Long Challenging Poems
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The Hardships of Honesty - Neither Will II often surprise many people in many ways
With the words I say…with the actions I make…
It’s extraordinary how many seek high praise
With the words they say…with the actions they fake…
Neither will I…
Assume the worst in...
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Categories:
challenging, angst, conflict, emotions, endurance, faith, hope, passion,
Form:
Free verse
Letters For People Part 4Dear people,
(Am i?) Mad it’s a conformist state?
A status that perpetuates people to pair, to compare, to prepare,
to perfect, before performance, …?
-sure hard to try...
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Categories:
challenging, america, angst, business, confusion, feelings, poverty,
Form:
Epic
Impossible Mission To Captcha Infinitesimal MomentImpossible mission to captcha infinitesimal moment
alternately titled: tick tock runneth amuck
seconds elapse imperceptibly
leaving me dumbstruck,
how quickly fleeting tempus fugit;
ofttimes imagined as time thief.
Hence following vignette: quiet as a mouse lurks the time thief...
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Categories:
challenging, 12th grade, analogy, butterfly, death, farewell, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Healthy Caring SystemsToo many times sadly
too seldom gladly
I must learn to trust
Earth's future more
Both Father Sun's timeless
rounds of enlightenment
and Mother Earth's
codependent rhythms
regenerating rich
empowering
soulful soil
and surfing seas
And this trusting more
impels healing trauma's lessons,
surviving hale and...
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Categories:
challenging, culture, earth, earth day, health, integrity, passion,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Peace In the Nowhere
"Peace in the Nowhere"
Ghosts remain in this place
they read their words
marked each day on walls
like prayers, it gives them
peace in the nowhere
someplace relevant to go
Ghosts commune in this place
disowned long ago or walked
off the...
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Categories:
challenging, muse, poems, poets,
Form:
Narrative
Why LifeWhy does dawn dress robust morning,
while dusk undresses sight?
Each dawn incarnates another Earth Day
a lifetime of Easter mornings
redeeming nocturnal sight's revolution,
another therapeutic day of gift-it-forward light,
some longer,
some shorter
before naked covered night.
Why life?
To uncover...
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Categories:
challenging, adventure, earth, earth day, farm, love, peace,
Form:
Free verse
Water's WeaknessThere is nothing weaker than water
But none is superior to it in overcoming the hard,
For which there is no substitute.
(Laotse, "Nothing Weaker Than Water", Lin Yutang, trans.)
That weakness of mind and body overcomes strength
And uniting...
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Categories:
challenging, power, psychological, water, western, wisdom,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Bipartisan DissonanceWhen oppositional cognitive dissonance
deflects focus from compassion,
I've learned to go back to when I deflected focus from her.
She sends me passive-aggressive messages,
bread crumbs leading back in time
to where she began to feel alone,
marginalized,
siloed,
anxious,
neglected.
If...
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Categories:
challenging, conflict, math, parents, political, race, religion, sin,
Form:
Political Verse
Reclusive AccountabilitiesI am sick of excuses to avoid responsibility
and I am, today, sick with excuses to avoid responsibility
with "I'm just a mortal human. I make mistakes.
I judge situations and relationships,
assess potential risks to care and nourishing...
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Categories:
challenging, culture, health, humanity, humor, political, race, stress,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Ecotherapeutic JusticeWhen passion plants a multicultural seed,
then justice flourishes a polypathic trusting flower.
Permaculture and polyculture,
grow holistic cause-effect karmic significance
for our physical, and mental, political and spiritual health.
Permacultural, as I intend it this morning,
refers to...
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Categories:
challenging, blessing, culture, earth, nature, philosophy, political, religion,
Form:
Narrative
The Old Dark HouseThe Old Dark House
This tale of “The Old Dark House” is one that’s replete with a
most horrid sense of pure evil and macabre, and is worth being
retold each year during the deep-dark hours of All...
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Categories:
challenging, dark, dream, evil, fantasy, god, metaphor, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
- the Old Dark House -This tale of “The Old Dark House” is one that’s replete with a
most horrid sense of pure evil and macabre, and is worth being
retold each year during the deep-dark hours of All Hallows’ Eve
before the...
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Categories:
challenging, dark, dream, evil, fantasy, god, metaphor, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
The Old Dark HouseThis tale of “The Old Dark House” is one that’s replete with a
most horrid sense of pure evil and macabre, and is worth being
retold each year during the deep-dark hours of All Hallows’ Eve
before the...
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Categories:
challenging, dark, dream, evil, fantasy, god, metaphor, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
My White House InterviewI was nervous about my newest client.
Not every Permaculture Designer gets a contract
with the WhiteHouse.
But, when the President called,
or twittered,
for an intake interview,
I guess it felt like an obligation
to at least show up,
although perhaps about...
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Categories:
challenging, caregiving, earth, health, humor, nature, trust, truth,
Form:
Political Verse
The Reason I Write“I thought about the former days, the years of long ago.” *
If you saw something beautiful in a people, a place, a thing;
If you heard about something captivating and fantastic;
If you felt something soothing...
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Categories:
challenging, family,
Form:
Prose Poetry
God's Return TicketGod's Return Ticket
Did you ever wonder about the Almighty’s criteria or selection process for reincarnation of souls back on Earth? Just think some famous politician, movie star, sports figure,criminal, dictator, and so on could use...
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Categories:
challenging, beauty, creation, earth, emotions, god, heaven, judgement,
Form:
Narrative
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 37I heard two distinct voices in the night,
Conversing amongst themselves most eagerly
They whispered like children in excitement
Their sardonic mouths sung many savvy tunes
It was Death I could perceive, defending me,
And he, a strange, distant friend
Seemed...
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Categories:
challenging, change, death, gothic, grave, literature, romance, war,
Form:
Epic
Sorry I Shied AwayIs it just me or I'm starting to slow down along with the unwinding of time?
Time is running out and oh how I feel sublime
I'm in need of understanding God's Word and Law
I...
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Categories:
challenging, deep, depression, desire, , cute,
Form:
Lyric
Around 4 Am - Lived Life As a Loser SnoozerI have a lot to write and say, buddy, so hear me out some more
Don’t make me feel lower than I have ever felt before…
Listen, understand and stay quiet until I say no more…sorry if...
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Categories:
challenging, addiction, anxiety, betrayal, conflict, confusion, desire, emotions,
Form:
I do not know?
Let It Be Written 3
“I thought about the former days, the years of long ago.” Psalms 77:5 NIV
If you saw something beautiful in a people, a place, a thing;
If you heard about something captivating and fantastic;
If you felt something...
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Categories:
challenging, family,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Deadly VoyageDEADLY VOYAGE:
This is ANDERSON WALKINGSHOES
Intro:
The road is slippery,
And we got to tread cauteously,
So we don't miss our step, basical
This is ANDERSON WALKINGSHOES
This is ANDERSON WALKINGSHOES....
Chorus:
Hajei....hajei....hajei....
Perception is troubling everyone,
Everyone is being...
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Categories:
challenging, analogy,
Form:
Classicism
Noneastern Family PoliticsI began reading Jane Anna Gordon's "Creolizing Political Theory"
from the back toward the front,
as usual,
because if I appreciate where this narrative journey will end,
then I probably will find we start off with similar questions
of...
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Categories:
challenging, culture, health, power, , literature, , western,
Form:
Political Verse
Understand Where I StoodGood boy gone bad enters the stage with a spotlight overhead, despite being misunderstood in my ghetto neighborhood
The lonely applause celebrates in my cracked, corrupted, and crazed cranium
I exaggerate too much and so too much,...
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Categories:
challenging, anger, angst, anxiety, conflict, courage, dedication, deep,
Form:
Free verse
Poetic Encryption Like Ancient EgyptianPoetic Encryption Like Ancient Egyptian
This terror and threat to poetic clarity,
Becomes a pet rock for some poets.
Words do count for sure, but so does
Clarity unless poets put a mask on.
Encryption can be used to mask...
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Categories:
challenging, allegory, analogy, emotions, imagination, metaphor, passion, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
Literary Feud Among - Pt 2Step Forward McCarthy vs. Hellman
What is this The Digital Crucible of Truth?
On a stage of scrutiny,
titans c l a s h— ...
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Categories:
challenging, emotions, judgement, literature, poetry, poets, rude, writing,
Form:
Dramatic Verse