Long Explanatory Poems

"A dressed day has disrobed into the depth of a drawer's nightstand." 

(Oh, how positively awesome that what can be sorted out in such an explanatory pattern that a difference would maketh a day.)

The muskiness...

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L'Overture


Lest we forget
Words often mouthed
For the dead of bloody war
Forgot not those great ones
Whose battles were on the home front
Seeking only equality of voice

Ray Charles to you was a singer
Backwards and long ago he was...

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“ChatGPT-4, can you give me your literary opinion on the following sonnet? By the way, it is preambled by an explanatory prolegomenon which discusses the sonnet’s theme and my inspiration for composing it:”

Mental “Masturbation”

(The title...

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 Will you please remind "God"Of "God's Love by "Loving"! The love that God put "In You"should "Remind You"? God "PUT LOVE IN YOU"! He put it there so that "he can remind himself of...

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This self-explanatory English poem of mine was originally drafted Monday (evening) August 5, 2013, while I was still in Independence, Missouri. I revised it a bit in November and December of 2014, while “traveling” in...

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RHYME SCHEME abcb

Thick mist / sharp rocks cut
Dense rain / strong wind whips
Vast drought / weak build folds
Trade boon / graft wrecks ships

RHYME SCHEME aaba

Thick mist / sharp rock strips
Dense rain / strong wind whips
Vast...

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I’ve painted a picture
High yellows and deep purple. 
Erasing the blues.
Though I can’t hide from them, because inside of them,
 Lies context clues.
They keep popping up on my canvas, as if it’s some news
I owe...

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OMG this is what I think as I am reading? 
thus pus poems and yes they stink
simple in word mire contrivances with 
rancid rhyme scheme redundants that
exude explanatory expectorants spouting 
word wormy willy wally whilst...

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I took a bite of tainted truth.
Believed in someone who had no couth.
The system turned it all around.
Now I'm trying to gain lost ground.

The facts they found were misconstrued.
In my blind faith I just got...

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Ill Wind of


It comes replete with verve and belief

Full blown in its gusto and rote of surety 

Yet its goal is to confound and mislead

And bury all the true faces of love

It’s an ill wind...

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Blood and now…
By Stanley Russell Harris
The new mad author
& A Poetry Soup honourably mentioned poet

Blood and now…

Bite the bullet
taste the sweet blood near
near here flowing from the heart
free as life blood can be
free to give...

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 Potential Energy is "Real Energy"! Energy supplies some of our "Everyday needs! Potential Energy gives a "Scientist" an insight into the "Reality of the thing that is called "Immortality"!!!! Potential Energy!!!!! Immortality!!! Love helps...

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***Crazy Menagerie***


I definitely bit off more than I could chew,
when I came a-running to my friend's rescue
He said it was no big deal, a real snooze actually
to just please, please look after his cutie menagerie

He...

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The Holiest Book "Over All Holy Books That Has Ever Been Written in "Man and Women Kind is :"The Holy Bible"!!!!! The Lord God Almighty,and his "Holy Name is "Self Explanitory"!!!!!!! All Glory To "GOD"!"His...

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When she took off her  veil
She saw a face, much known, staring at her.
She could hear an echo of a familiar voice, a usual tone.
But she could not see her.
There.

The voice she heard,
Did it...

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Milton’s Paradise Lost is a book I sometimes dip into. For modern 
readers it does not lend itself to a quick browse. It’s pretty clear from the 
start who dunnit. 
My version in paperback contains...

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Introduction

From the city on the river
Where the Sage of Monticello
And the Great Emancipator
Birthed the country, saved the nation,
Sounds a call for civil discord
In the service of ambition
From a man whose God is power,
And his name...

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I must not end this story
with a happy ending as many
stories that are written for money;
I have come to the conclusion
that I must not end this story
and enhance it with allusion!
My story began two summers...

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Hymns of salvation

That  my own  body 
is my greatest enemy
was unknown to me.
Deluded,  
O Lord, I  was reveling  in its pleasures.

The ones that
do not listen to Your tales,
never  speak...

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He exited the train carrying a luxurious
                            ...

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A poem that simply does not rhyme: 
In my opinion, has no chime.
The bells and whistles of a rhyming sequence,
Is the kind of music, my ears need frequent!
 How I admire the writer, who rhymes...

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Ere ever I send to her;
She whom I love; 
Any of the apologies and explanations of most bittersweet love:
An accounting of those regrets and remorses that I have, 
My fooleries and follies and fallacies, fair...

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To the city of gold 
  
It brings me great pleasure 
To inform you that your application to grab hold 
Of my attention has been successful. 
Your name is self explanatory 
Your status is...

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Of the billions of nuclear spheres that send us light,
among them is selected one tonight.
A star whose message of light was sent
through so much time that space is bent.

This star's  message is here for...

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RHYMING WAVE POETRY

The Rhyming Wave is a poetry form created by Katharine L. Sparrow, American writer and poet.
 It's format; 2 or more quatrains plus an ending couplet. Lines 1 through 3 are iambic tetrameter...

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