Best Longhand Poems
For AmadeusStray with flamed music along bay’s shoreline
Give in to notes playing among the sand
As fingers dart symphony’s rush, I pine
Caress your tinted strokes written longhand
As I feel allegros bursting moon’s shine
Give in to notes playing among the sand
How can frail youth’s light steal your brightened...
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Categories:
longhand, devotion, youth,
Form:
Terzanelle
DisappearDISAPPEAR
Tremors are the worst,
the full-body shakes
its like my skin is too tight,
my body doesn’t fit,
my life doesn’t fit
the anxiety no one understands
its invisible,
I’m invisible.
“Snap out of it, Shaky”, they say
“You’re just faking it.”
And I want to crawl into a ball and disappear.
Where did my confidence...
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Categories:
longhand, anxiety, mental illness,
Form:
Free verse
Artemisia, Part 2 of 12(It was 1860 when the English poet Robert Browning
stumbled upon an interesting artefact as he walked
through the city of Florence. It was a file of documents
from an old Italian criminal trial, and he would turn
this material into his masterpiece, "The Ring and the
Book".)
The Old...
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Categories:
longhand,
Form:
Blank verse
Golden Secrets In the Flower"...The Secret of the Golden Flower is not only a Taoist text of Chinese yoga but also an alchemical tract. (...) it was the text of The Golden Flower that first put me in the direction of the right track." C. G. Jung
"The Golden Flower...
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Categories:
longhand, angst, introspection, world, flower,
Form:
Didactic
Be That One
Time has flown by. Much of your life
you've spent denying all the strife.
But you can never answer why
much of your lifetime has flown by.
Hand each sad tale you write in. Long,
ambiguous, verbiage strong -
saved in your mind. You never fail -
you write in longhand each...
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Categories:
longhand, age, growing up, truth,
Form:
Quatrain
Where Do We Come InWhere do we come in
in medias res not knowing nor caring when
doesn’t everybody pine being number one we leave behind our lives in pages pictures or else make for images of what we saw dreamt of as part of our lives in...
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Categories:
longhand, caregiving, character, humanity, leadership,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Growing Up Too Soongrowing up too soon
you said: is there anything more excruciating than lagging behind
being passed by
a hasbeen
still knocking on portals
twitching toes twirling thumbs
in fidgety drawn-curtained waiting rooms
and the always taken-for-granted toiling mothers maimed in mid-life stoopbent under...
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Categories:
longhand, age, growing up, lonely,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Did I Say What I Said You SaidDid I say What I said You said
You said looking a little forlorn
a little redundant
the contradicting crosses in your eyelashes
thrusting forth the brazen prophet in you for the day
...
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Categories:
longhand, grief, humanity, metaphor, psychological,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Prizes For Ultimate Sacrifices - Part OnePrizes for Ultimate Sacrifices
prizes for the abstemious for abstinence chastity ?
the countless occasions for love you let slip ...
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Categories:
longhand, howl, inspirational, metaphor, passion,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Anyone For Humiliation anyone for humiliation
do even the best cringe
in shame
...
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Categories:
longhand, abuse, angst, courage, life,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Categories:
longhand, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
longhand, betrayal, god, racism, religion,
Form:
Free verse
Naked Death
Naked death
…the barred and sealed cattle wagons
disgorge
at the Konzentrazionslager
the faux pas relief
from urine mud faeces sweat and tears
unkempt armpits buttocks best wear
turned to damp rags
...
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Categories:
longhand, bereavement, death, grief, hate,
Form:
Elegy
Who Would Milk the TigressWho would milk the Tigress
wears no armour gasmask
pail within squat thighs
nor bloodless forefinger and thumb
Cows wear forlorn looks
distressed mien
...
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Categories:
longhand, freedom, mother daughter, peace,
Form:
Free verse
Unmeant Meanings Unmeant meanings
Words keep watch
their eyes in the empty spaces
...
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Categories:
longhand, imagery, meaningful, music, song,
Form:
Free verse