Long 16th Poems
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Traditional Solitaire potential combinationsTraditional Solitaire potential combinations...
that clenched another win today
February 20th, 2024
(eight hundred and ninety yesterdays ago
since June 13th, 2021)
original crafting date of following poem,
when yours truly
single handedly trumped computer,
for umpteenth time,
which saw...
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Categories:
16th, 12th grade, 8th grade, adventure, age, appreciation,
Form:
Free verse
It Won'T Be Dark ForeverDaylight dies
Blackout the sky
Does anyone care
Is anyone there
Enjoy this life
Pop open a Sprite
Roll over to the right and kiss my wife
She's fast asleep
Daylight is trynna come
It's trynna creep
When she...
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Categories:
16th, cheer up, depression, desire, encouraging, feelings, future,
Form:
Free verse
Rosalia - the Evil Black Witch of the Harz, Part OneRosalia - The Evil Black Witch of the Harz
Prologue
This is a rather grim epic poetic tale of Rosalia, a 16th century German witch who terrorized villages, destroyed the lives and corrupted the souls of many...
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Categories:
16th, allegory, evil, halloween, horror, magic, mythology, scary,
Form:
Narrative
Traditional Solitaire Potential CombinationsTraditional Solitaire potential combinations...
that clenched another win (yahoo)
jimmied today August 15th, 2022 single handedly
just before the crack of dawn
with both hands tied behind my back,
and a blindfold worn over my eyes.
While in the midst of...
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Categories:
16th, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure, birth, computer,
Form:
Free verse
Traditional Solitaire Potential CombinationsTraditional Solitaire potential combinations...
that clenched another win (today June 13th, 2021) single handedly
While in the midst of playing solitaire
(with losing outcome foreordained
after a couple moves), I became gripped
with combinations predicated on thirteen...
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Categories:
16th, adventure, america, fun, heart, history, imagination, literature,
Form:
Free verse
The Cry of DoloresThe Cry Of Dolores
A popular priest in 1810, Spanish rule he spoke against
those who had overthrown the Spanish Viceroy José de Iturrigaray
A speech calling upon the people to protect in angst
Their King Ferdinand VII was...
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Categories:
16th, history, independence day,
Form:
Rhyme
Two Sixteenths Tied** For those who are not musical, these are two 16th notes tied together, which equals the time value of a single EIGHTH note. **
...
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Categories:
16th, music,
Form:
Shape
Summer with the StoicIt was the summer of my 16th year. Mother encouraged me to spend part of my summer vacation with Granddad, a self-professed stoic. I reluctantly agreed, for he was a peculiar man. I couldn’t imagine...
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Categories:
16th, grandfather, strength, wisdom,
Form:
Other
Is Jesus GodIs Jesus God?
Some would say that this is an unusual question, as the Father is the Father, and the Son is the Son.
However, after the 3rd century the Trinity doctrine appeared claiming that the...
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Categories:
16th, bible, christian, father son, god, jesus, religious,
Form:
Didactic
Rosalia - the Evil Black Witch of the Harz, Part EightRosalia - The Evil Black Witch of the Harz, Part Eight
On the next morn’ at dawn the sentence of hanging until dead was carried out on Rosalia. Her body hanged from the gallows’ rope for...
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Categories:
16th, allegory, evil, halloween, horror, magic, mythology, scary,
Form:
Narrative
Time's Full Enlightenment"Teachings of enlightenment, whether traditional [regenerational, creation stories] or evolutionary, present us with a unique [ecological] way of thinking about and [comprehensively] understanding who [and why] we are. What makes an enlightened perspective different [and...
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Categories:
16th, adventure, blessing, life, light, love, space, time,
Form:
Free verse
The Only Star For Meall my deepest thoughts, all my inward reflections
surround the...
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Categories:
16th, star, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
Mount Rushmore, Carved In StoneMount Rushmore; Carved In Stone
From deep within the earth’s crust,
An orogeny pushes
The batholith upwards
To become ‘The Shrine of Democracy,’
Of weathered presidential faces
Chiseled in rock in South Dakota;
Representing 150 years of history
(From birth of a nation
To...
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Categories:
16th, america, education, history, inspiration, patriotic, tribute, usa,
Form:
Verse
Soaring Hawk - a Haiku SeriesSoaring Hawk poised high
Back drop a deep sapphire sky
Winds in attendance
Mighty wings unfold
Caressing the Wind Spirits
They lift and support
Circling Hawk perceives
Rainbow circle on a cloud
Framed is his shadow
On oceans of blue
Snow hills of clouds...
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Categories:
16th, beach, beauty, bird, flower, nature, rainbow, sky,
Form:
Haiku
Addiction
Addiction damn what about it ? Its sure gets u into some doesnt it?
Do you ever think about the consequences youve gone through . From being all lit..?
The youve done...
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Categories:
16th, addiction, drug, mental health,
Form:
Lyric
Popcorn MusicPop (corn) Music
Introduction
It’s time to dance, time to tango
There’s a Canadian on the banjo
When he sees the guitar strings
Jack’s mirth grows soaring wings;
As he scans the rhapsody drums
While busy the Banjo he strums!
He strums with...
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Categories:
16th,
Form:
Rhyme
Sonnets C-Civ“Whoso List to Hunt” is a famous early English sonnet written by Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542) in the mid-16th century.
Whoever Longs to Hunt
by Sir Thomas Wyatt
loose translation/interpretation/modernization by Michael R. Burch
Whoever longs to hunt,...
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Categories:
16th, animal, anxiety, bereavement, betrayal, break up, crush,
Form:
Sonnet
The Preacher Part1The walls were made from old slats of wood,
That permitted the sun to prod through the gaps, where it stood.
Rows of wooden seats made in the same fashion,
Created by an artisan that seemed to lack...
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Categories:
16th, death, imagination, religion
Form:
Rhyme
John chapter 17 Q and A and Commentary part oneJohn chapter 16:33 concludes its 16th chapter and the very next verse is John 17:1.
"I have told you these things, so that you may have peace. In this world you will have
trouble. But...
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Categories:
16th, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th grade, 7th
Form:
Prose
A Waste of SpaceI balance my illicitly obtained bottle of absinthe from a man who knows a man, for an exorbitant amount of Euros, on the worn wooden windowsill of my topmost room at the rundown pension overlooking...
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Categories:
16th, culture, introspection, literature, metaphor, philosophy,
Form:
Prose
Oceanic Wisdom16th & 28th may 2012.
By: SASHI PRABHU (ZEAUOXIS)
A fortnight back, an evening drove me to Sernabatim shores,
To calm my mind’s fury that was churning galore.
There, I listened silently to what the ocean waters were...
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Categories:
16th, inspirational, introspection, life, nature, me, body, me,
Form:
Rhyme
The Art of Storytelling Part 2Things are all slow motion like I'm Neo in the grid,
just layin here and thinkin back to when I was a kid,
with plasma gushin out my lid, my lashes flutter
tight, my 16th birthday...
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Categories:
16th, urbanmom, mom, time, cousin,
Form:
Rhyme
One and DoneI know I've been to Chicago,
But I only remember the snow.
I know that I've been to Albuquerque,
but I mostly just remember the hot marketplace
...
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Categories:
16th, adventure, imagery, time, travel,
Form:
Free verse
Venus Transiting Goddess of My HeartAs we waited for Venus to
Cross the face of the Sun
People from all over the township
Came together like in the days
When nature was the focus
And center of every ones life
When the sun was the...
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Categories:
16th, nature, nature, nature, sun, , western,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The Red BabushkaNineteen twenty-four and the wind was cold,
When men in uniform entered our town;
Forced us to leave in their boxcars,
Made us believe that it was for our own safety.
With no time to fix our things
We hurriedly...
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Categories:
16th, death, sad, old, angel, angel, freedom, old,
Form:
Free verse