Long Fortunes Poems
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Open Oceans
"Open Oceans"
Kneeling on pearls
wisdom preys
praying
preying
hungry hearts
count the days
wasting away
in all that preying
for prayers
to be answered
children become
strangers
reading
strange words
finding
themselves puzzled
genuflecting to a deity
they do not know, nor wish to
fumbling
mouths closed,
swallowed hole
in the...
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Categories:
fortunes, journey, love, mother daughter,
Form:
Epic
Fortunes Re ToldFORTUNES READ the sign displayed
TRINKETS, CHARMS AND SPELLS
The store had not been here yesterday
shades of candles, books and bell
Drapes were hung from side to side
The windows all were dark
Where was this place a day ago?
Just...
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Categories:
fortunes, surreal,
Form:
Epic
Chaucer Translation: RejectionRejection
a roundel by Geoffrey Chaucer
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Your beauty from your heart has so erased
Pity, that it's useless to complain;
For Pride now holds your mercy by a chain.
I'm guiltless, yet my sentence has...
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Categories:
fortunes, beauty, french, heart, innocence, nature, pride, women,
Form:
Roundel
Medieval Poems VMedieval Poem V
A Proverb from Winfred's Time
anonymous Old English poem, circa 757-786
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
1.
The procrastinator puts off purpose,
never initiates anything marvelous,
never succeeds, and dies alone.
2.
The late-deed-doer delays glory-striving,
never indulges daring dreams,
never succeeds,...
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Categories:
fortunes, earth, england, love, middle school, poems, poets,
Form:
Rhyme
Sins of Supreme SuppressionNot to play any blame game,
in this our new co-evolutionary capacity
for LeftBrained Language Enculturation
long become YangDominant associated
with 'civilization',
co-arising anthro-centrism,
including Earth's newer history
of revolution by Empirical Elitism.
Processes of empirical empire supremacy,
kill or be killed,
became not really...
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Categories:
fortunes, earth, health, language, math, religion, science, sin,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Paul and Sarah - Part TwoConditions were harsh out in Kansas,
For the children and Sarah and Paul.
Neighbors and friends packed up and were gone;
Headed west they could hear fortune's call.
Never sure year to year of the harvest,
So their talents were...
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Categories:
fortunes, adventure, america, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Declaration of InterdependenceWhen in the Course of Earth’s climatic events,
it becomes necessary for cultures to resolve political bands
which have connected Her with human nature,
and to assume among the powers of Earth,
separate and equal...
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Categories:
fortunes, freedom, health, independence day, life, peace, political,
Form:
Prose Poetry
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:
fortunes, hope,
Form:
Rhyme
Translations of the Oldest Rhyming Poems In the English LanguageTranslations of the Oldest English Rhyming Poems
The Rhymed Poem aka The Rhyming Poem aka The Riming Poem
Old English/Anglo-Saxon poem from the Exeter Book, circa 990 AD
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
(excerpt)
He who granted me life...
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Categories:
fortunes, england, poems, poetry, poets, words, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
The Plagueas the PROPHETS of profits, WE lead and WE’re fair
while WE’re living the life of the poor BILLIONAIRE
– silver yachts, pearly castles, cash (plenty to spare) –
with the world on OUR backs... ah! the burdens...
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Categories:
fortunes, society,
Form:
Quatrain
Chapter 77-- Damian Delilah Mallory: the Hakim Family --Members7 am morning time. Damian was
Awakened by his father's phone
Call. "Damian get out of bed, on
Your feet man. We have to attend
A conference at 10 this morning."
Damian responded, "Right" and
Sprang to his feet....
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Categories:
fortunes, courage, family, fate, father son, history, imagination,
Form:
Alliteration
War and Peace: That Midst Nations and NationalsWar and Peace: That Midst Nations And Nationals
War and Peace, a classical fiction by Leo Tolstoy, first published as Voyna I Mir in 1865–69. This picturesque reflection of early 19th-century Russian culture saw as its...
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Categories:
fortunes, allegory, angst, life, marriage, war,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Designed Evolution - Revisions, By GodDesigned Evolution?
As Blue Sky’s dreams take root in fields like Daffodils
That blossom knowledge Love does serve all human souls,
Their truth grows wild across our lands! Oh, every crevice touches strands
Where Evolution has a chance...
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Categories:
fortunes, faith, life, love, science,
Form:
Rhyme
Architects of Humanitarian CrisesCopyright © 2008 #03
4/12/2008 // (Edited: 1/22/2013/lp
(a historical glimpse of humanity's rise)
*This poetic epic begins with the
greatest sin against humanity
*This poem is dedicated to all
serving and protecting the
¨Basic Rights of Mankind¨
Once, mankind was forgiven from...
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Categories:
fortunes, christian, devotion, faith, history, hope, journey, life,
Form:
Couplet
New Mlk Day ResolutionsI have heard almost nothing about New Year Resolutions
this pandemic year;
Although personal sound waves are filled
replete with incomplete invitations
to take better health care
of personal
and social
and economic
and democratic
and public
and green climate nonviolent communication
wealth optimization
As we move...
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Categories:
fortunes, creation, health, hope, integrity, leadership, new year,
Form:
Political Verse
Earthjazz CommonsZeroSum Spirit
bicameral begins
playing through Ego-Eco Me.
Nondual trinitarian bilaterality
of a Mother Scaling Tree
forecasting and shadowing
WinWin
healthy branching
and rooting properties.
Spirit consciousness,
DNA with RNA tribal strings
of multicolored cooperative intelligence.
ZeroSpirit
fractal-seasoned
developing psychology
phylogeny
homology
toward
WiseElder WinWin GoldenRulology.
ZeroAnimated
AcclimatingMundi,
full-mooned Boody
multiregenerational cosmos
where ev'rything grows living out
and fades...
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Categories:
fortunes, addiction, community, health, humor, integrity, music, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
G L Trestrail and Co Ltd
A rising sun burns like a solar flare
from St....
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Categories:
fortunes, nostalgia,
Form:
Couplet
Consciousness correctionClutching the moment
Before yesterday became yesterday,
The promise,
Before he pledged his love to me,
The colors,
Before autumn waltzed away,
Swaying in shadows of soft snowfall,
Breathing white, plunging into the thought,
A blizzard erasing the gentle flames,
Sheltered by...
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Categories:
fortunes, appreciation, god, heaven, hope, joy, life, light,
Form:
Free verse
Bees Under Milk Wood : a Spell
"Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting." Robert Frost
"Bees Under Milk Wood : A Spell"
Spider Web glistens wet
in the spoilt lies of...
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Categories:
fortunes, romance,
Form:
Romanticism
I Hear He's a WinnerBolsonaro was president of Brazil from 2019 to 2023.
Former army officer and right-wing nationalist who revered Brazil's 1964–1985 military rule.
Jair Bolsonaro sought to arm a disarmed nation.
To a place where gun ownership meant freedom.
Anti-establishment populism...
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Categories:
fortunes, analogy, bereavement, celebrity, international, political,
Form:
Bio
The Secret Lives of Chimney Pots ViStrategically placed when raised
Upwards
By your masterful and well
Practiced hand.
To mingle with ever changing
Skylines
That frown down with arrogant
Scowls
Upon the indigenous populous of
This just and tolerant island.
To study and pontificate upon...
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Categories:
fortunes, philosophy,
Form:
Rhyme
Gingham Prison: Beyond the Yellow Brick Road
(Lights dim, a single spotlight illuminates Judy Garland, center stage. She wears a faded housecoat, her eyes holding a lifetime of stories. She speaks directly to the audience, her voice a smoky whisper)
Judy:
They christened...
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Categories:
fortunes, addiction, anxiety, depression, loneliness, lonely, psychological, woman,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
The Poet IsadoreHe sat behind the counter,
Inside the used bookstore.
I thought I recognized him,
As if we'd met...
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Categories:
fortunes, growth, inspiration, journey, wisdom,
Form:
Rhyme
Enthused By Tough Grafther life had been a rollercoaster of moody upheaval
manic fervor from sheer in-exhaustible passion
...
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Categories:
fortunes, analogy, courage, depression,
Form:
Free verse
Public HistoryI sit here steeping in the History
of Our Land, a class, my eyelids dense.
Our Flag hangs in the corner of the class
Red and White folds in deluge, licking the
framed portrait of our Thomas Jefferson,
our...
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Categories:
fortunes, america, education, history, identity,
Form:
I do not know?