Long Increments Poems

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Anticipation of Reality

So cramped ...
Strain to move,
Flex and budge in tiny increments ...
That's the limit.
Constantly testing, trying,
Pushing, pressing ...
Constrict, exert, constrict, struggle,
Spin slowly, push ...
That's it. That's all.
Nothing more.
But it helps ... relief,
A body sigh ...
But only...

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Categories: increments, birth, mystery,
Form: Free verse


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Shade

           Your past, your romantic past, is a shadow. Like all towns, Port Angeles was a combination of rain and clouds, sun and mist, with a chamber of commerce, barrooms and boards of directors, the known...

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Categories: increments, anger, deep, history, humor, money, romantic, wife,
Form: Verse

Argh Daylight Savings Time March 13th 2022

Argh Daylight Savings Time – March 13th, 2022

Once again, yours truly
dishes out his regular dose
of literary gobbledygook
even Count Dracula
would not even bat an eye
nor give me his evil curse,
butta I avoid tempting him 
courtesy fanged...

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Categories: increments, america, change, confusion, history, light, march, morning,
Form: Rhyme

Argh Daylight Savings Time March 14th 2021

Argh Daylight Savings Time – March 14th, 2021

Once again, yours truly
dishes out his regular dose
of literary gobbledygook
even Count Dracula
would not even bat an eye
nor give me his evil,
(albeit harmless) look
regarding feeble effort I undertook.

Don't forget...

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Categories: increments, adventure, confusion, evil, good night, hello, husband,
Form: Rhyme
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What Are Words - a Florilegium Poem

What are words other than coffin nails be?
Who does it belong to when it rails me?
An empty vessel at best that bails thee.

Lend me your ear and draw your heart near;
my words might seer, but...

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Categories: increments, analogy, emotions, literature, metaphor, philosophy,
Form: Other


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Brocken Spectre - a Florilegium Poem

The root word for religion is not kind – 
Latin verb that means to tie or to bind – 
as it tends to play tricks on anyone’s mind. 

For some, the edicts lash; they mercilessly...

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Categories: increments, introspection, poetry, religion,
Form: Other
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Sufficient Self

As a youngster he had dreamt of moving to a potato farm in Ireland

To escape from the brown rot of German post-world war II contamination

Just another plot on the map to sufficient existence and to...

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Categories: increments, dark,
Form: Free verse

Increments

A thousand myriad voices           scattered on the wind
decry the human suffering questions will it end
tents in desert dustbowls       ...

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Categories: increments, conflict, environment, pain, pollution, science, violence, war,
Form: Verse

The Reunion

The sixty-year reunion
of the class of '55
was quite a celebration
for the ones who had survived...

First came prissy Pomeroy-
then Milford, Meeks, and Moody
who like old crows, perched and cawed
at busty old Miss Trudy

While Trudy curled her...

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Categories: increments, age, character, growth, humor, humorous, people, perspective,
Form: Rhyme

Daily At the Mercy of Anticipatory Anxiety, Hence

Daily at the mercy of anticipatory anxiety, hence...

illogical and irrational obsessive compulsive
exhausting rituals linkedin
with cognitive dissonance
(essentially unfounded worry
birthed courtesy far fetched circumstances)
exacts significant mental expense,
which logically and rationally
makes perfect figurative cents
nevertheless offers assigned therapist
Renee Cardone...

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Categories: increments, 11th grade, 12th grade, anxiety, conflict, depression,
Form: Rhyme

Solving the Problem of Wedding Gifts

Solving the Problem of Wedding Gifts

By Elton Camp

How I sympathize with the dilemma of a couple planning a wedding!   The stinginess of some who are invited is simply incredible.  They seem to...

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© Elton Camp  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: increments, satire,
Form: Narrative

Theater of Utter Charm Part 9

Part 9

there is a wraith with an hourglass
dancing quietly in my shadow
he's gone when I look
but I can hear him do a shuffle step on the ice
his inside out umbrella more than a fashion statement
about...

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Categories: increments, how i feel,
Form: Free verse

Terrorsmiths

Now the enemy is a vague foggy ghost
brought so readily and intimately to the forefront
those well-known unknown faceless pernicious enough
a hidden host in a wanted posters photograph
come they have to invade your homes
to run their...

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Categories: increments, corruption, history, society,
Form: Free verse

Manufactured Romance

A magical chemical infatuation
to disregard the tradition
of natures connectivity and diversity
dragged to the will of its subjugation
to dig into the complex cells intimacy
its mass increments of the yields
killing off the birds and the insects
for the...

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Categories: increments, food, nature, science,
Form: Free verse

Fascist State

FASCIST STATE 

They did not come upon us like blitzkrieg in the night 
or goose step into town like a plague of parasites. 
They crept on us like shadows in increments so small
they did not...

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Categories: increments, political, , cute,
Form: Couplet

Blazing Attire

The attire was set ablaze,
Consumed by a mystical haze,
A moment lost in sudden daze,
All sparked by a reckless craze.

He poured his heart in investments,
Joy climbed high with increments.
But wealth, with weighty requirements,
Turned triumphs into bleak...

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Categories: increments, abuse, addiction, appreciation, care, desire, fire,
Form: Rhyme

Winter Solstice 2020 In Northern Hemisphere

5:02 AM Eastern Time Monday,
December 21
Location: 2 Highland Manor Drive
Schwenksville, Pennsylvania
40.2562° N, 75.4638° W
Daylight 7:21 am – 4:39 pm
9 hours, 18 minutes

Mine circadian rhythm pulsates bright
imperceptible increments of daylight
increase fantasy fanciful heavenly flight
as I imagine...

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Categories: increments, appreciation, celebration, christmas, earth, god, tribute, winter,
Form: Rhyme

Winter solstice 2023 in Northern Hemisphere

10:27 Post Meridiem 
Eastern Standard Time,
Thursday December 21
Location: 2 Highland Manor Drive
Schwenksville, Pennsylvania
40.2562° N, 75.4638° W
Sunrise time: 7:31 am?(121°) 
Sunset time: 4:46 pm ?(239°)
Day length: 9:14:42.

Mine circadian rhythm pulsates bright
imperceptible increments of daylight
increase fantasy fanciful...

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Categories: increments, celebration, dark, december, earth, journey, nature, winter,
Form: Rhyme

Potent Partners and Creepy Corners

Qualities of the person in the mirror lie within you
Moulded, built and boosted by friends and associates you choose 
Although to ascend the next level blood fresh and new
Needed in a cruise

Beyond agile ambitions and...

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Categories: increments, poems,
Form: Free verse

Hermit

Yes, 
I'd like to progress;
skillfully open your chest,
As I do best, 
But halt when I hear you're depressed, And just like the rest, 
life's beaten you to lifeless.
Now I digress,
Back those breasts, 
I run my...

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© Bo Vigoren  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: increments, fear, feelings, heartbreak, hyperbole, loneliness, lonely, psychological,
Form: Bio

Love Tortures

Your increments of apathy sting every surface of me
I am rattled by your absence 
Fighting insanity 
I have been left here before...
In this chamber alone
The door is wide open
As I thrash in the wilds of...

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Categories: increments, absence, abuse, betrayal, confusion, dark, deep, feelings,
Form: Free verse
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Puppet Associates

Hope was Burrow's substance, where he poured his time, 
Pedalling steadily.
Intended path made smooth for those in legacy line.
Sliced through wiry roots, 
Watchguard Wombat dug safety spaces.

Safety albeit empty, 
claw shortening scooping to prop up...

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Categories: increments, analogy, animal, bird, caregiving, culture, dance,
Form: Narrative

Panoramic Display

It was always the little things
that caught her eye — 
the carnation crispness of a hello on a tired suit lapel ... 
A gentle smile exchanged for shoddy service
given with a frown 
Yes, it was...

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Categories: increments, appreciation, inspiration, spiritual, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
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The Shape of Death

3/2/03
 I saw no way- The heavens were stitched
I felt the columns close
The earth reversed her hemispheres
I touched the Universe
378: Emily Dickenson

The Shape of Death

Because I could see through all the eyes of men, 
Pandora's...

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Categories: increments, death, meaningful, mother, mystery, tribute, universe,
Form: Verse

Standard Bearer

Atmosphere peers in as witnessed guide
Playing silent the light a curse of the eye
Distant drum beats, 
blood keeping time as the encampment 
machines turn 

Seer flips an hourglass 
measuring the polarity and equity of the...

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Categories: increments, identity, imagery, inspiration, inspirational love, integrity,
Form: Rhyme
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