Long Buildup Poems
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Resonating Rightbrain Politics
Says Csikszentmihalyi,
"Social scientists
(Abraham Maslow, Lawrence Kohlberg, Jane Loevinger, [Ken Wilber, Edward Podvoll, Julian Jaynes, Jack Kornfield, Richard Dawkins, Clare Graves, Carl Jung] and James Fowler)
describe a dialectical motion
between [Yang-ego-form] differentiation
and [Yin-eco-logical function] integration,
between turning attention...
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Categories:
buildup, beauty, environment, health, political, psychological, religion, trust,
Form:
Political Verse
Serling and Roddenberry for Tea: IMPORTANT Epilogue Update
"What sort of world
be home to those
who goes about
judging all souls
of what they do
be right or wrong
and how'd they know
of this-and-that
be bad or good
be alsoooo, true
lest they were told
from the same lot
who walked the walk
and...
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Categories:
buildup, allusion, analogy, appreciation, celebrity, evil, fate, imagery,
Form:
Free verse
Dante's Hell, Fourth Canto Translation First Part,
Fourth canto (first part)
The deep slumber was broken in my head
By a strong thunder, so that I woke up
As person forced to arouse from bed;
My rested eye I moved around then deep,
Erect uprisen, and also...
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Categories:
buildup, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
Trash In the Cup
There is something amiss with that VACUUM CLEANER.
As if it didn't know, from floor to cup, the debris and dust must go.
It's ailing from something peculiar, but I don't know exactly what. ...
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Categories:
buildup, dedication, endurance,
Form:
Narrative
Pipe Lines of Kaimu: Much Ado About Poi
Welcome to a typical 'Luau' spread. The first thing that is best to learn is the Hawaiian word, 'ono', which means, delicious. It's a word bandied about before and after food goes in your mouth....
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Categories:
buildup, allusion, analogy, appreciation, culture, food, motivation, together,
Form:
Narrative
Jamaica
The sun rises high over the tropical trees
White patchy clouds survey the blue sky,
Time drifts slowly into the clouded breeze
With the colors red, green and gold passing by.
Jamaica play a key role bringing out the...
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Categories:
buildup, beach, community, history, holiday, imagination, mystery, sunshine,
Form:
Free verse
Cliff
*Image of Pala au & Nanahoa by Historic Hawaii
AUDIO: Couplet read
VIDEO: Unique Okala Island Off Monumental Cliffs of Moloka'i
Cliff
Cliff's supply the bemused aback.
Amassed jaws sink as all stand back,
tourist gawks, at paired land splendors.
First; mountain...
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Categories:
buildup, imagery, nature, paradise,
Form:
Couplet
My Winter
Occasional cloudiness but lots of wintry sun light with mixtures of foggy, slippery, soggy, dry and wet days. Such would be my 'one line' portrait of 'my neck of the woods'. There is a...
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Categories:
buildup, home, weather, winter,
Form:
Narrative
In My Imagination
In my imagination I have 16 nostrils,
As you can imagine that’s quite a buildup of green snot,
But it doesn’t matter because in my imagination,
I have 16 index figures, each one with a little mouth,
With razor...
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Categories:
buildup, imagination,
Form:
Free verse
Reminiscent of Amerca I Knew
Reminiscent of the America I Knew
Seventy years have come and gone as though
it was a watch in the night,
and if we would choose to turn back the clock
we can’t even if we...
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Categories:
buildup, growing up, remember,
Form:
Free verse
July Twenty Fifth, Ninety Ninety Six
Xxvi+ marriage anniversary (mine)
recalls first disastrous
date with future missus
approximately waltzing
matt tilde two dozen
plus years ago
Tex Mex Connection
201 E Walnut Street
North Wales, Pennsylvania, 19454
every entree included beans
maybe refried or otherwise
effectively laid siege
mine delicate constitution
quickly...
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Categories:
buildup, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure,
Form:
Free verse
False Prophet
Oh dear! It’s December - time again to look into my crystal ball.
A ball of thoughts in front of me that I don’t need at all,
for I can see the images portrayed from other years,
where...
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Categories:
buildup, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Nightime Monster
There are some days when night crawls in
and I fine myself afraid
and alone;
darkness gives way to darkness
when I open my eyes.
The light has left your eyes
so what is leading me home now?
What is home?
Shadowy tendrils...
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Categories:
buildup, angst, depression, sadvoice, red, voice,
Form:
Free verse
Tin Woman
Of all things sentimental.
She came through the door wearing a suit of armor.
The door closed behind her with a rattle and tick of swaying arms.
With rust around her eyes she longed to be melted down.
A...
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Categories:
buildup, anxiety, black african american, imagination, lost, sad,
Form:
Free verse
New Sort of Wave
A - rresting beneath dancing fingered fronds palming zephyr's touch.
B - each building sand castles throughout dawning sunlight.
C - rumbling granules of fate in the noonday sun.
D - esigns creating a new look ashore.
E -...
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Categories:
buildup, allusion, analogy, beach, beautiful, people, together, world,
Form:
Abecedarian
The Unbeatable Solitude
The unbeatable feeling of solitude to a wandering mind
The silence that feeds motivation
The peace that comes from that five minutes in which thoughts are left to evolve to ideas
Those few unbeatable meetings in which the...
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Categories:
buildup, bible, christian, for teens, growth, inspiration, peace,
Form:
Free verse
Your Hearten Heart Love Solid Coconut My Fruit
What is a coconut heart made of?
O’ the distal taste of love for me
Hardening of my left side no longer bleeds
The heart of coconut the coconut palm
So sticks in my breathe
Close to the apex...
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Categories:
buildup, analogy, appreciation, flower,
Form:
Rhyme
Don'T Blow Said the Trailblazer
Some people like to live on the edge or hang on a ledge. Not me.
I'm just Daniel, a trailblazer forging ahead, making a pathway for others.
In the process, I have no shortest of respect for...
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Categories:
buildup, anger, god, mountains, natural disasters, nature, weather,
Form:
Personification
Santa Pause
‘Twas the night before Christmas and all was quiet
Till a very loud noise woke me, sounding like a riot
I put on my fluffy slippers and creep down the stairs
The lounge door is open, and...
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Categories:
buildup, christmas, fun,
Form:
Rhyme
Let's Do Better This Year
What’s going on these days~
Is the world flip flopping on its side?
It’s the fashion of the day
To declare how we’re offended
No matter what was said
Or what we imagine was intended
We’ll put a twist on things
With...
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Categories:
buildup, anxiety, christmas, holiday, hope, joy, society,
Form:
Free verse
History's Balancing Act
I continue reading Iain McGilchrist's
"The Master [Mistress] and his [her] Emissary,"
a retelling of many RightWing dominant
and LeftWing repressed and suppressed events
anti-ecofeminist
and pro-orthodox patriarchal white privileged histories
of nationalistic fatherlands
written across the individual ego-hearts
and eco-habitats
of every EarthMother...
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Categories:
buildup, culture, earth, health, history, integrity, psychological, religion,
Form:
Political Verse
Machine Mania
Everything wound so tight
But the clicks drive me to the brink
Flashing lights are blinding
Half of the programs crashed
Tokens spew across the floor
The memory was stretched too far
I don't know what that sound was
A buzz from...
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Categories:
buildup, anger, how i feel, humanity, life,
Form:
Free verse
New Year
This year more than ever
I long to surpass myself
The clock is ticking
No longer can I recklessly
Take the gift of time for granted
I dream this year more than ever
To give wings to my muse
Release the...
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Categories:
buildup, art, color, fantasy, hope, life, surreal, uplifting,
Form:
Free verse
The Bargaining Wench Wanting Payment
Shadows hiss_per, of secret,
buildup-congealed,
no longer trapped within curiosity's seals.
Oceans of thoughts crash, unrested,
on the rocks and hard-placed
reveal of...
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Categories:
buildup, art,
Form:
Rhyme
Master Monday
Oh my goodness!
He is in his army's form
With an eagle badge ...
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Categories:
buildup, hero, sad,
Form:
Epic