Long Downside Poems
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Contract Against GreatnessIn Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged"
she paints a nationalistically wealthy saint
where also lives a monochromatically utilitarian narcissist,
sucking on attachment to fame and power
for bought and sold ZeroSum accounting Souls.
If the perfectly powerful pure patriarchal patriot
were your...
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Categories:
downside, culture, health, integrity, mental illness, peace, philosophy,
Form:
Political Verse
Lucifer Gets the Gig“We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.”
Anatole France
"I heard you wanted to see me Boss?", Lucifer asked.
"I can always see you Lucifer", replied God. "No, I...
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Categories:
downside, heaven, satire, universe,
Form:
Prose
INFORMANT 1992BEING AN INFORMANT UNDERCOVER DOPE FIEND HAD A FEW PERKS ESPECIALLY FOR MY ABUSIVE EX HUSBAND HE DID ODD JOBS FOR CIRO AND HIS PARTNER LARRY MOVING VIDEO MACHINES FENCING WEAPONS CIRO HAD STORED IN...
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Categories:
downside, allah,
Form:
McWhirtle
Harriet Harris nee KuritskyHarriet Harris née Kuritsky...
Despite being a nineteen year old bride
she wed Boyce Brandon Harris
half a decade her senior,
(where I ranked less than a twinkle in their eyes)
during the month of June 1955,
not quite half...
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Categories:
downside, america, anniversary, celebration, death, emotions, funeral, in
Form:
Rhyme
Reaping Short Terms BenefitsReaping short terms benefits...
before marital savings bond matured
as a then quinquagenarian.
Courtesy gerontologists medical practitioners
allowing, enabling, and providing
the elderly population to live
longer and healthier lives.
Linkedin with longevity loosely translates
to resurgent libido spurring
older folks predilection
to participate in...
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Categories:
downside, absence, abuse, adventure, anxiety, appreciation, betrayal, devotion,
Form:
Rhyme
When Natural Beauties Are Spiritual TruthsWhich is more important to you
natural beauty
or spiritual truth?
I guess I didn't notice any difference.
Maybe there isn't.
Which is more important to you
an aesthetically rich and bountiful house
or a safe home?
You realize that's not necessarily the...
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Categories:
downside, beauty, birth, happiness, health, philosophy, truth,
Form:
Political Verse
Pleasant spring like day February 9th, 2024Pleasant spring like day February 9th, 2024
A scent (and sixth sense predominates),
when apple boughs
and other aromatic flora
laden with blossoms and fruit
gently assail cilia of the nostrils,
aside from aiding distinguishing
pleasant or unpleasant smells
additionally incorporate...
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Categories:
downside, appreciation, bird, earth, february, flower, husband, insect,
Form:
Rhyme
Putin non gmo gluten free cheese on the ritz as a celiac to followPutin non gmo gluten free cheese on the ritz as a celiac to follow
Initially written March 18th, 2023
and revised exactly two years later
tweaking the poem here and there
courtesy adding or subtracting Nabisco
National Biscuit...
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Categories:
downside, absence, adventure, analogy, birth, humorous, jesus, mystery,
Form:
Free verse
ReVisions of SugarPlumsCould we see and hear and feel and think better
more ubiquitously and cooperatively
and inclusively
if DreamTime speaks in naturally eco-logical language
of motion as emotions
co-empathically accessible
to all RNA/DNA informated
integratively regenerative
co-arising ecosystemic Ego-programs?
In our dreams
we all speak the...
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Categories:
downside, culture, destiny, dream, earth, language, nature, time,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Adieu Dental Floss and Toothbrush(21st century pearly white prosthetics,
restored jaw bar wah key)
Aye noel hunger bristle,
and when false teeth soak at night
in tandem with stubby facial gristle
har reckon noah kisses
...
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Categories:
downside, 11th grade, 12th grade, farewell, grief, hyperbole,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Harriet Harris Circa November 13th, 1935 - May 4th, 2005Harriet Harris circa November 13th, 1935 - ~ May 4th, 2005
untimely death sentence ordained
approximately six months prior
to mother dearest celebrating
her seventieth birthday,
though the last three years of her life
impacted courtesy hysterectomy
to remove...
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Categories:
downside, absence, age, anniversary, birthday, death, family, mother,
Form:
Rhyme
Harriet Harris nee Kuritsky circa November 13thHarriet Harris née Kuritsky circa November 13th,
1935 - ~ May 4th, 2005
(untimely death sentence ordained ~ early February 1935)
I trot out a poem acknowledging birthday
of dear ole mom, who succumbed,
lost lease on life
nearly...
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Categories:
downside, absence, age, america, anniversary, appreciation, bereavement, birthday,
Form:
Rhyme
Lock and KeyTimothy had always been a man of laughing joy and conversation
-Friendship dialogue communication -
But now there was silence but for...
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Categories:
downside, future,
Form:
Free verse
Energized'The Energizer Battery' keeps going and going. ...
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Categories:
downside, endurance, inspiration,
Form:
Verse
Harriet Harris Circa November 13th 1935 May 4th 2005Harriet Harris circa November 13th, 1935 - ~ May 4th, 2005
(untimely death sentence ordained ~ early February 1935)
Test teasing prophylactics embarrassing
purchase never made at local drugstore
unsurprisingly, obviously, invariably...
birth control taboo subject, best to ignore
subsequently intercourse...
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Categories:
downside, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 8th
Form:
Elegy
A Most Disruptive Sleep Psyche Violently PummeledA most disruptive sleep - psyche violently pummeled
Upon awakening earlier today
(May 26th, 2020)
felt utterly fatigued without fail
tormenting dreams found yours truly
jangled, harried and
frenzied across broadscale
valiant effort to remain awake
exerted to no avail.
Exhaustion pounded noggin
on par...
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Categories:
downside, anxiety, endurance, grave, horror, introspection, mental illness,
Form:
Free verse
Pleasant Spring Like Day January 12th, 2020Pleasant spring like day January 12th, 2020
Courtesy climate change
(think global warming),
I would never wish to exchange
unseasonable temperature
way out of range
far to balmy, undoubtedly
ole man winter
weather did shortchange.
Once thermometer readings rise
even smidgen one moost not minimize
Earth...
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Categories:
downside, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Ephemeral Online MomentEphemeral online moment...
Yours truly plagiarizes himself with zeal
courtesy mental cogs and rusty wheel,
thus no literary crime committed to steel
I broadcast material shown thru rickety
black and white Roman Times newsreel
forthwith shoddy wordplay exempts me
against copyright infringement...
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Categories:
downside, absence, earth, imagery, inspiration, journey, life, time,
Form:
Rhyme
It's Times Like These Noah Built An ArkThing's and the time's are a changing
and moving at such a tumultuous
and fluid rate
The blinking rapid eye movement
can barely keep up pace with it
at all
Unfortunately like everything in life
sometimes progress also has a dark
downside to...
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Categories:
downside, vanity,
Form:
Free verse
Wounded AnimalYou're about to see there's no difference between a tortured artist or a Wounded animal
Picking up a pen was the only way to make my depression manageable
At times it seemed that beating depression wasn't...
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Categories:
downside, anger, animal, confidence, creation, fun, rap,
Form:
Free verse
Thanks For That Memorable Day07/31/2012
Written by: Florence McMillian (Flo)
Dedicated and written for my friend, Lisa Giessinger, as a special message from her to her mother, Hazel – about a most memorable day they spent together.
To My Mother...
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Categories:
downside, daughter, family, friendship, growing up, happiness, life,
Form:
Narrative
In Honor of Her Brother, Part IMiriam Colrick and her husband Brad,
tired of dank cities, crumbling and bad,
moved to New Hampshire, bought themselves a farm,
a place they could raise children without harm.
Fifty-six acres, half-forest, half-field,
space to stretch out, live a life...
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Categories:
downside, conflict, dark, farm, fear, grief, loss, mother
Form:
Narrative
Ephemeral Social Media RendezvousEphemeral social media rendezvous
"Abort, Retry, Fail?"
(or "Abort, Retry, Ignore?")
essentially spells does not compute
in bobbing spongy mindscape
of your friendly martian
donned with square pants,
when he experiences unresponsiveness
from Homo sapiens
whose interpersonal offline etiquette
indicative as...
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Categories:
downside, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure,
Form:
Rhyme
JackWe said goodbye
You and I
Tossed a coin
Who would cry
You won
Time went by
You went on to marry Joe
I got blown up
From head to toe
Along came baby, Jill
Your pride and joy
Such a thrill
I started the long road...
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Categories:
downside, fate, humor, love,
Form:
Free verse
Ping Pong ParpIf you hear the sound of rat-tat-a-tat
It's not a woodpecker or a chattering cat
Tis George F. Latulence an aristocrat
Playing ping pong with his gold crested bat.
A competitor and show-off he deems to be
Dresses each day...
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Categories:
downside, games,
Form:
Rhyme