Long Massed Poems
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Dante's Divine Comedy Hell Translation Canto Vii
(Continuing the trip through Hell of Dante with poet Virgilio)
Pah-peh Sah-tan, Pah-peh Sah-tan al-ept!”,
Started Pluto with his hoarse voice toss
And that gentle wise, who any knowledge kept,
Told to encourage me: “don’t have a loss
By...
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Categories:
massed, fantasy, universe,
Form:
Terza Rima
Terror Bugs: Part 3 - A Freezer Mice Adventure
[Continued from ‘Terror Bugs: Part 2 - A Freezer Mice Adventure’]
__________
London’s streets resembled an al fresco mausoleum
They tracked a trail of body parts which led to a museum
A thousand Terror Bugs were massed, in...
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Categories:
massed, adventure,
Form:
Narrative
All That Was Sparta
Our lusty voice was in the tramp of narrow, winding,
Scree-littered, deep-rutted roads;
Ravens, uttering guttural croaks, slow-wheeling above
...
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Categories:
massed, myth,
Form:
Rhyme
Ten Years, Somewhere In Their Lost Neighbourhood
“Ten Years, Somewhere in their Lost Neighbourhood”
Of course,
he said, like a god,
there is no course,
one must simply go with the flow
the penumbra stands waivering its existence,
a kind of deactivation, fuzzy borderline hanging,
backing the art...
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Categories:
massed, muse,
Form:
Narrative
Changing the Mind's Diaper
Changing The Mind's Diaper
My mind is clouded and I just had these thoughts
So much going on my head is constipated
Filled with prime everything I was taught,
The quantity is carried in my mind inflated
My minds...
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Categories:
massed, analogy, anxiety, conflict, confusion, deep,
Form:
Free verse
Positively Stunning
I used to be obsessed with fashion, caring far too much about clothes,
Like the sun whenever he's coming and going, is striking vanity's pose.
I lavished absurdly upon my wardrobe, in excess of what was practical,
Like...
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Categories:
massed, fantasy, fashion, growth, love, magic, people, vanity,
Form:
Couplet
Grim reaper forever guaranteed eternal plentiful harvest
Grim reaper forever guaranteed eternal plentiful harvest
the following written
for no particular rhyme nor reason
quite aware the exit (stage door left)
allows, enables, to provide every season
with a bumper crop of dead souls.
many mortals beseechingly
lift...
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Categories:
massed, 12th grade, absence, angel, atheist, birth, death,
Form:
Rhyme
Hidden Truth
So many judge without a thought
following the easy route put forth
direction created by those I accuse
once friends whom I removed
but how long ago no one asks
EIGHT YEARS AGO in the...
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Categories:
massed, truth,
Form:
Rhyme
The Askance Chapter 4 Part 3b
Almost immediately, we were surrounded by a mass of blacken sea
And I held onto Alkaiya, surrendering to fate for our death to be
A moment pass, a time seemingly misplaced by the hands of God
And in...
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Categories:
massed, imagination, , cute,
Form:
Rhyme
Shelton Washington State
County seat, of Mason County, Washington, highly rates
United States Westernmost city on Puget Sound e quates
above ground sans tectonic plates
Population 9,834 per 2010 census
end result from biological mates
maintains commission form of government
drafted...
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Categories:
massed, america, beautiful, blue, christmas, creation, environment, heaven,
Form:
Free verse
Matthew Scott Harris Unmasks Ha Ha Ha Halloween - Part 2
frankly zapped after wildly oscillating
in tandem with seven bobble heads and ten French horns)
a devilish trumpeting event
by pre-Christian Celtic festival standards
with a “proto” Don twick or tweeting
like a Taj Mahal wonder of webbed, wide world...
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Categories:
massed, addiction, autumn, candy, childhood, children, kids, halloween,
Form:
Free verse
Punctuation Police Patrol
Dictionary in hand Bobbies
manned state of the spy craft created
strategic peripheral outposts
a comma dated,
(sans syntax garnered monies) equated
justifiable to build galley ma free
...
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Categories:
massed, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form:
Free verse
The Road and the Ancient Soldier
I spied him by the road at rest,
one scarred and marked by battle's test.
He bore great countenance of life,
this ancient warrior worn from strife.
His vestments lay shed 'neath an oak,
thick muscled frame and tunic's...
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Categories:
massed, allegory, hero, journey, mentor,
Form:
Rhyme
The Legend of the Bamboo Forest
The royal chambermaid and the young warrior, fleeing the wrath of the heavenly palace, were flying low, their robes trailing through the air like colourful ghosts. Their elopement to the earthly domain had been condemned...
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Categories:
massed, earth, eulogy, fantasy, heaven, humanity, nature, sky,
Form:
Haibun
Debits and Credits
One year ago Dictator Putin’s
Massed military might
Invaded the Ukraine
Not really expecting any fight.
One year later, with increasing
Frustration and despair,
Putin’s battered conscript army
Is still trapped and fighting there.
Like all modern military bullies
They failed...
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Categories:
massed, anger, history, political, war,
Form:
Rhyme
Evolutionary Sequel - Full Circle
Act 1: Earth
Water
Droplets fall to earth
Meniscus lens on the world -
Wellspring of life born
Air
Gaseous brew forms
Invisible elixir -
A breath of fresh air
Fire
Destructive, cleansing
But giver of warmth and light –
Fire’s dual perspective
Act 2: Plant
Leaf
Spring...
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Categories:
massed, animal, earth, environment, fire, nature, world,
Form:
Haiku
Beauty of Meteorological Wrathful Phenomena
As an armchair admirer
of nature's fury viewed,
safely and soundly ensconced
within solid brick
poetic walls maneuvering
the electronic...
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Categories:
massed, 12th grade, 8th grade, environment, fear, humanity,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
The Noble Sunflower
They stood in the bright Andalucian sunlight
The noble sunflowers with stance upright
Massed yellow ranks portray solidarity
Faces and heights display uniformity
Unquestioning loyalty to the hot sun
First the seeds are sown and their hearts are won
Swaying in...
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Categories:
massed, flower, spanish,
Form:
Rhyme
Father Forgive Them
I came to set the captives free
I gave them a chance to see me
But they got it wrong, didn’t hear
The wonderful truth I came to share
Father forgive them they know not what they do
I...
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Categories:
massed, death, easter, forgiveness, life,
Form:
Free verse
The Arab Spring a Window of Humanity
It all began with a man who owns a cart,
And the Tunisian government took it away.
Now a martyr, having no idea what would start,
The ‘Arab Spring’ began on that day,
Causing the Tunisian leader to give...
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Categories:
massed, history, philosophy, political, people, people,
Form:
Quintain (English)
Scars Left Behind
The Sacrifical Child
Llandudno Wales 980 BC-1846, Sierra Leone, Congo,
Niger, Peru, India, Pakistan, Russia, China & Philippines 2013
Chapped, scabbed skin, dirt encrusted, blue-pallid in the moonlight;
the stars still glow radiant light when they rise, a wolf...
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Categories:
massed, childhood, death,
Form:
Verse
Herring Gulls Revisited
So much wonder, soaring wings to new dimensions of my heart.
What beasts we are.
High on those roof tops the lost ones memory linger on.
You give me hope and despair.
That mound of grass placed perfectly on...
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Categories:
massed, animal,
Form:
Verse
Charge
It is the beginning of a new day...
Get dressed quickly as the others will be there,
Waiting in the dawn's splendor.
CHARGE!
Outside is cool and clear...
Put the key in the ignition and prod the beast,
For it must...
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Categories:
massed, angst, people, socialday, day,
Form:
Free verse
Wildren Chronicle
There are tales of the Old Days
Of a time of trial and glory
So we gather around the fire as
The Old Ones tell their story
Wildren Wood may be dying.
For the last few weeks it seems
We,...
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Categories:
massed, allegory, fantasy, universe,
Form:
Rhyme
Welcome To Delhi
Revived to pop out as an empty nester
To accompany a newfangled life
Maneuvered all the way for a change of state
I dropped my bags and willed at country’s metropolis.
The heirloom edifices occupying moiety of...
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Categories:
massed, places, social, urbanblue, change, red,
Form:
Imagism