Long Laundry Poems
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Miracle of HypocrisyI was listening to Cornell West,
who described our catastrophic tolerance of disvalues for others,
situations we would never tolerate for ourselves,
disvalues like homelessness and hunger,
but also like random violence,
abuse and neglect,
lack of caring,
as a "conspiracy"...
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Categories:
laundry, abuse, culture, earth, integrity, nature, psychological,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Silent Cries and AgoraphobiaI remember feeling so empty the abuse had escalated after four hurricanes witnessing a murder horrific traumatic brain injury I was now uprooted leaving my beautiful home in Fort Myers Florida at the behest of...
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Categories:
laundry, anxiety,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
FBI FRAUDAs i reported my stalker and identity thief 2002 to the FBI she began climbing into my window for poetry my grandfathers world war 11 medal information this resulted in her arriving with a gunman...
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Categories:
laundry, anxiety, family, hurt, military, poetry, stress, world
Form:
Free verse
Week 3 - Brian's Poet of Note - 'Richard Wilbur Part 1'Imitation! Creative Compliment, Lacking in Originality, or Plagiarism?
This week takes me back to college days. I was taking a graduate course (as a Physics major) in 'Modern Poets' at the University of...
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Categories:
laundry, love, poetry, poets, , Lullaby,
Form:
Free verse
The Ash CanThe Ash Can ©
I got the call on Sunday night. I was traveling on business. When I looked at the caller ID
I wondered why my husband’s boss would be calling me....
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Categories:
laundry, bereavement, introspection, lost love, suicide,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Laundering Her AccountsNew England's late May sun was long up,
and yet her laundry began to unfold
and clip onto the droopy clothesline,
while yet to warm into 8 AM.
She wore a light spring jacket
and need not think long
about why...
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Categories:
laundry, analogy, destiny, health, humanity, humor, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse
Understand Where I StoodGood boy gone bad enters the stage with a spotlight overhead, despite being misunderstood in my ghetto neighborhood
The lonely applause celebrates in my cracked, corrupted, and crazed cranium
I exaggerate too much and so too much,...
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Categories:
laundry, anger, angst, anxiety, conflict, courage, dedication, deep,
Form:
Free verse
Engaging the Family LaundryPerhaps infertile
incomplete
unwashed memories
of elder v younger,
Goliath v David,
crusades v communion
critical, yet part of chronic, events
speak extended family disengagement truth
to powerful dirty laundry engagement failures.
That disclaimer said,
I have two incomplete conversations
in mind and heart
and what I...
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Categories:
laundry, culture, destiny, games, health, integrity, peace, religion,
Form:
Political Verse
The Splice of Life
“The Splice of Life”
When colour
was to be
washed out
of the world
the evil ones
didn’t care
the Actor led
with his
Dementors
either side of him
Laundry,
they resolved
to be the best
pristine method
for...
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Categories:
laundry, humanity, political, religion, science,
Form:
Free verse
Depression Or Anxiety(Seems that these days a whole lot of people suffer from anxiety and depression. Now whether that's a reflection on our world and society, whether there's actually greater incidence of it or if we just...
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Categories:
laundry, absence, angst, depression, mental health,
Form:
Free verse
Monsters In My Head
"Monsters in My Head"
the small gods
inside of us
worry too much
they speak in tongues
that never know the
depth of what is real or not
for tongues
they never think
they just have a taste for blood
trading gossip...
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Categories:
laundry, dark, i am, light, war,
Form:
Narrative
Babylonian Anthem
Thou, O king, hast made a decree,
that every man that shall hear the
sound of the cornet, flute, harp,
sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer,
and all kinds of musick, shall fall
down and worship the golden image:
And whoso...
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Categories:
laundry, bible, patriotic, religious, truth,
Form:
Narrative
Make It Up To MeInsecurities is gone in a heart beat now
Emotional injuries fade away somehow
I can feel the tension as it sheds away
I can deal with the motion of your sway
I feel you here with me, no...
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Categories:
laundry, abuse, angst, depression, emotions, endurance, hurt, love
Form:
Free verse
A Tall TaleI must say Peter, I've had the most extraordinary day. It all started when I woke up this morning. I was brushing my teeth with this new toothpaste Pepsibrite and literally after just a few...
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Categories:
laundry, fantasy, fishing,
Form:
Prose
Wait a MinuteDid I hear that wrong?
On my way for another appointment
with the vampire bleeding Quest,
big stage conversations on the radio
travel way too fast
for me to stay tuned in
to our nesty mess
at my normal liberal-conserving pace.
A single...
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Categories:
laundry, america, caregiving, culture, games, health, humor,
Form:
Political Verse
Van GoghEndless sunflower field
Rhythmically swaying in the wind
Like lazy ocean wave stretches
To the distant line of horizon
Touching the edge of the sky
Melting into hot noon brilliance
Boiling all shades of yellow into
One burning brightness of...
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Categories:
laundry, anxiety, art, crazy, desire, pain,
Form:
Free verse
I Am the Vicar's DaughterNoise ,Noise, Noise
Bickering and ''whoremongering''
Dirty money for campaigning
repudiation and gallivanting
mudslinging and maligning
Brainwashing and false promises
How did you get on this bloodstained road
Who advice you to follow Uncle Pan's path
A path that is...
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Categories:
laundry, betrayal, bible, blessing, community, endurance, faith, spiritual,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Road TripRoad Trip
The country, people, and the village,
All equal, as if, for the first time,
All of that gave a fresher image,
Nay, 'tis but a relative vantage.
Save fresh road, to its left bears a sign.
"A few...
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Categories:
laundry, adventure, allegory, childhood, grandfather, meaningful, nostalgia, remember,
Form:
Rhyme
You Must Think I'M DumbYou must be laughing your head off at me thinking I'm so stupid that I don't know what is really going on, sorry to bust your little bubble but I know what is exactly going...
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Categories:
laundry, anger, betrayal,
Form:
Free verse
New NeighborsI am just finishing my morning meditation when I hear my doorbell ring. It actually sounds more like that buzzing sound you hear if you fry a fat fly on one of those electronic bug...
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Categories:
laundry, depression, family, funny love, humor, husband, lonely,
Form:
Narrative
Down a Piece and ThereThe country, people, and the village,
All equal, as if, for the first time,
All of that gave a fresher image,
Nay, 'tis but a relative vantage.
Save fresh road, to its left bears a sign.
"A few more...
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Categories:
laundry, allegory, beach, childhood, grandfather, nostalgia, remember, travel,
Form:
Narrative
Watch Part TwoBob was the first man she had ever loved, sure she had some crushes when she was in school but nothing like she had felt with Bob. He was six years older handsome and self...
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Categories:
laundry, mystery,
Form:
Prose
Fighting Nyquil'm extinct
I'm irrelevant
Rare off day today
Go to to store and see if I can pilfer a couple xmas presents
Raise me this way
My moms ddnt
But my deviation has allowed me
Woke up this morning...
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Categories:
laundry, crazy, day, deep, depression, emotions, drug,
Form:
Free verse
Rassphrass and Leroy's Love StoryRassaphrass’s husband LeRoy went out for garlic bread on a Tuesday. She ate all the spaghetti and meatballs before he returned, to teach him a lesson, because he took too long. He brought...
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Categories:
laundry, fun,
Form:
Narrative
When We Were YoungWhen We Were Young
He left for work each morning,
Wearing steel-toed boots and a tin hat.
He took long strides that were three times
The length of mine.
In one hand he carried a lunch pail and...
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Categories:
laundry, childhood, family,
Form:
Free verse