Long Bootstraps Poems
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Nationalist Committee ProblemsA problem for more successful Nazi leaders
during the early exterminating 1940s
was what would they be
should they no longer have any reason to war against
the soon to be extinct Jews.
Yes, they were a nation of Aryan...
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Categories:
bootstraps, earth, health, humor, success, usa, vanity,
Form:
Political Verse
Idols
When your idols are fragile
Is it any wonder kids lack style
Perhaps if we walked a mile
In the shoes of the soldier we'd attain guile
Look at the newspaper
The government is a caper
And everything will taper
Due to...
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Categories:
bootstraps, america, inspiration, political, spoken word,
Form:
Free verse
Unstuck AdolescenceIt might be said of adolescence,
This is a stage demanding economic authority,
autonomous freedom to invest and disinvest,
without yet accepting concomitant political responsibilities,
to family
to community
to children
to grandchildren
to disenfranchised populations
to Elders' wiser investments, in their permacultural time,
to...
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Categories:
bootstraps, culture, gender, health, integrity, psychological, racism,
Form:
Political Verse
It Could Have Been Much WorseHave you ever met those kind of blokes who get upon your nerve,
when they quote continual references that most think should deserve
a threatening confrontation that if they make that quote again,
then the punishment that’s...
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Categories:
bootstraps, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
George and the SpinsterI didn’t know George was an amorous lad,
causing chat on the bush telegraph.
I’d never heard George had done nothing bad,
‘cept splitting one marriage in half.
George never delved into breaking the law,
so there’s never a day...
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Categories:
bootstraps, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Paternal Grandmothers Headstone Beth David Elmont Long IslandPaternal grandmother's headstone - Beth David, Elmont, Long Island
Shaindel (Sadie), variant of Shana Harris
died May 13th, 1959 exquisitely chiseled
alphanumeric characters legibly engraved
sepulchral casket entombing lovely bones
deoxyribonucleic acid repurposed into me
Matthew Scott Harris patronymic protector,
when I...
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Categories:
bootstraps, absence, america, death, fate, grandmother, heaven, jewish,
Form:
Free verse
Harris Fortitude Went Awollest ye seek alms
with outfaced palms
just imagine
how the lantern shone
against the knees of Archelaus,
and lit up the check-board pattern
of the eleemosynary trousers
Fatigued civilian attires reasonable rhyme
challenging readers to dare themselves
question yours...
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Categories:
bootstraps, 12th grade, adventure, analogy, confidence, fate, friendship,
Form:
Rhyme
Corporate EliteGold is the color in the veins of that ore
and red is the color in the veins of war.
Bankers have bested alchemists of old
and found a way to turn blood into gold.
With a false flag...
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Categories:
bootstraps, political,
Form:
Couplet
Thanksgiving gobbledygookThanksgiving gobbledygook
The following anecdote baste
upon overactive imagination of mine
in sync with being married
and monogamously living socially chaste
life as a scrupulous anchorite,
whose weather beaten corporeal flesh
plus sabotaged, riddled,
and tuckered psyche effaced
after becoming adequately stuffed,
this turkey (in...
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Categories:
bootstraps, 12th grade, africa, age, america, animal, bird,
Form:
Free verse
If I Ruled the World
If I ruled the world,
...
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Categories:
bootstraps, humanity, imagination, poetry, world, write,
Form:
Free verse
ImmigrationI like immigrants, immigration. Legal immigration,
Jane passionately corrects. Actually my goal is a borderless world.
That's a new idea to her.
Gathering the neighborhood like family.
The men discuss sterilizing welfare mothers. I say You're working
...
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Categories:
bootstraps, america, baseball, city, immigration, jewish, passion, slavery,
Form:
Verse
Incredible Scribbles From An Indelible PenAssailed and held prisoner in my bedroom, I fret
Wondering why mad blood seized my head
Inserting an undue threat
Concealed in the seal of the thread
Running through a bevy of thoughts
Silly at best, folly at worst
Waltzing in...
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Categories:
bootstraps, poems,
Form:
Free verse
Have You Seen HerI saw her the other day with large bags at a coffee store ...
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Categories:
bootstraps, america, christian, home, love,
Form:
Couplet
A Mess of PoetryI've come to the conclusion
That my life's a wreak
Poetry strewn all about
My house the biggest mess
So here I am in the middle of the den
In a pile of poetry on the floor
A desperate man with...
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Categories:
bootstraps, funny, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
The Darkness of My SoulYou fueled the anger in my heart.
I never thought I could ever feel this way.
One fleeting moment in history,
That is all it took.
One ripple in the massive ocean created a tsunami.
One glimpse in time,
That is...
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Categories:
bootstraps, abuse, anger, betrayal, conflict, courage, dedication,
Form:
Free verse
Be Merry BE MERRY
be merry, not blue.
blow your nose, no boo hoos,
dot your eyes.
i’ve provided an embroidered,
lacy handkerchief —
the old-fashioned kind,
that pulls up your bootstraps,
tickles your fancy,
almost too pretty, kind,
leaves no red streaks
creates smiles, not weak
and...
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Categories:
bootstraps, encouraging,
Form:
Verse
Marley Plays the Bottom Line - With Apologies To Charles DickensOh, don’t flatter me with presents from the Ghost of Christmas Past.
Tis the season for nostalgia, but those feelings never last.
It’s a gift-wrapped empty promise not worth tuppence on the street,
Or a...
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Categories:
bootstraps, allegory, christmas,
Form:
Lyric
I Wish I Had
I wish I had...
the power to change
a broken man's circumstances.
I'd flip his dim world
...
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Categories:
bootstraps, desire, introspection, perspective, power, sad,
Form:
Free verse
Magic ShowsDad could roll a cigarette
with just two fingers
and the tip of his tongue.
I saw him do this once
in a wind storm.
Magically
he would shave just close enough
to keep his grizzled face
blue by the light of a...
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Categories:
bootstraps, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
There From HereBy jessier44 on 02/17/2007 Viewed: 611
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No scarcity of mediocrity
victimless crimes
that claim nonetheless
Trying with honor yet flailing,
failing
Questions asked
answers known
Twisted spine from backward looking
gaining, gaining
The light seems distant
teasing glow
its servants an audience
clamouring its attention
Higher frequencies tuned...
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Categories:
bootstraps, love, travel,
Form:
Prose
By Own Bootstrapshttp://www.poetrysoup.com/poets/top_100_poets_most_poems_all_time.aspx
By Own Bootstraps
I had never been handed anything
By my own bootstraps up did bring
With seldom a father figure in sight
Was out at sea both day and night.
College managed to work way through
With my personal GI...
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Categories:
bootstraps, encouraging,
Form:
Couplet
By Own Bootstrapshttp://www.poetrysoup.com/poets/top_100_poets_most_poems_all_time.aspx
By Own Bootstraps
I had never been handed anything
By my own bootstraps up did bring
With seldom a father figure in sight
Was out at sea both day and night.
College managed to work way through
With my personal GI...
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Categories:
bootstraps, encouraging,
Form:
Couplet
Death Tied LifeWhat lies waiting
at the end of a self-made
independently empowered
self-invested
"pulled my own economic-political bootstraps"
life?
A unilateral
linear life,
like any passionate journey,
requires an end point
for returning in the opposite direction;
In this lifeline
ego/eco-systemic case,
from regenerative
to degenerating autonomous powers.
What happens
at the...
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Categories:
bootstraps, death, health, integrity, journey, life, love, power,
Form:
Political Verse
Every Man For HimselfIt is hard to get any help,
When every man is for himself.
It is hard to gain wealth,
Working for someone else.
It is impossible to cultivate,
When seeds don’t germinate.
It is hard to survive,
When you can’t realize,
That you...
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Categories:
bootstraps, hope, inspirational, life, people, philosophy
Form:
Rhyme
Ode to TexasThere’s not much to love in the land of
72 ounce steaks
Air-conditioned grace droning over
AR-15 soaked Saturdays
Remembering is not the problem these days
Rather it is forgetting that
Children can have new names
If they pick them up with...
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Categories:
bootstraps, america, child, hate, home, introspection,
Form:
Free verse