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Mystical Song of Trees
PRELUDE.
When the sky and world are dark no sounds are heard in the woods. Perhaps the scrabbling of night creatures on the hunt fo food. But no sound of woodpeckers ra ta tatting, bird song...
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Categories:
hard fought, animal, conflict, desire, environment, fairy, grief,
Form:
Free verse
Legend of the Red October Run
Dedicated to the 2000 National College Football Champions, the Oklahoma Sooners
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Over fifty years, boy and man, I’ve been a Sooners fan
Watched and reveled in their glories, every one;
But there’s no more glorious “Sooner Magic”...
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Categories:
hard fought, adventure, autumn, desire, football, games, heart, history,
Form:
Rhyme
Life's Fading Light-Part 1-Heroic Crown of Sonnets
Youth
When orchids bloom in beauty life's aglow
to hold emotions locked in deep repose
in young desire and love warm thoughts will show.
Affection holds its ardor as it grows
to burn inside young hearts in evening tide.
In darkest...
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Categories:
hard fought, age, death, love,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Joseph Robinette Biden Junior
Joseph Robinette Biden Junior
The last prescient perspicacious politician,
who presided at the White House
ran out of office despite victorious landslide win
most Democrats gave their signed,
sealed, and delivered grudging approval,
but could not stem the...
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Categories:
hard fought, america, anger, anxiety, bereavement, conflict, crush, dark,
Form:
Free verse
Angels of Mercy
Angles of Mercy
By
Kevin L Fairbrother
There is not to many of us that can say that the owe their existence on this earth to a Native in a Foreign country, in my case I can say...
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Categories:
hard fought, angel, father, memory, men,
Form:
Narrative
Omnipresent lurch toward authoritarianism
The views and opinions herewith extemporized to spur discourse with me, or to be mindful when exercising the right to vote in the country of your existence, which expressed intimation predicated upon read reliable publications...
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Categories:
hard fought, abortion, abuse, america, anger, bereavement, emotions, history,
Form:
Free verse
June nineteenth one hundred and fifty nine years ago
June nineteenth one hundred and fifty nine years ago
The conclusion of the American Civil War commenced with the articles of surrender agreement of the Army of Northern Virginia on April 9, at Appomattox Court House,...
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Categories:
hard fought, america, anxiety, crush, evil, humanity, november, racism,
Form:
Free verse
Urgent Message To Send Mephistophelian Madman Back To Stone Age
Though I wrote no book
attention summoned to look
at following--->>>
Urgent message – to send Mephistophelian madman back to stone age
predicated upon past and present, I gauge
will offer ogre golden opportunity
to rewrite anarchistic playbook...
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Categories:
hard fought, abuse, america, bullying, conflict, dark, depression, evil,
Form:
Rhyme
Said and Done
Lonely & hurt
Broken I remain
Can't shake the guilt
Living in shame
Put on fake smile
I slowly fade away
The nightmare of your death
We live with every day
The meaning of it all this
to which my mind attends
Has...
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Categories:
hard fought, death, emotions, hate,
Form:
Rhyme
I abhor the forfeiture of hard fought and won liberty
I abhor the forfeiture of hard fought and won liberty
America - This nation will remain
the land of the free only so long
as it is the home of the brave.
courtesy a local Indiana man,
one named Elmer...
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Categories:
hard fought, america, anger, angst, crush, farewell, grief, horror,
Form:
Free verse
Between Reality and Understanding
A thought arose...
In Hegel's great dialectic cotillion,
Time transcends as the Absolute emerges,
From deep submersion.
Veritably idealistic path to verity.
It is all about History!
While Schopenhauer's Will, By mere chance,
Drives life in concentric circles spinning,
But not winning
Human solicitations...
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Categories:
hard fought, introspection, philosophy, psychological, word play,
Form:
Free verse
Random Acts of Grace
I wonder if our reasons
for growing random acts of violence
are similar
to our dwindling random acts of reasoned healing,
kindness,
gratitude,
unrequited love,
uncommodified,
unconscripted,
unscripted,
uncontained
restoring cooperative ecopolitical relationships forward
not just because this is our right and healthy familial thing to do
but...
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Categories:
hard fought, addiction, anger, culture, earth, fear, health, violence,
Form:
Political Verse
The Warsaw Uprising
What is freedom?
The brief period of anarchy between the last tyranny and the next?
Are we free if we cannot see the cage?
Or feel the chains?
What if our masters lengthen our leashes?
Only to tighten their hold...
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Categories:
hard fought, anger, betrayal, death, freedom, violence, war,
Form:
Free verse
Ode To the End of War
Sharpened pens were brutal swords; a war was forged
Blow after blow was struck, with blood rage engorged
Not one single word between them had been spoken
No flag of truce waved, or friendship offered as token
Nothing was...
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Categories:
hard fought, friendship, war,
Form:
Epic
Tribute To Youth and the Days Imagination and Boyhood Dreams
Tribute To Youth And The Days Imagination and Boyhood Dreams,
Poem One- Inspired by my own youth, also by Mark Twain's,
books, "Tom Sawyer" and his, " Adventures of Huckleberry Finn "...
To thee of beaming sun, virgin...
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Categories:
hard fought, appreciation, boy, childhood, growing up, imagination, meaningful,
Form:
Rhyme
The Vanilla Ice Cream Knights and the Raspberry Queen
"The Vanilla Ice Cream Knights and The Raspberry Queen"
"You’ve been spooning
too much Vanilla Icecream”,
she advised the buffoon
all the feathery self-blustering chirpers
parted way, she had loaded guns
she positively glided into the room
“Diamonds my old...
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Categories:
hard fought, adventure, anti bullying, august, romance,
Form:
Free verse
Victory In China
Victories In China
14th and 15th Nov 2015 are days for avid badminton fans the world over to remember,
Somewhere over there in Fuchou, who cares where exactly that is there in China.
All that matters to die...
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Categories:
hard fought, appreciation, celebration, dedication, encouraging, passion, psychological, sports,
Form:
Light Verse
One For Ten
One for ten dollars is how much each one should cost to save on
mathematical problems. Here goes:
Either he or she who or either he or she who hasn't.
The who goes on front of Poetry Soup...
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Categories:
hard fought, humorous,
Form:
Couplet
Enormous Effects
Unseen forces like real native spirits
in red clay cliffs who show painted faces.
Singing songs echoed in faint voices:
tattered tribes, shamed souls, sacred spaces.
Hidden hurts of primitive peoples
have effects that only time erases.
Unseen forces from privileged...
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Categories:
hard fought, death, deep, earth, god, philosophy, religion, world,
Form:
Rhyme
Send Mephistophelian Madman Back To Stone Age
Impossible mission, nonetheless
eschatological, diabolical, critical...
dire straits betokens armageddon.
Come Tuesday, November 3, 2020
mandatory voting obligation to oust
horrible malevolent commander in chief.
Spanish and English writing on border wall
bespeaks impending apocalyptic windfall
weapons of mass destruction concomitant ashfall
brinkmanship ticks...
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Categories:
hard fought, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, abuse,
Form:
Political Verse
The Sun Stays Away These Days
Ah Frontiera, here we are at your last, you've thrown a rod, your life lies black
on oily ground - all this snow and you're a mobile no longer; so I must walk.
It's cold, and now...
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Categories:
hard fought, journey,
Form:
Epic
Against Your Will
The shape of the world is not a man standing on a globe, or a man dressed in white robe, it is the shape of the heart that leaves you scrambling in the dark. It...
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Categories:
hard fought, abuse, animal, break up, business, change, city,
Form:
Narrative
Tears of a Champion
Tears Of A Champion
It is out there on the internet, one can easily come by it..
A spirited display of championship squash, this was it..
The Queen of squash, Nicol David, recently dethroned...
Going up against Laura Massaro,...
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Categories:
hard fought, appreciation, dedication, encouraging,
Form:
Free verse
Delivered From Demands
My ego,
devoid of outside voices
songs and sacred dances,
Missing outdoor ecoschools
sponsored by GreenFaith Communities
studying outside multicultural EcoFaith Cooperatives
supported by EcoVillage Guilds
and WiseElder Councils
with health-wealth optimizing goals
established with green permacultural designing
co-consultants,
suffering Ego/Eco CoMessiahs.
I have learned...
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Categories:
hard fought, caregiving, health, integrity, peace, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
Perfect Sigh
A question I have asked myself of late:
what essence does this poetry possess
which differentiates it from mere prose,
and gives distinction to its 'poemness'?
Sometimes, at least to me, a puzzle fits
the way I go about the...
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Categories:
hard fought, creation, poetry,
Form:
Quatrain