Long Olden Poems
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And Still I Drive - Part OneStars fall under failing skies...stars fall...stars fall...
And sadly...i start to drive.
Through the unremarkable village with its tall
Georgian Bay window panes, lightless,
devoid of visages; outwardly staring back at my
Abject countenance with detached contempt and...
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Categories:
olden, heartbreak, places,
Form:
Rhyme
The Giant of LisbellawStood I there, that last day,
On an iron bridge...
An aqueduct by design,
Where, looking dreamily out over
The Ernes Lower Lough,
My compressed shadow
Momentarily paused -
To contently recline:
Amidst coy Junes radiant beams
of sweet benign!
All was stilled,...
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Categories:
olden, philosophy,
Form:
Rhyme
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 33 -Part 1-My dreams were of the dire Queen
I had allowed her reign over me, callousing my heart,
She was inside me, laughing
Having crawled in
My walls closing, as she filled my soul
We were one, yes for a time,...
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Categories:
olden, adventure, confusion, growth, heart, inspirational, relationship, visionary,
Form:
Epic
The Lily Maid of AstolatThe knight of knights, Sir Lancelot,
From far away in Camelot,
Went by a way that he knew not
And thus, by chance, spied Astolat
With sunset's gleam upon her tow'rs:
T'was there he met the maid Elaine,
With hair as...
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Categories:
olden, devotion, farewell, first love, heartbroken, history,
Form:
Rhyme
A Visit To Quiet TownWhile returning home from my job, in bustling New York City,
The blaring horns of traffic, and the noise were getting to me.
With loud yelling on the sidewalks, and cawing crows up above,
And my poor aching...
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Categories:
olden, fantasy, imagery, people, places, silence, travel, vacation,
Form:
Couplet
The Silence In MeThe Silence In Me
I have been on this road several times, and I have been contemplating
the movement of the clouds, the direction of the trees, and the depth of the sea. The heart of...
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Categories:
olden, appreciation, beauty, celebration, character, community, holiday, hope,
Form:
Narrative
SnowThe very fact of being alive, often causes one to seek adventure;
And sometimes it is no deterrent, when it carries traces of danger.
I was not a seasoned survivalist, but very much loved the outdoors,
Like varicolored...
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Categories:
olden, adventure, fantasy, friendship love, magic, mountains, snow,
Form:
Couplet
Overarching GenocideOverarching Genocide
Noah built the wooden Ark in his homeland instructed by God
to save his wife three sons and their wives from drowning a life
raft rescue boat of sorts with three decks and only one...
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Categories:
olden, betrayal,
Form:
Free verse
Dreams, Imagination, Write On, Write OnDreams, Imagination, Write On, Write On
Night's call to arms, sweet echoes before death
Waking to live, glory in dawn's first breath
Dreams, imagination, write on, write on
Life is a gust of wind, then it is gone.
Gone as...
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Categories:
olden, appreciation, art, creation, dream, introspection, writing, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
Rainbow GirlI was an irrepressible and happy young woman, and graceful ballet dancer,
Who lived for twirling on a world stage, as red berries are shrub laughter!
I had practiced for so many years, striving to become the...
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Categories:
olden, beautiful, color, depression, fantasy, friendship love, girl,
Form:
Couplet
Piquant Pied PiperIt was on a beautiful Sunday, that I was relaxing in the park,
Obtaining all the bliss I could, before blue skies grew dark.
The air was filled with songs, and bees were bloom to bloom;
And the...
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Categories:
olden, bird, children, dance, fantasy, flower, music, sunshine,
Form:
Couplet
A Love Letter To My Friends of IndiaWhen I think of India, I think of dark eyed beauties,
their foreheads painted with decorative red dots,
and I see them moving deliciously in beautiful bright costumes
as bangles dangle from their slender wrists.
When I think...
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Categories:
olden, community, friend,
Form:
Prose
The Year 6555We're now in the year 6555, and I am feeling happy and so alive,
Above, sunshine pours like honey, as along the oceanside I drive.
Wind whips my hair around, beneath skies a deep sparkling blue,
Like the...
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Categories:
olden, fantasy, future, imagery, nature, planet, time, travel,
Form:
Couplet
The Truth of Dearest Love Sworn, I Ask God How(1.)
The Truth Of Dearest Love Sworn, I Ask God How
Over the grit-stained shoulders of ancient marble
Rests a million vagaries of humanity's million sins
Just as earth's flocks of beautiful songbirds warble
So goes the evils engaged in...
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Categories:
olden, art, life, love, magic, passion, romance, romantic
Form:
Sonnet
Some Danced Down Lanes, In That Hippie HolocaustSome Danced Down Lanes, In That Hippie Holocaust
Thoughts of those days when so many felt all was lost
some danced down lanes, in that "hippie holocaust".
O' horror, long hair and showing too damn much skin
with...
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Categories:
olden, america, creation, dance, freedom, growth, nostalgia, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
The Land of the Midnight SunI went cruising to Norway with my wife across the North Sea
We travelled the route the Vikings took but with added luxury
Our first port of call was Stavanger, it was nice to be on dry...
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Categories:
olden, boat, friend, holiday, sea, wife,
Form:
Narrative
Enwrapped In HerThese secret silent stillnessess,
wistful wispy whisperings
which enter through the windows in my heart,
I try to softly touch them
and they recede, far, so far away,
I try to gently hold them
they slip beyond my grasp,
and so,...
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Categories:
olden, joy,
Form:
Free verse
To the Heart of Viking Legends and Thor's Great Oath, Part One,To The Heart Of Viking Legends And Thor's Great Oath,
Part One, (In tribute to, the poem, "The Old Gods",
by Calvin Dill Wilson)
When the Olden Gods cast mortals aside
such was hopeless and part of divine Fate
Now...
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Categories:
olden, creation, fantasy, hope, humanity, imagination, mythology, tribute,
Form:
Rhyme
Wherein Man's Dark Curse, Felled the Olympic Gods', Part OneWherein Man's Dark Curse, Felled The Olympic Gods',
Part One
(I.)
Thus to blindness, the fallen god was blindly bound
In a blacken tragedy, doomed to darken earth:
Nature then refused to its soothing music sound
That of existence, death...
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Categories:
olden, art, conflict, creation, humanity, mythology, vanity, war,
Form:
Rhyme
Wherein Man's Dark Curse, Felled the Olympic Gods', Part TwoWherein Man's Dark Curse, Felled The Olympic Gods',
Part Two
(III.)
Alas! Cold silence, the depths of darkening wrath
Came to invade the fallen god's newborn nightmare
Waking to find agony and his earthen path
Twas his penalty for flouting Fate...
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Categories:
olden, art, creation, earth, humanity, imagination, mythology, symbolism,
Form:
Rhyme
Afternoon With My AuntYou came into her house through the kitchen.
The big door in from the front porch
Hadn't been used for years;
Furniture stood hard against it.
A knock at the front door meant a stranger.
Aunt Celesta makes a...
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Categories:
olden, caregiving, childhood, family, feelings, together,
Form:
Free verse
AfterglowI was an artistic, floral designer, intoxicated by the sweet-smelling blooms,
Like magenta butterfly swarms, at a standstill, intoxicated by floral fumes.
Gold days were full of my bloom designs, each one so original and unique,
Just as...
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Categories:
olden, beautiful, career, flower, happiness, imagery, memory, nature,
Form:
Couplet
You'Re a Monarch When It RainsPretenders in the mouth like lemons.
Hamartia.
Is wishing
Denying?
Do I
Deny You?
A dirge by the pier
is the darkness I hear
when You are not here,
when I tell myself
I will always fear.
Yet You visit, still,
my lightless room
and the Breath of...
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Categories:
olden, life, light, recovery from, surreal, true love,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Am I the Assassin Or the UndertakerAm I the Assassin
or the Undertaker
For Palani...
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Categories:
olden, death, grief, morning,
Form:
Elegy
Modern Ways Versa Olden WaysFirst let us take our friend the horse
a noble creature who serves us well
supplying us with a source of good compost
ferrying us here and there in fine style
pulling carts and carriages with aplume
carrying riders...
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Categories:
olden, car, horse, house,
Form:
Epic