Long Deft Poems
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Fairer, IndeedWOMEN ...
Truly amaze me ... they possess the super-human
strength to birth a child - one of the most painful
and demanding physical and emotional feats of end-
urance known to our species - yet they have the
self-confidence...
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Categories:
deft, appreciation, humanity, love, wisdom, woman, women,
Form:
Free verse
Canto Xxix Hell TranslationSo many people and the various sores
Intoxicated in such a way my eyes,
That wanted open to crying their doors.
But Virgil told : “What for you look this guise?
Why now your sight is so carefully brought
Down...
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Categories:
deft, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
My Melodious Muse** I apologize, but if you're viewing this on a phone, it probably wont look right, as the browser page on a phone is not wide enough to indent the right edge properly. It was...
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Categories:
deft, analogy, inspiration, love, metaphor, muse, music,
Form:
Concrete
The Queen of EnglandQueen Elizabeth Alexandra Mary ll
Her seemingly eternal monarch--God has now beckoned
Balmoral Castle, reigned over the United Kingdom
"God Save The Queen" The British national anthem
21 April 1926 – 8 September 2022
“We are all visitors to this...
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Categories:
deft, appreciation, celebration, grief,
Form:
Clerihew
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 5
The appearance of his old friend brought new thoughts of his mother and, Nordgrend, the town in which they spent the last few years. Raðulfr, was a truly kind man and he was...
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Categories:
deft, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Once Pawn a TimeOnce pawn a time...
About four plus weeks after
frazzling fiasco from friggin fraudsters
white knight still mourns swindled money
Lynne Costello Senior Civil Investigator
(assistant to Philadelphia attorney general)
unable to recoup forfeited funds.
While holed up in castle keep,
(albeit fetchodit...
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Categories:
deft, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, absence,
Form:
Rhyme
Shame and Guilt Sabotaged Mine Healthy GrowthShame and guilt sabotaged mine healthy growth...
and let yours truly not forget emasculation
that prickly emotional immobilization
whereby these lovely bones
subject courtesy senescence
upon cremation reduced to obliteration.
Inching closer to mortality
linkedin with concomitant
subtle deterioration of body...
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Categories:
deft, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form:
Free verse
Once a Pawn a Time Within Castellated BishopricOnce a pawn a time within castellated bishopric
We purchased 2020 Hyundai Elantra
at Enterprise Car Rental
1207 West Ridge Pike
Conshohocken, Pennsylvania 19428
April thirteenth two thousand twenty three
witnessed greatest amount of money
I spent at one time.
The following day...
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Categories:
deft, appreciation, april, bible, black love, dark, dream,
Form:
Rhyme
6 Days In LimboAfter boxing day,
What are we going to do,
I look at you ,
And you look at me,
Simultaneously we
Say, we have 6 days free
We look a little lost we have
Not planned a holiday, I know
Let’s go...
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Categories:
deft, christmas,
Form:
Prose
Each Day of Our LivesEach day’s (we’re alive) one more leaf that has fallen
from tree (Fate’s collusion?), our edifice grown
with the help of light garnered from sources outside
of our provenance, moisture, and minerals,
‘cheap’s’ turned to ‘gold,’ not by Chemistry’s...
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Categories:
deft, humor, political,
Form:
Rhyme
The HookerIt was in the mists of morning, beneath the rising morning sun,
We had come to conquer Ft. Langley, It was me and Al and John.
We had all teed off quite nicely, on number one I...
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Categories:
deft, fun, golf, humor, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
To Count Quantum SheepFoggily out of cryostasis, I come ...
A slow, painful waking to a vessel that's shaking
from the stress of its increasing mass,
And at once I'm made sure...
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Categories:
deft, adventure, fantasy, science, science fiction,
Form:
Rhyme
The Three Little Pigs - a New StoryNow here's a tale that needs to be told
Of three little pigs so very different
Their names were Ernest, Roger and Winky
These names by their parents were given
Now I could say these pigs were not so...
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Categories:
deft, fantasy, humor,
Form:
Free verse
The Best Gifts of This Life - 1,2I. Early Childhood’s Gifts
Gift 1:
Is love felt from our parents, our friends a true gift
or more something we earn bit by bit over time,
(a child adds to, subtracts from, as days turn to years)?
This is...
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Categories:
deft, appreciation, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Thomas Chatterton Translation: Under the Willow TreeSong from Aella: Under the Willow Tree, or, Minstrel's Song
by Thomas Chatterton, age 17 or younger
modernization/translation by Michael R. Burch
MYNSTRELLES SONGE ("MINSTREL'S SONG")
O! sing unto my roundelay,
O! drop the briny tear with me,
Dance no more...
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Categories:
deft, dance, death, love, romance, romantic, song, tree,
Form:
Rhyme
Jinxed Jesting Jejune Junior JobberJinxed jesting jejune junior jobber...
just jabbering gibberish (A - J)
Again, another awkward ambitious
arduous attempt at alphabetically
arranging atrociously ambiguously
absolutely asinine avoidable alliteration.
Because...? Basically bonafide belching,
bobbing, bumbling, bohemian beastie boy,
bereft bummer, bleeds blasé blues, begetting
bloviated boilerplate bildungsroman,
boasting...
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Categories:
deft, 1st grade, 2nd grade, adventure, age, birthday,
Form:
Free verse
Soul Stance River - 3Night one on the new river, the campfire is spirited
and the future appears hospitable,
everyone has their rations, everybody is resting their pride
for on an expedition epic to each man and for a republic as well
souls...
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Categories:
deft, adventure,
Form:
Epic
Canto Xxiv Dante's Hell Translation Part1In the early part of the novel year
When in Aquarium sun anneals hair
And nights already at noon disappear,
When the hoarfrost makes ground a cover wear
Creating image of her sister white,
But it then short...
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Categories:
deft, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
I Heard the Universal Sound of Aum Pronounced OhmI heard the universal sound of aum (pronounced ohm)...
while being quarantined inside our own invisible bubble
Transcendent meditations
while athwart oblate spheroid
allow, enable, and provide
deft capability deciphering
snap, crackle and pop
accepted as mere static
to the untrained ear.
Each inaudible...
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Categories:
deft, allah, appreciation, birth, devotion, flying, happiness, identity,
Form:
Free verse
A Tale of Cosmos - Part 2the Universe, a self-defining everything
but then, what of the Cosmos wherein we all dwell?
that big bang blast, forever on a far-flung fling
from beyond and within which, lurks heaven and...
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Categories:
deft, philosophy, science, universe,
Form:
Verse
Upon Exiting the WombUpon exiting the womb...
23,190 days ago,
Yours truly got hashtagged
as the 2,975,075,410TH
person alive on Earth
according to website
https://worldpopulationhistory.org/
my-population-number/.
Come November 15, 2022
(a little more than
four months from now -
actually one hundred twenty days
after today July 11, 2022),
the world's...
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Categories:
deft, adventure, africa, america, birth, creation, crush, destiny,
Form:
Free verse
Violin“If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. I get most joy...
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Categories:
deft, music, uplifting,
Form:
Free verse
Deft Star Student and Beloved Dynamic Daughter Upon Her Twenty Fourth BirthdayDeft "star student" and beloved dynamic daughter upon her twenty fourth birthday
I suppose... see:)?
twas approximately early/mid March
nineteen ninety six begat your fate
obstetrics and gynecology specialist(s)
signalled impending birth (due) date
about nine months later
December twenty second, and...
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Categories:
deft, absence, adventure, birthday, cat, celebration, daughter, december,
Form:
Rhyme
Is Aranjuez a Pining After the Composer's MotherIs ARANJUEZ a pining after the composer's mother ?
(Joaquin Rodrigo - 1901-1999 - who composed the " Aranjuez " concerto on piano in 1938/9 and which later was destined for the guitar and orchestra, turned...
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Categories:
deft, how i feel, longing, loss, memory, mother
Form:
Free verse
Oft Bold the Thoughts, When Pen Strikes PaperOft Bold The Thoughts, When Pen Strikes Paper
Oft bold the thoughts, when pen strikes paper
even should ones shovel meet dark coals.
Shrouds removed, to smell new rising vapors
or challenge poets tired and resting souls!
Sought, shimmering pools...
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Categories:
deft, art, imagination, passion, poetry, poets, words, writing,
Form:
Rhyme