Select Poems 2: 1987 – 2018

By Patrick Longe

“ a philosophical thread through the underpinnings of one man’s outlook on the mind’s journey”

“a voice so wrangled, you can almost hear
the tone and emphasis give shape to meaning”

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Dec 19, 2019
• ISBN: 9781796074598

Patrick Longe

Patrick Longe is Writer/Project Manager for marketing communications. He has been writing creatively and taking street photography since the 1980s.

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Contents

Kick Of Silence

St. Patrick’s Day

What Makes A Bard

Black & White Basement

Slippery Jones

Pseudo Search

Rachael

Singing The Last Song

Anew, Anew, Anew

Motor City Hopscotch

The Republic Declines To The Heavens (Parable Of A Mistake)

Sly Eye Touch

Sly Eye Touch #2

The Tide

Up The Stairs Of Wigged Out

Payback Ghost

The Endless Take

The Gazing Spin

A Walking Life

Red Says…

Junction City Nervous As The Moon

There, Had, Here

The Ghost’s Arms

Awake

Just How….Enter

Me On The Seas

Short Poem #69

Shillelagh To Clubs (For Red) + And Lament Night In Cooper Square 2017

Day Anew

Intelligentsia Street

The One Face

Blessing Of Peasant Hands

Dead Leg Wilson

Been Nowhere

In This First Order

Greatest Game

Play It Straight

The Ruling World

Sea Songs

Natural Religion

Shooting Flames

Cat O’ Tails

Winged Life

Looking Over Time

Stepping Stones

(Four Or Five Edits Out Of An Episode)

About Matter Of It

The Here And Now

Tenor Of The Day

Once I Raged

Lost To The Image

Eye On The Money

My Roman A Clef (Part Two)

The Old Well…

Time To Define

The Mind Of It

Winsome Handsome

Fly Like Can

Keep Going

Age Of Always So?

Speaking

Ages Upside (Stranger Of Light)

Sipping Tempting Secrets

Squatted Upon By The Hippo’s Dollars

Something Is Wrong With Monument Church

Persecution Sleep Blues

Broadtime For The Individual

Can’t Steal The Music

I’ll Call The Devil

The Youngest Son Of Elvis Presley

Blind Robert

Some Kind Of Free

& The Minute Dark

Battlepieces

One In Place

Nerve Into Nervous

Fallen Along

Nobody & White Linen

Adornment & Media Trappings

Thousand And Speak

Bag Of Storm #2

Writer’s Block

Pop Shrapnel

Singular

That’s The Way They Talk

Living Inside Fourth & Ninth

Empty Of Words

King Duplicity

Never Merge Just Aim

Day Of The Night One After 909

The Looking Glass Eye

Weary Experience – Forget.

Accomplished At Nothing

Son Of A Bitch, Rose

Where The Fair Echo

Some Poster

The Handle Heavy

The Neon Tower

Minding The Store Of Words

A Certain Intelligence

What Is Being Done?

Confluence Of The Old World

Million Varieties Of Gray (Version #2)

Two With Everything

Higher Authority

A Hard Word: Juxtaposition

Paradigm Garden; Mikey Likes It

Short Poem #46

Madness Cloud

Strike A Sound

Bill The Syndicate

On Eleven Looking For Ten

Change Of Hands

Me, My, Recitation

True To Elements

Flashback Poetry Rumble

Ello Devil

Exercise Poems For Today #18

Coney Island To Her Colonial Mist

In A Florida Bad Moment

Playing Hands With The Children

Clean Cut Kid

Who Let The Art Directors Out /

So Goes Sense With….

Inhabitants Of Wind

Plaintive Being

Thumb Print Of An Ink Well

Stew Of The Digested Mania

Spittle On A Boulevard

You Want Cheese Fries With That?

The Back Hand Of Ulster

Stopover At City Grill

Left With Impossible

Verse Imported Tabled To The Page Quoted

Fit A Profile

Diaspora Kyoto Flowers, 14#

Where To Look

The Best Idea Of You

Almost Like

Blue Skies Waltz

Story In Motion

University Text

Of, What Recognizable (Version #2)

Stop The Card Games! (People Are Dying)

Bridge On The River Why

Congratulations, You Beat The System

Sky, Sea & Stolen Breaths

What Antecedent?

Know Where Get Bugaloo Sandwich

Willow Still Willow Say

Strangely Guided.

Ballad Of Lindsay Olsen

Jack-Eye

Coffee Script

This Whisper, Light Delivers

The Story Lasts

In A Certain Light

Smileswipe (Version #2)

The Strata Derive

This Literary Bitch

Milk The Power

Hardly, Down The Downside

Other Side Of You

The Take

Too Old-To Rock It And Roll

Mr. In-Between (Accentuate The Positive)

What Resolve?

Sincerely

The Madness Handle

Private Cabaret

Exercise Poems For Today #51 (The Take And Now)

The Dollar Around

Ownership Of Time (Mathematic Blues)

The Elbow Drinks

Jukebox Town

Accept No Paint

Ambiguity In A Can

Marketing Comm (For George Segal)

Mind The Gun To Pay Attention

Change My Story, Change My Story

This Old Hat The Tie-Rod

An Inherent Stance

Film Treaty Of A Missing Score

Half-Jest

Chance Of A Story

Look Where At

With A Coffee Cup

When Deceased

Exercise Poems For Today #7

Lingoball Mama Blues

Always Just Passing

Stars Are Zombies

Invisible Train

Made In Memory

Now That Paris Is Everywhere

Short Poem #14

Exercise Poems For Today #19

Cleavage Nation

The Ruling World

My Drinking Shoes

How We Punctuate

Hangman

The Fiction Rap

Yes, With The Colors

For-The-Airs

Exercise Poems For Today #9

Garbage Of Love

Come Again?

Some Part Of You

Gets Old Knowing

When The Game Begins

That Leaves Shakespeare

Something To One.

Dance In The Answer

Confidant

Wither So Whether

Winsome Handsome

Who Believe Ether For Me?

Eye At The Edge

Three Quarters To One

Damned, No Say Of Mind

Statue On Corner In Naples, Florida

Untoldsoul

Half Way To Santa Fe

Am-1410 When

Stranger To The Game

Warlock Symbolism

Pond Of The Rings

Short Poem #94

Song Of The Episodic End

The Tango Can Get Funny

Red Cent In A Jukebox

Defiantly - Some Rhapsody!

Newcenturyflorida

J.c Deveraux

The Camera Has Gun

Fiddler’s Crossing

The Story Of Hearing Thoughts

Realmuzhik

Salon Elephant Royale

Play To The End (Of Tonight)

Until A Hobo (What’s A Rock And Roll Singer To Do?)

My Rounds With The Afflicted

Ruler Meets The Maker

Stay Within Myself

Odds Are Good

Pastiche Sensibly (True Sense Of Nonsense)

The Return Of The Mini-Bike

Discuss Such

Down To The Sound

Flight Of The Matter- Jacks Mathematics

Dream Of Some Reality

Play A Fin

As Nightly Goes By

Declaration

Autocrat Game Blues

No Accounting

Preserve Of The Illumined

The Mistake Create

The Register Of Value Jones

The Imported Self

Nobleness

Stolen Night

Atmosphere Lives

Haggle With The Deal

Darwin Dives The Great Barrier Reef

The Story That Won’t Be Quiet

Palm Shadows Residence

Thieving Eyes

The Mist That Follows Around

Surroundings

Now He Knows (Recruit No More)

The Drummer Changed Up

Every Gamble Question To Why

Party On Says The Owl

Now You Know Your Alphabet

Question 494’S Answer

Oval Office Stomp

Funky Freedom Fighter Duck Carver’s Obliteration Of The Blank Pages Surrounding His Life

In Your Movie

The Blues Authentic

Hip Wheel Duet Saga

Wharf Rat Soda

Stilled In The Stream

Concocting The Still Waters

This Cause, Or That

Short Poem #7

Zero The Beat

Phooey Louie

License The Revolution

Freedom Seed

One Well-Dressed Vagabond

Keenthirteen

The Goat That Came Upon The Siren Crevice

Working The Levee

The Idea Light

Confluence Old World

Only You Know What You Know

Ingrained Sane

If There’s A Bud (He’s Wiser)

Two Truths

The Cold, The Stars And You

Stream #30

Famous Last Words….

Where The Set

Windy Spotlight

Buy The Eye

Just The Looks

Capital Letters

The Concise Story

(How Ever Got Away)

The following poems have been previously published as indicated:

almost like – Camel Saloon

THE LOOKING GLASS EYE – More Big Thoughts

ingrained sane – Dead Snakes

Junction City Nervous As The Moon – Haggard and Halloo

LingoBall Mama Blues – The Laughing Dog

madness cloud – Apollo’s Lyre

only you know what you know – Dead Snakes

question 494’s answer – Lightnin’d