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April 9th, 2024 would be ninety fifth birthday poem for dearly departed papa
April 9th, 2024 would be ninety fifth birthday poem for dearly departed papa
The following words crafted soon after the soul of me daddy set adrift into the empyrean realm joining the rank and file of...
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Categories:
floundered, absence, age, anniversary, april, bereavement, death, father,
Form:
Rhyme
April 9th, 2023 Birthday Poem For Dearly Departed Papa
April 9th, 2023 birthday poem for dearly departed papa
Borne aloft into the netherland
the body bearing thee soul
of Boyce Brandon Harris
birth name given to my late father
buoyed aloft united with spirit
of mine late...
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Categories:
floundered, age, anger, anniversary, appreciation, april, bereavement, birthday,
Form:
Free verse
Onerous Task Confronted Teachers and Parents
Onerous task confronted teachers and parents
As prospective students
ably ready themselves to matriculate
and/or first set little feet
inside halls of learning,
I rebroadcast a poem crafted
at the height of Covid-19.
A couple years gone back educators
adaptation regarding coronavirus...
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Categories:
floundered, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Free verse
April 9th, 2025 birthday poem for dearly departed papa
April 9th, 2025 birthday poem for dearly departed papa
Elysian fields long since embraced dada's soul
which rocketed into aerospace
(courtesy General Electric satellite)
just a tad shy of
fifty four plus months ago,
nevertheless melancholia
still plucks mine heart strings.
Mine...
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Categories:
floundered, absence, abuse, adventure, anger, appreciation, bereavement, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
April 9th 2021 Birthday Poem For Dearly Departed Papa
April 9th, 2021 birthday poem for dearly departed papa
Elysian fields embraced dada's soul
which rocketed into aerospace
(courtesy General Electric satellite)
just a tad more'n six months ago,
nevertheless melancholy
still plucks mine heart strings.
Mine psyche still situated awry
placid countenance...
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Categories:
floundered, absence, angel, april, bereavement, birthday, dad, death,
Form:
Rhyme
Across Figurative and Literal Blackened White Board
Across figurative and literal blackened white board...
Where death of democracy writ large,
nevertheless psychological strength predominates
unlike earlier chapters of mein kampf.
Mine hardscrabble existential debacle
spelled losing game
swept me up in malevolent mindset
far adrift from harbored...
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Categories:
floundered, 11th grade, 12th grade, 7th grade, 8th
Form:
Free verse
Throwing Stones At Philosophers
Throwing stones at Philosophers
Critical conscience is not an admittance of ambivalence,
But a philosopher once said:
“You threw a rock at my head Fred!”
A road along a path is but a journey to nowhere,
If your cart is...
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Categories:
floundered, dream, fantasy, humanity, journey, philosophy, scary, time,
Form:
I do not know?
The Fallen Prince
I saw a fair young maiden, abandoned in her bed,
Tearful for the one she loved ,the one she chose to wed.
Who in a weakened moment tread, out to the mountain ledge,
Enticed by the knight in...
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Categories:
floundered, adventure, imagination, love, sad, uplifting, magic, me,
Form:
Epic
The Master of the Wind - a Re-Write
[Arrhhh… this be a rewrite of a yarn I told, which truly wasn’t tawdry
alas, I can but wonder if some thought it would be bawdy.
The ‘Neptune’s Daughter’ was a fiction, No inuendo there
She’s now...
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Categories:
floundered, dog, ocean, sea,
Form:
Rhyme
Husband and Wife: Literary Life
Your Rain was tears on my window pane -
the first poem of yours I had seen -
pain-drops spattered a snow-blank expanse,
grief-blue with regret and what should have been.
I thought mediocre. Bad omen for you.
You who...
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Categories:
floundered, husband, relationship,
Form:
Free verse
Dramedy of Errors
Walking from the horrid old motel, and out into the smaze,
a suffocating day, worsened now, by a mocktail shade of smog
in mockumentary proportions, she flounders in a fog.
Too dazed by crazy sitcoms that seem...
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Categories:
floundered, anger, heartbroken, lost love, people, relationship,
Form:
Prose
The Neptunes Daughter
Fifty fathoms ’neath the sea aboard the ‘Neptune’s Daughter’
The captain guards her secret in three hundred feet of water
For twenty years he floundered in a cell; Twas dank and cold
They let him out, he set...
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Categories:
floundered, dog, humorous, ocean, sea,
Form:
Rhyme
The Odyssey Pantoumimed - Ii
We let loose the untamed winds
As boulders crashed eleven ships were lost
With storm unabated into the Laestrygons we ran
T'was one lone ship which hit Circe's land
As boulders crashed eleven ships were lost
Fair isle it was...
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Categories:
floundered,
Form:
Pantoum
The Fallen Prince - Part 1 - (Reformated)
The following epic is a metaphorical rendering of one persons’ struggle with
drug addiction. It is based on a true story.
...
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Categories:
floundered, magic, drug,
Form:
Epic
Fallen
daybreak calls off moon's whitewash
in the wee of this morn I startled up from what quite seemed like a crash landing from midair plunge of a fledgling's first flight—thanks to my false 'alarmers'; the plantain...
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Categories:
floundered, africa, animal, feelings, life, nature, together, wisdom,
Form:
Haibun
Onerous Task Confronts Teachers and Parents Part One
The following reasonable obsolete rhyme
verst heard in my faux class (sic) lilting brogue
courtesy coronavirus (COVID-19) rogue
wrought approximate sixth month academic hiatus
nevertheless September 1st, 2020
signals resumption of school year back in vogue.
Challenges abound as millions of...
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Categories:
floundered, 1st grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th
Form:
Rhyme
Airship
Airship
How far I’ve flown I neither know nor care.
Much as this open deck my plans are bare.
Of star or compass I have nary need,
But follow as these downy cloud tops lead.
The chilly breezes toying through...
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Categories:
floundered, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
A Night Bird Sings
When sleep deserted me
I crawled out of my bed unseen
To delve into the crevices of the dark
With the curiosity of an explorer
And the near comatose of a somnambulist
I walked up and down the steep slopes...
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Categories:
floundered, fantasy, night, poetess,
Form:
Free verse
A Mandrake's Gesture Vol. V
Geinere's frailty
was that of an abandoned
child, lost in the world.
Her hurt was so that
of anguish and desperation,
her heart burdened by
his hateful words.
His domineerance, his
drunken righteousness,
protruding as a writ
man. A careful prodigy
was...
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Categories:
floundered, forgiveness, inspirational, life, love, mystery,
Form:
Epic
Peak Communion Addiction
When struggling with addiction
to uncontrolled
and biologically controlling agents
and competitive outside agencies
Earth is helpful in mentoring patience
with failures of humane self-control
to extend,
feed and water
and grow mindbody wealth
of unwalled health.
So, when possible,
as possible,
extend your compassion
away from...
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Categories:
floundered, addiction, child abuse, courage, earth, health, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse
A Poet Plus Teacher- PS
Was it a sheer accident that I became a poet?
Poetry, I didn’t pursue, rather it cropped up
As a late-night guest, quite unexpected.
A teacher’s career, I have been bent upon
And prefer to be known more as...
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Categories:
floundered, destiny, inspirational, passion,
Form:
Free verse
The Stranger in our land
Poem®
THE STRANGER IN OUR LAND
The snake that you can see
But can't kill;
The oath you buried under the ground;
That controls your day-to-day activities;
A pain masked in favor of the...
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Categories:
floundered, africa, anger, anti bullying, christian, hyperbole, imagination,
Form:
Free verse
You Can Lead a Republican
You Can Lead a Republican to our Constitution
(But You Can’t Make Him Think)
Though fools claim love for Constitution, ‘Founders’ floundered on its beach.
“One man! One vote!” ‘God’s revelation! ‘Women,’ ‘slaves’ vote? Who can teach?
A ‘White...
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Categories:
floundered, political, satire,
Form:
Rhyme
Bangladesh: the Birth of a Nation - I
We were one people, neighbours and kin
Before independence and the politician’s whim
In August’47, the brotherhood ended
The country was partitioned and we were independent
Democracy worked in India, floundered in neighbouring Pakistan
Victim to army rule and the...
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Categories:
floundered, history, night, night, sky,
Form:
Narrative
Song of a Night Bird
When sleep deserted me,
I crawled out of my bed unseen
to delve into the crevices of the dark
with the curiosity of an explorer
and the near comatose...
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Categories:
floundered, bird, night, poetry,
Form:
Free verse