Long Nearsighted Poems
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A Walk Near Blunt
It seems a shame that you're not here
To share my evening stroll with me,
As I walk down this gravel road
That takes off just outside of town.
Two pheasants flush from bar ditch pools
(The grassy soup...
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Categories:
nearsighted, nature, , western,
Form:
Blank verse
In the Sun's Rosy Vicinity
Little Arabella Miller lived in town, but far enough out in green country,
To watch the raspberry sun go down, and to climb a lavish, plum tree.
Arabella was seven-years-old, and had a three-year-old, baby brother;
Like the...
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Categories:
nearsighted, beautiful, color, fantasy, happiness, insect, nature, nursery
Form:
Couplet
Never Underestimate Your Dragon; He Might Become a Great Professor Someday
An abandoned dragonling I did find,
I took him in and built a metal shed
for this dragonling to lay his head;
he grew to have a profound mind.
When dragonling was about four,
books he actually began to read
and...
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Categories:
nearsighted, adventure, animal, fantasy, humor, myth, poems, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
Riveting Romeo
I was a famous, American actress, who adored performing for live audiences,
In stage plays, both modern and classic, like velvet time, which often rushes.
Rose acclaim filled long, chaotic days, of colorful masquerades and fulfillment,
Like Sleeping...
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Categories:
nearsighted, fantasy, happiness, love, nature, romance, wedding, work,
Form:
Couplet
Reflections of a Dollar General Shopper
Making my way through the Dollar General hoping to get an economy pack of Thank You cards to send out to all the people who had just given me expensive gifts
(Not really; I...
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Categories:
nearsighted, 3rd grade, angst, growing up, lost, money,
Form:
Narrative
Smiles I Remember
I was an experienced family therapist, helping families maintain functionality,
As wandering, starlit seasons maintain all nature, being rooted in practicality.
I loved preserving healthy relationships, that foundation of healthy societies;
And kept up a fruitful dialogue between...
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Categories:
nearsighted, family, fantasy, grief, love, memory, smile,
Form:
Couplet
A Lesson Learned
Charles Green was eight years old, and his father was a great teacher.
Yet, Charlie preferred playing to school; because he was a daydreamer.
The Greens lived in the town of Ivoria, where dahlias nodded greeting;
And Charlie...
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Categories:
nearsighted, boy, fantasy, nursery rhyme, school, teacher,
Form:
Couplet
Graffiti Traces On a Crumbling Wall
My sister stopped to visit on her flight home from a tropic isle.
Are COVID mutants on last legs? (Most think their death’s long overdue!)
Trump’s naive crimes seem more passé though Putin dreams his lies are...
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Categories:
nearsighted, blessing, friendship, love, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Presidential Trivia
President's Day is approaching so I thought I would further your education,
By revealing useless trivia about some of the dudes who've served our nation.
President Washington actually had to borrow money to get to his inauguration.
He...
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Categories:
nearsighted, funny, history, old, old, presidents day,
Form:
Couplet
The Nearsighted Dragon
To celebrate his new glasses,
home a nearsighted dragon, did fly.
the doctor had truly, helped his sight.
A party he’d throw, full of savories;
on many delicacies, his friends would feed.
All night they’d party, till morning’s light.
His...
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Categories:
nearsighted, humor, myth,
Form:
Sestina
Beautiful Nightmare
3:33 am and my eyes feel the same open as they do closed
(I wonder if this is how she felt?)
Front teeth smother
Bottom lip,
(Except when I cough)
Stress stains my cognition.
Red drips and green strokes.
Acid spots
burning through
Solar...
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Categories:
nearsighted, fantasy
Form:
I do not know?
A Lion Looms Listless
A cold lion roams, doctrinaire and sterile,
The expanse of Africa offers him no sanctuary, the Saringehti no salvation,
He can only smell the scent of his pride now, his cubs shun him,
Repelled by needless roars, the...
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Categories:
nearsighted, character,
Form:
Epic
Dinosaur's Rules
I’ve heard people say dinosaurs are extinct
But I think there must be a resurgence!
It seems that our scientists all must have blinked,
Could it be just a bad egg emergence?
Imagine eggs dormant for thousands of years,
Now...
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Categories:
nearsighted, angst, betrayal, humor, political,
Form:
Quatrain
Oz Redundant
Transmit transpire anti social copious methods of blank balled fissures of disastrous mistruths on the border of hell raiser dispatch piss filled like rats on a stinking/sinking ship, inbred senate cowardice akin to the O.K....
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Categories:
nearsighted, absence, abuse, betrayal, conflict, death, discrimination, prejudice,
Form:
Prose
The Nearsighted Plumber
I'm startin' to run out of nursery rhymes
So, I made up one of my own
It's about a nearsighted plumber
That was accidently glued to his throne
Once upon a time, long, long ago...
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Categories:
nearsighted, funnyold, water, old, time, water,
Form:
Rhyme
Weekend Warrior on a Bicycle
I cycled to Hawthorne before the dawn,
Saw a deer on Taxter Road leading a fawn.
I reached a field of the kids little League.
Waited for the train, too pumped for fatigue.
The train passed by lakes of...
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Categories:
nearsighted, adventure, nature,
Form:
Lyric
Star-Crumb
"HUNGRY GAMES"
"I can’t find the words I want to say! “
Under the moonbeam and sparkling scattered stardust,
I can feel the dew, which surpasses through the night.
As I speak to you in tongue, this stale...
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Categories:
nearsighted, food, funny, night, night,
Form:
Alliteration
A Rose By Any Other Name
As humans, I imagine, it is human nature when viewing the sights and sounds around us…to try and understand who we are and all the wonders that surround us.
To do this we attach labels to...
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Categories:
nearsighted, inspiration,
Form:
Rhyme
Vermont Crossing
The great northeast, Vermont: I-89 and I-91, the crossing roads.
We have Deer crossing signs everywhere.
We also have...
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Categories:
nearsighted, animals, funny, imagination,
Form:
Rhyme
Kindness
Kindness
Your kindness Lord runs to greet me in generous petals of fragrant compassion floating into my stingy spirit, dances in the abyss of my selfishness, raises up my bankrupt soul, gives light to my nearsighted...
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Categories:
nearsighted, love,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Hold My Hand
I was out in this world
amidst the nearsighted
unknowing of the winding road
How could I have not seen the dead end sign
therefore to be led off course into a ditch
seems as if no...
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Categories:
nearsighted, inspirational, me, me,
Form:
Free verse
Rural Ceremony
rural ceremonial
open casket
his face was covered in a silk cloth
I removed it he looked grumpy
this was not the outcome he had wanted
I replaced the cloth
sat down thinking if it moved
it meant he was breathing...
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Categories:
nearsighted, appreciation, celebration, giggle,
Form:
Blank verse
The Mist
The morning mist seen at dusk
hovering and surrounding all
searching for a new place to dwell
seems to stand still
and linger for a long time
but as the morning sun shines down
it will begin to vanish
To come...
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Categories:
nearsighted, inspirational, day, morning, time,
Form:
Free verse
Sea Changes
Is all life, in fact, like a tectonic sea change?
Its barely felt wave passes ships in the night
That on later reflection can wrack devastation
(Tsunamis that sculpt all the land within sight.)
A landslide released on a...
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Categories:
nearsighted, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Insults
Glowing, half transparent
underneath the pot, burnt,
yes I'm scorched but not sweating,
because I'm furious, so hurt!
Horrid, nagging insults
though they break before my skin,
salt unto the open wound
fire on oil's brim.
My tongue is dull as a dagger,
my...
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Categories:
nearsighted, anger, anti bullying, emotions,
Form:
Lyric