Long Marvin Poems
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My Fifty Years In a Nut ShellI was born fifty years ago on April 10th 1964
Looking back through the years I began to explore
My mama said when it was time for me to be born
I decided to come early and fast...
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Categories:
marvin, family, life, nostalgia,
Form:
Rhyme
On Naming Plants and AnimalsA Commentary on
"A Note on the [Patriarchal-Colonizing] Treatment
of Plant Names"
by Robin Wall Kimmerer, p. 385
BRAIDING SWEETGRASS:
INDIGENOUS WISDOM,
SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE,
AND THE [SACRED] TEACHINGS
OF PLANTS
I too often accept
with nary a LeftBrain dominant thought
that our verbalized labels
for individual EgoPersons
are...
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Categories:
marvin, earth day, health, humanity, integrity, nature, planet,
Form:
Political Verse
What Doesnt Kill You Makes You StrongerRemember what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
Don't stop believing in the strength that lies inside,
get up, stand up until you can stand no longer.
You gotta be strong against the fools who misguide.
Don't stop believing...
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Categories:
marvin, anti bullying, faith, inspirational, strength,
Form:
Pantoum
Cartoon FlowYeah I got PokeBalls to catch Goals
I'm like Ash Ketchum when he Throws
Cause Ash Catch Em Bold I'm like Pidgeotto when my wings Flow
Look at the the light around me like Pikachu
With a forcefield...
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Categories:
marvin, character, creation, imagination, poetry, power,
Form:
Free verse
Muddy ShoesI'm planting trees today.
Cherry trees in front,
Peter on the street,
Paul in the middle,
with Mary closest in toward the house,
all on the far side of our gravel drive.
On the same southern side,
along my neighbor's new above...
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Categories:
marvin, blessing, earth, family, gospel, health, philosophy, political,
Form:
Prose Poetry
This Poem Wants 2 B a RevolutionaryThis poem wants to make a change . . .
To be a strong yet silent raised fist in Mexico, 1968.
To stand at a window w/a shotgun writing the words
“By any means necessary”
To sit in at...
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Categories:
marvin, analogy, discrimination, inspiration, political, race, social,
Form:
Free verse
Young American DaysTo be in a young America ~
visions of a ship upcoming statue of Liberty
...
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Categories:
marvin, absence, america, art, books, business, celebration, celebrity,
Form:
Epic
What IfWhat if Alicia,
Lost her Keys?
Help me find them,
Won't you please?
What if Betty,
Was never White?
Never relax,
Always uptight.
What if Kid,
Couldn't...
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Categories:
marvin, celebrity,
Form:
Rhyme
The HungerFor days now he had hungered.
His search took him along many an avenue,
where his pleas were so harshly ignored.
But his need was such he had to continue,
so to all that he met he implored.
Many turned...
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Categories:
marvin, hurt, life, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
St. Adrian's, 1971Saloon
Squeezed between office buildings
On lower Broadway
Desolate and out of the way
Faint neon sign marks the place
For the downtown art scene.
Poetry readings on Sunday afternoons
Only the regulars show up
Invited or not
Some mount the stage...
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Categories:
marvin, nostalgiawine,
Form:
Narrative
Marvin, 54remember when recent-psycho-in-the
brief-spotlight, Texas Gov. Ricky Perry,
smiled at the camera in the debate o’
repuglicans & couldn’t remember the
3rd branch of government that he told
the nation watching that he would eliminate
once he became president?
remember that...
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Categories:
marvin, life, people, education, people, , cute,
Form:
Free verse
When I DieWhen I die
please call the cops
don't lie
then put my body on some hot rocks.
play 2Pac
over my block
to honor me
then spread my ashes across the Black Sea.
My life of sin
will be over
when the train pulls...
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Categories:
marvin, anger, beauty, betrayal, death, deep, depression, feelings,
Form:
Lyric
Ah Pen To Fathers DayThe R&R's of marvin, 1st rule you will go to sunday school and every sunday n' for goodness sake don't say I gotta headache. growing up in poppa marvin's world was a daily...
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Categories:
marvin, adventure, beauty, dad, fathers day,
Form:
Personification
The Big ShowSitting here in the dark thinking
Thinking,
Listening to Johnnie Taylor
Taking me back down that old
Memory lane..
Singing “I believe in you”
While the rain beats against my
Window pane..
All the fun memories of my
School days ring out loud &
Clear..
While...
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Categories:
marvin, death, friendship, science fiction, song-night, blue, night,
Form:
Free verse
Deeper and DeeperDeeper and deeper We go,
inside hell,
While shouting paradise is for the rich
So we hope, so we smoke dope
Deeper and deeper we go
The abyss, the hell I had to come out of
To my dark complexion...
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Categories:
marvin, deep, depression, image, imagery, imagination,
Form:
Verse
Papa Was~~~~~I hold three magic stones in my hand, rolling them over-and-over-and over, leaving
this
reality behind - far behind, as I fly back-ward through time.
Suddenly! We are together; I have dreamed of this...
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Categories:
marvin, childhoodmagic, me,
Form:
Free verse
When Blackness Turns Into LightWhen blackness turns into light
Society could not deny
what we saw
with our own two eyes.
We saw blackness
turn into light
soulful stars
illuminating
white nights.
Jackie was a pioneer
his love lifted us
higher and higher
his black voice
shining bright in
the white...
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Categories:
marvin, color, growing up, inspirational, music, peace, racism,
Form:
Free verse
ImaginationImagination
( you are never too young or too old to put your imagination to use)
Imagine the concert
...
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Categories:
marvin, devotion, faith, hope, imaginationday,
Form:
Rhyme
Silk, Satin and Cashmere: A Tribute To Phenomenal Singers#A GIFT...AN UPLIFT! A GLORIOUS SHIFT OCCURS WHEN HAVING BEEN PRIVY TO AN OUTSTANDING SINGER! THE NEXT THING YOU KNOW, YOUR HEART FEELS A GLOW...
BECAUSE A SINGER HAS MOVED YOU SO...
"A SINGER HAS M...
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Categories:
marvin, appreciation, beautiful, celebration, dedication, feelings, passion, song,
Form:
Rhyme
Skin I'M In Part OneTough skinned -strong, take it and dish it out.
Thin skinned - overly sensitive.
Skin of our teeth -
struggle for life, survival.
Skin defines and designs us,
the skin we’re in, through pain,...
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Categories:
marvin, black african american, health, life, pain, perspective,
Form:
Narrative
A Demented SoulThe doctor injected something in me when I was just a embryo!
I figured my mother was the enemy standing at the end of the rainbow.
As a...
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Categories:
marvin, angst, fantasy, funnyme, halloween, me,
Form:
Free verse
Uncle Tom's PlaceThis is a tribute to my Uncle Tom. He died from Covid 19 last week, even though he was healthy and strong. He was my Dad's last surviving sibling, the baby of the...
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Categories:
marvin, death, family,
Form:
Rhyme
The Great Bell of BowThe Great Bell of Bow
I feel such a Steam Tug and no Porkies
Some Tea Leaf Half Inched me Jam jar
In me local Nuclear Sub you wouldn’t Christmas Eve it
Almost totally Boracic on the way to...
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Categories:
marvin, funnyme, eve, me,
Form:
I do not know?
The Great Bell of BowThe Great Bell of Bow
I feel such a Steam Tug and no Porkies
Some Tea Leaf Half Inched me Jam jar
In me local Nuclear Sub you wouldn’t Christmas Eve it
Almost totally Boracic on the way to...
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Categories:
marvin, funny, me, eve, me,
Form:
Classicism
Just Pray-Just pray, just pray- must pray for forgiveness to be forgiven
Just pray, must pray to the Savior
For my total salvation, that I will never die...
Just pray just pray to communicate
All prayer is, just talkin...
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Categories:
marvin, adventure, appreciation, celebration, dedication, desire, devotion, faith,
Form:
Lyric