Long Expendable Poems
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pelelui
sunlight …
like shards of glass it
shreds the emerald green bamboo trunks
dazzling my eyes like gods -
swaying … whispering
a torrid breeze carries the horror …
what we’ve yet to witness we
can smell ahead of us
no escaping,
just the...
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Categories:
expendable, analogy, introspection, war,
Form:
Free verse
If Dullness Be Your Plunder
63.
If Dullness Be Your Plunder
Speech be silence gone amiss
But if speech be ne'er to be.
Choose words with...
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Categories:
expendable, angst, humanity,
Form:
Rhyme
From The Workshop Collection: Canary And Her Gold Mind
I am still
Sitting here like an expendable bill
With no Jill
Wanting to climb the hill
Where I will
Be able to fill
My bucket from the mill...
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Categories:
expendable, america, angel, lost love, men, murder, sexy,
Form:
Rhyme
Nikita Something
This is what the spirits tell me about you: I see you have traveled far in search of answers to your many questions. You should take satisfaction in having attained an advanced state of enlightenment....
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Categories:
expendable, extended metaphor,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Argh No More Medicare
ARGH! NO MORE MEDICARE!
A worst nightmare loomed large
notification courtesy Montgomery County
Assistance Office caseworker
implied medical coverage axed
I felt hammered, nailed, shingled out...
livid with rage
frenzied, harried, jarred...
railing away
fit tubby tied to train tracks
ready to kill myself,
but dang,...
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Categories:
expendable, 12th grade, absence, america, angst, anxiety, august,
Form:
Free verse
Reset
Abuse, of any kind, is unacceptable no matter what “good” comes from it.
Abusive, you
Lyrically expendable
You set my heart ablaze
At the peak of your animosity
Your apologies lingered amongst the masses
Sharing your ovarian milestones
Within your visceral declarations
Descending...
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Categories:
expendable, abuse, anger, birth, conflict, lost love,
Form:
Free verse
New Season 19
Slowly spring unfolded.The trees all abud now and througout the forest floor
Daffodils had sprung up it seemed overnight.Looking over at Arlis holding his daughter with a look of total besotted love,her mother warmly looking on...
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Categories:
expendable, adventure, celebration,
Form:
Narrative
Essentiality Or Expendability
By the standards of the world and according to the powers that be, you and I ...
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Categories:
expendable, christian, faith, god,
Form:
Verse
The Bleeding
I flung my bloodied bathrobe onto a dusty mahogany bureau and roared: “Did we frighten
the scarecrows tonight, my love? Whose catch was it anyway? Yours or mine? We invited 10
guests to our dungeon this evening....
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Categories:
expendable, on writing and words
Form:
Prose Poetry
Au Revoir Genieve - Miss G - Woollery
For a day, for a week, for a month you will be remembered
Those who knew you well
Family will always recall that you have left a void in them
The thoughtful friend for a year
May think and...
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Categories:
expendable, death, day, cry, day, love,
Form:
Free verse
The Canary On the Wharf
There once was a canary who hung out at the wharf
It was his fort of sort
Where there were boats
A float
Tied up at the dock
Waiting for laborers on the clock
But...
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Categories:
expendable, appreciation, boat, business, england, money, sound, strength,
Form:
Rhyme
Argh No More Medicare
ARGH! NO MORE MEDICARE!
A worst nightmare loomed large
notification courtesy Montgomery County
Assistance Office caseworker
implied medical coverage axed
I felt hammered, nailed, shingled out...
livid with rage
frenzied, harried, jarred...
railing away
fit tubby tied to train tracks
ready to kill myself!
Bajillion dollars...
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Categories:
expendable, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, dark,
Form:
Bio
The Survival of the Fittest Or the Holy Bible Part 2 of 4
(Part 2 of 4)
They Want To Defy or Re-Term It
But The Faithful Always Affirm It
In These Last Days of Attack On Truth
They Want All of Mankind To Refute
The World Wants Us To Crawl In Dirt...
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Categories:
expendable, bible, , atheist,
Form:
Epic
Woman In Chains
she carries the child on tired hips rested on chains ‘round her waist
wasted on freedom designed to serve a white man’s lustful desire
branded inferior as time repeats itself and the pain knows no end
a tattoo...
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Categories:
expendable, anger,
Form:
Free verse
Atlas Slugged
An Atlas slugged hanging from his foot by a noose of his own makings protocols of destruction these consider themselves...
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Categories:
expendable, allegory, faith, religion, god, god,
Form:
Free verse
Pawns
We the old and broken, have become the pawns
in the grand game of politics. We are as in the game
of chess of the lowest esteem, expendable
if not worse unwanted, a barganing chip.
For three...
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Categories:
expendable, angst, future, hope, rights,
Form:
Prose Poetry
No More
I remember that Sunday night
When I got the call from my Mom
She called to let us know
My brother was wounded in Vietnam
I went to my car
Sat in my Chevy and cried
I almost lost my...
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Categories:
expendable, memory, war,
Form:
Bio
Pipe Dreaming Democracy
Today’s a day that’s supposedly filled with political rhapsody/
Yet I sit down and write these words in full spiritual apathy/
I rather be electing a leader whose ideas can capture me/
Chattel ghosts are after me so...
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Categories:
expendable, conflict, political,
Form:
I do not know?
Year 2423
I was born in the year 2423,
gestated in an artificial womb successfully
I drank the nutri-milk
from the dangling nubs on the synthetic tendril teat
I ate the petri-flesh
from the germ-free, sterile laboratory grown meat
My mother and father...
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Categories:
expendable, cute, future, science fiction, soldier, visionary,
Form:
Epic
-surreal-
One Word #5
Word: Surreal
Surreal, adjective, marked by the intense irrational reality of a dream
In a flash of lightning, and a boom of thunder,
Life passes right by in a blur of colour and sound.
It’s odd...
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Categories:
expendable, absence, dream, world,
Form:
Free verse
The Duke
John Wayne movies have been a thing of mine,
But my "Top Ten" I think divine.
"Rio Bravo" as number one I rate,
The "Duke" and the cast...
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Categories:
expendable, dedication, imagination, introspection, workold, character, old,
Form:
Couplet
Last Words
Let's be kind with our words and the hearts of others. Live, love and learn. No regrets. Blessings.
Last words
By Michelle Morris
08/05/2023
If these are our last words
Let them be words of love
Let's not regret the...
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Categories:
expendable, break up, heart, love, relationship, visionary, wisdom,
Form:
Lyric
Indolence
An occasional gust of wind will lift the translucent white voile curtains and then drop them like a child losing interest. The effect is like flash photography, a burst of sudden sunlight that paints our...
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Categories:
expendable, boyfriend, grandmother, happiness, morning, teen, travel, vacation,
Form:
Free verse
Derogate
can we demean a mean word?
can we abrogate its mean intent?
who can voice the "n" word?
you know the one I mean
rhymes bigger but it's Not
some people of a pigment
take great offense at it
while their bro's...
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Categories:
expendable, community, creation, introspection, society, words,
Form:
Free verse
A Dismal Day
The day started out on a low note,
with the clouds moving in,
as I got out of bed
and my daily grind did begin,
used to the sunshine
and not so much cloudiness,
I looked at the weather channel,
and they...
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Categories:
expendable, depression, weather, work,
Form:
Light Verse