Long Denver Poems
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The Cascade Adventures - Part 1It's been four years since I've seen so much as an insignificant mountain creek. Been overburdened with comfort, now frantic with nature withdrawals, having to settle for photos found on Google Images: emerald pine trees,...
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Categories:
denver, adventure, friend, mountains, nature, snow,
Form:
Haibun
Cascade Adventures --- Pt 1It's been four years since I've seen so much as an insignificant mountain creek. I've been overburdened with comfort, now frantic with nature withdrawals and having to settle for photos found on Google Images: emerald...
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Categories:
denver, adventure, beauty, childhood, confidence, fun, mountains, nature,
Form:
Haibun
Man's Best Friend -- Both Audio and TextIf you don't love dogs, you probably won't like this poem...my wife and I DO!
Can’t believe I used to think - when I was very young - that dogs made poorer pets than cats and...
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Categories:
denver, dog, love, pets,
Form:
Verse
Rainbow Sherbet and Dying PoemsI never got why you always
Ate the red pink color out
The Sherbet ice cream
It was like excavation
How you removed all the cherry
Without even affecting the other colors
Leaving the orange and the vanilla
Neatly for others
Who...
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Categories:
denver, bereavement, best friend, cancer, caregiving, death of
Form:
Dramatic Verse
The Hunger ProjectDedicated to Valerie Haper, actress and John Denver, singer!
Who were just wo, of hundreds who launched the Hunger Project,
In 1976!
Original title was a Salute to Valerie Haper. But it was not
adequate. It was more...
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Categories:
denver, dedication, inspiration, love, motivation, poets, remember,
Form:
Free verse
My Practiced Mid-Life PassionMany passions I have had
and many I have practiced long and hard.,
but it was not until mid-life, I opted for a hobby more artistic.
I got myself a new guitar with books to teach myself the...
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Categories:
denver, music,
Form:
Narrative
One O' These Days - Both Audio and TextMy father, like a lot of dads, was always making statements,
vowing that the three of us would take exotic trips.
The ones we actually took were simply journeys into town…
his promised ones were those that...
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Categories:
denver, father, loss, love,
Form:
Verse
Eccentric Mints - 150 Varieties1. Abolish Mints
2. Abut Mints
3. Accomplish Mints
4. Accouter Mints
5. Acknowledge Mints
6. Ada Mints
7. Adjust Mints
8. Admonish Mints
9. Adorn Mints
10. Advance Mints
11. Advertise Mints
12. Agree Mints
13. Ail Mints
14. Align Mints
15. Announce Mints
16. Annul Mints
17. Apart Mints
18. Appease Mints
19. Appoint Mints
20. Arma Mints
21. Argu Mints
22. Arrange Mints
23. Assess Mints
24. Astonish Mints
25. Atone Mints
26. Attain Mints
27. Banish Mints
28. Battle Mints
29. Befuddle Mints
30. Bereve Mints
31. Better Mints
32. Bewilder Mints
33. Blandish Mints
34. Command...
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Categories:
denver, humor, word play,
Form:
List
Uncle Lester - Both Audio and TextDevlan Caldwell Bachenmeister owned the largest factory that Pinkerton, New Hampshire ever had.
Almost everyone in town was working at that plant, but not, of course, my cousin Maynard’s dad.
Uncle Lester simply wouldn’t work for...
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Categories:
denver, humor,
Form:
Narrative
Jimmy Rigg, the Tool FreakJimmy Rigg - this dork I know, from Billings, Pennsylvania - always carries doo-dads in his pockets, front to rear,
Just in case some unexpected problem might arise...bent on having what he’d need to fix the...
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Categories:
denver, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Homeless PoetryHOMELESS POETRY
These are poems about the homeless and poems for the homeless.
Epitaph for a Homeless Child
by Michael R. Burch
I lived as best I could, and then I died.
Be careful where you step: the grave is...
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Categories:
denver, america, child, childhood, children, home, mom, mother,
Form:
Rhyme
Our Peoples' Values, Part ITodd was riding in the desert,
through Arizona’s red-brown waste,
out chasing down word of silver,
it was 1878.
He had nothing to go back to,
never had fit in well back east,
he’d left for Denver eight years back,
found nothing...
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Categories:
denver, culture, friendship, history, hope, humanity, people, sad,
Form:
Cowboy Poetry
Wind Beneath My Wings, Tribute to Elena
“ Did I ever tell you, you are my hero?
Did I ever tell you, you are everything
I wanted to be?
For, I can fly higher than an eagle,
...
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Categories:
denver, birthday, inspiration, mother daughter, poetess,
Form:
Ode
58 Hours of RailBy way of Amtrak we journeyed slowly but surely from Sacramento to Chicago. We departed Monday morning July 21st at the scheduled time of 11:09 am. From that moment on, one could feel...
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Categories:
denver, adventure, happy, husband, travel, wife,
Form:
Haibun
Grandmas HouseBeautiful land in the distance,
Heading there in consistence,
Mountains far but so close,
Leading us to a touch of prose.
Hear me for our worlds at peace,
Bend the map; make a crease.
Here we arrive,
After that 12 hour drive.
Colorado...
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Categories:
denver, childhood, family, house, house, me, time,
Form:
Blank verse
The Tragedy of Celestina, Part Ii...It was two days before she lost them,
and an arrow slashed her small finger,
a small wagon train did take her in,
but a doctor found gangrene in her,
chopped her pinkey with barely a word.
Fever set in...
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Categories:
denver, absence, heartbreak, history, journey, loss, lost love,
Form:
Cowboy Poetry
The Cowboy Rides For Christmas, Part IDixon Bullinger braced himself against
another frozen blast of winter wind,
riding through the front range to Denver
where his family was a-waiting.
It was morning on Christmas Eve,
and he was a long time overdue,
but Boss McChord had paid...
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Categories:
denver, adventure, christmas, family, hero, holiday,
Form:
Cowboy Poetry
Musical Dream #10I love listening to Bach on late evenings, especially his flowing ‘Ave Maria’,
just as I like tuning in to Schubert’s ‘Ave Maria’, far too many Ave Marias!
Nothing compares to Beethoven’s ‘Moonlight Sonata', it’s simply beautiful;
George...
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Categories:
denver, funny, music, people, time, me, love, me,
Form:
Couplet
The Thoughtless, Heartless, Do-Nothing CongressThe Thoughtless, Heartless, Do-Nothing Congress
Another day of carnage
In the USA
Little children
Eight, nine, ten and eleven years old,
Their life cut short,
By a mad person
With an automatic rifle
What will we all do?
Every week
More innocent people are
Victims of...
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Categories:
denver, baby, birthday, children, dad, dance, games, mom,
Form:
Free verse
Long Black Ribbon(I actually need a little help on this one, / not really poem/ not really song/ I call it a
cute ryhme ..
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
I’ve crossed many a bridges
I’ve seen many a town
Now that long...
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Categories:
denver, adventureme, me, , cute,
Form:
I do not know?
Things I Happen To LikeI like to watch skeins of geese flying in the autumn sky,
And I like the smell of frying bacon and luscious cherry pie!
I like to see the sun tinting Pikes Peak's crown in the early...
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Categories:
denver, introspection, autumn, sun,
Form:
Couplet
Charlaxfabels Partone LeadvilleCharlaXFabels
CharlaXFabels
FabelFifty
Poorboy
Eye was fine until the rain came down. The blanket seeped. The CharlaX wept.
The wonder of a dry warm place replaced with cold wet water on...
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Categories:
denver, childhood, natural disasters, parody, people, places, satire,
Form:
Prose Poetry
No One Around My Shoulder(My World Has Gotten Colder)I am awake
...
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Categories:
denver, introspection, me,
Form:
I do not know?
This Romeo Roofer Is GroundedHis girlfriend he wanted to see
To travel he came by Jet Ski
The moron, the fool
Broke our Covid rule
Our Deemster was far from happy!
His Christmas will be spent in jail
Found guilty, he’s no chance of bail
This...
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Categories:
denver, immigration, sea,
Form:
Limerick
Silk, Satin and Cashmere: A Tribute To Phenomenal Singers#A GIFT...AN UPLIFT! A GLORIOUS SHIFT OCCURS WHEN HAVING BEEN PRIVY TO AN OUTSTANDING SINGER! THE NEXT THING YOU KNOW, YOUR HEART FEELS A GLOW...
BECAUSE A SINGER HAS MOVED YOU SO...
"A SINGER HAS M...
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Categories:
denver, appreciation, beautiful, celebration, dedication, feelings, passion, song,
Form:
Rhyme