Long Adelaide Poems
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I Just Thank You - the Cinquain Style
~ I Just Thank You ~
( Cinquain )
~O~
By You
All things are made
Brand-new my sweet Father
In Heaven. You bring each day, Love
Light, Hope.
As I...
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Categories:
adelaide, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
Territory Trample
Headlights messaged through midnight windows
Curtainless glass unable to subdue the urgency
Car obtained in street nearby was theirs temporarily
Three hour drive to ship leaving island next morning
Two sixteen year old girls barely registered surprise...
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Categories:
adelaide, 11th grade, change, conflict, for teens, journey,
Form:
Bio
Dedication To Alex Braes
The early hours of a Wednesday morning in a small country town.
An 18-year-old boy struggles to sleep
He had pain so bad
all he could do was weep
he, knee was so painful
he had to go...
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Categories:
adelaide, emotions, funeral, grief, pain, poetry, sorrow, stress,
Form:
Free verse
Before the Firing Squad
“Before The Firing Squad”
the firing squad
came dressed
in faux smiles
the intervention cake
was spoon fed, like honey,
by mother superior
to the lesser bee,
with self-righteous
magnanimity
she wore the badge
Devil’s Advocate, proudly,
without any clear authority
casting bloodied
nasturtiums around the...
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Categories:
adelaide, muse, psychological, symbolism,
Form:
Epic
Symposium
"Symposium"
where do you go
when you try to
dream your place
in my life
gone now
from your
quicksand shores
once I rolled over
placed my mouth
against your throat
what used to be
as if you
could transfer
some...
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Categories:
adelaide, love, muse,
Form:
Free verse
The Dilettante Diaries: the Incubation and Metamorphosis of Ulysses
This is a story about a Butterfly
She escaped the Boilermaker
Through transformation.
To transform required a period of incubation,
a need to sleep to dream and
the freedom of quiet self-contemplation -
of course, such a...
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Categories:
adelaide, courage, daughter, faith, inspirational love, love, mother,
Form:
Free verse
Do the Dead See With Their Own Eyes
Do the Dead see with their own eyes
for Thadchayani, my poetry-loving doctor sister : 28/08/1929 – 26/10/2014
...
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Categories:
adelaide, bereavement, brother, death, sister,
Form:
Elegy
POEM NO 10,000 a retrospective
My First poem posted here May 2007 was an enigmatic Lanterne
Viduage
Tall
nettles-
the dutch hoe
rusting in the
shed.
My First ekphrasis (poem no 2 here ) BELLA
Bella
He
opened
the window-
in streamed his first
love
with
flowers,
dressed
in white-
she haunted his
art.
An Ekphrasis in lanterne sequence on Marc Chagall
MY FIRST POEM I EVER WROTE poem no 3 here. a favoured form AN ALLITERATION
Connections
Confront,clash,collide
COMBAT !
Cold shoulder,chill,cool
CUT-OFF !
Cry,crave,collect
CALL-ON !
Constant,compassion,consider
CHARITY !
Confer,commune,converse
COMMUNICATE !
Convene,concert,consensus
CONCORD !
COVENANT ! CHRIST ! CHURCH !
MY FIRST IMAGIST POEM -REFLECTIONS
Reflections
Deep into the pool
A blue moon,ephemeral,
Below white-coated peaks,
Bleak and surreal,
The transient image too soon
Dissolves,and ripples into space,
As water though my grasp.
MY FIRST CINQUAIN (after Adelaide Crapsey)
Long days
Of August sun
Where nature blinks and shrinks
The dying grass,yellowed in sleep-
Held fast
MY FIRST HIKU
On the wind,a bell
Muffled from across the square
Raindrops fill the air
why hiku ?
HAIKU means the ' phonetical&cultural original 'in Japanese'
whereas HIKU
is the English language version(including translations)with similar economy of words without "telling all" thereby to ' show ' (conforming to the key to...
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Categories:
adelaide, celebration, poetry,
Form:
Bio
A Study In Bronze
I’ve unfurled the Southern Cross tonight and put it
On the wall, and as I gazed the longest while.. I thought I heard the
dingo’s call? It couldn’t be as all
Round me were the sounds of...
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Categories:
adelaide, endurance, freedom,
Form:
Rhyme
The Hamburger
For thirty years I’ve been a truckie who has driven far and wide,
Carting goods through day and night all across the countryside…
But hours spent upon the road, do not permit a set routine,
When it comes...
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Categories:
adelaide, food, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Captain Leslie Holden, Australian Flying Corps 1st Aif, the Other Red Baron
Leslie Holden came from East Adelaide a South Australia town
When on 26 May 1915 he enlisted in the 4th Light Horse of the AIF renown
He was a driver when the 4th left for Egypt...
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Categories:
adelaide, war, , western,
Form:
Epic
A Blanket Marriage
Screaming from his office was loud enough to wake the dead
by our trucking company foreman who was livid when he said,
“That useless bloody mongrel, that scum of the flamin’ earth,
has loaded up a truck with...
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Categories:
adelaide, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
The Heat of Life
Dearest Poets of All Ages,
Welcome to the unique magic of poetry!
I may disqualify myself by saying I don't like using the term modern as it usually implies that we are smarter, more advanced, better than...
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Categories:
adelaide, age, appreciation, poetry,
Form:
Prose
Waiting, Yielded, and Still - Jeremiah 18: 1-10
The great old hymn of a past age
'have thine own way Lord' has said
surrendering to God's will in one's life
God's the potter, we're the clay to be as dead
In God's will seek God's approval
resign oneself...
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Categories:
adelaide, bible, god, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
1 Ford, 1 Tree, 1 Families Hearts Bleed
Born May of '75 in Adelaide, South Australia
given the sweet name Denise, life had thrown hard at her from birth
always giving it everything, smiled at the cracks so it brings the laughter
But, as life...
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Categories:
adelaide, absence, addiction, adventure, anxiety, appreciation, betrayal, birth,
Form:
Bio
China Clipper
Listen and you can hear the wind whisper
the name of a lost ship and its skipper.
The wind’s name is Favonius, winged god
His sotto voce is but a whimper.
Gentle breeze doth tell of China Clipper...
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Categories:
adelaide, sorrow,
Form:
Rubaiyat
Sharing and Caring
I was on me way to Adelaide, to watch the Blues take on the Crows,
it’ll be a super effort winning there, as every Vic here knows,
I could have flown and watched the game and done...
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Categories:
adelaide, food, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Robert Berrima Quinn Military Medal Port Adelaide Stalwart
Born in 1915 at Birkenhead by the Port River Inlet
A son of Port Adelaide as one of the best youd get
In the days before bridges he would row
Across the river to training and...
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Categories:
adelaide, remember, sports, world war ii,
Form:
Ballad
Tamam Shud
“Tamam Shud”
Handsome comes
as handsome goes
forgotten
not missed
lies waiting
intestate
a code
undeciphered
Mystery in the end -
far more interesting
answers calling
something whispers:
"Death -
open gate ...
Come in"
(LadyLabyrinth / 2020)
"Spin Spin Sugar" / Sneaker Pimps
https://youtu.be/uGPdpWbg5bU
"Police found a book...
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Categories:
adelaide, muse, mystery, psychological,
Form:
Free verse
These are the Open Arms
By Cherbo Geeplay
You woke me up when I was dead,
teaching the night stars wantonly
to obey the Atlantic; then slashed
my arteries in flight to Lake Piso,
humbling its boundaries, before
fusing them calmly to a...
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Categories:
adelaide, appreciation, love,
Form:
Free verse
One Man's Fridays
This stool is so comfortable at the end of the bar
Never needing to look up, the barkeep knows my request
With the bills sprayed out before me, the drinks keep coming
Quietly, I would sit at Jake’s...
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Categories:
adelaide, depression, life, sad, me, me, time,
Form:
Free verse
Once Seen, Never Forgotten
She saw him as she was driving by
She noticed an air of desolation about the guy
Huddled in his overcoat, his face was blue with cold
Stooped and unshaven, walking slowly as if quite old
She stopped the...
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Categories:
adelaide, 10th grade,
Form:
Rhyme
Compendium of American Cinquains
AMERICAN CINQUAINS
Poems
in shapely form,
displaying syllables
or stresses in a versatile
refrain.
Created. by both Adelaide Crapsey & William Soutar
LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT-a quintile(LINKED cinquains)
We had
met and conversed,
a rapport on first sight-
a chance meeting to a life's time
delight
that
Summer
evening silken,
long..an...
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Categories:
adelaide, people, poetry,
Form:
Cinquain
Another Road Kill
Spent all day cleaning up my car for a trip to Broken Hill.
Serviced, oiled and greased. The petrol tank is filled.
Left Adelaide for the open road; sun setting in the west.
An orange sky slowly dies;...
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Categories:
adelaide, car, heartbreak, sad,
Form:
Ballad
Coexist
Yesterday I did some reading on the human genome
Within each of us are 23 pairs of chromosomes
All composed of adelaide, cytosine, guanine, and thymine
By all, I mean every living thing: flowers, trees, birds, bees, you,...
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Categories:
adelaide, anxiety, change, confusion, discrimination, encouraging, life,
Form:
Rhyme