Long Longish Poems
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Plane Crashes Fate Takes Over
It was Christmas Eve and I was at the airport,
Not a soul in sight, almost deserted, it was 10.00 pm,
Only two hours before Christmas day,
Perhaps if I got on a plane, I would see Santa...
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Categories:
longish, love,
Form:
Free verse
Saturday, September 23, 2023
Saturday, September 23, 2023
Coincides with first day of fall
and Autumnal equinox for said year,
where colorful splash kindled like tinder.
After I riff flecked about thee August
Autumn Equinox 2023,
this seasonal polymath teached you
fall Equinox...
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Categories:
longish, animal, appreciation, autumn, celebration, cool, environment, heaven,
Form:
Free verse
FICTIONAL BIO:
FICTIONAL BIO:
The missus asked me
(hitherto known as her bozo)
just mere moments ago
to craft humorous poem to glow
nsync with the shiny nose of Rudolph
keeping syncopated metrical flow
thus methought to crow
about being equally as foolish
streaking naked outside...
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Categories:
longish, adventure, allegory, courage, cute, hair, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Greenpower Dreams
Last night I dreamed.
I dream--
sometimes too athletically,
fertile regeneratively,
viral, positive and negatively
and in-between sub-climax performing
some wins and some perpetual losses
more ambiguously back and forth, up and down, in and out,
and not nearly sensual...
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Categories:
longish, culture, education, health, integrity, peace, religion, science,
Form:
Political Verse
The remnants of August 2024 Hurricane Debbie
The remnants of August 2024 Hurricane Debbie
Like a humane huntress, she
(the anthropomorphized storm)
brought a spate of cool Autumn like
temperatures and gentle soothing rain
here within my neck of the woods
for the last couple of days.
No matter...
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Categories:
longish, adventure, appreciation, august, cool, environment, fate, howl,
Form:
Free verse
Sunday February 2nd, 2025 Groundhog Day
Sunday February 2nd, 2025 Groundhog Day
Location: Gobbler's Knob in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. First held on February 2, 1887 prognosticating how many more weeks of winter weather without a shadow of a doubt. Aforementioned site chosen for...
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Categories:
longish, adventure, animal, anniversary, birth, february, immigration, places,
Form:
Rhyme
for luck
(a university-life vignette)
It’s a Friday night, Leong and I are at a small restaurant close to the dorm called “Ordinary.” We’re in a cozy, pleasantly dark, little red booth—waiting for Lisa—who’s running late. This is...
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Categories:
longish, celebration, drink, humor, school, student,
Form:
Free verse
Highlights From Highland Manor
Highlights from Highland Manor
Courtesy Goofus and Gallant
who began their broadly-drawn
moral plays in the 1950s,
initially depicted as identical twins,
but later on, editors for Highlights
indicated the two were brothers,
but not twins, and...
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Categories:
longish, adventure, age, animal, celebration, environment, green, july,
Form:
Rhyme
A senior moment experienced by this drip
A senior moment experienced by this drip...
awash with intermittent amnesia.
Scant number of minutes elapsed...
before I forgot whether yours truly
took another dose of glycopyrrolate
ingested as a palliative prescription
medication addressing the issue of
palmar hyperhidrosis -- excessive
perspiration of...
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Categories:
longish, 12th grade, anger, body, courage, father, humorous,
Form:
Free verse
Dialect Tickle Matt Arial Hiz Im
Courtesy of Marx (albeit Zeppo, Harpo, Groucho, and Chico)
whose acts brought generations of laughter to Vaudeville and
then the Silver Screen adlibbed, linkedin, and ransacked skits
zoid material Bing very loosely based on writings...
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Categories:
longish, adventure, celebrity, class, day, fantasy, hilarious, me,
Form:
Free verse
The Writers Tail Liat Sretirw Eht
The Writers Tail liaT sretirW ehT
by Charles Robert Hice on Wednesday, November 28, 2012 at 12:22pm ·
The Writers Tail
the poor writer can not post a poem anywhere to be recognized himself as a poet unless...
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Categories:
longish, computer-internet, friendship, funny, imagination, people, me, people,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Autumnal Equinox 2022
Autumnal equinox 2022 -
Thursday, September 22
in Northern Hemisphere 9:03 PM
Eastern Daylight Time
Empyrean découpage citadel
betokens (bespeaks) autumnal arrival
nine oh three post meridian
chariot of fire emblazons telltale signature,
one humble human doth
bid summer and his squandered...
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Categories:
longish, autumn, color, environment, fashion, heaven, nature, september,
Form:
Free verse
Autumnal Equinox 2020 Tuesday September 22
Autumnal equinox 2020 - Tuesday, September 22
(at 9:31 AM Eastern Daylight Time)
Empyrean découpage citadel
betokens (bespeaks) autumnal arrival
nine thirty one ante meridian
chariot of fire emblazons telltale signature,
one humble human doth
bid summer and his squandered life...
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Categories:
longish, appreciation, autumn, color, dance, farewell, inspirational, september,
Form:
Free verse
Nemesis Bastards
the heavens had fallen
woe coiled about the earth
excuse my very own tangent world of merriment
you never know what you're going to dream about
one foot in the past the other on the gas
while his muse...
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Categories:
longish, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
Highlights From Highland Manor
since becoming housed here since this year
july first two thousand and seventeen,
tubby more precise where
with thee missus, amidst bucolic environs,
(one could don underwear
Schwenksville, Pennsylvania
...
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Categories:
longish, america, autumn, environment, future, hello, house, space,
Form:
Elegiac Lyric
Lxii Years Old and He Still Carries a Security Blanket
LXII+ years old and he still carries a security blanket
Move over Linus
Van Pelt of Peanuts fame,
cuz yours truly
also psychologically lame
since prepubescence
mine noticeably long hair
delivered inner comfort,
yet found some classmates
calling me "hippy" by name
though other tormentors...
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Categories:
longish, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, anxiety,
Form:
Rhyme
Rosalind
He stands atop the ancient towers, both grey and cold as skies
Which howl about and bow the trees, and blow his longish hair—
His countenance stern, he stares below to where his army lies;...
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Categories:
longish, absence, devotion, heartbreak, missing you, wind,
Form:
Quatrain
In Streetlight, His Wet Hair
On the sidewalk standing in the rain
the old man is a wounded dove.
Longish white hair: wet feathers
grounded in a storm. The rain is heavy
and repeats itself, like buckets of water
thrown out of windows.
The old man...
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Categories:
longish, age,
Form:
Free verse
High Purr Billy Biography Sketch Back
My somewhat outsize ears and longish neck
(I swear exist, which contrary to popular myth
never seen by living persons) support this egg shaped
(fried or scrambled some might argue) head.
A mostly flat and hairless...
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Categories:
longish, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th grade, 7th
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Double Knotted Culture
I could be less positive of time's resolving karma
without not(not) as negative
binomially defining
what is not polynomial not
and what must be more positive
you see, or not.
This double negative binding positive
hurts my bicamerolling brain
intuiting what is not...
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Categories:
longish, confusion, culture, math, mystery, nature, philosophy, political,
Form:
Free verse
High Purr Billy Biography Sketch Front Tuss Piece
A written account (that incorporates some
self directed hyperbole) of this veritable stranger
now appears before your screen. Soon
after reading this message, the neighbors
might discern a blood curdling series
of (hyena-like) shrieking screams....
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Categories:
longish, 11th grade, 12th grade, 7th grade, 8th
Form:
I do not know?
Dialect Tickle Matt Arial Hiz Im - 2nd Sentence
I gotta n itch) Lenin, where alien archeologists
from outer limits of the twilight zone unearthed
(com) bust stubble rubble yes likeness of Guy
Richie Rich Noir, whose couture, the best skid
row wardrobe.
He sported...
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Categories:
longish, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th grade, conflict,
Form:
Free verse
Champa
Brimming with memories old
In its light golden look
What a scent, please behold
There beside the rippling brook
We call it golden champa
The smell relaxing and inspiring
Champa-necklace would wear Radha
When with Krishna she is dancing
In our lyrics of...
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Categories:
longish, beauty, emotions, flower, image, romance, , literature,
Form:
Rhyme
The Complaint
The Complaint
Sir we have a complaint against you. It seems you stink you wear your shoes
twice longer than most people do. Tell us in your own words how often do you
change those...
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Categories:
longish, social, sorry, sympathy, me, people, me, people,
Form:
Free verse
The Crime of Time
Time not only Yesterday changes
But Tomorrow rearranges,
The innocence of unborn babies tainting,
Their celebratory virgin spirit tilting:
A new-born able to screen from passers-by Its nudity
Faster than Adam did after his stupidity.
Time keeps obliging us with...
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Categories:
longish, baby, character, earth, time,
Form:
Rhyme