Long Declaim Poems

RESURRECTION OF A HEROE:

CHORUS:

Far from comparison, far from fear.
Failure part of the journey; shed no tears.
Man...do... the best you can do.
Talents in your hand's only for you. 
No body cares...what you goes through;
When you succeed,...

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Unquotable quotes: Writers – XXXVIII

     for Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoieski  
     who let not even hope sustain them and who used their...

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THE SENTINEL
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS

					

I took the elevator to the lobby of the small hotel
I’d been here six days the ennui was starting to tell
I’d been sent to cover an international gathering
Sessions so long and dull...

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Paul Tillich wrote 
"nationalism hates and must always hate Judaism and prophetic Christianity."

When he spoke of nationalistic patriotism
he was thinking of fascism,
as the logical conclusion
of those more loyal to a specific supremacist space and time
than...

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Then I saw thousand grim faces because
Cold distorted; thus I get much disgust
And always is so, any frost pond does.

And while we went to the middle just
Where any heavy fault and pain is found,
And in...

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The boy was aged about eighteen,
Pale and pensive, 
Weary and frail in appearance. 
He could have been 
Goethe's Werther, 
Senancour's Obermann 
Or Chateaubriand's melancholy hero, 
Embraced by a generation, 
And about whom Sainte-Beuve said:
"Rene, c'est...

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October 28 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Romans 3-4

Key Verse – Romans 3:22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe…

LORD...

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I’m screaming at the top of my lungs, 
Yet no sound is dispatched
These guilty grazers are all culprits,
As my voice has been snatched,
It’s as if my neck has been tightly draped
By a never-ending string
Suffocation is...

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Om Shanti Shanti Shanti:

A faith-lit  path in forlorn lands
Hold no wrath,  it's ever at hand
You didn’t know it a bit, did you?
Doling out truth in terms of myth
Not far away to be one...

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I have heard people declaim
That Africa is the dark continent
Plagued by war, sickness and famine
The aridity of such a claim
Has left my people to pine.

Yes, I grant through the years,
Africa has suffered from war, famine,...

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Written: December 23, 2023, For Robert James Liguori Contest
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Life must be navigated without family pain.
Sins that grab the dirt below leave a stain.
Wrongdoings profoundly...

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Prince in nawab's costumes
Shouted in the dark Proscenium,
-Who's there, bequeath thousand gold coins
among the poorest citizen of my domain
Did anyone find those words?
breath-Stop flare, somebody sneeze somewhere
a cat under any seat in this empty auditorium
couple...

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Found me raised
     in the Antebellum South
     born an academically gifted
     whip smart, (and any other
     apropos) above average...

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"The Industrial Revolution!"
It is the workers' cry,
Who'd rather earn their bread each day
And plan their lives and save their pay,
Than lie and steal and die.

"The Industrial Revolution!"
It is the bosses' song,
Who'd rather teach the willing...

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Some are clearly Buddhist,
they sing not much, but drone
and chant, they do not flaunt.

Some are brightly painted egos,
their songs bootie-calls from empty nests
where they preen melodically rampant.

Others strain both throats and tongues
bend a tune to...

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It was some hours of purgatory,
Self imposed, but all the same,
He thought of it as purgatory as
He listened to them declaim 
Their long strings of words with
No apparent rhyme or reason,
As if joy and happiness...

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Afamefuna
Lend me your heart this night
Let me cuddle its soothing feelings
It uniqueness worth millions in the market
I want to make my soul your home of hope.


Afamefuna
Let your smile tickle my woman to grace
A pack of...

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Certainty waits in caves, lost and found, in modern sites,
Where chaos helms the deep layers of dimensional light;
Far, in May's cool autumnal nights,—her footsteps trek
A prism of thought,—constellations tracing her back.
I was studying the key...

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I am nothing without your love
The features of your love declaim me
In an empire state of the mind
I want to grow old with your love
Build the world of our own privacy


I want to rest my...

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If only I could
Write excellent verses
With finest words whose meanings 
Would tug at your heartstrings,
Make every sinew in your body
Tingle with excitement,
And your hair to bristle 
As if a heavenly presence
Had brushed your skin.

If only...

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Let me love you like a poet would do.
Let me bite on the lid of my pen, thinking of you.
Let me write you down on pieces of paper and scribble you 
down on the back...

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My heart weakened by its innumerable years 
continues to flutter its plangent beats. An 
ancient maple tree, its leafless naked branches calls 
for me to rest beside its protective scaly bosom, 
for it sees a...

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STAY OR GO yes or no?
An offshore island we remain,
whether we stay or go..
But our history we need now
to declaim.. and say No!
Truly enfranchised for only a
few decades,now cheaply given
away for a pottage of gold...
all...

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When Poets Shop

Finding a robin on the freeway
is not more startling than encountering
a poet in the condiments aisle
at the market.  When worlds collide!

His tall red-bandana'd figure
strides past the packaged nuts
and dried fruits. Warning to...

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Remember I know you and your fragrance,
The fact you're the moon that borrows her
Beauty from mother sun hasn't answered this:
Do you love me or hate me with your ego?
I am your night, bed your soul...

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