Long Hook on Poems
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4x10
The Killing Field”
Ariana nodded, tremolo fingers,
and they ran across the killing field,
watching the steel-toed kite ascend—
a fleeting instant of triumph in the vacuum.
Josh scoffed as it dipped,
both caught in the pull of the abyss,
falling but...
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Categories:
hook on, absence, allegory, angel, angst,
Form:
Free verse
4x10
The Killing Field”
Ariana nodded, tremolo fingers,
and they ran across the killing field,
watching the steel-toed kite ascend—
a fleeting instant of triumph in the vacuum.
Josh scoffed as it dipped,
both caught in the pull of the abyss,
falling but...
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Categories:
hook on, absence, allegory, angel, angst,
Form:
Free verse
Doing Laundry On a Farm In the Fifities
Grandma Gretchen's in her rocker and she has something to say.
She tells a visitor, a young man from the city, if he plans to write a book about life on a farm in the...
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Categories:
hook on, age, farm,
Form:
Prose
Untitled 6
She isn’t dormant, she moves through the dark in this new phase,
as exact as a silver snowflake. Despite her voicelessness, she speaks to me.
Her swollen body is idolized in the black that she...
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Categories:
hook on, love, moon, tree, body, me, tree,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Ah-The Cina-Ma
Ah-The Cina-Ma
I love going to the movies...
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Categories:
hook on, adventure, art, community, film, growing up, inspirational,
Form:
Ballad
His Neighborhood
Of those to admire, or crusaders we've known
pulled from the movies, or comic-book clones
there is one to consider, I wish I had known.
I'll say "Mr. Rogers", and eyebrows will raise.
Considered, perhaps an unlikely name.
Not the...
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Categories:
hook on, children, my children,
Form:
Rhyme
Pompano Fishing, Part 1
Rudy, Captain B. and I planned a fishing trip
To try and catch Pompano using Rudy’s ship
We went Down the Mississippi and on out the mouth
Into the Gulf of Mexico, then we headed south
The restaurants...
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Categories:
hook on, adventure, boat, fish, fishing,
Form:
Quatrain
To Slay Life's Dragons
"Every struggle in my life has been a lesson and made me stronger" - Constance La France
Sometimes I find myself at...
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Categories:
hook on, inspirational, meaningful, perspective,
Form:
Verse
Kersh
Flickering hazel eyes flecked with cataract silver, glittering this way and that.
Eyebrows high and a piercing pupil saying
'Move this ing thing, lest I punch my left hooded, binded fist a jab hand on these...
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Categories:
hook on, death, family, love,
Form:
Free verse
Suicide
That word, really, what is it?
Is it a rope tied to a hook on a ceiling with me hanging on the other end?
Or is it me getting a gun, pointing it to my brains and...
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Categories:
hook on, suicide,
Form:
Free verse
The Heat of the Sun
The heat of the sun
She looks in the mirror
Don’t recognize her face
Use to be so pretty now she looks
Like from out of apace
She is just eighteen
Got in to the wrong crowd
She had...
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Categories:
hook on, caregiving, inspirational, sad, father, lost, father, lost,
Form:
Light Verse
Shoveling Dirt
I watched the farmer do daily chores, year after year.
On hot days, those of snow, each morning he was here
before lavender light of dawn, he checked on his crops
tended to all the animals and fed...
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Categories:
hook on, farm, how i feel,
Form:
Rhyme
The Faithful Lady
A problem to most men and A dynamic explosion to anything I paint orange
The missing link is always overlooked, of course I'm Intellegent enough to say it loud, I never fear the unknown and the...
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Categories:
hook on, business, caregiving, strength, together,
Form:
Free verse
Look Up For Your Redemption Draweth
Cream of fire, liquicksilvered star incendiaire,
leaves imprint for the World...
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Categories:
hook on, art,
Form:
Rhyme
Clearsighted
Epiphany
It was an incredible summer in 1950 the war was over things were getting
back to normal, mother's new boyfriend who worked at a factory had
a rowboat and paid holiday leave. A Sunday...
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Categories:
hook on, betrayal, cinderella,
Form:
Free verse
Epiphany
Epiphany
It was an incredible summer in 1950 the war was over things were getting
back to normal, mother`s new boyfriend who worked at a factory had
a rowboat and paid holiday leave. A Sunday...
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Categories:
hook on, deep, discrimination, divorce, drug, earth, emo,
Form:
Blank verse
The Bedbugs Come To Call
The Bedbugs Come to Call
By Elton Camp
All my life I’ve heard of this pest
In filthy houses they come to nest
Bed bugs you will never detect
Where people have self-respect
It seems now, that’s no longer true
Several things...
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Categories:
hook on, funnymay,
Form:
Rhyme
The Bedbugs Come To Call
The Bedbugs Come To Call
By Elton Camp
All my life I’ve heard of this pest
In filthy houses they come to nest
Bed bugs you will never detect
Where people have self-respect
But now we find that...
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Categories:
hook on, august,
Form:
Rhyme
Blame it on Hydra
It was a memorable evening, bright
with my beautiful, charming fiancé
(once my wretched, tormented heart's delight)
near the old village of Fatheringay.
Drawn by the lilt of a whispery voice,
we found ourselves in a dark, rustic pub.
An inner misgiving...
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Categories:
hook on, evil, magic, marriage, moon, mystery,
Form:
Rhyme
A Dirge To a Friend In Captivity
A DIRGE TO A GREAT MAN IN CAPTIVITY
Like the morning sun you appeared in front of us with your glory
Like the satellite you outshone the stars while they talk of your story
Your shoulder was...
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Categories:
hook on, 11th grade, cry, faith, remember, remembrance day,
Form:
Epic
The Cat Introduces The Snake and The Rat
The snake and the Rat
Saturday night Deep the light minds of the night flow
In the pines of trees
In tales of make believe
The funk is in the trunk
Given up on a pseudo memory
Takes a...
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Categories:
hook on, beauty, cat, identity, visionary, war, women,
Form:
Free verse
The Robyn Williams Encounter
Early 90s a friend of mine was some kind of Teamster working on the Sony Studios lot in Culver City. I was in town visiting and invited out one day to the set of some...
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Categories:
hook on, funny, inspiration, power, surreal,
Form:
Free verse
Kelli
My first test in what we shared
too easy and too perfectly paired.
The part of us that is immortal
ran holding hands through a portal,
quick to stumble and trespass upon
a duplex that kept the blinds drawn.
Your covenant...
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Categories:
hook on, christian, girlfriend, lost love, sin, soulmate, true
Form:
Couplet
Broremann the Angler
Broremann the Angler
On the pier where fishing vessels were tied up my brother
sat fishing all the while seagulls kept swooping and shrieking,
he blissfully ignored them. He had no hook at the end of...
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Categories:
hook on, food, growing up, history, inspirational, mother, social,
Form:
Blank verse
Just Fishing
He held my hand along the path.
I wanted to pull away running faster than life
slipping his grip, I raced to the creek
turning, jumping, "Gramps hurry"
It was one of those really big days
"Oh no way I'm...
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Categories:
hook on, family,
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme