Long Olde Poems
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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:
olde, allusion, analogy, angst, anxiety, dance, dark, metaphor,
Form:
Rhyme
Deva Ossig, the landlady and property owner turned rogueDeva Ossig, the landlady (and property owner) turned rogue
Just a couple weeks shy
and seven years ago to the day,
I still remember contractual obligations
our previous residential abode
724 West Railroad Avenue,
Bryn Mawr 19010 zip code
volatile...
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Categories:
olde, adventure, anger, animal, anniversary, community, conflict, house,
Form:
Rhyme
They got the whole world in their handsThey got the whole world in their hands
Worth north of a trillion dollars,
(plus or minus a billion dollars here and there),
the unnamed obscenely rich,
(which top 15 billionaires
projected to become trillionaires
can be located on the computer...
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Categories:
olde, america, anger, angst, bullying, corruption, emotions, scary,
Form:
Free verse
Part 1 of -The Lourde' and the Ladee' and the Magikal Forest of Ode'Once upon a time in the Magikal' Forest of Ode’
Buried deep in the mystikal forests of greene’
Many majikal creatures are seen
Glittering flashes that glow in firelite
Of dancing faeries and elves in...
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Categories:
olde, adventure, childhood, fantasy, growing up, happiness, night,
Form:
Rhyme Royal
Earth Goddess Gets RiledI fear Earth Goddess has something rather unkind to say
about RightWing patriarchal
pretensions oligarchical,
Which begins with N,
and ends with R,
and in-between fills out with Eve
Never attracted to bipolar conflicting reductive rabid climates,
deductively isolated singularities,
autonomous RightWing...
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Categories:
olde, conflict, culture, earth, god, health, integrity, love,
Form:
Political Verse
Belle of the BallsBelle of the Balls
...
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Categories:
olde, fantasy, children,
Form:
Narrative
Dogs That Left Faux Paw Prints Extant Within Me Lifedogs that left faux paw prints extant within me life
lids black out and allow me to write
about a petty issue ye aye in vite
while eyes shut tight
bring back four legged friends sprite
and though many...
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Categories:
olde, absence, animal, anxiety, beautiful, best friend, care,
Form:
Ballad
New Year Greetings 2023Journey Journal Page
NEW YEAR GREETINGS 2023
By Leon Enriquez
Two-zero-two-three comes now
To usher charming feel;
Live well this new endow
With blessings of goodwill.
Love is the charming way
To bless each face you meet;
Peace of mind fruits each day
As joy...
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Categories:
olde, blessing,
Form:
Quatrain
Bridging the GapMary Fletcher was prime minister in olde England, like fondest memory,
Of days when the twilight stood still, with silver moon, floating on sea.
Mary Fletcher was capable and caring, to the country's great benefit;
Like spring rains...
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Categories:
olde, fantasy, imagery, nature, nursery rhyme, people, work,
Form:
Couplet
Paternal Grandmothers Headstone Beth David Elmont Long IslandPaternal grandmother's headstone - Beth David, Elmont, Long Island
Shaindel (Sadie), variant of Shana Harris
died May 13th, 1959 exquisitely chiseled
alphanumeric characters legibly engraved
sepulchral casket entombing lovely bones
deoxyribonucleic acid repurposed into me
Matthew Scott Harris patronymic protector,
when I...
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Categories:
olde, absence, america, death, fate, grandmother, heaven, jewish,
Form:
Free verse
Dogs That Left Faux Paw Prints Extant Within Me Lifelids black out and allow me to write
while eyes shut tight
bring back four legged friends sprite
and though many years passed quite
I can remember those precious creatures
who barked at night
howling at inaudible...
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Categories:
olde, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th grade, animal,
Form:
Elegy
The Streets of Olde SalemMy footsteps echoed the echoes of Time
as through the streets of Salem I walked.
The hour was early and the city still asleep
with only a cat sitting quietly on a cold granite sill,
the sky slowly turning...
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Categories:
olde, halloween, history, october, seasons,
Form:
Rhyme
For All The Sweet Lovers
Flying Saucers, Flake, Bar Six
Country Style, Gobstoppers, Twix
Arrow Bars and Sherbert Dabs
Sweet Tobacco, Lucky Bags
Toffee Crisp and Dairy Crunch
Grand Seville and Milky Lunch
Beta Bars, Loot, Candy Floss
The mysterious chewing gum flavour loss
Golden Crisp, Nut Crisp...
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Categories:
olde, appreciation, candy, heart, love, sweet,
Form:
List
The Landlady Turned Rogueback a small number of years thee diva of this domicile
exhibited an aura, charisma, enigma…devoid of any guile
boot of late turned a cold shoulder to me and I’ll
avoid denigrating, haranguing, and lambasting said dell lisle
la,...
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Categories:
olde, abuse, angst, conflict, emotions, home, journey, strength,
Form:
Rhyme
Ace Cannons' CanonACE CANNONS' CANON
Through the morning, shimmering with colors that wavering, fade
from a desert where heat is a hue, and history's due
cactus and trees, knotted and sparse, a portrait some mad god must'f bade
into being,...
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Categories:
olde, imaginationmay, men,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Olde Charlie Part TwoOLDE CHARLIE part two
A simple g’day and not much more,
A man of simple tastes and trends,
Mostly seen most days
Three days growth on chin,
Olde Charlie,
Came from the olde school,
Of the way he thought
And reacted to...
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Categories:
olde, perspective,
Form:
Free verse
In the Olden DaysIn the Olden days when we wear grasses,
When we dance naked under the rain,
When we were cooking grasses as drug,
When we have no fear in us and fear never
Haunt us just like the way it...
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Categories:
olde, art, drug,
Form:
Blank verse
W,WorldSomewhat outstandingly
millennial absurdism
Is Seen’d slowly
Drownin’ towns;
& townes’ there’ness,
May’be
Forever’ly mere’d,
—-
hungry Frenetic wild dogs roam-
ING;
Thirst, unquenchable.
&
Thas’ workingly blue homosexual
Humanoid thingies’ living IN,
...
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Categories:
olde, anger, angst, appreciation, betrayal, discrimination, fate, humanity,
Form:
Free verse
Male SpaceThe study all alone,
in the corner of the home,
where a man can think,
reflect and have a drink,
be free of charging kids,
of daily cares be rid,
read what ancients say,
this is a male space.
In the wood with...
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Categories:
olde, freedom, how i feel, men, philosophy, social,
Form:
Rhyme
When Death CallsIn a shroud of darkness
Her stallion neighs , leading death to
where death preys.
As black as the night as cruel as the day
Her aura speaking , in different shades of
grey
Steadying...
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Categories:
olde, death
Form:
I do not know?
When She Was YoungWhen She Was Young
When she was young she would sleep
holding her dreams in her hand next
to her heart to protect them from being
forgotten now that she is older she sleeps
dreading to...
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Categories:
olde, dream, emotions,
Form:
Free verse
I LOVE A PARADE
We did a lot of waving yesterday at our city’s annual Christmas parade.
We waved at people dressed as chandeliers, at grinches and mermaids.
We waved at dance troops, at bagpipers, at wind lasses (those are women...
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Categories:
olde, paradise,
Form:
Rhyme
Dreamy Cadillacs---Colourfication"Dreamy Cadillacs"....COLOURFICATION
Decided one Sunday afternoon to indulge in something I love!
Being "Olde School" with an "e" and a Cadillac classic car buff.
I went to this show and was blown away by all the "Cads" I...
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Categories:
olde, car, dream, imagery, passion,
Form:
Free verse
King 'Enry the ViiithKing 'Enry of The 'Ouse of Tudor ruled merrie olde England, the mighty and the meek.
'E was quite obese in 'is elder years and threw 'is weight around - so to speak!
'E governed from 1509...
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Categories:
olde, funnyengland,
Form:
Rhyme
Ole To Amanda Gorman- My Dedicated VerseA true poetess
A words woman
Amongst Maya Angelou chest
A spiritual part
of her beating heart
You wear her breath
In your small stature you're mighty your magnificent
Wordsmith Poetess
Framer of letters words and verses
Amanda Gorman
A prophetic words man
Mighty virtuous...
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Categories:
olde, analogy, appreciation, dedication, devotion, poetess, word play,
Form:
Dramatic Verse