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Teepee Valves

Posted on 6 August 2024 | 2 comments 
Teepee valves, miniscule locks inside veins,
Unknown, unappreciated, obscure;
The sanguine tour direction they ensure:
Forward, up; gravity's effect contain.
Exercise neglected, too much caffeine,
Sleep deprivation, veins age premature;
Apple core, root beer belly, I assure,
And with poor hydration, a gap between
tiny valves creates, wider veins attained.
William Osler's band says there is no cure.
Root causes they ignore. Patents secure,
Full reversal causes bottom line pain.
So hope, so act I, reverse conditions
Which brought me here, miracle volition.

Copyright ©️ 2024 H.K. Longmore

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Unnecessary Risk: The Original

Posted on 6 July 2021 | Leave a comment

Author’s Note: when first I wrote Unnecessary Risk, I could have sworn I had already written a poem by that name. I didn’t find it, so went ahead with it. But I stumbled upon the first one recently, so here it is, unedited, almost exactly seven years later after I first wrote it.

The thrill of unnecessary risk
Flows through my mind quite brisk
I can hear you now saying tsk-tsk.
Into my life I fold it with a wisk.

From the height of the stairs I leap.
But the landing angle’s too deep,
So I catch the concrete, sow then reap.
My knees are grated, but my speech needs no bleep.

The scar from the incident, seven years later.

I roll, my “ouch” uttered, pick up my hat.
A quick check of my knees; blood does not yet mat.
I look around and find no one around —drat!
I’ll be the last on the bus, so I fly like a bat.

© 2021 H.K. Longmore

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The Sea

Posted on 16 October 2014 | Leave a comment

I am the sea:
You can count on me
To transfer gravitational energy
From the moon to your coastal property.

I am the ocean:
Strong currents flow
Beneath my surface, moving
Marine life faster along their route.

My currents
Influence the weather;
Sometimes to your delight,
Other times my influence is to your dismay.

I am the sea:
Bound only by the shore,
Each crashing wave wears rock away;
My rip currents pull your sand to me, day by day.

© 2014 H.K. Longmore

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