Long Originals Poems

Limericks VII - Naughty, Bawdy, Risque, Absurd

There continue to be modern sequels of the famous "Nantucket" limericks, including this bawdy one of mine:

There was a lewd whore from Nantucket
who intended to pee in a bucket;
but...

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The following is a collection of selected critiques of the work of Zoltan Goliath and Otis Trench from a variety of media outlets. The views expressed therein 
are entirely unsolicited, uncompensated and unexpurgated, 
representing the...

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THE TRUMPIST VOTE: A satirical Persian poem and its English translation, by the poet himself.

POST / SHARE / FORWARD / PUBLISH (with attribution--please)

NOTE: In addition to this translated poem, to see some of Moji Agha's...

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First of all, you mildly evolved amoebas, I don’t need your sympathy/
You couldn’t fathom my depths, if you had a degree for empathy/
Did everything asked of me by the Lord to prove that I’m the...

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Part 17

a kitchen drawer filled with throwaway lines
taped across the raw spots
itching festering inquiries eh inspector
asking the unavoidable
if we know how we got here
there's a better chance to know
where the fated flatulence we are going
if...

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this may be hard to believe, but it's true.  will be written in prose for my sanity's 
sake (too late, dummy!!)...let's begin our story....
in the 70's, as a musician, I had a band with...

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I was reading Aristotle,
because I am just weird like that,
and as I poured through ancient words
I was presented with the fact
that what I read from classic times
saw far deeper then I can see,
he’s twenty-three centuries...

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It's inauguration day, January 20, 2021.
I could be at home, watching the TV presentation
pomp and pageantry. But old, achy, onerous and 
anxious, bladder full with no toilet near, I wait 
in a chilly car in...

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The CRY OF A KENYAN. 
Rihanna talks of The New America
American Oxygen
It seems same for poor Kenya
Our one and only treasure
Drowning in the dark
Driven by cartels of no concern
No care for the next generation. 
And...

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Oh, Ravi Varma, you are a legend! 
When I look at this Indian postage stamp 
(brought out in your honour),
a miniature of your self-portrait 
with the inset of your painting 
of the legendary Damayanti 
with...

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These days, actors and singers serve my catapult mayhem, 
sometimes they are catalyst too!
I sing in between their lines of songs
their churned up recorded whims, hums, and candid cataracts! 
And some days, whence things get...

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I wonder why something stimulates mental activity
Why I feel young in the old age?
Why the Florida people are sunshine and the tropics
Thanks to the orange color for healthy food and appetite.

Citrus or orange combines the...

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In a place called Three was an old Bowthorpe Oak
Where a prince had trumped up a throne,
And though he was young where the lullula sung
He vowed he will always be known.

Jack Russell had noted pledges...

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Author Dana Redricks
July 13, 2023

In this vast world, a masterpiece you are, crafted by God, a celestial star. No other being quite like you exist, a creation unique, divinely kissed.

With strokes of love, Yahweh formed...

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Boy those wheeler dealers sure work hard
just look at Ed slaving away sorting things.
First he sorts out the electrics and switches
then he turns his attention to the mechanics.

Strips out the callipers and replaces them
a new...

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Ya, Shar, there are still open ones- will update later and add a new one.
Lilacs- we had a ton in our yard- on Mother's day me and my brother would
go down to the corner and...

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I don’t know that anything about me
is original – I mean, all of my atoms,
I’ve been told, once belonged to some
dimwit creature (hmm...) roaming the earth 
long before air-conditioners and Mai Tais...

And talk about Sin!...

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Art is the kingly snow-cap on learning's height;
It forms as great minds enter saturation range.
It's a crowning beam that shines to truly show,
That the lettered brain has finally come of age. 

Artistic flair is the...

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autumn promises embrace the silence, melting away bitterness, awakening the brilliance of peace in the shadows of His grace - Quote by Poet


Syllable based – 5-3-5

harvest heals the heart
leaves dancing
hues of faith and hope

Word based...

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MAGIC BEANS


There was magic in those beans!!
Colors - reds, greens, blacks,
savory flavors, and sweetness,
sweetness to ease the uneasiness.
They became a sought after reward,
payment for being, for existing,
payment to an unknown need.

Age changed the beans.
The colors...

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rich inspiration
complements
 &augments


at
that
crucial &
 originals
positioned
 so
precisely
 identified
 theme


a  movement’s
heightened colour
impresses
with descriptive
 energy
shifting &
contorted

yet
 beguiling
displayed
makes beauty
  apparent&
identifiable
  as
a conceit

in
a
sense of
 the emphatic
stillness
    splices
the
enchanting
unending stream
into
a
strange wonder


NOTE:THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE   using spaces&breaks without grammatical symbols ,the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and responds thus making...

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Looking back in time can be selective in comparison to the present.  
It may be likened to  a dripping  faucet that has been finally fixed.
You only remember the relief of the silence.
But...

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The best sins come in original 
Or is it something else worth less?

Seeing is in the eye of the beholder
Or is it beauty or something worse?

No one is alike when they are different
Never the same...

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We too have champagnes
champagnes against diseases
champagnes of dead drugs
things dangerous but fit somehow
probably for a slow something

We too have cocktails in plenty
cocktails of dead body covers
cocktails of dead shirts, shoes, bras
dead, buried, resurrected for us
probably...

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