Long Allegorically Poems

(Apropos of Black Poetic Griots)

We may not be deemed apostolic recorders
But we poets, guided with divine wisdom, are
The lay scribes thereof in the chronicling of
Our life’s sojourn in the shadowing times
we spend here on this...

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THE KNIGHT IN THE PANTHER’S SKIN

Shota Rustaveli (c. 1160-1250), often called simply Rustaveli, was a Georgian poet who is generally considered to be the preeminent poet of the Georgian Golden Age. “The Knight in the...

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Hi!
Who am I?
I'm an onion, allegorically,
Speaking strictly metaphorically.

You may see I have a human form -
To the "human" definition I conform,
But, for our purposes today,
I'm an onion.  Is that OK?
I'll peel myself before your eye.
If...

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TO AND IN THE NATURE OF AWARENESS GRACE


A fall morning drive presents an interesting ride.
Looking out into he roadside forest palisade,
Eyes fall upon two age-old stoic trees still clothed
In their branches’ waving illuminating green leaves:-
Like...

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Allegorically tangled
with pink braids and lips that sparkle with blue paint
deeply connected to nature
while waxing the house plant's leaves
to a green, clean shine...
Perhaps that's me today.
For, tonight,  we will invite the flamingos for dinner
-these...

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In the evening of this beautiful sunshine day
I took a cooling-off walk through the park.
There I saw buoyant ducks and little ducklings
Watching a bullfrog sitting on his lily pad throne;
His pulsating neck aped silent crocking...

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Versatility, versatility,
I have no problem with that,
But my versatility's
Not virtuosity,
Those two don't go tit-for-tat.

It's a true revelation
When my inspiration
Comes seemingly out of thin air,
But I don't analyze
I just write and revise,
I'm so happy my muse...

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Weaving the labyrinth of the tyranny of time,
let not the chartered task waiting ashore 
become a victim of the rising tides of apathy 
between our temple pillars of faith and hope.

Rather, in the due time...

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Whew, today’s unexpected chilled wind
Made a mockery out of both spring
And fall in their changing off the guard-like
Waning and waxing in the rhythmic circadian
Nature of Nature’s revolving canvassing.

In frosty goosebump fashion, it appeared as if
Impatient,...

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Rushing away from the Devils hair hoisting heave

Rushing to Gods downy laced embrace, searching as astray and bereaved.

Rushing away from your most tenebrous night-frights.

Rushing to your chain mail-cloaked knight.

Rushing away from the skies troubling tears.

Rushing...

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TO PONDER POSSIBILITIES
AND POSTULATE PROBABILITIES
SOCIALLY SIMMERED SO SARCASTICALLY
TO SANCTIMONIOUS UNCERTAINTIES

THEN RENDERING A RECIPE RANDOMLY
INTO IRRATIONAL IMPOSSIBILITY
MIXED TO THE MAXIMUM MALICIOUSLY
MORONIC MINDS OF MINIMUM MORALITY

ABANDONED ABRUPTLY WITHOUT ACCOUNTABILITY
FALSELY FIGURED AND FORGOTTEN  FUNDAMENTALLY
REPUGNANTLY REMEMBERED RESPONSIBILITY
HOPELESSLY HELPLESS...

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Suspended improbably on shoulders
Hunched by years of glacial attrition
And threaded through a forest of boulders:
The path that holds the key to my mission
I speak allegorically, because
This tortured path has ne’er been seen before
And every rock...

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