Long Diligently Poems

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A Stolen Memory
A Mirthful Chorus
By Sy Roth 


We surrounded him 
Asked to let go.
She stared at the misshapen face,
Unshaven sandpapery skin 
Eyelids a tabula rasa
Fluttery sere skin
And we could see the humor blossoming in his...

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© Sy Roth  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: diligently, dream, loneliness,
Form: Free verse


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Ghost Hunter

I don't see you.
I've been searching my whole life,
But still, I don't see you.

When I was a wee lad
I looked for you ...
My mother's smile,
My father's toil,
My brother's refuge,
My sister's amity ...
I didn't see you.

Thanksgiving,...

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Categories: diligently, philosophy, religion, self,
Form: Free verse

A Perfect World From a To Z

A perfect world
From A-Z…

Actually addicted attitude apologetic they assume while I'm angst in my room
Bold not blameless but blame shooting out like bullets
Critics just quit it, calculated moves, claim to have your back until you...

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Categories: diligently, addiction, adventure, beauty, perspective,
Form: ABC
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My Brother--Nelson Mandela, Umtata, South Africa--Tribute Poem

Nelson Mandela, crossed my spirited mind today, a visionary legend of peace, love, equality, and unity of all people.

As a prevailer of great affliction, he was like a Greek God fighting for the—"Common man!”

I had...

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Categories: diligently, brother, confidence, dedication, discrimination, inspiration, motivation, strength,
Form: Couplet
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Follow the Bouncing Ball

She dresses the land down
in a virginal bridal gown 
a masterfully cut and sewn chenille 
shines brightly with a fine crystal appeal

Her assistants work quite diligently
to add special touches and then flee
they decorated the mountain peaks 
using all their...

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Categories: diligently, cheer up, , cute,
Form: Free verse


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Secret Garden

“I’m reluctant to share my secret, but being we are the closest of friends, I will share my secret with you. But before I do I’m going to ask you to pinkie swear that you...

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Categories: diligently, beautiful, fantasy, happiness, imagination,
Form: Prose

Growing

Two girls far apart leading different but crazy similar lives 
Lots of progress and work - arousing with small talk of becoming wives
But are those emotions genuinely what you wanna explore?
The journeys we will have,...

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Categories: diligently, girlfriend, women,
Form: Rhyme
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The Bible and Our Privileges

"It is known that the Bible, in its hundreds of different translations, is the most widely distributed book in human history. The bible has been enormously influential, and not only among the religious communities that...

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Categories: diligently, bible, books, christian, creation, devotion, encouraging, inspiration,
Form: Narrative
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Megan's Quest Part 6of7

With the Trolls passed out on the grass...the regrettable task
    now fell to the brave Talkalot.
He moved to the gate and taking a sip from his flask...
    he stared...

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Categories: diligently, adventure, courage,
Form: Rhyme
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The Cold Doorknobs

The Cold Doorknobs 

I.
I am sure there will be that profound moment in time
when the dog out back will stop its incessant yapping,
Its unrelenting impulse to belch out its interminable wails, 
alas, to inform its...

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Categories: diligently, death,
Form: Free verse
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Granddaughter to Grandmother, Grandmother to Grandmother


                           The wind is blowing cold tonight 

 ...

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Categories: diligently, age, granddaughter, grandmother, time,
Form: Rhyme

Absolute deafening silence

Absolute deafening silence...

during and after a moderate snowfall
today January 19th, 2024,
within Southeastern Pennsylvania
and elsewhere across the Eastern Seaboard,
whereby blanket of whiteness
muffles sounds of civilization.

I hate a spoiler alert
regarding weather forecasters prediction,
especially when meteorologist
wannabe spouse doth...

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Categories: diligently, adventure, age, angel, appreciation, beauty, humorous, snow,
Form: Rhyme
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Awakening to the Red Road: An Ecopoetic Odyssey 'Part 5 of 6'

V. "The Great Collective Awakening"

Aren't we the true definitive problem,
     not just astray-
     malignant corporations…
Or unresponsive governments ?
We are faulted; consumers 
     telling...

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Categories: diligently, earth, environment, nature, philosophy, planet,
Form: Free verse

Beads of Blood

In The Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus fell to His knees
As He cried to His Father, let this cup pass from me
His anguish and pain I could never imagine
Sweat turning to blood, as He begged for...

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Categories: diligently, bible, christian, faith, gospel, grief, jesus, religious,
Form: Rhyme

The Mountain People

Daylight breaks through the gate and a bright light shine intensely on my face from a distance. I wasn’t sure what was going on, but I fold one arm and held on tightly to the...

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Categories: diligently, best friend, books, business, change, childhood, community,
Form: Narrative
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The Trip of My Life

the grace of Paris
lingering in my thoughts. . . 
Madrid’s grimy walls

As our small group of students entered Madrid, it was an early morning in late January. We had left behind us what has been...

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Categories: diligently, travel,
Form: Haibun

One must possess the patience of Job,

“The patience of Job” applied as an idiom that means to have great patience or endurance in the face of suffering. It's used to describe someone who perseveres through many problems or hardships.

One must possess...

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Categories: diligently, 12th grade, adventure, analogy, appreciation, beautiful, gender,
Form: Free verse

Grace

I’ve been patiently lying on the side of my bed…
Soaking in past dread – all the words that you’ve said
Those words should’ve been left unsaid…
Somehow, I need to learn to let go 

I need to...

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Categories: diligently, deep, depression, desire, hope, pain, passion, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
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April Show-Ers

I was a zealous meteorologist, which I had been for a long time,
As the roving years work diligently, to create a very fine wine.

So content in my fond vocation, many deemed me tops in my...

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Categories: diligently, fantasy, flower, happiness, nature, rain, weather, work,
Form: Couplet
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My Childhood Angel

How did my Nanny know of the horrors that went on in our home?  Was it the palpable fear in my eyes, or her heavenly instinct?  Today, I believe she had a divine...

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Categories: diligently, abuse, angel, anti bullying, child abuse, depression,
Form: Free verse

The Illogicality of Commonsense

By Stanley Collymore

At first I wasn’t in the least interested in you. 
But then, why should I be? You, after all, 
are an unmarried and out-of-work mum 
just turned 23 and, additionally and 
quite evidently...

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Categories: diligently, love, life, life, mum,
Form: Prose Poetry

Far and Beyond the Story of the Need of the Addicted

Could this be, that this is of no common concern to our Creator, as to just what we all use that moves us? 

Just as long as we ask this "Power" to help us never...

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© James Long  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: diligently, 12th grade, 1st grade, 4th grade, 5th
Form: Ballade
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The Dream

There was something in that dream              
               ...

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Categories: diligently, anxiety, heartbroken, hope, jobs, poverty, prayer, truth,
Form: Rhyme
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Old Gold

I had for long been impoverished, as is often the case with writers,
Though I worked most diligently, at times even pulling all-nighters.

Rosy dreams kept me going, although times were frequently rough,
As black night fuels its...

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Categories: diligently, fantasy, happiness, imagery, money, nature, old, writing,
Form: Couplet

Villains of The night

A miracle of hope rushes through my soul holding on to the courage inside me and propels me to an unknown destiny; the moon with its shining light orbit around the earth searching for the...

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Categories: diligently, blessing, business, celebration, culture, dedication, deep, earth,
Form: Narrative
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