Long Deflecting Poems
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The Plague
as 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:
deflecting, society,
Form:
Quatrain
February 27th, 2018 literary tinkering rejiggered October 11th, 2024
February 27th, 2018 literary tinkering rejiggered October 11th, 2024
I believed fortune cookie maxim
cryptic message couched
Apple Macbook Pro update process
alternately titled “markedly
a Luke warm welcome Matt unfurled
courtesy Jimmy John,
who embarked on
imp apostle bull...
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Categories:
deflecting, absence, abuse, adventure, allegory, allusion, analogy, autumn,
Form:
Free verse
Soul Stance River - 25
Christ!
A warparty of 60 Shoshone warriors has just stampeded into the meadow
faces painted red and white for blood and death, all sorts of strange designs,
bows and arrows ready to fly on us, skull breaking cudgels...
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Categories:
deflecting, adventure,
Form:
Epic
The Secret Lives of Chimney Pots Iii
Marching out of the cloaked shires
Of landowners, stockbrokers,
Hereditary Peers, and ruddy faced
Squires:
A vast multitude of many varied
Tribes.
Amassing in the great cities, where,
Inhabiting shadowy chambers,
Behind nodding sighs and hushed
Whispers,
The Masonic...
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Categories:
deflecting, philosophy,
Form:
Rhyme
Perdidit Antiquum Litera Prima Sonum
The sky has dug a hole in the cloud
it's fuc**** triangle's fault I can't see the pigs
stratified societies
revitalized on schizophrenic base of
finger pointing minority
staring at fragmented people
seeing them as dispensed particles
that...
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Categories:
deflecting, discrimination,
Form:
Free verse
Sagittarian Surety
It is decidedly so,
That I shall go where you go
And in our journeys
I shall never let my love tire
The stars deem it worthy
Your fire is my truest desire
For this is decidedly so
And nobody will quite...
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Categories:
deflecting, dedication, deep, desire, devotion, i love you,
Form:
Free verse
Damocles Sword Renamed Donald Trump Dagger O' Type
Emotional guillotine clefts
irredeemable psychological umbilical accord
witnessing heart breaking,
woe-begotten inhumane rip cord
gut wrenching shuffle board
(indiscriminately sporting)
most...
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Categories:
deflecting, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, abuse,
Form:
Free verse
Fortune Cookie Maxim Minimizes Apple Macbook Pro Update Process
agonizingly dutifully didst wait
to distract anticipatory anxiety,
(analogous to an expectant father)
while protracted procedure promised
nothing short of a millennium
whereby echoing thru the corridors of time
olly olly gluten free ranging NON GMO, oxen
oiled lubricated cloven hoof
nsync cup...
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Categories:
deflecting, 10th grade, 11th grade, funny, perspective, power,
Form:
Prose Poetry
One cold grave
They laugh, like it means something I can't find,
They pass by me, but I'm left behind.
I nod, I speak, I play the role,
But no one hears the quiet soul.
I remember the warmth of...
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Categories:
deflecting, boyfriend, break up, deep, grief, heartbreak, longing,
Form:
Narrative
Armorbearer
I got a job,
got only one thing to do
My job is simply this,
it is to protect you
Nowadays, I guess you could say,
I would be called a bodyguard
But back in the day,
when bodyguards were a terror,
I...
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Categories:
deflecting, bible, christian, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
When the Power Is Lost
The path that's walked by narcissists is one they think we've missed,
it delivers them from hardship and gifts a life of bliss.
They learned through truth they're vulnerable, so truth they wont admit,
without the fear life's...
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Categories:
deflecting, identity, inspirational, loss, power, psychological, wisdom,
Form:
Rhyme
As I Arise
As I arise and fresh aspire
to seek that which, in men, inspire,
with each new light, of each new day,
I still by will and night's display,
again, have lost my way.
I claim that all is...
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Categories:
deflecting, culture, imagery, inspirational,
Form:
Free verse
Shucking Evil In Favor of Good
Shucking Evil In Favor Of Good...
(courtesy of tasseled colonel corny maise aye aire)
Challenge more difficult than threading
camel thru eye of needle, hence catchy title
scotched, and I aim to endeavor and steer
away from task surpassing
defying...
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Categories:
deflecting, angel, blessing, devotion, faith, funny, growth, humor,
Form:
Free verse
Valentine Mischief
No one at home on Valentine’s Day, our lips were already locked.
Getting used to being alone, our plans would have left you shocked.
Back from vacation, the Basement Trolls came strolling in, our night was lost.
But...
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Categories:
deflecting, fantasy, fun, funny, humor, humorous, imagination, valentines
Form:
Light Verse
God On Earth
What better place than here
to be
To stop drop anchor and rest aboard
my floating throne and dotted
upon by endless servants
feeding me grapes of wrath
And take in all of this ethereal world's
majesty I am seemingly deemed...
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Categories:
deflecting, slam,
Form:
Free verse
Mine's Bigger Than Yours
My golden ego soars higher than yours
I can hold my breath longer underwater
of course,
because my publican lungs are stronger than yours
I can outshout your taxing voice
to the heavens with a prideful text roar
I’m the...
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Categories:
deflecting, allusion, corruption, political, power,
Form:
Alliteration
Mueller Report Equals Unexpected Coup For Trump
Much to my chagrin
barely discerned, noticed above
the celebratory Republican din
the commander in chief
all smiles with engined
haired cohorts evincing
ear to ear tousled grin,
feather in cap for apprenticed
president and kin,
which exemption, sans suspected
collusion deflated balloon,
asper impeachment with...
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Categories:
deflecting, 12th grade, america, grief, history, humanity, mum,
Form:
Political Verse
With Open Arms
Sweet soul sister
'Pon summer's day in a sunny city in America
native-born is she, sweet sister of mine
Soulful big eyes so kind
An angelic face and cheeks of fuchsia
Rose the name should’ve given
They’d turn red when...
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Categories:
deflecting, angst, bereavement, cinderella, encouraging, faith, how i
Form:
Dramatic Verse
In and Out and In Again
Compassion wears an overwhelming,
mountainously exterior face
Filling
and refilling outside
while emptying inside
ego flowing focus,
co-passion concavely felt
known valleys of contentment
wealth woke
health awakened
empathically safe embraced interior
Connected,
often without conditioned
encultured
articulated
verbal content
In-between integral ego/ecosystems
inducing and producing individuation,
MeWe co-relational identity
bicamerally felt communionation
bilaterally...
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Categories:
deflecting, culture, earth, health, integrity, peace, power, religion,
Form:
Political Verse
What They Think
Wise guys want to sit and criticise
crying with laughter as tears fill eyes
you wise guys ain't nice, hear my advice,
try applying your mind like I do mine
put downs allow your insecurities to shine...
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Categories:
deflecting, allusion,
Form:
Free verse
The body talks
Psst hey sub c, you feel that? Seems like she’s making changes, but do you think she really means it this time.
As her sub c, I can feel the shift within her attitude. Specifically...
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Categories:
deflecting, blessing, meaningful, mental health,
Form:
Rhyme
Prayer Of Spiritual Warfare
Lord, you have shown me there could possibly be.
Unseen Spirits that can be influencing me.
These spirits can affect, my family members too.
There’s victory in you, Jesus, so I come to you....
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Categories:
deflecting, 9th grade, blessing, evil, god, jesus, mystery,
Form:
Rhyme
Dont Be a Trust Dispenser
Thinks he's on some cool ish
But really on some bull ish
The type of dude that
You want nothing to do with
This is the type of dude
That will promise you everything
Wont deliver anything
& use...
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Categories:
deflecting, character, evil, growth, men, relationship, trust, wisdom,
Form:
Rhyme
Mars Awaits
Mars Awaits
Twenty thousand years before our time-line,
Rad Arrigo would see it through,
Rad Arrigo of the bronze wing warrior sign,
Martain Aeronautic too,
Looked and saw the comet coming,
Spluttering on the horizon due,
To impact the northern hemisphere, coming,
Ever...
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Categories:
deflecting, adventure, planet,
Form:
Ballad
Let Me Deserve It
You say that everything somehow come down to me,
that I’m reason for you wrongs, whatever they might be.
If, somehow, I disappeared then things would be all right,
I’ve been here from the start, won’t leave without...
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Categories:
deflecting, anger, emotions, history, people, political, song, truth,
Form:
Rhyme