Long Inky Poems
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Open Oceans
"Open Oceans"
Kneeling on pearls
wisdom preys
praying
preying
hungry hearts
count the days
wasting away
in all that preying
for prayers
to be answered
children become
strangers
reading
strange words
finding
themselves puzzled
genuflecting to a deity
they do not know, nor wish to
fumbling
mouths closed,
swallowed hole
in the...
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Categories:
inky, journey, love, mother daughter,
Form:
Epic
Some PoemsA Stolen Memory
A Mirthful Chorus
By Sy Roth
We surrounded him
Asked to let go.
She stared at the misshapen face,
Unshaven sandpapery skin
Eyelids a tabula rasa
Fluttery sere skin
And we could see the humor blossoming in his...
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Categories:
inky, dream, loneliness,
Form:
Free verse
The Pages
"The Pages"
Missing all those years
like a page you could turn,
a book you could throw casually aside,
to be eternally forgotten in electric shady libraries;
at some point you turned around,
and remembered, what you long...
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Categories:
inky, i am, love,
Form:
Free verse
For ShameThe inky black water sucks her in further
As she descends into the black depths of the abyss
Cloying dark swirls cover her head as soundlessly it reaches
Possessing her every inhalation – exhalation - it envelopes her...
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Categories:
inky, betrayal, environment, natural disasters, peace, pollution,
Form:
Free verse
Last Rose For a Rebel - Part 2(continued)
She wanted me to re-marry, you see, but I never did.
Oh, I had a few trysts, here-and-there,
just to remind myself the plumbing still worked,
but all it REALLY did was remind me
how much more incredible making...
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Categories:
inky, fantasy, history, soulmate, true love,
Form:
Free verse
Eyes of the Orient(oh, mercy ... )
amazing eye whites,
perfect and pure as glacial ice -
they draw me in,
like diving into a clear Caribbean lagoon,
fluid and cool ...
brown iris so dark in contrast,
that they're lost in the inky black...
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Categories:
inky, beauty, metaphor, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
My Winter's WishesIn the May-time of my life
time bloomed each day a prickly boll –
but I, like the softest cotton within such a sharp seed
swaddled in the purity of security
for what seemed like eternity...
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Categories:
inky, age, god, hope, introspection, life, lost, winter,
Form:
Free verse
The Apocrypha of Familiars
“The Apocrypha of Familiars”
Wings hover
light luminescent
revelling sprites dark pearls
Corvidae shades
of a family
highly functioning
dysfunctional plural
morphing unobserved
perceived non-unique
spiralling into shape
more black and grey
than white spills
from their eyes
light from their shining
hidden away
intelligence...
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Categories:
inky, muse, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
Rendered Speechless-LiterallyPeople often say I talk a lot, but I hardly think that is true,
Like the whispers about the bluebird, of which he never knew.
Talking helps a lot with my job, which is in public relations,
As...
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Categories:
inky, fantasy, imagery, people, places, summer, travel, words,
Form:
Couplet
Tell Her You Saw MeTell her you saw me ...
Tell her I was out on the bluff at the Cape
during a gale, much too close to the rocks.
Tell her the surf was tormenting the ledges,
its roar far too loud...
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Categories:
inky, allegory, heartbreak, lost love,
Form:
Free verse
Geishapitty-pit-pat, pitty-pit-pat ...
dark attic, echoing ... tenderly
rain on tin roof above,
her nana's voice, ages hence -
lives ago, really ... calling …
"Little Tea Pot, Little Tea Pot -
...
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Categories:
inky, imagery, longing, memory, metaphor, nostalgia, old, passion,
Form:
Free verse
Drugs and Sex Come With PainA typically depressing inky dark night
He sat at the corner waiting for the light
His mind as usual not fully engaged
His pounding psyche had him enraged
As if on cue she opened the door plopping into...
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Categories:
inky, addiction, drug,
Form:
Rhyme
Drawing My Own ConclusionsI'd been caught up in the middle, of one of those awful days,
When nothing seems to go right, with glitches and delays.
I was having a rough day at work, and the boss was now irate;
And...
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Categories:
inky, adventure, fantasy, humor, imagery, life, magic, nature,
Form:
Couplet
A Well-Known Stranger'Twas a sound I thought alarming, most assuredly disarming;
Up I rose from peaceful slumber to discern what it might be.
While my candle flickered, wavered; whilst my heartbeat halted, quavered,
At my window I was favoured by...
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Categories:
inky, absence, assonance, feelings, miss you, ocean,
Form:
Rhyme
See Sea RiderI had never before glimpsed the sea, and I had often felt the lack,
As rainbows sense the lack of luster, so they keep on coming back.
I dwelled in a pastoral area, quite far from any...
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Categories:
inky, adventure, fantasy, imagery, magic, nature, sea, vacation,
Form:
Couplet
T SalamanderT Salamander enjoyed local fame
down by the creek, there with her daughter.
Prided herself on her inky black frame,
bathing each day in the cool, brackish water.
She set amphibious cold-blooded hearts
on fire, exploding, through black magic arts.
All...
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Categories:
inky, adventure,
Form:
Rhyme
becalmed
* Content Warning: this poem touches on physical/emotional abuse*
~
“dabble, dabble
roiling...
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Categories:
inky, abuse, analogy, murder, ocean, sea,
Form:
Free verse
Summer with the StoicIt was the summer of my 16th year. Mother encouraged me to spend part of my summer vacation with Granddad, a self-professed stoic. I reluctantly agreed, for he was a peculiar man. I couldn’t imagine...
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Categories:
inky, grandfather, strength, wisdom,
Form:
Other
Categories:
inky, time,
Form:
Free verse
Who am Imind that thinks
heart that feels
senses five
reflect
thoughts vary
emotions differ
senses too can ebb
yet
we are alive
in the waking state
but what of dreamless sleep
where are we then
we recall it not
yet awake from it nevertheless
so
are we not the screen...
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Categories:
inky, i am, spiritual, truth,
Form:
Free verse
A Midsummer Night's BeachWhen I was a girl, still on the island
I’d sit in the sand
and brood
and revel
in what I thought was utter enlightenment
a teenage rebel
with dime-store refinement
We were all this way, and there is no shame
In the...
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Categories:
inky, beauty, color, creation, sea, summer, truth, youth,
Form:
Free verse
Desolations Midnight SnowIt falls softly as it tumbles...
Down from the sky darkly...
Deep in the heart of midnight.
Not a deity stirs at this moment out of time.
As young eyes stare into the void of an empty room.
Something...
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Categories:
inky, absence, abuse, addiction, allegory, allusion, analogy, angst,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
inky, jesus, marriage, simile,
Form:
Rhyme
Revenant ReturnI float …
in the ether -
a roll of sea swells below,
pier toward the west,
little island I know so well -
endless hours there,
but rarely alone ...
then …
moon pixies …
sparkle at my feet,
dancing underneath "me" -
soft, yellow-blue...
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Categories:
inky, allegory, allusion, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
legend's last moon -
* I always felt like “Nessie” got a bad rap, being called a monster and a beast and all that, so I think this little piece of mythic imagery grew from that. I hope you...
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Categories:
inky, fantasy, moon, myth, nature, sad, water,
Form:
Free verse