Long Gravel Poems
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Stranger Than Fiction*warning* disturbing lines have been detected - you have been warned, readers. Okay, enjoy this somewhat deep and astounding poem from me that took days to write...>:)
I bet you anything that I'm the laziest guy...
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Categories:
gravel, deep, universe,
Form:
Free verse
No God of Mine - 2021 Edit[This poem 'No God Of Mine' was seemingly confounding readers as
to its meaning. Ordinarily, if I felt a poem wasn't cutting it, I'd delete
it, but on this occasion, I've been asked to explain it... so here goes.]
By...
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Categories:
gravel, evil, horror,
Form:
Rhyme
Once Upon a Halloween In the 50'sThe excitement mounted as we rummaged around in the attic looking through old steamer trunks for discarded clothes and props to make Halloween costumes. With an old suit and hat of Granddads, I became a...
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Categories:
gravel, nostalgia,
Form:
Prose
On Fam'Ly Traditions - 2nd ThirdOn Fam’ly Traditions - 2nd third -
“Might as well grab us some food an' some beer...some ice...and some bundles o' wood, an' prob'ly some charcoal....there ain't nothin' better than walleye from right off a...
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Categories:
gravel, family, together,
Form:
Narrative
Legacy of HiphopAnd that is why... this platform is here for answers they can't deny...
It's a truth within a complexity that is standing high...
Let us follow the roots and explore the depths of its grand design...
Cause every...
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Categories:
gravel, deep,
Form:
I do not know?
The Whiskey Bottle WishThe Whiskey Bottle Wish
One late summer night outside a saloon in the mid-west, an intoxicated Dusty Rogers, stumbles out of the Bar nearly taking one of the revolving doors with him. As he flutters...
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Categories:
gravel, bible, drink, judgement,
Form:
Narrative
Unquotable Quotes: Paris the Last Week of the August Reprieve - Xxxv Part OneUnquotable quotes: Paris, the last week of the August reprieve – XXXV
Part One ...
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Categories:
gravel, august, autumn, farewell, september, society,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Velvet Glove CompartmentAge defiant was this spruce and spirited citizen slinking blithely past the burgundy red doors of her enigmatic country dwelling.
As her olive skin neatly curved fingers
slid over an intermittently scratched carbon black handrail she...
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Categories:
gravel, adventure, age, birth, celebration, deep, devotion, feelings,
Form:
Prose
The Whippy-Dip - 2nd Half Text Plus Full Audio W-IllustrationHere's the deal, folks...
This is, as indicated, the 2nd HALF of this fairly lengthy poem. Due to Poetry Soup's file-size limitations, this piece, like several of my story-pieces, had to be posted in 2 parts....
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Categories:
gravel, inspirational,
Form:
Narrative
Covid Walkthermometer reads zero, a chilly breeze blows
apple cores thrown, the blackbirds feed
my multi-layered partner dons her wooly hat
impatiently, she waits for me
securing covid masks amidst my overcoat
...
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Categories:
gravel, anxiety, feelings, humanity, journey, life,
Form:
Verse
Road TripRoad Trip
The country, people, and the village,
All equal, as if, for the first time,
All of that gave a fresher image,
Nay, 'tis but a relative vantage.
Save fresh road, to its left bears a sign.
"A few...
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Categories:
gravel, adventure, allegory, childhood, grandfather, meaningful, nostalgia, remember,
Form:
Rhyme
The Day Before the Sale --- 1st HalfI was skimming Friday's paper as I waited for my barber to put the finishing touches on a customer he he was pruning,
Glancing up occasionally at the Mohawk-headed dropout who'd wandered in from off the...
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Categories:
gravel, humor,
Form:
Verse
The Doghousewhen I met you, I was dying. for the very first time in my life, but certainly not the last- you made sure of that
when I met you I was dying. I hadn’t eaten in...
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Categories:
gravel, for her, love hurts, miss you, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
Down a Piece and ThereThe country, people, and the village,
All equal, as if, for the first time,
All of that gave a fresher image,
Nay, 'tis but a relative vantage.
Save fresh road, to its left bears a sign.
"A few more...
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Categories:
gravel, allegory, beach, childhood, grandfather, nostalgia, remember, travel,
Form:
Narrative
Fireflies - Both Audio and Text - W-IllustrationDriving down a country road one sultry summer evening, with headlights sweeping through the little clouds of dust ahead,
Caused by cars that led the way…or met me in the night…I scanned the ditches, left...
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Categories:
gravel, sky, stars,
Form:
Rhyme
Holy Standup MattersIn April of this year I began preparing a new organic gardening patch,
planning to have it ready for next year's expansion from a too-small garden
in front of my recently acquired Connecticut Cape Cod home.
I have...
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Categories:
gravel, culture, garden, health, humanity, humor, nature,
Form:
Prose Poetry
When We Were YoungWhen We Were Young
He left for work each morning,
Wearing steel-toed boots and a tin hat.
He took long strides that were three times
The length of mine.
In one hand he carried a lunch pail and...
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Categories:
gravel, childhood, family,
Form:
Free verse
Curiosity Exploring Innocence In All Innocence a Journey Into ManhoodCuriosity.
Exploring Innocence,
In all innocence.
A journey into manhood.
At three, sweet Linda’s flower bloomed for me
in my driveway under our old maple tree
where pedestrians, neighbours, family could see.
In our innocence- as we explored – they did not...
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Categories:
gravel, life,
Form:
Rhyme
No God of MineCement, sand and gravel, blood, body and soul
Eternity bred from hell's darkest hole
Combine gruesome aggregates, hydrate the mix
Mould them and dry them, then stack up the bricks.
Thought in advance and precision laboured
Set automatic, eternity savoured
No...
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Categories:
gravel, halloween, horror,
Form:
Rhyme
Unquotable Quotes: Xlvii - Tongue-Twisting EpigramsUNQUOTABLE QUOTES: XLVII - Tongue Twisters
If you want to « have » your cake and « eat » it at one and the same time, simple enough, just split it into two equal parts like...
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Categories:
gravel, england, humor, satire, sensual,
Form:
Epigram
Thomas Found the Philosopher's StoneThomas was walking through his favorite part of the forest,
where the overturned giant oak tree has been a sitting spot
for him since childhood, the part of the forest that is lit
a little bit thanks to...
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Categories:
gravel, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form:
Narrative
The Last Man StandingClarence Goddard, Harvey Bell, Virgil Barnes and I met for coffee every day for close to forty years.
I was a school janitor...Virgil was a farmer...Harvey ran the lumber yard, and... Clarence managed Sears.
We always met...
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Categories:
gravel, inspirational, sad,
Form:
Rhyme
A Fire In the Heart of Our Darkneswe sat, my brother and I
leaning against the old wood pannels of the room
the smoke engulfed us like breath
as the threat of violence loomed
his voice was quiet still
passion and regret burned in his eyes
when he...
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Categories:
gravel, war,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Saguaro........Cactus
....Water Towers
Isolated desolates
Wrapped in spikes
Fluted aqua Greys
Or in military green
Reaching the skies
The desolate cacti
The desert fingers
Withholding blaze..
Desicating breeze..........
.Blistering freeze..................
Where not a blade....................
Nothin' germinate......................
Them root in dust.....................
Wasteland, gravel.....................
The fluted barrels......................
They shrink in dry......................
Bellow up...
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Categories:
gravel, nature,
Form:
Concrete
Wounded PassionsStarting this unSabbath day
unusually seduced by full-color compassion,
with some competing-for-time distractions
in more sadly usual role recessions,
raises weak-day wellness questions
with healthy answering co-passion,
responsive responses more resiliently weekend resonations
than pathological ego-manic fear emanations
about my immediate physical future...
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Categories:
gravel, earth, education, health, integrity, passion, peace,
Form:
Political Verse