Long Intermediate Poems
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The Canopy and Economy
Sun and traffic - day economy.
Six a.m. drive to plywood mill. Too tired
to be angry. Each day a step
toward death. What is being accomplished? The
small satisfactions
within each day. Book consciously read.
And frustrations. Package dropped, honey...
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Categories:
intermediate, baby, day, history, jobs, teacher, tree, wind,
Form:
Verse
THE FOUR IN THE NIGHT
THE FOUR IN THE NIGHT
ACT I – TIME & ANGUISH
Chant of PROUST
Time is not a line, but a vast sea that hides its waves beneath the blanket of sleeping memory,
a sea that suddenly rises at...
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Categories:
intermediate, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
Doubting Thomas luxuriates under Dylanesque milkweed
Doubting Thomas luxuriates under Dylanesque milkweed
made fibrous threads...constituting heavy blanket
(crocheted by the missus)
on a cool Autumn like morning...
to stave off experiencing getting
chilblains, goosebumps,
or subjected to the blast of cold air
wafting thru the opened bedroom window
on...
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Categories:
intermediate, analogy, animal, august, autumn, celebration, character, hair,
Form:
Free verse
Anglo-Norman Arising
the wealth of norman England is poised to grow
towns enlarge, markets exchange, a fresh fertilising sprinkled culture
kingdoms extend with numbers reducing
old and new empires jostle, reshaping across continents and...
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Categories:
intermediate, england, history, identity, immigration, language, people, social,
Form:
Narrative
Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Nafld
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) -
Our beloved youngest daughter Shana Aubrey
(endearingly called “Shayne Punim”)
still feels under the weather,
with symptoms centered around gastrointestinal tract,
though she lives in Bend, Oregon
(experienced her pseudo autonomy
before she completed eighteen Earth...
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Categories:
intermediate, anxiety, daughter, father, health, my child, prayer,
Form:
Free verse
My Fathers Last Ramadan - 96 Years Old
THEN:
The first day of Ramadan,
We all gathered at your house
All year, we were waiting for this day,
For your stories, advices and prayers.
Except, your orders to your children:
“You level the ground,” “you spread the rug,”
“You bring...
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Categories:
intermediate, arabic, islamic, missing you, nostalgia, remember,
Form:
Free verse
Ever So Hungry Scary Cat Eating Mouse-
it ...
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Categories:
intermediate, allusion, analogy, cat,
Form:
Shape
Talking to the Dead
("The Cave of Unknowing", 2012, original oil)
Talking to the Dead
(aka musings on Jacob’s Ladder)
The essential message of the Tibetan Book of the Dead
Is that the clear light of mind is revealed in death.
Due to our...
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Categories:
intermediate, allegory, death, life, spiritual,
Form:
Narrative
All In a Day
The Prophecy:
An ordinary December morning
extraordinary hopes in white,
streets adorned with snowflakes
embellished in red crystal dreams.
She boarded her cab to airport,
awaited holidays had arrived.
From carousels of Tokyo city
to sledges in the Alps, a while.
Roads blocked in...
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Categories:
intermediate, adventure, humorous, journey,
Form:
Free verse
Faith
Have faith that you walk in beauty
Trust that with Spirit, you are in unity
Experience the world as a little child
Begin again; you have been purified.
The force of the dark night insists and demands
You examine what...
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Categories:
intermediate, faith, life, visionary, faith, love, perspective,
Form:
Couplet
Triskaidekaphobia
Triskaidekaphobia
And so, you have “Triskaidekaphobia” on your mind.
Indeed, fear of the Number “13” does have a real and
a certain palpable feel and meaning for people who
harbor this particular phobia and carry it with them in
their...
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Categories:
intermediate, allusion, culture, fear, history, imagery, metaphor, places,
Form:
Narrative
This Is Who I Am
Is it fair to judge someone based on their experiences in life and write about them?
I've been told that I express too many feelings about my past...
How can that be? Why would someone say that?
My...
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Categories:
intermediate, addiction, blessing, freedom, life,
Form:
Free verse
Uneasy Mantra of Brinkmanship
Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces
(INF) Treaty nixed, asper (gasp) infinite
wisdom (quite unsettling) trumpeting
commander in chief de facto gave green
light, thus signals fasttrack, sans arms
race activating Armageddon churning
noble nuclear warheads damn the...
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Categories:
intermediate, 12th grade, blue, crush, death, fate, future,
Form:
Political Verse
Wisdom
I climbed to the highest mountains
and swam across the seas,
thinking what's the universe,
this earth in it,
and us, little brave creatures.
Wisdom I searched for,
not to be wise.
Like the air of the wind
and the light of...
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Categories:
intermediate, wisdom,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Flickering Awareness
Magnetised emptiness
As pulse of stillness
Life itself throbbing
As Ohm reverberating
The very aliveness
Of consciousness
Present at any coordinate
In blissfulness sedate
Is-ness within the flow
Innocence all aglow
Constancy in all variables
Renewal of Gods miracle
In & within...
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Categories:
intermediate, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
- the Soul's Voice -
"Can you feel the soul of an abandoned house;
...
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Categories:
intermediate, deep, mystery,
Form:
Free verse
Scatter Harm Hatters
Remain receptive and objective
Though environment spins crazy
Twisting and insisting subjective
Attempting to drive away Daisy
To coerce you to surrender
To wills and seals bent
On nurturing and culturing agenda
You feel reel Hell sent
Messages within passages manipulated
Slanted, blunted,...
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Categories:
intermediate, poems,
Form:
Free verse
Thought Vs Touch
“better a rebel, a nerd, than a blind follower of the herd”
_____________________________________________
Buddha urged to illuminate darkness
Set forth towards the closest habitation
His countenance aglow with luminescence
Was asked by a passerby cause of his elation
Buddha replied...
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Categories:
intermediate, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
In the darkness that envelops us like an endless veil of mystery
In the darkness that envelops us like an endless veil of mystery,
The modern man struggles within his own shadow, a wandering soul,
Reviving the echo of the lower soul, caught in Satan's snare,
Not just a theological...
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Categories:
intermediate, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
Theory In Crisis: I
If Darwinian evolution is correct,
then there should exist a continuum of forms,
but what we see with a closer inspect:
that taxa-defining features are norm.
We see hair in mammals, and feathers in birds,
But of ancestral stepping stones,...
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Categories:
intermediate, life, science,
Form:
Rhyme
Gibbs Free Energy
I am teetering at the brim of progress
The self I spend to be of worth
Is the same self that I had to earn
And to what end?
I ask,
At what fee?
The ones that stand down...
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Categories:
intermediate, change, dedication, journey, life, metaphor, science, strength,
Form:
Rhyme
Vanity of Vanities
'Vanity of vanity, all is vanity... and chasing after wind'
evokes a mood of despair, precious few grins
Ecclesiastes is read in most synagogues on Sukkoth
though it...
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Categories:
intermediate, bible, holiday, jewish, meaningful, motivation,
Form:
Couplet
The Extra-Dimensional Feline Muse
Fingers pirouetting semi-nimbly on the keyboard
the intermediate ballet course of my muse
encoding the fleeting images and rhythms
before they escape, a joyous outflowing
And from the rough direction of the office,
or perhaps the Throne Room...
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Categories:
intermediate, cat, humor, muse, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Our Consecrated Aura
The four lettered word spoken,
by your aggrandized soul,
has spiritually awoken,
revitalized and made me whole.
Your aura is a heavenly halo,
a circle of light above your head,
known for the warmth you throw,
I cry as your whiteness spreads....
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Categories:
intermediate, love, passion,
Form:
Quatrain
Kingdom Mercy Kingdom Light--
How happy is the imperial kingship!
And who is our just King, Jesus, Jesus;
A kingship is royal, a kingship is regal;
Our King is Jesus;
a kingship is majestic, however,
Mercies reigns abundant;
As I’m giving joyful noise to...
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Categories:
intermediate, analogy, appreciation, blessing, celebration,
Form:
Free verse