Long Checkered Poems
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Liquor of Lament: My Glass Is Half FullVerse 6: I've given up love countless times
I needed to pay up for my heartbroken crimes
I already repented for my sins that made my high hopes paper-thin
Don't you feel that envy from deep within?...
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Categories:
checkered, addiction, cute love, deep, depression, desire, hope,
Form:
Lyric
Lifeboat the SinkingAs to the this and the that and the how and the why,
I pass no judgement on the tale at hand.
And leave it to scribes to much later decide
...
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Categories:
checkered, adventure, allegory, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
The OutlanderI am an Outlander
Who lives on a high hill
Overlooking a man-made lake
That once was a rapidly rushing river
Along whose banks the Ozarks Bluff Dwellers and the Osage and then Delaware
Hunted, fished, and created shelter
For their...
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Categories:
checkered, change, childhood, community, history, home, journey, remember,
Form:
Ballad
Make Love To Me In That Ancient PlaceThe Bedouins, bequeathed with the sacred beauty of paradise harsh,
trusted guardians of jealous gorges and gifted groves
lead me from the Wadi Musa to the humble ingress of Petra,
saying with thrill, the Jin of your Jihad...
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Categories:
checkered, adventure, desire, history, love,
Form:
Epic
Things We Should Start Romanticizing• rainfall - the blue summer sky making up her mind/you riding your bike from your university to your dorm/wind in your hair, you smile as it plants kisses on your cheek/there has been always...
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Categories:
checkered, art, betrayal, death, deep, emotions, heartbreak, pain,
Form:
Free verse
Mine Courtship and Marriage With Deadly ObsessionMine courtship and marriage with deadly obsession...
As September daze will soon arrive
recollections from a
psychologically checkered past
loom large recalling
tragic storied days of mein kampf.
Circa early nineteen seventies:
As a mere slip of a...
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Categories:
checkered, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 7th
Form:
Free verse
Gateway TownGateway town, Mississippi and Missouri river flooding confluence,
with its celebration of manifest destiny, its looming, iconic archway.
Stainless westward marker, its culture flowed southward for influence
within the lawn-jockey, pink flamingo neighborhoods of moral decay.
T.S, Eliot,...
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Categories:
checkered, allusion, city, class, longing, racism, slavery, urban,
Form:
Rhyme
Deciphering Crossword Puzzles, Cryptograms and Scrabblegrams Once Favorite PastimesDeciphering crossword puzzles, cryptograms and scrabblegrams once favorite pastimes
Livingsocial at 324 Level Road
circa post high school graduation
found yours truly voluntarily holed up
for an inordinate amount of time
within familiar four walls of his bedroom.
He preferred solitude versus
interacting...
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Categories:
checkered, 12th grade, angel, anxiety, books, boy, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
Unprecedented Life - Chapter 2 - a Nod of ApprovalI’ve let everyone down to be exact…
I am a proven-guilty fact (a false fact)
Optimism and pessimism sure have its arms around me at all times
I wish I had a black and white checkered pirate ship...
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Categories:
checkered, deep, words,
Form:
Free verse
Formula One PoetryFormula One Poetry
Adverbs on your Mark!
Nouns get ready!
Verbs and prepositions get set!
There's the green light and they're off!
All words accelerating at an astonishing speed!
the crowd goes wild
at the roar of the sound
of accelerating words....
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Categories:
checkered, happiness, home, house, imagery, jealousy, people, race,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
GlimpseIt was like a whisper-
My wife delivered the sad news-
"Your grandfather was dead."-
And so he was-
Her eyes was awfully sad-
Touched me gently on my back-
He was old-
The time...
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Categories:
checkered, april, cry, emotions, eulogy, farewell, goodbye, sorrow,
Form:
Elegy
Big Girls Do CryThey expected her to be the jolly fun one.
The one w e a r i n g a smile on her face.
So she became.....who they wanted her to be
She was quick...
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Categories:
checkered, courage, freedom, growth, moving on,
Form:
Free verse
Victory Is ContagiousVanity and insanity
Is who I was and am - victory is contagious but has its pros and cons...its negative and positive effects in the long run - sometimes, you don't win 1st place, but...
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Categories:
checkered, deep, depression, desire,
Form:
Acrostic
For YearsFor Years !!!
Four years have been on the run, on the wane
and yet, I still feel your beauty, still feel the pain
that came with – an end – the end you made me aware,
of, we,...
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Categories:
checkered, love hurts,
Form:
Rhyme
Wonderful Worthing Promenade Part 2Candy floss, seaside rock, smoothies, and flags sporting
Union Jacks
Replace the old traditions of striped deckchairs
And Kiss-Me-Quick hats.
Chipwicks for our salt and vinegar fries
And their pole-and-line freshly caught local Cod;
The Vintners Parrot: For thick sizzling...
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Categories:
checkered, sea,
Form:
Rhyme
CharityCrazy lady with model outfits – what now? You’ll see in a moment *hint* she’s a taker, not a giver ~!
Hah! She’s straight-out self-confident – I must laugh my pants off! What does she have...
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Categories:
checkered, addiction, character, crazy, fashion, funny, image,
Form:
Acrostic
The Lightning BoltYou got roasted the moment I walked away from your reach
Everyday, I wish I could be at the sundrenched beach...
What about you practice what you preach
Be very careful what you teach
Because what...
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Categories:
checkered, deep,
Form:
Rhyme
Lo and BeholdPredictions work in twists of what makes life workable
High and often misconstrued by the dogma of science
Lies and damned lies and statistics for the insecure
Foes foretold surprise when the blindfolds shed masks
In the light of...
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Categories:
checkered, inspirational,
Form:
Free verse
Lady KathleenShe crossed a wide ocean, during war times, in danger
A life of adventure, of courage, of fear
Yet, nothing reveals the hint of the years
that have chiseled her wrinkles, but not dampened her cheer
She pours me...
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Categories:
checkered, friend, history, people,
Form:
Epic
There Is a Reason I Requested This Restaurantthere is a reason i requested this restaurant
much to ponder tonight in our realm
i brought you here on our first date
praying anxiously for a Lady and the Tramp moment
you brought the romantic within me to...
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Categories:
checkered, dedication, love, marriage,
Form:
Romanticism
I See What You Did ThereThough all are blessed with eyes to see,
Eyes never lay sight upon the seer;
No retina perceives the seedling
beneath its iris.
Ocular nerves sense Occam-ented pictures
Of identity: portraits framed by
Ourselves, Us, and Others
- Whose eyes perceived whole
But...
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Categories:
checkered, philosophy,
Form:
Free verse
The Duchess I Once KnewShe's pouring from a pot of tea
as we relax on the quiet porch
Honeysuckle vines encircle the posts,
and webs of daddy long-legs
glisten in...
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Categories:
checkered, adventure, dedication, dog, family, life, water,
Form:
Narrative
The Great Catching Away part ten"Jesus is coming, Jesus is coming, He's coming back again today."
Grace kept on her rhythmic jump roping and singing her little ditty.
She used to sing these words instead, "Jesus is coming, Jesus is
coming back again...
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Categories:
checkered, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Prose
Such a ClicheI'll drink to that, three sheets in the wind, the Booze cruise ...
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Categories:
checkered, funny, humor, irony, language, literature, word play,
Form:
Free verse
Paths To the FoundryThe World is a testing ground to burn out impurity,
a forge of sorts,
sorting out infermity.
A Threshing floor
of chaff and wheat.
The bread of life consuming your choices as you eat.
Of...
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Categories:
checkered, character,
Form:
Rhyme