Long Outliving Poems
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Inferiority Complex As a Kid, Adolescent and Emerging Adult
Inferiority complex as a kid, adolescent and emerging adult
Yours truly (an amazingly,
gracefully, and markedly modest
passively aging baby boomer -
formerly introverted long haired
pencil necked geek),
prattling wordsmith doth behold
nostalgic memories regarding father
(Boyce Brandon Harris)
long ago lapsed decades
during...
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Categories:
outliving, 11th grade, 12th grade, 1st grade, 2nd
Form:
Rhyme
Land of the Seven Suns
' The gods' spake to all who had 'wide' ears...
but all they heard was Apollo's muse....'
How leavened my soul to search,
wooly and wild to the waxxen...
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Categories:
outliving, heaven, hope, metaphor, philosophy, spiritual, tribute,
Form:
Classicism
Martial Translations
Martial epigram translations
Epitaph for the Child Erotion
by Marcus Valerius Martial
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Lie lightly on her, grass and dew...
So little weight she placed on you.
I created the translation above after the Nashville Covenant...
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Categories:
outliving, child, daughter, death, funeral, girl, parents, slavery,
Form:
Epigram
This Way
Does God know the sorrows of man?
Does Faith relieve the burdens of sin?
She was worn out as she was worn in
Her spirit had no use for her body
Her eyes saw the face of death lurking
The...
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Categories:
outliving, mothermother, life, death, god, lost, time, body,
Form:
Free verse
Land of the Seven Suns
How leavened my soul to search,
wooly and wild to the waxxen wind,
how swift my wings though my fancy yearns,
catching sights...
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Categories:
outliving, creation, hope, paradise,
Form:
Rhyme
The Askance Chapter 3 Part 2a
Echoes Beyond Darkness
The visions swept my mind ever so constantly
Promising a new dawn upon every now and every then
Time seem lengthen amid the path of ancient mystery
And I was nevermore the poetic soul of a...
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Categories:
outliving, imagination,
Form:
Rhyme
Buhari's Poetical Graphics Representation
All efforts tabled on Nigeria;
Experiencing a fortunate miscarriage,
Feasting Aso rock- a pizzeria
But never admit it is the cause of this age.
Upon the solid manifesto,
That touches all sectors:
Picturing California's Barstow,
To cajole...
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Categories:
outliving, abuse, africa, art, betrayal, change, class, corruption,
Form:
Rhyme
Inferiority Complex As a Kid, Adolescent and Emerging Adult Part Two
timid, meek, and demure (effeminate) me,
essentially ruled the roost
regarding Harris household
sole son characterized vis a vis
presented passive resistant
outward nonestablishmentarian mold
worst case scenario
would witness Matthew Scott Harris
spending longevity old and feeble minded
at 324 Level Road
outliving parents,...
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Categories:
outliving, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 1st
Form:
Rhyme
Beyond The Grave Of Beni Blue
Beyond the grave of Beni Blue
was an aging twisting branching Yew
Young Beni liked to play and hide
as he did the day he died
In a forgotten graveyard corner it grew
hiding a doorway known by few
The thick...
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Categories:
outliving, adventure, dark, fantasy, scary,
Form:
Narrative
Goodbye, Odie
Goodbye, Odie
My little old cat is dying.
His steps are awkward, eyes unfocussed
and he cries when he can’t see me.
I’m not sure I want to be in a world
that doesn’t have my tabby Familiar.
I am feeling...
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Categories:
outliving, animal, bereavement, cat, death, farewell, grief, tribute,
Form:
Pantoum
Moonlight on Meadows
My heart remains asleep, until you touch it... (poet)
You are the most' enigmatic existence,'
which will never be mine.
I remain a million waves away,
trying to make beauty from your scars.
Love is a reflective remedy in a...
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Categories:
outliving, absence, love, sensual,
Form:
Free verse
Foremost On My Bucket List
Foremost On My Bucket List?
Yo yo ma...though your absence
doth suddenly cause me woe,
no matter parting with
many bittersweet sorrows
long since consciousness unstrung
more'n fourteen plus years ago,
the last surviving Kuritsky
grim reaper enviously eventually snatched,
outliving demise of my...
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Categories:
outliving, absence, anxiety, august, betrayal, death, depression, mother,
Form:
Free verse
Trial and Terror
Trial and Terror
Tim had tried most everything else
waiting hoping procrastinating
meditation introspection ‘extro-neglection’
defence contraptions of all sorts and the
whole self-help spirit enclave palaver and yet
he still felt like a cadaver a rotting ‘thing’ of...
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Categories:
outliving, endurance,
Form:
Free verse
A Christmas Pageant Past
It wasn't a memory as such but a story,
Recounted time and again by parents loving and proud.
Young men are too occupied chasing visions and fleeing demons
To remember.
Middle age concerns lean towards practicality, keeping...
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Categories:
outliving, age, christmas, family, memory,
Form:
Free verse
Dunkelheit
calling all mistreated jugglers
and wretches of condemned madhouses
bewitched by fingers of freak fame
the spindly fingers of trickster twins
that open the floodgates to occult caverns
unleashing the brusque wraiths
the brittle symmetry of her glacial eyes
cast down from...
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Categories:
outliving, imagery, surreal, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
Just Another Day
I wake up and my room feels like it’s eighty-five degrees
My roommate is gone, not sure she will be coming back
No one is telling me anything, I am not stupid or dumb
Here comes my aid,...
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Categories:
outliving, grief, loneliness, sorrow,
Form:
Free verse
Immortal
If you had the option to be an immortal,
would you leap at the chance, or just let that go?
It sounds like a question that’s easy to answer,
but I’d recommend that you take it real slow.
Are...
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Categories:
outliving, age,
Form:
Rhyme
Dad and the Creaky Window
The house wasn’t as old as my father,
However some parts were starting to creak,
He detested outliving my mother,
And wanted a still house that didn’t speak.
His small bedroom window had a loose screw,
And it made...
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Categories:
outliving, 10th grade,
Form:
ABC
The Holy Youth of Sao Paulo
skinny children move quickly outliving
the shadow of their slim suicides.
running and skipping they celebrate lent
with
the soles of their feet creating samba
daylight vigil's on every corner.
now the...
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Categories:
outliving, allegory,
Form:
I do not know?
Elderly Angel
You aren't my grandmother, only a friend,
But I'll be so sad when you time here ends.
Luminous blue eyes; hair like pearls in sunlight
Your smile always greets me with avid delight.
For ninety...
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Categories:
outliving, inspiration, mentor, old,
Form:
Rhyme
DEATH
Life comes from the living ones
But death?
Where does death come from?
Does it come from outside?
Or it comes from within?
Does it start when we are born?
Or walk with us throughout life?
When we start crawling
When we start...
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Categories:
outliving, death,
Form:
Free verse
Ancient Music
Drink the water of mountain brook
Sweet and clear, it fills you with joy
Try it once, very soon you’re hooked
Much like ale, in thirst, to enjoy
Ancient music, from ages gone by
Is like stream, crystal clear ’n...
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Categories:
outliving, music, time,
Form:
Rhyme
Outliving a Plumb Tree
I drove back in time to my childhood home-for a funeral
I sniffed around some old stomping grounds...
the "monkey trail" was an overgrown path that led to the baseball fields
next to the tracks where the trains...
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Categories:
outliving, childhood,
Form:
Free verse
A Mountain’s Idea of Love
A mountain sits
And a river flows
A mountain suffers her tears
And the infiltration of life
Wildflowers necklace it
As the goats dance up and down its rocky parts.
It can wiggle off snow as well as a buffalo a...
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Categories:
outliving, butterfly, change, cry, love, lust, mountains, true
Form:
Free verse
The Ballad of Ma Possum
THE BALLAD OF MA POSSUM
Roofing like a penthouse floor,
Tis not a haunt but Ma's snore.
A wombatic possum in appearance,
Being nature's pinup is her arrogance.
Her distintictive, brush, bob tail, loss,
reputedly, respected as the boss poss.
Hearing her...
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Categories:
outliving, animal, environment, fun, humorous, pets,
Form:
Ballad