Long Forty nine Poems
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Zen Death Haiku IiToday, catching sight of the mallards
crying over Lake Iware:
Must I too vanish into the clouds?
—Prince Otsu translation by Michael R. Burch
This world—
to what may we compare it?
To autumn fields
lying darkening at dusk
illuminated by...
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Categories:
forty nine, death, imagery, life, nature, symbolism, visionary, world,
Form:
Haiku
Sophisticated Lady - Small Town Girl - Both Audio and Text Versions“Sophisticated lady” gropes the table at her bedside, blindly taking random swipes to kill the morning scream
That shatters little privacies she shares with no one else, and steals, with full impunity, her one recurring...
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Categories:
forty nine, sorrow,
Form:
Narrative
Sophisticated Lady, Small Town Girl“Sophisticated lady” gropes the table at her bedside, blindly taking random swipes to kill the morning scream
That shatters little privacies she shares with no one else, and steals, with full impunity, her one recurring...
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Categories:
forty nine, loneliness, sorry,
Form:
Rhyme
My Daughter the Need a Walk From the Dark Side, Into the DarknessMy Daughter
My beautiful Daughter, walks life’s paths alone,
She does so, by design – not of hers – on her own.
She travels heavily !, from place to empty space,
from space to vacant place – in what...
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forty nine, daughter, girlfriend,
Form:
Rhyme
Laughing Pines, Part TwoWill you, won’t you join the dance,
We like to dance here every night,
Moving slowly at the speed of light.
Won’t you give yourself half a chance,
Even two left feet are alright.
The Bipolar Coaster is an excellent...
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forty nine, adventure, allusion, analogy, imagery, imagination, metaphor, travel,
Form:
Rhyme
Asking the Way Part OneThe road to my hometown was a long, and arduous one.
I loved the walk ,and the privacy it gave me.
My mind was awash...
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Categories:
forty nine, age, art, death, deep, environment, fantasy, mystery,
Form:
Prose
Mamas Mojo and DragonDragon did a pratfall, his tail accidentally taking his Mama’s computer out.
Poor Mama’s mind, lost its’ cool, as her computer hit the floor and went out.
Withdrawal left steam coming out of her ears, as nightmares...
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Categories:
forty nine, fantasy, funny, humor, humorous, imagination, uplifting, writing,
Form:
Light Verse
The Day My Daddy Diedto my daddy, Walter M. McGlothin (Aug. 2, 2005)... going home!!!
When someone you love is taken away
There is never enough time
No matter if its
Days,
Weeks,
Months,
Years,
Eons...
~
The heart can't seem to handle an absence
That is the beginning of...
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Categories:
forty nine, family, life, love, life, god, heart, god,
Form:
I do not know?
Zen Death Haiku ViiiZEN DEATH HAIKU VIII
These are my modern English translations of Japanese Zen Death Haiku.
Had I not known
I was already dead
I might have mourned
my own passing.
—Ota Dokan, loose translation/interpretation of his jisei (death poem) by...
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Categories:
forty nine, age, allusion, analogy, angst, animal, anxiety, autumn,
Form:
Haiku
Cont Shogun Samauri Series Richard Pickett Collab 4After Tom left, Bill slugged down his coffee, donned his Stetson and slipped out the side
entrance. Tom saw him for a split second and quickly looked up at the ceiling as if he didn’t....
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forty nine, adventureold, lost, drink, horse, lost, old,
Form:
Narrative
Exploring Human Sexuality In 1969A man named Ai was sent to Gethen on a ship in the solar orbit,
he was the first mobile who had the ability to mindspeak-
He spends two years in Karhide convincing them to join...
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Categories:
forty nine, humanity, society,
Form:
Quatrain
Still WinterDead Winter Stray~ By: Poet Destroyer
Nearby paces, Combatants lost under the cemetery walls,
“Blessed Men and Heavenly Remedy Women of Ages,”
Feelings of dance at the beginning of nightfall,
Scenery of fire, sadness passing this history page,
In that...
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Categories:
forty nine, death, dance, beautiful, woman, women, winter, snow,
Form:
Free verse
Nevermore Will Raven Return*Note: A 60-year annual tradition that involved a mysterious visitor leaving three
roses at the grave of writer Edgar Allan Poe on the anniversary of his birthday
ended in January 2010. Curators of...
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Categories:
forty nine, mysteryhouse, loss, birthday, grave, house, leaving, life,
Form:
Narrative
CancerCANCER
I was ten when you invaded our family, when my sixty year old grandfather
died with lung cancer and at that time I never really understood it; but knew
it was a deadly disease for two women...
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Categories:
forty nine, cancer,
Form:
Free verse
HisstoryToday is the birthday of that
long gone soul. The one spinning
in the centrifuge, even now,
on the counter, as the technician
in the lab coat pulls seven G's
worth of DNA from calcified skull,
in an effort to know...
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Categories:
forty nine, history, imagination, introspection, life, world,
Form:
Narrative
Requerimiento(The Spanish conquerors of the
Americas read out their legal
document, the "Requerimiento",
to the Indians. Failure to comply
meant the Spanish were free to
do what they wanted.)
Conquistadors in Vera Cruz
found themselves a radical ruse.
If pillaging...
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Categories:
forty nine, history,
Form:
Quatrain
The 49er StrikesHe'd come west back in forty-nine,
three long years had passed since that time,
and still he mucked 'bout rivers cold,
with pan and shovel, seeking gold.
Fa away from Sutter's Mill,
he'd staked a claim below this hill,
a bit...
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forty nine, america, conflict, dark, history, lonely, money, work,
Form:
Cowboy Poetry
Run From Love>I have been married now for forty-nine years, it will be fifty next year In 2017. I have no regrets. But there was once, what I thought was a first love. We...
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forty nine, dog, dream, first love, girlfriend, horse, sad,
Form:
Romanticism
Joined the Right Pirate ShipHeathens, scamps and thieves were lying in wait around the cove
Could not see them in gray dusk, but Captain Tawny Right felt them
Being an empath, as well as an Irish pirate queen, she was clairaudient.
She...
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Categories:
forty nine, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Prose Poetry
I Confess I Am GuiltyWhen I was just seven, so small
My best friend Jacob, outdid us all
He had a pet Cobra, cool as could be
He forgot to feed it for a whole week you see
So I killed him
When I...
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Categories:
forty nine, animal, humorous, pets,
Form:
Verse
Mountebank"Who will believe a mountebank? Everyone if she is good." ~Andy Griffith~
Carefully she wrote on the back of a fifty dollar bill.
”Have a happy birthday dear, I know you will”
After writing that sweet...
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Categories:
forty nine, corruption,
Form:
Rhyme
The ConventionThis year's convention was perfectly planned
and held in a beautiful place.
New York was the venue where everyone went
that had enough good hotel space.
Three brothers did come together this year
who shared a room...
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Categories:
forty nine, business, humor, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Yummy ThingsThe sweet shop stood at the end of his road
He passed it every day
He passed it on the way to school
And on his way home again
He knew the man who worked in there
He seemed a...
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Categories:
forty nine, childhood, happiness, chocolate, me,
Form:
I do not know?
How Could a MotherThe word betrayal
As i say at forty nine
Goes back when i was five
Way back in time
A mother, a father
And two little boys
A mother who played around
For her own little joys
Then one night
When her kids...
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Categories:
forty nine, death, family, father, husband, life, loss, mother,
Form:
Rhyme
The Systematic Sugar Stirs SoupA parasympathetic parody in a par is neither equivalent to a vineyard crushed into a jar or a hammock in a cartwheeling car in a traffic jam. Human hypothesis having heaped havoc. And mackerel make...
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Categories:
forty nine, angel, april, aubade,
Form:
I do not know?