Long Heft Poems
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Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis - part i
Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis, high bred poiet?s of mine
("Thus always I cause the death of tyrants.”)
the purported line Brutus uttered
after assassinating Julius Caesar.
Alternatively...
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Categories:
heft, 10th grade, adventure, allah, anger, appreciation, birth,
Form:
Free verse
Happy Fourth of July, Or Happy Independence Day
Happy Fourth Of July, Or Happy Independence Day
On this day we celebrate and commemorate the birth of our nation, The United States of America's Independence from Great Britain's monarchical hold and liberty's triumph
Congress voting in...
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Categories:
heft, america, birthday, celebration, firework, food, freedom, fun,
Form:
List
Shame and Guilt Sabotaged Mine Healthy Growth
Shame and guilt sabotaged mine healthy growth...
and let yours truly not forget emasculation
that prickly emotional immobilization
whereby these lovely bones
subject courtesy senescence
upon cremation reduced to obliteration.
Inching closer to mortality
linkedin with concomitant
subtle deterioration of body...
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Categories:
heft, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form:
Free verse
MISERY pidgin
Misery :
intro:
afta all di wealth and fame im accrued,
afta all di wild parties im threw,
afta all di promiscuous and gypsy women im chewed,
afta all di aba made friends im drew,
and afta all di recreational places...
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Categories:
heft, addiction, adventure, bereavement, inspiration,
Form:
Lyric
Ha ha ha gotcha!
Ha...ha...ha... gotcha!
The imagined intimated response
linkedin to a swindler's
imagined thought bubble
silently spouting you ain't nothing
but a pluperfect sucker...
rendered penniless suffered
courtesy a financial blow
now left forced to eat crow
forfeiting every last red cent,
plus if applicable escrow
being analogous...
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Categories:
heft, absence, abuse, anger, angst, betrayal, bullying, depression,
Form:
Free verse
The Best Gifts of This Life - 1,2
I. Early Childhood’s Gifts
Gift 1:
Is love felt from our parents, our friends a true gift
or more something we earn bit by bit over time,
(a child adds to, subtracts from, as days turn to years)?
This is...
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Categories:
heft, appreciation, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Moomy, Smoke and a Pancake
Sweet mother, Virginia Slim wedged between your fingers,
that last light willed to die at the rig
of a darkened room.
You—half-goddess, half-ghost, pinioned in some still-life setting
of tumbled smoke and silver hair. ...
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Categories:
heft, appreciation, introspection, mother son,
Form:
Free verse
Canto Xxiv Dante's Hell Translation Part1
In 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:
heft, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
Auld Lang Syne the Most Sung New Years Eve Song
“Auld Lang Syne” - the most-sung New Year's Eve song
Courtesy Robert Burns
circa (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796)
the National Bard,
Bard of Ayrshire
and the Ploughman Poet.
Two hundred sixty one orbitz elapsed
since brief existence of...
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Categories:
heft, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th grade, absence,
Form:
Free verse
Courtesy Severely Receding Hair Line
Courtesy severely receding hair line...,
yours truly enveloped within morose mood
I (Samson incarnate)
frankly experience zapped strength,
hence sulk and pine for salad days of youth
when abundant golden locks adorned me noggin.
Now in doddering dotage scant wisps...
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Categories:
heft, absence, anger, crush, cry, fate, heartbroken, husband,
Form:
Rhyme
his December 17th 2024
This December 17th, 2024...
alternately titled: a literary retrospective when holiday times living hand to mouth in Penn Valley fraught with slim pickings and yours truly felt utterly miserable that nary a delivery from Santa Claus...
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Categories:
heft, absence, america, angst, betrayal, christmas, grief, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
At the Mercy of Interminable Anticipatory Anxiety, Hence
At the mercy of interminable anticipatory anxiety, hence...
viz hitted courtesy debilitating
one after another panic attack
analogous being bombarded with flak
worse fate then death
or being tortured on the rack,
no mortal experience compares
regarding psychological paralysis
just ask...
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Categories:
heft, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 7th
Form:
Rhyme
Daily At the Mercy of Anticipatory Anxiety, Hence
Daily at the mercy of anticipatory anxiety, hence...
illogical and irrational obsessive compulsive
exhausting rituals linkedin
with cognitive dissonance
(essentially unfounded worry
birthed courtesy far fetched circumstances)
exacts significant mental expense,
which logically and rationally
makes perfect figurative cents
nevertheless offers assigned therapist
Renee Cardone...
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Categories:
heft, 11th grade, 12th grade, anxiety, conflict, depression,
Form:
Rhyme
This December 17th, 2021
This December 17th, 2021...
Totally tubular fiction yup,
nevertheless I reflect
the year (arbitrarily plucked from misty past)
Santa Claus did not show up
courtesy imagination license
cruel as crippled poet pan handler
rattling his empty cup.
Though blink of time...
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Categories:
heft, 1st grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th
Form:
Rhyme
Presidential Inauguration 2017 - Poetic Screed - Part2
diametrically opposing forces miscarriage
and abort, cancel and retry to upend Vanity Fair
where trump defiantly makes an en rode
gauging Bernie sanders troopers as “enemy” phalanx
...
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Categories:
heft, abuse, america, bullying, change, how i feel,
Form:
I do not know?
Farmer Joe
On the banks of the mighty Skagit,
where the rushing waters flow,
sat a fisherman of merit,
the one known as Farmer Joe.
Long he sat there, long he fished there,
always waiting for the day
he would catch a mighty...
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Categories:
heft, fishing, old, time,
Form:
Narrative
Benediction To Anonymous Minds
Triumphant milestones rocked and rolled thru this (viz – modern) age
began in the dawn of Homo Sapiens early evolutionary light
when those prime ape...
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Categories:
heft, appreciation, celebration, dedication, fate, inspiration, people, philosophy,
Form:
Personification
Sawney Bean, Legend of a Cannibal - Written In Broad Scots Dialect
Thar was nae richt ae laddie sair
wha heft a cave 'side Galloway,
wi' nae jaiken he griftit dare
as he was nae tae lippen tae.
Ill-naitur'd fishwife he haud in wi',
the twa 'greed tae gang the'gither.
She haud...
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Categories:
heft, history,
Form:
Quatrain
Trying to REM ember the waking stage of an emotionally tormenting dream
The following account predicated on partial fact and a healthy dose of prevarication with an attendant overactive imagination.
Trying to REM ember the waking stage of an emotionally tormenting dream
One week later
still dog-tired after jarring telephone...
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Categories:
heft, anger, angst, anxiety, confusion, dream, grave, how
Form:
Rhyme
If Only I Could
Maxims for eyes, a cast of racing clouds, and a sky
What else could be wrapped in lexical display?
Climate crises, inflation, and dire behest worry me
Pale-blue slicing of an idle cul-de-sac and apathy
Seldom do I feel...
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Categories:
heft, analogy, appreciation, bereavement, character,
Form:
Rhyme
The final frontier post consciousness
The final frontier – post consciousness
as imagined by cogent, fervent, intelligent,
lucent, occident, reticent, and uneminent
nonestablishmentarian.
The following disquisition initially describes
emotions prior to experiencing corporeal death,
yet unbeknownst to this skeptical atheist, his
anticipatory anxiety...
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Categories:
heft, absence, adventure, angel, atheist, celebration, cry, death,
Form:
Free verse
Idyllic reverie during break of day
Idyllic reverie during break of day
May today bring unbridled bliss
delivered courtesy sunshine kissed
giving Midas a run for his money.
When the last trace of night
evaporates analogous to milky hue,
whereat a dreamy state
pervades thy...
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Categories:
heft, angel, appreciation, april, beautiful, blessing, celebration, day,
Form:
Free verse
Helianthus Annuus Heliotropic Slow Son Dance
Helianthus annuus, heliotropic slow son dance
Stream of photons bathe
top heavy fountainhead of sunflower.
Analogous to Atlas
shrugging, hoisting, grappling...
with planet Earth, the heavyweight
discobolus buoyantly held aloft
upon robust stem
tracks the heavenly orientation
of said hypothetical nearest star.
This immense distance,
nonetheless...
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Categories:
heft, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, appreciation,
Form:
Free verse
Next of Kin
Next of Kin
She had never been taught the trick.
To the men such things were granted.
Air filled pelts, breath under water.
To the women was left the nest.
Near ashore she saw them panic.
Her father among them scrambling.
All...
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Categories:
heft, childhood, confusion, heart, voice, heart, men, voice,
Form:
Free verse
Next of Kin
Next of Kin
She had never been taught the trick.
To the men such things were granted.
Air filled pelts, breath under water.
To the women was left the nest.
Near ashore she saw them panic.
Her father among them scrambling.
All...
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Categories:
heft, childhood, confusion, heart, voice, heart, men, voice,
Form:
Free verse