Long Over a barrel Poems
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In the Middle of the NightI woke up in the middle of the night with tears running from my eyes. I woke up in the middle of the night because my spirit cries
It is not the tear that falls when...
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Categories:
over a barrel, celebration, community, confidence, courage, england, environment, feelings,
Form:
Narrative
Sunday Evening SpreeI see people moving, but going nowhere
I see people moving with their hands thrown in the air
I see people moving but they have nothing to share
Bags and pans, old kettle, and old man
The scavenger, the...
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Categories:
over a barrel, betrayal, community, cute love, education, encouraging, faith,
Form:
Narrative
Zen Death HaikuZen Death Haiku
Brittle cicada shell,
little did I know
you were my life!
—Shuho, translation by Michael R. Burch
Returning
as it came,
this naked worm.
—Shidoken, translation by Michael R. Burch
As dew glistens
on a lotus leaf,
so too I soon must vanish.
—Shinsui,...
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Categories:
over a barrel, age, autumn, bereavement, death, death of a
Form:
Haiku
Zen Death Haiku IiToday, catching sight of the mallards
crying over Lake Iware:
Must I too vanish into the clouds?
—Prince Otsu translation by Michael R. Burch
This world—
to what may we compare it?
To autumn fields
lying darkening at dusk
illuminated by...
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Categories:
over a barrel, death, imagery, life, nature, symbolism, visionary, world,
Form:
Haiku
The Inner ChamberTHE INNER CHAMBER
Please. Stop holding back on me.
Like a child standing at the neighborhood ice cream truck, arm outstretched, eyes huge, mouth watering.
I stand here longing to slip underneath your decades of cold-rolled steel...
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Categories:
over a barrel, betrayal, courage, devotion, love, love hurts, relationship,
Form:
Prose
Social Privyjustice
What does this vastly misunderstood word mean to you?
Too what ends?
May we seek?
Who(m) may guide us?
Endless deliberation (spiss spiss spiss)
Debated and glorified by us all
Beloved; instilled among (a) core...
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Categories:
over a barrel, absence, abuse, addiction, adventure, allusion, analogy, anxiety,
Form:
Free verse
February 29th, 2024February 29th, 2024
Alternately titled: 111th leap year since 1582
the year Pope Gregory XIII world leader
(i.e. essentially paterfamilias among
Roman Catholic flock)
timely maneuvered around calendrical rock
and hard space implementing
viable system tracking years ad hoc
out of sync and...
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Categories:
over a barrel, 12th grade, age, birth, celebration, fate, february,
Form:
Rhyme
Uncle EldonUNCLE ELDON
Now that I am old, I see more clearly through my mind's eye, than I did in my youth, all those special people who played such a wonderful part in my life....
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Categories:
over a barrel, dedication,
Form:
Narrative
The Precipice
"The Precipice"
In the Autumn
she wore a wedding veil
A cold winter would lift it
Kiss her lips passionately to
speak words of
LOVE
on a
late roll call
“Well, that’s insanity for you”
some snakes would hiss
others rapture-faced
on...
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Categories:
over a barrel, god, humanity, science,
Form:
Free verse
Winter, 1948WINTER, 1948 [40 Saxton Street]
for W.W
The winter nights that pass now
are so unlike the winter nights
that passed before, that I often
struggle back in those suspended moments
when sleep grapples for a hold,
to once again hear the...
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Categories:
over a barrel, age, childhood, family, nostalgia,
Form:
Free verse
Raid Versus WoeRaid versus woe
Black flag(s) show up
on social media platforms
when potential homicidal maniac(s)
communicate(s) intent to strike
with ambush and ready
read - able, eager, and willing
to embark upon murderous rampage.
Prospective killer armed to the teeth
usually a young bucking...
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Categories:
over a barrel, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 1st
Form:
Rhyme
Desperate Message To Kim Jong UnPardon any absent adulation, bequeathed capitulation, devoted dedication, indiscretion, blabbering peroration, improper salutation or any unintended vexation if this unknown earthling sent a nearly identical message. He over-looked a small number of errors and hoped...
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Categories:
over a barrel, abuse, dark, emotions, evil, hate, war, world,
Form:
Free verse
My Layover Nightmare - Both Audio and TextYa' gotta feel sorry for this ding-bat -
The clouds were drifting eastward through a cool late-evening sky, as I was barreling down a road in eastern Tennessee.
Whipping through the traffic in a new...
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Categories:
over a barrel, humor,
Form:
Narrative
Annulment Coming UpI blame me brother for the likes of this predicament,
when we pub crawled up to Bunyip, and where our night was spent.
Thank God I wasn’t in the driver’s seat, ‘cause we wouldn’t be alive,
but...
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Categories:
over a barrel, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Self Help Addict Needles Unsuspecting ReaderSelf help addict needles unsuspecting reader
Expounded late today April 27th, 2023
since being written
countless years ago
maybe a baker's dozen
as thee doodling cock doth crow
scouting about for carrion
scavenging for dead animals
and rooting about...
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Categories:
over a barrel, 12th grade, abuse, anger, angst, anxiety, april,
Form:
Rhyme
Chapter 90 -- Damian Delilah Mallory Damali and Dj: United NationsThe next day. It was iffy everybody
Was tense. The Hakim family was
Distrustful of The Black China Men.
Early morning 8 am Friday.
Damali rose from his slumber
First followed by DJ Desharah
And Amadeus.
They...
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Categories:
over a barrel, blessing, confidence,
Form:
Alliteration
Unknown worldThe world that unfolds before me is unknown, but for some reason it is mine. Yes.
Anyone could say that my life is monotonous. But not. I protest. This is not true. Only mine.
No one just...
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Categories:
over a barrel, life,
Form:
Free verse
Mine Courtship and Marriage With Deadly ObsessionMine courtship and marriage with deadly obsession...
As September daze will soon arrive
recollections from a
psychologically checkered past
loom large recalling
tragic storied days of mein kampf.
Circa early nineteen seventies:
As a mere slip of a...
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Categories:
over a barrel, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 7th
Form:
Free verse
Spring Equinox Arrives March 20th, 2023 At 5:24 PmSpring equinox arrives March 20th, 2023 at 5:24 PM
Despite what outside temperature registers
(even absolute zero), the official arrival
of spring occurs, when thee eel hip tic
of coe phish hunt holy Mackerel
becomes tangential to barenaked ladies
barren...
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Categories:
over a barrel, 12th grade, appreciation, beautiful, butterfly, celebration, daffodils,
Form:
Free verse
To Hunt the BugabooWith the morning crisp and frosty
and the Earth yearning for autumn's heat.
Darkness gave way to a fractured dawn
as the Sun rose in the East.
The forest became warm...
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Categories:
over a barrel, funny, humor, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Virtue… as I child I heard these words by Immanuel Kant from my late Dad
over and over again …’you must act in a way that if everybody did it
your thinking and deeds could be the...
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Categories:
over a barrel, character,
Form:
Free verse
Tom and Terry - At Milton Creek[My recent poem ‘The Dimly Lit House’ received a
Comment from Charles Messina that it could be a Tom and
Jerry episode… what can I say? Something went ‘Ping!’]
...
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Categories:
over a barrel, cat, western,
Form:
Rhyme
The Job - Part 1The Job
I got a plane to catch in the morning. 8:15 AM out of Austin, destination Orange County, CA. Never cared much for California and I don’t think anything about this trip is...
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Categories:
over a barrel, death,
Form:
Narrative
A Pool of BloodBlood spilling in the east running all the way to the west
Forming rivers of doubt in the north and South
An army of men converge along the river bank
With long guns strapped to their sides
And big...
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Categories:
over a barrel, change, city, conflict, courage, extended metaphor, immigration,
Form:
Free verse
Aye Passively Plead Death To Please Release Me From Agonizing Clutches(alternately titled: Typical daily mindset today –
July 17th, 2020)
The following words
mostly unredacted, nevertheless finessed
for curbed poetic/prosaic appeal
lock, stock and barrel
codify, and edify (hoopfully not mortify)
any reader unbeknownst and/or familiar
with unsteady state of yours truly,
(an...
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Categories:
over a barrel, absence, cheer up, death, fate, grief, hope,
Form:
Free verse