Long Nasty Poems
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The Power of My PenI have been trying to find the right words to pen this verse, but since I came to this country my words are suppressed and my voice is oppressed. The wind is blowing furiously, and...
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Categories:
nasty, anti bullying, break up, community, corruption, discrimination,
Form:
Narrative
Sunday Evening SpreeI see people moving, but going nowhere
I see people moving with their hands thrown in the air
I see people moving but they have nothing to share
Bags and pans, old kettle, and old man
The scavenger, the...
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Categories:
nasty, betrayal, community, cute love, education, encouraging, faith,
Form:
Narrative
Psychologically still thirteenPsychologically still thirteen
Ordinarily meaning pre Internet days
familiarization with me would entail
bringing the avid listener
into my private mancave hideaways
less a physical place than a juncture in relationship,
(whereby one or the other of us)...
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Categories:
nasty, 7th grade, age, angst, birth, blue, family,
Form:
Rhyme
Impossible Mission To Captcha Infinitesimal MomentImpossible mission to captcha infinitesimal moment
alternately titled: tick tock runneth amuck
seconds elapse imperceptibly
leaving me dumbstruck,
how quickly fleeting tempus fugit;
ofttimes imagined as time thief.
Hence following vignette: quiet as a mouse lurks the time thief...
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Categories:
nasty, 12th grade, analogy, butterfly, death, farewell, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Pandemic-Climate Recovery TeamsIn Colchester, CT,
and possibly in your town too,
we have a LongTerm ReCoVery Committee
looking at 20/20 prevision
for post-pandemic climate health revisions
for wealthy local and global EarthJustice.
So, what have I noticed
that might be economically
and ecologically win/win useful?
In...
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Categories:
nasty, community, earth, health, integrity, peace, political, power,
Form:
Political Verse
Poems About the Coronavirus IiPoems about the Coronavirus II
This World's Joy
(anonymous Middle English lyric, circa early 14th century AD)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Winter awakens all my care
as leafless trees grow bare.
For now my sighs are fraught
whenever it enters...
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Categories:
nasty, fear, loneliness, loss, natural disasters, scary, social,
Form:
Rhyme
Bipartisan DissonanceWhen oppositional cognitive dissonance
deflects focus from compassion,
I've learned to go back to when I deflected focus from her.
She sends me passive-aggressive messages,
bread crumbs leading back in time
to where she began to feel alone,
marginalized,
siloed,
anxious,
neglected.
If...
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Categories:
nasty, conflict, math, parents, political, race, religion, sin,
Form:
Narrative
The Old Dark HouseThe Old Dark House
This tale of “The Old Dark House” is one that’s replete with a
most horrid sense of pure evil and macabre, and is worth being
retold each year during the deep-dark hours of All...
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Categories:
nasty, dark, dream, evil, fantasy, god, metaphor, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
Missed By a MileHaving been avid antiques collectors for nearly 4 decades, my wife and I met our share of rascals like this sneaky dealer -
Damp and chilly winds were blowing, leaves would paint the ground,
As me...
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Categories:
nasty, humor,
Form:
Narrative
- the Old Dark House -This tale of “The Old Dark House” is one that’s replete with a
most horrid sense of pure evil and macabre, and is worth being
retold each year during the deep-dark hours of All Hallows’ Eve
before the...
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Categories:
nasty, dark, dream, evil, fantasy, god, metaphor, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
Rum n Raisin 11 - One Hundred Million Years BCSneaking into the museum to avoid the sudden rain
Raisin said, “I don’t want to get soaked right through again,
It was bad enough when that truck through that puddle dashed
And you and me - but mainly...
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Categories:
nasty, adventure, cat, fantasy, time,
Form:
Narrative
Old Man Crabb - Both Audio and TextSixty some odd years ago, when I was just a kid, our home was on the very edge of town.
The man that lived next door to us - a Mr. - O. M. Crabb -...
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Categories:
nasty, inspirational,
Form:
Narrative
Self Destructive Wickedness Arrested, Convicted, and GaoledSelf destructive wickedness arrested, convicted, and gaoled...
with kidnapping little boy
ordered to suffer
life sentence without parole.
The deadly scourge of
one obsessive/compulsive disorder
nearly left me starving to death.
Anorexia nervosa absent bulimia
nadir of onset
diagnoses...
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Categories:
nasty, 2nd grade, 6th grade, 7th grade, absence,
Form:
Free verse
The Old Dark HouseThis tale of “The Old Dark House” is one that’s replete with a
most horrid sense of pure evil and macabre, and is worth being
retold each year during the deep-dark hours of All Hallows’ Eve
before the...
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Categories:
nasty, dark, dream, evil, fantasy, god, metaphor, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
Smooth Big Cat
"Smooth Big Cat"
He was one of those guys you just knew would be a dud. "Be nice", she said to herself.
She met him on the upswing from the abyss of a dismally closed final chapter....
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Categories:
nasty, adventure, muse, mystery, romance,
Form:
Narrative
The Pied Piper From New York City - Part OneThe Pied Piper from New York City – Part One
Dare his name be said?
I say, of course, Yes!
The Pied Piper, himself, is the man, the myth, the legend.
And they, the so-called incurious lot of...
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Categories:
nasty, allusion, america, betrayal, corruption, judgement, new york,
Form:
Political Verse
A Day On the Farm
"You really wanna know? Cause I'll tell ya if you really wanna know. You'll be thinkin' I'm crazy before I'm done, but I'll tell ya... ifn' you really wanna know."
The day started like any other,...
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Categories:
nasty, farm, myth,
Form:
Prose
A Letter in Forewarning of Melancholia--Part I(Somewhere in late 18th-century Europe a friend, Laetitia, by way of a letter warns her beloved girlfriend, Euphoria--a young, gay and unsuspecting mistress--against the almost inevitable seductions of the infamous and maundering philanderer, Melancholia.).
Dear Euphoria,
...
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Categories:
nasty, depression, friend, metaphor, philosophy, psychological, uplifting, wisdom,
Form:
Prose
God's Return TicketGod's Return Ticket
Did you ever wonder about the Almighty’s criteria or selection process for reincarnation of souls back on Earth? Just think some famous politician, movie star, sports figure,criminal, dictator, and so on could use...
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Categories:
nasty, beauty, creation, earth, emotions, god, heaven, judgement,
Form:
Narrative
The Dancing: the Last DanceWas it a cruel twist of fate?
Sneering, laughing chance?
Perhaps something I ate?
A bad bout of happenstance?
It wrenched and tore at my gut,
A sickening, sober, foreboding sign.
Wretched chance it was not,
This time was by insidious design.
The...
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Categories:
nasty, allusion, analogy, angst, anxiety, dance, dark, metaphor,
Form:
Rhyme
UnleashedI got up this morning in a good mood
searching for solitude in the distant skies
And watching the clouds rolling by
I stopped and listened to the sounds around me
While contemplating my sacred destiny
Barking dogs and...
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Categories:
nasty, appreciation, confidence, future, happy, loneliness, love, places,
Form:
Narrative
Wherever You Are, I Will Be ThereSpoken: Life happens when change changes us
Well, that change, unfortunately, made us fuss
Wait…
Time is a valuable notion
It determines our emotion
Being taken advantaged of, time and time again, hurts
In return, you hand me shirts...
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Categories:
nasty, confidence, encouraging, endurance, faith, feelings, longing, passion,
Form:
Lyric
The Frog Prince - Part 1A funny frog called Mr Snog,
once lived beside a slimy bog,
he was a most peculiar fellow,
his hat was red, his boots were yellow,
his waistcoat was an olive green,
the strangest sight you’ve ever seen,
no matter where...
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Categories:
nasty, allegory, fairy, humorous, metaphor,
Form:
Light Verse
Hollywood Zombie Part 02Part 02
"...and it's not a horror movie?"
"Yeah. It's just a regular knock at my door."
"OK, I guess it is a horror movie."
"Yup."
"So are you telling me, I'm dreaming?"
"I'm telling you, it's just...
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Categories:
nasty, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
The Night Nasty Jack Met His Match - Both Audio and TextThis is a tale of one of the orneriest dudes there ever was, and how someone much smaller, but easily more clever than he was, managed to cope with his belligerence.
...
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Categories:
nasty, humor,
Form:
Narrative