Long Rengay Poems

The Bulldog Gets Married

The day is perfect:
  Sunlight gold
    Sapphire blue
                 The skies smile down...

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Hydrangea blues
                blooming in seven colors
              ...

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Though People think you are so soft
               But I know in your veins is blood
Who want to touch you in the...

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Stank Breath and Funky Shoes Blues

I was at the soda shop the other day.
Met a cute girl there by the way,
Only thing about that I can see 
She had terrible stank breath...whooooeee !

On top of...

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A collaborative poem, written in renga format, or "linked-verse", by Timothy Hicks and Jesse Whitehead.

Verses in normal font are by me.
Verses in italic are by Jesse Whitehead.



January jest
drawing mustaches
in the newspaper

coffee to warm the hands
walking...

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Words in italic by Angeline Lim
Words in regular font by Timothy Hicks



Hydrangea blues
blooming in seven colors
versatile at heart
 
Storm clouds in a tantrum and yet
the rainbow
 
Gently wipes away a facade
reveals a layer
hidden within
 
Pretty...

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Verses in italics by Jesse Whitehead
Verses in normal font by Timothy Hicks



birds in tuxedos
marching through snow
stifled laughter
 
a pair of short legs
behind the coats
 
patient as molasses
a surprise in waiting
tiny curled toes
 
it slipped through...

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his are whimpers of breath, 
lullabies drumming from a rising chest,
his is a soft pat on the head,
a wave of tenderness, trough to crest.

her right hand reaching back,
sensing a nape's outline with touch,
her left hand...

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I went along hunting, feeling pretty loose,
I heard a shot , saw my friend yep, he hit a goose.
I didn't see to where it fell or where it came to rest,
Until I heard this loud...

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Forbidden love we secretly shared....young love don't last that's what they say. 

Late nights when the whole world is asleep....we sneak out and meet under the big pine tree...laid in your arms watching the stars...

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Nurture your mind with love;
Nurture your soul like a dream,
Tend preciously to yourself mind.
Nurture your heart with all diligency
For out of it are the issues of life.

The storm might be too hard
To bear but keep...

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I started writing from the pain
Of my son’s death in Ninety-Nine.
When feelings were too hard to bear,
I’d write them all out, line by line.

Then I found out I liked to rhyme
In manner of poems I’d...

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Where I live I've to keep the 
melodies of my heart beating 
to entertain my self
Life has found me here, in a 
world of heartache and pains I 
found myself. 

To see a next version...

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As believers seek always to walk
close to Christ as we can be
abiding in His inerrant holy word
meditate upon it to reverently agree

God gives to us His provision
to meet our needs whatever they are
sometimes things go...

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I was feeling a bit acrostic, and could not hide my dizain from that silly ekphrasis 
skin condition they burned in elegy.  So I sent an epigram to the seismology 
department, where it registered...

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MONSIEUR L'VAMPYRE les émotions
My time flows like the Seine down to the sea
except there is no ocean ending me
and like a river I must keep
emotions running ever deep,
as I go on through my eternity.

How long's...

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Christmas day, two thousand years on,
what happened to peace and goodwill among men.
Nothing has changed since the day it began
when Herod tried hard to get rid of that man.

A lifetime spent fighting to rid man...

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Wotcha doin alookin at me dat way?
I can see you old enough an you wanna play.
Well let me tell ya sistah I may be a senior mistah
But I still know how to play.

Baby.  ...

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There was an initial
step taken
unsteady and unsure.

In time the pace increased
as curiosity endured.

Once adept and confident
the toddler ventured
on much longer treks.

In the light of day
youthful strides of wonder
lasted until sunset.

At adolescence with effort moving along
on...

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Shadow wings across the ground
glide along without a sound.
Beware young mouse in grassy field
your fate it seems has been sealed.

A predator has come on quest
and little ones await in a nest,
for sustenance to get them...

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 margin drops-- 
boxes of gifts pageantry 
 evening dawns nighty

drive on interstate   
walking crossed some streets    

telescopic lenses…
video lens trying see        ...

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has the words of life  												                       	grace and truth come by Jesus...

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So confined to the boxes is she who
Tries to free herself from them
Breaking down barriers of all political and cultural design
Constructing opportunities and 
Imagining their trite and expected 
Downfalls
She, who reigns supreme in the art
Of...

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Soul Mates

Loving life –
Magical music
Serenades two hearts.

Dancing in the moonlight.
Waltzing through fairy woods

Floating high
Suspended amid dreams 
Kissing heaven

Remembering
That special day
When lovers first met…

Hope touches.
Souls united.

Youthful hearts
Not so long ago
Sun setting—


Part 1:  Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
Part...

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Dancing breezes
Bursts of sun
Crisp apple autumn day

Leaves twirl upwards with a flourish
Spurning twigs that yearn to cling

Lovers pass by, their laughter lingers
Dark clouds obscure the sun
Colors change to shadows blurred

Gone is the beauty in the...

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