Long Expressiveness Poems

Everyone has the freedom of choice 
Everyone has an expressiveness to save their own voice
Who are you who am I to judge this choice 
You don't know me
You don't know me
 I may have ...

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We’re (my roommates and I) at a specific time of youth - a time I’ll call “close.” We aren’t fully adults but we’re close, we’re not completely out and independent, but we’re close. And once...

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Coplas on Wine

( here, the famous AntiPoetic Chilean Poet Nicanor Parra, b. 1914, uses the more popular form of the « copla » genre that he contains in quatrains of 8 to 10 syllables with...

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"A Poet's Gift" you wrote three years ago -
the arc of your poetic heart to tell.
You spoke of deep emotions in the soul
invoking tears to well and hearts to swell.
You had a gift. You were...

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6.  Incompleteness of the education curricula/ In-availability of areas-subjects-courses
that will enable others possessing other intelligences discover themselves-excel.

Other factors affecting intelligence are:

Language comprehension and expressiveness, Self reasoning and ability to generate
solutions, Sense of timing-Rhythmic accuracy...

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The beauty of water

Water, one of nature's great pleasures.
Do you find the sound of water calming, soothing and serene?
Whenever I hear water and am outside, it instantly calms me. If I’m feeling angry I’m calmed,...

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age, birth, birthday, childhood, friendship, teenage, together,

Twin Unlimited   ballad


Twinned at birth I shared a moment
Not too much room in the womb remained
Closeted together holding hands we laid
We were birthed apart three minutes in-between
She...

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leaves are still falling
out of my bed i am crawling
if a smile was a dictionary,
it would have a scent of mahogany and amber
peacefully i admire the blessing of a view
that i thought i would never...

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A poet writes to share a secret depth 
Of feelings within their soulful breast.
They write to grasp onto immortality,
To be remembered beyond their death.

8-16-19


ARBITRIUM DIVISA Contest
Sponsor Gregory Barden
Taken from my poem titled "A Poet's Gift

A...

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In ghostly white and crystal blue
Like sun spiked diamonds on a chain,
So gently dripping down upon
Your silhouette within the rain,
And where you stood, the shadows bowed
In homage and in wonderment,
As unseen beauty shone abroad
In such...

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How do I know when I have made someone happy?
Cause I sure can tell when I have not
How can I bite my tongue when I have so much to say?
Biting your tongue can cause unnecessary...

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A Poet's Gift

A poet writes to share a secret depth 
Of feelings within their soulful breast.
They write to grasp onto immortality,
To be remembered beyond their death.

A poet shares emotions inked upon the
Page that cannot verbally...

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SUBLIMITY
eerie
   empty
&the bizarre
sublime
resemblance
 now apparent

the
idiosyncratic
& experimental
& intense
expressiveness
anticipating
the hidden
poetic
 possible
dwarfed
in the
 abyss

a place
of  mystery
swallowed
by an
oblivious
 translates
the pleasures
of the joyous
 surrounding
the sublime
so full
of
meaning

a
memento mori
of
stilled
life
a missing
 link
hints at
 reality
 layered

 in
our
  yesterdays

NOTE:THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE   using spaces&breaks without grammatical symbols ,the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and responds thus making...

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Sat I engaged and talking
You’d not listen, you are not listening
While I pondered, my voice quivering telling and mocking
While I voiced myself, expressiveness and flocking
Spit out those wet words
You refuse to hear
You’d not listen, you...

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CULTURAL CANONS
sophisticated wit
expressiveness
  & tricks of the eye
illusions
    out of the blue
  shadows in the sky
a paradox
this sense of irony
      naivete
observed
made manifest
decorative &agreeable

 influential
hierarchies
  artistically distinct
 mainstream
but
separately identified
    in formative influence
inherent vagaries
          of taste
subtle&telling
in
  perspectives
      .of pictorial space
 &
receding
  lines of audacity
in heavenly light
emergency
   to revere

THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE without grammatical symbols the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and respond thus making the form a two...

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ART AS A GESTURE

a
zest
of
    satisfaction
in
a
    gusto
of
ultimate
certainty

deepens
with
intimacy

of
  accidental
curiosity

inherent
 perception
within
   transposes
emotion
in
the
    miracle
of
our
     disparate
mind

unhindered
visible
    audible
in
the
 tangible

expressiveness
of
outgoing
 energy
       of
tactile
significance


consummated
&
  uniquely
pervading
&
pervasive
internally
   integrated

self concerned
 in on-going
interplay
  of
    expression
incorporating
  past
coherent
awareness
of
  conceived
interactactions
berthed
in expressive
 action
of
awakened
personal
pictorial
   presentations
of
 prior
 experience
in
the
completely new
...

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I pause and witness words of beauty
Taking me up to the mountain top
A simple gift of serenity

I stand still looking over the drop
Held in the grasp of expressiveness 
Taking me to the mountain top

I take...

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Low Self-Esteem states of affairs differing impressions 

            religiously surround us/me?  Uncovered at an inopportune time

       ...

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IDIOSYNCRACY
a childlike
relish
   playful&dramatic
hopes
remarkable&
 revealing
deliberate
in tone
  recalling a refuge
containing
matterings
  of embellishments
 as
expressiveness
is sealed

a
respectable
bright
&sparkling
reminder
 a processs
 so very crucial
 evesdropping
 on
 posterity



NOTE:THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE   using spaces&breaks without grammatical symbols ,the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and responds thus making...

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And moistened lips I softly kissed
Beguiling as the dusk's embrace,
That framed with such expressiveness
The perfect smile upon your face,
Which reached out so uncertainly
Although I glimpsed with mild surprise,
The tethered velvet fluttering
Of shadows living in your...

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RENAISSANCE
phrases radiate
feeling
 the breeze
a shiver
of
contemplation
attentive
images
arrive
enthralling
& magnificent
recurrent
to show
 an inspiration
in an
enveloping
embrace

encounters
of
the
 open-hearted
 receiving
the
reverberating
light
so mysterious
& forcefully
present
invisible within
yet
seemingly
 entirely elsewhere
 remarkable
thus
missing the moment
  altogether

perception
expressiveness
a blessing
displayed
astounds
in
 close up
then
 & fades
to evoke
the past...

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