Long Brandished Poems
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Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 24In the morning, he was tetchy, but gentle,
Sitting beside me till my eyelids opened
I sat up, yawning, and rubbed my eyes
His hand brushed a dry tear off my face
“You are alive and well, I see,...
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Categories:
brandished, courage, life, light, love hurts, pain, romance,
Form:
Epic
Re: viewing the emotionally prosperous papa razz zee life I did not liveRe: viewing the emotionally prosperous papa razz zee life I did not live
The following poetic account
written more'n a dozen
dirty dancing decades ago,
while I (a socially
withdrawn Homo Sapiens)
one indigent Yahoo
groveled...
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Categories:
brandished, abuse, america, angst, bereavement, children, confusion, daughter,
Form:
Rhyme
Ruing the Emotionally Prosperous Papa Razz Zee Life I Did Not LiveRuing the emotionally prosperous papa razz zee life I did not live
The following poetic account
written more'n a dozen dirty dancing decades ago,
while I (a socially withdrawn Homo Sapiens)
groveled along (on a secret...
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Categories:
brandished, 10th grade, 6th grade, absence, abuse, anger,
Form:
Rhyme
Encounter With Guardian Angel January 20th 2022Encounter with guardian angel January 20th, 2022
We (myself and thee missus)
experienced shell shock
analogous to war weary soldiers
back home from the western front
experiencing battlefield flashback
analogous to awakening dormant
post traumatic stress disorder.
Mental health challenged renter
twice threatened us
(think...
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Categories:
brandished, angel, discrimination, health, hero, judgement, lost, sad,
Form:
Free verse
Dramedy of ErrorsWalking from the horrid old motel, and out into the smaze,
a suffocating day, worsened now, by a mocktail shade of smog
in mockumentary proportions, she flounders in a fog.
Too dazed by crazy sitcoms that seem...
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Categories:
brandished, anger, heartbroken, lost love, people, relationship,
Form:
Prose
Always Envious of Gifted Individuals With Neat Hand Printing WritingAlways envious of gifted individuals with neat hand printing/writing
Gnome hatter heroic measures taken
moost ludicrously asinine,
nonetheless hoop fully
me legendary penta meat herd bovine design
of modest fellow (me) will endure as divine,
no matter not one bloody poetic...
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Categories:
brandished, 11th grade, 12th grade, crazy, fun, hair,
Form:
Free verse
Remembrance of Harriet Harris:VERSE ONE:
Christened as averred one Harriet Kuritsky on November 13th nineteen thirty five
the youngest of four with only one brother
whose exit from...
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Categories:
brandished, angst, anniversary, death, dedication, devotion, family, loss,
Form:
Ballad
Odyssey From Africa 12dOdyssey from Africa, Chapter 12 (d) The fireflower (cont.)
Dominated by one hilltop
Round in form, it’s summit hidden
In the whiteness of a cloud base
There they saw their destination
Now they climbed by steepening gradient
Through a...
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Categories:
brandished, adventure, africa, animal, history, mythology, nature, voyage,
Form:
Narrative
Mankind Thru the Looking Glass Part 1MANIPULATION AND WAR’S SPECTRE
When races, politics and religions,
Are grimly brandished as righteous reasons,
To bloody calm fields and serene seasons,
Tis madness, paranoia…delusions.
A mans grandiose superiority lore,
Humanity’s stinking, putrid, sore,
To slaughter the blameless, to covet more,
To...
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Categories:
brandished, visionarydark, dark,
Form:
I do not know?
Gregor the SlowestGregor the slowest
Felt nothing but fear
To prove he was worthy
He must kill a deer
A great giant bat
Was chasing him far
He ran and he ran
Towards that tiny North star
The deer weighed a lot
Tied to his small...
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Categories:
brandished, class, courage, fear, funny, horror, humorous, silly,
Form:
Epic
Soldier of BattlesSOLDIER OF BATTLES.. Steve Hudson
It started, in silence, in infancy; the eyes look beyond the darkness
To understand the sounds of rage, echoes of misunderstanding,
The beginnings of normalcy wrought with disturbance,
Bereavement for the...
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Categories:
brandished, adventure, allegory, philosophy,
Form:
Ode
OrigamiOrigami
Sitting quietly chatting sipping
fragrant coffee steaming.
Mind eyes mind's eye, all independently wandering
'let slip' reins dangling.
Peace, as they individually pursue
their individual endings.
Activity, a quorum and a ladder
gather them together,
a 'sale' sign erected...
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Categories:
brandished, allegory, culture, imagery, imagination, introspection, irony, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
Seven MetresIf you approach anyone
Remember always
There is seven metres
To be safe
From a blade
He was a violent offender
Who beat his girlfriend often
And he broke the law
Acts his community would always defend
He caused the Medical...
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Categories:
brandished, death, life, murder,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
The Maid of New OrleansThe Maid of New Orleans
A teenage cow girl who couldn’t write
Was told by God to front the fight
the hundred Year War against the French
And cut her hair in trendy wedge
Six centuries later it became the...
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Categories:
brandished, conflict,
Form:
Rhyme
The EventThe weather, as per the norm in this country was hot. As if the sun itself had come down to partake in this spectacle about to take place. The landscape was arid,dusty and desolate of...
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Categories:
brandished, africa, death, soldier,
Form:
Prose
Unshakable Psychic Seizures Quakes Oh Man(no matter extreme global
warming more dire,
then cursing me smoldering
infernal languishing spitfire.)
Shade did adolescent
facade drifts asunder
asper...a major emotional blunder
shielding...
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Categories:
brandished, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, flower,
Form:
Free verse
Robert MoffatGang awa frae tha Glen
Tae a fearsome place;
Where tha darkened souls
Hae na gleemps o’grace.
Where tha work must fit
A new tongue and race.
Gang awa frae tha Glen for a wheel.
“Tis for certs He has ca’d
Ye, and...
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Categories:
brandished, christian, endurance, inspirational, visionary,
Form:
Rhyme
I Cannot Forget Trayvon Martin Slain TeenI cannot forget Trayvon Martin - slain teen
no matter manifold more young people
unthinkingly killed, who spirits aspire
to ascend higher than a steeple.
revisited and slightly revised today
March 14th, 2021.
One deliberate shameful death,
whose demise linkedin
violent cessation of...
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Categories:
brandished, abuse, anger, bereavement, black african american, cry,
Form:
Rhyme
NightmaresNightmare are dreadful things
They creep into subconscious minds
And tear at sanity's fragile strings
Turning our thoughts to things unkind
I was a teacher of children small
And loved the years I spent with them
But soon after leaving...
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Categories:
brandished, child, dark, dream, scary, student, teacher, violence,
Form:
Rhyme
A Feint Attempt To Stab MyselfA feint attempt to stab myself...
quickly found the missus ready to faint
Like a madman possessed
by mailer daemon lemme acquaint
ye with the following verse, I will bepaint
momentary horror, where yours truly
entered momentary third eye blind rage
loosing...
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Categories:
brandished, abuse, anger, confusion, crush, how i feel,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
The Caliph's SonHeading to a cauldron in the dry sea of sands
Far afield the Sahara shores devoid of life
With an array of dexterous army riding further North
Our horses neighs as honed swords beholds Amir al-Mu'mini's hands
Death on...
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Categories:
brandished, adventure, africa, war,
Form:
Epic
A Poet Without InspirationThe wait seemed eternal to feel inspiration.
Minutes were mountains as each one ticked by,
my hand poised grasping a pen, and then
seated without hitting one stroke on a key.
A closed mind submits nothing, zero and zilch
in...
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Categories:
brandished, poetry,
Form:
Narrative
HedwigHedwig
Her house, a memory lane of sacred spaces:
the cobwebbed attic travel trunks,
high heeled shoes, pink taffeta gowns,
skirts that open into spinning parasols,
cool musty wine cellars lined with dusty bulbs
and oak barrels,...
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Categories:
brandished, celebration, family, grandmother, joy, memory,
Form:
Free verse
Empty Barrel
These days, you just gotta be so aware,
always on the alert ... busy looking around
Harm you might step into, so sniff the air ...
dog trouble’s out there laying snares down
Even when things appear harmless as...
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Categories:
brandished, allusion, perspective, violence, wisdom,
Form:
Quatrain
Tears of An Angel 1TEARS OF AN ANGEL (part 1)
Obscurity of a Roman god of love
Painted in clouds with arrows and bows
Brandished baby cherub on a messengers mission
Before the folding off of this sheet
Thought of what a being I...
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Categories:
brandished, 1st grade, angel,
Form:
Prose Poetry