Long Merchant Poems

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The Swoon Hypothesis - Part 2

"The Swoon Hypothesis" - Part 2



Arimathea stands next to you and I on the deck, soon we are back in Nazareth, you press into my palm, 
“A very rare Dubunni coin” you say - on...

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Categories: merchant, imagery, jesus, love,
Form: Free verse


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Canto Xxvii Hell Transalation

Already was straight up the flame and steady
To speak no more, and yet away it went
Being the sweet poet to let it ready,

When another, which followed in ascent,
Made us to turn our eyes to top...

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Categories: merchant, fantasy,
Form: Terza Rima

Tozzath

Pellucid pachyderms wade across
the purpling River Manjees
and Tozzath watches from the bank, 
the seat of his maroon pantaloons soaked with mud,
his nostrils flaring with the fragrance of ombadalias,
whose lacey petals flutter
like the wings of long-dead...

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Categories: merchant, death, fantasy, girl, magic, word play,
Form: Free verse
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The First Thanksgiving, September 3, 1578

The First Thanksgiving (Sept. 3, 1578)

The shortest distance to Cathay 1
(Land of riches: silks, teas and spices)
Lay to the north to the South Sea. 2
Didn’t Barlow tell the King, 3
Was reserved for England.

The routes ‘round...

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Categories: merchant, education, history, holiday, thanksgiving, thanksgiving day, voyage,
Form: Verse

February 29th, 2024

February 29th, 2024

Alternately titled: 111th leap year since 1582
the year Pope Gregory XIII world leader
(i.e. essentially paterfamilias among
Roman Catholic flock)
timely maneuvered around calendrical rock
and hard space implementing
viable system tracking years ad hoc
out of sync and...

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Categories: merchant, 12th grade, age, birth, celebration, fate, february,
Form: Rhyme


Spring Festival



   Symbols cry in dry ice theater -
the expanse of aesthetic visa-
drawn-
from the romance of the silvery eye -
as it golden advances the lid of covenance 
in dynamic enzyme.
Open faced type interpreted-
interpreter-embossed embol-
in...

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Categories: merchant, beautiful, god, love,
Form: Epic
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Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 5

The appearance of his old friend brought new thoughts of his mother and, Nordgrend, the town in which  they spent the last few years.  Raðulfr, was a truly kind man and he was...

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Categories: merchant, christmas, fairy,
Form: Epic

Traditional Solitaire potential combinations

Traditional Solitaire potential combinations...

that clenched another win today
February 20th, 2024 
(eight hundred and ninety yesterdays ago 
since June 13th, 2021)
original crafting date of following poem,
when yours truly 
single handedly trumped computer, 
for umpteenth time,
which saw...

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Categories: merchant, 12th grade, 8th grade, adventure, age, appreciation,
Form: Free verse

Traditional Solitaire Potential Combinations

Traditional Solitaire potential combinations...
that clenched another win (yahoo)
jimmied today August 15th, 2022 single handedly
just before the crack of dawn
with both hands tied behind my back,
and a blindfold worn over my eyes.

While in the midst of...

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Categories: merchant, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure, birth, computer,
Form: Free verse

Traditional Solitaire Potential Combinations

Traditional Solitaire potential combinations...
that clenched another win (today June 13th, 2021) single handedly

While in the midst of playing solitaire 
(with losing outcome foreordained 
after a couple moves), I became gripped 
with combinations predicated on thirteen...

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Categories: merchant, adventure, america, fun, heart, history, imagination, literature,
Form: Free verse

A Ghetto Conversation





Hey bruh, 
haven’t you heard,
ain’t you read the news?
The White House is gonna eradicate 
the fear infested inner city blues
That Trump fella says,
he’s got his poison pen ready to use
He says black folks got nothing...

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Categories: merchant, culture, prejudice, truth, word play,
Form: Verse

Isothymia

Catharthis...
neglect of the art and it's form is such a beautiful start
let go of the pain
let go of all emotion
the hatred is spread thin
Touched and such beautiful notions
I know you are striving
to be with you're...

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Categories: merchant, celebration,
Form: Free verse
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G L Trestrail and Co Ltd

A rising sun in the east does appear
  from St. Augustine to St. Clair,
to loose me from sleep’s tranquil hold
  and dreams of serendipities of old -
to rise again the boy I was...

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Categories: merchant, nostalgia,
Form: Couplet
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A Kind Reconsideration of the Abrahamic Faiths In a Difficult Time

A KIND RECONSIDERATION 
OF THE ABRAHAMIC FAITHS
IN A DIFFICULT TIME
I
I am interested in Moses,
the baby in the bulrushes
who eventually was able
to speak truth to power and
delivered his people to a
promised land
I am interested in Saul...

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Categories: merchant, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
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Sojourner Truth House Domestic Violence Shelter 1992

Severe night terrors after being held 
captive for a week during Christmas 
again my abusive ex brutally attacked 
me every Christmas since that arson 
murder that cold Christmas day 1984 
all the elderly persons perished...

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Categories: merchant, allah,
Form: Than-Bauk
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The Mysterious Gift the Old Sailor Built

or The Mysterious Lost Love Quest
 

The old man dusted himself off and quickly started on his merry way
 this his last port was where his desperate soul sought to forever stay
Decades of sailing ships...

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Categories: merchant, journey, lost love, mystery, write,
Form: Narrative

A Punny Death

A Coffee Merchant was the first man to find,
The corpse as he started off on his daily grind!
What he saw filtered through, so he had grounds
To send for the Police, to investigate what he'd found!

He’d...

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Categories: merchant, allegory,
Form: Narrative
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Intermission Fool - Cafeteria Monitor

Can I go to the bathroom? This place is full of jackasses. This place is full of jackasses jerking each other off. This place is full of ignorant, parochial, zit-sucking jackasses undeserving of their place...

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Categories: merchant, 10th grade, allegory, food, school,
Form: Burlesque
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The Deep Roots of Racism

When God created this world, everything was nice and dandy and perfect,
But the disobedience of Adam and Eve introduced sin and sowed defect,
Soon thereafter sin manifested itself as envy, hatred, and murder,
As their first son...

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Categories: merchant, america, black african american, discrimination, hate, murder,
Form: Rhyme

Ambition

You walked into my life and turn it upside down, you were certain that I could wear the golden crown, you have been following me from I was a child and you made several stories,...

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Categories: merchant, betrayal, birth, career, cheer up, community, cousin,
Form: Narrative
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Columbus in the New World

Columbus in the New World

Three ships sailed under Spanish colours
(The Santa Maria, Niña, and La Pinta)
And dropped anchor off the shores of San Salvador,
For Columbus and his crew manning the oars
To set foot on terra...

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Categories: merchant, america, columbus day, culture, education, history,
Form: Verse

Light and Dark In Love and Life

The world is a vast market of trading love
though it is not a visible commodity at all
every man and woman are buyer and seller
they either buy or sell love at an uncertain profit
some make interest,...

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Categories: merchant, dark, light, love,
Form: Free verse
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Should the Levee Ever Break, Act 1, Scene 1, Part 6

The curtain rises on Bumblebee Babineaux walking self-confidently along Chartres Street.

Bumblebee [singing]: Ain’t nothin’ gonna break my stride, nobody’s gonna slow me down. Oh, no, I got to keep on movin’… 

Tom Sickley, a disingenuous...

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Categories: merchant, allegory,
Form: Prose
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Smuggler's Boat

Migrants on the move from violence
their only possession
breath-space on a smuggler’s boat
secured with back-bent harvests 
in pretzel-bent systems
weight of crates of strawberries 
hoisted on hell-bent backs
just trying to reach Spanish-shores’-east 
from Moroccan beach with a...

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Categories: merchant, boat, death, hope, journey, life, sea, violence,
Form: Free verse
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Special Agent Leroy Heimbach June 1992

June 1992 seated with special agent Leroy Heimbach his rookie Kevin Dreary I was just settling in after being held hostage for a week brutally beaten by my abusive husband my children and I was...

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Categories: merchant, allah,
Form: Lento
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