Long Desiccated Poems
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Lost In the Mists, Parts I-Iv
Lost In the Mists Parts I - IV
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Categories:
desiccated, mystery, spiritual, visionary,
Form:
Free verse
A civil war ferociously raged
A civil war ferociously raged...
within complex edifice...
derelict hulking corpse delineated courtesy
seared, singed, smoldered smithereens
formerly robust warrior
slain during prime of his life
heavenly corporeal outstanding entity
subjected to fateful foragers
courtesy camping buzzfeeding carrion -
fancy feast for famished
uber twittering,...
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Categories:
desiccated, age, america, angst, anxiety, april, grave, slavery,
Form:
Free verse
When Will You Say Enough Is Enough
I have seen the fireflies two nights in succession
wandering restlessly in the dark
hundreds of them blinking evocative lights
symbolizes the souls of warriors whose blood
have drenched the desiccated earth for a cause
they believe...
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Categories:
desiccated, adventure,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
My Ebbing Physical Prowess and Strength
My ebbing physical prowess and strength
noticeably decreases in one direction.
I take lock, stock and barrel
to revisit good ole days of yore
quite conscious undeclared state of war
prevails within body electric of troubadour
now seated at his...
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Categories:
desiccated, 12th grade, adventure, age, angst, atheist, confusion,
Form:
Rhyme
Roman a Clef Tragicomedy
Roman à clef tragicomedy...
overlaid with façade of fiction = Mein Kampf
in summer re:
typed out during winter of my discontent,
when yours truly no spring chicken
stirred ruse to expatiate poetically
regarding following rhyming reason,
hence mine lovely bones
into...
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Categories:
desiccated, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form:
Rhyme
Rock and Water
Interview With a Rock
I was conceived in the warm haven of a mother’s womb. Developing, growing, morphing through the epochs of time. Then, on no day in particular, I emerged...
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Categories:
desiccated, 12th grade,
Form:
Free verse
My Ebbing Physical Prowess and Strength
I take stock and revisit good ole days of yore
quite conscious undeclared state of war
prevails within body electric of troubadour
now seated at his Macbook Pro
today February 20, 2021.
Since January thirteenth of this year
(two thousand and...
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Categories:
desiccated, 12th grade, confusion, courage, death, depression, desire,
Form:
Rhyme
Cholla's Legacy
A diverse array of flora and fauna reign majestic
in vivid tawny imagery of shifting sand dunes
and barren rocks-- sixteen miles
from the golden rays of western tomorrow.
Time is played out in crucial moments of...
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Categories:
desiccated, america, appreciation, august, beauty, imagery, nature, sun,
Form:
Free verse
Undressed
at first she did not want to attend the party
was not in the bright mood for heavenly guise
...
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Categories:
desiccated, beauty,
Form:
Free verse
The Sensual Scent of Summer
Coconut tropical oil
Glistening on my skin
The scent intoxicates me
As I bask in the sun
And drink in the beauty
Of the sparkling Mediterranean Sea
It’s only for a short while
That I will lie here
And only because
I want...
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Categories:
desiccated, sea, senses, sensual, summer,
Form:
Free verse
Word Requiem In D Minor
Word Requiem in D Minor
Hello.
Fancy meeting you here.
Last time we met like this?
That would be 1979, at Rio.
I remember we walked slowly
Up to the second floor balcony,
Of the overlooking science building,
Scanning with...
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Categories:
desiccated, death, death of a friend,
Form:
Free verse
Moon Flower
Moon flower
You lay on white cotton sheets with the hospital logo imprinted
on the cloth and on the fabric of your life talcum powder for
your bed sores anorexic washed out gastric spittle dribbling
from ulcerous mouth facing...
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Categories:
desiccated, addiction, bereavement, caregiving, death of a friend,
Form:
Personification
The Former Double Life of Matthew Scott Harris
The (former) Double Life Of Matthew Scott Harris
Dove finch he following iniquitous
licentious, lecherous longing
extinguished quite
some years ago,
when eldest daughter
...
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Categories:
desiccated, grief, hurt, meaningful, memory, pain, psychological, wife,
Form:
Narrative
Roman a Clef Tragicomedy
Roman à clef tragicomedy...
overlaid with façade of fiction = Mein Kampf
No need for yours truly to dig deep,
(albeit bonafide figuratively)
by Dickens thru mine Uriah Heep,
a gnarled mass creep
ping, comprising, encompassing, glomming
abysmal existence strewn with hard...
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Categories:
desiccated, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 8th
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
Approximations
I think the beauty in living comes along when we shirk our heavy coats
And our white-knuckle approximation of old, flake-away skin, which we have
Stapled back onto ourselves—
The faces we’ve taught everyone to believe:
Just dumb enough...
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Categories:
desiccated, people, social, surreal, truth,
Form:
Free verse
Autumn's Glance
Casting a glance past my shoulder as Chopin’s Berceuse opens into the air
light diffuses across the room with its Autumn shadow
...
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Categories:
desiccated, autumn, beauty, bereavement, color, writing,
Form:
Free verse
Beneath the dome of an unforgiving sky, a spring with a leaden heart warms up
Beneath the dome of an unforgiving sky, a spring with a leaden heart warms up,
Around it, whole worlds gather, with stiffened breaths and glassy stares,
Herds move, languidly inside a landscape torn from an apocalypse painting,
And...
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Categories:
desiccated, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
That Was Then, This Is Now
That was then….
When the tapestry of contentment enveloped
the enthralled expanse exhilarated,
of the sensuous sky called life.
When the fervent flight was friendly
for the esoteric essence to fly fearless
near and far like a...
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Categories:
desiccated, analogy, life, time,
Form:
Free verse
The Day Dad Went To Belsen
The tank stopped abruptly
And we sat open mouthed
At what we beheld
Our brains could not assimilate
What our eyes were seeing
Great mounds of …. What?
It can’t be that.
All the horrors of war
We had witnessed, experienced
Since D-day
Did not...
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Categories:
desiccated, war
Form:
Free verse
Greys, Part Iii
Greys, Part III
Temerity, the crux of the Human Way -
We dominate what we can,
Deride the rest -
But the heart speaks in terms the tongue cannot frame,
Suggesting the worst is a part of our best
The ashen...
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Categories:
desiccated, angst, humanity, philosophy,
Form:
Free verse
One Drop - Prose
These forgotten badlands are arid and parched. It’s felt the blistering, desert hot winds.
Turbulent gritty sand storms have crossed these lands. What was once lively, thriving is
now only a desolate, thirsty terrain. After being...
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Categories:
desiccated, allegory, hope, life, lovesound, water, sound, water,
Form:
Prose Poetry
My Ebbing Physical Prowess and Strength Flows Away I
analogous to expending precious Air Supply
embellishing, modifying, revising, et cetera
a poem crafted about fourteen months ago.
I take stock and revisit good ole days of yore
quite conscious undeclared state of war
prevails within body (Electric
Light Orchestra)...
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Categories:
desiccated, absence, analogy, april, birthday, death, destiny, fate,
Form:
Rhyme
Word Fright
by Michaelw1two
inspired by word works of Void Opus
all for you, superannuated, desiccated erudition,
this propagation scribed, this apotheosis odium;
under eructate flames, under the epitome of,
euphonious, promulgated magniloquent inception;
of the Maker’s exuberant...
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Categories:
desiccated, words,
Form:
Free verse
The Sun Rises With Each Morning of Hope
"Reflections of pink, and gold on heaven’s floor,
a hint of memories that came millenniums before,
and the radiance of God’s glory, eying from behind the shore,
is a new dawn, for...
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Categories:
desiccated, analogy, god, hope, humanity,
Form:
Free verse
Bouncing Back Self-Controlled
In the seamless sky of my fervent yearning,
I let the enraptured songbird of heart soar high,
glide in the spring-rippled amorous breeze
that carried your jasmine fragrance to me.
The dulcet dawn splashed the spectrum of ecstasy,
blossomed the...
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Categories:
desiccated, heartbreak, lost love, uplifting,
Form:
Free verse