Long Epithets Poems

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Harriet Harris, Nee Kuritsky Gave Up the Ghost

Harriet Harris, née Kuritsky gave up the ghost...

~ May fourth, 2005
wedded bliss nearly fifty years
half a century almost
me not most favorite grown offspring,
she (when alive) did boast,
about youngest sister and her family,
unlike me – severely...

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Categories: epithets, absence, abuse, anger, appreciation, bereavement, cry, dance,
Form: Free verse


Captain kuni-lemel graduate strikes again updated

Captain kuni-lemel graduate strikes again - updated

Steely Dan sing queen (me)
outdid himself on sixtieth anniversary 
after Grahame Wood 
determined to meet 
the evolving needs of the community 
opened the first Wawa Food Market 
in Folsom,...

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Categories: epithets, america, anger, anniversary, april, baptism, birthday, humorous,
Form: Rhyme

An unexceptional turning point in our marriage

An unexceptional turning point in our marriage...

unexpectedly came about,
when possible prospect
of the wife going
to Puerto Rico by herself
(for a fêted celebration
of our eldest daughter
and her significant other,
which occurred years ago
courtesy justice of the peace)
attended by...

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Categories: epithets, absence, abuse, adventure, anger, appreciation, betrayal, celebration,
Form: Rhyme
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Me and Me First

That soft-spoken Sovereign commands a big stick, 
runs the world into ruins, once our bailiwick.
If asked why, He grins grimly, pale lips slightly pursed:
"Vindication? Straightforward: It's Me and Me First" 

(To mesmerise people He needed...

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Categories: epithets, political, society, world,
Form: Quatrain

Harriet Harris Nee Kuritsky Gave Up the Ghost May 4th, 2004

Harriet Harris, née Kuritsky gave up the ghost ~ May 4th, 2004

Often these days
(closing in on the eighth
anniversary of eighth orbit
around mister sun),
the following genuine sentiment
Matthew Scott Harris
doth wish to share 
how one and only...

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Categories: epithets, absence, anger, atheist, courage, death, fate, may,
Form: Free verse


Twenty years elapsed since Harriet Harris, nee Kuritsky gave up the ghost May 5th, 2004

Twenty years elapsed since Harriet Harris, née Kuritsky gave up the ghost ~ May 5th, 2004

Often these days
the following genuine sentiment
Matthew Scott Harris
doth wish to share one son,
cuz twenty years after mother succumbed
courtesy of terminal...

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Categories: epithets, absence, adventure, appreciation, destiny, journey, mother son,
Form: Free verse

The very abridged version recounting untold tragicomic storied life of Matthew Scott Harris

The very abridged version recounting untold tragicomic storied life of Matthew Scott Harris

I led a boring life.
The end.

All joking aside, now the epilogue.

As a bookish fellow born January 13th,1959
he attended school and got promoted
as a...

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Categories: epithets, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th
Form: Free verse
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Words We Cannot Escape



“Words We Cannot Escape”

Words we can no longer speak

we tap dance over keys 
bruised blackly numb
Winter palette in hand 
Autumn now gone 

across white-washed notes fixated on stark enclosed walls 
the scent of old Lavender...

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Categories: epithets, muse,
Form: Free verse
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The Anatomy of a Kural: Maxim 245 of the Thirukkural By Thiruvalluvar

The Anatomy of a Kural: Maxim Number 245 (taken at random) of the Thirukkural, the Tamil Classic on Ethics by Thiruvalluvar 

allal arulaalvaarkku illai valivalangum

mallalmaa naalam kari (K245)

“The teeming earth's vast realm, round which the...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: epithets, education, metaphor, philosophy, poetry, tamil,
Form: Couplet

Pariah heap - savagely subjecting myself to humiliation

Pariah heap - savagely subjecting myself to humiliation

Outward slovenly appearance bespeaks volumes
wordsworth their weight in gold
(exhumed from the pith
of these lovely bones -
beclothed with mottled skin)
presages afterlife of hellish horror
(think Dante's inferno),
nevertheless a respite from...

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Categories: epithets, 12th grade, absence, age, anger, anxiety, bereavement,
Form: Free verse

Mother Dearest Harriet Harris, Nee Kuritsky Gave Up the Ghost May 4th 2004

Mother dearest Harriet Harris, née Kuritsky gave up the ghost ~ May 4th, 2004

Often these days
(early May 2021)
the following genuine sentiment
Matthew Scott Harris
doth wish to share one son,
cuz seventeen years after mother succumbed
courtesy of terminal...

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Categories: epithets, absence, anniversary, bereavement, cancer, death, eulogy, farewell,
Form: Free verse

I lacked emotions where others concerned

Back approximately half my life ago
dissociative disorder 
if qualified to self diagnose 
mein kampf psychological state...

I lacked emotions where others concerned.

That refrain replayed itself,
when wife picked up 
(like a broken record), 
where parents left off
before...

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Categories: epithets, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th grade, absence,
Form: Free verse

Harriet Harris Nee Kuritsky Gave Up the Ghost May 4th 2004

Harriet Harris, née Kuritsky gave up the ghost ~ May 4th, 2004

Often these days
the following genuine sentiment
Matthew Scott Harris
doth wish to share one son,
cuz fifteen years after mother succumbed
courtesy of terminal illness

I still reckon how...

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Categories: epithets, 12th grade, absence, loss, may, mother, son,
Form: Elegy

Hyundai Sonata Malfunctioning Brake Caliper Blues

tweaked to pass inspection broadcast on the double
(alternately titled snafu: ma bell heave hubble
vehicular repairs (prohibitive)
finds me bleary eyed stupefied
and countenance grizzled with prickly stubble
collapsed amidst virtual rubble).

Best sung courtesy rotten dull liver:red worst
after words...

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Categories: epithets, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Bullied As a Kid

among the countless thugs
   that teased and taunted myself as a boy
who exhibited blatant characteristics
   of being painfully shy and coy
attempting to remain like a statue as a decoy
which tactic nada...

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Categories: epithets, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form: Lyric

Marital Covenant Chaste Away Errant Infidelity

Yours truly shirked fidelity regarding faithful vows
bequeathed courtesy angel of mercy,
who pledged her troth
July twenty fifth nineteen ninety six
five months (not quite to the day) before

"star student" birthed
on December twenty second,
(now gainfully employed
at Certified B-Corporation
San Francisco,...

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Categories: epithets, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, absence,
Form: Rhyme

Oodles of Robins Harbinger of Spring This Brutally Cold March 5th 2021

Oodles of robins; harbinger of spring this brutally cold March 5th, 2021

Turdus migratorius -
otherwise known as robin red breast
jabbering Kon'nichiwa i.e. honorable guest
gather materials to craft nest
their beaks poking soft ground
regarding persistent quest
to sustain diet...

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Categories: epithets, appreciation, beautiful, bird, creation, destiny, environment, nature,
Form: Rhyme

Hyundai Sonata Malfunctioning Brake Caliper Blues

(alternately titled: ma bell heave hubble
vehicular repairs (prohibitive) 
finds me bleary eyed stupefied 
and countenance grizzled with prickly stubble 
collapsed amidst virtual rubble).

Best sung courtesy rotten dull liver:red worst
after words which, I gotta quench mine...

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Categories: epithets, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, angel,
Form: Free verse
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More Advice For Those Who Would Be King From the Thiruk-Kural With Notes

More free advice to those* who would be King from the THIRUK-KURAL with notes
[*like presidents, prime ministers, dictators of declining (falling or fallen) nations]

K386: kaadchikku eliyan kaduñchollan allanaal
       ...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: epithets, america, patriotic, people, political, power, spoken word,
Form: Epigram

Flat Tire Did Not Ply Deflating Psi Lance

True add verse situation,
     whereat me mission
     trans send dint state didst ache
after yours truly nearly
     did nearly break
chassis 'pon took drastic
 ...

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Categories: epithets, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, funny,
Form: Free verse

Discover Ring Visa Vis My Fanbase

As long term aspiring
     gurgling (stream of consciousness)
     paperback writer, there doth appear
an imponderable quandary

     most likely experienced
     by...

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Categories: epithets, 10th grade, 11th grade, 9th grade, fate,
Form: Free verse

Donning rubber gloves, the wife does washing of clothes and dishes

Donning rubber gloves, the wife does washing of clothes and dishes...
(plus cutlery, pots pans, et cetera) in the kitchenette sink.

She started what would immediately become 
a first and last generation tradition
(the spouse as washer woman
and...

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Categories: epithets, adventure, anniversary, appreciation, devotion, humorous, marriage, western,
Form: Free verse

Donning rubber gloves, the wife does washing of clothes and dishes

Donning rubber gloves, the wife does washing of clothes and dishes...
(plus cutlery, pots pans, et cetera) in the kitchenette sink.

She started what would immediately become 
a first and last generation tradition
(the spouse as washer woman
and...

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Categories: epithets, adventure, anniversary, appreciation, devotion, humorous, marriage, western,
Form: Free verse

I Awkwardly, Ineptly, and Submissively Fumbled Thru Life

I awkwardly, ineptly, and submissively fumbled thru life...,
whereat purposefulness rarely gained traction

Fatherhood (half my life time ago)
bolstered reasonable rhyme
manifesting itself before
these myopic bespectacled eyes.

Infancy, babyhood, and Childhood
evidenced, noticed, and witnessed
adequate basic provisions,
and no shortage of...

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Categories: epithets, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th grade, 7th
Form: Free verse

Marriage To Alarmingly Ballooning

Marriage to alarmingly ballooning...

dramatically expanding spouse,
when adorning buttons 
pop off undersized blouse
which spurs yours truly to grouse,
and ruffle mine tail feathers 
while listening to Scheherazade.

Eats her weigh out of home and house
unsolicited feedback courtesy
quite doubtful,...

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Categories: epithets, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, addiction,
Form: Rhyme
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