Long Blackbirds Poems
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The History of a Wasted Mind
“The History of a Wasted Mind”
What goes through the mind of a recidivist
Fist full of hate and hurt marking time
Fist full of history, got down with the dirt
The History of a Wasted Child
The History...
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Categories:
blackbirds, abuse, child abuse, war,
Form:
Free verse
Covid Walk
thermometer reads zero, a chilly breeze blows
apple cores thrown, the blackbirds feed
my multi-layered partner dons her wooly hat
impatiently, she waits for me
securing covid masks amidst my overcoat
...
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Categories:
blackbirds, anxiety, feelings, humanity, journey, life,
Form:
Verse
Out In That Sky
Out in that sky, no one sleeps, not even the stars.
We are at the 24-hour late-nite diner
and they’re serving up fruit
from the plants growing out of the floor.
We watch bodies fall to the ground outside
like...
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Categories:
blackbirds, hope, magic, psychological, stars, symbolism,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
The Dilettante Diaries: Avian Notes On the Sensate Slip Stream : the Silent War In 3 Acts: Pt1
“I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.”
The Dilettante Diaries: Avian Notes on the Sensate Slip Stream : The Silent War in 3 Acts
(Part 1)
Starlings singing...
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Categories:
blackbirds, bible, bird, evil, god, love, war, world,
Form:
Free verse
Bird Feed Under My Window
Since childhood I was always fascinated with nature
Curious to know how plants grow
Always intrigued by the ingenuity of ants
And mesmerized by the coordination
And spectacular tactics of birds.
Birds come in different colors...
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Categories:
blackbirds, bird, christian, community, food, freedom, mystery, nature,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
A Bedtime Story
Once, a long ways away, and a long time ago
Lived a wee little man with his silly pet crow;
And once every day, as the sun went to bed
The wee little man and the crow he...
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Categories:
blackbirds, bird, children, nonsense, nursery rhyme, tree,
Form:
Couplet
Spring Time Dance
The winter solstice has passed, so the spring dance can begin at last,
and everyone is invited, from every tree as far as the eye can see.
To each and every flourishing flower, the buzzing bees and...
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Categories:
blackbirds, daffodils, dance, earth, easter, fairy, green, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
At the Other Side of Light
Out on the the highway I was, in those apricot days of August.
I was returning from a vacation, and the birdsong was raucous.
My car had made the long journey, without any issues at all,
Like sun...
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Categories:
blackbirds, color, dark, fantasy, imagery, light, nature, vacation,
Form:
Couplet
Slow Motion
My zealous passion for marathons, had me in frequent races,
Striving always for that finish line, and touring many places.
I always seemed to come alive, with cool breezes rushing by,
Feeling footloose and fancy-free, like blackbirds in...
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Categories:
blackbirds, endurance, fantasy, happiness, magic, race, retirement, sunshine,
Form:
Couplet
Almost Home
I believed in fitness and healthy living, including obtaining sufficient sleep,
To revel for years in buttery sunshine, which makes emerald willows weep.
I consumed only healthier foods, including plenty of fruits and vegetables,
As the glassy, black...
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Categories:
blackbirds, dream, fantasy, friend, home, imagery, nature, sleep,
Form:
Couplet
Monoku Monday - July 2021
"Debby Downer edition" posted 5 Jul 2021
the chill pill you took this morning appears to have been a placebo
misery loves company ...
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Categories:
blackbirds, humor,
Form:
Monoku
The Deconstructed Lilith
"The Deconstructed Lilith"
Decomposing from a past
left forgotten and buried
under the weakness of the first man banished
from
Her Forest,
She rests, bound in the arms of angst
eternally suspended,
invisible and unheard
gagged, Her spirit waits
and...
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Categories:
blackbirds, dark, muse, mystery, psychological,
Form:
Narrative
Consumption of the Soul
A dash of dark poetry.
(A darkened soul sings to the watching night sky)
All hail to The Lost Tribe of the Shadow People of The Obsidian Dust
The life thieves like Lazarus
Who hides in the Grey...
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Categories:
blackbirds, dark,
Form:
Rhyme
Forgive Your Enemies
Vicar Tynan sat amongst his roses in a Friday morning sun,
that shone in beams through willow branch and leaves,
where it’s time to think of Sunday and what sermon must be done,
when he heard squabbling coming...
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Categories:
blackbirds, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Would Love Breathe Forever?
Sometimes, when
your sparkling spirit
waltzes with me
to the perfumed
periwinkle grooves
of saffron breezes,
I'm lost in a forever gaze,
within those
flickering ferns
of a nascent nightmare,
where I ain't any
velvet-purple orchid,...
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Categories:
blackbirds, deep, emotions, flower, poetry, sorrow, true love,
Form:
Free verse
The Strict Machine
"The Strict Machine"
Take a note
pick up your sharpened quill
tap dance your screen
your mind like
a Magpie's beak
a Silent Epiphany
One,
Two and
Three
a Silent Jackhammer
pneumatic drill
Blackbirds fly off the page
they're swooping for the...
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Categories:
blackbirds, freedom, psychological, symbolism, truth, wisdom, word play,
Form:
Free verse
Smooth As Key-Lime Pie
Rainbow Surplus suppressing it’s limelight on the wonders of thy guillotine. Eat a planet with betadine. Horoscopes orders. The empire shines bright on double d’s. Who’s to say Peter hasn’t squandered his own stability? It’s...
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Categories:
blackbirds, cat, child abuse, conflict, dark, deep, irony,
Form:
Free verse
Beneath the Oak Tree
I kneel to pray beneath an oak tree’s leaves,
where my journey began.
Broken limbs straggle over a patchy lawn,
a neglected place full of holes,
shoveled from childhood memories.
I bow at the altar of the tall oak.
Days...
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Categories:
blackbirds, childhood, courage, faith, prayer, tree,
Form:
Free verse
Be You
Foundation.
With the considerable rise of AI software on all social media and business platforms, will humanity lose its creative edge?
Will you be tempted to do so?
Title:
Be You
(A lone voice whispers)
Be You
Forgo assimilation
And try to...
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Categories:
blackbirds, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
Deliberate Pain Staking Attentiveness To Perfection
(alternately titled: impossible mission goes awry
probably mortal enemy cast spell binding jinx)
Both mental versus
physical tasks necessitate
laser sharp attentiveness
triggered within blinks
similarly on par when people toast
momentary instance utter silence
before more'n one
wine glass simultaneously clinks
cheering hurray, especially
if...
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Categories:
blackbirds, 12th grade, analogy, change, death, goodbye, inspiration,
Form:
Free verse
To My Love Part 4 Tbc
My post-mortem may bear the stroke of your hand, in your lap,
On your knees with a single tear so priceless
That may fall on my cold cheek with power to revive, resurrect.
But not this time, not...
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Categories:
blackbirds, life,
Form:
Free verse
Memories, Long Sad Journey, Revised Version
Memories, Long Sad Journey,
Bitter cold that Saturday morning, late in November 1969, I could see my breath parading before me. No breakfast as I had quietly left the house and...
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Categories:
blackbirds, art, death, loss, pain, solitude, sorrow, youth,
Form:
Haibun
Our Long Time Catered Chef
Our long time catered chef...
prepared a meal fit for (psst... me) a king
Actually professional cook
(trained since infancy)
long a staple of our family
since... oh way before
my bubba's zayda's time
naturally became (according
to rules of primogeniture)
the feudal rule...
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Categories:
blackbirds, adventure, celebration, father, food, joy, nursery rhyme,
Form:
Free verse
A Walk In the Park
A Walk in the Park
...
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Categories:
blackbirds, appreciation, beauty, bird, poems, spring, uplifting, weather,
Form:
Ballad
A Trip Through Winter
Even in our winter season the soul of the coming year bursts through hard thick frost,
Even in high piles of purest white snow, buds grow for our future of the next summer,
Blow flowers stir and...
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Categories:
blackbirds, nature, old, winter, snow, flower, flower, future,
Form:
Prose Poetry