Long Flailing Poems
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Malkavian ThreeHis glowing golden eyes glistened with a comprehension beyond the mortal condition
A well-toned, tall, and tanned man, who most, not all, would call handsome
A brightly bleached stalactite overbite gleaned between the mean features of an...
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flailing, dark, psychological,
Form:
Bio
Chapter 112 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: Damian and the Family Go To ChurchEarly morning dawn July
"Mallory" Damian whispered, sliding
Closer to her. "Mallory" he Whispered
Again gently caressing. She wanted
To say stop. It was to late
he moved quite quickly. He spread
Like wild fire. Soon consuming her.
The...
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Categories:
flailing, angst, devotion,
Form:
Alliteration
Prose Poems IiProse Poems II
by Michael R. Burch
These are prose poems (is that an oxymoron?) and experimental poems...
briefling
by Michael R. Burch
manishatched, hopsintotheMix, cavorts, hassex (quick!, spawnanewBrood!); then, likeamayfly, he’s suddenly gone: plantfood.
bachelorhoodwinked
by Michael R. Burch
u are charming...
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Categories:
flailing, poems, poetry, rose, roses are red, world,
Form:
Prose
Random Excerpts From Ice In My Eyes, Smoke In Yours - a Novel"Hey, you philosophysing Hindu. Give me a break, Buddy. I was just pulling your leg. [...] I want the rest of the story. Really, I mean it.” Theson said nothing. [...] “I can see you’re...
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Categories:
flailing, fantasy, growing up, lost, nature, religion,
Form:
Free verse
Back Door Side Door Front Door : Which Door Might a Confucian TakeBack Door Side Door Front Door : Which door might a Confucian take
..................for René ETIEMBLE (Jan. 26, 1909 – Jan. 7, 2002)*
In homage - dedicated to the Chair Professor of Comparative Literature
.................at the prestigious...
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Categories:
flailing, books, eulogy, french, poems, son, tribute,
Form:
Elegy
OrpheusSlang..
Chick-fil-a = the best place ever
jade =
brooke = gorgeous
mishin = the boss, as in “You aren’t the boss of me.”
Orpheus
We’re on vaycay. School is OVER, COVID is over. We’re in New York City...
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Categories:
flailing, humor, mothers day, new york, sister, summer,
Form:
Free verse
Catonita Strikes - Part Two: a Freezer Mice AdventureContinued from
‘CATONITA STRIKES - PART ONE’
A Freezer Mice adventure
When no-one was around they did the finger-clicking thing
And grew to human size in time for what the day might bring
Their guns were charged and ready and...
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Categories:
flailing, adventure,
Form:
Narrative
All That Was SpartaOur lusty voice was in the tramp of narrow, winding,
Scree-littered, deep-rutted roads;
Ravens, uttering guttural croaks, slow-wheeling above
...
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Categories:
flailing, myth,
Form:
Rhyme
Winter, 1948WINTER, 1948 [40 Saxton Street]
for W.W
The winter nights that pass now
are so unlike the winter nights
that passed before, that I often
struggle back in those suspended moments
when sleep grapples for a hold,
to once again hear the...
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Categories:
flailing, age, childhood, family, nostalgia,
Form:
Free verse
Macabiloquent MasteryAs I ascend the podium, a predator of piquant pontifications, my eyes ravage the assemblage of adversaries, their countenances a canvas of consternation and morbid fascination. The atmosphere is heavy with the miasma of malignant...
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Categories:
flailing, dark,
Form:
Free verse
Which Paradise Is Not the Elusive ChimereWhich paradise is not the elusive chimère?
…how long does it take to live one life…learn the lessons of a lifetime…find the time to live…find the time to sort things out…know what you did...
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Categories:
flailing, heaven, innocence, myth, paradise, symbolism, truth, universe,
Form:
Free verse
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:
flailing, adventure, anger, angst, anxiety, appreciation, beauty, blessing,
Form:
Free verse
UncontainableUncontainable
(Music playing)
“I can feel it coming in the air tonight, oh lord
and I’ve been waiting for this moment, for all of my life, oh lord
Can you feel it coming in the air tonight, oh lord,...
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Categories:
flailing, character,
Form:
Prose
Red TulipsUnder a tree of wet blossoms, shimmering to life in the sun, one honey bee is circling around two burly men, who wave it off, with childlike dramatics...arms flailing. One of them,...
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Categories:
flailing, friendship, me, red, spring, tree,
Form:
Verse
Last Love LetterOh to vacation behind the heavy metal door
To escape another election year.
All news is stopped at the door by the guards
Whoever sit in the same place
Waiting
Always
Waiting to retrieve all banned goods
And outside time.
Between med...
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Categories:
flailing, addiction, blue, mental illness, new york, political,
Form:
Narrative
My Auntie WinterMy auntie winter's icy breath wacked my bare face hard, when I step out earlier on
She gave me the cold shoulder and iced me out with a frosty glare for no reason at all
it's...
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Categories:
flailing, beautiful, beauty, blessing, environment, growth, nostalgia, weather,
Form:
I do not know?
josephines placeIt was the summer of 2014, I was just about to turn 13, spending June of summer vacation with my Grandmère, in Paris. Tonight, we’re at a fundraising benefit for African relief (it’s always *something*)....
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Categories:
flailing, grandmother, humor, paris, writing, youth,
Form:
Free verse
On Hearing That Ronniefor Ronald Hindmarsh-Midwood
...
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Categories:
flailing, friend, friendship, light, pain,
Form:
Elegy
Inevitable Death Defines Afterlife TroisInevitable death defines afterlife - trois
So all I ask, would be
inviting, offering, and ushering me to
top secret cygnet committee
to give this average sized
chapped sticky man
spinning the david bowie playlist
as a somber dee...
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Categories:
flailing, absence, allah, analogy, angel, appreciation, blessing, death,
Form:
Rhyme
All I Could MusterEmpty pages
Staring at blank spaces
How long has it been
As custom dictates, a line to be repeated
Maybe it'll close the gap between mental lapses
Maybe it'll explain the aversion
Welcoming the conversion
Welcoming the conversation now fulfilled
Am I fulfilled
A...
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Categories:
flailing, night, voice,
Form:
Free verse
How We Elect the PresidentHow We Elect the President
Senate and House of Representatives
By Franklin Price
3/20/2019
A Representative Republic
Is what we're supposed to be
We are one from fifty states
For all the world to see
Our Constitution has the guidelines
Our founding fathers...
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Categories:
flailing, america,
Form:
Rhyme
My Secret KeyRolly, rolling in shallow surf, every wave a wisp
that'll move me through this sticky sand to the lush land.
Lumbering, waterlogged, soggy heap in my tux,
arms flopping, flailing about, cool currents fill my ears;
mere vestige of...
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Categories:
flailing, garden, philosophy, sea, self, society, truth, universe,
Form:
Free verse
A Music Box and MemoriesOn a cobblestone street,
cracked and ill-repaired,
I rifle antique shops
for a jeweled music box
to cradle my empty locket.
I wish to drop it
...
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Categories:
flailing, fantasy, grief, loss, love, music, sound,
Form:
Free verse
Battle for the Atlantic IIWith lone intent, all freedom it will wrest
if obstinance you let these wolves deny.
As tonnage sinks beneath the torrid crest
your struggles for survival magnify.
Each flailing ship that ferries surety
is fodder for the fathoms of abyss.
Their...
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Categories:
flailing, world war ii,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Poland IIA blitzkrieg wipes your innocence away
and only heaven’s hand can help you now.
Your counterparts lie trepid to the fray,
for they can sense the wolfen on the prowl.
Oh dear Poland, there’ll be no recompense
as death, unbridled,...
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Categories:
flailing, world war ii,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets