Long Northward Poems
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Autumn AtonementFace to the sky,
Breath of the Caribbean
Woven with earthy Autumn,
Saturates the alveoli of my lungs,
Pouring raw impulses into the neurons of
My pleasure centers, so triggering a myriad of
Memories ... the demurring requiem to summer tide...
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Categories:
northward, autumn, heartbreak, metaphor, october, solitude, soulmate, true
Form:
Free verse
My Daughter the Need a Walk From the Dark Side, Into the DarknessMy Daughter
My beautiful Daughter, walks life’s paths alone,
She does so, by design – not of hers – on her own.
She travels heavily !, from place to empty space,
from space to vacant place – in what...
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Categories:
northward, daughter, girlfriend,
Form:
Rhyme
The Great Lakes Acronym Spells HomesThe Great Lakes acronym spells homes
I chose titled topic by a fanciful whim,
nevertheless still consider my knowledge
of aforementioned material slim.
Housing multivarious biomes
register ecological syndromes
whereby constituents of NOAA
Great Lakes Environmental
Research Laboratory writ tomes.
Pellucid...
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Categories:
northward, adventure, america, appreciation, beautiful, boat, creation, earth,
Form:
Rhyme
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 90“I am sorry I slept for so long, Lumi. I should have relieved you a couple of hours ago,” Joulupukki apologized as his head appeared through the door. “Can I get anything for...
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Categories:
northward, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 6~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Northward! He frowned into the storm
The wind ever stirring, the snow swirling 'round
Ahead lay destiny, a lone dying form
He felt a stirring, as if homeward bound
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Trudging carefully through the heavy snow he watched as Sprinteren...
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Categories:
northward, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
The Tear
“The Tear”
How many oceans of salt
does it take to form a tear?
Unrelenting waves of sorrow
pounding a broken heart
hears the howl of sharp beaked foolish flying monkeys
ignorant feeding frenzies swallow whole lost families
swept...
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Categories:
northward, dark, muse, psychological, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
A Canadian's Letter To Americans: a Thousand Points of Light
A Thousand Points of Light! ! ! ! !
Once a beacon of democracy
A shining light on the hill
The ‘American Dream’
Anyone can ‘make it’
Never more than aspirational
Structurally delusional
Always susceptible to its
Achilles heel of...
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Categories:
northward, conflict, corruption, leadership, power, racism, violence, war,
Form:
Free verse
HimalayasHimalayas
Eons ago in the planet’s evolution,
During tectonic plate movement: 1
The Indian Island Ma moved northward
Crashing into the Eurasian continent,
To form the Himalayan mountains. 2
Out of the chaos, towering peaks arose,
Piercing heavenly soft, white cotton clouds,
Bursting...
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Categories:
northward, culture, education, environment, mountains, nature, planet,
Form:
Verse
The Great Lakes - Part OnePellucid pearls in northeastern North America since planetary birth
Comprise Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario dearth
Largest group of freshwater lakes on Earth
Straddle Canadian–United States border tethering partial global girth
Constituting 21% of world's surface...
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Categories:
northward, creation, environment, joy, sea, usa, water, wisdom,
Form:
Epic
Playing Games with an AncientI returned home after forty years to my home island of Hawaii. Its preferred nickname is the Big Island, lovingly a.k.a., the Orchid Isle, and yes, a.k.a., the Volcanic Island. Rightly named as the sole...
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Categories:
northward, analogy, anxiety, change, courage, emotions, loss, natural
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
The Tongue Ever So YoungAn eggplant need not taste nor look like egg,
Nor in a hamburger ham need be there,
Where's pine, apple in pineapple, I beg?
Nor yet french-fries in France invented were.
They native are— American pure blood,
Wherein was born...
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Categories:
northward, language,
Form:
Free verse
England - Gleaming In the Distanceacross the Doggerland dogged people trudge
Neanderthals, Heidelbergers...Sapiens, the last ones standing
hairy mammoths, heavy life bearing down
the mighty maw of an ice wall crunches, enforcing southward retreat
remoulding the...
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Categories:
northward, conflict, destiny, england, history, humanity, immigration, perspective,
Form:
Narrative
The Cost of War Through Peace
"The Cost of War through Peace"
She had spent
some elaborate
time
with snakes,
learning
their ways,
yet in the very
back of her mind,
in her memories,
she remembered
the stories told
long ago,
the sleepy songs sung;
curiously,
they were always
delivered in the dark,
as...
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Categories:
northward, light, love, mother daughter,
Form:
Narrative
50 Words For Poe: Foxglove
"50 Words for Poe: Foxglove"
What goes through the mind
of Winter, when you are Autumn
just past Spring
Sometimes you’d squeeze IT
in the hot spaces left-of-centre
with the remnants of the
Summers-In-Between
She liked to keep it real.
She’d escaped
and had...
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Categories:
northward, dark, gothic, murder, muse, mystery, poets, psychological,
Form:
Free verse
Odyssey From Africa 8b9aCh8, cont.
Northward parallel the valley.
And their ridge-top elevation
Gave advantage of perspective
They could see the forest's ending
In the distance. That same evening
Would reveal a stronger reason
For Ipiki's intervention
Something sensed in his...
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Categories:
northward, adventure, africa, history, journey, mythology, nature,
Form:
Narrative
Odyssey From Africa 3c4aCHAPTER 3c continued
Till he happened to encounter
A much stronger river hunter
Hideous Jurassic lizard
Pulled him down with no returning
Other crocodiles converging
Made straight lines like silver arrows
Churned and twisted in the water
Then the other three turned...
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Categories:
northward, adventure, africa, fantasy, history, mythology, science,
Form:
Narrative
Odyssey From Africa 6e 7aCHAPTER 6 (e, continued)
Though without communication
Spoken in symbolic language
Their gorilla hosts perceived it
And made ready for the parting
In a solemn mood of sadness
All the hominids assembled
In the clearing in the jungle
Where they had repulsed the...
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Categories:
northward, adventure, africa, history, identity, mythology, nature,
Form:
Narrative
The Great LakesPellucid pearls in northeastern
North America since planetary birth
comprise Lakes Superior, Michigan,
Huron, Erie, and Ontario
(HOMES acronym) dearth
largest group of freshwater lakes on...
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Categories:
northward, 10th grade, 4th grade, 5th grade, 7th
Form:
Epic
Christmas Wolves
"Christmas Wolves"
Winged ones
unseen
feathers of pure light
fold their warmth around you
as you walk
in solitary silence
throughout the cold
Christmas Dark Night
Warriors alone
wanting to take flight
always stay by your side
reciting good cheer
They will never leave...
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Categories:
northward, angel, christmas, love,
Form:
Free verse
Under the WaterfallWings flutter
off in the distance
as I shuffle through these stones,
tasting the energy trapped in each,
scouring my lands
for my lost crystal,
that which...
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Categories:
northward, imagination, nature, passionhair, me,
Form:
Romanticism
An Unfolded Whisper~
A lilac endeavor
of promised importance
came strolling along
on a path in the sun
Its fragrance unfurling
this side of September
when springtime was singing
for winter was done
With meadowlarks chatting
in off color language
while watching the roses
now bloom by the wall
She...
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Categories:
northward, fun, garden,
Form:
Rhyme
My Most Memorable VacationThere is a place so beautiful I'd love to see again.
My dream vacation started in Madrid, in central Spain.
How I long to stroll again down by Retiro Lake
and see El Prado art museum. Then for...
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Categories:
northward, spanish, vacation, , cute,
Form:
Rhyme
The Great Lakes - Part OnePellucid pearls in northeastern North America
since planetary birth
Comprise Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron,
Erie, and Ontario dearth
Largest group of freshwater lakes on Earth
Straddle Canadian–United States border
tethering partial global girth
Constituting 21% of world's surface...
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Categories:
northward, beauty, blue, heaven, imagery, planet, sound, water,
Form:
Free verse
Excuse Me! It's the GidyeaThe annual migrat'ry trek of southern folk each year,
Escaping chilly winter months, they mostly seem to fear,
Sees four wheel drives and caravans of ev'ry shape and size
Roll slowly northward searching out the...
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Categories:
northward, funny, people,
Form:
Rhyme
Ireland - a Divided Island Part Oneborn under the sea, an irresistible force
two bodies reluctantly embrace, shunting, shifting, tectonic drifting
alongside the southern Iapetus Ocean
equatorial deep-time child of Laurentia and Avalonia
journey northward, surfacing, submerging
...
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Categories:
northward, community, history, ireland, time, , western,
Form:
Narrative