Long Hostage Poems
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Ancient HaikuThese are translations of some of the oldest Japanese waka, which evolved into tanka, renga and haiku.
While you decline to cry,
high on the mountainside
a single stalk of plumegrass wilts.
—O no Yasumaro (circa 711), translation...
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Categories:
hostage, culture, imagery, inspiration, international, metaphor, nature, poetry,
Form:
Haiku
Whats Behind the CurtainI used to dream of a dark hall. Dim. Empty with thick cheap navy curtains.
The breeze. It felt hot and old. It shivered in the curtains that lined the walls on both sides.
The breeze....
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Categories:
hostage, anxiety, dark, dream, imagery, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
BehindI used to dream of a dark hall. Dim. Empty with thick cheap navy curtains.
The breeze. It felt hot and old. It shivered in the curtains that lined the walls on both sides.
The breeze....
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Categories:
hostage, anxiety, depression, emo, suicide,
Form:
Blank verse
Charles D'Orleans: a Medieval MarvelCharles d'Orleans: a Medieval Marvel
Spring
by Charles d’Orleans (c. 1394-1465)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Young lovers,
greeting the spring
fling themselves downhill,
making cobblestones ring
with their wild leaps and arcs,
like ecstatic sparks
struck from coal.
What is their brazen goal?
They grab...
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Categories:
hostage, art, autumn, french, prison, spring, summer, winter,
Form:
Roundel
Slots poker machines unsolved murders IllinoisLake county music company filled with
slots carney folk real carny folk the little
pete's illegal gambling road show throughout
the Midwest gaming like your idol Frank Peter
Balistreiri the mad bomber stops Metropolis...
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Categories:
hostage, america, beautiful, blessing, integrity, march,
Form:
Free verse
Oft In My Thought: Charles D'Orleans TranslationOft in My Thought
by Charles D'Orleans
translation by Michael R. Burch
So often in my busy mind I sought,
Around the advent of the fledgling year,
For something pretty that I really ought
To give my lady dear;
But that sweet...
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Categories:
hostage, blessing, christian, faith, god, heartbreak, heaven, lost
Form:
Roundel
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION ARLINGTON HEIGHTS ILLINOISCRISIS SESSION FBI HUMAN RESOURCE DIVISION NON-REDACTED
FBI: HELLO WHAT IS YOUR EMERGENCY
AGENT BROWN: HELLO THIS IS AGANT BROWN AND THAT DARK PLACE IS RETURNING AGAIN I AM IN CRISIS AGAIN
FBI: OKAY WE ARE HERE...
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Categories:
hostage, america, analogy, anxiety, mental illness, military, patriotic,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
The Breakfast Program and MeIt was 1968 we'd gathered again in the school auditorium my tiny hands sweating only five years old while my name was called in all of this cold
civil rights riots plagued my little...
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Categories:
hostage, america, beautiful, black african american, chicago, memory,
Form:
Free verse
Stepfathers who abducts his own children After my traumatic brain injury witnessing a murder I didn’t think the world could even get any worse my children and I survived 4 major hurricanes I decided to move north to his home town...
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Categories:
hostage, angel, anti bullying, anxiety, corruption,
Form:
Free verse
The Alaskan Oil PipelineThe Alaskan Oil Pipeline
Nineteen sixty-eight confirmed the year
Of discovery by ‘Humble Oil’
To North America’s largest oil field,
On the North Slope of the Brooks Range;
A west to east Northern Alaskan mountain chain.
An area forty miles wide...
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Categories:
hostage, education, environment, history, technology, tribute, usa,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Principal ClownHe walks around with his nose pointing upward in the air
With calculating eyes that are so fearful, mouth moving from side to side and a tongue that keeps twisting around the things that are profound....
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Categories:
hostage, break up, business, community, conflict, confusion, courage,
Form:
Narrative
FBI ARLINGTON HEIGHTS ILLINOIS CRISIS TEAM IDENTITY FRAUD AGAINST CONFIDENTIAL HUMAN SOURCESCRISIS TEAM: HELLO WE ARE HERE TO HELP
AGENT BROWN: HELLO I'M AGENT BROWN IN DIRE NEED OF THE FBI HELP AFTER I CONTACTED THE FBI ABOUT THE ARSON MURDERER OF 9 CIRO GARGANO AND HIS...
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Categories:
hostage, america, analogy, anxiety, military, passion, poems, remember,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Recluse By Dint of CircumstanceRecluse by dint of circumstance
Proud anonymous troglodytes
forerunners of mine
confronted threats less horrific
than forty fifth commander in chief
of United States of America.
He/him (matted hair, ratty, scrawny,
and tetchy ugly villain)
scurried into dark...
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Categories:
hostage, adventure, america, angst, anti bullying, betrayal, character,
Form:
Free verse
Escape of the Bluesman's SongWithin the frame a sepia scene
a dusty porch a rickety chair
the fabric of your dusky face creased
with ceaseless sunbaked woes
your old pair of getaway feet gives
a different walk of...
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Categories:
hostage, africa, america, grief, racism, slavery, song, sorrow,
Form:
Free verse
My First Love ExperienceIt was in the early days of our lives
We met
She was so beautiful
My eyes could not stop admiring
My heart kept racing
Every time it sensed
her good-looking approaching
But we were too young
To give full...
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Categories:
hostage, lost love, memory, beautiful, me, heart, woman,
Form:
Free verse
Letters From BatmanPlaying Batman and Robin is a lot different
When the Riddler is your Stepfather
And simultaneously an alcoholic and pedophile
When your secret mission is to keep him
From bringing heroin and pornography
To Gotham city
Your mother wanted to...
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Categories:
hostage, abuse, adventure, courage, death, hero, introspection, mystery,
Form:
Free verse
Breathless, Travis MorrisonSuicide, euthanasia
I never thought I’d be the one to go down like this
But I wanted to have control in the way I was sent out of this world
Instead of kept barely alive, pointless.
My parents refused...
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Categories:
hostage, books, suicide,
Form:
Free verse
My Friend MaryRemembering our friendship
how we'd talk for hours about
any topic family love kids life
how it hurt not to hear from
one another sending cards
pictures letters remember that
I remember so well that achy
lonely...
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Categories:
hostage, beautiful, friendship,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Once Upon a TimeTwo of the greatest gifts that God ever gave to mankind ...
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Categories:
hostage, age, time,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Teachers Conference the FBI and meThere was no easy day going under cover
with four kids riding along with the FBI supervisor
I was just a young mother of four actually expecting
again seven months pregnant the FBI installed wires...
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Categories:
hostage, art, beautiful, caregiving, chicago, feelings, journey, school,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
The Silence In MeThe Silence In Me
I have been on this road several times, and I have been contemplating
the movement of the clouds, the direction of the trees, and the depth of the sea. The heart of...
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Categories:
hostage, appreciation, beauty, celebration, character, community, holiday, hope,
Form:
Narrative
Living with AgoraphobiaCoping with Agoraphobia well you are basically pent up
in your home for me it finally took it's toil my therapist
came to my home because I was basically limited spending
hours in a room...
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Categories:
hostage, america, angel, anxiety, appreciation, freedom, me, poetess,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
The Reaper Denied - Both Audio and Text - W-IllustrationOh stone of death, I beg thee, now…relinquish me thy guest.
Release unto this specter but the soul beneath thy breast
What waits but to be wakened, and then taken now, to rest.
Mine is thine...
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Categories:
hostage, death, gothic, grave,
Form:
Narrative
Traumatic brain injury headachesI shan't try and be witty an engage in the norm
peeking through such pain my eyes see dim
as crushing temporal lesion push against
soft tissue endings pounding my optic nerves
from my forehead...
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Categories:
hostage, allah, angel, car, care, dedication, depression, home,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Fretfully Aching To Feel Fit As a FiddleFretfully aching to feel fit as a fiddle
After experiencing a severe,
albeit violent near lethal bout
of irritable bowel syndrome
(yesterday night August 30th, 2023)
triggered courtesy dulcolax caplets plus
healthy portion of lentils,
I (a beatle browed, foo fighting,...
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Categories:
hostage, abuse, angst, anxiety, dad, death, drug, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme