Long Chartered Poems

"The Book of Changes"

Thoughts arrived before words,
1000s of years before
the crossing of curves

always seen to be 
swimming upstream 
against the current

thoughts … and feelings,
in the flow, always arrive 
before words, they are cast 

in the...

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I may as well concede the obvious. I was an incorrigible workaholic,
Who was always so driven to succeed, that working replaced all frolic.

I was the co-owner of a business, along with my lifelong best friend.
Together...

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Asifa's Blood Pens 
(The Courageous Princess)

No! No! Wipe out the name of Asifa! 
No more Asifa's on this earth to be born!
O Lord, my creator, my benefactor, my protector!
My parents chose my name in your...

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She woke up this morning with nothing on her plate, staring at the barrel of the gun pointed in her face. She has been wandering up and down the street since October twelve with a...

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They gather in groups waiting to go through the border; missiles are flying in the air and people are running everywhere .

They have been standing there for a couple days waiting to cross over but...

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I’m a boy living in a country where
We get emotional over every government move
And every government move is chartered over our emotions
Emotions are chastised whether it or let be
One trying to correct the wrong,
But nay,...

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her emotions is her enemy
she use to be a strong woman
so elegant so gallant
she always was an attraction
of the boys in the hood
she shines like a rare diamond
always smart and pretty 
she was a dream...

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childhood, creation, feelings, growing up, heaven, imagery, word play,

Awakening Teary-eyed Emotions  ©                      ...

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I wanted to write & testify, one-time suicidal Dr. Anil Deo, is reborn during second half-century on earth! Yes, Jesus is real to me, to revive hope and the desire to live or write, or...

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The rising of the seventh moon in an ornamental lampshade is equivalent to a nice round smiley dinner plate that had been recently washed,
Recently washed is neither a rotating wimpy wishing walker and neither is...

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 Convoluted; buoyant, defiant contention,
            sleeps in the corridors of mind.
           Dreaming of release...

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All around the fortified town all the systems were down, and a heavyset man took all the money and left the town in a hurry. I couldn’t understand why but he chartered a helicopter and...

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The spirit of love was flowing in the air but all of a sudden it disappeared when the birds sitting on the fence spread filth on the cars parked in the garage. They say that...

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The day you were born you are mother and father's miracle,
You were a very calm baby boy.

Walter brought baby Erik and mom home from the hospital,
Mom could stay at home with you for a few...

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Bermuda Triangle

This event was terrifyingly true,
Out in Atlantic, on the ocean blue.
It was ‘81, after we left Fort Lauderdale,
Hoping for happy Bahamas vacation tale
Aboard chartered sailboat, ketch of 52 feet,
Even air conditioned for the Florida...

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Carte blanche, 
this scribe bandies, exercises, 
and indulges inexplicable gravitas 
drooling, extolling, and fielding greatness, 
frothing handily, indubitably jinxed, 
linkedin as some lingual philanderer, 
which oral intercourse, 

this sensate being suckles 
figuratively das bosom 
sans...

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we were taken again beyond the gates of katyn 
I'd begun to challenge morale feelings over a sudden 
stench bellowing from under the chartered tanks 
silence abroad Auschwitz my knees chattered 

while facing the cold...

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Moving into the deep luscious woods perspiring as darkness grew,
I saw a lovely high tree with soft branches vanish in the green sky  
Climbing up within its branches I saw a sparkling stone drop...

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I've heard them tell me 
that life is a gift ,given
I've even heard them say 
life is a journey 
Chartered upon many mountains, 
delighting to be traversed 
What say you, damsel lady!

I know life to...

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I boarded as a martyr, 
not to play with scarlet sins
convinced my way was chartered, 
I'd be safe in holy folds
but patient, pregnant umbras came,
their membranes black and blue,
all bred at sea in countless numbers
just...

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A daughter sent from Heaven
By Michelle Morris
12/11/2022

You give meaning to my life
You're my special love
A daughter sent from Heaven
A blessing from above

I never thought we'd have this
It seems surreal and sublime
That despite all our obstacles
We...

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Claire won 5 medals at the Barcelona Paras, 
In 1992, where she took the 50m freestyle gold, 
To set a World Record, and in the 100m pass, 
Still freestyle, she secured a warm silver fold,

A...

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*****This poem inspired me to show or make sentient as possible a woman of special appeal, which provided an apt challenge of my poetic Powers. Such words as 'countenance opulent' 'L'Amour and debonair' and the...

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Although I know failure is success postponed.
That her refusal; my failure 
Implies that this is another way NOT to do this.
But I can't take this any more.

The other day I saw her doing her pedicure.
A...

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Good memories of our parents and grandparents,
I thank them for the blessed years with them.

i remember when my sons Kirk and Erik and mom came to live here,
I would drive my children and my little...

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