Long Offshoots Poems

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The Clearing: Part I

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: offshoots, inspirational, nature,
Form: Metrical Tale


Chief Garbage Taster As Fifth Grade Halloween Gag

Chief garbage taster as fifth grade Halloween gag
at Henry Kline Boyer Elementary School
interestingly enough landed me a grubhub grab bag.

I rooted thru poetry anthology of mine,
and came across an unpublished poem
by one obscure poet (me),...

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Categories: offshoots, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 5th
Form: Rhyme

Chief Garbage Taster As Fifth Grade Halloween Gag

at Henry Kline Boyer Elementary School

As a Halloween costume, 
one year during early grade school, 
my father got the brilliant idea 
for his sole son to be dressed 
with one of a kind getup.

Missus Shaner...

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Categories: offshoots, 5th grade, adventure, autumn, character, father son,
Form: Free verse

Chief Egalitarian Garbage Taster Ie White Trash

Chief egalitarian garbage taster i.e. “white trash”

As Halloween costume, 
one year during early grade school, 
my father got brilliant idea 
for sole son dressed
uniquely rubbish qua 
putrid offal getup. 

Missus Shaner (talon clawed, 
shriveled relic...

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Categories: offshoots, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 5th
Form: Free verse
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Garden Path

as if Monet had planted water lilies in Babylon

          hanging gardens at the heart of a canvas of joy

       ...

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Categories: offshoots, depression, encouraging,
Form: Free verse


Musings On God and All That Is

Musings about God and All that Is! ?

What if?
All that IS (God) wanting to explore itself decided to create Earth and all that lives on her? Wouldn't that be easy for a force to do?...

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Categories: offshoots, 8th grade, deep, encouraging, growth, how i
Form: Prose

A Walk In the Garden In Moonlight Part 1 of 2

( Song of Solomon 4: 16 )



We Walked In The Garden At Midnight
We Walked Thru The Garden In Moonlight

Among Azealeas & Verbenas & Blue Jonquils
Sweet Honeysuckle, Yellow Primroses & Daffodils
Among White Phlox & Orchids &...

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Categories: offshoots, allegory, anniversary, future, garden, growth, life, love,
Form: Free verse

Lamenting Life Lost Before Mine Untimely Death

Lamenting life lost before mine untimely death

Last rays of wicked flickering candlelight
even to this present day 
(October 4th, 2023)
lxiv anniversaries marking birth
emotions of ambivalence self directed at me,
and family of origin diatribes still career,
within psyche...

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Categories: offshoots, 11th grade, 12th grade, 4th grade, 7th
Form: Rhyme

My Wed Ding Anniversary Number Xxii

More' n force gore
     and seven years ago
tha youngest daughter of
     Willian and Sylvia Zison
     found her beau
pea ping over a paperback
 ...

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Categories: offshoots, 10th grade, 11th grade, 8th grade, gender,
Form: Free verse

Das Papa Anathema Furor He Hiss Toward Patriarchal Hierarchy

Das papa anathema & furor he hiss toward patriarchal hierarchy

Courtesy mine eldest sister Amelie
Beth (thirteen plus months my senior),
whose maternal love equals heart as emoji,
she nsync with other kith and kin
painstakingly fleshed out family tree,
formerly...

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Categories: offshoots, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, celebration,
Form: Epic

Lamenting Life Lost Before

Lamenting Life Lost Before...
Last Rays Of Flickr Ring Candlelight

Approximately a dozen
orbitz around the Earth
(since mcmlix), the year
of my birth, an aversion
(stayin alive) constricted self worth

gripped (strong as strangling
choke hold), where 
even to this day 
(January...

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Categories: offshoots, absence, age, cry, grief, growing up, heart,
Form: Bio
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HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL

As we step into a new year…stepping out of the year just passed…
this wish goes out to every person in the world:
May this new year…be a little better than the last.

Our hearts go out to...

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© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: offshoots, new years day,
Form: Rhyme

The Creation of the Song Paroogemibius

needing attention
we sought reason not
to be at the will
of it's need
we evaluated the variables
and sorted through
the risks
it made better sense to understand
what we had found
and respect it as it was than created
by our togetherness
but it's...

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Categories: offshoots, music, myth, song, sound,
Form: Ballad

Base Camp Still Intact

Even in old age I still find,
I have more questions than answers.
Like when I would not even be considered for Father of the year,
How have our three children flourished,
And been witnessed to be happy on...

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Categories: offshoots, adventure, appreciation, beauty, bird, butterfly, character, christmas,
Form: Didactic
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Slumbering Seeds

a cog in the wheel and a log on the fire

of dreams I hallucinate unless the days

are visions of sleepless delusions of truth


its real and surreal when nights close in

I used to be a knight...

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Categories: offshoots, bridal shower,
Form: Free verse

The Law Part 2

Direction, in deed.
Badges, sacraments, war, union, they all are offshoots of
what in belief we. IN-Operational reciprocity, inverse, are like chemical components in reaction to say sobriety, walking the line. Not crossing it in drunken disrespect...

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Categories: offshoots, art, birth,
Form: Prose

Burning Sandalwood

In a ever expanding vast ,
dense,dark ,wild forest,
crooked ,cracked,bent trees,
which provide shade ,bearing
fruits venomous ,with
roots rotten deep down
and spreading to its offshoots.
In the midst ,lies a sandalwood,
spreading enchanting fragrance
without acknowledging its inner
essence and withering away
for...

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Categories: offshoots, giving, introspection, spiritual,
Form: Free verse

In a Parallel Universe

In a parallel universe
Is there another me? 
Somewhere in a parallel universe
Quite near, yet very far
In a magical world
Where I have long white wings
I wave them upon mighty Oceans
Against the ferocious storms
Rest them on crowded...

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Categories: offshoots, allusion, planet, universe,
Form: Free verse
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Harp of Heart

she sits under a weeping willow and sways

turns to the wind for advice and hears thunder

tunes in to rainfall lightening and her heartbeat

stumbles and stutters for she is one in suspense


valves in her mind leak...

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Categories: offshoots, dream,
Form: Free verse

Tales of Two Seeds

I will enter deep down to grow
And my root in the soil  bow
My stem I spread within the loamy reach
So my boughy trunk shall in depth breach
Then I’ll let out my branchy foliage
On it...

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Categories: offshoots, introspection, philosophy, body,
Form: Rhyme
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Don'T Be Afraid, Love

Come out with me, my love.
The sun is shining bright today.
Come let’s enjoy the calm
Despite this mighty winter’s day.

     For look ominous dark clouds gather
     On the...

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Categories: offshoots, love,
Form: Lyric
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Permutations of Logic

Permutations Of Logic

The     truth   was     concealed    with   many   branches 
hidden  through  flossy  blossoms  ...

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Categories: offshoots, creation,
Form: Free verse
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Obsession

Obsession

Obsession with "O's"

Oh, obsession’s obfuscating oligarchy
Oceans of oblivion
Outrage in ostentatious obsession
Overrun in hurricanes named obdurate and obstinate
Overtures of oxidized compulsive orchestration in
Obbligatos overflowing obituaries -
Overbearing octaves of the obsequious –
Orations of overt objections
Objectivity overpopulated by...

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Categories: offshoots, angst,
Form: Free verse
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Poetry Portfolio--Chemical Engineering

I, Davis, am the founding father of Chemical Engineering
It is something that many new scientists find endearing
The American Institute of Chemical Engineering started
When jobs, which I helped create, came and imparted
Unit operations is the Chemical...

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Categories: offshoots, fun,
Form: Rhyme
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Portal of Spring

offshoots and flushed buds
                               a...

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Categories: offshoots, spring,
Form: Haiku
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