Long Outdoing Poems
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Snow, Snake, Snow, Birds, Sickness, SittingSo many, maybe millions
No, billions. Trillions?
Of stars, a quiet, hot snowfall
of white stars; sandal season squall.
Each birch tree here outdoing
January's record accumulation.
Weeks of hour after hour after hour
upon day upon day upon day of
birches'...
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Categories:
outdoing, death, nature, philosophy,
Form:
Free verse
The All-Time Greatest Great BritainThis small island civilization,
its empire was the largest creation,
with the widest trade connection,
there are mixed views of our colonization.
Many modern countries exist because of the British,
many justifiably say our actions were most brutish.
Some have hate...
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Categories:
outdoing, england, freedom, history, humanity, international, time, world,
Form:
Rhyme
Paul Valery Translation of Secret OdePAUL VALERY TRANSLATION: “SECRET ODE”
“Secret Ode” is a poem by the French poet Paul Valéry about collapsing after a vigorous dance, watching the sun set, and seeing the immensity of the night sky as the...
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Categories:
outdoing, dance, french, night, sea, stars, sun, sunset,
Form:
Free verse
ImagineImagine the most successful version of you.
Imagine something that can actually come true.
Imagine all that success and what it would do.
Imagine all the failure that you plough through.
Imagine that dream job or successful career.
Imagine a...
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Categories:
outdoing, life, philosophy, success,
Form:
Rhyme
I Want To LiveI want to live
Not to focus on the end
Or on ENDING it
Not to see what’s wrong but right
Try to see beyond darkness to light
I want to try to dry my tears
To think of the coming...
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Categories:
outdoing, hope, how i feel, life, universe,
Form:
Carpe Diem
An Ode To the Anti-Apocalyptophobiacs of the Worldafter all the idiots who followed Camping
found themselves up shit’s crick
after May of 2011 &
after all the morons hoping & “praying”
that they would get a “get out of life free” card
with the ending of the...
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Categories:
outdoing, life, people, people,
Form:
Free verse
Cockroach ConcertAll thanks to William Wordsworth, one of our greats
I wandered in my kitchen round
floating high on cocaine broaches
all at once guess what I found
a nest of golden cockroaches
inside the stove, beside the fridge
singing and...
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Categories:
outdoing, parody,
Form:
Rhyme
The Thrill Is GoneMany years ago, the thrill of traveling was
special to us, mostly in the summer months.
We planned to visit sites never seen before-
...
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Categories:
outdoing, how i feel, travel,
Form:
Sapphic stanza
A Christmas Snow
Follow me and walk down an avenue of Firs
To my Log Cabin you'll view, I'm sure you'll concur
Overlooking Loch Ness, look in the fields you'll see
A herd of beautiful Reindeer roaming so free
But it's when...
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Categories:
outdoing, beautiful, christmas, color, nature, snow, tree, weather,
Form:
Rhyme
Dream OnThis life ain't right, so I'll just dream on/
Of you, our sex is on fire, I'm a king of Leon/
With you everything is just so in sync/
don't wanna miss a thing, so I don't blink/
My...
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Categories:
outdoing, beautiful, desire, dream, girl, heartbroken, heaven, i
Form:
Rhyme
SurvivalSurvival is a progressively efficient viral machine outdoing all competition.
Survival is an effortless, yet taxing, mediocrity sweetened by gratification.
Today Survival is a swirl of societal expectations, social roles, all learned precepts pressing against a...
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Categories:
outdoing, i am, life, society,
Form:
I do not know?
R I V E RRIVER
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My trail comes to face a wide river
With no bridges to be seen under these
evergreens —
Outdoing one another in height.
No rustling leaves underfoot:
The pines let fall their needles
For years and...
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Categories:
outdoing, imagery, memory, nature, river, spiritual, symbolism, tree,
Form:
Free verse