Long Distraction Poems
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The 996th PoemFulfilled fantasies and legitimate realities…you do know how to please…
Are you listening to my voice of longing and yearning?
No, don’t backstab me with your broken promises…stop being a horrid tease…
Do not worry, Lord, I am...
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Categories:
distraction, beauty, change, corruption, courage, crazy, deep, writing,
Form:
Free verse
Visit To AntietamAlone I arrive, walking from Frederick
over the gaps, across gentle hills
out onto a knoll
overlooking this burnished landscape.
Before me I see countless writhing rows
of indiscernible shapes gathered
in terrible rituals mid fire and smoke
darkening the sun.
From distant...
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Categories:
distraction, america, conflict, history, together, war,
Form:
Ode
Ante Bellum
“ANTE BELLUM”
BEIGEBest served where it can’t be seen
On Stirling Silver platters
With redruM narcotics
Delivered by sharp Blood-Red
Well-mannered talons
Strutting in sleek wet rolling tight-skirted
Long French Silk Stockinged legs all the way down to
Lethal Six Inch stilettos...
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Categories:
distraction, america, bible, corruption, imagery, war,
Form:
Free verse
Chapter 21-- Dolly Damian and Molly: Cascades Continued IiDolly was beside herself with thoughts
Of this powerful man, Damian Possessing
Her. She wandered around his
Spacious apartment before
Returning to his bedroom
to sit on his bed.
Damian was ready and dressed...
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Categories:
distraction, emotions, feelings, love, lust,
Form:
Alliteration
Treasures That May Be Found In Destiny's New ShiftI.
Treasures That May Be Found In Destiny's New Shift
( Mille viri sententia agere nescit donec suscipit calamum scribere.)
For a brief spell, I hung my hammock in the shade
of the ancient tall oak tree, that God's...
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Categories:
distraction, appreciation, art, blessing, care, dedication, poetry, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Prizes For Ultimate Sacrifices - Part OnePrizes for Ultimate Sacrifices
prizes for the abstemious for abstinence chastity ?
the countless...
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Categories:
distraction, howl, inspirational, metaphor, passion, satire, spoken word,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Song From Beyond the Stars: New Adventure[ ... story with context, a plausible universe with top and bottom
a coat of cosmos covering
over a subterranean protoverse of potential fields
a quantum cellar creating
the very big...
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Categories:
distraction, adventure, destiny, future, imagination, journey, planet, science
Form:
Verse
King of the CastleThe King of the Castle
Said I’m but a child
Afraid of the world outside
Afraid to run wild and to be proud
Of the freedom it provides
Afraid of love
Afraid of the dark
Said you...
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Categories:
distraction, betrayal, corruption, depression, evil, lost, memory, mental
Form:
Narrative
Half MeasuresThis is how it starts
the decline of who we are, the decline of something more
the start of wars
Installed in us is confidence
confidence, a blessing or a curse
Without confidence we stand degraded, disenchanted, alone
while with too...
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Categories:
distraction, suicide, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
The ReunionThey came from as far a way as New York and Dallas Texas. The class of 1981 wasn't a large class, it was the very first class of a very very private school. Their school,...
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Categories:
distraction, allusion, death,
Form:
Prose
Chapter 87 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: the Solomon Brothers and SistersDate: March 2041
The weather was agreeable all
Seemed well in the Damian house
Hold early morning. The kids were
Heading out to school. Dolly and
Molly were helping the 3 year olds.
This will be their first day...
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Categories:
distraction, adventure, angst, black love, confidence, conflict, courage,
Form:
Alliteration
Desert RoseI was driving to Utah, because I had gotten a promotion;
And chose the scenic route, so as to put things in motion.
I had been traveling from Los Angeles, to Salt Lake City;
And the scenery along...
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Categories:
distraction, beauty, faith, fantasy, inspiration, lost, purple, rose,
Form:
Couplet
The Job - Part 2On the plane I meditated or at least I tried to. Most of the time I get a seat to myself. These days it’s just a ****ing Greyhound in the sky. I...
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Categories:
distraction, death, desire, first love,
Form:
Narrative
Embrace the LinesEmbrace The Lines
Vitality marks gently stretch your soft skin beyond the wildest dreams of
beauty unbound where children had once or thrice embraced your womb
the soothing waters cushioning and cradling three miracles three water
marks engraved...
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Categories:
distraction, life,
Form:
Free verse
We Are BrothersWE ARE BROTHERS
1.
Don’t look at me as though I am an alien or stranger,
Don’t let the dagger of antipathy fly out of your eyes,
...
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Categories:
distraction, love, peace, prejudice,
Form:
Epic
Inception: Crying a River - Collab With Mikey Part 0You’re like a backpack, jam-packed with memories of High School’s fun times and hard times…I know I had weaknesses back then; in addition, I had strengths that I still lack
You carry everyone’s weight including my...
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Categories:
distraction, betrayal, blessing, dark, depression, desire, emotions,
Form:
Free verse
Greengay AdvocateWhen I was about twelve
I began to see my future
as a ruthlessly effective
overpoweringly sublime advocate for justice
as global peace outcomed and measured,
As a courtroom drama officer
of the U.S. multicultural Court EcoSystem,
A flaring hot attorney
of...
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Categories:
distraction, adventure, health, journey, life, paradise, passion, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
RevolutionREVOLUTION
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS
A revolution is much deeper than what the eye can see
An opportunity to rid the land of despotism and tyranny
When any citizen can expose the enemies of the state
Present and judge valid...
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Categories:
distraction, betrayal, corruption, evil, fear, irony, power, violence,
Form:
Rhyme
Prisoner of the Matrix LoadedPrisoner of the Matrix loaded
Prisoner of the matrix loaded
Cattle within the herd
cages within the slaughter
Profiteers prey upon the wounded
Branded comodified beings consumed
In consumption
Led to the plunder of themselves
Within the plotted grids of bondaged earth
Still between...
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Categories:
distraction, america, analogy, philosophy,
Form:
ABC
Dear SueDear Sue,
I am remembering our strong negative responses
to the young woman who surreptitiously read
her aunt's very private diary,
filled with vulnerable statements
of the most intimate nature
and transparently lusty spirit,
Yet, though secretive,
then took a bold black marker
and...
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Categories:
distraction, appreciation, bullying, caregiving, health, humanity, humor, woman,
Form:
Political Verse
LoveLove
1.
I saw the bitter tears of unhappiness,
Running down your ravaged with pain
...
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Categories:
distraction, love,
Form:
Free verse
One Year Four Months and Twenty-One DaysI have not penned a verse for many months because I have many things
That are undone, I have not penned a verse for months because the mornings have me on the run. Here I am...
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Categories:
distraction, abuse, anxiety, celebrity, character, community, courage, money,
Form:
Narrative
ThankfulnessThankfulness: the opposite of complaining
This isn’t going to come easily, it will take a little training
It’s the concept of being content with all that we own
And being grateful for all the love that God has...
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Categories:
distraction, thanksgiving, god, people, change, giving, god, life,
Form:
ABC
Eyes of the Orient(oh, mercy ... )
amazing eye whites,
perfect and pure as glacial ice -
they draw me in,
like diving into a clear Caribbean lagoon,
fluid and cool ...
brown iris so dark in contrast,
that they're lost in the inky black...
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Categories:
distraction, beauty, metaphor, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
I Could Never Be the RainMy life started with rain,
the steady stream of drops,
hitting the trees gently
and ending its descent to our world
on the wet pavement.
I am on the sidewalk,
sheltered by a makeshift roof and
a border of trees.
The...
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Categories:
distraction, body, loneliness, longing, passion, rain, symbolism, voice,
Form:
Free verse