Long Firma Poems
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The Remaining - Prologue: Terra Firma and the Bitumen“The Remaining”
PROLOGUE: “Terra Firma and The Bitumen”
"The slow descent into Hell
Had led Her mind to escape to Heaven
Her firmament was Her Mind
Her body just a Shell"
Heaven for Her existed in The Dream
She called Her...
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Categories:
firma, angel, daughter, god, heaven, imagery, jesus, mother,
Form:
Free verse
Caregivers Among UsTo receive care
that best meets your needs,
and also,
by the way,
everyone else's too,
we look first
to where and when we have given such care
since our original longest reborn journey
down Mom's birth canal,
prepared just in time for our...
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Categories:
firma, care, caregiving, happiness, health, immigration, love, wisdom,
Form:
Political Verse
Now and Then and Now Again1
Though still within our infancy,
we strive to thrive, but woefully
we flash and flaunt our 'primacy',
display our trophies pridefully.
Our terra firma ecstasy
destroys survival's harmony,
lays waste to life on land and sea.
Mankind, thy name...
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Categories:
firma, corruption, culture, environment, money, pollution, racism, religion,
Form:
Monorhyme
Ground Level Entry
"Ground Level Entry"
“She fits the bill”,
they say it
insouciantly
visions of being
carried in the beak
of a bilious pelican
where it builds
its rudimentary nest,
it uses sticks and debris
no stones, yet,
from irreverence
thrown at it
no higher...
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Categories:
firma, muse,
Form:
Narrative
Groundhog day 2024 or Forty one days since 2023 Winter SolsticeGroundhog day 2024 or Forty one days since 2023 Winter Solstice
Rather than be a day late
and dollar short, I opted
to post poem acknowledging
the second of February,
where eponymous groundhog
gets his (most often male)
foretelling...
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Categories:
firma, adventure, america, animal, celebration, confidence, february, spring,
Form:
Rhyme
A JourneymanA Journeyman
Prologue and Epitaph:
I am the fool, the jester, clown, a harlequin, charade, façade of many
shades and colours, mascara over broken fragments, dead and gone
1) Megalomaniac charlatan, lost in destruction, finding the path, the touch,
the miracle...
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Categories:
firma, life,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Upon approaching advent of an early spring 2024Upon approaching advent of an early spring 2024
(alternately titled GENESIS RESPLENDENT)
No matter the calendrical/official onset of vernal equinox takes places Tuesday, Mar 19, 2024 and transpires until Thursday, Jun 20, 2024, an intimation sensed...
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Categories:
firma, 12th grade, animal, appreciation, beauty, daffodils, earth,
Form:
Rhyme
Earth Day 2021 Thursday April 22POETIC PREFACE:
An inner conflict dust brew
within this scribe, who offers ye to chew
(like sweet treats metaphorically) thee do
tee incumbent, when Doomsday clock
counts down minutes few
according Al Gore rhythm
unstoppably ticking,
when life gets turned to global goo
tenderized...
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Categories:
firma, appreciation, april, care, earth day, future, gender,
Form:
Rhyme
Circa February 12th, 2122 10:30 PmCirca February 12th, 2122 ~ 10:30 PM
Equals twenty one thirty 22:30 military time
future time traveler looks back one century ago,
oceanic waterways overladen with green slime,
yours truly attempted crafting id est feeble rhyme
far from madding crowd,...
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Categories:
firma, absence, age, celebration, dark, destiny, fantasy, heaven,
Form:
Rhyme
Future Time Traveler Looks Back One Century AgoFuture time traveler looks back one century ago
The following poem tweaked
courtesy original author who crafted
literary endeavor some couple years ago.
Now circa August 20th, 2122,
or 1930 military time,
yours truly attempted
drafting id est feeble...
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Categories:
firma, adventure, anniversary, appreciation, august, celebrity, crazy, destiny,
Form:
Rhyme
Future time traveler looks back one century agoFuture time traveler looks back one century ago
I exhibit health and virility at one hundred and
64 years astride planet earth, whereby spouse,
(who remained married to yours truly for about
one century – which elapsed in...
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Categories:
firma, absence, adventure, anniversary, birth, celebration, cool, dad,
Form:
Free verse
Columbus In the New WorldColumbus In The New World
Three ships sailed under Spanish colours
(The Santa Maria, Niña and La Pinta)
And dropped anchor off the shores of San Salvador,
For Columbus and his crew to man-the-oars
To set foot on Terra firma...
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Categories:
firma, america, columbus day, culture, education, history,
Form:
Verse
Albedo effect in full force after appreciable snowfallAlbedo effect in full force after appreciable snowfall
After descent of eventide
luminescence of freshly fallen snow
still illuminates the terrestrial firma bright
even upon the onset of dusk,
when dark shadows
betoken the edge of night
analogously herald outer limits
invoking intimations...
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Categories:
firma, appreciation, break up, celebration, dark, imagery, perspective,
Form:
Free verse
Dickens Christmas Carol Revisited By Nicked SaintDickens Christmas carol revisited by nicked saint
Frigidaire - from upper atmosphere
hammering and whipsawing debris
ferociously with an angry flare,
cuz mother nature - fed up to here
(re: envision me hands indicating
over top of head)...
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Categories:
firma, 10th grade, 11th grade, 2nd grade, 3rd
Form:
Rhyme
April Fools' Occurs First Day of Fourth MonthApril fools' occurs first day of fourth month
Ordinarily all manner
of tomfoolery doth abound,
celebrated for countless centuries
by different cultures,
though exact origins remain
shrouded in mystery,
nevertheless quasi holiday of sorts
begat courtesy primitive precursor...
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Categories:
firma, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, april,
Form:
Rhyme
We, Crazy
In the shadows of my half-waked condition of terra firma- patronus renditioned, I mudder into your soil,
snorkel into your swamp of inlet tributary, a flagellum personae , prosopopoeia explorae eel, "Marinas"
here waters water dreams, to...
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Categories:
firma, art,
Form:
Rhyme
As a Resident of Schwenksville Boro For Five Plus YearsAs a resident of Schwenksville Boro for five plus years...
Intersection upon adventitious
encounter, when first seed of genocide planted
unsuspecting subsequent rapid usurpation
quickly eradicated rightful breed
of what coalesced into thee Americas.
I experience stir of echoes haunting
Perkiomen...
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Categories:
firma, abuse, adventure, age, america, anger, betrayal, crush,
Form:
Free verse
Eccentric Mints - 150 Varieties1. Abolish Mints
2. Abut Mints
3. Accomplish Mints
4. Accouter Mints
5. Acknowledge Mints
6. Ada Mints
7. Adjust Mints
8. Admonish Mints
9. Adorn Mints
10. Advance Mints
11. Advertise Mints
12. Agree Mints
13. Ail Mints
14. Align Mints
15. Announce Mints
16. Annul Mints
17. Apart Mints
18. Appease Mints
19. Appoint Mints
20. Arma Mints
21. Argu Mints
22. Arrange Mints
23. Assess Mints
24. Astonish Mints
25. Atone Mints
26. Attain Mints
27. Banish Mints
28. Battle Mints
29. Befuddle Mints
30. Bereve Mints
31. Better Mints
32. Bewilder Mints
33. Blandish Mints
34. Command...
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Categories:
firma, humor, word play,
Form:
List
The Sprigs and Spirit of Sistine -1Poetry, paint and the birth of a world
in a whirl the Dark and the Light do swirl
yet obey the dawn and dusk I do unfurl
above the alter I, the Almighty
forge form from their spectral sexuality,...
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Categories:
firma, creation,
Form:
Epic
Genesis Resplendent To Me a Garden of Eden Resident AtheistGenesis resplendent to me – a garden of Eden resident atheist
Avast abundance of life forms
doth snapchat and buzzfeed
a motley fool of indiscriminate creed
resembled yours truly freed
from those scrambling greed
dully sending hotmail google
eyed hungrily ogling indeed
six...
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Categories:
firma, appreciation, autumn, birth, celebration, color, earth, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
Aging In a New PlaceI can’t speak for other men but as I grow older I have found listening to my wife makes life easier.
So when she said we should move to a retirement community while we’re still...
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Categories:
firma, age,
Form:
Prose
Earth Day 2020 Wednesday, April 22Earth day 2020 – Wednesday, April 22
Bajillion banshees scream bloody murder methought
upon Biblical (lionized) forebears stalking heads
birthed courtesy accursed beasts hood besought
winds howl across the oblate spheroid
methinks courtesy Homo sapiens horror wrought.
Climate change/global warming siren...
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Categories:
firma, 12th grade, care, caregiving, environment, health, memorial
Form:
Free verse
Solitary Rituals of Mourning the Write Way RightSolitary rituals of mourning the write way, right?
Papa... bless his (your) heart and soul,
impossible mission your second born
sole male heir cingularly communicates,
viz his avocational crafted poem, since
written words, mine metier
write most pained words
with great difficulty,...
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Categories:
firma, 12th grade, absence, death, eulogy, father, memory,
Form:
Elegy
Arcola Circa Late 1960s Early 1970sArcola circa late 1960's early 1970's...
easy to conjure this idyllic June 8th, 2020
Envision bucolic Currier
and Ives rendered landscape,
or canvas painted
courtesy gifted late Thomas Kinkade
(or substitute favorite creative soul)
how aforementioned illustrious artists drape
mesmerized amateur and/or
art appreciation...
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Categories:
firma, 11th grade, 12th grade, environment, father, growing
Form:
Free verse
Reverend Dr Margret a O Neill Developmental MinisterReverend Dr. Margret A. O'Neall Developmental Minister
Unitarian Universalist Church
situated in Cherry Hill, New Jersey,
whereat every Sunday morning, I
Matthew Scott Harris) blessedly zoom
virtually attend congregation
(recent attendee) experience
fellowship, albeit an outlier,
these two score plus one year...
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Categories:
firma, angel, appreciation, family, giving, inspirational, leadership, uplifting,
Form:
Free verse