Long Encumbered Poems
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Canto Xxi Hell TranslationSo bridge to bridge, of other things speaking
Of which my comedy does not take care,
We walked; and reached the top, when seeking
For watching the next slit, then we stopped there
Malebolge to see and crying vain;
And...
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Categories:
encumbered, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
IronbarHe just appeared to me, like wispily curling
Chimney smoke,
One grim and early morning in the very midst of
Decembers briefest days, on the highest slope,
Toiling through my daily round; where, slowly
Driving up...
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Categories:
encumbered, nature, universe,
Form:
Rhyme
A Harvest Quartet of Subtle HarmonicsSpring's Excitement
There are rhythms of Nature that no one controls
that farms use to advantage! Time's fishermen sailed
both with tides and fair breezes offshore in their boats
at each dawn and dusk's onshore brought home each day's...
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Categories:
encumbered, farm, love, science, seasons,
Form:
Rhyme
Paul Valery Translation of the Graveyard By the SeaThis is my modern English translation of Paul Valéry's poem “Le cimetière marin” (“The graveyard by the sea”). Valéry was buried in the seaside cemetery evoked in his best-known poem. From the vantage of the...
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Categories:
encumbered, death, french, grave, obituary, ocean, paris, sea,
Form:
Free verse
HiddenAs children, we experienced pleasure in the mystery ...
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Categories:
encumbered, heaven,
Form:
Couplet
Eminent domain, manifest destiny, usurpationEminent domain, manifest destiny, usurpation...
Maternal grandfather of mine
long since passed among the living;
He left his Motherland
before onset of Holodomor,
a policy of the Soviet Union
aimed at the destruction
of the Ukrainian nation,
the 1932–1933 genocide...
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Categories:
encumbered, abuse, age, anger, bereavement, bullying, corruption, grandfather,
Form:
Free verse
Unlike Thee AthenianThose rarer men I once fondly
knew... ...
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Categories:
encumbered, philosophy,
Form:
Rhyme
Eminent Domain, Manifest Destiny, UsurpationEminent domain, manifest destiny, usurpation...
Russian soldiers in general
and Vladimir Putin in particular
perpetrate outright injustice
against Ukrainian population.
Impossible mission to comprehend
the mindset of belligerent, egotistical,
indignant, NeoNazi, tsarist
self anointed totalitarian zealot.
Gross violation of human rights
blatantly carried out
courtesy diabolical...
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Categories:
encumbered, abuse, anger, conflict, death, discrimination, evil, hate,
Form:
Free verse
Wait Until You Meet Lucinda ShawWait until you meet Lucinda Shaw
Curious how many said this to me.
People reported her with a bit of awe,
Forecasting maybe I would fully see.
Depth of her soul which was unusually old.
I did too. She was...
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Categories:
encumbered, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Chant Royal
L*o*v*e*As I watch her from across the open squares way ~
Beneath this black and white zebrad umbrellas, curtain and stage....
Navigating, throughout the hurried animated crowds
While holding fast to the facades below their colourful awnings
Trying to...
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Categories:
encumbered, friendship, life, love, time
Form:
I do not know?
L*o*v*e*As I watch her from across the open squares way ~
Beneath this black and white zebrad umbrellas, curtain and stage....
Navigating, throughout the hurried animated crowds
While holding fast to the facades below their colourful awnings
Trying to...
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Categories:
encumbered, love
Form:
I do not know?
Spy Vs Poet - Pen TrickerySpy vs. Poet - pen trickery
(A collaborative poem by Serena Storm and Joel Thornton)
Dissimulating cloak – an apocryphal script
Ah, I see "I" the spy has stumbled upon new tricks
Disloyalty - The Perfidy -...
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Categories:
encumbered, creation, giggle, hyperbole, life, romantic, strength, words,
Form:
Free verse
Mr Self and His Passion“Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame; each to his passion; what’s in a name?” –Helen Hunt Jackson....
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Categories:
encumbered, passion,
Form:
Verse
A Poetic ConscienceDan Cwiak - Dedicated to *** Constance ***
The Rambling Poet's work titled: Throbbing...
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Categories:
encumbered, confusion, devotion, friendship, introspection, on writing and
Form:
Acrostic
One Time AroundMorning begins,
not with the fresh promise of a new day.
Instead,
the air is thick with promise and fear.
The sun shines bright.
Its rays only a fraction,
a spattering of pink and yellow light.
This morning is cold.
The day begins...
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Categories:
encumbered, death, depression, fear, life, day, absence, day,
Form:
Free verse
Torn and Tattered WingsTorn and Tattered Wings
It’s not easy to have seen
All the darkness inside you
Places I have been
Sorrow and degrading
Thrusting their blades epithetize
Hard into your heart
I look in your eyes
See the padded cells of your tears
Their...
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Categories:
encumbered, inspirational, loveworld,
Form:
Free verse
Under the Laden Blossoming TreeEverything has changed in a jiffy
The sun is balmy, the grass is green
And no trace of winter can be seen.
I ventured out on my usual nature stroll
To penetrate beauty, breathe fresh air
And mingle with nature...
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Categories:
encumbered, beauty, bird, blessing, blue, children, city, life,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
~ the Bouquet ~Humbly holding forth this bouquet of flowers
Within these sincere and love filled hands ~
Marked by lines that have defined themselves, through time....
The spectrum of colors across these pages, these shades
Endlessly, from black unto white; crossing...
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Categories:
encumbered, lovelove,
Form:
I do not know?
No Birthday AcknowledgementNo Birthday Acknowledgement...
From thee... eldest daughter,
who need not brood,
nor does padre whoosh
to stir loess hood family feud
(hence an attempt merely
to convey melancholic mood).
Profound contrast extant between
your high achieving
life a wonderful hit parade
on...
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Categories:
encumbered, age, daughter, depression, future, leaving, meaningful, together,
Form:
Free verse
The Wolf - Part 1A cruel Jack Frost blows icy floss
(in front of spring a’ burstin’)
while shiftin’ sheaves of withered leaves
near freezin’ streams a’ thirstin’.
A pack reviled runs roamin’ wild,
the alpha wolf wakes howlin’
then scents a lean and lonesome...
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Categories:
encumbered, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
Four WallsA beautiful box in the golden morning when you are watering plants
At midday a workshop where you are providing me with the ladder
In the evening a walled closet to transform the personality and gravity
At night...
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Categories:
encumbered, anxiety, break up, conflict, confusion, happiness, image,
Form:
Free verse
Cheers Grandpa Thoughts of WisdomThoughts of wisdom.
Now grandpa was a guy
A man I held up high
Everything he told me
I knew it was no lie.
All those facts he told
While lying in his bed
Waiting for his God
To claim that he was...
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Categories:
encumbered, familytime, green, time,
Form:
Rhyme
The Stretch of LandHere they are standing aloof on the backside of town
Here they are sitting on the bare, stricken ground
with strange smells filtering all around.
Smells that fill the atmosphere with an awful stench.
disgusting smells, horrible smells coalesce...
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Categories:
encumbered, adventure, deep, dream, environment, farm, nature, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
DrivenThe keys rattled gently in his pocket.
Gradual jumps like the ocean,
Peaking with every heart
Or every step.
The music was in sleep
Allowing silence for thought
To contemplate on the sun,
Of this clean, clear October.
He sunk his eyes into...
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Categories:
encumbered, adventure, age, autumn, character, devotion, dream, faith,
Form:
Free verse
The ApologyWhat would you say
If after this time
You reawakened this day
Long out of reach, your prime?
Would you still ride the horse of your forms
Bequeathed by Poseidon forever to be
Or from your eyes
Would your reality emerge
Amidst...
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Categories:
encumbered, history, life, people, philosophy, day, life,
Form:
Ode