Long Grueling Poems
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Night Terrors
As I awakened to the night terrors again it's 3am. I know I'm being monitored in my own home Ciro Gargano installs cameras to watch my every movement in order to know when I write...
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Categories:
grueling, allah,
Form:
Rispetto
Harriet Harris nee Kuritsky
Harriet Harris née Kuritsky...
Despite being a nineteen year old bride
she wed Boyce Brandon Harris
half a decade her senior,
(where I ranked less than a twinkle in their eyes)
during the month of June 1955,
not quite half...
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Categories:
grueling, america, anniversary, celebration, death, emotions, funeral, in
Form:
Rhyme
The Whips of History - 1
This whip is a relic of war
an instrument of severe education,
come now Avia, look how lovely and vulgar,
it is essential for you to appreciate it's intention,
feel it's supple weight, the simple fright,
I use jasmine...
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Categories:
grueling, christian, history, passion, poetry,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
The Sooner Recruit
Fifty years, boy and man, I’ve been a Sooners fan;
And watched thousands of recruits try to make my Sooners Team.
Often, I’ve enviously wondered what it must be like
To be a touted Sooners recruit, living out...
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Categories:
grueling, celebrity, character, childhood, courage, dedication, desire, dream,
Form:
Rhyme
The Journey
I
It all began so many years...
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Categories:
grueling, destiny, journey, life,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Dear global leaders keep on rockin in the free world
Dear global leaders - keep on rockin' in the free world
after implementing long overdue criminal justice reforms,
especially affecting marginalized groups of people.
I vote for more lenient, progressive and tolerant treatment
towards undocumented immigrants, plus implementing
a humane...
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Categories:
grueling, america, atheist, destiny, dream, fantasy, future, heaven,
Form:
Free verse
Today August 29th 2021 Sluggishness Dogs Yours Truly
Today August 29th, 2021 sluggishness dogs yours truly
Forecasting to thunderous applause
fast as greased lightning draws
upon futuristic atmospheric gewgaws
hot air emanates out these slackened jaws
spluttering courtesy indentured maws
armed with four footed tall paws
gesticulations resembling horizontal seesaws....
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Categories:
grueling, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, absence,
Form:
Rhyme
Ghostly Spirits From Deadly Arsenal Spell Haunting Annihilation
Ghostly spirits from deadly arsenal spell haunting annihilation
With mighty mouse and Hercules height
tried to retrieve sanity spread loose;
a faded unpleasant memory - even enlisting
decades old cartoon characters:
Natasha squirrel and Bullwinkle moose
flow of electrons...
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Categories:
grueling, absence, adventure, angst, anxiety, atheist, body, crazy,
Form:
Rhyme
Vice President Elect Alexandria Ocasio Cortez 2024
Uncertain if my one man pep rally appeals to thee most amazing, daring, grueling... youngest aspirant to restore Earth in the balance predicated upon uncomfortable truth. The old geezer here would be over the moon...
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Categories:
grueling, angel, appreciation, beautiful, birthday, blessing, business, courage,
Form:
Free verse
Animal Within
There's an animal deep down inside me, deep in at the depths where my soul lays to rest.
And no, it's not a bunny, or a cute little puppy dog, or even a tiger.
It's more like...
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Categories:
grueling, animal, , cute,
Form:
Free verse
Harriet Harris Circa November 13th, 1935 - May 4th, 2005
Harriet Harris circa November 13th, 1935 - ~ May 4th, 2005
untimely death sentence ordained
approximately six months prior
to mother dearest celebrating
her seventieth birthday,
though the last three years of her life
impacted courtesy hysterectomy
to remove...
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Categories:
grueling, absence, age, anniversary, birthday, death, family, mother,
Form:
Rhyme
Approbation Deeded Gratuitously Just Because
Approbation Deeded Gratuitously Just Because...
(this endeavor more self directed to progeny,
whose psyche wounded, strafed, and nicked.)
Incumbent upon me own
purring impetus, a sincere
desire arose NOT to ask
...
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Categories:
grueling, 11th grade, farewell, father, father daughter, giving,
Form:
Elegy
Harriet Harris nee Kuritsky circa November 13th
Harriet Harris née Kuritsky circa November 13th,
1935 - ~ May 4th, 2005
(untimely death sentence ordained ~ early February 1935)
I trot out a poem acknowledging birthday
of dear ole mom, who succumbed,
lost lease on life
nearly...
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Categories:
grueling, absence, age, america, anniversary, appreciation, bereavement, birthday,
Form:
Rhyme
Still stunned with disbelief
Still stunned with disbelief...
that our apartment unit B44
received thumbs up
meaning that we passed
the grueling, and harrowing yearly inspection
three days ago - May 28th, 2024.
About a week prior,
when notification circulated
(validating horror about to befall us
as averred...
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Categories:
grueling, angel, anxiety, blessing, celebration, humorous, may,
Form:
Free verse
I live in a world of brutal ice and cold
I live in a world of brutal ice and cold
Despite the temperature being five below...
these fingered handy limbs
awash with profuse sweat
dripping palms analogous
to a bloody busted gushing water main.
Mein kampf analogous
to a self made prisoner
who...
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Categories:
grueling, 7th grade, abuse, allegory, anger, anxiety, birth,
Form:
Free verse
LIVE FOR TODAY
~~~ Live in the present, live for today for it is
a precious gift to savor for its uniqueness,
...
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Categories:
grueling, life, today,
Form:
Carpe Diem
Bartender Oh Bartender
Bartender Oh Bartender
(a stout rendition of O Captain! My Captain!
Perfect rhythmic rhyme with tonic
when the doth ale).
Mine eyes espy the glory per the ending
of another work day beckon Baileys Irish Creme
with Absolut certainty...
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Categories:
grueling, absence, addiction, adventure, america, appreciation, bereavement, courage,
Form:
Rhyme
Harriet Harris Circa November 13th 1935 May 4th 2005
Harriet Harris circa November 13th, 1935 - ~ May 4th, 2005
(untimely death sentence ordained ~ early February 1935)
Test teasing prophylactics embarrassing
purchase never made at local drugstore
unsurprisingly, obviously, invariably...
birth control taboo subject, best to ignore
subsequently intercourse...
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Categories:
grueling, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 8th
Form:
Elegy
Vision Quest
VISION QUEST
The Sioux chief Brown Eagle taught me self-respect
And I saw my life as an Englishman must have greater purpose,
And that these "savages" were actually my saviors.
The spirit of his tribe drew me;...
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Categories:
grueling, adventure, imagination, native american, philosophy, visionaryme, world,
Form:
Verse
I Wax Poetic As Lifeblood Imperceptibly Doth Wane
I wax poetic as lifeblood imperceptibly doth wane
Mine body electric analogous
to Google map pronounced
with arteries and countless varicose vein
visible popping blood vessels
leeches haven grand old time
at expense of poor sucker...
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Categories:
grueling, adventure, anxiety, body, character, december, farewell, inspiration,
Form:
Rhyme
Seen Through a Half Glass
Dinner was over an hour ago
Counters wiped clean, dishes are washed and dried
I hold my glass up to the light like a color slide,
and see the world, warped, and blurred through the half glass of...
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Categories:
grueling, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
The Dreadful Mourn
I'm a Piketown son who left his mum
To sail the eastern shores
Spent a year in Gloucester
'mong the barkeeps and the whores
Then a man came 'round to Gloucester town
Said boys I need a few
Strapping lads such...
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Categories:
grueling, history, sea, song,
Form:
Rhyme
New Dog In Town
My son had come back home to stay for just a little while.
He brought with him his terrier friend; a lively, puppy child.
The skinny, little half grown dog came bounding through my door.
I couldn’t...
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Categories:
grueling, dog, fun, love,
Form:
Narrative
Apartment of Addiction
There seems to be silence within the serene night,
yet those indoors have eternal cries of unspoken fright.
One man drowns in chocolate, shamefully eying his hips,
as the woman next door kisses the hundredth man’s lips....
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Categories:
grueling, depression, health, hopewoman, light, hope, light,
Form:
Rhyme
Let It Go
Dinner was over an hour ago
Counters wiped clean, dishes are washed and dried
I hold my glass up to the light like a color slide,
and see the world, warped, and blurred through the...
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Categories:
grueling, hope, inspirational, introspection, life
Form:
Narrative