Long Overlooks Poems
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Unquotable Quotes: L 50 - Tongue-Teasing Epigrams
UNQUOTABLE QUOTES: L (50) - Tongue-Teasers
The « early bird catches the worm » only because the worm has not woken up yet.
« I don’t love you ! I hated your father ! » - must...
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Categories:
overlooks, art, humor, irony, women, word play,
Form:
Epigram
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 2
I awoke the next day, with a soft smile,
Not awakened by the screeching and the moaning of the demons beside,
But of the intense breathing of my collaborator,
Crouching above me, glaring me down with eyes abhorred
Though...
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Categories:
overlooks, adventure, beauty, change, confusion, courage, deep, desire,
Form:
Free verse
The Beginding
(Door bell rings)
— The damn dog barks and a voice is heard. Arms stretch, forming a letter Y. A head shakes. Dimples become this smooth cheek; lips form a letter O... Exhaled respiration sighs; the break of...
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Categories:
overlooks, adventure, allusion, analogy, animal, appreciation, art, assonance,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Fall Break
In New Haven, Lisa misses the sad, dark, city aesthetics of her hometown. Its crime podcast vibe, actinic crime-lighting and sirens in the distance, that lull her to sleep like lullabies. She has a disturbingly...
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Categories:
overlooks, food, friendship, fun, humor, new york, sister,
Form:
Free verse
I've met Scarecrows with more Spine than you!
I'm not addicted, so this will be easy
It's a hard truth to hear so I just tune it out
and I’m arguing with walls
but I end up letting them fall on me
“But it...
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Categories:
overlooks, addiction, conflict, desire, growth, repetition,
Form:
Free verse
Madame Bovary: Come and Take Me If You Can
"Madame Bovary", a novel by French novelist Gustave Flaubert, in 1856. Flaubert reconstructed a conventional story of adultery into a lasting work of heartfelt humanity. Madame Bovary is considered Flaubert’s masterpiece, and, according to some,...
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Categories:
overlooks, angst, character, muse,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Backdoors of My Town
I was a whimsical, interior designer, bringing colors and joy into living spaces,
Subtly changing neighborhoods and lives, like vibrant arcs the rainbow traces.
People were as dissimilar as their houses, the both of them rather fascinating,
Like...
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Categories:
overlooks, beauty, fantasy, imagery, life, nature, people, places,
Form:
Couplet
Never Land Part 1
NOTE TO THE READER
Once Apun a Time
This yarn is a flossy fabric woven of several earlier warped works, lightly laced together, adorned with fur-ther braided tails of human frailty. The looms were loosed, purling frantically...
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Categories:
overlooks, fantasy,
Form:
Rhyme
When Mountains Go High
Sitting by my window with sounds of bird telling
some men busy working constructing a new home
far at my sight a mountain range overlooks at me
wondered what rhyme I am going to make
so title came fast,...
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Categories:
overlooks, age, best friend, care, day, earth, friendship,
Form:
Free verse
My Watch
It’s Sunday morning, my watch shows that it’s 33° and 5:58 am. Surprisingly, half of us are up and motile. My excuse is that I’m scheduled to volunteer at the hospital this morning.
Leong just...
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Categories:
overlooks, boyfriend, music, relationship, school, student, teen,
Form:
Free verse
Kites
The Heraclee sky was a lurid, neon blue but the morning was surprisingly cool (at 54°). The antemeridian sun managed to cast sharp, surreal, black-hole shadows, giving the world a baroque art look, as if...
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Categories:
overlooks, beach, feelings, french, life, sea, travel, vacation,
Form:
Free verse
Stuck separated together, part 1
They say that when two people are together for too long, they begin to lose themselves. They start to shift, fade into each other like colors blending on a forgotten canvas, and, in the end,...
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Categories:
overlooks, abuse, family, longing, lost love, love hurts,
Form:
Free verse
America After 1962
On June 25, 1962 prayer was taken out of school
It was like losing a ring's precious jewel
If you look into America's history
You will find that it is no mystery
From that date on we...
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Categories:
overlooks, education, faith, fear, forgiveness, history, inspirational, life,
Form:
Couplet
Living On Someday
If raindrops rise in leu of fall
would you seek the meaning overall?
Would spectacles endow with a clarity of fog
would you follow tangled lines of a rearward call?
Inevitable advance to stepping backwards
and dreams which mock to...
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Categories:
overlooks, confusion, desire, dream, hope, love, prayer, rain,
Form:
Rhyme
An Erin Adventure
It was an autumn day, fresh and crisp,
with a slight breeze blowing that made
our cheeks rosy. My Aunt Trix and I were
on the trip of a lifetime, one in which she
had been making...
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Categories:
overlooks, adventure, autumn, ireland, travel,
Form:
Haibun
Sundown
Its sundown, the day’s been reduced to a crack of lavender and fiery pinks along the Massif des Maures mountains. This evening we’re sipping cocktails at “Les Toits,” the Hôtel de Paris’ rooftop restaurant. The...
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Categories:
overlooks, beach, drink, teen, travel, vacation, women, world,
Form:
Free verse
Poem- Salt Poet- Aditya Aneek
Poem- Salt
Poet- Aditya Aneek
Reciter- Shimul Mustapha
In a book fair, theater, cafe, on the first day of Bangla calendar, around the festive Valentine day
An ordinary boy is he, if one overlooks his insinuating efforts to...
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Categories:
overlooks, best friend,
Form:
Free verse
Cold Cemetery of Friendship
Trees swaying in the cold
November breeze, as I
ascended up the hill
a brown path, a dull
line drawn across the
two sides of grassy green
Moses parting the sea
I walking, splitting the
cool...
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Categories:
overlooks, friendshipme, voice, me, voice,
Form:
Free verse
Corners
Last night, Lisa, Peter, Leeza and I were in her father’s 50th floor study watching New York City. It’s a corner room with glass walls from floor to ceiling. He likes to watch the city...
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Categories:
overlooks, holiday, humor, new york, night, school, student,
Form:
Free verse
Touristy Tanzania
Dar es salaam where I live means heaven of peace
But to me she has proved as well to be a haven of peace.
A peaceful place for any peace-loving person or race.
Atleast selfishly from here seem...
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Categories:
overlooks, places,
Form:
Free verse
Where the Heart Resides
Like open arms
These broken gates reach out to me
And lead me to the lonely house
That overlooks the sea
Her door once proud and stately
Now splintered hangs in shame
As she realizes no longer can she
Keep out the...
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Categories:
overlooks, heart, love, me, old,
Form:
Personification
Ulzana's Raid
In Ulzana's Raid,
the Native- and European-American concepts of property ownership
and rights
are incompatible and irresolvable. McIntosh
had no illusions about that. He said hating Apaches for killing whites
is like hating the...
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Categories:
overlooks, america, art, friend, history, hurt, peace, water,
Form:
Verse
Under the Glass Moon Eyes
Upon the porch overlooks the stellar way,
Nothing but darkness, on the great stellar way
Over the dead sky, pendent hang cold bright Moon
To warn whoever to walk and lay down soon
A lone stranger comes to...
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Categories:
overlooks, allegory, confusion, depression, evil,
Form:
Prose
Nestled In Daydreams
I'm nestled in daydreams, safely tucked in a halcyon haven
away from the stress that greedily feasts on me like a raven
My Utopian realm offers a peaceful kingdom; a sanctuary
where there is no arguing with any...
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Categories:
overlooks, peace, perspective,
Form:
Couplet
Sanguinea, Queen of the Incas
*Image of Burgmansia Queen Of The Incas.
Sanguinea, Queen Of The Incas
In the lush jungles of constant condensation,
A royal order of an ancient kingdom,
That had ruled from an unknown beginning,
A caste system, whereby, a legacy of...
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Categories:
overlooks, allegory, flower, imagery, nature, rainforest, red, tree,
Form:
Personification