Long In real time Poems
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Hurricane Katrina - 20 years later
On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina stormed through New Orleans and Louisiana. The only difference was, in New Orleans (intentional or not), the levees broke. The flood waters flooded the 9th ward and most of...
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Categories:
in real time, anniversary, change, life, people, storm, usa, world,
Form:
Narrative
Azure Vistas
"Azure Vistas"
Azure vistas presented themselves to me
rolling inwards the clouds like tumbleweeds
mercilessly bump fallen angels off the map
like torrents of rain falling petulantly on blunt contracts
I glimpsed the sweet refrain of a resurrection
swift upon a...
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Categories:
in real time, muse, political, spiritual,
Form:
Narrative
A Long Loud Sigh
genius?
sometimes you are in its minimal spotted light...sometimes!
other times you just know you've been touched and you freeze,
moved but frozen...like a stranger it moves in, does its work and leaves.
...maybe it's been a while since...
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Categories:
in real time, introspection, drug,
Form:
Free verse
Inside the Great Halls of Us
“Inside the Great Halls of Us”
Inside
The Great Halls of Us,
there resides a ghost
IT hides in plain sight,
waiting quietly, alone,
in our dark
there, IT holds ITs light,
to draw us further in,
we nervously laugh IT...
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Categories:
in real time, i am, science fiction, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
Artificial Iris
"Artificial Iris"
Orwell was lurking in the background, somewhere;
the dream was eerily familiar,
the words and their meanings, read in Syntax,
once read between pages of hardcopy in school
were aptly ignored -
however,
our Overlords were...
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Categories:
in real time, surreal,
Form:
Narrative
The Last Battle For the Throne
The last battle for the Throne
Funny how they think that all of this is a show
Or, perhaps a intriguing story of some kind
But either way this is my reality and the...
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Categories:
in real time, adventure, deep, devotion, how i feel, inspirational,
Form:
Free verse
The Grey Goose and the Languages of Doves
"The Grey Goose and the Languages of Doves"
He threw the Grey Goose
out the window,
It landed on
The Road;
shattered in a dozen
sharp glistening diamond
different ways
on a day
that meant a dozen
different peaces...
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Categories:
in real time, freedom, psychological, romance,
Form:
Free verse
A Queue For the Loo At Nine Minutes Past Two Ok Then
A queue for the loo? is it nine minutes past two?
A windmill dashing to the sea. Ice cold waters in a monticule drip. Laced with the prevalent winds and sands. But sands are not sanding...
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in real time, allah, angel, aubade, baptism, blessing,
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I do not know?
The News Seller
Callum is an old-fashioned man on the verge of becoming history’s memory
Ancient even in that he holds only one job but that is for privation of another
Sort of a whiz kid at what he...
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Categories:
in real time, celebration,
Form:
Free verse
Equalizing America
(“Enemy of the State Merit Badge”, 2011, original oil)
Equalizing America
All individuals are equal in being each an individual
Created as equal, in God’s image so to speak,
Equally deserving what it takes to survive and thrive.
But beyond...
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in real time, america, culture, humanity, perspective,
Form:
Narrative
What It Means To Teach Part Two
Believing my brain, can be used for learning from higher,
as I...
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Categories:
in real time, blessing, meaningful, mentor, metaphor, teacher, wisdom, writing,
Form:
Free verse
Killing Me Softly - Husbands Can Understand This
Trapped feelings. Want to run but responsibility has me shackled and hope is gone.
Things I need to say are covered in passive kindness. Don't be like those who came before
you be the timeless.
Stay...
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in real time, husbandme, light, light, me,
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I do not know?
to have dodged a bullet
To have dodged a bullet is heard by me as a clear soft symphony, it reminds me that all is a dramatized sigh of relief whether stressed, sad, annoyed, mad or worried, it all ends...
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Categories:
in real time, appreciation, irony, love, poetry, wisdom, writing,
Form:
Free verse
Digital Footprints
one night i dreamt i was surfing in cyberspace &
many images flickered in Adobe Flash
with every movement made, every keystroke &
slide of the mouse to & fro,
i hadn’t a clue (in real time), but i...
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Categories:
in real time, life, world, time,
Form:
Free verse
Friendship In a Covid World
Friendship in a Covid world. (C) Arthur Abrahamson January 2021
My Facebook friends photo stares back at me from the blue tinted screen
A 13 -year-old photograph, the hint of a smile, looking cool looking ...
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Categories:
in real time, friendship, women,
Form:
Free verse
Sankofa In Safranbolu
‘Sankofa’ In 'Safranbolu'
This bird from Ghana’s legends flies forward looking backward
In the Twi...
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Categories:
in real time, time, tribute,
Form:
Free verse
The Fear Mongers Have a Field Day
Fear had all but a few intrepid explorers in its icy grasp,
And even they not resisting the right of fear to,
Lord it over the land.
Things looked bleak indeed for the human race,
With all means...
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Categories:
in real time, addiction, anxiety, cancer, community, confusion, freedom, friendship
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Living Dying In Real Time
Living .Dying In Real Time 8/1/12
Walking through the shadows where living images once resided an eerie feeling sweeps over those non believers, stoic.
Crying? Dying? Choices too few decisions not...
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Categories:
in real time, adventure, anger, angst, anxiety, dark, depression, gothic,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
The Alchemy of Truth a song
[short instrumental intro]
[thick bassline]
[energetic beat]
[verse 1]
The alchemy of truth,
may be from a particular perspective,
or colored by youth,
and sprinkled with objective.
For your truth can hold your own view,
your lens through which you see the world.
[verse 2]
And...
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Categories:
in real time, philosophy, truth,
Form:
Lyric
A Most Holy Vision Speaks In Mystical Tomes
A Most Holy Vision Speaks in Mystical Tomes
Enchanted colorful images shine ever-brightly from
a wild cosmic fire appearing high in the evening sky.
As people gaze upon these unusually radiant images
there is, at once, a universal sense...
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Categories:
in real time, allegory, angel, earth, god, heaven, imagery, metaphor,
Form:
Couplet
Genocide in Real Time
We cowardly witnessed the genocide of many human beings
Live, live, live in real time
That was an odious, callous and vicious crime
We said nothing, absolutely nothing about the sad and awful events
Many of us were either...
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Categories:
in real time, anti bullying, color, conflict, discrimination, god, humanity,
Form:
Rhyme
I became the Bard, because I was outside of myself
I have stared death in the face
with its huge gaping jaws
most of my life
i have evaded those paws
My families crazy made up scheme
of overdramatizing my diagnosis
made my life a paralysing psychosis
I freed myself from...
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Categories:
in real time, abuse, angst, anti bullying, anxiety, child abuse,
Form:
Rhyme
A Spat With the Man In My Mirror
I’d hang my head in shame
The day I stop querying the man in my mirror
Whose name I’d associate with blame
For daring to conceal the fear and tear
My conscience weeps as the man fails to keep
Promises...
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Categories:
in real time, poems,
Form:
Free verse
Holly Days
I’m spending the Christmas holiday with Lisa and her family in NYC.
My parents are finishing 2021 in Africa, with “Doctors Without Borders.” “Step” (my step father) is a heart surgeon and my mom is...
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in real time, christmas, father, holiday, humor, parents, teen,
Form:
Free verse
Dreams Beyond Dreams
There are places out in space
that beg the question of why,
abiding where dreams embrace
our infinite inner sky.
Stargazers pay attention
to sidereal pathways,
tracing every dimension,
some using astral math ways.
Scientists study each fact
and what their instruments find
of astronomic...
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Categories:
in real time, birth, creation, death, dream, light, space, star,
Form:
Verse