Long Baleful Poems
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Enheduanna TranslationsEnheduanna is the first writer we know by name. She created the first poetry anthology and hymnal, circa 2250 BC, in ancient Sumer. She was the daughter of King Saragon the Great.
Lament to the...
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Categories:
baleful, god, moon, poems, poetess, poetry, religion, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
A Letter in Forewarning of Melancholy--Part I(Somewhere in late 18th-century Europe a friend, Laetitia, by way of a letter warns her beloved girlfriend, Euphoria--a young, gay and unsuspecting mistress--against the almost inevitable seductions of the infamous and maundering philanderer, Melancholia.).
Dear Euphoria,
...
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Categories:
baleful, depression, friend, metaphor, philosophy, psychological, uplifting, wisdom,
Form:
Prose
The Exaltation of InannaThe Exaltation of Inanna: Opening Lines and Excerpts
by Enheduanna, daughter of Sargon I of Akkad and high priestess of Inanna
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Lady of all divine powers!
Lady of the resplendent light!
Righteous Lady...
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Categories:
baleful, faith, god, light, religion, religious, sin, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
Lament To the Spirit of WarLament to the Spirit of War
by Enheduanna (circa 2285-2250 BCE)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
You hack down everything you see, War God!
Rising on fearsome wings
you rush to destroy the land:
raging like thunderstorms,
howling like hurricanes,
screaming like...
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Categories:
baleful, allegory, analogy, conflict, death, soldier, storm, war,
Form:
Free verse
The Raven and The BardThe Raven and the Bard
-Daniel Henry Rodgers
The Raven's quill drips shades of blackest night,
Its haunting words, a melody of fright.
The Bard's natural lines, like "Evangeline's" fair hair,
Shed history's warm light to chase away all care...
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Categories:
baleful, philosophy, poets, psychological,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Wildmoor SymphonyFIRST MOVEMENT (Minor Key)
Times such as these test body soul and mind
So should our thoughts be pain and dark confined
Or loosed to concentrate on brighter things
Like furry puppies, flowers and girls on swings
In this bright...
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Categories:
baleful, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
Frostbitten Heartstrings and Drunken TruthsMy eyes couldn’t help
But wander
And smile at every passing inch
Aimlessly following the walls
And your voice
Throughout the house you lay your head at night
It was cozy
Decorated delicately
In memories...
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Categories:
baleful, angst, body, december, deep, emotions, heartbroken, loneliness,
Form:
Free verse
Inception: Double Doubts' Drought - Collab With Mikey Part 3Highly prized hopes lift up the hopeless, the needy, and the helpless again and again
When will the weight of fire on my bleeding heart be extinguished?
I wish that’d happen someday…I pray that joy will prey...
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Categories:
baleful, betrayal, faith, grief, happiness,
Form:
Free verse
Easter BirdThe Sinai Rose finch, oblivious to the commotion in the nearby city, busily gathered dry grass and floral fodder to repair her nest, disturbed by a human behemoth, snatching the thorny brambles which hid the...
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Categories:
baleful, bird, easter, nature,
Form:
Prose
Raven's CursePoet: Ken Jordan
Poem: A Raven's Curse
Edited by: Sparkle Jordan
written: February/2015
On a late January, (winters night), when once wake eyes now sleeping, dogs now howling, and cats now screaming -
...
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Categories:
baleful, bird, children, conflict,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The Secret Lives of Chimney Pots IiGazing down along the zealously
Monitored borders of well clipped
Evergreen Privet hedges.
Standing watchful guard over
Divisions
Re-enforced by concrete posts and
Darkly stained, wooden, wavy-lap
Fences;
Age-old neighbourly disputes, petty
Grudges and childish jealousies -
Ably demonstrated by various
Patchworks of shabbily...
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Categories:
baleful, philosophy,
Form:
Rhyme
Moksha KarakMoksha Karak
So what is the individual result of Bavgt Venus.
Is it fruit of thought from the sun?
Ascendant Ketu is the Vedic text that will provide the different outcomes.
As the positions of the planets...
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Categories:
baleful, culture, destiny, faith, film, future, humanity, spiritual,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The Green ArmchairI was a pleasant, conscientious librarian, whose world consisted of books,
As a world of fragrant beauty, can be found in the glossy, honeyed nooks.
Although it was pleasant work and appealing, I was not so very...
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Categories:
baleful, adventure, books, fantasy, journey, life, nature, places,
Form:
Couplet
Odyssey From Africa 9c10aCHAPTER 9c
Swift a sand shark spiraled nearer
Baring teeth it eyed them coldly
Han spun full about and kicked it
In the center of its body
But at this the sand shark merely
Shrugged and moved off several...
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Categories:
baleful, adventure, africa, history, mythology, nature, science, voyage,
Form:
Narrative
Odyssey From Africa 1b 2But the mood of celebration
Lasted only for a short time
Very few returned to thank them
Han and Matto found this puzzling
Chapter 2 BLOOD MOON
Through the days and nights that followed
Spread a...
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Categories:
baleful, adventure, africa, betrayal, history, mythology, travel,
Form:
Narrative
Odyssey From Africa 6e 7aCHAPTER 6 (e, continued)
Though without communication
Spoken in symbolic language
Their gorilla hosts perceived it
And made ready for the parting
In a solemn mood of sadness
All the hominids assembled
In the clearing in the jungle
Where they had repulsed the...
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Categories:
baleful, adventure, africa, history, identity, mythology, nature,
Form:
Narrative
Odyssey From Africa 3aCHAPTER 3 The River
While they paused to rest a moment
Han gazed suddenly behind them
To the south a long way distant
Faintly rose a hazy ribbon
From the grassland; Han spoke quietly,
"Loved ones, we are...
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baleful, adventure, africa, fantasy, history, humanity, mythology, science,
Form:
Narrative
No House Built On a Bridge, Part Two2.
"Those who have gone astray, whom [the Holy Spirit] itself begets, usually go
astray also because of the Spirit. Thus, by this one and the same breath, the
fire blazes and is put out."
--- From the...
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Categories:
baleful, philosophy,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Red Baloon -Section 3-You dig into my skin with your claws of distrustful disdain
Why don’t you welcome the Healing rain?
I promise that it will wash away the troublesome pain
That bullies you to the extreme – try, darling,...
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Categories:
baleful, blessing,
Form:
Free verse
The Service of Symbols -The things I've been, the things I have been, the things I am, things I'm to be,
a symbol so dark, a sign so brite, a mark of the heart,
shadow of the soul,
rind of mind,
as the...
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Categories:
baleful, blue, endurance, nature,
Form:
Didactic
Instruments of LoveI recite your name in the whispers of the wind
for bonded to my heart ...
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Categories:
baleful, beauty, bible, celebration, christian, desire, devotion, emotions,
Form:
Verse
Categories:
baleful, world,
Form:
Rhyme
For Robert ZimmermanFor Bob Dylan
sheltered from the howling winds of vows and scattered souls and sweltering hate
she is a refuge from the blistering sands of dread and loss and torn and twisted fate
when the emptiness inside becomes...
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Categories:
baleful, history, hope, imagination, inspirational, journey, life, music,
Form:
I do not know?
Howling At the Pink Super MoonHowling at the Pink Super Moon
On a moonlit late night
The Pink Supermoon
Casting a baleful light
On the world below
While inside
Sam Adams sat drinking
In a depraved bar
In a den of iniquity
In an evil part...
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Categories:
baleful, addiction, drink, drug, mental illness, moon,
Form:
Free verse
An Evil DayEre some three or four-odd days
Began our nature show some craze.
The people, truly afraid, to say,
Nowhere did find a place to stay.
The initial portension was a fire,
That left a pile of ashes and mire,
But no...
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Categories:
baleful, child,
Form:
Narrative