Long Basic needs Poems
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Precious Priceless Progeny
Precious priceless progeny
Hands down the most dramatic change ever needed to make the most profound impact awoke from helping beget the first offspring. An internal paradigm shift reshuffled priorities...
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Categories:
basic needs, absence, adventure, angst, anniversary, beautiful, celebration, creation,
Form:
Rhyme
Hold the Phone
Hold the phone, hold the freakin’ phone. Lisa’s got a boyfriend!
I’ve never seen Lisa with a boyfriend. Lisa draws men like fireworks on a dark night, but I’ve never seen her keep one. I mean,...
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Categories:
basic needs, boyfriend, fashion, humor, money, student,
Form:
Free verse
Half a Dozen Plus Years Ago the Following Became a Near Reality
Half a dozen plus years ago the following became a near reality
Countdown to homelessness –
mars this earthlinked sole Harris - son
panhandler would would register
pyrrhic victory won.
10…9…8…3..2..1…
Found me linkedin at the end of...
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Categories:
basic needs, age, america, anger, angst, anniversary, anxiety, appreciation,
Form:
Rhyme
The Search For Idealism
Placed First in:
Can`t Believe It was a Na Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Silent One
...
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Categories:
basic needs, humanity, inspirational, men, world,
Form:
Quatrain
Bridging the Unbridgeable Chasm
Written: 21 July 2023
Submitted to No. 1231 New Poem Only Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Brian Strand
Bridging the Unbridgeable Chasm*
As rises the wealth of nations,
As grows the limb of a township
So declines the flowers...
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Categories:
basic needs, humanity, inspiration, men, society,
Form:
Rhyme
Nothing In Excess
Nothing in Excess
(the second Delphic maxim of Apollo)
A mixture of the brute and the divine
...
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Categories:
basic needs, philosophy, space,
Form:
Free verse
One Most Dramatic Change In My Life
(A recent virtual chat with thine youngest daughter
awakened poignant memories adjusting to
fatherhood for first time).
December 22nd 1996 Bundle of Edenic Joy
Twenty one plus years ago
faux...
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Categories:
basic needs, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, baby,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
A Bookish Bound Man Obsessed For Knowledge Crafts Long Poem
1.
This hunger artist cannot read
volumes of printed material fast enough
to satiate an immense appetite
and unquenchable thirst
to acquire learning from
the millenniums gushing fount of
cumulative chance revelations,
(or deliberate intent to...
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Categories:
basic needs, 11th grade, 12th grade, addiction, adventure, books,
Form:
Free verse
Who I Am
Do I deserve to go to Heaven, where is heaven, what is
Heaven. I must be judged first and cannot assume I will be
Going to heaven. My philosophy is does God trust me,
I hope...
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Categories:
basic needs, god,
Form:
Narrative
Free Palestine
In '48, a state was born,
But for Palestine, a time to mourn.
Nakba came, with lands displaced,
A people scattered, dreams erased.
In '67, the war did rage,
West Bank, Gaza, a new stage.
Occupied...
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Categories:
basic needs, holocaust, war,
Form:
Rhyme
Myasthenia Gravis Can Affect Rich and Poor
Perhaps there should be a hard rock band called myasthenia gravis. A rare disease for which there is no cure, MG doesn't kill anyone right away but unmanaged it’s hard to live with. In time,...
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Categories:
basic needs, poverty,
Form:
Prose
Montgomery County Pennsylvania Housing Choice Voucher
Montgomery County Pennsylvania housing choice voucher...
eligibility predicated upon mandatory fingerprinting
Courtesy anticipatory anxiety
breeds palmar hyperhidrosis
(i.e. hands adrip
with profuse perspiration)
honest to dog truthfully
most inconvenient malady
holds Earthling (yours truly)
in precarious emotional balance
me silently screaming
against ill fated physiological disorder
also...
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Categories:
basic needs, angel, celebration, happy, home, husband, miracle, places,
Form:
Free verse
Matthew O' Harris Ease a Fake Irishman
Matthew O' Harris Ease A "FAKE" Irishman
Since adopting the guise
of Norwegian bachelor farmer,
I may as well fabricate genetic stock
lock, and barrel linkedin to Celtic legend.
Sentimentalism invariably swelled me bosom
regarding how grown former bonny lad,
essentially mutely...
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Categories:
basic needs, adventure, america, anniversary, appreciation, celebration, color, green,
Form:
Rhyme
Just Another Day In My Man Cave
I always arise
at break of dawn,
when curtained solar
radiance openly drawn
upon a vast
wasteland, though thankfully
most (boot...
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Categories:
basic needs, 5th grade, age, art, culture, home, memory,
Form:
Free verse
Russia
For the last five hundred years, posh “society,” is where the wealthiest and most influential people in the world mingled, inter-married and conducted business. If you’ve ever watched “Downton Abbey”, “The Gilded Age” or even...
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Categories:
basic needs, celebrity, desire, money, political, western, world,
Form:
Free verse
The Little Room Within
‘Twas damp, cold and lonely - not much bigger than a closet.
But the little room within me is mine.
It has no niceties such as a bed chamber but
To one side – when pressed upon hard...
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Categories:
basic needs, courage, emotions, feelings, forgiveness, love, romance, word
Form:
Free verse
Human Rights Universal
The Charter of Rights is a document,
as a member of the society, we must understand...
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Categories:
basic needs, rights, society,
Form:
Free verse
Good Old Days
Sunday afternoon my grandmother decided to take me down with her to the memory lane.
She seemed excited like a child traveling first time on an aeroplane.
"Those were the days,
when everything was fresh and...
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Categories:
basic needs, education, gender, life, society, today, uplifting, women,
Form:
Rhyme
The American Dream a Poem For George W Bush
only in america land of hopes and dreams. that is what they tell you they try to
make you believe that if you want it bad enough theres nothing you cant acheive.
just shut your...
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Categories:
basic needs, education, faith, family, inspirational, life, peace, dream,
Form:
I do not know?
'SOS'
Dear Security,
In this long and never-ending plight, I’m sending out a ‘SOS’ to you tonight…
Why do you elude me so? Why do you hide from me like the sun hides from the night? I search...
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Categories:
basic needs, anxiety, care, emotions, happiness, heart, romantic love,
Form:
Free verse
Yes, It Was a Goodbye
Sometimes “Goodbye”
Isn’t good at all.
Sometimes “Goodbye”
Is a relief with a sigh!
I feel no pain, no pain at all
The door doth close.
My space now in harmony
with my internal void.
My home and heart
not empty to say,
But ever...
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Categories:
basic needs, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
The Love of the Father
“Daddy, will you pray with me?” I asked him.
He sat on my bed, took hold of my hand
and prayed for me.
My pastor father....
his words rising like incense
up to the throne of grace.
I heard...
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Categories:
basic needs, father, god,
Form:
Free verse
The Final Cut
Working on compiling this book of grandpa wisdom,
Harder than choosing which old poems to include
Is cutting off the ongoing output of new ones!
But I do want to get it done,
And I really don’t want to...
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Categories:
basic needs, humanity, perspective, poetry,
Form:
Narrative
The Treasure Box
It's a nondescript shoe box. Maybe it contained my husband's shoes. That's why it's so big. The lid doesn't come off, but falls to the side.. still attached. A strange place to keep love. Perhaps....
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Categories:
basic needs, death, longing, loss, mother daughter,
Form:
Haibun
The Voice of Woods
Hello Friend!
You are welcome!
Don’t underrate that we are boasting about ourselves.
Don’t treat us as the suppliers of the basic needs only.
Try to reach our inner voice.
When you get disturbed,
You can come and roam...
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Categories:
basic needs, tree, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse