Long Laurence Poems
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Fooled Forever Fooled
My man’s veiled message unclear
I’ve dallied for four long years
Sis, have I ever been
Fooled!
Turns on the charm on a whim
Parades what you saw in him
Just a tad so you are
Fooled
There’s not a ring
not a vow
no...
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Categories:
laurence, song,
Form:
Lyric
Everyone Nose I Haint No Otolaryngologist
Everyone nose, I haint no otolaryngologist
Nonetheless this bard arse feels gratitude
courtesy Laurence V. Cramer, D.O.
without cerumen eye zing
May 17th, 2022 'ere
and thank dog guardian angels,
who find me continually blessed
regarding audiological sense to hear,
whereby faculty sound...
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Categories:
laurence, appreciation, blessing, caregiving, dedication, health, humorous, may,
Form:
Rhyme
King Henry VIII translation by Michael R Burch
Love ever green
attributed to King Henry VIII
translation by Michael R. Burch
If Henry VIII wrote the poem, he didn’t quite live up to it! – MRB
Green groweth the holly,
so doth the ivy.
Though winter’s blasts blow never...
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Categories:
laurence, bird, heart, love, pain, time, war, winter,
Form:
Rhyme
His Song and Mine
Sympathy
BY PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR
I know what the caged bird feels, alas!
When the sun is bright on the upland slopes;
When the wind stirs soft through the springing grass, ...
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Categories:
laurence, bird, life, poems, prison, , Lullaby,
Form:
I do not know?
Sage Fright
I’m a-starting to *pavo tremble
this time of year
From all of the oven symbols
rack-et I hear
I’m a seasoned Mestizo pheasant,
best strutting actress
in the whole Oaxaca alfalfa field
But I’m beginning to feel a bite unpleasant,
putting on my...
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Categories:
laurence, funny, humorous, parody, satire, word play,
Form:
Light Verse
Beausoleil
We loved the land
We tilled the earth, under sun we toiled
We pledged our souls, to nature’s whim
The King of France none to pleased
We took the sacraments
We held our faith, mournful to fates embrace
The British demanded...
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Categories:
laurence, history, philosophy,
Form:
Light Verse
The Murder of Civilisation
An Englishman lost in afternoon tea,
Memories of a lotus flower love
Rajas and elephants in Delhi
Livingstone the explorer
Religion to convert
Laurence of Arabia
A leader of men
The Boers and the Zulus
Gordon and Khartoum
These are the things that shook...
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Categories:
laurence, patriotic, freedom,
Form:
Free verse
Family History
Family History
by Edmund Siejka
A sense of guilt
Made him search the hall closet
Until he found the old cardboard box.
Opening it
He stared
At a handful of dusty photos.
He remembered Aunt Jenny,
Who told funny stories,
How families...
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Categories:
laurence, life,
Form:
Narrative
Keith Edward Baucum
Hello my name is Keith Edward Baucum.
I am a black male who was born on the
day of July 10, 1982.
I'm the youngest out of my mother's seven
children.
I am from Laurinburg North Carolina. ...
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Categories:
laurence, black african american, , literature,
Form:
Blank verse
Yonder Wood, a Salute To Paul Laurence Dunbar By Ron Porter
Dat gal done gone an lef me? '?lone
went t'town wit huh red shoes on.
Hi' ole heels,dress on tight
Powda and paint,sum'in ain't right
They's som kine of problum I caint explain
I believes sum main done turnt her...
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Categories:
laurence, black-african amerwoman, night, me, night,
Form:
Narrative
Heavenly Music
Heavenly Music
Instead of all of them still yelling EUREKA
What they ended up with was TOPEKA
Kansas where banjoes they will strum
And State Capital will never become.
Would it to many make much sense?
If an Arabian actually lived...
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Categories:
laurence, allegory, analogy, humorous,
Form:
Couplet
We Wear The Mask
We Wear The Mask by Paul Laurence Dunbar
After poem by Olabosoye Wemimo Olaoluwa
Love of our land's labour should make us proud;
The efforts, time, and energy put through...
Well enough to place our pride clear as...
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Categories:
laurence, blue, class, discrimination, farm, perspective, slavery, sympathy,
Form:
Villanelle
Lauren Rowles
Lauren became paralysed suddenly overnight,
When she developed firm transverse myelitis,
An inflammation of the spinal cord, a huge fright,
Which gave no feeling chest down, a mantis.
Born 24 April 1998, she comes from...
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Categories:
laurence, sports, strength, water,
Form:
Quatrain
Romeo Romeo
‘Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?’
(Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, Scene 2)
Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?
Juliet, it is so cold when we perform...
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Categories:
laurence, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
The Bon Vivants
The Bon Vivants
held an important meeting at the restaurant.
Happy faced Lauren,
her BF Laurence, and her
BFF Laurance Olivier queried:
“What is it, what is the thing
we all want?”
Leaning back, Lauren
-smoking hot and smoking
-lip sticked lips caressing her...
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Categories:
laurence, 11th grade, beauty, cheer up, fantasy, happy,
Form:
Rhyme
Pig S Love
Cheat and love and lie and run
Philosophical incline
Who will win and who will try
Broken promises supply.
Roses, Moses, Richelieu
Rothschild, Laurence Olivier
Who accept and who decline
Leave and stay or laugh and die.
Father Pig upholds the law
Mother Piggy...
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Categories:
laurence, black love,
Form:
Ballade
A Prophecy
A Prophecy
John Grisham was rejected by 28 publishers
Before he sold “A Time to Kill”
But because he didn’t say “What the hell”
His books have sold over 275 mil.
Maya Angelou was once a whore
But she wanted to...
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Categories:
laurence, black african american, destiny, poetry, poets, success,
Form:
Ballad
Laurence Whiteley
Before Laurence survived bone cancer,
Chemotherapy and everything, he swam,
Competed nationally and internationally,
But afterwards rowing became his gram.
He was born on August the 29th in 1991,
And comes from North Yorkshire, moors,
He...
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Categories:
laurence, sports, strength, water,
Form:
Rhyme
Lifes Metaphor
Life’s Metaphor
Written: by Miracle Man
11-21-2019
Life is a scrimmage for eternity,
At birth we’re put in the game,
and how we perform is crucial.
It’s a time of proving what we’re worthy of,
And even though we may fumble,...
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Categories:
laurence, god, life, metaphor,
Form:
Free verse
Solitude
“In solitude, the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.” Laurence Sterne
far from the human humdrum
solitude shrouds mountainsides
subtle snowflakes fall on spruce
I run towards the cabin
the heat is enjoyable
I open my...
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Categories:
laurence, solitude,
Form:
Jueju