Best Majors Poems
1996 Visit To Turkey
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In Nineteen ninety-six, our son and wife, Majors
In US Army, moved to Izmir, their new base.
As usual, whatever place they were assigned,
We flew to visit them as well as dear grandkids.
S......
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Categories:
majors, travel, vacation, , western,
Form:
Blank verse
A Wonderful Life
...Life is a beauty
From the day a baby starts
Everyone who knows about them
Keeps them in their hearts
And when a baby’s born
There are tears of joy,
From the mother and the father,
And their l......
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Categories:
majors, baby, baptism, beauty, children,
Form:
Free verse
Young in Heart
...Dangling hair, girls twirl, drum majors,
Baseball turned cap boys, screenagers,
Gum chew boys, girls curls, tweenagers,
Just teenagers, just teenagers.
Pixie sticks tootsie rolls swallows,
......
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Categories:
majors, allusion, analogy, celebration, fun,
Form:
Monorhyme
symphony in two majors
...she is the music
that my whole body sings
like an orchestra
conducted by desire
the symphony of pleasure
in two majors
......
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Categories:
majors, desire,
Form:
Free verse
This Is Feminist Us
...It's peaceful here in my backyard.
The crows sound happy
with warm October sunlight.
I just read about a deadly gathering in Las Vegas.
Absence of sun-drenched peace.
Inconvenient this time of......
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Categories:
majors, anger, fear, humor, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse
Turning
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"Turning"
Turning
towards the beginning
at the tip of the tail end,
we push forward through
the tunnel screaming
through the pain bathed
in water and blood,
annnoi......
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Categories:
majors, muse,
Form:
Narrative
Helen, I'M Coming
...He calls- seldom I answer
They feel stiff.
He cries- seldom I console
They feel weak.
He knocks for entrance
Though inside he lives
He enters- He observes me smiling
I shut him off complete......
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Categories:
majors, loss, music, passionme,
Form:
Free verse
Musicianship
...Musicianship
(3 May 2014; For my son Steven, an ACCOMPLISHED guitarist)
Real musicianship can truly drive you nuts—
There really are no “ifs”, “ands”, or “buts”.
Practice, study, memorize, then mo......
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Categories:
majors, education, humor, inspiration, music,
Form:
Quatrain
The Things We Don'T Remember
...I don’t remember my first introduction to the idea of same sex couples. I don’t remember the first time I was told it was a “bad” thing.
All I remember is how it felt each time the conversation came......
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Categories:
majors, courage, culture, identity, pride,
Form:
Free verse
Hot Southern Nights-F
...During the time before television came to our home, My dad sat there in his car on many a dark Southern night. And I was somewhere ......
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Categories:
majors, america, baseball, father, games,
Form:
Prose Poetry
A State of Majors and Algebra
...A State Of Majors and Algebra
From a bridge I lift eyes weary from equation forms
Majors and Algebra instruct
From on high the state loves us
Instinctively feed us what we must know
Keep us in pla......
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Categories:
majors, abuse, hope, judgement, math,
Form:
Blank verse
Twos, Threes, and One Eyed Jacks
...Twos, threes, and one-eyed jacks,
And jokers thrown in too,
These were the wild cards in our poker game,
May seem a lot to you....
But four of a kind to open,
Somewhat evens up the score,
And t......
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Categories:
majors, angst, caregiving, depression, family,
Form:
Bio
Week 3 - Brian's Poet of Note - 'Richard Wilbur Part 1'
...Imitation! Creative Compliment, Lacking in Originality, or Plagiarism?
This week takes me back to college days. I was taking a graduate course (as a Physics major) in 'Modern Poets' at the Univ......
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Categories:
majors, love, poetry, poets, ,
Form:
Free verse
Stay, Please
...I don't want you gone.
Life would be stone.
You are life and fun.
You are summer sun.
Stay a little bit longer.
We'll dance carelessly,
Sing majors eternally,
Make our dreams bigger.......
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Categories:
majors, friend,
Form:
Rhyme
Boomers
...They were hippies
and societal dropouts.
Scholars, poets and
pot smoking draft dodgers.
Civil right activists,
and anti-war protesters.
Patriots and soldiers
fighting an unpopular war.
Re......
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Categories:
majors, education, history, philosophy, political,
Form:
Prose Poetry