Lonnie Hicks Poems

Hit Title Date Added
191.
Love's Dark Touch

Love's blind touch gropes in our dark
and I hear you giggle
reveling in the hide and seek
in your cape of satin sheets
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192.
Gizmo's In The Slammer: My Dog The Convict

Had to get Gizmo out of the slammer today.

Animal control had him in the cage with the wet concrete floor and dripping water.
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193.
Bladed

Bladed
How dull is the knife wielded in passion's ire
which lands that menacing blow
where the bad time amplifies
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194.
What Does America Need To Do To Survive?

The first area to look into is those pillars of American success I identified above: Cheap Labor, Cheap Energy, Cheap Food and a country filled with natural resources.

To this list I will now add, a decent birth rate or immigrant flow, small town and technical green enclave investment, income distribution reform, land distribution reforms, banking and financial reforms and a re-thinking of the purposes of an economy.
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195.
Love Me True

She said'
I want you sweeter than sugar
darker than night
and capable of making me
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196.
Matterings

'All I want' she said' is to matter.'

'All I want' said the scientist 'is
to understand matter'.
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197.
Affirmations

In the slippings of my mind-
the errant misses
the missing blisses-
gather together all the remisses
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198.
Faithing

Belief and Faith come naked from the night
having no origins,
no obvious intents.
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199.
Gerunds

'We are no fragile poets, ' he said
sipping panaceas;
no,
we bleed in these bloody times.'
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200.
A Satin Sheet And Pleatings

The satin sheets allowed us to use for sails
the billowy white pillow cases
where on your hair splayed
as if blown there by the wind;
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