Long Careering Poems
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Yours truly embarks on wild goose chase after elusive pot of gold
Yours truly embarks on wild goose chase after elusive pot of gold
alternately titled: incorrigible lottery dreamer
big plans to relocate self and spouse
to some tropical island paradise
by the dashboard light
(the above line credited
to musician named Meatloaf)
upon...
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Categories:
careering, adventure, angel, appreciation, blessing, drug, happy, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
April 9th, 2025 birthday poem for dearly departed papa
April 9th, 2025 birthday poem for dearly departed papa
Elysian fields long since embraced dada's soul
which rocketed into aerospace
(courtesy General Electric satellite)
just a tad shy of
fifty four plus months ago,
nevertheless melancholia
still plucks mine heart strings.
Mine...
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Categories:
careering, absence, abuse, adventure, anger, appreciation, bereavement, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
Grant This Civil Yankee To Doodle Till Lee Gets Blue In the Face
Grant this civil yankee to doodle till Lee gets blue in the face
blowing 99 red balloons April 9th, 2023
will signal 158 years since Appomattox
plus what would have been ninety sixth birth
of the late...
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Categories:
careering, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure, america, appreciation,
Form:
Rhyme
Gerard Sekoto, In Memorium: 1913 - 1993 Parts One and Two
[Poem read at Sekoto’s inhumation ceremony at the Neuilly-sur-Marne-93 Cemetery, near Paris. Channel 4 in London recorded the reading as they did the funeral rites in the presence of his close relatives come from...
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Categories:
careering, anger, friendship, may, words,
Form:
Elegy
Obliviousness Concerning Lapsed Driver License
(alternate title: days of yore bubba's zayda
flush with buggy boo horse sense).
Norristown City Hall police person
informed yours truly
on September 15th, 2020
mine automotive driver license expired,
thus between January 13th 2019
and September 17th, 2020
I drove automobile,
(whether borrowed...
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Categories:
careering, 11th grade, 12th grade, angel, appreciation, fate,
Form:
Rhyme
Peril Us Aye Grant This To Be a Civil Yet Hurried Lee Red
(Alternately titled always look on the bright side of life)
Armageddon wold be a morbidly amazing,
concluding (reign of Homo Sapiens)
fascinating albeit simultaneously catastrophic boon
dog gull to accompany
...
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Categories:
careering, 10th grade, 12th grade, future, howl, image,
Form:
Cowboy Poetry
Grant This Civil Yankee To Doodle Till He Gets Blue In the Face
blowing balloons signaling 158 years since Appomattox
(Alternately titled always look on the bright side of life)
Armageddon would be morbidly amazing,
concluding (reign of Homo Sapiens)
fascinating albeit simultaneously catastrophic boon
dog gull...
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Categories:
careering, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, april,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Odyssey From Africa 6c
CHAPTER 6 (continued, c)
Several of the primate children
Sat together in the branches
Of a tree; they did not notice
Danger silently approaching
Through the leaves a brown and yellow
Shiny scaly serpent slithered
Closer to the young gorillas
Eyes unblinking glimmered...
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Categories:
careering, adventure, africa, imagination, mythology, nature, science,
Form:
Narrative
Incomprehensible Space Time Continuum Intrigues
Incomprehensible space/time continuum intrigues...
One insignificant, infinitesimal
incomprehensibleness cosmic speck,
who doth readily confess
swallowed within
infinite cosmic wormhole, nonetheless,
he feels mind boggled, fascinated,
transfixed... helpless to express
following concept suddenly
gripping his feeble mental compass.
I haint never gonna get
smart enough to understand
supposedly...
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Categories:
careering, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, beauty,
Form:
Elegy
Privilege and Iniquity
I drink privilege, I breath iniquity.
Everything around me wreaks of docile obsequisy.
I was a born a prince, of a minor province.
And ever since, I have often heard words minced,
By those below, who dare but tow
The...
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Categories:
careering, 11th grade, angel, angst, art, beautiful, bible,
Form:
Free verse
Formidable flourishing fiends
Formidable flourishing fiends...
harangue since landing
yours truly immersed
in a dream-like
fiercesome state of war,
not quite a dream
can be described
as a "hypnagogic state"
while virtually in Singapore,
where Katy Perry
namesake of...
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Categories:
careering, angst, animal, anxiety, conflict, courage, dark, sleep,
Form:
Free verse
Peril Us Aye Grant To Be Hurried Lee Read
Armageddon wold be an amazing boon
to accompany ourselves amidst others in rubble strewn cocoon
or perchance an arid extra dry spell blows humungous dune
donning any brave soul to weather
fierce-some dust bowl...
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Categories:
careering, allusion, angst, conflict, grave, introspection, metaphor, planet,
Form:
I do not know?
Part One Narrating Snapping Crackling, and Popping Trembling Underfoot
Part one narrating snapping crackling, and popping trembling underfoot...,
which ushered poetic reverberations across the universe
A snippet of careering and careening
nocturnal cerebral manifestations
attributed to strong medicament
creating soundless clangorous din
ofttimes diabolical dreams
severely disrupt mine ability
to function throughout...
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Categories:
careering, abuse, adventure, allegory, anger, anxiety, baptism, confusion,
Form:
Free verse
Congested Without Psychological Rheum
No antihistamine can
unblock the lifetime
accumulation of stoppered emotional gunk
zapping, undermining, and polluting spunk
mine early life in retrospective avast flunk
stripped mined wasteland qua sinkhole,
where eternal reverberations soundlessly plunk
inescapable deafening, and
blinding this targeted
"scapegoat" bullied by most...
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Categories:
careering, abuse, analogy, anti bullying, baptism, conflict, discrimination,
Form:
Personification
I Am Poetry
I stand solo, aloof in the snow, a precipitation
of words cascading from a...
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Categories:
careering, dedication, devotion, dream, hope, imagination, introspection, life,
Form:
Bio
A Honest Friend
I feel so tired… not with my work.. or my life…
I am so tired with my own thoughts own heart..
I would really like a few minutes break at last..
I have searched the whole world for...
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Categories:
careering, best friend, care, cry, friend, friendship, friendship
Form:
Free verse
I'M Walking Backwards To Christmas
I’m walking backwards to Christmas, he sang,
Across the Irish Sea, he added;
In his head the wires disconnected to fuses
Blowing and smoking through serotonin drought;
Genius rubbed nerves with scouring pads,
Scrubbing the cells with black paint and...
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Categories:
careering, funny, life, loss, sad, social,
Form:
Free verse
Airliner In Storm Is Not Doing Well
Airliner in the storm is not doing well
Pilot is having difficulty keeping it in the air
Tossing and turning, careering with each stormy swell
Stewardess do not tip us off, issuing us all kinds of care
Each one...
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Categories:
careering, storm,
Form:
Terzanelle
The Train
Each is a piece, a small part
of a composite that has come
together in a morning,
the frayed strands of dreams
knitted into a waking timed now
to a slow tread on a familiar street.
Then suddenly, careering...
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Categories:
careering, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Because of You
There was a time
I thought
the world and me
to be
too grown up for strong emotions.
I scorned all thoughts to do with love,
and, embarrassed, blinked back tears
at children singing Silent Night.
But then,
by chance,
you...
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Categories:
careering, love,
Form:
Free verse
Tickle Trout
In the cool of the evening he laid there basking
as my fingers touched the gleaming surface of the pool.
Deeper i penetrated till my hand was beneath him,
slowly my fingers engaged his slithery belly,
then gently...
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Categories:
careering, adventure, food,
Form:
Narrative
GAPS PERVADING
I have an awful memory. It's sad.
Seemingly destroyed by that madman
Who, sixty-one years ago, pulled out
Without looking,and crashed into my car
Sending mine careering towards death.
Ha! I've got news for him, wherever,
I survived!
But you robbed...
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Categories:
careering, england, history, memory,
Form:
Free verse
Redecorating
These walls are gathering together, closing with damp farewell embraces.
The yawns of previous occupants echo through linoleum: my home of all places.
Visitors come and go, footprints on concrete pathways smoothed over by later settlers.
Redecorating...
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Categories:
careering, allegory, angst, home, mystery, nostalgia, people, places,
Form:
Free verse
Winters Cold Fist
A tempest night sky presses, my lattice windows shake,
as if someone’s being thrown against them, or worse yet,
a yeti's breaking in. They lock with little levers that seem far
too flimsy to keep out...
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Categories:
careering, humor, school, snow, storm, teen, weather, winter,
Form:
Free verse
A Dogs Life
It really is quite tiring, lying in the sun,
looking out for danger, protecting everyone,
All the time pretending that I don't even care
I'm sniffing out the undergrowth, to see what's lurking there,
Chasing after next door's cat...
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Categories:
careering, animalssleep, time,
Form:
Couplet