Long Outnumbered Poems
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I hanker and pine for wood burning stove weather
I hanker and pine for wood burning stove weather
I haint no spring chicken,
("Buk buk buk buk ba-gawk!")
but in Summer re:
long in tooth sexagenarian
nostalgic for the following imagery
evoked yesterday with very little effort
(aside...
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Categories:
outnumbered, age, allegory, appreciation, celebration, confusion, halloween, natural
Form:
Free verse
The Chrysanthemum Throne
In the ancient Empire of the Chrysanthemum Throne, horsemen riders from the southern regions, their steel swords close to their sides, clang heavily to their waist as they ride hard to the capital. Before their...
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Categories:
outnumbered, analogy,
Form:
Free verse
Bionic Betty: Another True Tale From the Mental Ward
Betty was bonafide crazy. She had shot her husband after a night of drunken quarreling, and was in the state mental hospital instead of being in the slammer. She'd shot the louse in the stomach...
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Categories:
outnumbered, crazy, woman,
Form:
Narrative
Unwoven Memories
I grew up and out on a four family-owned,
and cooperatively-organized,
extended matriarchal farm.
Four interdependent 1940s through 1970s patriarchally managed businesses,
without substantial questions about who should wear pants,
yet with a surprising matriarchal cooperative understory.
The boxers outnumbered the...
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Categories:
outnumbered, culture, family, farm, happiness, health, political, usa,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Ashurah
(Every year in the lunar month of Muharram we Shia Muslims commemorate the brutal martyrdom of the grandson of our Holy prophet Muhammed (s.a.w) and his family and friends at the hands of fake hypocritical...
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Categories:
outnumbered, history, islamic, remembrance day, sad,
Form:
Elegiac Lyric
The Murderers Cry
Haven’t you had enough blood from the beginning of time?
Haven’t you taken enough lives before they should have died?
All around I can hear their cry
They want to escape from the under world
You spill blood...
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Categories:
outnumbered, betrayal, break up, bullying, conflict, death of
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Sinai Campaign, 1967
Sinai Campaign, 1967
“Operation Focus” sees Israeli jets streaking, 1
Attacking Arab fighter jets and air force bases, 2
Thus attaining dominance over Middle Eastern skies,
While IDF ground divisions launch into action. 3
Israeli tanks (Pattons, Shermans, and Centurions)
Blitzkrieg...
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Categories:
outnumbered, education, history, jewish, war,
Form:
Verse
Chuck Jennings
The bombing of Pearl Harbour was the turning point for me
That day I enlisted in the army, despite protests from my family
I tried to reassure them by saying that everything would be fine
And after six...
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Categories:
outnumbered, america, death, soldier, world war ii,
Form:
Narrative
Michael Collins
It has often been said that empires come and go
And from the beginning of time that has been so
Empires ruled with terror and an iron fist
Taking brutal action against those, who tried to resist.
On the...
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Categories:
outnumbered, england, ireland, soldier, war,
Form:
Narrative
Dreams of the Battle of Thymbra, Lydian Persian War
Dreams of The Battle of Thymbra, Lydian-Persian War
In the midst of a battle I awoke thrown
walking over the crimson red dead.
Found and drew the shaft from solid stone
standing on soil blood soaked in red!
My heart...
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Categories:
outnumbered, conflict, death, history, imagery, military, sorrow, war,
Form:
Narrative
The Tigerilla
CHAPTER ONE
They closed the county zoo for it was sick financially
They thought they’d take the creatures to their homes across the sea
The Silverback Gorilla soon in Africa would be
And then they’d go to Asia where...
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Categories:
outnumbered, africa, animal,
Form:
Rhyme
The Voice of My Ancestors
Every morning
When I glance into the mirror
I look deep inside
Deeper than my subtly-thinning hair
Deeper than my raven beard
Deeper than my mocha complexion
Laden with marks
Of life's wear and tear
And high cheek bones
I see multitudes
From across...
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Categories:
outnumbered, america, black african american, culture, world,
Form:
Prose
Forever-With-Me-In-Heart
Him, he’s so dangerous but so safe.How can someone like him be so broken??His smile oh my gosh it’s so priceless I swear he doesn’t know his true worth.To me no mental diagnosis would be...
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Categories:
outnumbered, absence, boyfriend, death, grief,
Form:
I do not know?
The Genocide At Wounded Knee
On December the twenty eight in the year eighteen ninety
Major Samuel Whitside was on patrol, with the seventh cavalry
When they sighted a party of Indians from the Lakota nation
And told them they'd be escorted to...
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Categories:
outnumbered, america, death, military, murder, native american,
Form:
Narrative
Soul Stance River - 30
The Columbia is a smooth beast that has introduced us to a semi tropic clime
that produces a bewildering humidity even for November
and a panoply of tree types that canopy the mossy turfs
from a sky that...
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Categories:
outnumbered, adventure,
Form:
Epic
Dark Angels of Highgate
Enough Angelina, drop the bouquet of harebells.
The flowers wilt as your graying hands stiffen. See, how grave
is our newborn son. We gift him a black crêpe layette.
Say Darling Edward, say, Golubushka, make me...
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Categories:
outnumbered, death,
Form:
Sestina
Unknown Soldier
He stood as he braced himself for the greatest battle he`ll ever known
His entire life`s existence an accolade towards this very moment, this last battle of the gods
His breath slow and measured, steadying himself for...
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Categories:
outnumbered, death,
Form:
Sonnet
I Can'T Breathe
In memory of---- all lives taken by unfair justice.
Solely in my room, I can't stomach the sound of my pulse
I sit here alone to forget the taste of air
Deluge by the scenery -...
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Categories:
outnumbered, abuse, community, death, dedication, murder, race, violence,
Form:
Free verse
John Stark's Glory, Part I
Back in seventeen seventy-seven,
British general John Burgoyne faced hard times,
despite winning at Hubbardton, and Fort Anne,
supplies were getting very hard to find.
When word came that General Howe wouldn’t be
marching up the Hudson to meet his...
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Categories:
outnumbered, america, conflict, freedom, hero, history, patriotic, war,
Form:
Epic
To Win By Losing, Or the Battle of Guilford Courthouse, Part I
General Cornwallis of Great Britain
faced a problem that he couldn’t resolve,
he’d won at Camden, they’d captured Charlestown,
but still the southern colonies wouldn’t fall.
Instead he faced a string of reverses,
lost at King’s Mountain and then at...
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Categories:
outnumbered, america, conflict, courage, freedom, history, patriotic, war,
Form:
Epic
Average Size Non Boldface Type Longfellows
In Times New Roman, I font
to hitch wagon to a star.
Alias Adobe Jenson Albertus Aldus here
wed Alexandria (Algerian, an all around
American Typewriter gal) scattershot
with Antiqua ancestry, she told me
after I Aster while Aurora Borealis
shimmered overhead,...
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Categories:
outnumbered, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure, age, appreciation,
Form:
Free verse
Why Your Cities Burn, Part I
I’ve seen many look to the sky
and to the gods earnestly plead,
what sins have the committed that
require so many to bleed?
Why does Lord Diyal ride the lands,
do things that make your stomach churn,
his soldiers loot...
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Categories:
outnumbered, anger, conflict, dark, evil, loss, slavery, war,
Form:
Epic
Legend of the Black Dove - Part 7
Legend Of The Black Dove
...
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Categories:
outnumbered, adventure,
Form:
Narrative
Average Size Non Boldface Type Longfellows
Alias Adobe Jenson Albertus Aldus here
wed Alexandria (Algerian, an all around
American Typewriter gal) scattershot
with Antiqua ancestry, she told me
after I Aster while Aurora Borealis
shimmered overhead, while temporarily
embarking on long day's
journey into night
("yule Jean," I uttered
for...
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Categories:
outnumbered, adventure, allegory, friendship, humorous, meaningful, mystery, proposal,
Form:
Free verse
Bridgett Faerie Leapt From the Flames
Bridgett Faerie leapt from the flames with a pop and a fizzle
Delighting her elemental dad, Hellfire, wielder of the flame
Her mother gave her the power to make leaves dance
Her purpose not apparent yet, but...
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Categories:
outnumbered, fairy,
Form:
Narrative