Long Hickory Poems
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Bergfried
I. The Settlement
Hickory bark bluffs
at the blend of two
...
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Categories:
hickory, adventure, allusion, metaphor, myth, native american, remember,
Form:
Narrative
She Carries TUKAHOK In Her Chest
she is matawàhkwí
of the pullaook — turkey clan
she is lenni lenape
born where marsh meets
sky’s reflection
where grass (aski) bends
to east wind (achpateuny)
and water (mbi) feeds
all it touches
the year's spirit
in spiral moons
not lines on paper
each moon
opens its...
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Categories:
hickory, culture, family, history, native american, ocean, river,
Form:
Epic
Ode To a Tree - Synopsis - Epic
I.
Espy, distinguish divinely made lively, lovely Trees
Unisex Trees, inhales carbon dioxide, then breathes
out for us humans, life given clean oxygen
Stout roots run deep, holding God's earth
Also, with you we were taught our first lesson
II.
Animals take...
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Categories:
hickory, adventure, beauty, earth, earth day, introspection, nature,
Form:
Ode
A Meadow For Autumn
A meadow for Autumn
Forest, I lay me down to rest
upon bed of moss.
Eternal sleep immediately overtakes me
lichen kenning myself
as Rip Van Winkle
except being repurposed
as oldest living species.
With an estimated...
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Categories:
hickory, animal, appreciation, autumn, creation, dark, environment, heaven,
Form:
Free verse
Wednesday September 2021 At 320 Pm
Wednesday, September 2021 at 3:20 PM...
eastern standard time Autumn Equinox arrives
That seasonal occasion twill arise
when darkness and light doth bring
equilibrium between night and day
raking leaves will constitute exercise
espied and witnessed by observant earthling
namely me who...
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Categories:
hickory, appreciation, autumn, celebration, destiny, environment, fate, inspiration,
Form:
Rhyme
Hickory Dickory, One O'Clock
I resided in a beautiful old home, on the sunny side of the street;
And I had friendly neighbors, offering hellos whenever we'd meet.
Often when I was off from work, I puttered in my house or...
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Categories:
hickory, animal, cat, fantasy, home, imagery, nature, time,
Form:
Couplet
Echoes From the Past, lyrics
Probably occurred about mid semester in 2018
Epic perhaps, there was a missed opportunity?
From a challenge contest to pen another poem
But this is stuff that men say in an asylum
At the time my ideas...
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Categories:
hickory, irony, jesus, memory, nursery rhyme,
Form:
Lyric
A Historic Event
“They took the whole Cherokee nation
Put us on this reservation
Took away our ways of life
The tomahawk and the bow and knife”
From “Indian Reservation” by Paul Revere and...
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Categories:
hickory, native american,
Form:
Free verse
If You Know, You Know
Let’s have a lil fun. Let’s see how many of these you remember.
If you know, you know (Smile)
Little Boy Blue come blow your horn…
Jack be Nimble, Jack be quick
Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall
Little Bo...
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Categories:
hickory, 1st grade, childhood, funny, happy, smile, song,
Form:
Lyric
Because of You I'M In a Seattle Kind of Mood
Because of you, I'm in a Seattle kind of mood
When I look out my window
And see the rain drops gently falling all around
And I feel that special Seattle kind of chill
In my bones
I...
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Categories:
hickory, rain, remember,
Form:
Free verse
Somnambulant Schlemiel Schleps and Says Shalom
Somnambulant schlemiel schleps...and says Shalom...
to anonymous readers March 22nd, 2022
(blustery and chilly Tuesday)
reminiscing about mein kampf,
when precious irretrievable youth
frittered away within
emotional wilderness of mine.
Into lonely senescence -
more'n three plus decades
plus three extra orbitz
around...
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Categories:
hickory, absence, adventure, america, angst, anxiety, betrayal, bullying,
Form:
Free verse
Blood Is Not Thicker Than Water
In the summer of 1949, I lay in the grass in "Grannys" back yard picking clovers with 8 year
old Ada Bee, my black and only friend. Ada Bee had six fingers on...
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Categories:
hickory, lifeme, hate, love, me, prejudice,
Form:
Narrative
Theater of Utter Charm Part 7
gesturing crudely about luck and doom
blowing us towards the promised manic Paradise
a steely eyed greeting committee
providing the final hurdle
their panel of erudite jurists
concluded that his sense of right and wrong
had been tricked by wizard mesmerists
no...
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Categories:
hickory, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
November's Golden Days
November arrives with a golden dawn; her winds sing
a lilting song as we reflect on our blessings all winter long.
...
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Categories:
hickory, november,
Form:
Rhyme
A Most Disruptive Sleep Psyche Violently Pummeled
A most disruptive sleep - psyche violently pummeled
Upon awakening earlier today
(May 26th, 2020)
felt utterly fatigued without fail
tormenting dreams found yours truly
jangled, harried and
frenzied across broadscale
valiant effort to remain awake
exerted to no avail.
Exhaustion pounded noggin
on par...
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Categories:
hickory, anxiety, endurance, grave, horror, introspection, mental illness,
Form:
Free verse
Sawing Firewood For My Dad, Again
Sawing Firewood For My Dad, Again
"Saw them logs boys, saw them logs
heat for the kitchen, heat for the halls
Winter is going to be so very cold,
so get it done before we all grow...
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Categories:
hickory, childhood, family, farm, feelings, jobs, memory, philosophy,
Form:
Rhyme
Not Like a Figwort
Not like a figwort but not an aster, either. Could he be a buttercup
with sepals, no petals, but sepals like petals? Alan is a bluebeech,
an ash if his books sell. Quick shake hands. Zach's bald...
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Categories:
hickory, blue, books, flower, fruit, life, rose, tree,
Form:
Verse
A Meadow For Autumn
when eve doth fall upon summers’ end,
a hint of splendor bequeathed arose
upon firmament as changed scenery
(this third equinox act since new year) bellows
basses loaded and blasted in...
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Categories:
hickory, age, allegory, autumn, change, environment, nature, september,
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
Schlerotic Schlemiel Schleps and Says Shalom
Schlerotic schlemiel schleps...and says Shalom...
to anonymous readers March 6th, 2021
(blustery and chilly Saturday)
reminiscing about mien kampf,
when precious irretrievable youth
frittered away within
emotional wilderness of mine.
Into lonely senescence -
three plus decades already elapsed
trepidation, hesitation, abdication... unbearably
tugging, shouldering,
remonstrating...
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Categories:
hickory, absence, books, boy, destiny, growing up, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
Hit 'Em Up Collaboration With Brenda Chiri
I write like bakers bake
my rhymes make earth shake
Going into contest with me was your biggest mistake
I control the earths plates, tectonics, your rhymes are bollocks
I cause land slides and earthquakes
I don't hate but I...
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Categories:
hickory, england, hip hop, rap, slam, usa,
Form:
Rhyme
~ (~) ~ ""hold On!"" ~ (~) ~ (Part #3 of 4) ~ (~) ~
The generous character-carried-by them good-old-girls-and boys down-home country-copper-
roof-all filled-up-silos-wheat-turbines waiting ready outside the barn deer-skins pegged down
low the greater-story askant-of curiosity carrying the pureness of a child as to why... .
Smoked-up hickory-honey-bubbling bacon...
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Categories:
hickory, inspirationaltime,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Nursery Rhyme Land
Hickory Dickory Dock, the mouse,
Ran up the clock,
But the crooked little man
In his crooked little house,
Who caught this crooked mouse
After Humpty Dumpty's fall,
Could not prevent the coming
Down of baby, cradle and all!
Now old Mother Hubbard,
Checked...
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Categories:
hickory, nursery rhyme,
Form:
Rhyme
My Pa
Had a dream about my Pa tonight, We all went out with them to Lake Loral Nancy His wife cooking up a good ol' Chicken Pot Stew slow-cooked set way up high atop the hickory...
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Categories:
hickory, adventure, anniversary, childhood, confusion, death, dedication, depression,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Con Brio-Vaudeville Playaz
Don't forget to remove the Bay leaves from the
pot.
Make it easier on yourself
put the bay leaves and rosemary sprig
in a cheese cloth.
I'm in most incline to agree
yet some deemed them useless
almond ash and hickory ash
was...
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Categories:
hickory, business, devotion, money, music, repetition, song, sound,
Form:
Ballad
Make Way For Lovers
she asked for a great thyme
a day for festvel and enjoyment
a day to marvel in the creativity
of love
and day for people to come together and celebrate the need
to love
she made beautiful drinks of
cucumber jucies and...
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Categories:
hickory, music, sports,
Form:
Ballad