Long All told Poems
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War and Peace: That Midst Nations and Nationals
War and Peace: That Midst Nations And Nationals
War and Peace, a classical fiction by Leo Tolstoy, first published as Voyna I Mir in 1865–69. This picturesque reflection of early 19th-century Russian culture saw as its...
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Categories:
all told, allegory, angst, life, marriage, war,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Brownian Motion Writ Large
Brownian motion writ large...
within small medium
as light brainstorm doth
hail forth the following poem.
Across the realm of gray matter
slowly percolating within tissue
composed of neuronal, glial
and endothelial cells, and although
there must be biological...
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Categories:
all told, 11th grade, 12th grade, age, appreciation, business,
Form:
Free verse
Inferiority Complex As a Kid, Adolescent and Emerging Adult
Inferiority complex as a kid, adolescent and emerging adult
Yours truly (an amazingly,
gracefully, and markedly modest
passively aging baby boomer -
formerly introverted long haired
pencil necked geek),
prattling wordsmith doth behold
nostalgic memories regarding father
(Boyce Brandon Harris)
long ago lapsed decades
during...
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Categories:
all told, 11th grade, 12th grade, 1st grade, 2nd
Form:
Rhyme
The Last Train, Part I
On the canvas of a cold, grey, winter sky,
In large black letters above the Iron Gate,
Read the message: "Arbeit Macht Frei".
A shrewdly sinister, propagandist lie,
Designed to deceive all of our eventual fate.
This was the very...
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Categories:
all told, allegory, allusion, analogy, holocaust, horror, loss, memory,
Form:
Rhyme
Canzone Poem Form Example
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Canzone
The canzone is an Italian form with strong similarities to the sestina. There are no rhymes; instead there are five keywords that determine the structure of the poem. Every line of...
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Categories:
all told, poetry,
Form:
Canzone
Perfumed Letter
My darling sweet sweet love Pete
its been over three long months seems like eternity now since you departed and my world stopped
And my sun became cold
I miss you more with each breath and...
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Categories:
all told, absence, love, romance, romantic,
Form:
Romanticism
How to attach a shower curtain
How to attach a shower curtain...
I revisit rather than write from scratch
a poem crafted May twenty third
two thousand and twenty
since the following words apropos
and amply serve a duplicate purpose
of aforementioned title,
when yours truly enlisted
(before...
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Categories:
all told, abuse, angel, appreciation, business, fun, hero, husband,
Form:
Rhyme
Groundswell of Emotional Blessedness
Groundswell Of Emotional Blessedness
Ebullience exudes from mine every pore
courtesy festive mood in the air,
thus acknowledgment to the following:
thank you All Poetry, COSMOFUNNEL,
Facebook, Hello Poetry, My Poetic Side
PoetryNook, Poetry Soup, PoetryVibe
Tumblr, et cetera
anonymous global friends,
Romans...
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Categories:
all told, adventure, appreciation, blessing, celebration, dedication, family, friendship,
Form:
Rhyme
How To Attach a Shower Curtain
How to attach a shower curtain...
Suffering permanent anatomical
disfigurement, nonetheless
maintaining marital bliss
at steep price despite more or less
musculoskeletal dislocation,
I eagerly, readily willingly confess.
Ideal for someone whose height
trends toward above average
unless you don't object tilting
head back in...
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Categories:
all told, 12th grade, celebration, encouraging, fun, hilarious, husband,
Form:
Free verse
Childlike Faith
Luke 18:17 - Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall in no wise enter therein.
When I was around five
For Christmas, I received one...
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Categories:
all told, child, faith,
Form:
Free verse
The Story of Streets
I was a meticulous city planner, like future plans we make for jasmine days,
And I loved beautifying the big city, like blooming parks where nature plays.
I was ever striving to improve the metropolis, proposing plans...
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Categories:
all told, appreciation, city, fantasy, imagery, nature, places, work,
Form:
Couplet
Forlorn Hope
FORLORN HOPE
I accepted it was a forlorn hope; however, I still had a little hope
that I kept wishing my mother would give me the answers why
she treated me differently, why she criticized, judged, said...
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Categories:
all told, hope, truth,
Form:
Free verse
Groundswell of Emotional Blessedness
(thank you All Poetry, COSMOFUNNEL,
Facebook, Hello Poetry
Poetry Soup, Tumblr,
et cetera global friends).
A network of cherished kinships allied
forged, and linkedin analogous
to union of groom and bride
thru electronic bonds engender intrigue,
nonetheless unconditionally accept,
no matter I chide
self,...
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Categories:
all told, absence, angst, anxiety, blessing, courage, family, happiness,
Form:
Rhyme
Brownian Movement Writ Large
Akin to daffodils got to puff the magic dragon GoDaddy seed achieve
visibly absent pride and prejudice where aggrieve
ment unseen, as careening human bits believe
where forebears of Adam and the ants sandy dunes cleave
species pollination, yet...
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Categories:
all told, adventure, age, allusion, conflict, confusion, humanity, myth,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
The Greatest Gift Given
15 years old.
It was a brain tumor, they’d said.
Holding past the current;
undertow of reality slapping
my fragility cold –
(steel bars won’t hold water –
movement always finds its way)
O’, how the lies twist!
Twist like the dusty branches
on...
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Categories:
all told, childhood, inspirational, introspection, life, loss, love, mother,
Form:
Free verse
The Helping Hand
There is no free market
greed controls supply and demand
the market cascades bi-polar
and the pendulum swing's getting out of hand
republicratic tyrants stake claim on our tax
they waste and pocket as they see fit
caught and send a...
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Categories:
all told, politicalworld, me,
Form:
I do not know?
Hair Washing Heralded Huge Happening
Earlier today April 4th, 2022,
which supersedes bald faced headlines
pointing finger and
Putin blame for Bucha killings
squarely on head & shoulders
of Russian autocrat, née
yours truly lathered
his hirsute higglety-pigglety
thinning oily tresses.
Hark….the herald angels...
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Categories:
all told, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure, april, dad,
Form:
Free verse
Mosque Cowed Covenant I Keep Putin Off
Mosque cowed covenant I keep Putin off...
and withheld broadcasting
the following communication
tucked away these many years,
when president number forty five
donned, jump/kick started, and tweeted
thru his musky, albeit flabby mantle,
a rallying cry forewarning onset of Mag(m)a
bubbling, gurgling,...
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Categories:
all told, absence, abuse, addiction, adventure, best friend, business,
Form:
Rhyme
No Hope For a Borderline
I've spent the last 7 years trying to find a cure for whatever's wrong with me
The sickness in my head and heart that nobody else can see
The sickness that caused a craving for something i...
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Categories:
all told, emotions, poems, drug,
Form:
Tail-rhyme
No Hope For a Borderline
I've spent the last 7 years trying to find a cure for whatever's wrong with me
The sickness in my head and heart that nobody else can see
The sickness that caused a craving for something i...
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Categories:
all told, depression,
Form:
Rhyme
After Goodbyes
I asked her to reconsider her decision to leave and she said what I think was eather " Go to hell or Lil Gary goodbye !"
So I waited till she pulled out of my driveway...
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Categories:
all told, deep, emotions, grief, growth, heart, heartbroken,
Form:
Free verse
Mary's Pink Story
I just made it in time for Mary's funeral, it had been raining
heavily all day but the sun came out through the clouds.
And as I watched her coffin being lowered into the ground,
I was filled...
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Categories:
all told, courage, death, friend, loss, strength,
Form:
Narrative
Customers We All Detested
(Background: After I retired from the college some years ago, I decided to take a
temporary sales job at J.C. Penney in the mens’ wear department. The pay was
laughable, but I had...
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Categories:
all told, businesswork, clothes, money, time, work,
Form:
Rhyme
Old Luke and the Stew
I tied ole paint at the old cowboy’s shack. He’d been in the crib mucking stalls, haying a little and shucking corn.
I observed him at his chores from the porch as the day kept...
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Categories:
all told, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Fraught as an extremely socially anxious younger person
Fraught as an extremely socially anxious younger person...
hashtagged introvertedness trademark
silently exorcised, ostracized, and vilified
Impossible mission to resuscitate...
a forsaken promising
(even short lived) friendship
regardless of expressed gender
exhibited by other persons from yesteryear.
When trying to jump/kick start
lapsed meaningful...
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Categories:
all told, 7th grade, abuse, anger, angst, anxiety, bereavement,
Form:
Rhyme