Long Luxuriant Poems
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Visitor - Part 2 - a Collaboration With July Morning
The Story so far continued from 'Visitor'…
An attractive extra-terrestrial female researcher sent to a remote island to observe earth and beam back her findings is struggling with unfamiliar, alien romantic emotions. Even though she is...
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Categories:
luxuriant, adventure, romance, science fiction, sensual,
Form:
Narrative
Where Gladiators Fought
Part I
Where gladiators fought for life,
we meet to fight for love
The constellations in the Roman night sky,
celestial spectators, bathe the Colosseum
in the white blood of light
The night is throbbing with the heat of our battle,
our...
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Categories:
luxuriant, passion, places,
Form:
Epic
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 17
Erlenkönig pulled the chair out beside Aisling's and sat on the side of the table. A large, luxuriant and ornate chair headed the end of the table,
several places down from where he sat...
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Categories:
luxuriant, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Mother Snap
As I pivot to confront my offspring, I anticipate the sight of terror etched in their innocent eyes, a reflected horror that would mirror the abyssal darkness that has long resided within me.
Instead, I am...
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Categories:
luxuriant, dark,
Form:
Free verse
Unquotable Quotes: Philosophers - Xxii
Unquotable quotes: Philosophers – XXII
Take Socrates: the insignia of a true philosopher is the bald pate and the luxuriant beard – the very reason why women make for such pathetic philosophers.
The bald pate facilitates the...
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Categories:
luxuriant, humanity, humor, inspirational, philosophy, racism, religion,
Form:
Epigram
Hubs Of Heaven
Catalytic cascade of mirror gleam relish on sleep encrusted eyes,
such sylvan surreal therapy aligned to dulcet bird lilt,
garnish to the willow weave wayfarer of iridescent poetic inkling,
vernal vivid verse drought a derelict damnation for...
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Categories:
luxuriant, beautiful, beauty, celebration, city, deep, engagement, environment,
Form:
Free verse
Dirge of the Last Lap
I
The loud, cruel laughter of dirge
besieges us so greatly in the face of
wanton humiliation.
It comes mightily, crashing our aged
city walls, unearthing the foundations of
churches,
tolling bells in pulsated grief . . .
Dirge comes with thunder,
like the...
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Categories:
luxuriant, dark, death, sorrow,
Form:
Free verse
Courtesy Severely Receding Hair Line
Courtesy severely receding hair line...,
yours truly enveloped within morose mood
I (Samson incarnate)
frankly experience zapped strength,
hence sulk and pine for salad days of youth
when abundant golden locks adorned me noggin.
Now in doddering dotage scant wisps...
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Categories:
luxuriant, absence, anger, crush, cry, fate, heartbroken, husband,
Form:
Rhyme
Wanderlust
I was awakening from my dreams, in search of an orangey sun,
As dreamers had always done, since warm vibrancy of day one.
I was emerging from fine silken coverings, in the usual way,
For wild places beckoned...
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Categories:
luxuriant, beautiful, butterfly, color, fantasy, flower, nature, sunshine,
Form:
Couplet
Letter To My Mother
Dear Mother,
Happy Birthday, Mom.
All your children are here today..
to celebrate your exemplary life!
What a turbulent but amazing journey it was, Mommy!
You grew up in a beautiful lush tea-garden,
entwined by luxuriant greenery, foliage and flowers,
on top of...
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Categories:
luxuriant, emotions, mother daughter,
Form:
Free verse
A Singing Mother
Placed 9th in :
No. 1238 New Poems Only
Sponsored by Brian Strand
Since her birth on the mount ...
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Categories:
luxuriant, environment, inspirational, mother, nature, river, song,
Form:
Concrete
Backdoors of My Town
I was a whimsical, interior designer, bringing colors and joy into living spaces,
Subtly changing neighborhoods and lives, like vibrant arcs the rainbow traces.
People were as dissimilar as their houses, the both of them rather fascinating,
Like...
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Categories:
luxuriant, beauty, fantasy, imagery, life, nature, people, places,
Form:
Couplet
Nepenthe
Written: February 14, 2025 for Contest by Edward Ibeh
“Quote: Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore!
Edgar Allan Poe”
...
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Categories:
luxuriant, beauty, cute love,
Form:
Free verse
ANYTE OF TEGEA TRANSLATIONS
ANYTE OF TEGEA
Stranger, rest your weary legs beneath the elms;
hear how coolly the breeze murmurs through their branches;
then take a bracing draught from the mountain-fed fountain;
for this is welcome shade from the burning sun.
—Anyte translation...
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Categories:
luxuriant, beach, drink, grief, sea, spring, sun, water,
Form:
Epigram
Ancient Greek Epigrams Iii
Ancient Greek and Roman Epigrams
That country wench bewitches your heart?
Hell, her most beguiling art’s
hiking her dress
to seduce you with her ankles' nakedness!
Sappho, fragment 57, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Stranger, rest your weary legs beneath...
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Categories:
luxuriant, bereavement, death of a friend, eulogy, funeral,
Form:
Epigram
My Mother's Daughter
She’s gone
I miss her so
And yet, I connect with her
Every time I touch a flower...
She’s there
When I read the classics
Engrossed in the pages of Lorna Doone...
She’s there
When I breathe in the pine scented air
Of the...
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Categories:
luxuriant, missing, mother, mother daughter,
Form:
Free verse
Bring On the Rejection Slips and Or Lost Wager
Bring on the rejection slips and/or lost wager
Though flush with good humor
pun one mock two yields negligible
true cash equivalent value won
dirt poor offspring privileged as prodigal son
pockets bursting with legal tender,
where just yesterday I had...
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Categories:
luxuriant, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form:
Free verse
Ancient Greek Epigrams Ii
Ancient Greek and Roman Epigrams
Stranger, rest your weary legs beneath the elms;
hear how coolly the breeze murmurs through their branches;
then take a bracing draught from the mountain-fed fountain;
for this is welcome shade from the burning...
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Categories:
luxuriant, bereavement, death, death of a friend, eulogy,
Form:
Epigram
Odyssey
"Human mind knows no constraints. Without spending time or money, one can make an odyssey into the outer space and even into other planets. What is needed is the fuel of imagination." - By...
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Categories:
luxuriant, adventure, moon, stars,
Form:
Rhyme
My Living Breathing Poem
“I’m reading your poems, Mama”
She wrote while we were chatting online today
I was thrilled
What could give me more joy
Than to have my 19 year old
My only child, the light of my life
Read my work?
Then...
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Categories:
luxuriant, daughter, dedication,
Form:
Free verse
She That Rivaled the Glowing Moon
She That Rivaled The Glowing Moon
Thy *hyacinth* hair upon white shoulders laid bare
thy face, mirror of love in heavenly skies.
The miracle of thy body, so sweet and fair
its soft innocence, destroyer of worldly lies.
Walking behind...
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Categories:
luxuriant, angel, art, beautiful, girlfriend, lost love, moon,
Form:
Sonnet
White Magic
White Magic
In our uninhibited exuberance for the beauties of Mother Nature;
We sometimes seem to forget the strength of nature’s dark force.
Peel back the layers of beauty only to discover a sinister black magic,
Hidden amid...
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Categories:
luxuriant, beauty, inspirational, nature, seasons, snow,
Form:
Quatrain
-jesus- a Portrait-
That curious Roman official
named "Lentulus" with foresight recorded
his description of a Man controversial.
And His name too, for prosperity accorded
That Man who the Roman...
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Categories:
luxuriant, history, religious, words, hair, jesus,
Form:
Narrative
Life On the Wing
The stained colored glass of flying things ...
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Categories:
luxuriant, christian, creation, culture, flying, insect, jesus, truth,
Form:
Couplet
Mulberry Rhapsody In The Garden Of love
On the weary wings of winter the northern winds depart,
their harsh whisper in the frozen air
the frost-fastened mulberry trees hear,
“wait, you’ll listen the sweet music soon,
don’t despair, the serenading southern breeze
will...
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Categories:
luxuriant, analogy, butterfly, nature,
Form:
Free verse