Long Clattering Poems
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Tozzath
Pellucid pachyderms wade across
the purpling River Manjees
and Tozzath watches from the bank,
the seat of his maroon pantaloons soaked with mud,
his nostrils flaring with the fragrance of ombadalias,
whose lacey petals flutter
like the wings of long-dead...
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Categories:
clattering, death, fantasy, girl, magic, word play,
Form:
Free verse
Mystical Song of Trees
PRELUDE.
When the sky and world are dark no sounds are heard in the woods. Perhaps the scrabbling of night creatures on the hunt fo food. But no sound of woodpeckers ra ta tatting, bird song...
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Categories:
clattering, animal, conflict, desire, environment, fairy, grief,
Form:
Free verse
The Twin Towers Disaster Or a True Friend Part 1
Touching my hand was a wet doggy.
Whatever my fate was going to be,
My dog, my hero would be with me,
If he was in terror it did not show,
I was the weak one that I know.
With...
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Categories:
clattering, poetry,
Form:
Light Verse
The Wicked Witch of Soup Creek Bites the Dust
Galloping hooves broke morn's peace in Soup Creek's Main Street
When Jimmy Smith rode in from Bar 20 his face white as a sheet
He stopped at Sheriff Koplins office and banged heavily on the door
"What's...
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Categories:
clattering, america, death, humor, woman,
Form:
Rhyme
A Visit To Quiet Town
While returning home from my job, in bustling New York City,
The blaring horns of traffic, and the noise were getting to me.
With loud yelling on the sidewalks, and cawing crows up above,
And my poor aching...
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Categories:
clattering, fantasy, imagery, people, places, silence, travel, vacation,
Form:
Couplet
Ah Tis Nothing Greater Than
Ah... tis nothing greater than...
malfunctioning heater
on that brisk winter day
recorded here as proof positive
regarding following reasonable rhyme.
While scrolling thru
poems crafted yesteryear,
I chanced to jog my memory where
there
occurred power outage necessitated
more than divine...
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Categories:
clattering, 12th grade, angst, dark, environment, faith, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Inevitable Death Defines Life
Inevitable death defines afterlife
I mull mortality
thru lens crafted occipital orbs
regarding a better future
experience sing a space oddity –
whar incessant yaks
exuding a big hurt
emanate as cosmic atomic
bipedal hominids replete roof lee wax
during a...
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Categories:
clattering, absence, allah, angel, anxiety, atheist, bereavement, death,
Form:
Rhyme
major storm on the horizon reported from the forecastle
major storm on the horizon reported from the "Fo'c'sle"
Though forever being a landlubber
a vision analogous to the nether world
deep within the bowels of the Earth
immensely distant from the sheltering sky
amidst a thick fog enveloped landscape
with...
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Categories:
clattering, absence, anxiety, destiny, god, mental health, mythology,
Form:
Free verse
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 3
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Alas, until that fateful day when strange events arose around him
The uncontrolled powers he felt within
Growing stronger as his fight to hide them grew ever more dim
At last bursting forth to be revealed once again.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
For...
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Categories:
clattering, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
his December 17th 2024
This December 17th, 2024...
alternately titled: a literary retrospective when holiday times living hand to mouth in Penn Valley fraught with slim pickings and yours truly felt utterly miserable that nary a delivery from Santa Claus...
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Categories:
clattering, absence, america, angst, betrayal, christmas, grief, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Categories:
clattering, faith, feelings, god, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
Put Them Out of Sight Now
Lay down your old ink pen...
Rise from the table...
Push back your chair.
Gather them all up...
Put them out of sight now...
Place them safely in the cupboard
Bare.
Wrapped in stiff brown paper,
Strung tightly together
With thin white string;
Turn...
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Categories:
clattering, nostalgia,
Form:
Rhyme
Harumph To Holiday Hoopla Phish Pshaw
Harumph To Holiday Hoopla – Phish Pshaw!
Relieved of fatherhood Saint
Nick schtick found me
to relinquish ratty outfit, and stow away zee bras
like padding and "FAKE flowing beard,
ah...don't remind me,
those well worn faux paws
of each dear deer...
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Categories:
clattering, angel, childhood, christmas, conflict, creation, december, jesus,
Form:
Political Verse
This December 17th, 2021
This December 17th, 2021...
Totally tubular fiction yup,
nevertheless I reflect
the year (arbitrarily plucked from misty past)
Santa Claus did not show up
courtesy imagination license
cruel as crippled poet pan handler
rattling his empty cup.
Though blink of time...
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Categories:
clattering, 1st grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th
Form:
Rhyme
Meleager Translations
If I am Syrian, what of it?
Stranger, we all dwell in one world, not its portals.
The same original Chaos gave birth to all mortals.
—Meleager translation by Michael R. Burch
Love, how can I call on you;
does...
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Categories:
clattering, desire, drink, feelings, for her, girl, girlfriend,
Form:
Epigram
Death Undignified, Fort Laramie 1860
The summer sun was high. The heat was oppressive.
The whalebone corset dug into the body's tender parts.
Peering from the shop, my hand touching the pane
of dearly brought glass, I feel the vibration of the incoming...
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Categories:
clattering, baby, children, horse, me,
Form:
Sestina
The Show
A day ago I lay awake to my chamber,
dreaming of the sight of a rope tied to a tree.
I walk to the window and see Bishop flashy as can be.
As you may know, Bishop...
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Categories:
clattering, cousin, day, me, smile,
Form:
Free verse
Digital Prints
Digital Prints
When lightening had blighted their perilous shadows at break neck speed
Vision and mystery succumbed sprightly beyond recognition scared and scarred
Obliterated in illiterate darkness they were easy prey for shadow’s projections
‘Tinkerbell’ had lost her way...
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Categories:
clattering, adventure,
Form:
Free verse
Suffusion of Profuse Elation
Ah...herewith ma usual
dose of pablum from this meal
lee mouthed muttering
doggerel wordsmith,
who now writes...
so here's...
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Categories:
clattering, 10th grade, 11th grade, 8th grade, 9th
Form:
Free verse
Why I Keep a Low Profile I E Namely Remain Invisible
Why I keep a low profile i.e. namely remain invisible
Alternately titled -
dear readers ye each saddled as exegete
to make sense little known excerpt
referencing obscure passage printed
calligraphy style groovy and neat
found scrawled in book of Matthew
which...
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Categories:
clattering, 12th grade, adventure, crazy, hair, humorous, identity,
Form:
Free verse
Death Undignified
The summer sun was high. The heat was oppressive.
A whalebone corset dug into my body's tender parts.
Peering from the shop, my hand touches the pane
of dearly brought glass it vibrates with the hoof-beat of riders.
The...
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Categories:
clattering, cowboy-western, introspection, life, baby, baby, children, horse,
Form:
Sestina
Death Undignified, Fort Laramie 1860
High noon in Fort Laramie, the summer sun is oppressive.
A whalebone corset digs into my body’s tender parts.
Peering from the shop, my hand touching the pane
of dearly brought glass, I feel the vibration of incoming...
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Categories:
clattering, memory,
Form:
Sestina
Krishna's Advice To Arjuna - Part Two
II
for Thodti trailing barefeet his dried coconut-stick broom on cracked macadam
in the gutter festering oozing fresh month-old drying turds urine remains of fed-up banana-leaves skins withered jasmine garlands drained motor-oil from scooter-taxis overfed flies lean...
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Categories:
clattering, religion,
Form:
Free verse
Ah Tis Nothing Greater Than
Ah... tis nothing greater than...
malfunctioning heater on brisk winter day!
Thee particular date being
December twenty eighth,
two thousand nineteen, I saith
the Jack of all trades
maintenance technician
Kevin Blank said he would notify
HVAC expert in good faith,
yet to compliment...
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Categories:
clattering, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form:
Free verse
Either We Love or We Die
{“When I dunk my head in holy water, to rid myself of your poison. Hatred circuits through my veins at the delusional expectancy I have clasped. I let my nucleus out of its solitary incarceration;...
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Categories:
clattering, absence, abuse, addiction, anger, betrayal, break up,
Form:
Free verse