Long Commuted Poems
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Recluse By Dint of Circumstance
Recluse by dint of circumstance
Proud anonymous troglodytes
forerunners of mine
confronted threats less horrific
than forty fifth commander in chief
of United States of America.
He/him (matted hair, ratty, scrawny,
and tetchy ugly villain)
scurried into dark...
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Categories:
commuted, adventure, america, angst, anti bullying, betrayal, character,
Form:
Free verse
Dear global leaders keep on rockin in the free world
Dear global leaders - keep on rockin' in the free world
after implementing long overdue criminal justice reforms,
especially affecting marginalized groups of people.
I vote for more lenient, progressive and tolerant treatment
towards undocumented immigrants, plus implementing
a humane...
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Categories:
commuted, america, atheist, destiny, dream, fantasy, future, heaven,
Form:
Free verse
Recluse By Dint of Circumstance
Heretic condemned to burn at stake
reprieve eleventh hour granted clemency
commuted death penalty
criminal sentenced solitary isolation
rat infested dungeon ultimate punishment
doled out after protracted proceedings
courtesy amazing graceful puffed dragon
unwittingly delivered merciful respite.
Cowled ascetic busied himself
exotic gaseous/ liquified...
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Categories:
commuted, 11th grade, 12th grade, abuse, betrayal, earth,
Form:
Carpe Diem
An Opera of Comedy and Tragedy
An oversized vintage T-shirt is
My weekend attire or
More like my mainichi attire
My face bare
Exposing an unnamed galaxy of freckles
The bottle of
Cheap combini
Apple sparkling wine
Feelin like a millionaire
A neon highlighter between my lips
A novel...
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Categories:
commuted, addiction, books, loneliness, lonely, longing, song, sorrow,
Form:
Free verse
Recluse By Dint of Circumstance First Cell
He/him (ratty, scrawny,
and tetchy ugly villain)
scurried into dark recesses of hermitage
averse to cavort, frolic, inure himself
into the duplicitous schemes
capitalized, glorified, popularized
courtesy vanity of Homo sapiens
lest imp of the pervert
already sacrificed...
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Categories:
commuted, age, analogy, animal, appreciation, bible, character, courage,
Form:
Free verse
The Chicago Haymarket Riot of 1886
It was in eighteen eighty-six in the streets of Chicago,
where the greatest miscarriage of justice people would know
transpired in an infamous labor-police rendezvous.
Albert Parsons led eighty thousand people on revue.
The strikers marched down Chicago’s Michigan...
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Categories:
commuted, history, death, men, work, people, death, men,
Form:
Rhyme
Decade of the 80's
I finished high school in the 60's, a decade of 'Change and Revolution'. ...
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Categories:
commuted, america, family, history,
Form:
Free verse
Bard Barred Behind Unbreakable Bars
(thus, I revel to reveal
more'n juiced poppycock
perhaps casting impression,
I hale from Mars,
thus...
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Categories:
commuted, 12th grade, angst, fear, howl, mental illness,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
You Filled Me Up
Politics, aerobics, arithmetic
All of this commuted reconvicts
Genocide, homicides, what's in if for all you guys
run, run, run,
hide, hide, hide alibi
Just confined, must be nine it's mine
Denomination must be graven
Religious programing
Regional back firing
all of...
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Categories:
commuted, adventure, anxiety, appreciation, blessing, blue, christian, courage,
Form:
Free verse
Amanda Knox
(this pastiche promulgated many moons ago from those screaming bloody thirsty headlines from the Italian court for justice sans the brutal homicide attributed to this then American college student and her ex-boyfriend). My gut reaction...
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Categories:
commuted, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th grade, faith,
Form:
Epic
Unadulterated History
Unadulterated History.
In 1931, a white woman accused five Hawaiian men of rape. They were acquitted. The woman's mother showed up and demanded retribution for her family's "good" name. A group of white men grabbed one...
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Categories:
commuted, racism,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Amanda Knox
(this pastiche pertaining to maya own inc ore pore rated poetic patois promulgated many moons ago from those screaming bloody thirsty headlines from the Italian court for justice sans the brutal homicide attributed to this...
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Categories:
commuted, appreciation, boyfriend, conflict, corruption, dedication, feelings, heartbreak,
Form:
I do not know?
Revisited
The cottage has changed
And not only the cottage itself
For buildings exude more than just their fabric
They say something about their owners
About their occupants
About their time
When last I was here
The dwelling communicated a solitary inhabitant
In touch...
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Categories:
commuted, nature, nostalgia, places
Form:
Free verse
Halfway House
Some call it a halfway house because it's halfway between hell and living,
but living that way isn't really living at all; it's just a slower way of dying, friend.
Your self-imposed life sentence is hereby commuted...
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Categories:
commuted, dark,
Form:
Verse
Patty Hearst Time Capsule
*Image of Patty Hearst Post SLA Days by Bio.
Patty Hearst Time Capsule
PRE
kidnap
madcap
Miss press
distress
Stephen
live-in
boyfriend
loose end
next door
implore
both are
though marred
claimed they
made way
demand
expend
needy
agree
release
increase
more sum
unharmed
POST
coerced
Miss Hearst
photo
*Rousseau
woodness
goodness
raided
they laid
six ~love
**Cinque's club
plus him
crushed 'em
dual
you-all
Patty
make three
dub nine
club crime
bank raid
they'd paid
***Hearst weigh
must pay
servin'
seven
commute
come two
now writes
proud...
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Categories:
commuted, abuse, change, girl, life,
Form:
Footle
Between Scylla and Charybdis
Greek mythological
drama flourishes,
nee thrives within
noggin of yours truly
gods and goddesses
sporting Hellenic origins
purportedly cavort
higgledy-piggledy
rampantly running ragged
ruminative raconteur
resultant rueful end product
wreckage of present day me
chafing amidst yesteryear's adversities
shadow boxing doppelganger nemesis
fetus in fetu maintaining stranglehold
choking ability to...
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Categories:
commuted, allegory, analogy, destiny, fire, history, mountains, pain,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Unfinished Sentence
UNFINISHED SENTENCE
At Sunday prep my
boarding school teacher
criticising my unfinished sentence .
No communicated thoughts, no words .
Sentenced to life at fourteen ,
away from home and...
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Categories:
commuted, life, christmas, christmas, life,
Form:
Free verse
Salute Brother
(To a brother, he gives his biryhday celebration to be with the less fortunate kids. He is a hand of this nation)
Love ain't an illy feeling healed but a commuted commitment
Care and fair ain't a...
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Categories:
commuted, birthday, care, love,
Form:
Chant Royal
You Filled Me Up
Politics, aerobics, arithmetic;
All of this commuted reconvicts;
Genocide, homicides, what's in it for all you guys;
Run and hide, ,, alibi
Just confided, must be nine
No it is, it's mine
Denomination must be graven;
Religion religious programming;
Regional back firing;
All of...
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Categories:
commuted, beautiful, devotion, forgiveness, god, inspirational, jesus, spiritual,
Form:
Blank verse
Concluded
12/5/20
Better choose quick
Just might lose if
You don't do it
Awesome or a nuisance
It either was or wasn't in the blueprints
Still a loner, or already shot by Cupid's
Arrow, underneath a sky that is moonlit
They spread lies, but...
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Categories:
commuted, life, meaningful, poetry, rap, spiritual, strength, wisdom,
Form:
Rhyme
Mass Execution
The Dakota Wars
Took their toll
Native Indians
Out of control
Five settlers were killed
Is what started it all
Little Crow declared
More would fall
This all happened
Many years ago
As the history books
And the records show
August 16th
1862
Treaty payments arrived
Truly...
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Categories:
commuted, death, history, life, loss, native american, places,
Form:
Rhyme
Lonely As a Cloud In April
LONELY AS A CLOUD IN APRIL
I knew Great Aunt Lucy’s April outing to celebrate
My failed exams would be a series of disasters,
A slow motion flying April-fool joke, with my...
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Categories:
commuted, april, grandparents, humorous, spring,
Form:
Free verse
Hoss Died Half a Century Ago
He's a deceased actor who still has plenty of fans, including me.
Dan Blocker died fifty years ago today at the age of forty-three.
He and his family moved to Switzerland because he was against the Vietnam...
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Categories:
commuted, anniversary, death, dedication,
Form:
Rhyme
And So It Goes
Had a horse once.
Not anymore.
Car's faster.
Sailed across the sea.
Not anymore.
Airplane's quicker.
Typed on an old upright.
Not anymore.
...
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Categories:
commuted, culture, technology, today,
Form:
Free verse
Sincerely yours Mary Wade
I nearly hanged, it was my fate
In seventeen eighty nine
I had stolen an old fur tippet
And claimed that it was mine
They put me into prison
Then sent me to be tried
The verdict came back guilty
and...
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Categories:
commuted, history,
Form:
Rhyme