Long Commenting Poems

I was reading Rev. Julian Clifford Jaynes' homily,
delivered May of 1919
to the First Unitarian Society in West Newton, Massachusetts,
commenting on the 100 years since Channing's Baltimore Sermon.

Rev. Jaynes had a son, 
a second generation Julian...

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It interests me to peer past the drafting
and rewriting shoulder
of Thomas Jefferson,
unhappy slave-owner,
and John Adams,
with domestic slave-owner nuisance issues,
and other principle writing minds 
of original democratic declaration and constitution shaping times,
as they listened to their...

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Good evening to all out there this is wabc radios late night slot call in show with your host Tom Morrow, the theme is on pesonality traits and how we percive them
not myself personally.' I...

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Contest : The Prismatic Self
Sponsor : Daniel Henry Rodgers
Date submitted : 19/5/25

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“Contests around track, contests for followers,
for best tasting wine, most exquisite 
architectural design ~ endless
quests to become best versions of Self,
sharpen mind, mould...

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Long before you were born, long before your great grandfather was born, in the time when magic was approximately eight times more plentiful than it is today, there lived a family in the remote part...

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POTD 24TH Feb 2025

A Wish Upon A Star – Video Lyrics by Michael Tor

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A romantic ballad of longing and serendipity, captures the emotions of a lonely soldier in “Wish Upon A Star” as he wanders...

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Polly's jaw dropped. "The baby?
Damian's son. Well we're is he?"
Molly laughed. She had it bad for
Damian and she was engaged
To James.
"He's in the room. Damian and 
Dolly are on a date so he 
Dropped him...

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He begins
commenting on Chuang-tse
who was commenting on Laotse's
"Exalt not the wise
So that the people shall not scheme [win v lose]
and contend [in partisan debate];"

Wait, am I in the wrong place
or the wrong day
and or time?
The...

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My 1st round:

I know we just met and you seem like you're cool but there's a whole bunch of s**t that I don't know about you. Now I don't care about your race, what kind...

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Dedicated to Valerie Haper, actress and John Denver, singer!
Who were just wo, of hundreds who launched  the Hunger Project,
In 1976!
Original title was a Salute to Valerie Haper. But it was not
adequate. It was more...

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Glass Throne – A Poem Collab with Ink Empress

Note:- Before diving into my Multi-media, Music video “Glass Throne”, I encourage you to first read the Lead Up poem below which is a collaboration with the...

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This is not for any contest especially since I like better versions than the one sung by Glenn Hughes which is not much to my liking.  Furthermore, this is more in the region of...

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Alas, a US Marine saved a baby in Afghanistan.
The USA, as a way to say thank you, puts him 
under investigation?

Yes, a true hero, made the horrid mistake?
Of being honored at a Trump rally, ...

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I guess I had the looks the charm and charisma 
to attract the sort of girl who lacked a character 
when kindness is seen as flirtation obsession does occur 
in one moment you showed more...

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Not sure what I do but I sure am exhausted at the end of the day,
so I decided to think about it and made this list . . .

I sleep (not enough, probably)

I eat...

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I hear Laughter mocking the bruises on my face
I see heads shake out of the corner of my eye
As i walk on my the fingers pointing at me
To judge the one they see but do...

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 WORD HOBO has that ring of truth as nom de plume. He has encouraged me tons, and with such sincerity, he became one of the reasons I never could quit POETRY SOUP. I salute...

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This poem will be featured on the Home Page of Poetry Soup this week
 Perfect for Father's day, It s a repost that many have yet to see.
    Happy Father's Day 
...

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Suddenly a knock came, it was his estranged wife, "Darling I am sorry, and I need you in
my life",
She begged that he would answer, then decided use her key, as she entered she was calling,
"Darling...

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-This buds for you!-
-It takes one to know one!-
-I know you are, but what am I?-

A second hand, on my stopwatch, going nowhere!
You are a joker, a smoker, a midnight stroker  
<-------How, about that,...

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Acquiring a new pair of wings I flew into a reputative college to pursue my studies..
focussed on gaining knowledge 
to become an independent girl I thrived, 
Forming fresh set of friend circle sought to explore~...

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~ (~) There was this poll, it stated would you rather be informed of your punctuation 
mistakes publicly or through private message with the helper of your punctuation mistakes or 
yes maybe even not... ....

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Termites at Christmas

They’re just little insects,
they were swarming by the hundreds one day,
through the backyard, as we sat in lawn chairs,
through the portico and on past our faces they flew,
the sunlight behind their soft bodies...

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My eyes have not grown too weak or dim
to ignore what they've long been seeing
pretenders who wear a mask of disguise
like a skier who's not proficient at skiing

Everyone who labels him/herself a 'poet'
thinks he's composed...

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Remembering Old-Time Telephone Service 

By Elton Camp

Only a few decades ago, the wireless telephones that have become so much a part of our lives were inconceivable and remained so until the advent of Star Trek...

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