Long Hurdle Poems
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The Stench
I woke up this morning with courage over my back and wisdom in my hat
I was determined to put an end to the sneaky kangaroo rats
No one had done me anything but I was reeling...
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Categories:
hurdle, america, courage, destiny, encouraging, endurance, england, longing,
Form:
Narrative
All Aboard
Who suggests a trip back...rides to this bit of nostalgia in the middle years of the Great Depression aboard a Chicago elevated train, "the El." We hurdle head-long above asphalt blanketed streets that are determined...
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Categories:
hurdle, city, imagery, perspective,
Form:
Prose
Effused Encounter
EFFUSED ENCOUNTER
Neither a dream nor a trick, I beguiled--
I reach the sky enameled with golden smile.
To hurdle bumps and curves, I continue to pedal
this steadfast being yearn to step on a pedestal,
I found at the...
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Categories:
hurdle, beautiful, feelings, flower, life, love, woman,
Form:
Quatorzain
Prayer To Lord Ganesha
Written September 2023
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Categories:
hurdle, god, prayer, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
A Modest Proposal To the Universal Dilemma of Human Melancholy
What is it to dwell in the realm of melancholy? Is it merely a cloak of desolation that we wear, or rather a wave of sorrow that engulfs us, rendering us incapable of envisioning a...
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Categories:
hurdle, depression, encouraging, hope, motivation, perspective, philosophy, proposal,
Form:
Prose
What's in a Star Sign
I'm often asked what sign I am
Leading me to answer best I can
That while I know that signs exist
I try my best to cheerfully desist.
But there again if truth be told
My interest piqued this subject...
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Categories:
hurdle, character, creation, fate, future, growth, happiness, hope,
Form:
Rhyme
Stop and Shop Strike
The Stop & Shop strike v. Game of Thrones.
In Game what’s not made plain
is the condition of the people
compared with warriors and queens.
There’s no mention of land-clearance, tree-felling,
pruning, chopping, digging, hoeing,
weeding, branding,...
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Categories:
hurdle, dream, food, sun, war, women, work, world,
Form:
Verse
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:
hurdle, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
John 13: Part 1-Jesus Washes Judas' Heel
John 13 (Part 1)
Jesus knew the hour had come
that soon He should depart.
He loved them all unto the last,
him tugging at His heart.
The devil having done his thing,
his heel was lifted up;
but this thing, too,...
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Categories:
hurdle, bible, christian, forgiveness, god, gospel, jesus, judgement,
Form:
Didactic
My Motivation
I've seen what trauma does, I know how hard it hits. Every one I know who has it, knows it doesn't quit.
I've been in the darkness, where I felt like a waste of...
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Categories:
hurdle, character, conflict, destiny, faith,
Form:
Rhyme
Setting Goals
"We chase unreachable heights, in the hope to find happiness,
Only to find we are still the same, because in fact we are chasing ourselves."
(Triggered and inspired by a conversation this morning between Arthur Vaso and...
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Categories:
hurdle, depression, destiny, inspiration, life, lonely, wisdom,
Form:
Narrative
Maos China Must Fall
Beyond what’s said and be done,
Lies the hideous Black Sun,
Whose aim is to run a’ground,
To tear and destroy all around,
Plan in the years passed away,
Silent this Dragon appeared to stay,
But behind this stillness insidious lay,
When...
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Categories:
hurdle, america, conflict, courage, crush, military, usa, war,
Form:
Quatrain
Aged Decisions
“Birth day” is the actual day one exits from the womb, (thereafter, “birthday”, is but a colloquialism for the anniversary of that birth). Well … today is mine. I’m finally old enough to...
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Categories:
hurdle, age, anniversary, birthday, care, feelings, retirement,
Form:
Narrative
Diving In
When I am looking at the end of the board, my world shrinks down to that one foot at the end of the board. My hands swing gently back and forth, and back again. My...
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Categories:
hurdle, sports,
Form:
Prose
Dope Sick Pain
pill pop
once you like it
you can't stop
hit rock bottom
or dead you drop
and under six
buried by twelve
this feeling
it lingers
and laughs
as you dumpster dive
half awake
half alive
quasi brain
dope.
dope. sick. pain.
can...
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Categories:
hurdle, angst, death, hope, me, love, me,
Form:
I do not know?
Bedside Thoughts
I watch as she sleeps,
the gentle rise and fall of her chest
making sure her breathing is rhythmic
Thoughts take me back years ago
when we were playmates ~sisters
separated by little more than a year.
A tear escapes my...
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Categories:
hurdle, sorrow,
Form:
Free verse
Time Has Found its Radiance
The flaming sun with pastel shades burns the luster out of the sky exposing the raw clouds that hang beyond the mountain wall. And the epiphany of the golden hen suddenly appears on top of...
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Categories:
hurdle, adventure, creation, devotion, endurance, leadership, march, peace,
Form:
Prose
Lord God, You Are My Peace-Giving Deliverer
March 1 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Joshua 10-12
Key Verse – Joshua 10:8 And the LORD said unto Joshua, Fear them not: for I have delivered them into thine hand; there shall not...
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Categories:
hurdle, blessing, christian, faith, god, jesus, spiritual, thanksgiving,
Form:
Rhyme
Hope For a New Generation
The death of a saint, a martyr to some
The death of a hero, a husband to one
A soldier turned humanitarian, he cared for all
He attempted to hurdle that natural barrier, to climb that human wall
To...
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Categories:
hurdle, angst, death, dedication, devotion, faith, hope, inspirational,
Form:
Couplet
Stockbridge
Last year’s alarm clock by my beside silently, vigilantly ticked away until 4:02 AM
In the hour of Platonic picture-perfect darkness kept company solely by the bloodshot red
Of the alarm clock reading 4:02 AM
And a...
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Categories:
hurdle, health, history, introspection, life, music, time, me,
Form:
Free verse
Voyage
Written: March 28, 2024 For Constance La France Contest
Quote: (The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.) Marcel Proust
...
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Categories:
hurdle, adventure, voyage,
Form:
Rhyme
From Slashed Paper To Melancholic Smell
Issued paper fibers mirror those of the straw bale,
The waters of the great canal through the morning sail.
In spite Venezia was tied, the chairlift was jostling,
Twisting its way through the small calli in haze whiting....
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Categories:
hurdle, analogy, bereavement, conflict, creation, environment, meaningful,
Form:
Couplet
The Stranger Man 3
THE STRANGER MAN (3)
But let life live its life and I mine.
I ease myself of all worries
And drift where I may such as liberal
As a wind and unheeding to the obstruction
Where of the fate of...
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Categories:
hurdle, adventure, feelings, freedom, life, love, philosophy, vanity,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Thar: the Deserted Land
All men have born desires
garland of the prettiest arm.
Want to meet in the loveliest Place
Where no hurdle no harm.
...
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Categories:
hurdle, death of a friend, fantasy, for teens,
Form:
Elegy
Letter To the Humanitarian Poet
Dear Humanitarian Poet,
Do not weave your fabric of myth
or speak to us in grand verse
telling of the song of the spheres
or the days before this dark time
Pen down to erase the darkness
Let...
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Categories:
hurdle, dedication,
Form:
Tail-rhyme