Long Hollows Poems
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The OutlanderI am an Outlander
Who lives on a high hill
Overlooking a man-made lake
That once was a rapidly rushing river
Along whose banks the Ozarks Bluff Dwellers and the Osage and then Delaware
Hunted, fished, and created shelter
For their...
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Categories:
hollows, change, childhood, community, history, home, journey, remember,
Form:
Ballad
The Light of Reckoning -2The Roman administrators came for the wealth of our worship
demanding that I crack the church's coffers wide open
for their needs, for the Empire's desperate embellishments,
in place of gold I presented the poor
I told the onery...
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Categories:
hollows, creation,
Form:
Epic
The Calming of Her Storm
"The Calming of Her Storm"
My mother gave me solace
I fell into her deep hollows
to kiss the wisdom of her
breath chanting quietly
I still hear her
nightingale birdsong caressing
the soft fluttering
of her tireless...
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Categories:
hollows, love, mirror, muse,
Form:
Free verse
Words the Ship Melanie Dear Melanie Troubled Times LosstouchWords
The ship
Words come to me like spring.
They set free, they shed the shroud,
open with all their glory, beauty and sing.
They stand tall, they ring out loud,
from a life that blossoms with...
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Categories:
hollows, daughter,
Form:
Rhyme
Moon N MeAs darkness absorbed in my reveries, my usual lapse accommodated itself in height of melancholy but not in this conscience. Then I found myself in my room and my window opened. Everything in upheaval, a...
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Categories:
hollows, anxiety, conflict, depression, fantasy, peace, sleep, sympathy,
Form:
Prose
Rendered Speechless-LiterallyPeople often say I talk a lot, but I hardly think that is true,
Like the whispers about the bluebird, of which he never knew.
Talking helps a lot with my job, which is in public relations,
As...
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Categories:
hollows, fantasy, imagery, people, places, summer, travel, words,
Form:
Couplet
The Over-Soul
“Our being is descending into us from we know not whence.
The most exact calculator has no prescience that somewhat incalculable
may not balk the very next moment. I am constrained every moment
to acknowledge...
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Categories:
hollows, dark, light, muse,
Form:
Free verse
The In-Between
"The In-Between"
I ripped the pages of
that tired old story
from the heart, a body of work
buried the misdiagnosed slanders
then wiped their mouths
with the back of my spoon
the feed they found,
passed the disingenuous time;
some found...
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Categories:
hollows, imagery, life, muse, poets, psychological, symbolism, writing,
Form:
Free verse
A Quiet RiverAlong a quiet river to nowhere were styx lean like broken crosses. The wind is gentle with a sent of quite decay or is that brimstone in these sinister currents, that spin! A black river...
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Categories:
hollows, adventure, allegory, allusion, analogy, angel, anger, art,
Form:
Rhyme
Rural Pastrual Idle Feild And Meadow Warning!In a foreign lush green sprawling land
A patchwork carpet stitched together
In shades of tawny browns yellows and green
Rugged rock forest and wind-swept moor
Is a awe-inspiring spectacle to be seen
In summer's adorned frock adorned bushes and...
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Categories:
hollows, conflict, creation, environment, mother, war, world war
Form:
Free verse
A Day In the ParkIn the park, I’d been all day
Reading all my time away
On a park bench did I sit
Until the sky became twilit
As light for reading began to wane
I heard the tapping of a cane.
And looking up,...
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Categories:
hollows, dark, evil, fear, horror, scary,
Form:
Rhyme
Don'T Judge MeWhen you judge you base it on gossip or stories
from people who surely say they would never lie
To you're face or do something behind you're back
people you claim as friends who make the...
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Categories:
hollows, poetry,
Form:
Quintain (English)
Call Me Black Gold Or Handsome DevilCALL ME THE BLACK GOLD OR THE HANDSOME DEVIL
How did you find me, my undeterred and awesomely daring love?
When I flew away into time years ago like a dove.
And you sat upon the cold rocks...
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Categories:
hollows, africa, courage, desire, destiny, earth,
Form:
Didactic
The KrampusBeware the wrath of the Northern Polar boogie man,
The Anti-Clause, a legendary beast of nightmarish voracity,
From folklore mythology, a dark creature of demonic prowess,
Lurks in the hidden shadow realm, in a freezing forbidden zone,
Of...
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Categories:
hollows, christmas, fantasy, holiday, imagery, international, myth, mythology,
Form:
Free verse
Voluptuous Bullets
"Voluptuous Bullets"
In the game of Love and War
voluptuous bullets
penetrate a mouth of warm words
Lacking defence lines
boundaries come undone
in the valleys of a body let loose
Depth charged oceans seduce
and submerge the sensual mind
civility replaced...
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Categories:
hollows, muse, romance, sensual,
Form:
Romanticism
A Lesson Well LearnedDragon had got himself in trouble…. Obviously… Not unforeseen!
He jumped out and scared some little kids in the spirit of Halloween.
He said it wasn’t his fault; Dragons are so scary, giving a little snort.
Now this...
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Categories:
hollows, adventure, fantasy, fun, funny, halloween, humorous, imagination,
Form:
Light Verse
One Word
with midnight dreams we dance
unyielding, i stir unwilling to awaken
incessantly seeking
You
like virgin wings of the monarch, your shape gently unfolds
i clutch the edges of slumber
aware in my wakening you will be gone
Again
you have come before,...
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Categories:
hollows, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Dissolution
"Dissolution"
I go to sleep a lot now,
to escape reality.
It is as if I am no longer here,
but there in the other worlds.
Some dreams are so real.
Once was a life
where as...
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Categories:
hollows, dream,
Form:
Free verse
50 Words For Poe: Azrael
“50 Words for Poe: Azrael”
What alchemy to lure Azrael
who hidden until now
keeps his vigil
in the still sound of
the shattering silence
of falling leaves
under the elms in the
hollows of
Hanging Hill
with the...
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Categories:
hollows, dark, gothic, imagery, mystery, psychological, romance, word
Form:
Free verse
The Haunted HolloweenIt is the magic held within the darkness, the whispering of the night winds,
Echoing through haunted graveyards, cast are thus ancient spells, illuminated
Beneath the harvest full moon, in this eerie landscape the underworld is
Released,...
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Categories:
hollows, dark, evil, gothic, imagery, mystery, science fiction,
Form:
Free verse
The Valvet WitchIn the elliptical nights moonshine of night, a figure of lavender
And aged white lace, roams amongst the rocky sea shore, a
Glittering phantom of beauty most fair, walking with an essence
Of smoldering evil and the...
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Categories:
hollows, adventure, beauty, grave, halloween, holiday, horror, little
Form:
Free verse
Beyond Realwhen Animal Farm is not a feeding manual
and Clockwork Orange strikes at midnight
Dali’s time piece warps under face value
and an eagle-eyed-cuckoo flies over its nest
beneath the cover of cotton candy clouds
she relieves herself into Magritte’s...
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Categories:
hollows, dream,
Form:
Free verse
A Hollow MuseThere is a picture of you on my bedroom wall
Drawn by my own simpering hand
Of your divine features and veiled Oriental eyes
Scratched out by the crude tool of a 2B pencil
Alas I had no mosaic...
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Categories:
hollows, lovebeauty, beauty, love, may,
Form:
Free verse
Something To Look Forward To, Part IHis name was Emmet Patterson,
and back in 1863,
he led a cavalry unit
patrolling deep in Tennessee.
The state was firm in Union hands,
Tte Civil War in its third year,
but the threat of partisan raids
meant that he was...
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Categories:
hollows, courage, death, life, loss, lost, love, war,
Form:
Epic
Lost Love Deliria - Part 2 Part 2
4th Delirium: Lost Souls
Sunken cities , pilgrims peering.. gawking,
squinting eyeballs, blazing sun
Janus facing, shepherds chasing.. stalking,
friends embrace before they shun
Tearooms steaming, tumult teeming.. talking,
lovers listen, poets pun
Broken stones unanchored, quaking.. rocking,
slipping, falling, one...
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Categories:
hollows, lost love,
Form:
Rhyme