Long Engaging Poems
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The Amistad MutinyThe Amistad Mutiny
Slavery, a dirty word no matter how it’s pronounced:
Abducted and herded to the slave fortress of Lomboko1 for trade.
To be tossed in chains below deck on the Portuguese ship Tecora,2
Sailing the Atlantic Middle...
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Categories:
engaging, africa, america, history, racism, slavery, world,
Form:
Verse
Pequot River Land TrustOnce,
or twice,
maybe thrice,
surely not
not fractal
A clan of crazy ecofeminists
conspired within an 88 unit residential castle
in their historically converted
sometimes hysterically clueless condo
colonial-red predative brick
badly bald aging building
With a sometimes soggy south walled school,
but...
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Categories:
engaging, blue, culture, environment, green, health, humor, math,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Watering Gaian GraceOne of the least talked about,
yet most problematic issues
for regenerating
Global
social-psychological
mental and physical
health and public safety
movements
Well fed and watered
to empower and enlighten interfaith
action and reflection,
song and dance
liturgical and fire-circle
contemporary-indigenous wisdom
Is to explore together
how and...
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Categories:
engaging, caregiving, community, earth day, education, health, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse
Two Wrongs Worth a RightToday, our first “All About Me” History class begins
when we comprehend every day and night
co-arises with “All About We”
full-octave
Zero-centric
bicamerally encultured
and regenetically reiterated
in and through,
by and for,
before and after,
each moment of Earth Tribe’s timeless surfing times.
If...
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Categories:
engaging, culture, earth, humor, integrity, philosophy, political, universe,
Form:
Narrative
Our Earthcafe CoopIn one sense,
the Cafe CoOp
started as my therapeutic retirement dream.
But,
in quite another
the CoOp goes back to when I was eight,
and I thought,
assumed really,
everyone indulged in Thought Experiments
about what would my optimal Eden Paradise.
restoring peace and...
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Categories:
engaging, business, education, games, health, humor, integrity, retirement,
Form:
Political Verse
Feeling BetterSystems,
ecosystems,
and ego body-systems,
patriotic systems
and feminist systems
mutually improve,
grow more robust,
resilient,
resonant when WinWin relationships
between diversely paradigmatic elements
within said system
and between unsaid systems
improve,
grow more healthy wealth together
well-greased co-operative channels
and web-structures
WinWin overwhelming WinLose
competing smaller self-centered investments.
Capital small-self promotion tends...
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Categories:
engaging, earth, health, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse
Some PoemsA 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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Categories:
engaging, dream, loneliness,
Form:
Free verse
Self Destructive Wickedness Arrested, Convicted, and GaoledSelf destructive wickedness arrested, convicted, and gaoled...
with kidnapping little boy
ordered to suffer
life sentence without parole.
The deadly scourge of
one obsessive/compulsive disorder
nearly left me starving to death.
Anorexia nervosa absent bulimia
nadir of onset
diagnoses...
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Categories:
engaging, 2nd grade, 6th grade, 7th grade, absence,
Form:
Free verse
Song of Amergin: TranslationThe Song of Amergin: Modern English Translations
The Song of Amergin
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
I am the sea breeze
I am the ocean wave
I am the surf's thunder
I am the stag of the seven tines
I am...
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Categories:
engaging, ireland, myth, mythology, song, storm, visionary, war,
Form:
Free verse
The Old BearThe Old grizzled Bear... was now keenly aware
as he lay in his Cave all alone.
Where his time as King... was a mere passing thing
and must choose another...
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Categories:
engaging, funny, humor, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
My Holy Bible - the Quatrain Style~ My Holy Bible ~
( Quatrain )
~O~
My Holy Bible is very nice.
It tells me that God is true.
It fills my soul with Love Divine
And shows that God loves...
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Categories:
engaging, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Rhyme
The Interview - For ContestThis situation has no basis in reality; in fact, it is ludicrously unreal. However, the likes and dislikes shown of its author are completely true!
Scene: A comfortable office where Andrea Dietrich is finishing up with...
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Categories:
engaging, fantasy,
Form:
Prose
The Picture of Dorian Gray: Paint Me As An EventThe Picture of Dorian Gray: Paint Me As An Event
The Picture of Dorian Gray, a decent fanciful novel by Irish writer Oscar Wilde, published in 1890. The novel, the only one written by Wilde, had...
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Categories:
engaging, angst, character, muse,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Noneastern Family PoliticsI began reading Jane Anna Gordon's "Creolizing Political Theory"
from the back toward the front,
as usual,
because if I appreciate where this narrative journey will end,
then I probably will find we start off with similar questions
of...
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Categories:
engaging, culture, health, power, , literature, , western,
Form:
Political Verse
Engaging the Family LaundryPerhaps infertile
incomplete
unwashed memories
of elder v younger,
Goliath v David,
crusades v communion
critical, yet part of chronic, events
speak extended family disengagement truth
to powerful dirty laundry engagement failures.
That disclaimer said,
I have two incomplete conversations
in mind and heart
and what I...
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Categories:
engaging, culture, destiny, games, health, integrity, peace, religion,
Form:
Political Verse
TranmutationWritten 12 December 2023
Transmutation Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Unseeking Seeker
...
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Categories:
engaging, humanity, life, men, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
Enabled EmpathyIt's weird
and sometimes wild
living with a non-LeftBrain verbal dominant
aspiring child,
now young adult
I find myself waiting for him
to nonverbally connect
and correct me
about my patriarchal domineering
economic and political ableist sins
of felt omission from commercial value
and, perhaps worse,
my...
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Categories:
engaging, culture, health, humor, identity, love, peace, relationship,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Deep Wellhearted MindsI suppose my worldview life of mind
and witnessing view of few
deep well
hearted Earth
Bodies
Would feel easier
healthier
lighter
safer
more powerfully co-inviting
without chronic win/lose stressors
popping up
against downstream sundry, multiculturally
diverse
Technologically
Digitally
and yet Organically EcoGreen
possible
Future prophets
without ecologically probable
health
Potential for...
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Categories:
engaging, earth day, health, home, integrity, mother, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
He Said, I SaidHow the housefly gets attracted to organic decay
and an infant child traces the voice of its mother
are nothing compared to the intense attraction
Michelle and I possess on the guy owning not a strand of hair...
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Categories:
engaging, art, boyfriend, character, emotions, girlfriend, hello,
Form:
Epic
Health Predicts SafetyIn some primordial
wandering birth-canal way,
I imagine we all experience traumatic excommunication
An internal climate PanDemonic
cerebral yet narrowly competitive
win/lose health today or safety tomorrow survivalist
life or death revivalist
EcoFeminist MotherYang Warriors for GreenPeace Experience
or DeGenerative LoseLose...
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Categories:
engaging, education, health, history, integrity, light, peace, planet,
Form:
Political Verse
Dorm LoveOurs was daily mysterious,
sometimes near mystical,
rapture;
a sensual yet platonic
dorm-mate love affair,
within the only male grad student corridor
at SFSU.
He was the presumably straight Vietnam veteran
southern white good ol' boy,
athletically studying Japanese,
with a gentle passion for...
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Categories:
engaging, culture, gender, history, love, military, peace, political,
Form:
Prose Poetry
StormThe day was fine and sunlit,
Decorated by several clouds
drifting aimlessly in the radiant ocean-blue sky.
Chorused by gentle puffs of the morning breeze,
Sending leaves on the streets twirling like
ballerinas in a dazzling and mesmerising dance.
and...
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Categories:
engaging, courage, fear, metaphor, natural disasters, school, ,
Form:
Imagism
Blue Tolerating Red IntoleranceTo Ecological Greens
concerned about tolerating
evangelical
monotheistic Red intolerance
of unstraight
unwhite
unmale
unhealthy
unsafe
panentheistic EarthDays
and dualdark wiki-nights
potentially bicameral
bipartisan
bisexual
binomial
neurosystemic cooperative regenerations
of win/win resonant
robust images
Any nonbinary person
all growed up
in a homophobic
straight
white
male anthrosupremacist monoculture
must not fail to see
to hear
to smell
to feel
Will have trouble...
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Categories:
engaging, blue, earth day, green, health, peace, power,
Form:
Political Verse
Gods For PowerIf God
and gods
and other paternal powers
resource love,
and not hate
And if we believe
that love fades
with encroaching fear
Which can overwhelm
personal
and professional
and economic
and local
through global
therapeutic,
and not traumatic,
peace passion experience
And if god
and great paternal rulers
and warriors
and...
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Categories:
engaging, courage, earth, god, health, passion, peace, power,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Seeking SanctuaryDiaspora Dwellings
On my way into our sanctuary
this past Sunday morning
a woman I had met in choir
was strangely inclined
to share her family history.
Her dad came over from Ireland
because he wanted better business opportunities
for his healthy future.
Here...
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Categories:
engaging, earth, family, green, health, history, home, travel,
Form:
Prose Poetry