Long Jersey Poems
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Visit To AntietamAlone I arrive, walking from Frederick
over the gaps, across gentle hills
out onto a knoll
overlooking this burnished landscape.
Before me I see countless writhing rows
of indiscernible shapes gathered
in terrible rituals mid fire and smoke
darkening the sun.
From distant...
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Categories:
jersey, america, conflict, history, together, war,
Form:
Ode
Harriet Harris, Nee Kuritsky Gave Up the GhostHarriet Harris, née Kuritsky gave up the ghost...
~ May fourth, 2005
wedded bliss nearly fifty years
half a century almost
me not most favorite grown offspring,
she (when alive) did boast,
about youngest sister and her family,
unlike me – severely...
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Categories:
jersey, absence, abuse, anger, appreciation, bereavement, cry, dance,
Form:
Free verse
The Great Lakes Acronym Spells HomesThe Great Lakes acronym spells homes
I chose titled topic by a fanciful whim,
nevertheless still consider my knowledge
of aforementioned material slim.
Housing multivarious biomes
register ecological syndromes
whereby constituents of NOAA
Great Lakes Environmental
Research Laboratory writ tomes.
Pellucid...
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Categories:
jersey, adventure, america, appreciation, beautiful, boat, creation, earth,
Form:
Rhyme
Grit and Guts On the Gridiron - 1Mud and leather
dirt and nerve
bloodied laughter
collision to serve,
distance, drive and demolition
battle axe ambition in the wild air
muscle and mind joined in steeled instinct,
a stitched pigskin ball, the grail of the Fall
to fumble it means...
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Categories:
jersey, america, sports, war,
Form:
Epic
Captain kuni-lemel graduate strikes again updatedCaptain kuni-lemel graduate strikes again - updated
Steely Dan sing queen (me)
outdid himself on sixtieth anniversary
after Grahame Wood
determined to meet
the evolving needs of the community
opened the first Wawa Food Market
in Folsom,...
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Categories:
jersey, america, anger, anniversary, april, baptism, birthday, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Laughing Pines, Part TwoWill you, won’t you join the dance,
We like to dance here every night,
Moving slowly at the speed of light.
Won’t you give yourself half a chance,
Even two left feet are alright.
The Bipolar Coaster is an excellent...
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Categories:
jersey, adventure, allusion, analogy, imagery, imagination, metaphor, travel,
Form:
Rhyme
Harriet Harris Nee Kuritsky Gave Up the Ghost May 4th, 2004Harriet Harris, née Kuritsky gave up the ghost ~ May 4th, 2004
Often these days
(closing in on the eighth
anniversary of eighth orbit
around mister sun),
the following genuine sentiment
Matthew Scott Harris
doth wish to share
how one and only...
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Categories:
jersey, absence, anger, atheist, courage, death, fate, may,
Form:
Free verse
Three Ways of Swiping the World CupTHREE WAYS of Swiping the World Cup
"It is sweet and fitting/glorious to lay your life down for your country » - from a poem by HORACE
(See my story selected to represent France in the 2006...
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Categories:
jersey, football, games, humor, sports, stress, woman, women,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Richard Mcgeehan PoemRichard Mcgeehan Poem
Poetic license I employ
to match inventive
wisdom and witticism
regarding (brother in law of mine
husband of eldest sister of same)
interspersing, initiating, incorporating
fabrication whenever possible,
and only the subject himself
can discern fact from fiction
and get a...
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Categories:
jersey, adventure, age, anniversary, appreciation, birthday, celebration, confidence,
Form:
Free verse
The Boss Aka Bruce Springsteen and the E Street BandThe boss aka Bruce Springsteen and the E Street band
Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen
born at Monmouth Medical Center
in Long Branch, New Jersey,
on September 23, 1949.
His nationalities include hodgepodge
of Dutch, Irish, and...
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Categories:
jersey, 12th grade, age, america, appreciation, beautiful, celebration,
Form:
Free verse
Mother Dearest Harriet Harris, Nee Kuritsky Gave Up the Ghost May 4th 2004Mother dearest Harriet Harris, née Kuritsky gave up the ghost ~ May 4th, 2004
Often these days
(early May 2021)
the following genuine sentiment
Matthew Scott Harris
doth wish to share one son,
cuz seventeen years after mother succumbed
courtesy of terminal...
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Categories:
jersey, absence, anniversary, bereavement, cancer, death, eulogy, farewell,
Form:
Free verse
My Parents Were Illegal Immigrants In the United StatesIn 1920, my father, 16, was a guest of the British government. He was a prisoner of their forces occupying Ireland at the time, a group called the Black and Tans.
One day he and seven...
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Categories:
jersey, america, immigration,
Form:
Prose
Classified Ad a Satire*** Classified Ad — “Position Wanted” ***
((The following is from ad details written on the ad draft form submitted by the ad’s purchaser, who, while here was briefly helped by clerk ES Slinger,...
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Categories:
jersey, fun, humor, imagery, joy, poetry, satire, work,
Form:
Narrative
Similar If Not Identical To Last YearSimilar if not identical to last year...
umpteenth heat wave since onset of summer...
sizzles Delaware Valley today August 26th, 2022
Said geographical area composed of counties
located in Southeastern Pennsylvania,
South Jersey, Delaware, and
Eastern Shore of...
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Categories:
jersey, 11th grade, 12th grade, bereavement, betrayal, environment,
Form:
Free verse
Harriet Harris Nee Kuritsky Gave Up the Ghost May 4th 2004Harriet Harris, née Kuritsky gave up the ghost ~ May 4th, 2004
Often these days
the following genuine sentiment
Matthew Scott Harris
doth wish to share one son,
cuz fifteen years after mother succumbed
courtesy of terminal illness
I still reckon how...
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Categories:
jersey, 12th grade, absence, loss, may, mother, son,
Form:
Elegy
Umpteenth Heat Wave Since Onset of SummerUmpteenth heat wave since onset of summer...
sizzles Delaware Valley today August 25th, 2021
Said geographical area composed of counties
located in Southeastern Pennsylvania,
South Jersey, Delaware, and
Eastern Shore of Maryland.
Sweltering temperatures
figuratively grip human zoo
bipedal hominids (yours truly,
an olive...
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Categories:
jersey, america, august, confusion, death, earth, future, health,
Form:
Free verse
The Silkworm's Birthday
"The Silkworm’s Birthday"
Mulberry leaves flutter in the breeze
Kookaburra brave Joker bluffs a sky blue breast
Drops one feather for a quill, a song hidden in a laugh, no bitter pill
magic never rests, like a crystal...
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Categories:
jersey, chicago, grandchild, imagery, love, mother daughter, muse,
Form:
Free verse
Killing Her Songkilling her song
(for Adhimu aka Lawrence Hamm and Sheila Reid*)
by ‘bro. zayid’
“I'm gonna stay on the battlefield
“I'm gonna stay on the battlefield
“I'm gonna stay on the battlefield,
Until I die…”
--Freedom Song
this is not rocket science…
no experts...
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Categories:
jersey, prejudice, violence, universe,
Form:
Free verse
Killing Her Songkilling her song
(for Adhimu aka Lawrence Hamm and Sheila Reid*)
by ‘bro. zayid’
“I'm gonna stay on the battlefield
“I'm gonna stay on the battlefield
“I'm gonna stay on the battlefield,
Until I die…”
--Freedom Song
this is not rocket science…
no experts...
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Categories:
jersey, prejudice, violence, universe,
Form:
Free verse
Amelie Beth Harris McgeehanAmélie Beth Harris -McGeehan
Acknowledgment of birthday gal,
whose invaluable priceless worth
exceeds more'n a bajillion dollars.
First born of Boyce and Harriet
(both long since deceased,
albeit cremated whereby their ashes
- cremains scattered to the four winds)
in Paterson,...
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Categories:
jersey, adventure, age, anniversary, appreciation, brother, december, sister,
Form:
Free verse
Translation of Eric Mottram's Deer Hunt - La Chasse Aux Cerfs By T WignesanTranslation of Eric Mottram’s DEER HUNT - la Chasse aux cerfs by T. Wignesan
“La civilisation...
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Categories:
jersey, america, film, freedom, humanity, patriotic, rights, war,
Form:
Free verse
Interview With the Dead Boy - Raymond MizsakInterview with The Dead Boy -Raymond Mizsak
So Raymond, do you know what happened to you? Why you died?
Yeah, I know what happened to me, man,
but I don’t remember it happening,
Cause I was in...
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Categories:
jersey, death, music,
Form:
Free verse
Thumbellina BallerinaIt was early nineteen thirty four
The world was set to change
Europe was on fire
It was time to rearrange
Poland was the first stop
The German Army on the move
So we left for America
I hope you did approve
You...
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Categories:
jersey, america, dance, growing up, nostalgia, remember, world
Form:
Rhyme
Undeserved GenerosityIn his wealthy days, he looked down
on homeless people and disgusted by their
stench, he cried out, " Take a warm bath! "
He kept on walking fixing his black hat
tossed upward by a capricious, wild...
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Categories:
jersey, career, change, giving, image, love, sorry, sympathy,
Form:
Free verse
Nineteen FortytwoNINETEEN FORTY TWO
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS
As a young man in Jersey I wanted to be a cop
One sunday morning that dream came to a stop
Our nation had been a victim of a vicious attack
By an aggressive...
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Categories:
jersey, america, december, military, patriotic, soldier, war, world
Form:
Rhyme