Long Crippled Poems
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An Uppercut I RememberDad hit me only once, an upper cut to the solar plexus. It nearly lifted me off my feet. I was 17 then and already fairly tall, 6’1.” He was 48 and of medium height,...
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Categories:
crippled, father son,
Form:
Blank verse
Medieval Poems IiMedieval Poems
Wulf and Eadwacer
(Old English circa 990 AD)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
My people pursue him like crippled prey.
They'll rip him apart if he approaches their pack.
We are so different!
Wulf's on one island; I'm on...
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Categories:
crippled, angel, england, love, middle school, poetry, song,
Form:
Rhyme
A Snow Queen TalePart 1: FORE SIBERIAN FATE
silk wings wet -
angel on the lake.
starlight glitter
separates from
the golden wheat.
her docile hair,
prophecy of ice.
winter pink,
pinched cheeks.
ice skate scrapes -
flecks of flakes.
the snow queen
before her relentless
reign, a pretty thing.
her smile warms
the...
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Categories:
crippled, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
Randomlings 1-34Randomling 1: Matthew Macfadyen
I believe I'm in love with Matthew Macfadyen
He inspires in me a terribly bad yen
But as poetry goes
His name 'spires woes
Cause nothing rhymes with "Macfadyen”.
Randomling 2: Birthday Wishes
For my birthday,...
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Categories:
crippled, cat, deep, depression, dog, emotions, funny, love,
Form:
Verse
Additional Advice To Those Would Be King From the Thiruk-Kural With CommentaryAdditional free advice to those* who would be King from the THIRUK-KURAL with Commentary
[*like presidents, prime ministers, dictators of declining (falling or fallen) nations or even empires]
K442: urranOy niikki uraa amai munkaakkum
...
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Categories:
crippled, bullying, immigration, prison, religion, sympathy, tamil, violence,
Form:
Epigram
Silent Cries and AgoraphobiaI remember feeling so empty the abuse had escalated after four hurricanes witnessing a murder horrific traumatic brain injury I was now uprooted leaving my beautiful home in Fort Myers Florida at the behest of...
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Categories:
crippled, anxiety,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 6Upon this date he spoke no more of the preceding moments,
Tearing and hurling insult upon insult
In several directions, his tongue whipped and scorched me,
And he waited relentlessly to see the spark in my eyes...
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Categories:
crippled, adventure, character, gothic, heart, love, philosophy, power,
Form:
Free verse
The Plagueas the PROPHETS of profits, WE lead and WE’re fair
while WE’re living the life of the poor BILLIONAIRE
– silver yachts, pearly castles, cash (plenty to spare) –
with the world on OUR backs... ah! the burdens...
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Categories:
crippled, society,
Form:
Quatrain
Lethal and Dope LyricsDe Tod Motet//
Listen to my raw//
Observe my new law//
Innocent quench hunger waves//
With my black rhymes//
We are reaching the last days they say//
Be with me in soul and everyday//
Because i see dogs piercing sharp emotions to...
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Categories:
crippled, anger,
Form:
Verse
Variations On a HarmonicthemeChildren are Fundamentalists
Children are literalists,
fundamentalists.
When they hear
“You’re filthy and you stink!”
the younger they are,
the less likely to hear as a mature adult might,
“You have a sour smell on you.
Please go bathe,
and use some soap and...
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Categories:
crippled, health, love, peace, philosophy, political, poverty, power,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Love Has a Southern FlavorLove has a Southern flavor: honeydew,
ripe cantaloupe, the honeysuckle’s spout
we tilt to basking faces to breathe out
the ordinary, and inhale perfume ...
Love’s Dixieland-rambunctious: tangled vines,
wild clematis, the gold-brocaded leaves
that will not keep their order in...
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Categories:
crippled, desire, longing, love, romance, romantic, romantic love,
Form:
Sonnet
A Welcome Intrusion - 1st HalfThis is, as indicated, the 1st HALF of this fairly lengthy poem. The 2nd half had to be posted separately due to Poetry Soup's file-size limitations. No other way I could manage to make it...
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Categories:
crippled, father son,
Form:
Narrative
War Is a War CrimeOnce wars were fought with sticks and stones
to flog the flesh and batter bones
and conquer lands, defending thrones -
though gods provoke, not one atones.
The multitude (by hordes beset
with battle-ax or bayonet)
braved blades, dyed red...
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Categories:
crippled, war, world,
Form:
Quatrain
Font Din BlackFont Din Black
so u real???
Warning! The following choppy, batty,
dopey: elegy = flaky, goofy, history: iffy,
jumpy, kooky: loopy, matty, nappy, nippy,
sketchy material prone to find the reader
dazed and bewildered, yet comfortably...
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Categories:
crippled, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, addiction,
Form:
Free verse
Bridging the Unbridgeable ChasmWritten: 21 July 2023
Submitted to No. 1231 New Poem Only Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Brian Strand
Bridging the Unbridgeable Chasm*
As rises the wealth of nations,
As grows the limb of a township
So declines the flowers...
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Categories:
crippled, humanity, inspiration, men, society,
Form:
Rhyme
Hero WorshipI want to respond
to the retired Marine
who watched Democratic Congressional Leaders
during the State of our crippled Union event,
disappointed at how their patriotism,
their loyalty to sacred sacrifices of soldiers
appears too tepid,
jaded,
ungrateful
as compared to more thunderous enthusiastic...
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Categories:
crippled, god, innocence, integrity, military, peace, usa, violence,
Form:
Political Verse
Whispers Of HellDISCLAIMER : THIS IS AN ACCOUNT OF THE MASSACRE
IN ORADOUR-SUR-GLANE IN FRANCE WHICH TOOK PLACE
ON JUNE 1OTH 1944
TO MY READERS , " SOME LINES IN THIS POEM ARE GRAPHIC , AND
SOME MAY FIND...
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Categories:
crippled, death, god, history, war,
Form:
Rhyme
Old ManSilently he sat in darkness, flinching at the sight of light.
Which created a glow reflecting on his balding head.
His cold glare did not help my nerves,
so I simply stood there observing his silence.
His philosopher...
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Categories:
crippled, angst, dark, life,
Form:
Prose
Canto Xxviii Hell Translation Part1Whoever might with just free words beside
Speak of the blood and in full too of sores
Which I saw now, with a narration wide?
Any speech will sure fail to open doors
To our sermon and for the...
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Categories:
crippled, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
The Last Thoughts of a Fallen ChampionTHE LAST THOUGHTS OF A FALLEN CHAMPION
This one time I know I was caught below the belt
No doubt I got it wrong and I'm far from my best
My last chilling and coin now I've...
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Categories:
crippled, death, desire, fate, history, memory, remember,
Form:
ABC
Open To Rightbrain WisdomOne way of seeing interdependent relationship
between human nature
and all Earth's natural organisms and systems
is as historic waves of immigrant colonizing populations
spreading out across all unfrozen continents.
To gradually, naturally and spiritually,
over several generations,
become reborn transformed immigrants,
now...
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Categories:
crippled, earth, education, health, history, humanity, humor, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse
Defining TrumpismLet's talk today about Trumpism.
If this is a new word,
how is it different and the same as
Fascism?
Who is a Trumpian
more than a Republican?
Or do these two labels
show the same angry face
about a Crippled America
to you?
I...
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Categories:
crippled, earth, education, health, integrity, peace, psychological, usa,
Form:
Political Verse
Organic GratitudeEastern stars light our responsibility
to ease ridiculously democratic suffering of Other.
Western horizons speak not of suffering
much less death as inevitable failure.
Dark horizons speak of pain,
and how to avoid it through Other as ourselves.
Eastern lights speak...
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Categories:
crippled, birth, blessing, culture, health, power, sad love,
Form:
Prose Poetry
What IfWhat if the incessant torture didn’t happen
so many dark times, but it’s unimaginable
for you to comprehend isn’t it?
No one knows, the tragedies that left me
so crippled, you can’t fathom, the depth of
the sins they committed...
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Categories:
crippled, abuse, anti bullying, child abuse, depression, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
Ides In IvyOh, these trees, arms reaching as they
did then, but even wiser ... perhaps I as
well have learned another thing-or-two
...
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Categories:
crippled, education, imagery, memory, nostalgia,
Form:
Narrative