Long Obligation Poems
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My White House InterviewI was nervous about my newest client.
Not every Permaculture Designer gets a contract
with the WhiteHouse.
But, when the President called,
or twittered,
for an intake interview,
I guess it felt like an obligation
to at least show up,
although perhaps about...
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Categories:
obligation, caregiving, earth, health, humor, nature, trust, truth,
Form:
Political Verse
Visitor Finale - A collaboration with July MorningThe Story so far…
Makani (The Rising Wind), a beautiful extra-terrestrial researcher is sent to a remote island to observe earth. She finds Sam, a shipwrecked earthling near death owing to drowning. Sam (Ka ‘Lo -...
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Categories:
obligation, adventure, romance, science fiction, sensual,
Form:
Narrative
Theories of Every Big and Little ThingKey CapitalistYang/CreolistYin EcoHistoric Concepts
I find a fuzzy irony in this morning’s early search for a new journal notebook, having filled my last from what had been, five years ago, an inconceivably high pile of empty...
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Categories:
obligation, culture, earth, health, history, political, science, trust,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Wrestling with impasse to contentmentWrestling with impasse to contentment
Dispense sing with fidelity blithely agog
just me and mine dark shadow
slinking along the edge of night doth blog
passivity, the path of least resistance ohm my dog,
shocking voltage surges an emphatic...
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Categories:
obligation, abuse, adventure, age, anger, betrayal, black african
Form:
Rhyme
i celebrate you my friendThe year that is about to make its last appearance
before it dies and is buried to be only given a place
in the history of our existence has brought ?e joy,
l° shall...
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Categories:
obligation, adventuregod, people, god, love, people, time, perspective,
Form:
ABC
Big Fish Calling Me To The Sea Part 1
My spirit has been calling to get up and go to the sea
My spirit has been telling me that there is something for me to see
My spirit is calling me to fly over the big...
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Categories:
obligation, abuse, adventure, devotion, encouraging, environment, fish, fishing,
Form:
Narrative
MY ODYSSEY
Here, I am
Retired
Happy
Sitting on the relaxing throne of my age
Reminiscing what I went through in life
For
A mere spectator I have now become
Observing in silence the works of men
Having no worries of a
Carrier advancement
Of...
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Categories:
obligation,
Form:
Bio
Spring Break V - Russians on Miami BeachI.
The Fish Crow is an outcast amongst the seagulls
Standing on the hot Miami sand
At the end
Of our rose-colored beach towel
Nodding and blabbing half-heartedly
Nuh-uh nuh-uh
To the lack of crumbs
From us
The stingy blue collar visitors
From freezing old...
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Categories:
obligation, spring, vacation,
Form:
Free verse
'White Privilege' Does Exist
Abandoned as a child believed to be no more than five, the matron of the orphans home, was...other than my mom...
The first to have to face the task of tending to my welfare, and started...
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Categories:
obligation, discrimination, racism,
Form:
Narrative
Urgent message to send Mephistophelian madman back to stone ageThough I wrote no book
attention summoned to look
at following--->>>
Urgent message – to send Mephistophelian madman back to stone age
predicated upon past and present, I gauge
will offer ogre golden opportunity
to rewrite anarchistic playbook...
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Categories:
obligation, abuse, america, bullying, conflict, dark, depression, evil,
Form:
Rhyme
Pandora's TemptationFor the third time Pandora stands before the box
Inlaid with jewels ivory and gold
In her hand is the key – she closely examines
Intrigued by its intricate patterns - so ancient- so old
Her Creator’s mandate she...
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Categories:
obligation, desire, hope, love,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
BubblesIs there room to care for the penultimate?
Can't decide if the space can satisfy two collard greens.
One oblivious cabbage... one who has desperately tried to expand the space, to save the others, who...
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Categories:
obligation, change,
Form:
Sestina
The Village On The Water IVThump-thump of stiffening fish contorting
In the bilge beneath the gunwale;
Lidless, bulging, reddened eyes, swivelling upwards,
Protruding horribly from the straining sockets,
Express stupefied amazement at inconceivable
...
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Categories:
obligation, appreciation, culture, dedication,
Form:
Free verse
I Am Not My FearI feel I am drowning
In open air,
Clawing at dirt that isn’t there
No one sees my distress—
No one really cares
Clacking, scraping sounds
Of glasses and plates
Echoes of breathing and voices
Assault my senses,
And still I cannot breathe…
Even as...
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Categories:
obligation, anxiety, appreciation, fear, growth, hope, lost, pain,
Form:
Free verse
The Lovers DanceIt was their night they shone bright as they danced their sweet dance
Two lovers embraced in their world of romance.
They laughed and they cried as their eyes locked in stare
It was their world for this...
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Categories:
obligation, faith, god, marriage, religious, wedding, life, dance,
Form:
Couplet
Friendly Affection and LoveFriendship is....?
The warm feeling inside, we always get
when an old acquaintance is unexpectedly met:
the sound of a familiar voice on a telephone line,
that sincerely asks: “are you well and keeping fine?”
We seek information after ill...
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Categories:
obligation, friendship, love, , cute,
Form:
Rhyme
White suede wing tips with candy apple red lacesAn ordinary young man in his twenties
Working by day, alone by night
Routine lulls him to feel forever serene
Never a new dream or fantasy
Living an obligation
Making his parents proud yet nothing causes him to become too...
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Categories:
obligation, courage, freedom, growing up,
Form:
Narrative
The Shattering Silence of Falling Leaves
"The Shattering Silence of Falling Leaves"
In Theta waves
tumbling to
The Land of Dark Dreams
Trees will capture and save
the falling Princess and Queen
An Bee Cailleach
invisibilia simulacra viro
An Bee Cailleach scries heroes
incarnate falling in
The...
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Categories:
obligation, dark, daughter, fantasy, journey, light, love, mother,
Form:
Free verse
Call It What You MayCall it what you may
But I will not go back the other way
Call it what you may
I did not come here to dance or play
I have the keys to the golden box
And I would like...
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Categories:
obligation, anniversary, betrayal, character, conflict, courage, cute love,
Form:
Free verse
Extraordinary"I've
noticed
something
about most good
people, with myself
as well sometimes:
How maybe life's not all
about putting up fences or
walls or marking down lines?
Maybe life's all about abolishing our
obligation to...
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Categories:
obligation, 11th grade, 12th grade, 5th grade, 6th
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Circa sixty one years ago July 6th 2001Circa sixty one years ago July 6th, 2001 -
birth of dear beloved wife
We now get along swimmingly
analogous to this bro and his older sis
on the cusp of our gifted silver married years
if her presence absent,...
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Categories:
obligation, 11th grade, 12th grade, age, birthday, celebration,
Form:
Rhyme
Rigel's AngelI see an angel fly across the sky.
She stops and haloes Rigel,
and looks down upon me,
with answers I already knew.
Have you come...
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Categories:
obligation, angel, bible, farewell, love, passion, sin, woman,
Form:
Narrative
My Annual ResolutionsGrowth should be the ultimate criterion,
centrepiece and essence at the heart of every annual pledge,
for myself and other people who might gain from such commitment,
that monumental new year down the clock so aptly named,
global village...
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Categories:
obligation, adventure, art, birth, care, celebration, character, encouraging,
Form:
Free verse
Is Jesus GodIs Jesus God?
Some would say that this is an unusual question, as the Father is the Father, and the Son is the Son.
However, after the 3rd century the Trinity doctrine appeared claiming that the...
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Categories:
obligation, bible, christian, father son, god, jesus, religious,
Form:
Didactic
Interpreting mine PoetryInterpreting mine Poetry
Similar to scrutinizing
an abstract painting,
this author begetting, canvassing
entreating... obscure words dumbfounding
readers (himself included), he eludes
(shading tree fore rest)
clear cut discerning,
yet oft times his woods
garner reviews raving
esoteric word choice,
how mind boggling
to this logophile despite
more...
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Categories:
obligation, absence, adventure, allusion, analogy, confusion, endurance, fun,
Form:
Free verse