow,
tightening, like a noose
around the throat of the last
living,
thinking organism,
ascending beyond basic self judgment,
embracing those strange strings
bound to...

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One time a barefooted pickney dancing on the street
I beat puhn pan an' wanda how life could be sweet
For my yai quadrilled to distant cling-cling roost and feel
A longing to change their parliament in my...

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Mighty mountain peaks high
	in dark clouds are cloaked
lights flash within them
	distant rumblings are heard

and I stand in valley low
	in the calm of spring day
gentle light on me softly falls
	a soft kiss of coming warmth

and my...

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I Think Of You - Ground Zero (Part 1)

Leaving under a blood moon
                in a jet plane rising
  los...

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A cold lion roams, doctrinaire and sterile,
The expanse of Africa offers him no sanctuary, the Saringehti no salvation,
He can only smell the scent of his pride now, his cubs shun him,
Repelled by needless roars, the...

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Weeks of hot days endlessly parading across the desert
Lulled me into a coma believing the weather would stay that way forever
Mid afternoon I stepped outside to go to the post office
Something was different
Thunder boomed and...

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Opinionated- And It’s Eyes---


I awoke and flung my mind soul in the heaven
What could there be more purely seven?
'It's that lordship,' I muttered;
And am I the nonbeliever never okaying;
I crave the divine, deponent denominationalism Why?
Death...

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A shadow, nay, sullen thunderhead 
inducing a deluge of emotions 
moved across thousands of darkened souls

Freaks, stoners
shy, smart
geeks and loners
outcasts with dreams and compassion in their heart

Strangers like me

To us, you were a friend
we live...

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He passes through the room like a bubble in champagne, unattached, teflon coated, and somehow freer than the rest of us. “Jordies here,” Leong says in an excited whisper.

“Yeah,” I sigh, adjusting my mask, “saw...

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The Storm
                                 Frank...

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The future seems so hard at times
Although it’s answered prayer
Unfolding futures
Offer no previews,
Are innately mysterious
Have their own rhythm and perfume,
Always leave us guessing.
The future is like a developing cloud
That can build into a thunderhead
Complete with...

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What would Westerns be without Horses
Would our heroes be as well known
Without their equine companions
They’d chase the bad guys on their own.

Roy would be lost without Trigger
And Gene without Champion - no way
Hoppy relied upon...

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Thunderstorm
a midnight lightning
My monsoon, I could not awaken
thunder, I could not forsaken
Thundery tintinnabulation tinkling

A sudden, sonic boom
The thundery thunderhead thundering
And the thunderstorms never stewing

I was thundering
Meteoroid's that is wandering
a cloudburst and yes it hums


And that...

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the acorn in the oak
bark bone fingers crusted brown
waving sinew, shedding sky
tap root summon’d deeply down

sighs like summer sound in rain
building up then down the shade
sunlight filters dappled beams
stormwinds wild up the glade

growth rings tell...

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Summer came crashing down like a thunderhead 
Hordes of children released from their brick prisons 
My young eyes watched out the passenger window 
Our yard, brown spots and all, I loved it

The way we ran,...

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Blasting through the night
Blaze to morn
"Hey there Thunderhead!
Where you going with that storm?"

"To crazy eights!
And jesters wild
I’ll just be gone a while
Or more"

A frenzy in her mind
Fixed rage to rhyme
Don’t waste my time!
She says for...

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thunderbolts
blinding, deafening,
ripped through
hovering dark clouds,
burst the ominous
thunderhead;

           for a seemingly endless
           stretch of time,
 ...

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An impossible love, too gentle to touch
A night-blossoming jewel, a rose-golden blush
A yearning surpassing the passions of man
A chasm of longing too deadly to span

Songs made of laughter, poems of tears
An echo remaining from previous...

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Thunder growled and prowled the leaden sky,
no sign of birds in trees, no bees nor butterfly.
High summer and the thrumming of rain on leaf,
the catatonic stillness and quietude only brief.
A crackle of jagged light excites...

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Out Croppings and Droppings


After looking from all the out croppings
Discovered there were some Trump droppings
And if on you Thunderhead were to drop in
All of us hope he would never do it again.

Why is that thunder seems...

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Dusk slays the day
Dawn takes sin away
Lunar waves
Wash and fade 
With the tide
Clouded thunderhead
Disgruntled mountain
Surging typhoon
Volcanic fountain
Storming hand
Gathers night
Acting on plan
Disease, famine
We’ve awakened
A sleeping demon
With each branch we break
Another life he takes
Fire destroys 
What he...

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Cloud




Looking up that I see.. 
Is a Cloud.. 
Thunderhead.. 
Forming..

Humidly is on the rise.. 
Air is sucking.. 
To the Cloud.. 
In the Sky.. 

Soon this Cloud will form.. 
Into this great huge storm.. 

No telling...

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