Long Harken Poems
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Ghosts of the Sun Dance-Part 28. Transformation
Yielding to those who have mastered the art
Of grasping one's place in existence's grand scheme
Life’s constant challenges never depart
But humble diligence will grow the dream
In passing from childhood to adulthood
Innocence to responsibility
Firm new role...
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Categories:
harken, spiritual, sports,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Half a Dozen Plus Years Ago the Following Became a Near RealityHalf a dozen plus years ago the following became a near reality
Countdown to homelessness –
mars this earthlinked sole Harris - son
panhandler would would register
pyrrhic victory won.
10…9…8…3..2..1…
Found me linkedin at the end of...
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Categories:
harken, age, america, anger, angst, anniversary, anxiety, appreciation,
Form:
Rhyme
Dream State Yields Deep Sleep PersonificationsDream state yields deep sleep personifications
Upon lying supine - eye shutter lids
into the land of Wynken, Blynken, and Nod,
where the sandman beckons and bids
dead to the webbed wide world,
yours truly immune to wakefulness
despite being...
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Categories:
harken, 12th grade, 1st grade, adventure, animal, birthday,
Form:
Rhyme
Amelie Beth Harris McgeehanAmélie Beth Harris -McGeehan
Acknowledgment of birthday gal,
whose invaluable priceless worth
exceeds more'n a bajillion dollars.
First born of Boyce and Harriet
(both long since deceased,
albeit cremated whereby their ashes
- cremains scattered to the four winds)
in Paterson,...
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Categories:
harken, adventure, age, anniversary, appreciation, brother, december, sister,
Form:
Free verse
To the FlowerTO THE FLOWER
Your scent beckoned my weeping heart to painless flight;
amidst a garden where God dusts His pretty love.
Spring tints are pure and fragrant, free of guilt
Your hues painted another sunrise for my eyes;
when once...
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Categories:
harken, beauty, environment, flower, imagery, nature,
Form:
Free verse
The ScarecrowThe raven knows, listen to his soundings warning,
Beware and listen to what he says, harken unto this
Messenger of death for he sees all things, be it dark or light!
Black ebonies feathered sentinel, warily watching, as
The...
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Categories:
harken, fear, halloween, history, holiday, horror, imagery, mythology,
Form:
Free verse
The Prince of PurpleBeneath the opal white moon, the crying doves shed their precious tears,
Causing the purple rain to fall, melting at the lavender notes of musical dreams,
Camelot’s illusionary ivory towers of brilliant colors, seemingly fades unto the
Violet...
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Categories:
harken, imagery, imagination, inspirational, international, music, mystery, tribute,
Form:
Free verse
Glossaryamuck - adverb.flailing in all directions, about, around - His ideas ran amuck.
brang – verb, past tense.bring – You ring, you rang, I bring, I brang.
chipps - noun, plural.an asset for selling, a favor owing,...
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Categories:
harken, hilarious, humor, humorous, word play, words, writing,
Form:
ABC
Beyond BeliefA Dedication to Leanne, my beloved wife.
Beyond Belief
Harken,
Heed these words,
They are more than mere sounds,
Trumpeting make-belief ideas,
They will be as rain and sunlight,
To a wilting flower,
Love will heal you,
Beyond all beliefs.
Words that sound...
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Categories:
harken, devotion, fire, for her, inspiration, love,
Form:
Carpe Diem
Ragnarok: the StormWith the end of days upon them
Nears the time of final battle
In the halls of high Valhalla
Asgard senses its death rattle
In the forest crows the rooster
In the sky the sun does darken
In the cave...
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Categories:
harken, weather,
Form:
Epyllion
Lost Cities of Indus ValeI hail thee ruins of Indus Vale!
With scented rhyme, with scented gale
Come on from world of mortal dead!
O come and lively wind inhale!
More ancient than the pyramids
That rule on ancient Egypt land
Thy...
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Categories:
harken, adventure, god, history, loneliness, loss, lost, world,
Form:
Ode
The Bard Beneath the TreeCome Friends, from all the quarters come
From mountain and from sea
And harken to the ancient drum
That beats at Avebury
The wren that sings, the bees that hum
The bard beneath the tree
Come Fellows, from the east and...
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Categories:
harken, celebration, england, friendship, happiness, myth, seasons, wisdom,
Form:
Rhyme
High Tech Lynching"HIGH TECH LYNCHING"
April 6, 2023, a dark and sad day in Tennessee history
Black men striped of their first amendment right to tell their story
The Declaration of Independence, states that "all men are created equal"
But the...
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Categories:
harken, anger, betrayal, bullying, change, emotions, history, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Ode To Rohtaas Fort(1)
O Thou the beauteous lofty fort!
O ancient manse O royal court!
O land of beauteous holy dream!
Thou art a shield of mortal mort
Thou midst of ancient royal mead
A royal shade A royal hand
From...
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Categories:
harken, earth, freedom, history, passion, power, prayer, visionary,
Form:
Ode
The UnknownI ask you, “Where might we go:
A land to, or a land fro;
Let the land like a river flow.
Leave yourself behind, and dare,
Dare to know Thoreau.”
Ahh, how the day is
The simplest of all revolutions.
The...
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Categories:
harken, absence, adventure, imagery, imagination, meaningful, mentor, symbolism,
Form:
Rhyme
Damn Divisive Demagogic DerelictDas Don doth debilitate democracy
driving a collateral wedge
deliberately dividing differences
collaborating, collapsing, and collaring
disparity amidst ever
increasing homogenization
extant within contiguous United States
across world wide web for that matter
attested by increased
spike among multiracial
amalgamated enclaves, individuals mixing,
where preponderance of...
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Categories:
harken, america, conflict, grief, howl, scary, usa, war,
Form:
Political Verse
Mideast Peace OxymoronMideast Peace: Oxymoron
Though descendent of Jews,
I feel boggled at the brutal,
nasty and wanton war between
Israelis and Palestinians.
Many innocent victims
bred to know and hate their enemy
impossible mission
to reconcile one Semitic
group of peoples from another.
The bloody English
begat...
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Categories:
harken, abuse, anger, angst, arabic, bereavement, conflict, death,
Form:
Rhyme
The AlamoAn earthen gray memorial stands alone against
A rugged desert landscape, built by the mortal
Hands of the faithful.
No bells do ring, in the churches steeple, but in the
Heart of Texas it's sounding message can never
Be silenced,...
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Categories:
harken, america, history, imagery, imagination, inspirational, international, tribute,
Form:
Free verse
Inspirational ButterfliesI’m freedom’s beckoning call light as air, an elemental being
Set adrift beyond the universal light beam, a speeding
Bullet shifting, suspended by my own spiritual uplifts
Bending in the stratosphere by raw forces
Gravitational pull.
A streaming particle of...
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Categories:
harken, adventure, beauty, fantasy, imagery, inspirational, visionary,
Form:
Free verse
The Dream SweeperI’m freedom’s beckoning call light as air, an elemental being
Set adrift beyond the universal light beam, a speeding
Bullet shifting, suspended by my own spiritual uplifts
Bending in the stratosphere by raw forces
Gravitational pull.
A streaming particle of...
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Categories:
harken, adventure, beauty, imagery, imagination, inspirational, visionary,
Form:
Free verse
Winston ChurchillIn the foggy isle of Britannia, many men have sought
Out fortune and fame.
But one man's legacy remains, as steadfast as the walls
Of parliament, a single voice echos, thunders across historical
Reference, and it's meaning sound is...
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Categories:
harken, character, courage, history, imagination, inspirational, international, visionary,
Form:
Free verse
The Freedom TrainRun freedom child; keep thy body low amongst the shadows,
Nay never look back, lets hastes speed excel your stride,
For the devil’s steeds ride behind thee, and they’ll show thee
No mercy, run freedom child, run, towards...
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Categories:
harken, adventure, america, black african american, dream, history,
Form:
Free verse
Harken My AngelHarken my angel, pray for me
Your love will pull me through
As I lay here under burning debris
After being torn from my crew
I know that when I left this morn’
You were still snug in our bed
But...
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Categories:
harken, death, natural disasters,
Form:
Rhyme
The Wind WhisperI’m the whispering voice of legacies long sense past, the overseer
Of generations traveling with broken wings of tribal tradition,
A vanquished chieftain, whom sheds his sacred feathers, as tears
Shame upon the white man’s winds of manifest...
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Categories:
harken, america, history, imagery, imagination, inspirational, native american,
Form:
Free verse
Sempiternal KissLate at night, in the secret chamber far apart
A valiant knight, stands there, put his hand on his heart:
“With this ring, I plight unto thee my troth till death!”
She’s slumbering, the damsel in distress. Her...
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Categories:
harken, fairy, gothic, kiss, literature, princess, romantic, true
Form:
Narrative