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Harkening Poems - Poems about Harkening

I C E : ODE TO SELF
...[Self Esteem Ode Sponsor : Crystol Woods Date submitted : 22/5/25] I C E : Ode to Self few Hearts can fancy dress their nakedness in icicle Presence fewer minds will slip into ce......

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Categories: harkening, allusion, character, color, courage,
Form: Ode
The Harkening
...Your smile beckons my heart To come As soothing rays of the sun Nurturing famished hearts with warmth As keys to the essence of your soul Unlocking golden secrets yet untold As stirrings of a g......

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Categories: harkening, analogy, appreciation, emotions, engagement,
Form: Rhyme



The very abridged version recounting untold tragicomic storied life of Matthew Scott Harris
...The very abridged version recounting untold tragicomic storied life of Matthew Scott Harris I led a boring life. The end. All joking aside, now the epilogue. As a bookish fellow born Januar......

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Categories: harkening, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Free verse
Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis - part ii
...Highlight of Goofus and Gallant bred within the survival instinct of hungry hordes of prey, when Earth in the balance against an uncomfortable truth smug smurf like scavengers. Pun......

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Categories: harkening, absence, adventure, africa, america,
Form: Free verse
Sunday February 2nd, 2025 Groundhog Day
...Sunday February 2nd, 2025 Groundhog Day Location: Gobbler's Knob in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. First held on February 2, 1887 prognosticating how many more weeks of winter weather without a shado......

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Categories: harkening, adventure, animal, anniversary, birth,
Form: Rhyme



Upon a dark and stormy night
...Upon a dark and stormy night... as jagged bolts of lightning tore thru the the midnight clear and figuratively ripped the sky to shreds (analogous to jumping Jack flash), and ear splitting thu......

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Categories: harkening, absence, america, animal, character,
Form: Free verse
We the missus and I kvell for Katz TOASTER PASTRIES
...We (the missus and I) kvell for Katz TOASTER PASTRIES! I prefer to craft a poem for no rhyme nor reason expressing heartfelt pleasure to our highly refined palate versus presenting tasty, yumm......

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Categories: harkening, america, appreciation, blessing, family,
Form: Rhyme
Some Say September
...Some say April is the cruelest month, leaving Lilacs upon unmarked graves, grieving Memories fading and desires, aching To be filled as the undertaker, undertaking Daydreams of warmer hands and s......

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Categories: harkening, april, autumn, bird, grave,
Form: Rhyme
I hanker and pine for wood burning stove weather
...I hanker and pine for wood burning stove weather I haint no spring chicken, ("Buk buk buk buk ba-gawk!") but in Summer re: long in tooth sexagenarian nostalgic for the following imagery ev......

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Categories: harkening, age, allegory, appreciation, celebration,
Form: Free verse
A civil war ferociously raged
...A civil war ferociously raged... within complex edifice... derelict hulking corpse delineated courtesy seared, singed, smoldered smithereens formerly robust warrior slain during prime of his l......

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Categories: harkening, age, america, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Anomie
... When social upheaval brews chaos of nihilism, Forfeiting moral values, embracing skepticism; Instability ensues, clamoring in emptiness, Believing world is futile, life is meaningless, As broke......

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Categories: harkening, community, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Captain kuni-lemel graduate strikes again updated
...Captain kuni-lemel graduate strikes again - updated Steely Dan sing queen (me) outdid himself on sixtieth anniversary after Grahame Wood determined to meet the evolving needs of the communi......

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Categories: harkening, america, anger, anniversary, april,
Form: Rhyme
See You Soon
...Like a painting. Almost the same thing, Except not so flat. And more than that- Blooming effortlessly. As if by destiny. But its true fate, Is for its beauty to abate. That is what happens to......

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Categories: harkening, sun,
Form: Rhyme
Matthew O Harris Ease A FAKE Irishman
...Matthew O' Harris Ease A "FAKE" Irishman Saint Patrick's Day, or Feast of Saint Patrick Lá Fhéile Pádraig invoke even non Irish to proclaim Éirinn go Brách translated as "Ireland Forever." ......

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Categories: harkening, adventure, america, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
Hollows
...Night filters sight and sound into separate caves of awareness, Owls and nightjar's duet in different tunnels of time. For generations the forest has gathered here, it has its own language, ......

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Categories: harkening, poetry,
Form: Free verse

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