Long Alternately Poems
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Impossible Mission To Captcha Infinitesimal MomentImpossible mission to captcha infinitesimal moment
alternately titled: tick tock runneth amuck
seconds elapse imperceptibly
leaving me dumbstruck,
how quickly fleeting tempus fugit;
ofttimes imagined as time thief.
Hence following vignette: quiet as a mouse lurks the time thief...
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Categories:
alternately, 12th grade, analogy, butterfly, death, farewell, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
February 29th, 2024February 29th, 2024
Alternately titled: 111th leap year since 1582
the year Pope Gregory XIII world leader
(i.e. essentially paterfamilias among
Roman Catholic flock)
timely maneuvered around calendrical rock
and hard space implementing
viable system tracking years ad hoc
out of sync and...
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Categories:
alternately, 12th grade, age, birth, celebration, fate, february,
Form:
Rhyme
In My Beautiful BalloonWith summer nearly gone, we all wanted to do something special,
And decided it should be daring, rather than the usual and dull.
So, we listed the things we desired to do, but hadn't yet tried,
And we...
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Categories:
alternately, adventure, beauty, fantasy, lost, miracle, nature, prayer,
Form:
Couplet
Goodbye Six Pack Hello Poetry ScribesGoodbye six pack hello* poetry scribes
My poetic side COSMOFUNNEL
wordsmith thanks tumblr in his noggin
ofttimes triggering babbling brook
to swell after deluge
becoming stream of consciousness runnel
carving, gouging, and liquidating topography
qua zee mow toe natural formed...
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Categories:
alternately, adventure, angst, april, body, father, hair, love,
Form:
Rhyme
My jubilant latent, nascent poetic tribute to black history monthMy jubilant latent, nascent poetic tribute to black history month
Which acknowledgement ought to be year round,
similar to altruistic, humanistic, and philanthropic
unconditional acceptance and respect
crafted with the following words
mostly written January 23rd, 2023,
cuz I, (a...
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Categories:
alternately, abuse, africa, age, america, anger, betrayal, black
Form:
Free verse
Matty Mattel Doll Circa Mcmlxv(alternately titled: idolizing childhood's end
today April 25th, 2021
generates elusive warm treasured memories).
Akin to significance my eldest sister
felt toward her “Willies” –
(totally tubular fuzzy bendable contrivances
analogous to an outsize pipe cleaner)
until she became a tweener
my Matty...
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Categories:
alternately, 1st grade, age, best friend, childhood, dedication,
Form:
Rhyme
Upon approaching advent of an early spring 2024Upon approaching advent of an early spring 2024
(alternately titled GENESIS RESPLENDENT)
No matter the calendrical/official onset of vernal equinox takes places Tuesday, Mar 19, 2024 and transpires until Thursday, Jun 20, 2024, an intimation sensed...
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Categories:
alternately, 12th grade, animal, appreciation, beauty, daffodils, earth,
Form:
Rhyme
My Nascent Poetic Tribute To Black History MonthMy nascent poetic tribute to black history month
more apropos and alternately titled:
praise to thee people
of variegated melanin color,
whose immense understated improvements
and enhancement of webbed wide world
worth more than paltry words
of yours truly can...
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Categories:
alternately, 12th grade, adventure, africa, anger, appreciation, beautiful,
Form:
Rhyme
Soul Stance River - 146 miles up river Arikara are encountered,
they are a people of amenable disposition and are agrarians,
they chuckle with sympathy as we inform them of our grizzly confrontation
and they tell us that disease had forced them...
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Categories:
alternately, adventure, , cute,
Form:
Epic
Aye Passively Plead Death To Please Release Me From Agonizing Clutches(alternately titled: Typical daily mindset today –
July 17th, 2020)
The following words
mostly unredacted, nevertheless finessed
for curbed poetic/prosaic appeal
lock, stock and barrel
codify, and edify (hoopfully not mortify)
any reader unbeknownst and/or familiar
with unsteady state of yours truly,
(an...
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Categories:
alternately, absence, cheer up, death, fate, grief, hope,
Form:
Free verse
Grant This Civil Yankee To Doodle Till Lee Gets Blue In the FaceGrant this civil yankee to doodle till Lee gets blue in the face
blowing 99 red balloons April 9th, 2023
will signal 158 years since Appomattox
plus what would have been ninety sixth birth
of the late...
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Categories:
alternately, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure, america, appreciation,
Form:
Rhyme
The C WordThe words are dark, sharp,vicious, viscous.
The images like bubbling, darkest jam,
With bubble like grim faces riding to the surface
Then bursting.
I am thirsting.Alternately with blood and bile,black.
I am a sad sack,
A pillow filled with rotten meat
For...
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Categories:
alternately, angst, anxiety, body, endurance, health, sick, sorrow,
Form:
Free verse
August 13th 2021 Twenty Two Years SinceAugust 13th, 2021 – twenty two years since...
Wicked bad designed day poem originally crafted
then alternately titled for no particular rhyme nor reason:
courtesy Doctor Donald Dossey
who coined paraskevidekatriaphobia.
August thirteenth nineteen hundred and...
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Categories:
alternately, abuse, adventure, animal, confusion, fate, grave, grief,
Form:
Rhyme
Storm WarningI love spending nights on the lake.
Once the oven-like sun disappears,
things get suddenly quiet, except for
the occasional hoot of an owl, crickets, frogs
and the soft lapping of the lake on the boat.
When the moon rises...
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Categories:
alternately, adventure, fun, life, storm, summer, teen, weather,
Form:
Free verse
Wicked Bad Designed Day(alternately titled: courtesy Doctor Donald Dossey
who coined paraskevidekatriaphobia
August thirteenth nineteen hundred and ninety nine
forever etched in annals of my personal infamy
as one still sending hair raising shivers down my spine
which following unpleasant...
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Categories:
alternately, abuse, adventure, angst, good friday, grave, mom,
Form:
Free verse
Anomalous Poetic Contrivance EvokesAnomalous poetic contrivance evokes...
googling inept kickstarted lame outré jaunty hokum
(alternately titled:
Random screenshot within me noggin
instantaneously transforming,
née devolving into gobbledygook.)
I got born with poker faced physiognomy,
no matter yours truly doth not play cards
though self same...
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Categories:
alternately, 12th grade, adventure, character, dream, fate, humorous,
Form:
Free verse
The Bliss I MissedI was a prolific and enthusiastic artist, like a sparkling jewel rife with colors,
Taking joy from nature themes and others, as in childhood joys of summers.
I painted active people and wilder places, houses, sunsets and...
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Categories:
alternately, art, beautiful, color, fantasy, imagery, inspiration, nature,
Form:
Couplet
A Change of SceneryI was reclining upon soft pillows, in my spacious window seat,
Savoring pretty views and sunshine, while I nibbled on a treat.
Alternately I read my novel, and gazed on the tranquil scene,
As one gazes at...
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Categories:
alternately, color, fantasy, garden, magic, nature, nice, summer,
Form:
Couplet
Cherry Tree Music Co-OpCherry Tree Music Co-op
alternately titled instant infatuation:
a moment of spontaneous spunk
instantaneously transformed
ordinarily shy guy into a quidnunc
courtesy powder milk biscuits
inside his mouth
bitesize morsels did plunk
wafted courtesy pheromones
found him punchdrunk
reclusive tendencies bubbled...
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Categories:
alternately, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure,
Form:
Rhyme
Coronavirus Microbe Covid 19Coronavirus microbe (COVID-19)
(alternately titled: yours truly doth mutter
asthma bowled dug gutter
pin yon hated chap strikingly and gently weeps,
whereby melts milquetoast like butter.)
Aye reckon eyes aforementioned
entitled microscopic organism
doth strain credulity threatening
Homo sapiens...
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Categories:
alternately, 11th grade, 12th grade, beautiful, husband, leadership,
Form:
Free verse
A Perfect Day To Journey and a Perfect Day To Learn - Part 2A Perfect Day to Learn
We took our late lunch in a wooden cabin at the foot of the mountain where exotic foods in sumptuous meal were served. I enjoyed immensely the fried fish and...
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Categories:
alternately, adventure, courage, encouraging,
Form:
Haibun
Rwanda's Buried CalvaryA hundred days of tomb-like silence; a hundred days of blind eyes and deaf ears; a hundred days of wooden hearts and cruel minds. This was long ago, but still its stigma is there. Years...
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Categories:
alternately, history, inspiration, life, race, strength,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Please Do Not Weep For MePlease do not weep for me!
(alternately titled: dost newt expend
precious tears toward pitiful poet!)
Intense passion to read
doth foster divine enlightenment...
Also simultaneously, albeit instantaneously
triggering brutal mind-numbing self awareness
starkly underscoring how existence (mine)
devoid scant trace
positive life enhancing...
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Categories:
alternately, 12th grade, betrayal, grief, irony, perspective, self,
Form:
Free verse
Hyundai Sonata Malfunctioning Brake Caliper Bluestweaked to pass inspection broadcast on the double
(alternately titled snafu: ma bell heave hubble
vehicular repairs (prohibitive)
finds me bleary eyed stupefied
and countenance grizzled with prickly stubble
collapsed amidst virtual rubble).
Best sung courtesy rotten dull liver:red worst
after words...
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Categories:
alternately, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Ins and Outs Part 3Author's note: This is an epic length poem that will have to be split into parts and will be serialized in successive posts.
Part 3
our subject awoke
while still dark everywhere
dark with agony
an amputee's life...
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Categories:
alternately, how i feel, , cute,
Form:
Free verse