Long Narrowed Poems
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The Tower Rebuilt
I shall resolve to leave this
Place now...
And steadfastly search out,
Nestling between ridge and bluff
Amidst the folds of a foreign
Land,
Several acres of unkempt ground
Fallow and rough;
Upon which stands...
Crumbled stone walls
With an exposed slate roof in
Some...
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Categories:
narrowed, hope,
Form:
Rhyme
Chapter 83 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: the Adult Excursion
The day after the mutiny incident:
DJ again pitched his idea.
He gathered the Older children
Again, "Okay everybody we have
To make up to Dad Ma and Auntiema.
Today." The children remained
In the large kitchen...
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Categories:
narrowed, 11th grade, 9th grade, child, confidence, home,
Form:
Alliteration
In the Islands Far, Far Away
Mission Control, this is Flight Z924693744, do you read?
We're having some technical trouble. How should we proceed?
We have spotted a planet, that appears to be suitable to abort;
But, to return to earth, we will need...
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Categories:
narrowed, adventure, fantasy, friendship love, planet, space, stars,
Form:
Couplet
Proof
We are the days that we’ve become.
moments dripping gifted from
the lounging clocks in rolling melted sightings,
given by the gifted madness of a soulmate’s fightings.
Our lives wrapped up in phrases coined
in books like,...
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Categories:
narrowed, allegory, america, computer, crazy, extended metaphor, irony,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Poets Vii
Poems about Poets VII
Gallant Knight
by Michael R. Burch
for Alfred Dorn and Anita Dorn
Till you rest with your beautiful Anita,
rouse yourself, Poet; rouse and write.
The world is not ready for your departure,
Gallant Knight.
Teach us to sing...
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Categories:
narrowed, christian, dance, poems, poetry, poets, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Chapter 60 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: the Family Seventeen X
During the days before the
Vacation began FIRST: there
was a thunderous knock on
The door of Damian Hakim's
Residence. Damian Junior ran
To answer the door. But
Damian was disturbed in his
den by the omenous knock.
Damian asked...
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Categories:
narrowed, beach, business, child, confidence,
Form:
Alliteration
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 4
March 18-27
This time I woke,
He was staring readily,
Smiling, plotting steadily
I lifted my body and gently gazed at his grotesque beauty
He was always at his best in thought…
“You look ravishing…” He began.
“Mouth-parched, crusty-eyed, hair...
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Categories:
narrowed, adventure, anger, angst, anxiety, appreciation, beauty, blessing,
Form:
Free verse
Cruisin' the Drag
Sipping cherry limeade, driving in the car parade,
we're cruising in the Lone Star state.
Didn't want a bucket seat; the thing it couldn't beat,
was sitting up close to your date.
One hand on the wheel...
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Categories:
narrowed, car, funny, growing up, high school, me,
Form:
Rhyme
Material Life
Absolute science and art of being whole
at one and under no delusion that
...
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Categories:
narrowed, art, dance, emotions, hate, life, science, world,
Form:
Verse
Heavens's Poker Game
In the beginning after God had finished creating this land.
Satan boldly challenged the heavens for the absolute control of man.
Gods’ architectural blueprint stretched for ages across the sky
He watered the...
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Categories:
narrowed, bible, christian, conflict, emotions, encouraging, god, satire,
Form:
Rhyme
One Out of Six
Who among you is brave enough
(or dumb enough)
to take the challenge
Bet your life to beat the odds ...
One out of six
Load the chamber with one bullet,
spin the cylinder,
spin it good
Place the wager with a...
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Categories:
narrowed, change, dark, imagery, perspective,
Form:
Epic
Raining in Summer
Placed third in:
Raining in Summer Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Ink Empress
...
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Categories:
narrowed, appreciation, rain, spiritual, stress, summer,
Form:
Quatrain
An Eulogy of Sorts, That, Hopefully, Lends Itself To Daver
Do not vainly look in those remote
Places,
That, once, were acquainted with a
Small part of me; ...
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Categories:
narrowed, appreciation,
Form:
Rhyme
END TIMES : ONE
END TIMES : ONE
[Poet’s Note : This poem arose out of a play on quote in Bible by Christ : “I will open my mouth in parables. I will utter things hidden since the...
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Categories:
narrowed, allegory, body, change, deep, extended metaphor, father,
Form:
Free verse
A Whisper Into the Kitchen Floor
He tastes the salt before he knows he's shed a tear
He'd always been a staggering man
Since his Army days known by most simply as Big Roy
Now he's a staggered man
This night, curved and hunched
Bags so...
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Categories:
narrowed, bereavement, death, grief, lost love,
Form:
Free verse
Magnolia Moments
When I whirl as wind,
unwavering ~
surfing on
watercolor wings
of simmering seasons,
which flicker
and fly through me,
filtering my faults
with a wrinkled fantasy,
I waltz whistling ~
in their whispering waves,
where...
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Categories:
narrowed, deep, devotion, emotions, heart, meaningful, metaphor, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
A Narrowed Soul
Tonight I grow tired of keeping the secrets that were spark within my visions. I
must tell someone of what I saw and how the end came to be. From the
beginning we...
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Categories:
narrowed, imagination, loss, philosophy, sad, visionary, me, world,
Form:
Narrative
Complex Simplicity a Madman Attempts To Understand Divinity
I HAD A DREAM . I know I know its been said before
But hear me out before you close the world
Views away into bleak abyss one where we all fight
Over who is wrong and what...
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Categories:
narrowed, absence, adventure, age, allusion, angel, anxiety, creation,
Form:
Free verse
War Cries of Mad Man
I REMEMBER A TIME WHEN A MAN WOULDNT CONSIDER LISTNING
TO THE TYPE OF THINGS THAT MODERN POLITICIANS SUGGESTING
AND THOSE MEN KNEW MEN BEFORE THEM THAT WOULD LISTEN TO EVEN LESS TODAYS WORDS WOULDNT DRAW A...
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Categories:
narrowed, america, anger, anxiety,
Form:
Free verse
Color Confusion
I was a knowledgeable color expert, with a degree in enthralling color theory,
And was proficient with color related software, like evening sun grown weary.
With cognizance of color psychology, and emotional effects of different hues,
I created...
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Categories:
narrowed, beautiful, color, confusion, fantasy, nature, sister, sun,
Form:
Couplet
The High King's Noble Son, Part Iii
III.
The northern borders were alive with talk
of the Warlord known only as Bimeng,
who’d risen amongst the savage peoples,
and was said to be uniting them.
Now Reth had heard tales of such things before,
so he stirred not...
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Categories:
narrowed, courage, family, fantasy, love, truth, violence, war,
Form:
Epic
Dan the Hero, Part Iv
...His eyes narrowed, and he got to his feet,
said, “When did you fall to nihilist urge?
When did you decide that good in itself
was just to be laughed at? Cast as absurd?
“You’re not the first...
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Categories:
narrowed, appreciation, character, conflict, hero, hope, perspective, uplifting,
Form:
Epic
Mr. Crab and Mr. Anemone
(A hermit crab has just realized that he can barely fit into his shell and the only other
creature in earshot to hear his cries is a sea anemone who lives on the hermit crab's...
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Categories:
narrowed, animals, children, funny, seame, sea, me, sea,
Form:
Narrative
Goodbye My Summer Love
Though the midnight summer rains
as we sit together under the geraniums,
hanging low and at full bloom,
we hold hands and talk of old times;
times that were kind to us and our youth.
As summer storms light up...
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Categories:
narrowed, beautiful, beauty, color, cry, dark, environment, farewell,
Form:
Romanticism
An Existential Curiosity
*Image of January 14, 2023, by WinCal.
An Existential Curiosity
~0~
Ambitious existent presence to yield,
Hostage that's well endured of a pre-life,
Handcuffed fallible praying to be healed,
Labyrinth attributes drudgery strife.
Redeeming shrilling lob gratis to air,
Longings bounded dreamt outpours...
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Categories:
narrowed, brother, dad, family, memory, missing you, son,
Form:
Rhyme