Long Brick Poems
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The Night Before Christmas EveThe night Before Christmas Eve
By Franklin Price
12/17/2016
Prologue
The Night Before Christmas
A most famous of poems
Read to children aloud
By their parents in homes
To children who gather
'Round the brightly lit tree
To hear Santa is coming
Presents for...
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Categories:
brick, christmas,
Form:
Rhyme
Pequot River Land TrustOnce,
or twice,
maybe thrice,
surely not
not fractal
A clan of crazy ecofeminists
conspired within an 88 unit residential castle
in their historically converted
sometimes hysterically clueless condo
colonial-red predative brick
badly bald aging building
With a sometimes soggy south walled school,
but...
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Categories:
brick, blue, culture, environment, green, health, humor, math,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Tawfiq Zayyad Translation: Here We Shall RemainHere We Shall Remain
by Tawfiq Zayyad
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Like twenty impossibilities
in Lydda, Ramla and Galilee ...
here we shall remain.
Like brick walls braced against your chests;
lodged in your throats
like shards of glass
or prickly cactus...
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Categories:
brick, arabic, poems, poverty, prison, race, racism, song,
Form:
Free verse
Chapter 92 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: Family AffairsNext day new school day.
Amadeus was the first to
Wake then he woke DJ and
Damali And all three went for
The showers. Twenty minutes
Later they woke everybody else
Including the adults. The Hakim
Children...
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Categories:
brick, beach, christmas, emotions, family, first love, leadership,
Form:
Alliteration
Chapter 112 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: Damian and the Family Go To ChurchEarly morning dawn July
"Mallory" Damian whispered, sliding
Closer to her. "Mallory" he Whispered
Again gently caressing. She wanted
To say stop. It was to late
he moved quite quickly. He spread
Like wild fire. Soon consuming her.
The...
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Categories:
brick, angst, devotion,
Form:
Alliteration
Some PoemsA Stolen Memory
A Mirthful Chorus
By Sy Roth
We surrounded him
Asked to let go.
She stared at the misshapen face,
Unshaven sandpapery skin
Eyelids a tabula rasa
Fluttery sere skin
And we could see the humor blossoming in his...
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Categories:
brick, dream, loneliness,
Form:
Free verse
My Spirit AnimalThe soul of the earth is wrapped up inside
And the spirit of God is walking beside me
The universe rests upon my shoulder
And I can feel its power moving all over
embracing the soul of man
And causing...
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Categories:
brick, 8th grade, blessing, character, encouraging, environment, faith,
Form:
Narrative
No God of Mine - 2021 Edit[This poem 'No God Of Mine' was seemingly confounding readers as
to its meaning. Ordinarily, if I felt a poem wasn't cutting it, I'd delete
it, but on this occasion, I've been asked to explain it... so here goes.]
By...
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Categories:
brick, evil, horror,
Form:
Rhyme
Domestic Abuse and Abuse of PowerAfter witnessing a murder meant for me after surviving a car bomb igniting my skull crushed my face bruising my brain i received threatening calls from my husbands mistress I'd reported break ins strange behavior...
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Categories:
brick, abuse, anxiety, beautiful, love hurts, peace, wisdom,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Beary Tales Episodes 25-33, Poet's NotesNote to Readers of Previous Versions:
There are so many new vignettes scattered throughout the poem that I hope you will reread the whole thing! There are new GEMS, improvements to previous verses and improved footnotes...
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Categories:
brick, adventure, appreciation, best friend, blessing, innocence, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Canto Xxix Hell TranslationSo many people and the various sores
Intoxicated in such a way my eyes,
That wanted open to crying their doors.
But Virgil told : “What for you look this guise?
Why now your sight is so carefully brought
Down...
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Categories:
brick, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
Treasures That May Be Found In Destiny's New ShiftI.
Treasures That May Be Found In Destiny's New Shift
( Mille viri sententia agere nescit donec suscipit calamum scribere.)
For a brief spell, I hung my hammock in the shade
of the ancient tall oak tree, that God's...
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Categories:
brick, appreciation, art, blessing, care, dedication, poetry, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
One Thing That Love IsEverything here is true
Just as stated
because it's already happened
or - it has yet to occur -
but it's very soon to occur
and I have such strong feeling
that the future will be as I see it
as...
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Categories:
brick, dog, love, memory, sad,
Form:
Free verse
So Do IPiles of poetry yet to come falling in the fingers of the readers
Scroll through my lines as much as your heart and mind eagers
Remorse and anguish is what I feed on when I sin senselessly
Did...
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Categories:
brick, deep,
Form:
Free verse
July BrideI was so anxious to get away but I did not realize what was on the way
I got a standing ticket because all the tickets have been sold out some on the black market, others...
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Categories:
brick, betrayal, endurance, environment, friendship love, happiness, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
The Night Before Christmas By Edgar Allan PoeOn the night before Christmas, alone in my house,
Sorrow gnawed at my soul, like a ravenous mouse.
Entombed in my blankets, I struggled to sleep,
Ready to snap if I counted more sheep.
I rose at the...
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Categories:
brick, christmas,
Form:
Narrative
Fabrics Finding FabricationsA prawn masquerading as a peanut can be quite disturbing. So many times a peel is a garment used to shroud. A tentacle hidden. Here and there. Then to reappear with an often violent burst...
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Categories:
brick, animal,
Form:
I do not know?
Chapter 80 --Damian Delilah Mallory: CongregationsDamian Stood in the Hugh room
Surveying the expansiveness of
The place. "Yeah, this will be a
Imperial family event in my house.
The judges will be here too.
There were two large tables
The capacity was almost
Immeasurable....
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Categories:
brick, abuse, confidence,
Form:
Alliteration
Conceits
"Conceits"
Such conceits
as veils between
our windowed worlds
torn torrential incomplete
mayst thou watch and learn
the one I spawned,
strength beats weakness
carried soft and harsh
one direction or the other
strength and weakness
both carried soft and harsh
ego and...
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Categories:
brick, love, mother daughter,
Form:
Free verse
Regarding Health and EducationDear Local Boards of EcoSchool Education,
Departments of Environmentally Protected Walkable Transportation,
Cooperatively Maintaining Public-Private Works
and STEAM Play
and WinWin GreenGames,
Hysterical Historical Associations,
Social Work Departments of Climate Restorative Therapy,
and Public Health-Wealth Departments:
Did you leave anyone out dear?
Just the...
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Categories:
brick, caregiving, earth, gospel, health, humor, patriotic, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Chapter 72 -- Damian Delilah Mallory and Polly: the Date ClosesThe Cascades congregation came
To an end. Dashing Damian and
His crew were out of the vicinity.
On their way home. Polly spoke
"I had me a good time tonight!
Thanks for the invitation."
She said, "I'm hungry."
Damian...
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Categories:
brick, devotion, emotions, family, house, universe,
Form:
Alliteration
The Nifty Town 1I knew that I had to go somewhere but I did not know where
I knew I had to go somewhere that was not very far from here
So I put on my...
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Categories:
brick, adventure, angel, business, celebration, character, confusion, culture,
Form:
Narrative
The Edges of RhymeThe Edges of Rhyme
I wrote the playbook, watching what they took
While the earth shook I could not look
In the direction of the Big Book
Like a fish caught on a nasty hook...
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Categories:
brick, perspective,
Form:
Rhyme
And Still I Drive - Part TwoStars fall under failing skies...stars fall...stars fall...
But stars do not cry.
Into Ochs valley, through the Vale of White Horse...prancing
besides a Dragons Hill;
It was here that a Roundhead - did a Royalist Cavaliers blood in...
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Categories:
brick, travel,
Form:
Rhyme
Pretend You'Re With Me - Phading OutI'm lownly and have nobody and nothing
You had me wondering where you've been...singing and crying and yelling and silently dying, wingless and willing to fly away and bring some happiness in this world of...
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Categories:
brick, deep,
Form:
Free verse