Long Figuring Poems
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Chapter 97 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: Family Times and ProjectsDate: December 2042
Early afternoon, Damian was
Busy in his den planning the trip
To Trinidad. He called CJ first
To confirm his commitment to
The project. "Hey brother you
Still on for that trip we spoke
About."...
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Categories:
figuring, absence, allusion, earth day,
Form:
Alliteration
Tips For Modern PoetsDear Novice Poet,
Welcome to the wide open wonderful world of poetry! Today more than ever before, a poem can easily be whatever you want it to be. The rules are simple. There...
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Categories:
figuring, write,
Form:
Prose
Photographic EvidenceThe guy slipped in around 8 p. m....the place was fairly packed...and wearing what they call a ‘hoodie’, quickly took a seat
Just inside the window, and I guessed - by how he looked - having...
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Categories:
figuring, inspirational,
Form:
Rhyme
My Pentagram Poppet Pt 1You're so far away from me and I suck trying to go slow when I know
I wanna snatch you up, bail you out, and take us to our new home
It's hard when I'm alone in...
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Categories:
figuring, girlfriend, magic, women,
Form:
Rhyme
So Far AwayI Stumble Upon My
Words – I’m
speechless
We were so far away
from each
other…I-I-I’m one
with
r-regret…f-feeling
incomplete…
I thought our love
was as worthless as
the debris…
You smoked me out
like a cigarette…and
y-you left me on the
filthy, messed-up
street…
I thought your kind
of “freedom” would
set us...
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Categories:
figuring, animal, best friend, betrayal, deep, grief, hope,
Form:
Lyric
Caregiving StoriesThe Tyrant
Was born ginger
and learned WhiteRacist
from Dad
dead now about a year.
Possibly opioid addiction
but certainly something
in growing families
of yin-suppressed
self-medicating
LeftBrain too dominant
addictions
to chemical acclimations.
Dad left by death
Tyrant's also addicted
and chronically depressed mother
And his only white racist
twelve year...
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Categories:
figuring, bullying, caregiving, education, health, humor, parents, wisdom,
Form:
Political Verse
Figuring OutWarped up lies
Illuminated goodbyes
The reason I hear his cries
Hopefulness and its highs
Amid the optimism, hidden inside
Utopia and its understanding lifts me higher than high itself and ultimately wins the window of my heart's mind
Tribulation and...
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Categories:
figuring, confusion, hope, joy, lonely, longing, peace, uplifting,
Form:
Rhyme
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 4March 18-27
This time I woke,
He was staring readily,
Smiling, plotting steadily
I lifted my body and gently gazed at his grotesque beauty
He was always at his best in thought…
“You look ravishing…” He began.
“Mouth-parched, crusty-eyed, hair...
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Categories:
figuring, adventure, anger, angst, anxiety, appreciation, beauty, blessing,
Form:
Free verse
Chapter 124-- Damian Delilah Mallory Polly: the Carter's and Lucinda's VacationDate: April 2049
Next day: warm spring silky
Afternoon Polly voyaged to the estate
For a visit accompanying was
her cousin Holly who
Dolly Molly and Damian would meet
For the first time. Molly and Damian
And...
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Categories:
figuring, 11th grade, allusion, color, confidence,
Form:
Alliteration
Imperfect Storm Ends In a RainbowIn 1958 Elmer's was the only high school in his county that had been integrated. Basketball was the big sport. People in the little town filled the gym every Tuesday and Friday. They roared when...
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Categories:
figuring, race,
Form:
Prose
Statistics, Polls and Percentages - Both Audio and TextI heard, a couple days ago, the Austin Armadillos
spent thirty million dollars for some slugger named Peru
Whose last year’s on-base-average, from the year before, had doubled
from a pretty wimpy POINT-O-ONE - to a...
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Categories:
figuring, humor,
Form:
Verse
The Shelter - 2nd Half In Text - Plus Full Audio VersionNote: this is the 2nd HALF of this piece, a little too long to post as one poem, sorry. If you enjoy story-poems, it's definitely worth the read, believe me. (Or the "listen".)
“We learned of...
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Categories:
figuring, inspirational,
Form:
Narrative
Sojourn through TarotspaceSOJOURN THROUGH TAROTSPACE
Let me tell you a story,
Of a deck of cards, in all its glory.
Well, some will say, what’s the big deal?
To them my humble reply, come, conquer, and heal.
The story is my take,
On...
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Categories:
figuring, art, symbolism, teacher,
Form:
Rhyme
While Daydreaming About Timepiece InventorsWhile daydreaming about timepiece inventors...
as the figurative curtain closes on 2022
How arbitrary the assignment
of seconds, minutes, hours,
days, months, years...
to the passage of time,
and I would be hard pressed
to differentiate one moment
from the next without the...
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Categories:
figuring, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure, creation, december,
Form:
Free verse
I Know What I'M Doing"go on" I dared myself
So I did
Booked an extra ticket for my Mum
"She'll love it" said my brain
"What if people break bones, you crash on the way, you forget the tickets, someone wears the wrong...
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Categories:
figuring, anxiety,
Form:
Narrative
Uniting Easter's Earth DaysLet's imagine that you are,
like Buckminster Fuller,
karmically absorbed with Unitarian genes,
were there such a thing,
which of course there are not,
but perhaps something like an evolving Unitarian Universalist post-millennial teleology.
Basically, some shared sense of...
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Categories:
figuring, earth, earth day, easter, math, philosophy, religion,
Form:
Free verse
Capitalism and Human Nature Must Be Regulated“What can we do to make this right?”
The speaker is Phil Burns, owner of the brokerage firm that Owen Mitchell has had money invested with for years. Owen’s not rich and not poor. He just...
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Categories:
figuring, political,
Form:
Prose
Tokyo Disneyland AdventureLong ago, a long layover in Tokyo persuaded
my flying partner and I to venture out to
visit Disneylando, as the locals called it.
We started out early in the fog about 8 a.m.
We had our map...
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Categories:
figuring, adventure, humor,
Form:
Narrative
The Master AlgorithmSome say the scientific method
Is the ultimate algorithm and others
Prefer prayer.
For symbolists, all intelligence can be reduced to manipulating symbols, in the same way that a mathematician solves equations by replacing expressions by other expressions....
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Categories:
figuring, change, computer, death, symbolism, truth, war, world,
Form:
Verse
Why I Never Wrote This PoemThis piece explains why I never managed to get this particular poem written -
On a cold December evening back in 1967, just before I went to bed, I heard
a scratching noise
Coming from our...
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Categories:
figuring, horror, humor, humorous,
Form:
Verse
How to attach a shower curtainHow to attach a shower curtain...
I revisit rather than write from scratch
a poem crafted May twenty third
two thousand and twenty
since the following words apropos
and amply serve a duplicate purpose
of aforementioned title,
when yours truly enlisted
(before...
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Categories:
figuring, abuse, angel, appreciation, business, fun, hero, husband,
Form:
Rhyme
The Difference In the Stories We Want To TellOhh I could have sat with my heart
--elevated with dribbled echoes--
ahhhhhh until it yet exhaled the tarnished seams
capturing only the quiet current lapping
and soaking dirty steel embankment
along the river’s edge beneath the...
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Categories:
figuring, death of a friend, music, nostalgia, river,
Form:
Prose Poetry
First Uniting NationsHoney, why doesn't the United Nations include the First Nations?
Are you asking about Babylon
or Native Americans?
Who were, at the time,
thought to be more like wild Indians
by the movers and shakers of rapid industrializing history.
What about...
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Categories:
figuring, earth, health, integrity, native american, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
Stay Close ByDon’t you worry so much...
Today is going to be a gracious day
We are going to have brunch
I am choosing His glorious way today
So much has happened in my lifetime
I feel alone and on my...
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Categories:
figuring, joy,
Form:
Free verse
Kiss Stains of ShameYour kiss-aids on wounds is but an epic fail
We had the perfect time of our lives
Till unhappiness and sadness arrives
Lost in the perplexity of our fantasies
I have fed the fires of your lust disease
Darkness...
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Categories:
figuring, angst, betrayal, kiss,
Form:
Free verse