Long Lead on Poems

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Seductive Responsibilities

I am exhausted by bad government excuses to avoid responsibility
and I am, today, sick with excuses to avoid my own responsibility,
well within the bounds of my self-governing authority:

"I'm just a mortal human. I make mistakes.
I...

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Categories: lead on, culture, health, humanity, humor, political, race, stress,
Form: Prose Poetry


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Hiding In Plain Sight

I had my plan memorized, 
and I picked the right time.
I walked into the bank 
when there was no line.
I walked up to the teller 
and presented a note.
She hadn’t lived my life, 
you see,...

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Categories: lead on, adventure, fantasy, hope, metaphor, poems, poetry,
Form: Free verse
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Spontaneity


"discarding narrow thought flow crutch
we learn directly by soft touch
and what we garner we relay
to the vast void in childlike play
entwined thus with the universe
we dance without need to rehearse"
~ line of inquiry by Unseeking...

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Categories: lead on, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Free verse

Memories In Boxes

Memories in boxes 
By lady Arabella
 
As I sit here and go through all the boxes  I’ve made 
Each one holds a memory which time cannot fade
From old school reports that showed all I...

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Categories: lead on, beautiful, heart, life, me, nostalgia, symbolism, words,
Form: Rhyme

The Universe Is Immense

How many people with foreboding palpitations
have I seen slip from middle age and slide into old age?
They slither into their last refuge, the dirt hole,
and ignorantly nestle into the forever unknown life stream

The ones who...

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Categories: lead on, death, life, metaphor, peace, political, truth,
Form: Prose


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Chimera

Bellerophon was sent for by king Lobates of Lycia
And given the dangerous task of slaying the Chimera
A fierce creature like a lion with a goats head on its back
With a serpent for a tail to...

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Categories: lead on, animal, mythology,
Form: Narrative

Thorns In Blue Roses

My pretty damsel, my dear
she said with her alluring lips
in a tease, with a playful tug on my heartstrings
she wanted a poem about herself
to entice my thoughts, to intrigue her complexities
to save her from the...

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Categories: lead on, cinderella, conflict, confusion, courage, crush, cry,
Form: Free verse

The Path

A path can lead or return those who follow. It will show 
you the way back from whence you came.
No need to give it much thought, right?
Perhaps you did not think about the path being...

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Categories: lead on, inspirational,
Form: Free verse

Elegy Written On the Death of a Paramour

ELEGY WRITTEN ON THE DEATH
OF A PARAMOUR
How many faces shroud
A paramour ?
One, two, more!
He was vibrant
Man hood with veins and vines
Gushing passion
Historicity
Genetic thread bestowed
Chewing wild passions
Bit by bit
Anaconda devouring tender deer
Deliciously.
Adolescent love
Infatuations
Treacherous;
And on by virtue...

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Categories: lead on, death, body, love,
Form: Elegy

The Lord of the Line

A lonely beam of yellow-white light,
carving a curve in the ink of the night,
upon the snow-burdened branches of pine,
standing still guard to the lord of the line.

The icy wind howls in the silence serene,
tempting the...

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Categories: lead on, dark, life, light, loneliness,
Form: Free verse

Look With In

This one is for all the ladies who give up their priorities and career for their family. For the ladies who dedicate their lives in looking after husband’s parents, her children and indeed her beloved...

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Categories: lead on, appreciation, confusion, encouraging, identity, inspirational love,
Form: I do not know?

The Last Lullaby

She enclosed a stormy heart and a summer soul
craving her way through the  darkest enclaves
strolling her way through her doubtful fogs
leaving them behind, but did  she know?

This is a wild goose chase,a wild...

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Categories: lead on, angel, beautiful, bird, hope, , Lullaby,
Form: ABC

Monotonous Black

The pain I've felt this past year
Makes me wonder how I made it to here

The pain and the tears --- built up in shame
Go for a lot of one person to blame

The pieces of my...

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Categories: lead on, lost,
Form: Rhyme
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Excuse Me, Sir

It happened again yesterday…and, as usual, took me by surprise…
A reminder in my life of how rapidly time flies…

About halfway through our morning walk..we decided to take a break…
to listen and watch the birds from...

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© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lead on, age, humor,
Form: Rhyme
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Go Ask Alice

Ah, Divine influence, it has come to many, so they say,
as to their nameless or named God’s they do pray.
The light came to Carroll, he said he could see,
for raised by a Vicar at Christ...

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Categories: lead on, allegory, devotion, fantasy, introspectionmen, bible, bible, may,
Form: Quatrain
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My Father Was-

"You showed me the courage and strength
      to achieve all things- I hope you are proud."
              ...

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Categories: lead on, dad, father, inspiration, life, tribute,
Form: Iambic Pentameter

Chrissy's Home (Part I)

She stuck out like a lily among thorns, when she sprung up in 
the midst of the Baptist Student Union.  All eyes were on her, as she raised her 
hands and lifted up her...

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Categories: lead on, death, education, friendship, life, loss, love, sad,
Form: Free verse

Hug the Memory and Say Good Bye

People always forget every good thing you do…
Even after you go out of your way to help them..
With everything you have and everything you got…
Without thinking twice.. They will let you down…
We always meet someone...

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Categories: lead on, change, character, courage, destiny, future, goodbye, life,
Form: I do not know?

Persephone; Empress of the Fall

Persephone; Empress of The Fall

They are living balustrades reaching out to incognito riddles
Hidden in the maze by branches arching with caresses
Where promiscuous light is falling gentle fingers to their pools
Tiny cloisters of remembering summers thriving...

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Categories: lead on, mother, mystery, nature, seasonsfarewell, blue, farewell,
Form: Free verse
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Embodied

Embodied
Adam’s Rib?
Adam’s Rib, or did you come from Adam’s Rib?,
Were you a progeny of Man,
Or rather grafted by the cosmos, in the image of sacred splendor,
Black Body,
Beautiful and Slender,
Round and Tender,
Is it your shape that...

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Categories: lead on, black-african amerbeautiful, beautiful, image, me,
Form: Blank verse

Petrified

Time’s mysteries await
 no one’s expectations,
 and or life;
 Moments left...
 in what once was paradise
 erased from closeted memories,
 and living’s strife;
 Exist does...
 that secret cherished space,
 where all one’s thoughts
 are so...

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Categories: lead on, inspiration, universe,
Form: Free verse

' Flashlight-Battery, Baby ... ' (Or Shine On Jared Pickett)

The Girls Have All Agreed
On Some Things, All Women Need:
A Supply Source For Our Vanity
… and The Eveready-Flashlight-Battery …

Going Down A ‘Random’ Road
In The Deep of Night, When Life Has Slowed
Down … or Car Comes...

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Categories: lead on, adventure, allegory, dedication, fantasy, friendship, funny, life,
Form: Light Verse

Round and Round

Funny how all these branching roads
so frequently turn into circles.

Before, I dreamed of adventure.
I dreamed of service, of travel,
of the unknown; of things
few others get to claim.

And now that such are mine,
or elsewise in easy...

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Categories: lead on, adventure, family, home, introspection, life, love, magic,
Form: Free verse
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Ode To My Better Half

How I knew one fine day
                 that you were the one?
        ...

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Categories: lead on, dedication, love, wife,
Form: Ode

It Dwells

Most of my life
my left shoulder sheltered it
while my right shoulder threw darts its way.
Sometimes it shivered in the cold of my eyes.

Often I would take it for night-walks
just the body it dwelt in
a restless...

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Categories: lead on, poetry,
Form: Free verse
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