Long Jawbone Poems
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The Song of SamsonMonoah had a wife,
who was barren most her life.
An angel came and whispered in her ear,
you'll have a son and hold him dear.
Now the angel said, "No unclean things to eat,
don't drink...
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Categories:
jawbone, anger, betrayal, bible, christian, hair, jewish, religious,
Form:
Rhyme
The Money-Sucking Trap - Both Audio and Text - W-Illustration“Well, now,” said the dentist, as he crushed my lower lip,
“The X-rays show you have a lot of tartar, and decay.
The gums look bad, and we can use a crown to hide that chip.
I think...
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Categories:
jawbone, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
The bane of a cold sore inside my mouthThe bane of a cold sore inside my mouth
Sent my smooching life south,
whereby I felt like poor Georgie Porgie,
pudding and pie,
who kissed the girls and made them cry.
The medical term for cold sores,
Herpes Labialis, refers
to...
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Categories:
jawbone, analogy, anger, anxiety, bird, caregiving, endurance, health,
Form:
Rhyme
Warrior Poets
We warrior poets
calligraphy ride boldly into the foggy fray
Our ancient, iron-will pens
are always getting battle-tested
time and time again by cloudy blot resistance
We always rolled scroll win ...
writing off into the...
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Categories:
jawbone, dedication, poets, tribute, truth, wisdom,
Form:
Epic
Living With Love and Depression, EtcI've great news for the world! You are free to choose either!
Depression's your flavor? Then go right ahead
And embrace the depression that means so much to you,
But loved or depressed still someday you'll be dead.
Now...
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Categories:
jawbone, depression, faith, happiness, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Venomous SnakeSee it curled up on the golden chair scratching its conniving beard, piecing together a sordid plan of how to rob the destitute people on the land.
The streets are bare and empty and the...
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Categories:
jawbone, appreciation, business, community, dedication, discrimination, emotions, strength,
Form:
Narrative
The Great Fish Maui SnaredWith canoe and hook of a jawbone
below a great fish Maui snared,
and his brothers half-crazed behaving
leapt and gouged in frenzy craving.
From Palliser Bay to Cape Reinga
(departing place of the...
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Categories:
jawbone, home,
Form:
Rhyme
Requiem For An Exposed Neuron, Or Energy Equals Mass Recited At the Speed of Lost Thoughtwritten in memory of Jack Kerouac in a caffeine frenzy
...pipes /jugs /pipes /hallucinating te deum for blessed freaks and
smoking stale, dry cigarette tobacco (wrong thing) in a pipe to
honor, certainly not 'diss' an unknown friend/jug...
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Categories:
jawbone, faithgod, god, me,
Form:
Free verse
Derivatives With LimitsWorking over Birk’s Works and other tunes my saxophonist admires—
Cheesecake, Blackbird—for the theoretical, applied mathematics
inside an abstract, audial harmonization of the Big Bang and The Fall.
The derivative reveals the slope of the tangent along the...
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Categories:
jawbone, cancer, funny, god, hero, parents, soldier, work,
Form:
Free verse
Time To Shower When Pervasive Odor of Ureic AcidTime To Shower...When Pervasive Odor Of Ureic Acid
Doth strongly waft, sting,
and nauseate about me
olfactory nose flying zone
bombarding cilia of
nasal passageway analogous
to displeasure wrought by
crashing, deafening, exploding,
ear splitting xylophone,
also synonymous isolated like
barenaked lady within
remote location of...
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Categories:
jawbone, appreciation, dad, father, health, paradise, self, uplifting,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Not of This Earth*Image of Child Sad Suffering provided by Pixabay.
Not Of This Earth
Poetic Form: Narrative
Asymmetric mistrals warp speckled vaporous pallidness toward rhythmless voids. Obviates an evacuating azure as a midday star pivots to a twilight qualm. Numinous...
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Categories:
jawbone, dark, death, earth, scary, science fiction,
Form:
Narrative
Water, WaterWater / Water
New Hamburg, Ontario ...
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Categories:
jawbone, africa, sympathy,
Form:
Free verse
I Warm Myself Near the Trashcan FireOh how cold;
...the cold and lonely, watch it snow and bask in it as I warm myself by the trashcan fire.
Oh the grey claustrophobia that exists in alley ways. The frigid snow that falls is...
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Categories:
jawbone, sadpeople, snow, lonely, people, snow,
Form:
I do not know?
Mister SunshineHe’s a broken leg performer with a crooked second act.
Went from Brooklyn to Las Vegas with his sarcasm intact.
Does a Smith and Wesson stand-up, voice as sweet as antifreeze.
Tells you how he lost his cherry...
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Categories:
jawbone, allegory, sunshine,
Form:
Lyric
You I Want To See"YOU I Want To See"
If you did walk on water and actually stayed afloat!
If you did take every creature on earth
and put them all in the same boat!
If YOU did part the waters of the...
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Categories:
jawbone, desire, words,
Form:
Rhyme
The Theological Insights of Archie BunkerLast Saturday night I dropped by for a few beers at Kelsey's Bar.
Archie Bunker was there, drinkin' beer and chompin' on a nickel seegar,
Expoundin' on religion and his pinko, atheist son-in-law, Meathead!
If you dared to...
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Categories:
jawbone, funny, religion, god, bible, bible, god, religion,
Form:
Rhyme
Mom's EulogyIt's already hard enough to say anything accurately
without further obfuscating and camouflaging the soul.
The faces in the funeral pews are impassive, impatient
and the dead woman cares not what's said, isn't even present.
The poet gets innumerable...
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Categories:
jawbone, boat, death, eulogy, father, funeral, mom, nature,
Form:
Verse
My CrimesHow did I ever know
She'd feel that way
About a bullet streaking across the sky
Of green and black confounded,
Are you?...who is this?...
And when we'd go there
She'd take me where
I'd fall and lie for...
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Categories:
jawbone, imagination, song, world,
Form:
Free verse
Samson of the BibleSamson Of the Bible
From the Bible, is the story of Samson.
He lived an incredible life that really happened!
He was to be a Nazrite, and set apart!
His hair was to grow long, from the start!
He was...
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Categories:
jawbone, bible, christian, dedication, devotion, faith, forgiveness, friendship,
Form:
Rhyme
NamesNames intrigue me the most.
Even mine does!
Come to think of it,
I was named even before I knew
About it.
Later, I was cleverly consoled -
What is in a name?
Now I know,
How names manoeuvre life.
I choose not to...
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Categories:
jawbone, 11th grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 7th
Form:
ABC
The Life of SamsonIn Zorah was born one called Samson
he was blessed by God as he grew
one day Samson went down to Timnah
for a wife his intention was to woo
After being married he set a riddle
but his wife...
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Categories:
jawbone, bible, god, life, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
Riddler Dances With DestinyA riddle, son of Manoah, a riddle are you
Twice came an angel to a barren Danite
Promising rest for Israel, deliverance.
Out of Zorah you came, bold Nazirite
Out of strength came weakness and arrogance.
A riddle, mad suitor,...
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Categories:
jawbone, 11th grade, betrayal, riddle, word play,
Form:
Rhyme
The Cry of An Unattended AddictMy scaled lips have a story, repelling
enough to well up tears in the telling.
My heart is rocked at its place of dwelling
Expect not a merry word from a face unsmiling
Toppling of troughs in the shrine...
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Categories:
jawbone, addiction, africa, community,
Form:
Rhyme
Creation's IronyA man begins the search outside his head
with wondering, what kind of God would make
a wind-up primate, hot to rule his world,
endowed with nothing more than jealousy
to motivate his simian success.
But no, there simply...
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Categories:
jawbone, philosophy,
Form:
Free verse
On Wanting To Become a BachelorLess any objection with the missus,
versus never experiencing living alone
well...yes during that rough patch,
(sans during early adolescence),
I existed in a bone
huff fied impenetrable cocoon,
and just maybe before
yours truly dies, a clone
can be created from
stem cells...
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Categories:
jawbone, culture, education, eulogy, father daughter, fear, freedom,
Form:
Light Verse