Long Overextended Poems
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Hearthstone Of Thy Fathers Love
Hearthstone Of Thy Fathers Love
Fatherhood exuberant and renowned is how you boys made me feel.
Exquisite was the taste of my tears as I felt the sensation of joy in both of your first cry’s!
The days,...
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Categories:
overextended, care,
Form:
Free verse
Contagious Insomnia
I've not been sleeping well
since early November,
about the time Donald Trump
was not just nominated by Republican Christian
White
Male Dominant
Evangelical Christians,
in some unholy alliance with
fundamentalist rabid Roman Right
to Define Which Lives Matter Most Catholics,
but actually elected their...
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Categories:
overextended, christian, games, health, humor, independence day, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse
She Had a Dream I
Be truthful, supposing you were I,
Would you have not snub the thigh?
Opened its teaching; closed one eye
Move swiftly so shy
Rest weather to rely
Not on heart contemplating to comply
The weird moment fitting body's sigh.
How then after...
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Categories:
overextended, allusion, art, betrayal, boyfriend, dream, girlfriend, heartbroken,
Form:
Rhyme
Who Am I
This morning arrives as day is signaled by light
The stars yawn and retire as the day becomes bright
Gone is the safe harbor the shadow of night
Morning brings yet another chance to do things right
Within me...
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Categories:
overextended, anxiety, deep, devotion, feelings, i am, religious,
Form:
Prose
Hey Descarte Was My Brother, Dummy
Forecast aplenties with no degradations announced vertically, religiously or otherwise could have englanced my intuities to a mind over marketed by nomin al periods of intellectual cell growth, idea by idea. Brain overextended as to...
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Categories:
overextended, allegory, appreciation, confidence, courage, family, life, society,
Form:
Free verse
Very Bad News
Anna left early from Soho
But still she got caught in the storm
Due at 5:30, it’s quarter to ten
She should never have driven alone
Maybe she’s parked at a rest stop
Or maybe some roadside motel
Or maybe we...
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Categories:
overextended, angst, death, song-day, hate, day, hate, high
Form:
Lyric
A Fading Professor On a February Friday
A FADING PROFESSOR ON A
FEBRUARY FRIDAY
On a cold, gray day
that made cold and gray
synonymous with abyss,
she came to his office with
two new drawings that advanced
her thesis about ecological design
in a coastal Canadian city
She had...
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Categories:
overextended, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
Redemptive Economics
Economies of cooperative redemption,
like taking turns licking
melting ice cream cones,
favorably contrast to
stingier economies of personal private
sticky and prickly ownership
Including feeling entitled to purchase
whatever and whomever
I can afford to buy or rent
in cash up...
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Categories:
overextended, happiness, health, heart, humor, integrity, political, power,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
One Night Only
It’s been crazy these past few days
You’ve showed me so much
As your smiles pass my glance
And reunite with your soft, tender touch
Against my cheek you drag those hands
And press your finger against my lips
Come in...
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Categories:
overextended, anniversary, beauty, love, lust, marriage, romantic, wife,
Form:
Rhyme Royal
Ode Underwater
I've got this listing, sinking feeling
that I owed most of my life to my bank.
Hands in the air, reaching for debt ceiling,
yet another fine mess, with no one to thank.
Guns all put down, the pen...
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Categories:
overextended, business, education, funny, introspection, mystery, sociallife,
Form:
Rhyme
No Way Out
We all know someone who has been depressed before.
We might have experienced depression ourselves. Being stressed out has become a integral part of life for many. Possibly we are withdrawn and feeling numb inside. Stress...
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Categories:
overextended, depression, stress, mental health,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Amerika the Beauty Falls
'America the Beautiful' was an uplifting poem written by Katharine Lee Bates in 1895.
I wrote this modern version to reflect on the sorry state of our nation today.
Amerika the Beauty Falls
Land of the guided missiles...
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Categories:
overextended, america, how i feel, nostalgia, perspective, word
Form:
Free verse
Digging the Hole Deeper
Digging the Hole Deeper
By Elton Camp
If you’ve dug yourself into debt too big
For sure, the hole don’t continue to dig
Credit was easy so folks overextended
Then suddenly, all that become upended
Financial affairs got into a terrible...
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Categories:
overextended, angst,
Form:
Rhyme
Teeter-Totters
Warm weather, teeter-totters back and forth;
Winter counterchecks every move Spring makes
to wiggle free from the grip of the north.
Winter has applied both feet to the brakes,
aiming to stay put whatever it takes.
April showers often end...
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Categories:
overextended, 10th grade, angst, anxiety, april, imagery, spring,
Form:
Quintain (English)