Long Deifying Poems

World's Longest Love Poem (second edition)


Title: My love my all

Edited by Izunna Okafor


Editor's Note:

Out of their ardency, eighteen poets and poetry lovers identified with the need to give the 2020 Valentine celebration a poetic taste...

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Many members of the two youngest generations used to describe themselves
as being "Nones," believing in no religion at all.  But in the process they have
decreed themselves to being their own gods by deifying themselves...

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Deifying a great teacher
is also a great way to make some money,
to establish a new commercial market
selling redemption from fear and ultimate failure.

I find Jesus of Nazareth's gospel message richly nutritious
compelling and resonant
when I have...

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First person shooter,
on a hate tour of duty,
swinging a bullet sling blade
Buying a death row ticket,
worth fifteen minutes of fame
First person murder shooter;
womb-to-the-cradle-to-the-grave robber,
using your Automatic Revolver
to solve your anti-social mental problems
Sharpen that sling blade
on...

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You used to scare me with your torrid schemes.
My mind was a parcel for your unravelling.
There was a time you used to play with its shadows,
And then you said you never took sides,
In War or...

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As an aperitif to understand the essence of thought
Blood of a young tortoise touched my lips
Seldom as it is - pure ichor – I whisper’d in a trot
Let me get drunk on it while deifying...

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Most of life plays out somewhere
somehow
sometime
in-between resplendent deification of MotherEarth
and rabid defiance of EarthMother
wisdom

Is a peculiarly Republican challenge,
confusing unchanging 
uniform 
divinely dogmatically inspired
Tradition

As if such Tradition were against
healing
unitarian economic political flow
of Earth-conserving sacred grace
slow-growing
co-invested capital...

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Freely forming metrical mainstays
poetic occasion to phrase
the fairer and gentler sex,
thus the following turns of phrase
to bestow acknowledgement

regarding wonderful wise ways
of collective she who assays
to create safe/secure home/ hearth
as bedrock and fount of ample
maternal duties...

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You used to scare me with your torrid schemes.
My mind was a parcel for your unravelling.
There was a time you'd play with its shadows,
and then you said you never took sides...
I believed you then.
Now, I...

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Dried up grass shimmer in the sun
Like fossilized corpses with nowhere to run
The barren land stretches till my eyes can see
Eyes filled with visions of what is and what could be

I tumble down paths strewn...

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Song of the Sojourner

From far, far, away,
In this land so foreign,
Memories of you haunt me.
I pine away in craving,
For the feel of your breath,
Cool, soft and saline,
Fanning my face, gently.

Memories of our first embrace,
As I...

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in this city's din of urban indifference
                    and solitude, let me hear again  
 ...

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1.Conducting husband’s earning regarded
best life partner.	
2.Degrading virtue of wife
grandeur life worthless. 
3.Her virtue, husband possesses
all, vice, contrary.
4.Conserving chaste of determined
 woman, deserve admiration.
5.Deifying unique husband, rain
obeys her spell.
6.Conserving virtues of both
confer her supreme.
7.Supreme woman guards...

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What, in your own mind,  you do think you lack,
Within thy sensational loneliness--
Truly energize luck and got your back, 
To promote thy risk in times, coziness. 

Then each and every of your lovely fear,...

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In this city's din of urban indifference 
                and solitude,
  let me hear once again the faintest 
 ...

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