Long Aplomb Poems

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At the Footbridge - Limerick Collaboration

At the footbridge Sue was meeting her beau
(He was married to a woman called Flo)
Sue soon found out his deception
She dismembered his erection
For his love life it was a massive blow

To the hospital fled poor...

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Categories: aplomb, betrayal, body, humorous,
Form: Limerick


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Operation Money Jump

Thanksgiving, 1971,
a parachute pilgrim approaches Northwest Flight 305
as Dan Cooper, anonymous businessman,  anarchist airborne, 
black suit, black sunglasses, a black tie
and a black briefcase broaching black motives,
Portland to Seattle, prison or criminal pantheon, 
before...

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Categories: aplomb, america, history, mystery,
Form: Epic

Attempts At Lifelong Friendships and Holy Matrimony

Introduction: once again I incorporate 
my trademark penchant 
to fabricate fictitiously
portions of the following poetic endeavor
can you care to 
discern fact from fiction?

Attempts at lifelong friendships and holy matrimony...

Shot thru with figuratively cankerous nub,
cuz yours...

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Categories: aplomb, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure, age, anger,
Form: Rhyme
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When Three Cousins Played

Three cousins played a “game’ of war
A map of Europe spread across the floor
No adults there to keep the score
As each of them wanted more and more

Three of four empires lay upon that map
As they...

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Categories: aplomb, war,
Form: Verse

Every January first of the new year

Every January first of the new year...

finds me (a doggone muttering Homo sapien)
to give pause for reminiscences
and to take stock (sh lock and barrel)
about mein kampf in general
and previous three hundred
and sixty five days in...

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Categories: aplomb, adventure, age, america, angel, anniversary, celebration, humorous,
Form: Free verse


Swing Sets and Jungle Gyms

(or swing sets and monkey bars)

A pitch perfect spring day
such as today April 8th, 2022
within quaint hamlet 
of Schwenksville, Pennsylvania
in close proximity within mind's eye
to Lake Wobegon, Minnesota
finds me reminiscing...

When, scads of light years ago
(half...

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Categories: aplomb, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th
Form: Free verse
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The Tribute

Their mere weapon was their forbidden courage, hands barren with  no armaments, no ammunitions, marching towards the proud valley of death, dedication born from their sempiternal dreams of a free land. 

Their bare weapon...

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Categories: aplomb, appreciation, eulogy, faith, freedom, hero, history, independence
Form: Free verse
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The Shimmer of the Sound, Run Aground a song

Song lyrics with Poem pieced in. © Artimus The Poet Susan Manley 11-24-2024 All Rights Reserved #Sunomusic #ArtimusThePoet

[Musical Introduction]

[Verse]
It came to me in waves...
and over the days...
to join in this song...
the sway of the sea...

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Categories: aplomb, beach, Lullaby, music, poetry, sea,
Form: Lyric

Inevitable Death Defines Afterlife Trois

Inevitable death defines afterlife - trois

So all I ask, would be
inviting, offering, and ushering me to 
top secret cygnet committee
to give this average sized 
chapped sticky man
spinning the david bowie playlist 
as a somber dee...

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Categories: aplomb, absence, allah, analogy, angel, appreciation, blessing, death,
Form: Rhyme
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My Annual Resolutions

Growth should be the ultimate criterion,
nucleus and kernel of every annual pledge,
for myself and other people who might gain,
from a heartfelt commitment such as mine,
that monumental new year down the clock aptly named,
global village stepping...

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Categories: aplomb, adventure, art, birth, care, celebration, character, encouraging,
Form: Free verse
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Rwanda's Why

I'm driving through such beauty, this lush rural countryside. I find it hard to believe that my 
career has taken me to here. Being where I am is so much different to the Highlands from...

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Categories: aplomb, africa, death, people, places, world,
Form: Prose Poetry
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The Truth of Dearest Love Sworn, I Ask God How

(1.)

The Truth Of Dearest Love Sworn, I Ask God How

Over the grit-stained shoulders of ancient marble
Rests a million vagaries of humanity's million sins
Just as earth's flocks of beautiful songbirds warble
So goes the evils engaged in...

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Categories: aplomb, art, life, love, magic, passion, romance, romantic
Form: Sonnet
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Jay Pallen a Wonderful Sister and Friend

On a silver moonlit pillow’s blissful patch I dreamt nirvana 
verses for my sister Jay and our magic mutual bond,  that
gem-enhanced treasure chest, that life support as ironclad rampart 
for our twin psyche sparkle,...

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Categories: aplomb, angel, beautiful, best friend, blessing, dedication, deep,
Form: Prose Poetry
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Naive Faith

Dripping wet weeping  gold droplets imaginatively spun on elm trees,
a less than poetic splatter on saturated loose grit plain ground overtrodden 
to stun the half asleep swooning sapphire riser to allegiance without pietism, 
...

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Categories: aplomb, appreciation, august, beautiful, beauty, character, color, dedication,
Form: Free verse
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Your Devoted Loving Hands

Your devoted adoring Loving hands
Shields the abyss with trance
in utter bewilderment
As every hand is first an apprentice 
That slaves beneath The Temple Of LOVE
Your Loving hands have valor and daring
to weave my sorrow into a...

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Categories: aplomb, courage, devotion, i love you, inspirational, love,
Form: Lyric
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Being a Better Man - Revised

Do plans take stock of what you’d give to be a better man,
and somehow you have trust it’s true that human dream’s a gift,
that life’s a blessing on bad days? The world sees Grace (or...

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Categories: aplomb, life, love,
Form: Rhyme
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I Wish I Had


Line of inquiry:

The ego within forced me to resist
But now I wish I had effused a love mist
With aplomb and flair, just kind of left it there
For self-aware souls passing by, who choose to pair

My...

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Categories: aplomb, fire, love, passion,
Form: Free verse
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I wish I had

Once upon a silent summer eve, 
as fine vermilion lines, 
between bleeding moonlight, 
swiftly sailed across
  my darkness and I, 
sakura springs sang 
 dulcet melodies of 
  a deathless devotion, 
incised within...

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Categories: aplomb, angst,
Form: Free verse

MY TOOTH

   Crunch, crunch say my teeth as they devour,
That freshly baked warm crusty cob made from flour
   Oh bother say I, that does not feel right,
As my tongue explores the cause...

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Categories: aplomb, 10th grade, 12th grade, 1st grade, 2nd
Form: Rhyme

Siraj in charge of the new Raj

Dash of panache …blade cascades on the lash..rocking …fans cavalcade flocking to be clocking some shocking..peacocking....with a hefty splash of flash fancy dan elan

No mocking.. knocking or blocking my pick as the talisman taking charge,...

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Categories: aplomb, sports,
Form: Free verse
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Bleeding Before Rome -1

The bombers began to bleed
their heavy tears of death
from 20,000 feet above the breathless battlefield, 
B-17 Flying Fortress formations
moving with apocalyptic aplomb
the shadows of high metal crosses by the hundreds
rippling along the rugged roman earth
bringing...

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Categories: aplomb, culture, heart, war, world war ii,
Form: Epic

Was it all just a dream


Wakey wakey pinch me shake me don’t forsake me..was it just a trip..a mistake a half baked fake dream during a kip or after 46 days booked can’t be overlooked everyone letting rip..totally cooked…including us...

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Categories: aplomb, sports,
Form: Prose Poetry

Twenty first century civilization gone I askew

Twenty first century civilization gone?... I askew.

Ah... what luxury to wax poetic 
as freedom to trumpet thoughts, 
ideas, emotions, et cetera will wane,
especially if president number forty five
courtesy wealth and/or stealth
dons the mantle as de...

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Categories: aplomb, abuse, america, anxiety, bereavement, crush, hate, november,
Form: Rhyme

Twenty First Century Civilization Gone Askew

Twenty First Century Civilization Gone Askew...?

Methinks perchance man
     kind always vain
n'er did appertain
moral hike polar opposite
     from human being:
uncivil, unethical, unsocial, et cetera
    ...

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Categories: aplomb, america, death, destiny, heaven, literature, slavery, war,
Form: Free verse
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Doppelganger

Coming home late from wandering in my sleep
In search of that which goes ahead of chase
i saw the image of my form stretched on my bed
His looks – minus my glasses – through an impish...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: aplomb, introspection, me,
Form: Free verse
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