Long Furnaces Poems
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To War, From Youthoh youth in all its callow shades
is from our hope, precisely made
...
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Categories:
furnaces, war,
Form:
Epic
America, 1933They are conflicted haunted images from black and white photos of America 1933, when there was no place left to run.
It was the hunger of people lined up, scraps of food ladled out, the...
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Categories:
furnaces, character, culture, history, life, natural disasters,
Form:
Narrative
Of Allegorical Echoers(Apropos of Black Poetic Griots)
We may not be deemed apostolic recorders
But we poets, guided with divine wisdom, are
The lay scribes thereof in the chronicling of
Our life’s sojourn in the shadowing times
we spend here on this...
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Categories:
furnaces, allegory, analogy, black african american, hyperbole, imagery,
Form:
Prose
Master CraftsmanLife is precious , therefore he cultivates it
it's vastness among all his compositions
they flow like an aria from many instruments
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Categories:
furnaces, bible, creation, devotion, faith, jesus, nature, visionary,
Form:
Free verse
Khatia Buniatishvili's Piano Concerto 1 By TchaikovskyKhatia Buniatishvili's Tour de Force of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto N° 1 in B-flat minor on Zubin Mehta's 80th Birthday*
… the caged-beast terrified defying the donderbus blasts vollies of muskets and cannons heralding the charge cavernous...
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Categories:
furnaces, appreciation, inspirational, music, war,
Form:
Free verse
The Trials of Meretrix Canto IWhen your befuddled mind
Forsakes upon the ragged edge
Of swirling darkness;
Where eternal night awaits
To sate upon purest innocence
Besides an open grave!
When the gravity of your perils
Be foully whispered within
Dismayed
And abject earshot;
Where salvation for despairing souls
Be so...
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Categories:
furnaces, philosophy,
Form:
Rhyme
K167 and K168 of Canto Xvii of the Thiruk-Kural With Translations and CommentaryK167 and K168 of CANTO XVII of the THIRUK-KURAL with Translations and Commentary
[Here, again, in these two couplets Thiru-Valluvar is having the time of his life making his followers dread the consequences of what he...
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Categories:
furnaces, bible, humor, jealousy, mentor, tamil, truth,
Form:
Epigram
The Parables of My SoulIn the twilight of my melancholy existence, love savors its bravery, like a vulture allergic to the suspicious aspects of ephemeral glamour, in a final macabre choreography.
On the edge of the precipice of my...
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Categories:
furnaces, 12th grade, allegory,
Form:
Free verse
Comb Your HairDear sister I have been mistreated but surely not defeated
The fit are unruly and those who rule unfit to wear their minds along their brow
Pitted and fallen are we claimed she
Uproot all the timid, surely...
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Categories:
furnaces, art, bible, black african american,
Form:
Ballad
Memories of Another TimeYears P.M. (Pre-MacDonald's).
Woolworths. Huge chain. (Chains break with age.)
Elevated trains. All over New York.
Five and Dimes. That was what you paid.
Ceaserian birth. In Rome?
10 cent comic books.
10 cent ice cream...
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Categories:
furnaces, childhood, family, happiness, love, nostalgia, time, dad,
Form:
Bio
Its the FourthIt’s the fourth - fireworks; the fizzle of stars.
The colorful display of power of the people —
waving of the red, white and blue; freedom
rings, slowly, building to a crescendo
to include all the melting pot called...
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Categories:
furnaces, america, freedom, independence day, love, patriotic,
Form:
Narrative
VISION OF A TORMENTED WORLDThe din of darkness,
The cacophony of impostors,
The symphony of ignorance,
The decadence of progress,
Colonial heritage,
The empire of the pharaohs,
The agony of the pyramids,
The ordeal of free men,
The heat...
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Categories:
furnaces, 12th grade, adventure, africa,
Form:
Free verse
MeditationsAll things you have made fine in their season
the tendernesses of Love the razor of our reason
hollowed out the canyons where the waters fall
celestial lights...
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Categories:
furnaces, dedication, devotion, education, faith, hope, inspirational, life,
Form:
Verse
A Recipe For PeacePeace is though difficult
Yet not impossible to uphold,
All the kings of the states
Must remain self-concerned,
Without poking noses
Into the affairs of others,
Curbing cupidity
To expand the territories,
Subjugate the nations of the world,
Enforce the...
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Categories:
furnaces, peaceearth, men,
Form:
I do not know?
My Morning DewIf I had luck with a guitar
I would pluck you a gentle tune
If I had been blessed with a soothing voice
I would play you the sweetest melody
I would carve you an effigy of love
If...
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Categories:
furnaces, dedication, fire, i love you, love, passion,
Form:
Ballad
It Is One of Those Dinnersit is one of those dinners
leaning in the doorway, she is working
to her, this is a simple one
spaghetti ala Carbonara
she explains it to me as she processes
pancetta is meat from pork belly
salt-cured in black...
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Categories:
furnaces, destiny, devotion, endurance, husband, relationship,
Form:
Romanticism
Hands of the RebellionStrong are her hands,
Darkened by summer’s touch,
Now pale like ghosts in twilight's hush.
Could these be her hands?
Did they dip in scented creams
By tranquil pleasure pools?
Did they bathe in moonlit beams
In serenity’s quiet rules?
Did they drink...
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Categories:
furnaces, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Rock of Damnationfrom his rock he sends out a deadly summons
that calls
...
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Categories:
furnaces, dark, prison,
Form:
Free verse
Pine CathedralDeep in the woods, nearly three miles back,
far from New York with its tall glass and steel,
on a low ridge that has no proper name,
I stumble on something that feels surreal.
An old-growth forest grove, somehow...
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Categories:
furnaces, appreciation, beauty, imagery, nature, places, spiritual, tree,
Form:
Rhyme
Fire and RainFire And Rain
Fire and rain - two...
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Categories:
furnaces, nature, planet,
Form:
Narrative
the hill of epitaphsIn the dirty hands of poverty,
Scavengers of the Republic of Enlightenment
Quench their thirst under the eyelids of the proletarians.
A sinecure of hard drugs
To silence the lamentations of these birds of ill...
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Categories:
furnaces, 12th grade, allegory,
Form:
Rhyme
SadSad, the poor excuses we have for
leadership in our great nation. Sad,
the dissipation, corruption, occupation
by self-serving, soulless, power-hungry
madmen and woman, who have sold their
minds and hearts to the Spirit...
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Categories:
furnaces, freedom, heartbroken, history, patriotic, political, society, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
We Came Upon a Clearing
We came upon a clearing as we all started to choke
Our eyes hurting, painful, us soldier serving blokes
Pieces of black floated, sporadic burning embers passed
Hazed buildings we could see through the trees, chimneys a fast
A...
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Categories:
furnaces, loss, people, war,
Form:
Couplet
Time and a Seasontime slips away endlessly...time's not the worlds friend it's the enemy
tick tocking away riding dragons of destruction
never giving one single thought to Gods love
time slips away like sand in an hour glass
2 seconds away from...
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Categories:
furnaces, life, song-time, time,
Form:
Lyric
We Came Upon a ClearingWe came upon a clearing as we all started to choke
Our eyes hurting, painful, us soldier serving blokes
Pieces of black floated, sporadic burning embers passed
Hazed buildings we could see through the trees, chimneys a fast
A...
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Categories:
furnaces, life, loss, war,
Form:
Couplet