Long Gritting Poems
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Pandora's Box
Pandora's BoX
Whom to blame?
What woman now walks, the lethal ancestress
Of the original ancestress, that one named
Pandora, that one with the gleaming eyes that said:
"I want; I need, to know?"
Where is she...
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Categories:
gritting, surreal,
Form:
Free verse
Leap of Faith
As the man on the roof, took two steps towards the edge, he was unexpectedly stopped by the sound of a bright and familiar voice, down below.
"I thought you were...
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Categories:
gritting, family, growth, jobs, moving on,
Form:
Narrative
Walking On Water
WALKING ON WATER
Saint of the Golden Gate Bridge
they called her, blessing the
crowd with her tears, performing
to the cheers of the enchanted,
flinging, first her pink raincoat,
her high heeled shoes, fluttering
down like doves, dancing, twisting
out of her...
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Categories:
gritting, suicide,
Form:
Free verse
A Talk With the Devil
A talk with the devil
One night while watching television
I suddenly fell asleep
And when I open my eyes
This stranger I did meet
A wild looking creature,
Bolder then...
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Categories:
gritting, religion, god, me, heart, night, people, god,
Form:
Narrative
Another 5 steps
I'm so tired.
The machinery of my body feels like it's failing,
I'm grasping at the air praying there's something to hang onto,
I'm gritting my teeth and squinting my eyes in the struggle to see...
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Categories:
gritting, abuse, dark, heartbreak, strength, stress,
Form:
Free verse
We Worked Long Enough
I laugh out loud
every time I hear a politician say,
that the best way to enrich a black person's life,
is to give them a job
Give them some work to do
Labor is the way out of poverty...
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Categories:
gritting, slavery, society, truth, work,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Halloween Nightmare
A Ghoulish Midnight...
WALKING through an eerie...
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Categories:
gritting, fear, horror,
Form:
Free verse
Black Man's Burden
For all the weighted years of empires
Stockpiled with human grief
For all the fallen towers of desires
From which love has no relief
For all the cargo of the heart and ships
Tossed and turned where water whips
Across...
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Categories:
gritting, socialself, children, history, self, drug,
Form:
Verse
Grandmother
"A child, more than all other gifts
That earth can offer to declining man,
Brings hope with it, and forward-looking thoughts."
W. Wordsworth
I am your grandmother.
I spent 24 years making
parenting mistakes, so I think
I'm pretty well trained now,
pretty...
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Categories:
gritting, family, hope, life, dad, blue, blue, dad,
Form:
Narrative
Strangle
Strangle
You don’t realize
How much I hate your guts
Clutch a glass so tight
I don’t see the blood
Leaking from the shards
That’ve dug deep into my skin.
Eyes twitching like I’m on caffeine
Gritting my teeth as the...
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Categories:
gritting, anger, dad, dark, death, farewell, metaphor,
Form:
Free verse
Old Wounds Heals
got me thinking about
when i was young
drawing a picture scar
shopping with
my parents
in north
of ireland
british armed soldiers
pointing guns at us
security checkpoint
i remember
a cold feeling
running down
my...
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Categories:
gritting, abuse, feelings, pain, political, veterans day,
Form:
Free verse
Chrissy's Home (Part I)
She stuck out like a lily among thorns, when she sprung up in
the midst of the Baptist Student Union. All eyes were on her, as she raised her
hands and lifted up her...
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Categories:
gritting, death, education, friendship, life, loss, love, sad,
Form:
Free verse
Day of Deliverables
Tonight, my soul, be still and sleep;
The storms are raging on God’s deep—
God’s deep, not yours; be still and sleep.
Charles H. Spurgeon
(Streams in the Desert)
DAY OF DELIVERABLES
italian sausage with banana
peppers in a sesame seed bun.
earlier...
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Categories:
gritting, food, life, memorial day,
Form:
Free verse
Through the narrow window of time, I see fleeting shadows of lives that remain unfulfilled
Through the narrow window of time, I see fleeting shadows of lives that remain unfulfilled,
Men bound to desks like to foreign altars, captive in routine and silence,
Souls enclosed in a shell of paper and numbers,...
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Categories:
gritting, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
~ (~) ~ ... "another Happy Hour... !" ... ~ (~) ~
I desire as it is still-my quiet-longing as it is as well I believe my right to be as honest, yes to
lust for it together with you from here to here on after, for...
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Categories:
gritting, inspirationaltime, today,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Michael Joseph Jackson (Rip)
Refrain
Wake me from my livid dream, stir my soul
So spirit may bring flesh to sense again
Transport me to another time, this pain
Will cease in that climate where we are whole
There the lights are bright upon...
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Categories:
gritting, death, loss, upliftingmetaphor, art, art, love, me,
Form:
Elegy
Not Afraid Part 3 Draft
So I wrote this rhyme just for me,
to ignite self belief,
and get me out of this sea,
I'm a swim the sea 'til I reach the sand,
wet the desert 'til the plants grow grand,
'til the...
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Categories:
gritting, anxiety, confidence, courage, depression, hip hop, motivation,
Form:
Rhyme
The Last Time Censored and Incomplete
For the third time he’s got her, he’s trying to get it in;
She’s saying no, but whatever… he just won’t listen.
“Stop, Get the f--- off me! Don’t touch me… NO!”
She’s fighting, she’s glaring, but he...
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Categories:
gritting, abuse, anger, angst, childhood, depression, emotions, fear,
Form:
I do not know?
Don'T I Belong
Hidden though unsought
Ran from myself
Still got caught.
Mind, Body, Soul wrought.
Vengeance no longer mine
And yet I insist to ungently reside
Within the "desperate to love or to be" walls of my own heart.
Most continue to disrespect my...
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Categories:
gritting, absence, abuse, anger, anxiety, beautiful, betrayal,
Form:
Metrical Tale
Anthropological Flashback
They say
way back we became
Homo sapiens
They say
we evolved slowly
from ape to man
This unsettling news was force fed to me
through public education shock therapy
Anthropological flashback
has me gritting my teeth
As an adult, got strapped into a metal...
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Categories:
gritting, fun, humorous, religious, science,
Form:
Light Verse
Asylum
Blink
Blink
Blink
Florescent lights
Rolling past above
Chaos around
Just a blur from her eyes
In focus the faces
Coming close
Flashlight checking
For what?
She hopes
Blink
Blink
Blink
Green scrubs
Pale faces
Red tainted White gloves
Working quickly
Will they rise victorious above?
Staring up
Into bright light
Last scream echoing
Through...
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Categories:
gritting, suicidelight, light,
Form:
Free verse
Hyde.
Plans, morals, perpetual dreams
A whisper in your ear and your heart screams
Eyes that gaze deep
Skin, white as a sheep
I'm forseeing the fall, but I might take the leap
He's the one across the room
The late party...
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Categories:
gritting, confusion, life, love, passion, people, romance
Form:
Prose Poetry
A Little Tab of Insight
Are you ready for the main course?
Prepare the condiments
Thin oven mitts
Teas cozies
Lace doilies
It's just a decoy
Here lies the kid who was left home alone while is parents visited The North
Pole
Try to consolidate the...
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Categories:
gritting, appreciation,
Form:
Free verse
15,30, 45 and Being Alive
I sit here
With a pint a cheer
Wondering about the number thirty
Avoiding not being dirty
It was fifteen years ago
As you all know
I was on...
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Categories:
gritting, 7th grade, age, america, cute, fantasy, film,
Form:
Rhyme
Morquavia5 Is Here
Quantum physics conjured her up, as soothsayers entice visions.
Saliva of the Neptar Universe rolled her around in Marg2’s teeth
Mouth of Surbian3 Galaxy spit her out, landing her in her own pod.
Her babyhood visions were filled...
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Categories:
gritting, science fiction,
Form:
Prose Poetry