Long Greying Poems
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Granddaughter to Grandmother, Grandmother to Grandmother
The wind is blowing cold tonight
...
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Categories:
greying, age, granddaughter, grandmother, time,
Form:
Rhyme
Laughing Pines, Part Two
Will 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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Categories:
greying, adventure, allusion, analogy, imagery, imagination, metaphor, travel,
Form:
Rhyme
Metaphor of Outrage, Translation of Carlos Bousono's Poem: Metafora Del Desafuero
Metaphor of outrage, Translation of Carlos Bousono’s poem : Metafora del desafuero
( In celebration of...
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Categories:
greying, truth,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
My future self
The time has passed so quickly, regrets I have a few,
I'd change some aspects of my life, and some I'd start anew.
I'd go out in the rain to walk, no umbrella overhead,
With arms stretched out...
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Categories:
greying, future,
Form:
Rhyme
Life In a Flash
Born into this World, clean in both heart and soul
Untarnished except for God’s pure hands
Sitting up by myself, consuming more and more
A language starting to form in my head
My cries in the day and night...
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Categories:
greying, family, growing up, life, day, life, me,
Form:
Free verse
Asking the Way Part One
The 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:
greying, age, art, death, deep, environment, fantasy, mystery,
Form:
Prose
The Watcher from the Door
I saw the elfin man stand
...
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Categories:
greying, childhood, imagination, night, perspective,
Form:
Rhyme
The Pods - Chilling Scifi Poetry
The Pods - Chilling Scifi Poetry
Fear, you are weightier than gravity
in pulling the stomach to the ground.
Rotors slowed and sound waned
as the helicopter sided, meeting the concrete
in a road ripping, heart stopping flame.
A distant...
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Categories:
greying, dark, fear, horror, night, scary, science fiction,
Form:
Narrative
So much Love to give
O beloved rose in my
garden of fairy-lamps,
would you bloom in hues of stardust?
let the daffodil moon
envy this fragrant field of
immortal lyrics~
for I’ll treat you with kindness,
scatter...
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Categories:
greying, break up, fantasy, heartbroken, love,
Form:
Free verse
Caterpillar's End
With jewels dangling from his lobes
and a gnarled finger entangled in dreadlocks,
“Arrrg, we must find the cove,
where the butterflies grow!”
exclaims Captain Metamorphosis with a grin.
For they behold the secrets of...
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Categories:
greying, 6th grade, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
Concerto of Psychosis
“Psychotic hallucinations, whether they are visual or vocal, they address you. They accuse you. They seduce you. They humiliate you.
They jeer at you. You interact with them.”
Oliver Sacks
This is not an illusive myth,
this...
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Categories:
greying, angst, emotions, mental health,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Spiritual Gem Inside Me
“The magic of a gem lies not in its beauty, but in the spark it brings to the eye.” Unknown
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Categories:
greying, appreciation, life, self, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
Please Do Panic
Writing yet another note to my straight white CongressMan,
asking him to Please, Do Panic
about all this fear-based non-legislation
undemocratic fascist
nationalistic Win/Lose evolutionary corrupt
democratic devolution
going on around
and within us,
I'm wearing a white 1970s vintage Tshirt
from Castro...
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Categories:
greying, america, caregiving, green, health, racism, religion, wisdom,
Form:
Political Verse
Cessation
O to be the humble horizon
that slumbers in restlessness,
I grieve not for the magnolias
that withered amidst
cruel claws of chaotic cravings.
I weep for the serene
wildflower whispers
that once upon a blood moon
were lost...
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Categories:
greying, blessing,
Form:
Free verse
My Imaginary Love
An imaginary love.
So many flowers in the greying sky.
As waves of rainbows fluster bye.
The raindrops on the dry soft ground.
So soft a noise almost no sound.
Make the beauty cycle around.
So much blue in...
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Categories:
greying, adventure, desire, feelings, imagery, imagination, love, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
Season of Silence
When nature wilts into
a colorless haven,
metaphors of death sprout
...
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Categories:
greying, life,
Form:
Free verse
Timing Is Everything
To balance on a bike
you've gotta keep moving
but
since we can't
always move
our lives will improve
if we learn just when
it's time time time
to put a foot down
to keep
from falling
and breakin
our crown
wise is the...
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Categories:
greying, christian, dream, faith, father, freedom, happiness, time,
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
Bullets Can'T Dance
The air stale, thick and cloudy with years of gin soaked carpet odor and cigarette vapor of inconsiderate drag and chain smokers.
The colors smear together and the music disconnected and hypnotic.
The smell of flat...
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Categories:
greying, betrayal,
Form:
Free verse
Winter On the Miles River
There was something spectacular
about a winter, long and hard,
on the Miles River.
Some days will never be the same.
Greying skies, heavy hung
with crystal burdens
of the wind, and air. Twenty above,
after sunset, zero.
And the snow was the...
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Categories:
greying, community, home, nostalgia, winter,
Form:
Free verse
Chasing the Dream
Chasing The American Dream Part1
The wonders of social media and its different applications ...
They allow everyone to make reconnections and link up broken communications...
Recently through the ever pervasive hphone What's app application...
Chanced upon a long...
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Categories:
greying, america, anxiety, childhood, community, corruption,
Form:
Free verse
A Shower of Sediment
In such a whimsical action
a half-asleep routine
shaped disrobed and left stark naked
this vehicle, this housing, a shell
scarred skin, greying hair, bones, muscle
and more besides with plenty of stories to tell.
Awash with collected...
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Categories:
greying, blessing, imagination, nature, poetry, pollution, river, water,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Art of Forgiveness
To my enemies,
cloaked in t w i n k l i n g topaz~
I’ve become immune
to your illusive m a n t r a s,
recited in roseate refrains.
I’ve learned to see
the vermilion
...
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Categories:
greying, forgiveness,
Form:
Free verse
On Christmas Eve- Story Poem
December came with Christmas beckoning at the door
He saw every house bright with many a lamp
And the whole streets illumined with colorful lights and star
But his tiny hut looked dismal n’ dark like a prison...
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Categories:
greying, christmas, god, prayer,
Form:
Narrative
Refining Consciousness
“instrumentalising mind, I rested thought
employing it only when needed
shifting to heart, I became self-taught
gentling touch, voice of conscience heeded” ~ Unseeking Seeker
When thoughts purge in restlessness,
we pause the...
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Categories:
greying, dance, dream,
Form:
Free verse
Coming Clean
The taste of you is still sharp on my tongue.
Beside me your form, vulnerable in sleep,
Unaware of the stroke of my hand along your spine.
All day I gaze at the gentle swell of my...
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Categories:
greying, devotion, faith, people, philosophy, sad, me, me,
Form:
I do not know?