Long Idleness Poems
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Blue Angels, Black Sheep, Monitors and the House of Random Penguins
“Blue Angels, Black Sheep, Monitors and The House of Random Penguins”
The womb
is scooped like
an over ripe melon
Time is the incorrigible felon,
the forgotten lost garden explored
overturned and raked,
neatly messed,
in more ways...
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Categories:
idleness, muse,
Form:
Narrative
Out of EmptinessOut of emptiness comes this:
Purposes as incomprehensible and wonderful as these purposes
Either you had no purpose or the purpose is beyond the end
Because the timepiece not only serves a purpose, it is adapted to that
...
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Categories:
idleness, friend, god, language, people, sea, sun, war,
Form:
Free verse
To Which Image Should we Cling
Written: April 18, 2024 For Unseeking Seeker Contest
Line of inquiry:
“We have been here a thousand times before
Memory erased, each time we begin anew
Of hands held tenderly, we’ve lost the score
Each embrace virgin like fresh morning...
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Categories:
idleness, analogy, emotions, life,
Form:
Rhyme
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:
idleness, muse, romance, sensual,
Form:
Romanticism
Thirukkural: Translation of Canto Xxxviii With CommentaryTHIRUKKURAL: Translation of Canto XXXVIII with notes and commentary
Canto XXXVIII of the Thirukkural on the topic of FATE which I give here in translation (by stages) forms, in itself, a separate "book" in its own...
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Categories:
idleness, fate, humanity, life, nature, riddle, wisdom,
Form:
Couplet
ConfusedA
Alas! I`m in a
confused state,
As I wonder in
perpetual
restlessness
B
Bind by different
thoughts that are
not mine,
I keep remembering
the good old days
C
Caught in the middle
of fights that I
don`t know of;
I mellow down to
understand this
misery
D
Desperately looking
for answers...
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Categories:
idleness, corruption, emotions, life,
Form:
Abecedarian
Men: a Wife of Noble CharacterMen: A Wife of Noble Character
Proverbs 12:4
A wife of noble character is her husband’s crown.
United as one, a vow husband and wife, declare to the town.
And to...
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Categories:
idleness, husband, marriage, wife,
Form:
Rhyme
Of the Dreaded Scourge Currently Afflicting the Municipality and Environ of My Nativity and YouthThis dread disease that has afflicted my home,
This malady, this plague on my house;
This making convertible the former quaintness and provincialism thereof
Into something wholly despicable and disgustingly homogeneous,
Yclept "cosmopolitanism," and "worldliness," and "globalization,"...
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Categories:
idleness, adventure, allegory, allusion, anger, anxiety, beautiful, betrayal,
Form:
I do not know?
Zumba CureMy daughter and I have started working out
at a local gym.We have done water aerobics
and ever the over achiever I decided to try
Zumba as well.It will be fun ,I convinced myself.
I love dancing and it...
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Categories:
idleness, dance,
Form:
Free verse
CATULLUS TRANSLATIONSCATULLUS TRANSLATIONS
Catullus LXXXV: 'Odi et Amo'
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
1.
I hate. I love.
You ask, 'Why not refrain?'
I wish I could explain.
I can't, but feel the pain.
2.
I hate. I love.
Why? Heavens above!
I wish I could...
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Categories:
idleness, books, boy, god, hate, heaven, love, pain,
Form:
Rhyme
Kris Kringle Kisses Kalliope
"Kris Kringle Kisses Kalliope"
A Dream: the 4th Christmas.
deck the halls
with memories
poets whisper pasts
that are ne’er forgotten
where presents
a life
that’s neatly wrapped
and attempts at
frostily forgotten
tucked under
that big
beautiful
green fir tree
where all the...
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Categories:
idleness, christmas, dark, light,
Form:
Romanticism
Horace Replies To a Friend(Quintin Horatius Flaccus, Roman Poet, 65 B.C.-8 A.D.)
Yes, yes, I know what they say about me – know it well,
too damn well, in fact: that I am short,
squat, and overweight with a face even ugly...
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Categories:
idleness, poets,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Anomie
Written: April 10, 2024 For Edward Ebeh Contest
“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
— Rumi
...
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Categories:
idleness, analogy, drug, identity,
Form:
Rhyme
The Tinge of JealousyI feel it to a small extent - a little tinge of it -
those times I hear about
friends going on vacations to fun exotic places;
friends of mine receiving special presents from their husbands;
women I have...
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Categories:
idleness, jealousy,
Form:
Free verse
Wabbling WorldThe task begins with awareness, and freedom without it is harmful. So let us not look back in fury or forward in panic, but rather around in awareness. By Poet
Let me tell you a story.
Can...
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Categories:
idleness, analogy, angst, inspirational, war,
Form:
Narrative
Lord God, You Are My Meal ProviderApril 2 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on 1Kings 17-19
Key Verse –1Kings 17:16 And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the LORD,...
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Categories:
idleness, blessing, christian, faith, god, jesus, spiritual, thanksgiving,
Form:
Rhyme
EncouragementThis poem was written in 2019 and is now being dedicated to my sweet niece, Joleen Cogburn for lifting spiritual belief from her heart by encouragement as she truly reflects the light of the Lord...
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Categories:
idleness, encouraging, faith, hope, journey, light, love, spiritual,
Form:
Narrative
Dizzy Goodfellow's White HorseHe came from the Dust Bowl in a terrible time
When his family were stricken with broken, dirt covered dreams.
The patchwork wooden shack they slept and ate in had all but tumbled
To a fate no one...
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Categories:
idleness, encouraging, endurance, heart, inspiration,
Form:
Narrative
Lord God, You Are My Feast HolderJanuary 19 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Exodus 5-7
Key Verse – Exodus 5:1 … Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto me...
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Categories:
idleness, blessing, christian, faith, god, jesus, spiritual, thanksgiving,
Form:
Rhyme
My Love Lies Bleeding (Part I)My love lies bleeding among the meadowbeauties, purple,
entangled by hairy caltrop around her delicate feet and ankles. Climbing upward,
its thistled fruit prick my fingers and palms; as I unsnarl the dodder from her...
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Categories:
idleness, death, devotion, hope, life, loss, love, passion,
Form:
Epic
Lord God, You Are My Soul DefenderMarch 9 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Judges 10-12
Key Verse –Judges 10:16 And they put away the strange gods from among them, and served the LORD: and his soul was grieved for the...
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Categories:
idleness, blessing, christian, faith, god, jesus, spiritual, thanksgiving,
Form:
Rhyme
Stray NotStray not to evil’s dark enticement,
Instead heed what is good,
Against what’s wrong, in the end bereavement,
For those who failed to stood.
Stray not to debauchery’s wild call,
Tis a short road to death,
A body must not have,...
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Categories:
idleness,
Form:
I do not know?
the past visitedthe past revisited
He was going back to his home in a tiny village from
where people congregated living close together and professed to hate it, the absence of war had cost the country dearly,...
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Categories:
idleness, africa, birth, books, car,
Form:
Blank verse
Lord God, You Are My Loving JudgeFebruary 23 Relationship to God Bible Meditations
Based on Deuteronomy 25-28
Key Verse – Deuteronomy 25:1 f there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they...
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Categories:
idleness, blessing, christian, faith, god, jesus, spiritual, thanksgiving,
Form:
Rhyme
Red Door
"Red Door"
love opens not
like a red rose,
it caresses you
slowly,
entices you in
holds you
hard and fast,
like a scarlet poppy
opium sweet
inviting, promising
till death do us part,
the elusive everlasting
L'amour est enfant de...
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Categories:
idleness, love, muse, valentines day,
Form:
Romanticism