Long Banshees Poems
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Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis - part i
Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis, high bred poiet?s of mine
("Thus always I cause the death of tyrants.”)
the purported line Brutus uttered
after assassinating Julius Caesar.
Alternatively...
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Categories:
banshees, 10th grade, adventure, allah, anger, appreciation, birth,
Form:
Free verse
I hanker and pine for wood burning stove weather
I hanker and pine for wood burning stove weather
I haint no spring chicken,
("Buk buk buk buk ba-gawk!")
but in Summer re:
long in tooth sexagenarian
nostalgic for the following imagery
evoked yesterday with very little effort
(aside...
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Categories:
banshees, age, allegory, appreciation, celebration, confusion, halloween, natural
Form:
Free verse
Kaleidoscope
"Kaleidoscope"
They say another
wrote the story, not I.
that I, mere I,
having little experience, shy
and far removed from
such an alien world,
would not possess the knowledge
of such terrible and ruthless, lusty
characters of strong will;...
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Categories:
banshees, muse, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
Old and New Halloween Poems
No Halloween Candy
I can't get no Halloween candy.
I can't get no Halloween candy.
But I try, and I try, and I try, and I try.
I can't get no. I can't get no.
Well I'm walking door...
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Categories:
banshees, fear, halloween,
Form:
Rhyme
Earth Day 2021 Thursday April 22
POETIC PREFACE:
An inner conflict dust brew
within this scribe, who offers ye to chew
(like sweet treats metaphorically) thee do
tee incumbent, when Doomsday clock
counts down minutes few
according Al Gore rhythm
unstoppably ticking,
when life gets turned to global goo
tenderized...
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Categories:
banshees, appreciation, april, care, earth day, future, gender,
Form:
Rhyme
Booth Made Famous On April 15th Mdccclxv
Booth made famous on April 15th, MDCCCLXV...
Sic semper tyrannis ad mortem
("Thus always I bring death to tyrants").
Ever since early forerunners
of twenty first century
mankind (sprinted
across trackless expanse extant
upon planet Earth),
modern Homo Sapiens...
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Categories:
banshees, animal, confusion, family, fear, hate, history, men,
Form:
Free verse
Ghostly Spirits From Deadly Arsenal Spell Haunting Annihilation
Ghostly spirits from deadly arsenal spell haunting annihilation
With mighty mouse and Hercules height
tried to retrieve sanity spread loose;
a faded unpleasant memory - even enlisting
decades old cartoon characters:
Natasha squirrel and Bullwinkle moose
flow of electrons...
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Categories:
banshees, absence, adventure, angst, anxiety, atheist, body, crazy,
Form:
Rhyme
For some enchanted evenings
For some enchanted evenings...
The following scenario imagined
after the hoopla of
Democratic National Convention miracle workers
Kamala Harris and Tim Walz
trumpeted politically wholesome zeal,
and achieved advancement
propelling them ahead
in the race to the White House.
Unlike the hangdog expression of...
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Categories:
banshees, america, angst, anti bullying, anxiety, beautiful, encouraging,
Form:
Rhyme
Into the Sturm und Drang fueled maelstrom
Into the Sturm und Drang fueled maelstrom
Otherwise titled – my poetic impressions of Helene
All la names bespeaking deity froom
Noah Mo' Room India Arc
of Covenant to crypt tick Blood
(sweat and tears)
of San Gennaro devout wowed,
and/or...
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Categories:
banshees, analogy, appreciation, beauty, crush, earth, howl, loss,
Form:
Rhyme
SAMHUINN
SAMHUINN
Wi samhuin fast approaching
When people start tae dread,
The gates of hell burst open
For the festival of the dead.
Bane shanks lifts his scythe
And scrieves his words in fire,
Welcome tae this earthly plane
Or be cast upon the...
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Categories:
banshees, fantasy, fear, halloween, horror,
Form:
Rhyme
An Image of the Netherworld Envisioned By a Misanthrope
An image of the netherworld envisioned by a misanthrope
Mein kampf fraught re:
emotionally/psychologically challenged
impossible mission to cope
compared to classmates, I felt like a dope
and entertained escapist fantasies,
whereby Miss Rainbow
(sixth grade student teacher),
though robbing...
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Categories:
banshees, 6th grade, adventure, age, anti bullying, appreciation,
Form:
Free verse
After the doomsday clock struck midnight
After the doomsday clock struck midnight...
a blizzard of blinding demoniacal
highly radioactive fueled banshees
(analogous to a bajillion barenaked ladies
raging against the machine)
barreled across the brutalized landscape
affixing fiendish scorched earth signature
whereby survivors felt like foreigners,
or strangers in...
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Categories:
banshees, absence, abuse, africa, america, bereavement, conflict, earth,
Form:
Free verse
Kite Flying Season
Spring had sprung and the weather was wild, the winds were everywhere.
Yep, it was time to fly kites, but with Dragon involved, a time to be beware!
A great kite-erian was invited this year, from Japan,...
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Categories:
banshees, adventure, fantasy, fun, funny, humor, humorous, imagination,
Form:
Light Verse
Figurative Paralysis Laid Waste Body Electric of Mine
Figurative paralysis laid waste body electric of mine
This is Spinal tap
bamboozling, binding, bleeding, bombing...
ripped from every dog eared
and book marked page
recounting latest ill fated fiasco,
now peppering my life and hard times
causing quite...
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Categories:
banshees, absence, adventure, allusion, analogy, angst, anxiety, conflict,
Form:
Free verse
Brave Heart
"Brave Heart"
O what Leonine love
could sway
iron clad heart
to move closer
reflection
watches stealth like
under cover
kneads softly
some kind need
from altered
genuflection
wrong gone right
an eye remains
genuine to see
evermore clearly
the truth of light
words from...
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Categories:
banshees, light, love, muse,
Form:
Free verse
The Aquatic Graveyard
THE AQUATIC GRAVEYARD
Beneath the deadly rough waves cryptic path of destruction,
There is an ethereal place of eerie silence, in the stilled frozen
Chilling depth, it is the final resting place for wreckage's carnage,
The aquatic graveyard of...
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Categories:
banshees, adventure, conflict, imagery, mythology, nature, storm, visionary,
Form:
Free verse
Shana Aubrey Harris - Part One
born two days
after ole Punxsutawney i.e. the Doctor Phil -
of woodchucks Latin Name = Marmota Monax
nest resembled Rastafarian hair weave,
which creature rattled with ire and peeveishness,
when rudely roused from his...
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Categories:
banshees, beauty, blessing, butterfly, celebration, change, courage, cute
Form:
Ballade
Earth Day 2020 Wednesday, April 22
Earth day 2020 – Wednesday, April 22
Bajillion banshees scream bloody murder methought
upon Biblical (lionized) forebears stalking heads
birthed courtesy accursed beasts hood besought
winds howl across the oblate spheroid
methinks courtesy Homo sapiens horror wrought.
Climate change/global warming siren...
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Categories:
banshees, 12th grade, care, caregiving, environment, health, memorial
Form:
Free verse
Armageddon, Lyrics
Broken souls and disillusioned dreams.
(Drowning in a sea of dread…)
Broken toys and angels without wings.
(Fragile things…)
Weep for the fallen brothers and infants without mothers.
(No light, hopes where broken…)
Pained tears encompass the empyreal rays.
(No more days…)
Pompous...
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Categories:
banshees, death, war, world war i, world war
Form:
Lyric
An Image of the Netherworld Envisioned By a Misanthrope
Deep within the bowels of the Earth
(dark visceral centre)
immensely distant from the sheltering sky
amidst a thick fog enveloped landscape
with here and there a projected
craggy, derelict chasm
precipitously crooked
rocky claws pointing toward
an infinitely wide yawning abyss
dwelt...
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Categories:
banshees, allegory, crush, death, earth, grave, horror, journey,
Form:
Free verse
Young Lady Shana Aubrey Harris Is Unique and a Special Precious Gift
Shana Aubrey Harris born two days after ole Punxsutawney
i.e. the Doctor Phil -
of woodchucks Latin Name = Marmota Monax nest
resembled a Rastafarian hair...
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Categories:
banshees, absence, beautiful, dad, daughter, emotions, growing up,
Form:
Ballad
Sinister Voices Heard
Sinister voices heard...
and ethereal disembodied spirits seen
from the other side of the woods
said phantasmagorical sound and sight
particularly experienced every Halloween.
Though dog tired
ready for the nocturnal sandman,
but before succumbing to countless winks
namely, quintessentially, telepathically
fictitious mythical...
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Categories:
banshees, adventure, allegory, angst, anxiety, atheist, body, character,
Form:
Free verse
The Haunting
"The Haunting"
What happened
was a crime
in more ways
than one
who can understand
the mind of a recidivist
twisted, calculating
in this story, there is
more than one,
the night
of a thousand
cutting knives
the turn of the...
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Categories:
banshees, dark, journey, light, strength, war,
Form:
Narrative
Raining Dragons
It was raining like a banshee, or so Grandpa Troll did say.
But Dragon wanted it gone, until after school started one day.
Yes, we needed the rain, for it was dry as dry can surely be.
But...
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Categories:
banshees, adventure, fantasy, fun, funny, humor, humorous, imagination,
Form:
Light Verse
Jeepers Creepers
The night was black and dreary
cold breath hung in the air
trapped in an unfamiliar place
entirely unaware
that destiny would enter in
to change our well-laid plans
the rein of safety, tightly held
would be wrest...
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Categories:
banshees, fear, funny,
Form:
Quatrain