Long Hitting Poems
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The BartenderTwenty two years had passed by
She blinked, and a lifetime had passed
She started this job as a lark
She never thought it would last
Two husbands and rehab were part of this bar
The husbands...her clients all...
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Categories:
hitting, america, community, family, heart, society, strength, wisdom,
Form:
Rhyme
Adieu - Part 2The tears flowed and I still smiled,
My body and spirit and mind,
Were still in that state of residual bliss,
Soaking in your sweet smile,
And savoring the moonlit skin before me,
But my soul was being torn asunder,
And...
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Categories:
hitting, heartbreak, love, passion, true love,
Form:
Free verse
Guns and Roses It was 1986 I was setting in after giving
birth to my first son after wearing wires
pregnant for the FBI buying large amounts
of weapons ammunition boxes the dealer
loaded hand grenades silencers scopes gun...
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Categories:
hitting, chicago, integrity, poems, power,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Rum n Raisin 11 - One Hundred Million Years BCSneaking into the museum to avoid the sudden rain
Raisin said, “I don’t want to get soaked right through again,
It was bad enough when that truck through that puddle dashed
And you and me - but mainly...
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Categories:
hitting, adventure, cat, fantasy, time,
Form:
Narrative
Domestic Abuse and Abuse of PowerAfter witnessing a murder meant for me after surviving a car bomb igniting my skull crushed my face bruising my brain i received threatening calls from my husbands mistress I'd reported break ins strange behavior...
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Categories:
hitting, abuse, anxiety, beautiful, love hurts, peace, wisdom,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Used To Go To This BarRed light, the neon beer sign on the distant wall reflects off the long expanse of polished bar top, overpowering the quiet brown wood. It’s after lunch, only a few people in to stir the...
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Categories:
hitting, addiction, beauty, drink, religion, society, solitude,
Form:
Prose
Ol' Babe - Both Audio and Text Versions - W-IllustrationHey…did I ever tell you ‘bout the greatest baseball game,
Or should I say…the one that gave “Ol' Babe” his famous name?
Like several other great ones, there were many hits that day,
And if it hadn't...
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Categories:
hitting, baseball,
Form:
Verse
Truth Is All An Act In Government ExposedOne small little country which houses
one of the highest paid governments
in this modern world joke ran upside down
A big part of our life existing reality
when the backbone is gone snakes appear with...
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Categories:
hitting, betrayal, ireland, political, rights, society, truth,
Form:
Political Verse
2 Versions of 4 SeasonsThese 2 different versions are separated by nine years
Part 1
MUST BE SPRING
Small speckles of wild grass
Looking like tiny green drops
That had fallen to the earth
Were the very first sign
Waving in the...
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Categories:
hitting, lost love, seasons, time,
Form:
Prose
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 71The preparations were almost complete when Lumi reappeared down stairs. He seemed preoccupied and burnished an all encompassing smile across his face.
“Lumi... Lumi,” Joulupukki had to repeat himself to...
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Categories:
hitting, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Social Privyjustice
What does this vastly misunderstood word mean to you?
Too what ends?
May we seek?
Who(m) may guide us?
Endless deliberation (spiss spiss spiss)
Debated and glorified by us all
Beloved; instilled among (a) core...
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Categories:
hitting, absence, abuse, addiction, adventure, allusion, analogy, anxiety,
Form:
Free verse
Hubert Might Go Upstairs But Not To RomeTea in the afternoon with his wife of many years is usually peaceful, Hubert thinks before he makes his announcement. Then he says it.
"I'm going upstairs," Hubert tells Ruth as he hoists himself out...
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Categories:
hitting, marriage,
Form:
Prose
PrefaceGreetings to those who would willingly seek admission to theater of the absurd. Zoltan Goliath and Otis Trench are masters of the avant-garde genre silent musicals for the imaginary stage, an art form sui generis....
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Categories:
hitting, allegory, literature,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Last Call
We sat at the end of the bar in a seedy place on Seventh street. Nursing our drinks, we both had a bit too much that night. My...
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Categories:
hitting, passion, sad,
Form:
Prose
My HellI fall down
deeper and deeper
into oblivion
nothing
only darkness.
the sounds of evil
dripping into my ears
slithering farther
and sliding down into me
filling me with echoes.
terror courses through
my veins
into each cell
turning them against
me
they are no longer mine
they follow another
a stronger...
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Categories:
hitting, betrayal, death, evil, fear, horror, pain, suicide,
Form:
Free verse
Moderna Commedia, Second Canto, Part 2Quelle vicende vissi fino in fondo.
Quando mi riappropriai della mia vita
Se questo è un uomo chiesi a tutto il mondo.”
Those events I lived through and through.
When I again impropriated of my life
If this is a...
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Categories:
hitting, dream,
Form:
Terza Rima
OrpheusSlang..
Chick-fil-a = the best place ever
jade =
brooke = gorgeous
mishin = the boss, as in “You aren’t the boss of me.”
Orpheus
We’re on vaycay. School is OVER, COVID is over. We’re in New York City...
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Categories:
hitting, humor, mothers day, new york, sister, summer,
Form:
Free verse
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 26From that day on and forward,
I began to see the wretchedness my God had warned me of
He cursed the Lord wholeheartedly, for inflicting yet another agony on him,
In his well he called The Prison of...
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Categories:
hitting, adventure, anger, beautiful, corruption, dark, inspirational, nature,
Form:
Epic
Magdalen Christmas Eve Mass 1984Busy time very frustrating watching my
husband and ciro gargano go over the
blue prints over and over again during
the 1984 elections for lake county Daniel
Furlan Bobby Thompson Ernest Fisher Ciro
was looking...
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Categories:
hitting, america, christmas, city, evil, faith, fire,
Form:
Free verse
Big Change of Plans -- Text Version - Also Posted As An AudioFYI: I'll be posting a bunch of my AUDIO files over the next few months, most from my 4 new AUDIO-CDs, along with many more text files from my several books of verse. (Only...
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Categories:
hitting, marriage,
Form:
Rhyme
Mad About Towns
When we set out on a road trip
We didn’t stick to the old script
And were gladly amazed
And rarely unfazed
Hitting strange towns though some were skipped
We started from Thatsnot, OK
Which was more or less ok
But then...
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Categories:
hitting, humorous, travel, word play,
Form:
Limerick
The Game of HockeyThe Game of Hockey
By Government decree, lacrosse
Is Canada’s national sport,
But in the hearts and minds of Canadians,
Hockey rules supreme.
Hockey is a winter sport enjoyed by Canadians since 1875,
When the game was first played, on...
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Categories:
hitting, hockey, sports,
Form:
Verse
Desert, Wilderness, StormTHE DESERT THE WILDERNESS THE STORM
I am parched, my back is arched,
my body racked with pain,
Nothing green in sight,
my thirst, my plight,
eyes playing tricks on me again.
An illusion of rest beside...
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Categories:
hitting, christian, destiny, god, life,
Form:
Prose Poetry
June 12th 2017 Transition Revisited and Revised Today 4 2 2021June 12th 2017 TRANSITION revisited and revised today 4/2/2021
While scrolling over outdated docs
(i.e. namely OpenOffice documents)
derrière seated upon hard backed chair,
yours truly came upon following poem
to share with anonymous readers,
whereby slight modifications
got made to...
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Categories:
hitting, adventure, angel, anxiety, blessing, conflict, husband, july,
Form:
Rhyme
The Cascade Adventures - Part 1It's been four years since I've seen so much as an insignificant mountain creek. Been overburdened with comfort, now frantic with nature withdrawals, having to settle for photos found on Google Images: emerald pine trees,...
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Categories:
hitting, adventure, friend, mountains, nature, snow,
Form:
Haibun