Long Drummed Poems
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Son Say Goodnight To Grandpa
“Son”...”say goodnight to grandpa”
Spurred by mother dearest
as well as other politesse
drummed into her second born
fobbing blandishments as incentive
tumbled off fingers of prodigal son
tripped wordsmith to splutter forth
forthwith the following lines.
Back in the day
quaint...
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Categories:
drummed, 12th grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, absence,
Form:
Rhyme
Chapter 65 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: the Family Seventeen Xiv 2 : the Family Vacation
It was at this point 11 o'clock
At night. Damian Left Molly and
Checked on the seven. Everybody
Was fine. He returned to
Business. Molly was no longer
Afraid she knew she was in the...
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Categories:
drummed, 7th grade, beach, beauty, child, grandmother, parents,
Form:
Alliteration
Precedent setting the stage for kerning and tracking piqued my interest
Precedent setting the stage for kerning and tracking piqued my interest
Just before logging off for the day,
and ready to boogie out of the joint
an email landed squarely in my inbox
cordially inviting me
into the management...
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Categories:
drummed, adventure, appreciation, business, fashion, humorous, nature, writing,
Form:
Free verse
The Mojo Trick
The Mojo Trick
Loch David Crane
June 1979
Sweat-sticky and hot! The P. I. is not
a comfortable place to be;
but sit here and perspire (as though by the fire)
and I'll tell a tale to thee.
I was coming alive...
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Categories:
drummed, absence, how i feel, humor, humorous, soldier,
Form:
Ballad
Jerusalem, the Jugular -2
It was not uncommon to discover a missing Brother Legionary
castrated, and decapitated
with a headless eagle carved upon his chest,
don't speak to me of morals and mercy
for I have seen and dealt the damage of rude...
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Categories:
drummed, history,
Form:
Epic
Ashes Fall From the Joss Stick: Finger Bone
My name is Devi, a foolish name really for it means Angel, and I certainly am not. The city of Phnom Penh had been our home, father was a professor at The Royal University. I...
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Categories:
drummed, death,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The Most Unlikely Couple
We were sitting in my car, companions to a lovely Hawaiian night where the moon shined bright, and the white caps glistened in the sea. Everything was in place. The white sand beaches and palm...
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Categories:
drummed, adventure, mystery, true love,
Form:
Narrative
Enemies of My World
ENEMIES OF MY WORLD
They are the enemies of my world
I do the wrong, and they the right
They love nothing more than to criticize me
They preach repentance yet they need deliverance
They are the armored assassins of...
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Categories:
drummed, pain, me, world, fear, me, time,
Form:
Diminished Hexaverse
The Re-Sculpted Garden
Far from the surging crowd,the aesthetic mass ever loved
For,some fascinated to drilling mud,more satiated with coconut ground
Most elated admiring flowering buds,all hailed for herbs, spices,Salmon or squid
But there came the most tyrannous deluge with a...
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Categories:
drummed, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, beauty,
Form:
Carpe Diem
Ode To Amsterdam
They ventured in to Amsterdam to have a little break.
Alas it all went very wrong when they tried a slice of cake.
Before that fateful moment it had all gone very well,
Dinners, walks and seeing sights...
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Categories:
drummed, funny, drug,
Form:
I do not know?
The Shore Temple of Mahabalipuram
The mirtangist may never willingly hear
may not want to hear
the multaiyam announcing his cue
nor the melodist aware of the flautist's right
to the change in the raga
the plucking of the yal strings
to the goatskin drummed bleats
and...
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Categories:
drummed, devotion, ocean,
Form:
Free verse
Wake Asia Wake - Part One - 9
Make haste to befriend the toro meanly reared away from spectator prying eyes
by dread alone the bull is nurtured and prodded to terrify
...
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Categories:
drummed, inspirational, power,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Him Too, Or the Drowning Femenist, Part Ii
...He flipped through the paper he’d bee given,
And saw the name ‘Ms. Karen Mallory,’
his mind reeled again, incredulous,
that was the girl he had saved by the sea!
Soon enough he was dragged into a court
and Ms....
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Categories:
drummed, abuse, anger, beach, dark, men, satire, women,
Form:
Narrative
Telling White Lies
Telling "White Lies"
My mother got born November
thirteenth, nineteen hundred thirty five
within poverty stricken household
of Canarsie, Brooklyn, the youngest
(most mollycoddled) of four siblings,
experienced grinding poverty, no
matter maternal grandfather (Moishe
Kuritsky), a tailor he lacked drive
(and felt neutral...
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Categories:
drummed, abuse, age, america, anger, betrayal, cry, environment,
Form:
Rhyme
Gothic Halloween Scare
An unkempt man approached me one dark evening
'In pursuit', he said, 'of a favour'
'A drink' he explained, but I was unsure of his meaning
When he specified it should be of a refined yet peculiar flavour
Then...
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Categories:
drummed, america, anxiety, art,
Form:
Free verse
Drumrolls
Samuel Woodruff was a very old man, who once drummed for the army;
That marched to his rhythmic music, along with all fifers, playing hearty.
That was a lifetime ago, in dawn days so pink, golden, and...
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Categories:
drummed, fantasy, march, memory, music, nature, nursery rhyme,
Form:
Couplet
Momentarily
Momentarily
by Odin Roark
How elusive the quest
To place oneself in sync
Wavelength to wavelength
Response to reply
So many agendas beg ignoring
Those places where integrity remains suspect
Where job
Marriage
Relationships
Friends
Acquaintances
Eye contact
Undeserved...
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Categories:
drummed, truth, integrity,
Form:
Free verse
Part 2, On the Other Side of the Mirror, Lit Op 1
Narrator’s View II
12 These words are the last, left by the wisest,
Whom spoke to me from the other side came,
All my thoughts were crumbled to its smallest,
To a state where it differed from the same,
13...
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Categories:
drummed, inspirational, lifewords, nature, me, me, nature, river,
Form:
Lyric
I Have Seen It All
The fat director in his piggy mien
Sitting in opulent oval office,
Wearing costly French suit
A delicate silk bow tie,
While the buttons are straining to keep
The belly from bursting out,
In performing...
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Categories:
drummed, mystery
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Papa's Condemnation of Prejudice
Papa's condemnation of prejudice...
and subsequent grim statistic one
(among millions, or more)
tragedy with feted kiss
Yarraka Bayles darling son
hoop fully experiences bliss,
yet more vehement rage
against machinations (think
with little effort cruel humans)
trumpets, tools, thrives...
wreaking psychological havoc -
case...
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Categories:
drummed, 11th grade, 12th grade, cry, funeral, mother
Form:
Narrative
Part 1, On the Other Side of the Mirror, Lit Op 1
Narrator’s View I
1 Day I was born, I have questions my own,
My heart and my soul would willingly ask,
But I’m all vessel with Innocence’s crown,
Nor these are normal, new born’s hourly task
2 Likewise a tree...
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Categories:
drummed, inspirational, lifeworld, heart, sea, heart, me, men,
Form:
Lyric
Did You Hurt Yourself My Son
Son did you hurt yourself?
Posted on November 15, 2013 by libertariandad Standard
There once lived a young man. He lived in the woods with his mother. She cooked and cleaned the house and he...
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Categories:
drummed, evil, love, mother,
Form:
Limerick
Ama: the Song of the Jungle
Ama you are a father
Father my father
Whose basket of fishes
Sweetened my mother’s dishes
Whose naked feet danced
The jungle drum you drummed.
I remember
Father I still remember
Those joyous days
When like brooding hens
You employed your hands
To shield the...
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Categories:
drummed, nostalgiafather, father, universe,
Form:
I do not know?
It All Started With a Parade
It All Started With A Parade
All walks of people crowding the streets
Like moving vessels of a mighty fleet.
Jolly Diana, a wake-up call at dawn;
A throng is gathered down the town.
Cadets go...
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Categories:
drummed, anniversary, children, people, community, december, people,
Form:
Rhyme
Hostages Kidnapped: Casualties of War
Hostages kidnapped: casualties of war
After extorting pound of flesh
lifetime humiliation drummed into captives
hammering indelible nightmare
no amount of therapy can expunge.
Lifetime trauma inflicted perpetrators wage
dead bodies littered makeshift triage
death and destruction
exhibit super fresh killing fields,
where sally...
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Categories:
drummed, anger, angst, anxiety, bereavement, brother, conflict, death,
Form:
Free verse