Long Ignominiously Poems

Three cousins played a “game’ of war
A map of Europe spread across the floor
No adults there to keep the score
As each of them wanted more and more

Three of four empires lay upon that map
As they...

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She hailed from the kingdom in the north named Israel.
This woman must have had her beginnings in hell.
She was wicked princess of Ahab and Jezebel.
Intemperance nearly led to great Judah’s death knell.
A heathen worshipper of...

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Matthew's latest blank key

Impossible mission, nevertheless
I take figurative aim
to craft poem without
experiencing wrathful blame
avoiding explicitly, ignominiously, specifically...
referencing mine heterosexual counterpart
that infamous she,

whom did ruthlessly claim
yours truly as her husband
snatching mine happy
go lucky bachelorhood
two dozen plus...

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The Translucent Loft

The girls choir at St. Mary’s still sings there.
Shh, be quiet as we step inside
through these green rectangular doors,
Shh! Listen... 
We can hear them up there, 
in the translucent loft.

They are still cloistered...

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THE   BRAVE   MAN   STANDS    -     THE   COWARD   LEAVES.

I  stood  watching  the first snowflake’s  battle...

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Winding up in the hospital is something nobody would need.
We can say all you fools were the victims of greed.
Captain Culpeper thought he could get away with the money.
You saw what happened after that. ...

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HE     LEAVES   FOR   THE    LEAVES

Leave   work? Then I want to  be dazzled by  the  crop
Of fall trees  still...

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Everyone loves everyone
loved no one 
but the one looking back 
on a moonlit shore,
ignominiously,
the sure clarity of introspective
waves hurried away
like muddied thoughts
squealing downhill.
There is no one looking
for anyone on that shore,
moonlit for naught,
smooth sand unbothered
by...

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QUAIL   ARMY   SONG

I don’t know but I’ve been told
No quail born ever gets old
It’s plain that we gotta fight
For each and ev’ry God-given right
To be quails and not  hors d’oeuvres
It’s...

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Rigors of weary battle long abated
The haze and smoke linger; the 
fallen obfuscated
Ignominiously deposited; in death's 
unseemly clutches graded
Gradually emanating from the 
debacles' debris taut, ghastly forms 
emaciated
Battle's residual fodder on spent 
ground masqueraded
With the...

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Jealous Jaded Jackals

                 Decadent darkness placed upon the setaceous shrine
         ...

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WHOSE MESSIAH: Happy Rosh Hashanah

Upon a tree, He was displayed ignominiously
Arms stretched from East to West for our Shabbat Rest
Body pulled along the North-South axis

That is the price of Love, the width of Shalom
You ask...

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LAST      LEAVES


Shriveled and dried and near death
The leaves depart the branches and spin to the ground,
In the the vortices of the autumn chills, to be swirled
And swept into piles ignominious...

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Traducent are we who speak with slivery truth
With silver fork tongues we malign the disclosure
Slanderous are we who act suasive and choose
The obduse of wealth, power, and fortune

In the overture of madness we play in...

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