Long Across the board Poems

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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  proscenium
A ...

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Categories: across the board, history,
Form: Free verse


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Mighty White the Us

Mighty White the US!

How ‘white’ whites are who worship Sun and think a tan line’s fine
though folks whose skin is darker tone won’t see a valentine!
Let’s say proof’s real, fear’s justified, and poverty breeds crime,
but...

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Categories: across the board, character, family, history, life,
Form: Rhyme
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They Won'T Tell You

•	Warning:  This is a brutal truth and if you don’t want to hear about what is happening lately regarding things you may not have heard or do not want to believe, than please ignore...

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Categories: across the board, america, angst, health, political,
Form: Narrative

Here, Dwells A Monster - Part I

i.
‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house,
Not a creature was stirring, not even my spouse.
My wife and son lay silent, all tucked in their beds,
Visions of demons no longer danced in my...

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Categories: across the board, christmas, evil, father, halloween, horror, murder, poetry,
Form: Rhyme

Dorian In High Dudgeon

For such a low gudgeon, Dorian in high dudgeon.
The puppet popped atop amid internal turmoil,
Of the Russian, for the Russian and by the Russian,
He spent nearly 3 years trafficking spoils

The puppet popped atop amid internal...

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Categories: across the board, satire, slam, storm,
Form: Pantoum


Easter As Interpreted By This Atheist

though avast percentage 
     of Stone Temple Pilots, she push peep pulls 
     viz vernacular speaking population
     to most pious take as gospel...

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Categories: across the board, 11th grade, 12th grade, bible, celebration, chocolate,
Form: Free verse

Pay To Play the Shadow Governments Way

Hillary is cooked Bills time not overlooked
Their crimes way overbooked
Democrats and Republicans alike
Caught on a barbed hook
Americans don't need another look
The Clinton Foundation indicted like crooks
We didn't hire any of them to cook the books

I'm...

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Categories: across the board, change, conflict, evil, political,
Form: Rhyme

What

what
A multitude of dishes is just not a sanctuary of fishes. Ok? Did you hear the trinkling of the water omitting from the tap? Gaps are small and small is smell and smell is stagnantly...

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Categories: across the board, beauty, birthday, blessing,
Form: I do not know?

Eating With Bigfoot

I tapped into my messages; the gas 
company wanted a piece of me, and 
my ex wanted to know when the 
month’s alimony  would be arriving.

But it was the last message which 
caught my...

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Categories: across the board, humor,
Form: Free verse
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Change the World - Change It Right

Why oh why have we become so woke
To the point of companies going near broke,
All for the sake of garnering support
From vocal fringes, then quietly rushing to abort.

Is the effort worth the prize
Pandering to an...

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Categories: across the board, christian, perspective, political, prejudice, rights, society, wisdom,
Form: Quatrain
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The Couple In Love

They arrived giggling and giddy, one hundred percent in love.  Holding hands, leaning into each other,
Smiling.  Young love, nothing like it.
I am teaching GED classes now, something I got roped into.
(GED for those...

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Categories: across the board, education, sad love,
Form: Narrative

Trig Class

Check clock

A white light burst expanding across the sheet
Blue ruled lines blur to nothing
Clear against the paper.

I can’t see them, or the graphite symbols
But I know they are there.
I wrote them
Another failed attempt at grasping...

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Categories: across the board, angst, confusion, education, introspection, schoollight, green, light,
Form: Free verse

The Stalemate

Across the board are my bishops and pawns opening a battling door!
And my castles corner your kings well-planned out bonjour.
Holding sturdy ground, my queen gets caught in between your most brilliant liaisons.
Strategically bound expected as...

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Categories: across the board, adventure, allegory, education, life, people, social
Form: Rhyme
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The Melting Pot

The humid air sweats streaming curls down the toddler’s flush cheeks like Fusilli hot from the stove. The golden ringlets cling to her forehead, bouncing like Slinky’s in front of her, blue-agate, eyes. The backyard’s...

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Categories: across the board, childhood,
Form: Prose

Pick Up the Torch

had Julian been even a sparkle in his 
mom’s eyes
when Ray put the pen to Fahrenheit 451,
one might have witness the light being 
passed
straight from one hand to the next---
from Zamyatin to 
Huxley & from...

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Categories: across the board, life, work, work,
Form: Free verse

The Wingers

one points the finger at the other
telling it that it knows all about what
s/he stands for & on this side
the winger states all the aspects of her/his
parameters & the details, suggestions &
manufactured ways of understanding...

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Categories: across the board, life,
Form: Free verse
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Runaway Train

It was dark...

I was on board
A running mind off the long board
A sleeping mind across the board
A winning mind over a long sword...

I saw children around me
Abducted, crying before me
Crippled, reaching out for me
Worn and...

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Categories: across the board, abuse, children, dream, grief, hope, recovery from,
Form: Verse
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Showing Muscle and a Hustle

Thackray thought up a plan 
To get three points for the west hams 
Called upon Antonio to do a task 
“Fetch my friend a theatrical mask 
Tell the canary meet for a luncheon 
Of course...

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Categories: across the board, character, england, fantasy, football, london, soccer, sports,
Form: Rhyme

Complaints of a Photographer

Get the light just right
The sun is blinding
First shot too bright
Let's try rewinding

In the shade
What a bore
"Is this the sherade
I'm paying for?"

Lighting is dim
Dial down the shutter
On a whim
Don't dare flutter

If you can be still
As...

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Categories: across the board, jobs,
Form: Free verse

Wasted Time

All the years spent together, 
now dust, meaningless and gone

How in the world am I supposed to 
start anew or continue on

I didn't expect to be hurt so maliciously
especially after what my first husband did...

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Categories: across the board, deep, depression,
Form: Free verse

Why those best suited to high office never get elected

They are, 
Still in touch with reality
They Value logistics over statistics,
They ask the right questions.

They don't believe in a totally cashless society,
Their vision for the future includes a roadmap,
That leads to prosperity for more than...

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Categories: across the board, care, character, city, community, corruption, education, recovery
Form: Burlesque
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World Changer

Yesterday I was on a mission to change the world. I was so passionate about change that it was all I thought about. I lived and breathed” change.”I wanted to live in a unified world....

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© Alexis Y.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: across the board, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
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Marking Time

daylight hours 
Ozzie and Ben at the picnic table
milkweeds dance across the board
chess match underway all day, every day

many stories shared, some repeated; neither cared  
till knights and pawns cast long shadows
eyes straining, elders...

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Categories: across the board, death, friendship,
Form: Free verse
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Pieces of My Heart

We are all PRONE to this or that.
See now how I am prone to ROSE POEMS.
Some folks in LIFE  are prone to the 
AUDACIOUS  mannerisms,  without 
Regard.  Stilling  themselves at...

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Categories: across the board, confidence, desire, life,
Form: Free verse

Toasting Death

Cheers to Death
You took a life from me
Your insatiable greed never ceases to be
You rape, steal, cower, and cover
Never accountable to the life of another
Cold and indignant you choose and select
Of those unaware whose lives...

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Categories: across the board, betrayal, death, death of a friend, dog,
Form: Ballade
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