Long Californian Poems
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Merov's Ghost and Other Shots Across My Bow
Merov’s Ghost (1) and Other Shots Across My Bow!
In mid-November of Fourteen, I published my first web verse here, (2)
the earliest spanned sixty years, composed for Senior English class
one night in Nineteen Sixty-One. Assigned just...
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Categories:
californian, blessing, life, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Spy Breidenthal -Part 2-
I will never forget the Feast of Tabernacles at Lake Arrowhead
I spent my nights there in our beautiful rented house
With Spy loyally by my side
He slept on my bed and kept me feeling comfortable...
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Categories:
californian, appreciation, cat, grief, happiness, sad, sorrow, sweet,
Form:
Narrative
Life's Untorn Page
I moved to San Francisco from across the bay in early 1977. At 19 years old, dad got me a two-bedroom house in the San Francisco suburb known as the Ocean District. It was the...
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Categories:
californian, america, analogy, bereavement, children, family, loss, sad,
Form:
Other
Stokey 2014
Stokey 2014
I am working the door
At an all night bar
Sometimes I think I have spent too much time alone. These long nights remind me of flowers and effigies. I drink too much. There’s...
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Categories:
californian, addiction, allusion, anxiety,
Form:
Narrative
Oceanic Wedding of Sapphire Emotions
Amidst nocturnal blue naked confessions
of our intertwined souls, hearing the
mellifluous melody and symphony of
our ocean, lulling our inner child’s deepest
sapphire emotions in the depth of our
sensitive corners—a blue ecstasy, like...
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Categories:
californian, love,
Form:
Free verse
Californian Weather
Neglecting the love song in my mind's eye
Directing my thoughts to your flawed lie
You're the highlight in my life, dynamic diamond
You're the friend and foe in my nightmarish dream - I am fond of...
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Categories:
californian, deep,
Form:
Free verse
Gabriela Andersen- Schiess
Gabriela Andersen-Schiess was a long-distance runner
Who ran a marathon in the heat of a Californian Summer
It was the Los Angeles Olympics in nineteen eighty-four
You might remember it well and the crowd's thunderous roar.
It was the...
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Categories:
californian, dedication, inspirational, race, sports, usa,
Form:
Narrative
Average Size Non Boldface Type Longfellows
In Times New Roman, I font
to hitch wagon to a star.
Alias Adobe Jenson Albertus Aldus here
wed Alexandria (Algerian, an all around
American Typewriter gal) scattershot
with Antiqua ancestry, she told me
after I Aster while Aurora Borealis
shimmered overhead,...
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Categories:
californian, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure, age, appreciation,
Form:
Free verse
Legend of the Black Dove - Part 7
Legend Of The Black Dove
...
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Categories:
californian, adventure,
Form:
Narrative
Proof of Life
Earlier in the week I was pretty sick and Peter was pampering me. One night, as Peter was taking away my tea tray, I took a selfie to send to my mom - as proof...
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Categories:
californian, boyfriend, school, student, teen,
Form:
Free verse
Average Size Non Boldface Type Longfellows
Alias Adobe Jenson Albertus Aldus here
wed Alexandria (Algerian, an all around
American Typewriter gal) scattershot
with Antiqua ancestry, she told me
after I Aster while Aurora Borealis
shimmered overhead, while temporarily
embarking on long day's
journey into night
("yule Jean," I uttered
for...
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Categories:
californian, adventure, allegory, friendship, humorous, meaningful, mystery, proposal,
Form:
Free verse
Striking It Rich
Never attempting of striking it rich,
whenever my cravings give me another itch,
I'm used to a quite and simple life:
enjoying good food and sharing a coldl glass of wine
when relatives and friends drop by;
why be...
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Categories:
californian, food, children, friendship, funny, happiness, health, hope,
Form:
Narrative
As Sharp As a Razor
Me barber’s still one of them blokes who lives the school of old,
using methods quite old fashioned to what modern trends unfold,
so with scissors, clippers, hot towel, then lathered with a brush,
he’ll shave you with...
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Categories:
californian, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Things That Hate Me
THINGS THAT HATE ME
Spaghetti, for I don’t allow it to outrun my utensil
I chop it all to inch-long pieces then use my fork as...
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Categories:
californian, funnyhate,
Form:
Couplet
Hell No -Chapter 2-
Can you love me like you do again?
I am gonna leave vengeance to God
Because enemies strike me down
I just sit there and I hopelessly nod
I’ll give you the crown and the spotlight…
I will just wear...
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Categories:
californian, words,
Form:
Free verse
Warmth of Dreams
He shall not let in if she knocks on door,
“that frivolous blonde he shall have no more”,
he curled himself up in silken soft bed,
in the warmth of heat his cheeks glowing red!
the wind went howling...
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Categories:
californian, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 2nd
Form:
Rhyme
A Black Hotel
Black Hotel
Immortal fear,
blind rage appears on black rock…
How does it rise along on a lonely beach?
…an outcrop of the night!
A black hotel looms like inevitable doom
from the cloudy regions of the stratosphere.
It...
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Categories:
californian, allegory, allusion, analogy, art, black love, color,
Form:
Free verse
A Diamond For Mom On Mother's Day
How many springs that bloomed and withered like flowers?
How many winters that came and melted in front of me?
How many summers that burnt my skin and dried the land?
How many autumns had covered the front...
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Categories:
californian, life, love, mother, people, seasons, son, thank
Form:
Lyric
Falling
Fall semester starts tomorrow. It’ll be exciting - for a few days - but it won’t be long before we’ll miss the tanned bodies of summer, the cool, clear lake-water or lounging carefree, on bright,...
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Categories:
californian, change, class, school, student, teen,
Form:
Free verse
Road Trip From Hell
Across the vast Californian Death Valley I went out for a drive
The temperature gauge was reading a hundred and twenty five.
Despite the unforgiving temperature, I was staying nice and cool
I had the air conditioning on...
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Categories:
californian, adventure, america, car, sun,
Form:
Couplet
California Dreams
Life relapse and develops new memories and experiences sighted through brown eyes
Miles of driving, walking. Thousands of laughters, a few bad habits, a gorgeous dream for an addict
Later in life finally files success, the prism...
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Categories:
californian, age, beach, beautiful, beauty, care, change, desire,
Form:
Free verse
Our Californian Marsh
In the land of golden sunshine, where the waves do crash,
There lies a tranquil beauty, a Californian marsh.
Where waters shimmer softly, reflecting skies so blue,
A haven for the creatures, and a sanctuary too.
The marshland...
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Categories:
californian, 7th grade, america,
Form:
Rhyme
Today I Am the Lucky One
Light green leaves, wineberries on brown stems grow in New Zealand's native bush
Sally drinks a glass of red wine each night laughing
Forest of tall trees awesome in their backyard
The mystery beyond an endless river chasing...
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Categories:
californian, appreciation, beauty, home, nature, river, solitude, trust,
Form:
Free verse
41D North-49D West
In April of nineteen twelve, a ship set sail so grand,
A tale of wealth and power, a journey well-planned.
Warnings were ignored, the ship sped through the night,
Men on duty sleeping, Californian unaware of Titanic's plight.
Steel...
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Categories:
californian, boat, death, sea, water,
Form:
Couplet
Coughing Coffees
Infantile ignorance takes a barge and a ship then sets sail. Passing one jellyfish stop and wave. But passing over nineteen thousand jellyfish stop and shoot. Shoot till all gone in a gloopy mess tangling...
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Categories:
californian, analogy, baby,
Form:
I do not know?