Long Floors Poems
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Childhood Dreams Part 1When I was a child
Everything was magical
Full of mystery and the unknown
I read hundreds of books
The library my haven
My home
Hours upon hours
Night and day
I read and got lost in text
They supplied me with adventures
Secret journeys
Fun...
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Categories:
floors, childhood, cinderella, dream, fairy,
Form:
Free verse
Justice Is Crying In the StreetOh my soul what hails you?
Oh my soul what awaits you?
Oh my soul why are you in despair?
Oh my soul I have not deserted you
Oh my soul I have something to share
Oh my soul I...
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Categories:
floors, anti bullying, conflict, courage, desire, discrimination, education,
Form:
Free verse
Solo PerformanceIt had been a hellish week.
On Monday
my lonely and tired AfricanAmerican husband
told me, as gently as possible,
that what I had hoped was a temporary separation
is to be extended into perpetuity.
This separation had been scheduled to...
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Categories:
floors, age, earth, family, health, integrity, nature, spiritual,
Form:
Political Verse
Tawfiq Zayyad Translation: Here We Shall RemainHere We Shall Remain
by Tawfiq Zayyad
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Like twenty impossibilities
in Lydda, Ramla and Galilee ...
here we shall remain.
Like brick walls braced against your chests;
lodged in your throats
like shards of glass
or prickly cactus...
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Categories:
floors, arabic, poems, poverty, prison, race, racism, song,
Form:
Free verse
Chapter 92 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: Family AffairsNext day new school day.
Amadeus was the first to
Wake then he woke DJ and
Damali And all three went for
The showers. Twenty minutes
Later they woke everybody else
Including the adults. The Hakim
Children...
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Categories:
floors, beach, christmas, emotions, family, first love, leadership,
Form:
Alliteration
Chapter 21-- Dolly Damian and Molly: Cascades Continued IiDolly was beside herself with thoughts
Of this powerful man, Damian Possessing
Her. She wandered around his
Spacious apartment before
Returning to his bedroom
to sit on his bed.
Damian was ready and dressed...
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Categories:
floors, emotions, feelings, love, lust,
Form:
Alliteration
A Poem For My Algebra TeacherI know I promised
no more ‘Make you Cry Poems’
I said I'd never write another
‘Wipe your eye poem’
And for three years
I tried not to retract,
but after so many tears
I have...
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Categories:
floors, 6th grade, abuse, betrayal, children, confusion, family,
Form:
Free verse
The Inner ChamberTHE INNER CHAMBER
Please. Stop holding back on me.
Like a child standing at the neighborhood ice cream truck, arm outstretched, eyes huge, mouth watering.
I stand here longing to slip underneath your decades of cold-rolled steel...
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Categories:
floors, betrayal, courage, devotion, love, love hurts, relationship,
Form:
Prose
The Tower RebuiltI shall resolve to leave this
Place now...
And steadfastly search out,
Nestling between ridge and bluff
Amidst the folds of a foreign
Land,
Several acres of unkempt ground
Fallow and rough;
Upon which stands...
Crumbled stone walls
With an exposed slate roof in
Some...
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Categories:
floors, hope,
Form:
Rhyme
Cocoon
"Cocoon"
They say...
a New World
traces over the old,
leaving the unaware,
erased, far behind
the old unaware,
left far behind,
crawls the walls
in its web of lies
spinning suspect
strings of silk
in the air
glistening diamond nets
slick and sticky...
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Categories:
floors, muse,
Form:
Narrative
4th Generation Soda Jerk -- Both Audio and TextThis is one excited kid and one PROUD father...
I took my son to the lumberyard last Tuesday afternoon. The day itself, though toasty, was the best in quite some time.
And when we’d finished shopping -...
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Categories:
floors, father son, relationship, youth,
Form:
Narrative
StevenHe has the biggest heart.
He enjoys doing things for other people
Just because it’s the right thing to do, and
Knowing he made someone happy makes him happy too.
He’ll do whatever he can to satisfy
Everyone around him.
But...
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Categories:
floors, addiction, anxiety, drug,
Form:
Free verse
Strangers In PeoriaI met a proper woman in a proper pub on a Monday in Peoria. It was noon, time for lunch, and we were sitting stool to stool over very large burgers at a long mahogany...
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Categories:
floors, break up,
Form:
Prose
The GiftFrom the window of my chic city office, lost in thought, I gaze out.
The pedestrians scurry like frenzied ants below, caught up in their bustling state of holiday insanity.
In his haste to cross the street...
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Categories:
floors, allegory, holiday, hope,
Form:
Prose
Brave New World(based on Aldous Huxley's book "Brave New World")
Human hatchery
Clink clink clink clink...
Test tubes prattling past
along the chrome plated production line.
Glistening under fake fluorescence
humming in harmony
with the magnetic motors
of conveyors, centrifuges and camshafts.
Biological blobs of gamete...
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Categories:
floors, confusion, depression, heartbreak, humanity, introspection, political, science
Form:
Free verse
Thirty-Twofrom island corner, big Antrim lad
to Belfast city, a tiny pad
shattered windows, tilted clocks
Goliath had lost his socks
gargantuan giant going mad
Armagh apple girl, any topic
...
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Categories:
floors, ireland, nonsense,
Form:
Verse
Terror Bugs: Part 3 - A Freezer Mice Adventure[Continued from ‘Terror Bugs: Part 2 - A Freezer Mice Adventure’]
__________
London’s streets resembled an al fresco mausoleum
They tracked a trail of body parts which led to a museum
A thousand Terror Bugs were massed, in...
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Categories:
floors, adventure,
Form:
Narrative
The Twin Towers Disaster Or a True Friend Part 1Touching my hand was a wet doggy.
Whatever my fate was going to be,
My dog, my hero would be with me,
If he was in terror it did not show,
I was the weak one that I know.
With...
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Categories:
floors, poetry,
Form:
Light Verse
Fabrics Finding FabricationsA prawn masquerading as a peanut can be quite disturbing. So many times a peel is a garment used to shroud. A tentacle hidden. Here and there. Then to reappear with an often violent burst...
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Categories:
floors, animal,
Form:
I do not know?
Another Time and PlaceAnother time and Place
...
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Categories:
floors, appreciation, friend, poets, remember, smile, time,
Form:
Rhyme
Kitchens Are DirtyIt was dark out. The stars shone dimly, and the horizon blushed faintly as the birds sang, too cheery for the hour. A chill swept the edges of all the outside world: not cold enough...
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Categories:
floors, absence, cry, depression, home, loneliness, lonely, silence,
Form:
I do not know?
Chapter 103 -- Damian Dj Carter Junior Damali: Trinidad Business Vacation RelationsDamian CJ and the guys boarded
The 9 o'clock concord flight that night
They were on Trinidadian ground
Within two hours. Then rented a
Limo, chauffer included. When
Four arrived on the site they noticed the...
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Categories:
floors, business, good morning,
Form:
Alliteration
Barking Up the Wrong Tree
“Barking Up the Wrong Tree”
ghost gums
shed their bark
the min-min
makes good use of it
papyrus, soft enough to
imprint and write
thoughts, like the
ripening welts of
green ants
small bites sting
subcutaneous and
meridional,
terra...
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Categories:
floors, morning, muse, nature, night,
Form:
Free verse
RED SEARED SEA
At the mouth I lay splayed
blood trickling, slowly dripping into soft mud or red Akashic ink
mud of my anus, ink of...
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Categories:
floors, allegory, body, color, courage, deep, emotions, imagery,
Form:
Ballad
Even NumbersHow much I longed for the days
When the earth will rise to its glory again
How much I longed for the days
When we will give God all the praise
The earth‘s sadness will fade away
And we will...
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Categories:
floors, adventure, appreciation, blessing, community, courage, desire, endurance,
Form:
Free verse