Long Hard to tell Poems
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Caregiving Stories ContinuedWounded Sacred Dementia
My last foster care-provider
and -receiver story
is also a sad story
of my last special needs adoption
of bipolar born,
and oppositionally reared,
alcoholism.
My BiPolar Wounded Child
turned an auspicious five
on the day I first saw her,
and promptly rejected...
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Categories:
hard to tell, caregiving, health, humor, love, parents,
Form:
Political Verse
America Wasn'T So Bad Back ThenWe have something in common, a fellow I talk to now and then. We’re about the same age and perhaps the only ones in the diner who think our past lives are interesting. So when...
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Categories:
hard to tell, america,
Form:
Prose
Epilogueif you have taken the time to browse through this eclectic collection of self-indulgent foolishness, I hope you’ve been entertained by the quirkiness of its content, or at the very least, annoyed by the pervasiveness...
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Categories:
hard to tell, allegory, literature,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
My CompilationMany of my favorite poems
How About This for Veterans Day
A monthly Monday morning military meeting
Would be great for them as way of greeting
Talking about things happening another day
Of past successes and prices they had to...
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Categories:
hard to tell, analogy,
Form:
I do not know?
Many of My Favorite PoemsHow About This for Veterans Day
A monthly Monday morning military meeting
Would be great for them as way of greeting
Talking about things happening another day
Of past successes and prices they had to pay.
Enlisted Term of Service...
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Categories:
hard to tell, allegory, analogy,
Form:
I do not know?
In Touch With My SoulI feel the aftermath of sadness written upon my heart
It's the feeling you get when no one is communicating with you
And you have to read the signs and wonders to know what is happening around...
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Categories:
hard to tell, 3rd grade, endurance, england, loneliness, power, travel,
Form:
Narrative
Its Always the MoneyITS ALWAYS THE MONEY
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS
It’s always the money I’m saddened to say
Put your hand in someone’s pocket its time to pay
When it’s not the money, it’s a crusade
Or revenge for a crime that was...
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Categories:
hard to tell, allegory, corruption, evil, humanity, introspection, money,
Form:
Rhyme
A Punny DeathA Coffee Merchant was the first man to find,
The corpse as he started off on his daily grind!
What he saw filtered through, so he had grounds
To send for the Police, to investigate what he'd found!
He’d...
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Categories:
hard to tell, allegory,
Form:
Narrative
A Well-Known Stranger'Twas a sound I thought alarming, most assuredly disarming;
Up I rose from peaceful slumber to discern what it might be.
While my candle flickered, wavered; whilst my heartbeat halted, quavered,
At my window I was favoured by...
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Categories:
hard to tell, absence, assonance, feelings, miss you, ocean,
Form:
Rhyme
Quy Nhon and the Tet OffensiveQuy Nhon and The Tet Offensive
By Franklin Price
9/2/2018
Quy Nhon and the Tet offensive, more than fifty years ago
That Chinese New Year changed our world and most its ebb and flow
Until that day the boonies were...
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Categories:
hard to tell, memory, new year, war,
Form:
Couplet
The WaitressWe came walking blind bends at dusk,
An overhanging fig picked fresh.
No pavements, just a nervous trust
that drivers would skirt our single line.
Hugging the roadside with torches lit,
Phones swung glowing to the ground...
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Categories:
hard to tell, memory,
Form:
Narrative
Canto Xxiv Dante's Hell Translation Part1In the early part of the novel year
When in Aquarium sun anneals hair
And nights already at noon disappear,
When the hoarfrost makes ground a cover wear
Creating image of her sister white,
But it then short...
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Categories:
hard to tell, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
Mean In GreenI stood on the corner this morning
Absorbing the fresh morning air
listening attentively to the morning news
That has everyone so upset and confused
The morning sun is just peeping out
with its orange and yellowish color
Stirring lazy bodies...
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Categories:
hard to tell, confidence, emotions, encouraging, endurance, green, humanity, strength,
Form:
Narrative
The Adventures of Captain MorganWell, it all started when
Jim Beam bet Jack Daniels
that Captain Morgan
couldn't go out
and get himself
some Wild Turkey.
Old Fashioned, like Old Granddad,
Captain Morgan like some of you,
really enjoys his Southern Comfort.
But mostly in the form of...
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Categories:
hard to tell, drink, fantasy, friendship, humor, irony, spoken word,
Form:
Free verse
MY JAN 6TH NEIGHBORS AMERICAS WHITE ELEPHANT SALE BEING ADMITTED WITH A 3MM ANEURYSM IN THE HOSPITAL MY PARAMEDICS 222 TO MY SURPRISE SEEING THE CONVOY PASS US ON A COUNTRY ROAD FBI WASHINGTON DC PANTING OF COURSE HEARING MY NEIGHBORS ON WORLD...
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Categories:
hard to tell, allah,
Form:
Lento
Interview With a GoldfishI'm the most unlikely one to interview a goldfish
but we've lived in the same house for a few years.
It's really hard to tell, but I think I've seen her tears.
I wonder what she'd want if...
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Categories:
hard to tell, care, friendship,
Form:
Rhyme
The Sun is Shining AgainThe sun is shining in the east with petals opening bright, spreading its fragrance into the light and an epiphany of hope resting on the branches swinging from limb to limb while my heart entertains...
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Categories:
hard to tell, america, body, change, community, deep, environment, loss,
Form:
Narrative
The Girl On the HillThe Girl On The Hill
I know of a girl who sits on a hill
Her skin is pale and her hair is silk
I walk past her everyday and almost every night
And sometimes I stop...
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Categories:
hard to tell, crazy, dark, death, deep, evil, murder, sick,
Form:
Rhyme
Charity and SorrowEverywhere "Charity" goes he brings his friend along" Sorrow ".
No good deed goes unpunished so it seems;
Between friends and enemies Its hard to tell the difference these days. ...
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Categories:
hard to tell, relationship, universe,
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
Tracing Lines of FrostAt the onset,
A profound peace.
In chastity to silence,
Our days of joy were born.
The lines were clear-
Or so it seemed.
We chose redundancy,
One voice, one choice.
Like a bouquet of flowers,
We were held together,
Our hands, our...
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Categories:
hard to tell, love,
Form:
Free verse
Island HoppingISLAND HOPPING
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS
My first day of community service at Glen Oaks
Assigned to spend time with a few elderly folks
Spotted an old gentleman staring out into space
Weathered beaten hands and a sun etched face
How are...
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Categories:
hard to tell, war, world war ii,
Form:
Rhyme
ScarI had seen the train leave the station.
I had said goodbye, for the last time.
A cold day in autumn, I decided to do some cleaning.
Putting summer away, preparing for winter.
I found a grey woolen hat,...
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Categories:
hard to tell, emotions, grief, lost love, perspective, psychological, sad,
Form:
Free verse
Vanquishing Vampire Vixens, Part II.
When Sal rode slowly into Victorville,
he saw an empty street, buildings unfilled,
Sol half-expected this, it’s why he was here,
but even to him, it always looked weird.
The letter they wrote had been clear on the cause:
Vampires,...
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Categories:
hard to tell, adventure, evil, fantasy, hero, history, horror, night,
Form:
Cowboy Poetry
A Spritely ReminderHer long sleeved robe matched the hue of the plants so perfectly
that it was hard to tell where the rest of the color and her form began.
Her skin was a papery, ghostly white....
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Categories:
hard to tell, encouraging, environment, fantasy, inspirational, magic,
Form:
I do not know?
AliensTHE ALIENS
Nobody really knew of their existence
until the year 2626
Prior to that year it was merely speculation
From an old scientist's bag of tricks
Lutus does not lie in the habitable zone of its star
Yet it...
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Categories:
hard to tell, science fiction
Form:
Narrative