Long Carpenter Poems
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The Swoon Hypothesis - Part 2
"The Swoon Hypothesis" - Part 2
Arimathea stands next to you and I on the deck, soon we are back in Nazareth, you press into my palm,
“A very rare Dubunni coin” you say - on...
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Categories:
carpenter, imagery, jesus, love,
Form:
Free verse
An Oyster's Revenge
The Sun was acting rather strange
With the Moon and Stars concerned.
As it was not content to share the sky...
And not prepared to wait its turn.
So the sea was simmering and boiling hot
Without the night's return.
But...
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Categories:
carpenter, funny, humor, perspective,
Form:
Rhyme
Thanks To the One and Only
Words of a mother melting your spirit despite it being cold. Her loving you no matter what chasing that heart of gold.
"You don't need to...
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Categories:
carpenter, appreciation, dedication, depression, growing up, mother, sad,
Form:
Rhyme
Brains and Guts: The Write, Right, Rite of Revolution
Brains and guts orbit the soul—
that polar star searing in the marrow of being.
I was born somewhere between Einstein’s neurons
Ginsburg beat poetry, the birth of rock and roll, revolution marches,
and the calloused hands of a...
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Categories:
carpenter, courage, destiny, history, imagery, metaphor, philosophy, social,
Form:
Spoken Word
Syria Reconstructed
It is in our fragile, nearly broken, exposure
that we are most available for love
and remedial gratitude,
rather than the louder applause
of our full-blown ballistic glory.
While exercising restrained patience breeds tolerance,
giving pregnant reign to co-empathy compels timeless...
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Categories:
carpenter, deep, earth day, health, love, mother, power,
Form:
Political Verse
Overarching Genocide
Overarching Genocide
Noah built the wooden Ark in his homeland instructed by God
to save his wife three sons and their wives from drowning a life
raft rescue boat of sorts with three decks and only one...
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Categories:
carpenter, betrayal,
Form:
Free verse
The Grand Piano
She was a grand piano: grand in structure, grand in beauty, grand in quality
of sound. She had captured the heart of every pianist who had come to play in
the great hall. Once they...
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Categories:
carpenter, analogy, love,
Form:
Narrative
The Story of the Grand Piano
She was a grand piano: grand in structure, grand in beauty, grand in quality
of sound. She had captured the heart of every pianist who had come to play in
the great hall. Once they...
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Categories:
carpenter, allegory, betrayal, music,
Form:
Prose
Fundamentals Revisited
If it is a premise of fundamentalists,
whether Christian or Islamic or Devil Worshipers,
that Reason is bad, faith is good,
what could anyone reasonably say
that could not be unfaithful to good?
However, as I recall,
there is that oft-quoted...
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Categories:
carpenter, christian, health, islamic, religion,
Form:
Political Verse
Omnipotent: He Knows All
OMNIPOTENT: HE KNOWS ALL
I know today, at this time
You... my son(man), may not wholly know me.
but, may I ask you...
Have you taken one time to close your ...
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Categories:
carpenter, character, christian, faith, god, inspiration, men, spiritual,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
A Punny Death
A Coffee Merchant was the first man to find,
The corpse as he started off on his daily grind!
What he saw filtered through, so he had grounds
To send for the Police, to investigate what he'd found!
He’d...
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Categories:
carpenter, allegory,
Form:
Narrative
Dragon Peter Pan and Captain Hook
Now this is a great story… But where to begin… Oh, Yes… I see…
Our Dear Sheriff of CrazyLand lives in a town called ‘Nodding-off-Ham’
Where peace reigns supreme… and beside the ‘Oh-My-God-River’…
That does keep us...
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Categories:
carpenter, adventure, fantasy, fun, funny, humor, humorous, imagination,
Form:
Light Verse
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 101
Later that evening Seileach enjoyed a giant mushroom dinner with Joulupukki, Ceridfen, DynDoeth, Gwaldon, Bréagán, Chroí, Lumi and the two humans. It was a large gathering with many other friends and family and the...
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Categories:
carpenter, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Job Interview With an Ex
I'm scheduled to interview a few applicants for the job of master carpenter, and among them is the name of my ex. hmmm... I can't wait to see the look on his face when he...
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Categories:
carpenter, relationship,
Form:
Narrative
The Jewel Of Jesus -
Who's that girl by the ancient tree...
She's the daughter of a butcher, quiet and pouty...
She's always there, contemplating unspoken prophecy...
She scribbles poetry,
they say her Mother is a sibyl raving...
Solitude serves her like the aroma of...
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Categories:
carpenter, destiny, farewell, jesus, love,
Form:
Epic
Fundamentals of Radicalism
I know fundamentalists
who confuse themselves with radical truth-tellers,
bedrock keepers of Allah/God/YHWH's Timeless Orthodox Tradition.
Fundamentalists are, however
prejudicially supremacist
in their idolatry of their own monoculturally True Tradition/Scripture/Wisdom/PathWay
Where radicals portentously include
the entire multicultural-polypathic
both/and spectrum of...
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Categories:
carpenter, culture, environment, health, integrity, love, philosophy,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
He Touched Me
Do you know what it is like to be an untouchable?
To be so filthy and disgusting
That people shrink away from you
Do you know how it corrodes your soul
To see how the stench that follows your...
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Categories:
carpenter, miracle,
Form:
Free verse
Kristy and the Conch Shell
Along some bank of ambiguity.
Isolated while in wonder,
I lacked motivation.
Consequently, I preferred to be someplace different.
I perceived myself wandering near the banks,
Concerning one Tiber River in Rome.
"What is behind me,
Is not in front of me!"
Snickering,...
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Categories:
carpenter, beach, confusion, humorous, imagination, memory, nostalgia, parody,
Form:
Free verse
Dragon Down, Dragon Down
When Dragon was a few months old, his future was already there to see.
He’d tried to fly, with his penguins’ encouragement. Yes! Oh My! Oh Me!
We kept hearing all day long: That Dragon’s down! That...
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Categories:
carpenter, adventure, fantasy, fun, funny, humor, humorous, imagination,
Form:
Light Verse
Data Delivered to Your Inbox
Black lives matter. Me too.
Not my president. Give peace a chance.
Luck runs out. I like immigrants.
Power must be challenged by power.
Equal and opposite reactions.
God is the answer. Love is the answer.
Walk on the...
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Categories:
carpenter, city, death, history, peace, power, truth, war,
Form:
Free verse
Yeshua
YESHUA
His name was Yeshua, the legitimate, not immaculate,
scion of a young Jewish couple named Miriam and Yosef and surely
a brown-haired, brown-eyed Middle-Eastern man, sun-bathed and beige,
raised in the traditions of Abraham and Moses, David and...
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Categories:
carpenter, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
Matsuo Basho: English translations 3
Matsuo Basho: English translations of haiku about birds, flowers, candles, life, death.
Naptime!
But my drowsiness is nixed
by busybody warblers.
—Matsuo Basho, translation by Michael R. Burch
Carolers:
the sparrows smile
at their warbling.
—Matsuo Basho, translation by Michael R. Burch
Giving thanks...
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Categories:
carpenter, bird, culture, death, flower, life, moon, tree,
Form:
Haiku
God's Christmas Story
GOD’S CHRISTMAS STORY
The Christmas story’s more than just a baby in a stall;
Let’s tell this story not in part; no, let us tell it all.
It’s more than just a carpenter and his new virgin bride,
For...
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Categories:
carpenter, christmas,
Form:
Rhyme
Husband For Sale
(tongue in cheek
by this moldering geek.)
Thy marriage doth incurably ail,
even strangers would vouchsafe
(with nary any cavil),
and perhaps even avail
herself (sight unseen),
...
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Categories:
carpenter, 12th grade, best friend, care, dad, hello,
Form:
Free verse
Unto To Us a Child Is Born Collections Part One
Oh unto to us a child is born!
Unto to us a child was given!
This special child came from
God the Father in heaven's
lofty heights above. All because
of God's redeeming love. *
Oh Christ the Lord was born
unto...
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Categories:
carpenter, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Lyric