Long Assigned Poems
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Enola GayEnola Gay
There on the ‘North Field’ tarmac of Tinian Island, Marianas;
Taxis the sleek designed ‘Boeing B-29 Superfortress’ to ready for take-off. 1
Glistening, polished aluminum under the blaring floodlights filmed for posterity,
Maneuvers' the ‘Enola Gay’, chosen...
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Categories:
assigned, education, history, usa, war, world, world war
Form:
Verse
Chapter 92 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: Family AffairsNext day new school day.
Amadeus was the first to
Wake then he woke DJ and
Damali And all three went for
The showers. Twenty minutes
Later they woke everybody else
Including the adults. The Hakim
Children...
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Categories:
assigned, beach, christmas, emotions, family, first love, leadership,
Form:
Alliteration
Disability, Illness and FundamentalismDisability, Illness and Fundamentalism
My brother died of Cystic Fibrosis,
When I was twelve and he fourteen,
It took away his ambitions,
To study at Oxford - the pipe organ’s steam.
I understand being born with...
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Categories:
assigned, atheist, cancer, health, prayer, religion, rights, science,
Form:
Rhyme
Chapter 119 -- Damian Delilah Mallory Damali Desharah DJ: Desharah's and Sedanah's New DigsDesharah woke early morning 8 am.
She wanted to check out her new
House. But she waited for Sedanah
To come out of her dreams.
"WAKE UP SEDA." They roomed
Together. That's what her mother
Wanted....
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Categories:
assigned, absence, confidence, voyage,
Form:
Alliteration
The Badly Drawn GoatThe pencil now resting the image was 'testing' for the creature before him, (his badly-drawn drawin') had come out 'not right' somewhat twisted and tight.
The picture in question, it burst with suggestion, for lines that...
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Categories:
assigned, animal, creation, funny,
Form:
Rhyme
Merov's Ghost and Other Shots Across My BowMerov’s Ghost (1) and Other Shots Across My Bow!
In mid-November of Fourteen, I published my first web verse here, (2)
the earliest spanned sixty years, composed for Senior English class
one night in Nineteen Sixty-One. Assigned just...
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Categories:
assigned, blessing, life, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Be Embarrased By ArmsBe Embarrased by Arms
The right of a person to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed upon when in a
well-regulated militia necessary for the security of a free state. In other words, if
you...
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Categories:
assigned, encouraging,
Form:
Blank verse
The Old BearThe Old grizzled Bear... was now keenly aware
as he lay in his Cave all alone.
Where his time as King... was a mere passing thing
and must choose another...
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Categories:
assigned, funny, humor, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Straight To Hell - a Short StoryI was a seventeen year old senior in a coed, catholic high school. Our gym classes however were still all boys and all girls. My senior year we had gym every other day...
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Categories:
assigned, life, day, school, teacher, me, old, class,
Form:
Narrative
Resonating Rightbrain PoliticsSays Csikszentmihalyi,
"Social scientists
(Abraham Maslow, Lawrence Kohlberg, Jane Loevinger, [Ken Wilber, Edward Podvoll, Julian Jaynes, Jack Kornfield, Richard Dawkins, Clare Graves, Carl Jung] and James Fowler)
describe a dialectical motion
between [Yang-ego-form] differentiation
and [Yin-eco-logical function] integration,
between turning attention...
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Categories:
assigned, beauty, environment, health, political, psychological, religion, trust,
Form:
Political Verse
MY Collaboration with Actor, Singer: Ricky Nelson in the Mid Winter of ''80: PART IMY Collaboration with Ricky Nelson in the Last Days of 1980
The eventful news of that day about what was found on board that crashed plane, won't replace that particular memory of Mr. Rick Nelson's hearty...
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Categories:
assigned, appreciation, celebrity, girlfriend, imagery, lost, peace, wife,
Form:
Narrative
A Rhyme Into My Active Prescription Medication Addiction, and the Start of My RecoveryTRIGGER WARNING this piece features active addiction, the struggles etc
I Can't stop screaming, sobbing the pain in my stomach is excruciating,
Eventually Im assigned a bed to be left in whaling, waiting,
Finally a nurse...
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Categories:
assigned, addiction, child, cry, emotions, evil, growing up,
Form:
Free verse
Unforgettable Places - ActsI have so many places/acts dear to my heart
I’m just dying to share some with you
Not to boast, I but honor them, all played a part,
I'm sure helped to bring me in your view!
Tell me...
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Categories:
assigned, appreciation, blessing, family, life, love,
Form:
Quatrain
Ego Speaks For Yangyin HistoryMost everything I learned about the history of evolution
feels colored by Julian Jaynes' theory of language
and culture
and history
and icons of ecological systems and functions,
forms and frequencies,
rhythms and ironic, ionic
dualdark cosmological bicameral transparency.
This is not...
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Categories:
assigned, creation, earth, humanity, identity, love, psychological, sun,
Form:
Narrative
A Bohemian Maze of True EvilOnce so loyal and always true the gargoyles watch everything now
During their stony slumbers with their careful one-eyed open view,
As evil red-eyed demons rain down upon us in their dark-sprit forms,
Whilst our unsuspecting mortal Earth...
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Categories:
assigned, dark, evil, fantasy, god, horror, metaphor, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
Chapter 151-- DAMIAN DELILAH MALLORY HOLANNYA: Pt 1 This Day This FamilyDate: April 1, 2051
air planes departed in flight
1 hour and 15 minutes
Between them. The trip was 7 hours
And approximately 30 minutes in
Duration. The first plane touched down
On the...
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Categories:
assigned, africa, allusion, birth, child,
Form:
Alliteration
The Note - Both Audio and TextIt started with a phone call on that cold October night. The deputy from Dibbly, Billy Joe - was on the line.
Told me he was callin’ out the local “rescue squad” to help with finding...
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Categories:
assigned, betrayal,
Form:
Verse
Categories:
assigned, world,
Form:
Rhyme
A Bohemian Maze of True EvilA Bohemian Maze of True Evil
Once so loyal and always true the gargoyles watch everything now
During their stony slumbers with their careful one-eyed open view,
As evil red-eyed demons rain down upon us in their dark-sprit...
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Categories:
assigned, dark, evil, fantasy, god, horror, metaphor, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
BlossomBlossom
Just grab a seat on that stump lad, and I'll take centre stage,
With a yarn about a small brown donk, and a lad about your age.
And thanks much for the offer, but I'll give...
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Categories:
assigned, adventure,
Form:
Ballad
A Bohemian Maze of True EvilOnce so loyal and always true the gargoyles watch everything now
During their stony slumbers with their careful one-eyed open view,
As evil red-eyed demons rain down upon us in their dark-sprit forms,
Whilst our unsuspecting mortal...
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Categories:
assigned, creation, dark, evil, god, heaven, mother son,
Form:
Narrative
Caseworker, 1962In 1962, I was a caseworker, not a social worker, in the Cabrini-Green Housing Project in Chicago. In that era, the difference between a caseworker and a social worker was simple. A social worker had...
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Categories:
assigned, poverty,
Form:
Prose
Escape From HorrorWhen I first awoke in this hospital, they tell me I had stared straight ahead and never uttered a word. I was in shock for a while, but now Dr. Albright, the therapist assigned to...
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Categories:
assigned, horror,
Form:
Narrative
Chapter 5 -- Damian Hakim: Brothers To BrothersDate February 17, 2014
Today is the day that Damian
Will not ever forget. 12 years-old Damian
Was asleep in bed. When he Heard
His father's voice calling and his
Mother screaming. Damian awoke
Thinking...
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Categories:
assigned, birth, boy, deep, devotion, emotions, father son,
Form:
Prose
The Word-Heroic Crown of SonnetsBEGINNINGS
The WORD was there before the dawn of time
the Trinity communed in sacred tongue
with sounds unheard, unspeakable, sublime
they uttered words of their unending Love.
With power in God's WORD the world was formed
and from His mouth...
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Categories:
assigned, beautiful, bible, life, love, universe,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets