Long Averting Poems

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Black Iraqi Woman

Black Iraqi Woman
Written by Faleeha Hassan
Translated from the Arabic by William Hutchins
Shortly before my father died, he whispered to me longingly: “Daughter, treasure this, because it authenticates your heritage to our kinsfolk!” When I accepted...

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Categories: averting, me,
Form: I do not know?


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Free Power - Part Three

from state dinner pent-up flatulence

                              ...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: averting, political, satire,
Form: Free verse

Robbie - Ham Guilty For Gobbledygook

I, A. Robbie - Ham guilty for gobbledygook...
and ruffling turkey feathers!

An innocent A1 miss steak kin kith
once, a former main lion resident 
living social where Tigress and Euphrates 
converge and pool into Lake Wobegone ...

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Categories: averting, 12th grade, 9th grade, adventure, allusion, america,
Form: Rhyme
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Ireland - a Divided Island Part Three

kaisers, kings, emperors fight for territory
  dispensable bodies left in the ground on foreign soil, unreturned
  militarisation of memory and folly
  an Irish nation half-wrenched from a bloodied and wearied empire
 ...

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© Ian Love  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: averting, community, history, ireland, time,
Form: Narrative
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The Only Star For Me

all my deepest thoughts, all my inward reflections 
                         surround the...

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Categories: averting, star, symbolism,
Form: Free verse


Grim Reaper Defied

Four times, nay, five it's true, Grim Reaper  defied.
The first was when down Hollywood streets I flew at Ninety five.
Averting wheel, I turned it fast
and struck my head on window's glass
Past throngs of people...

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Categories: averting, me, car, life, me, time,
Form: Epic

You Will Be the Last

Feel my curling vines surround this unyielding fence
For years they have been tightly gripped against your rust
Above us, a darkened raincloud,
Threatening lightning and stinging sorrows…
Though instead of indifference, I feel the aftermath of your thunder
That...

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Categories: averting, anxiety, character, dedication, deep, desire, devotion, freedom,
Form: Free verse
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The USA Needs To Support Israel's Iron Dome

There are seven Democrats and even one Republican that are firmly against the USA's continue funding of a strategic Israel's defensive protection.  The USA has been providing Israel, in the past, with the necessary...

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Categories: averting, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form: Narrative

Before the Gates of Alahsar - Version - 2- 21

On the top of the wall,
expectant faces, watching,
the strange guests, they did wish to see,
Now, the upward road lined with people,
From the golden gates, upwards, 
hundreds did line the way.
Murmurs went up and down the...

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Categories: averting, dark, death, dream, fantasy, light, love, war,
Form: Epic
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2c714

If I, like Rip Van Winkle, should fall asleep and wake up 20 years later,                    ...

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Categories: averting, america, prayer,
Form: Political Verse
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The Changing Face of Dreams

Sometimes I think where we end up in life…how high we go…how far…
can be symbolized not only by the family tree…but by the family car.

For me it started with my parents driving our family station...

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© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: averting, dream,
Form: Rhyme
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Two Wraiths In a Gust In Between Frames With a Third

Two wraiths in a gust in-between frames with a Third

...was it when i bumped into you last
           a little put out by the awkwardness
 ...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: averting, butterfly, dream, fairy, fantasy, film, introspection, mystery,
Form: Free verse
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Lord God, You Are My Truth Enforcer

May 10 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Job 8-11

Key Verse – Job 9:2 I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?

LORD GOD, YOU ARE MY...

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Categories: averting, blessing, christian, faith, god, jesus, spiritual, thanksgiving,
Form: Rhyme

Hope - Part Two

sorrowed and sullied, averting his eyes with a half-hearted smile
making his way down from her loft, on creaky steps, into the rain
over his shoulder, her fireplace casting a warm glow through her window
and the ember...

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Categories: averting, anger, devotion, hope, lonely, lost, love,
Form: Narrative

I Ham Quill Tee For Gobbledygook

I ham quill tee for gobbledygook...
and ruffling tail feathers!

An innocent miss steak kin...
once former main lion den cha hoard servant,
resident iz cow herd vegetarian boar
hoof faux whatever reason iz explore

ring bing foo fighting beastie boy,...

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Categories: averting, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form: Rhyme

Cruel Agony

Cruel agony!!
The brazen breath of your holy anticipation… writhing…conniving…
I am spent… so, so spent…. 

Terrified of your superior countenance, I crush these words in the mortar of your eyes closed tight
Good eye, black eye…. averting...

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Categories: averting, abuse, addiction, allusion, angel, anger, angst, anxiety,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

I Ham Guilty For Gobbledygook

I ham guilty for  gobbledygook...
and ruffling turkey feathers!

An innocent miss steak kin...
once former main lion,
resident iz cow herd vegetarian boar

ring beastie boy, who doth
newt practice, what he preaches your
truly battens down chicken
coop hatches so......

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Categories: averting, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, environment,
Form: Blitz
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The World and I

Banish listening, and teachings end.
     Between "Yes!" and "No!"
     How much spectral difference is there?
Between healthy "live" and "evil"
     Is the difference not...

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Categories: averting, humor, identity, math, political, poverty, society, world,
Form: Free verse

Holy Cow, Oven Nation Gone Fowl Two Cluck

they would dice many a chive
   by management me from da dive
apartments in hatfield in close proximity 
   to the bloody sorry fate 
   oof a von nee gutt...

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Categories: averting, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, cry,
Form: Elegiac Lyric

Fortress

“Fortress”



‘Love 
is stronger
than death

Belief
dwells in
the refuge 

and the fortress …’ 
she said. 





Back then,
true romance was lost
in the subterranean
frequency

poets, musicians, artists
were crucified publicly 
for free thoughts on how 
it all really was … meant to...

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Categories: averting, humanity, i am,
Form: Romanticism
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PRAISE BE TO GOD WHO ENABLES US TO DELIGHT IN HIS LAW

June 12 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Psalms 1-5

Key Verse – Psalms 1:2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

PRAISE...

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Categories: averting, bible, blessing, christian, faith, god, jesus, spiritual,
Form: Alliteration

The Other

A seismic change has come over me these last few days, 
Ever since I fell in love with a pure and generous heart 
And ever since I pledged myself to become worthy, 
Not only of...

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Categories: averting, angst, girlfriend-boyfrienddeath, me, heart, husband, death, future,
Form: Free verse

Bathroom Hijinks

Poised to dive into the drink below
the deodorant on the shelf above put on a show
while the toothbrushes looked on with a big grin
the deodorant dove like a champ and took a swim,

The toothbrushes held...

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Categories: averting, adventure, house, silly,
Form: Light Verse
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Naked Death


			Naked death


…the barred and sealed cattle wagons
							disgorge
at the Konzentrazionslager
						            the faux pas relief
    from urine mud faeces sweat and tears
unkempt armpits...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: averting, bereavement, death, grief, hate, race, world war
Form: Elegy

This Dissembling Man

This Dissembling Man...

Trod thru three
score orbitz with air
tight (hermetically sealed)
lid on his emotions bare
reft of evincing

concern and/or care
ring forever guarded against
incursions upon fragile as chinaware
psyche foregoing giving
healthy breathing room

never to dare
risk challenging discomfort zones
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Categories: averting, education, father, jewish, mirror, sad, surreal, youth,
Form: Bio
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