Long Ostensibly Poems
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Dillen's Continuing Dmv Adventures
I wrote a sad but true urban legend called “Dillen and the DMV” last week.
Here follows an update.
Background Review:
One of my health care employees, Dillen, has wicked ADD, borderline intelligence, not qualifying for disability supports,...
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Categories:
ostensibly, betrayal, culture, health, humanity, language, political, race,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Thrust In The Centre Of The Storm All I Could See Was You
Serrated swathes of overwhelming savage gusts without compassion,
directionless dilatory daydreamer that I am ostensibly vulnerable,
to the serendipitous intrusion at a wispy sapphire cloud flaccid noon,
the minimal load burdensome midpoint idle tranquil saunter,
meteorological...
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Categories:
ostensibly, angst, anxiety, appreciation, bereavement, care, celebration, love,
Form:
Free verse
Madame Bovary: Come and Take Me If You Can
"Madame Bovary", a novel by French novelist Gustave Flaubert, in 1856. Flaubert reconstructed a conventional story of adultery into a lasting work of heartfelt humanity. Madame Bovary is considered Flaubert’s masterpiece, and, according to some,...
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Categories:
ostensibly, angst, character, muse,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Nothing To Hide, Translation of a Coeur Ouvert, Poem By Rene Etiemble
Nothing to hide*, Translation of a poem: “A coeur ouvert” by (René) Etiemble
For Jeannine
(Later in life, Etiemble suppressed his first name, ostensibly on account of the accented “é”
ending his first name and preceding the...
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Categories:
ostensibly, love, , literature,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Dismantling of a Nation
Dismantling Of A Growing Nation
Back in late 70s, while I was just another fresh face in a local varsity....
Racial based politics was gaining grounds with public sympathies....
Remembered distinctly DAP, the opposition party, was gaining...
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Categories:
ostensibly, anxiety, birth, character, community, future,
Form:
Free verse
She Drives Me Up the Wall
SHE DRIVES ME UP THE WALL
She drives me up the wall like a slave-driver
O yes, she does ! but even though she may wield
the rod in her hand ever so threateningly at me
At...
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Categories:
ostensibly, adventure, age, anniversary, art, baptism, beautiful, bible,
Form:
Ballad
Shell Shocked and Choked
‘Turn swords into ploughshares and nightmares to dreams’
I have not one plough and no shares in the market
Insomnia has...
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Categories:
ostensibly, courage, depression, hope,
Form:
Free verse
September 12th 2019 1200 Pm
September 12th, 2019...12:00 p.m.
inspection/ emission finally possible
but...hopes dashed to smithereens
August thirty first
two thousand nineteen shortly past,
no matter 2009 Hyundai Sonata at long last
scheduled with ample funds
checking account blitzed
now back home
(Highland Manor apartments)
absolute zero money...
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Categories:
ostensibly, 11th grade, 12th grade, angst, confidence, motivation,
Form:
Rhyme
Freedom vs Order: Competing Constructs
Freedom with far Freedom with Order with less Order with far
less emphasis on less emphasis ...
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Categories:
ostensibly, destiny, extended metaphor, freedom, humanity, introspection, political,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Battle of the Coaches
Keep winning
with your same old competitive erection,
said the life coach,
To avoid future losses.
What are the key capital investment opportunities,
asked the financial coach,
That keep Business As Competitively Usual
building larger homes,
expanding sacred cathedrals,
triumphing Win-or-Lose public servants
calculating democratic...
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Categories:
ostensibly, beauty, caregiving, health, integrity, love, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Unadulterated Emotional Anguish Linkedin
Unadulterated emotional anguish linkedin...
Regarding inconsolable screaming infant
christened Matthew Scott Harris woke
eureka insight about said newborn self,
experiences ultra sensitivity courtesy
loud noises and/or sleep disruption.
I purportedly cried mine
trademark noisy hullabaloo
no matter pallor turned
fifty plus shades of blue
nonstop...
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Categories:
ostensibly, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form:
Free verse
Eleventh, March
A sigh escapes still, immune to overt silence, unabashed...justified
Another teardrop enters the infinite pool of resilience, uplifting...reinforcing
Another hand empathizes--
touching, impulsively putting one's...
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Categories:
ostensibly, dedication, hope, tribute, universe,
Form:
Free verse
Where Tranquility's Quintessence Abides
I start my afternoon hike up a mountain trail.
October’s sunlight, the vestige of Indian Summer,
dapples my exposed skin with welcomed warmth.
Sun’s rays are gilded tendrils cutting through pines
whose needles’ sweet scent
...
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Categories:
ostensibly, autumn,
Form:
Free verse
He Was Hot
We were at a club in Paris called L’Arc. It’s an outdoor club (spring break plus covid safety) that’s underneath the Arc de Triomphe. It’s 10PM and we’re coming from a night tour of the...
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Categories:
ostensibly, dance, fun, humor, joy, night, teen, travel,
Form:
Free verse
The Crab
You wish me to say those words,
To love you
Surely you mean to win me
As I exhale my expostulations
Some hidden truth
That you think you understand
You mean to squeeze out of me
Some sacred confession
As I engorge...
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Categories:
ostensibly, angst, conflict, endurance, love, psychological, sorrow, strength,
Form:
Free verse
Where the Red Lines Are
We both know where the red lines are the social etiquette of unsaid things that we must observe,
the physical boundaries of social distancing that we cannot pass through create emotional mountains in our...
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Categories:
ostensibly, love, romantic love,
Form:
Verse
Outlawry In the Night
The blue moon crackingly, magnanimously rose,
As he creeped in quietly, repressed — inconspicious!
His eyes gleaming in appatency yet sorely of passion,
Calm are his actions but embedded monstrously of tension.
Dulcet words escaped his mouth in...
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Categories:
ostensibly, addiction, anxiety, conflict,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Back To B
let's start straightforward with an A
and always be cool and demure that way
whisper nonchalantly what we have to say
of alpha to omega between bourgeoisie
'cause cool is cool 'n' hip-hop is hip
even if the straights can't...
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Categories:
ostensibly, imagination, introspection, rap, social, world, universe,
Form:
Rhyme
Puttin' On the Ritz
A four piece string ensemble competes
with fluted crystal glasses harmonizing
to the tinkling of fine silverware
underpinned by the purring whispers
of well-to-do's and their hobnobbery.
Buttery lobster and rib-eyed supper in
opulent gravies and exotic spices;
cornucopia fruits on...
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Categories:
ostensibly, beauty, celebrity, class, clothes, corruption, crazy, money,
Form:
Free verse
Path
I can see the destination, I can feel the path
I can hear others rejoicing, with a constant laugh.
Quitting seems logical in abating the distress
For I could follow a safer path, nevertheless.
Yet some...
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Categories:
ostensibly, courage, metaphor, passion, truth,
Form:
Narrative
Divinity
"Edified mind lights life in darkness, senses divine grace
in soul suffused with bliss" - By Poet
The compulsive free will ostensibly latent,
envelopes my mind with transient shroud,
obscures the ordained pathway God makes,
l need to travel...
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Categories:
ostensibly, analogy, devotion, life, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
Delusion
The assigned unseen lamp hidden somewhere,
someone kindles for you when you’re made to arrive.
Unperceived, it creates reflective beam of contemplation,
illumines the pathway of your destined journey.
The free will you make as the mental mural...
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Categories:
ostensibly, analogy, introspection, life,
Form:
Free verse
Intellectual Debris
Aimlessly walking across the wasteland
of your mind,
you pick through the emotional trash
with random intensity
Crushed bottles of plastic thoughts;
half drank, half spilled on dozens of bridal dresses
Crushed cans of metal demands;
hard lemonade speeches, soft...
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Categories:
ostensibly, identity, psychological, truth, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
Requiem For An Artist
A requiem for an artist
was painted on a man's mind
This artist attempted to change the world
to heal it from inside
The man took the brunt
of all of her messages of hope
She sent them ostensibly to him
to...
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Categories:
ostensibly, art, friendship, growth,
Form:
Rhyme
My Truths
"My truths are the shared essence of empathy in the
fabric of universal oneness" - Quote by Poet.
...
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Categories:
ostensibly, introspection, perspective,
Form:
Verse