Long Action Poems
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Another day, a sunrise in an open sky
And so let the judgements begin!
Everyone we meet, everything we do
We silently judge
Weighing them and us against
Some standards we hold
No matter how shaky.
Each of us rising and falling thus
In a great equation
Stretching across lifetimes
From genetic pasts
To ideological futures.
An action or attribute added here
An inconsistency or moral failing
Subtracted there
In real-time cancelling each other out
To leave us with some core value.
And so we have our Judgement Day
Whenever it comes,
In a distant future
Or in the moment of now, nakedly, mirror-like
Revealing what it is we stand on and for.
(10/11/25)
They crowd around their leader
unqualified, unfit
Vying for some action
all chomping at the bit
They’ve given-up democracy
their morals are all gone
Instead they honor Donald Trump
a two-bit, traitor con
They don’t want an America
with those who aren’t White
They’d rather burn it to the ground
and threaten that they might
They’re homophobic bigots
and condemn those who are trans
Scared of life, scared of love
they punish them with bans
Like preachers, they quote scripture
hang crosses from their chains
But then deport small children
far away, alone, on planes
The MAGA base is poisoned
hating all that’s not the same
Then praise an unfit moron
who’s a fool and has no shame
We won’t give-up our freedom
our vote, or right to talk
Together, we will march as one
resist, and walk the walk
For me or against me?
Do stay out in your uncertain nest,
Go to your heart desire,
Follow your real heart
If i am not enough for you.
Really,it's sometimes difficult
When my pockets seemed dried
And empty,
I failed in action when such happens,
At harmattan things seemed even worst,
For the pockets get even drier and smaller.
I know i will smile one day.
No longer then twist me and tell
Me lies...
Or flying around me like flies.
Be for me or against me
For good.
I know the symbols
Of your deceptions,
Writing all over your smile
And speech like the words of Jezebel.
The movements of your waist
Like wind from nowhere to anywhere
Are all relics of your coming and going.
Then be for me or against me,
For my heart is tired,weak and feeble
As i wait to see if the next will
Step in and stay for good.
Recalling that day,
That she made me stay,
To hear her devastating staccato,
Sounding like the buzz of a mosquito.
I had to board the bus late,
That totally changed my fate.
I had gone home placated,
Just like someone forced to vacate.
As the bus moved down the street,
I continually felt a hit,
Telling me to alight,
Though in a life-threatening fright.
Ignoring the storm,
I continued my journey home.
Suddenly, the bus stopped to pick up a man—
OMG! It was that strange man.
A man who had been pronounced dead,
After being killed by the robot he made.
Screams rose from every direction,
Like a movie filled with action.
The man walked slowly toward me,
Holding a knife, pressured to be like a key—
Threatening to kill
Anyone who would not assure his will.
Fate was pronouncing me dead,
Each heartbeat skipping its thread.
For I was the only one
Who had never won
Any battle besides being born.
Throwing
Up
I throw up.
Jumping
Rope
I jump rope.
Walking
Run
Let's walk and run.
Tattle-
Tale
You tattletale,
Bouncing
House
Bounce your house.
Gathering
Round
We gather round.
Firing
Pit
The fire pit...
Action
Figure
What action figure?
Nobody's
Nose
Nobody's nose, nobody nose—
Tackle
Football
Play football and tackle me.
Inline
Skating
Roller
Blading
Same-Thing(s)
Skate
Boarding
We skate board.
Different-Thing(s)
Tracking
Fielding
Track and field
Golf
Club
In a golf club...
Trailer
Park
House
Party
Same-Thing(s)
Living
Dying
Different-Thing(s)
Picture
Perfect
You're picture-perfect.
Lightning
Thunder
Booming
Crashing
and
Splashing
and
Slashing
Throwing
Up
I throw up.
Roller
Coaster
Ferris
Wheel
Are you for real?
Yes
Sir
Sir yes sir!
Dude
Man
Man
Dude
Dude man-man dude-dude man...
Man
Dude...
Please
Thanks
Say please and thanks.
Man
Dude
Rock
Roll
It's time to rock and roll.
Help
Me
Help
You
Thanking me
And thank you too,
For
Throwing
Up.
6/17/2017
Let grief be brief, let cheer live here;
Let joy fill ploy, let mood be good;
Feel and believe, feel love sincere;
Feel and enjoy, feel sacred woods.
A path you see, a road you take;
A way you route, a bend you turn;
Glimpse fond beauty, glimpse make or break;
Glimpse glee that shouts, glimpse truth that churns.
Dream bits that fit, dream poise that trends;
Dream a big dream, dream actual tense;
Now shape your wit, now shift thoughts grand;
Now sculpt your theme, now work sure sense.
All in due time, all in due place;
All comes to be, all plots bring ends;
Do frame your chimes, do prime your space;
Do charm and see, do chart your plans.
Leon Enriquez
16 Feb 2014
Singapore
Life without money
Very boring and funny
But educative
No company to commune with
Solitude your best friend
Constantly reminiscing and relearning.
A broke man, a lonely man
Bitter many days, always angry and worried
Many label him lazy
Forgetting hard times humble people
Many call's him crazy
When caught laughing and happy all alone.
When a man is down
If there's no leaning shoulder
It takes God and miracle
No body understand
Every action or reactions
Makes him lazy and crazy
If you listen and support people
Instead of condemning or humiliating them; They're liberated from whatever.
Haiti is a basket case.
They marched him down the gangway by
the feared Tonton Macoute, armed men dressed in Hawaii shirts
and slacks, partly concealing their guns
The young thief shivered, I thought they were going to kill him.
At the pier, they spoke friendly to him and told him to run away
he ran and ran, as he was running to the corner of a warehouse
thinking if he got around, he would be safe they opened up the fire and
shot him dead, his feet still running on the ground.
I have a vague recollection of seeing Peter Ustinov, but I think
was because of Graham Greene’s book “the Honorary consul”
I was an avid reader when young and tended to put myself in
the action, one can say I was captivated by the book I was reading.
even Micky Spillane was on the menu.
I had given the Tonton people cigarettes and whisky they saw
me as a good guy and invited me to go with them to a bordello
I found an excuse for not going, I had a great fear of these
murderous thugs.
Haiti is in the news again, gangsters have taken over, but
the country has always been run by gangsters the biggest
problem is the access to US guns; I do think the USA will
end up like Haiti if America loses all discipline and lets hatred
often combined with race, take over the country.
This is a really good poem you will find
Having the perfect number of lines
That's not too deep where as you'll over think
Or one that's too vague that will put you to sleep
A really good poem I've written this time
Knows what it's doing when it comes to the rhyme
With just enough hidden to have you wanting more
Loaded with action so you'll never be bored
This really good poem is a lot like fine dining
A seven course meal laid out in its rhyming
Holding you captive from beginning to end
Makes you wonder how without it you ever could live
With this really good poem you can see I'm not lying
As you read over it once getting ready for twice
Being overly impressed with its rhythm and flow
This is a really good poem just so you know
Noticing his neighbor’s young child
has laid a ladder against a tree,
determined to rescue a pet kitty stuck up there,
a middle-aged man crosses the street
and offers to help.
He STEPS UP the ladder
and retrieves the cat for his neighbor’s son.
A young woman
stands behind a harried mother
who struggles with a wailing baby
as she tries to take items from her shopping cart.
Without thinking twice, the young woman offers to help as
she STEPS FORWARD
to place the lady’s items on the grocery conveyer belt.
A teenage girl, eager to see a certain popular movie,
is standing in line waiting to buy her ticket.
She hears the couple behind her
speaking excitedly about this movie.
Learning there are only two seats left for that showing,
she STEPS BACK
and lets the couple buy the last two remaining tickets for themselves.
At a nursing home to see his mother,
a busy office worker is informed by his mother
of a lonely widower who never gets visitors
and who is feeling abandoned by his children.
Asking a nurse for the man's room number,
he STEPS IN
for a visit with the elderly widower.
A young boy who delivers newspapers
has noticed one of the older women on his route
is now using crutches.
Instead of tossing a rolled up paper to her lawn
as he usually does,
he STEPS OFF his bike
and delivers the paper to the woman personally at her door.
It matters not whether you are old or young
or whether the person you might see in need
is a stranger or a friend,
Don’t let opportunities for random acts of kindness
pass you by.
Whether it’s UP, FORWARD, BACK, IN or OFF,
just take a little action; take STEPS!
March 7, 2018 for Kai Michael Neumann's Random Acts of Kindness Contest