Best Protracted Poems
Hard Drive
...For months I’ve partitioned – sectored my strife
Trying to determine – wrong from the right
Clinging to bits – healing the bytes
Moving and changing – formatting new life
My career crashed – wi......
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Categories:
protracted, computer-internet, inspirational, on work
Form:
After the Interim
...She met him in the interim,
that space between endings and beginnings;
a summer fling;
a sowing of her not so wild oats
was all that it was meant to ......
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Categories:
protracted, lost love,
Form:
Free verse
From the Newspaper Stand
...Along this foggy daybreak stroll,
I tread along the intersection
between Mabini Street and EDSA boulevard,
crossing number 25 Ortigas Road.
I breathe in the same grain
of Manila pollen ......
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Categories:
protracted, introspection, life,
Form:
Free verse
Holding On To the Expectations of a New Dawn
...You swallow billions in cash, yet your assault strengthens,
everything with life now stands on one side against you
but your unpredictability is what gives you this audacity.
Your sarcasm ......
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Categories:
protracted, anxiety, bullying, cancer, character,
Form:
Epic
I Don'T Know What You Came To Do
...I don't know what you came to do
But I came to praise the Lord
To proclaim His anointing spirit
And with Him to get on board
Jesus came to preach the Gospel
To spread the holy word of God
To l......
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Categories:
protracted, faith, gospel, spiritual, wisdom,
Form:
Carpe Diem
Zorro Swings
...Zorro swings and Zorro falls,
sadly landed on someones balls
excommunicated from the mall,
for gross protracted screaming.
Zorro on the crutch of one,
slapped down by a redneck nun,
pivoted ......
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Categories:
protracted, adventure,
Form:
Rhyme
Homage to Nature
...An abandoned cottage holds
remnants of secrets unexplored.
the past ~ whispers ~ through
a creaky wooden ......
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Categories:
protracted, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
The Story of History
...The Story of History
Beyond those beaten days’ depleted daylight
Beyond the bathos of a pandemic bondage
With the resurrected sashay’s charmed night
Down in the dumps at the pretentious prosc......
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Categories:
protracted, history,
Form:
Free verse
Contemplations of An Existentialist
...Life secretly offering fleeting moments of happiness… but the underlying sadness creeps through; the grief of human condition always seeps through from the unconscious. I always imagined it as the wa......
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Categories:
protracted, life, truth,
Form:
Free verse
Canto Xvii Hell Translation
...“Here the fierce with the thin pointed tail,
Who passes mountains and breaks arms and walls!
Here who with stench can the world assail!”
So my duke started to talk with his calls;
And hinted th......
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Categories:
protracted, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
The Trials of Meretrix Canto V
...Here, this day, on this inglorious
Field
Thy vain struggles will count no
Valour.
All hope now abandoned,
Imminent defeat unconcealed;
Erstwhile countenance display
Such waxen, languid pallor......
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Categories:
protracted, philosophy, proposal,
Form:
Rhyme
Massacre So Self Inflicted
...A ripe body of Adolescence, nuzzled by beauty
on which hair is polished by crystals and sapphire
but lacks in the garrison of virtues and patriotism
becoming blind to the significance of i......
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Categories:
protracted, education, environment, planet, political,
Form:
Epic
A Quiet Place
...The velvet blanket of night gently lifts
revealing a gauzy veil of gray,
seduced by the morning sun, usurping the day;
water......
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Categories:
protracted, morning, nature, peace,
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
Naive and Foolish
...Entering a new phase of life full of standing ovation
can be disrupted by the polarized effect of growth.
Innocence is pressed by social hypocrisy
to expose a young heart to adult conspira......
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Categories:
protracted, character, conflict, confusion, growing
Form:
Epic
Unheeded In the Spread of His Name, Quaking
...Unheeded in the spread of his name, quaking
Through the knit brow cuddling the sombre eye
Twice buckled into the couch of his yearning
The mouldy cast of unsculptured hands, moulting
In the su......
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Categories:
protracted, passion,
Form:
Idyll (Idyl)