Long Leavings Poems
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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:
leavings, love, poetry, poets, , Lullaby,
Form:
Free verse
A New Mythology
There is a new mythology emerging,
Howling from the hind end of the pack,
Scorching the composted leavings
Of established orthodoxy as a pillar of flame
Showing the way for true rock & rollers.
It’s...
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Categories:
leavings, allegory, mythology,
Form:
Blank verse
Old Man Winter now flagging, and slip sliding along
Old Man Winter now flagging, and slip sliding along...
as his stronghold diminishes.
Signals, triggers, and ushers kickstarting debut
of demure "Flora" who slowly but surely attempts
to reveal her true colors in fits and starts,
nevertheless, she displays skittishness,
when...
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Categories:
leavings, america, animal, birth, celebration, earth, humorous, spring,
Form:
Free verse
Scars in Heaven, Casting Crowns
Three has ruled the roost for so long...
Four, boxed in so, has forgotten its role.
So picture five lingering outside, waiting
Thinking itself only a star
None seeing what keys are needed
To open the legendary Time of Times.
Oh......
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Categories:
leavings, america, destiny, future, life, philosophy, symbolism, visionary,
Form:
Free verse
Kundun, a Movie About the Dalai Lama
What struck me is that it showed him
Always leaving
And sadly looking back
At his family home
Going to Llasa
To be (re)educated
Tenzin Gyatso was found as a young child
Went through many tests to prove
That he was the 13th...
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Categories:
leavings, loss, philosophy, religion, family, prayer, day, family,
Form:
Narrative
The Urchin In Dr Radhakrishnan Road - Part One
Part One
Still the din dashes about in his dreams
now louder in the spacedout quiet:
an occasional auto-rickshaw backfiring revving
spluttering...
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Categories:
leavings, life,
Form:
Free verse
The Inevitable
I awaken to the sound of your voice, your words, calling to me...
Calling to me...Petitioning me... like an ethereal Siren's Song
Moving towards me just as waves journey toward an empty beach...
Always and forever...moving towards that...
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Categories:
leavings, love, people, lonely, me,
Form:
Lyric
Blech impossible mission to savor mug of ginger tea
Blech - impossible mission to savor mug of ginger tea...
When the entire mug awash
with floating leavings
by golly by gosh,
sipping said herbal brew
analogous challenge
to eat spaghetti squash
with one chopstick.
Earlier yesterday February twenty fourth
two thousand twenty four
found...
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Categories:
leavings, 11th grade, 12th grade, abuse, age, assonance,
Form:
Rhyme
Ne'Er Gone
Forever in the wind, the gale, the tempest gone……
though, lingering caress of cheek and thigh remains
as does the precious memory of fires glow.
Winds leavings lesson, shreds the sheets of time’s retreat
and, at last, the snow...
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Categories:
leavings, devotion, lost love, love, musiclonging, memory, love,
Form:
Sestina
The Heart of Poverty
Once upon a time, mother was gifted new life.
Reformed, reborn the second child to poverty,
through the coldness of a Maine winter came beauty.
A fair Eve to her brothers Adam construction
her bloom was destined for...
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Categories:
leavings, anniversary, caregiving, childhood, daughter, depression, family, motherfor
Form:
Sestina
The Sleepers Mask
In the meadow, of the fields of life burning ripe with ire, I lay. Falling into a nagging sleep away from all the begging flowers. Aloof into the night, with blindfolds to help me rest...
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Categories:
leavings, addiction, christian, deep, poetry, poets,
Form:
Prose
Moon Bridge
The moon so bold seems cold
with a halo of midnight glow
I sit mesmerized as the night grows old.
I bleed still, even after all these years
and I wait again through the night
aching in the depths of...
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Categories:
leavings, absence, analogy, cry, december, grief, how i
Form:
Free verse
The Lever of Faith
The Lever (1) of Faith
*
The lever we need to move earth, if not heavens,
is Science, my friend, not your ‘take’ on our Bibles
(some mindfart of personal prejudice)! Players
take truth out of context to justify evil.
The...
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Categories:
leavings, faith,
Form:
Rhyme
The Room
THE ROOM
I’ve a wish
To spend my musings on little things simple things
Little thoughts each in its place
Little items about my room perfectly fixed
...
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Categories:
leavings, imagination, introspectioncat, day,
Form:
Free verse
The Moai
Quarried, and carved from our earthen mother's skeletal
Backbone and under belly, were the Moai solid rock deities,
Stone guardians of Easter Island.
A mystical place, a harvested paradise, but nothing remains
Of the people whom built this...
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Categories:
leavings, adventure, art, beauty, culture, fantasy, history, imagination,
Form:
Free verse
Who Dares To Take This Life From Me, Knows No Better: Parts One and Two
for Eric Mottram
"Nur wenn das Herz erschlossen,
Dann ist die Erde schön."
...
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Categories:
leavings, political, water, water,
Form:
Free verse
Topiary Comes To Life
Non descript hedge rows sculpted into ornamental animal
via botanical artist wielding pruning shears and chain saw
carved, limned and sculpted with wrist wrought voila uber
prestidigitatiously head turning botanical picturesque Sun
kist animals at an exhibition...
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Categories:
leavings, appreciation, art, beauty, creation, garden, green, surreal,
Form:
I do not know?
Leavings
When I am only an almanac of belonging
left behind
I will leave a son who will move on
allowing me time to pick his pockets
of the sins of his father.
There will be grandchildren
tucked away in kindergartens,
my stick...
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Categories:
leavings, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Crows
The Carrion Crow
Crows abound in the
neighborhood and around the
yard. Often in early morning a
great, noisy caw-fest occurs.
A carrion crow
sat on an oak, fol de rid-
dle, lol de riddle…
Only tiny oaks sprout here...
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Categories:
leavings, animal
Form:
Haibun
Beware Tomorrow
Be not soft upon the morrow
For the maliciousness it contrives.
The future beckons unending sorrow
To gamely catch the vulture's eye.
'Tis the destiny of mice and men
To be laid waste by nature's curse.
Where foolishness belied of ink...
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Categories:
leavings, dark, humanity, judgement,
Form:
Rhyme
Winter Solstice and Musings On The Entropy of Love
Unable to sleep or pray, I stand
by the window looking out—
at moonstruck trees a December storm
has bowed with ice.
White Oaks and Maples concede
beneath the crystalline weight, ...
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Categories:
leavings, analogy, introspection, love, winter,
Form:
Free verse
8x10 Glossy
her entrance was full of
beautiful blue-hued stars
filled with the nuance of a touch of romance
inspired by her i make clear announcements to my heart
that this daughter of moonlight
treads the path to my dreams
alone...
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Categories:
leavings, appreciation, blessing, i love you, love, lust,
Form:
Free verse
My Father's Service 22 August 2020
You could say that life is a lot of leavings, departures, waving goodbyes, saying goodbye-regretting that you didn’t say I love you enough times or the last thing you did say to someone was a...
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Categories:
leavings, dad, death, i love you,
Form:
Free verse
Subject: Bus Stop Crazies Today At 3:37 Pm
Subject: BUS STOP CRAZIES Today at 3:37 pm
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BUS STOP CRAZIES
BUS STOP CRAZIES
Glitter My Words
First one: a man rolled a cigarette using a bummed...
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Categories:
leavings, people, social, sympathy, urban, me, me, today,
Form:
Free verse
For Love of -----
In a house by a highway by a railroad
Eyes open to a self-set sleep-destroying buzzer
That waking mind impudently pretends
To ignore.
Penetrating the window barrier
The air conducts a heavy diesel lullaby.
Over...
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Categories:
leavings, life, nostalgia, , Lullaby,
Form:
Blank verse