Long Paddled Poems
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Where Art Thou Anonymous Benefactor To Offer Me Succor
Where art thou anonymous benefactor...to offer me succor?
Ah... methinks legal tender
could be a boon to help me bolster
mein kampf with necessary material equipage,
which prospect to acquire essential
commodities sabotaged
at the altar of...
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Categories:
paddled, 8th grade, absence, anger, angst, boy, confusion,
Form:
Free verse
The Sandless Sand Castle
The Sandless Sand Castle
Let me tell you about my eldest brother.
I am: the "Scram!", the "Beat it!", the "What you looking at?!", and the "Turn around and watch the movie!", younger brother. As you can...
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Categories:
paddled, beach, beautiful, brother, celebration, memorial day, memory,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Rum N Raisin 9 - France Or Bust
Raisin gave the globe a tap to make it slowly spin
“Rum,” she said, “it’s quite a big wide world we’re living in.”
Rum looked up from lapping milk and wiped some from his face,
“Use your nose...
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Categories:
paddled, adventure, animal, cat,
Form:
Narrative
Poems About Children Vi
Poems about Children VI
Playmates
by Michael R. Burch
WHEN you were my playmate and I was yours,
we spent endless hours with simple toys,
and the sorrows and cares of our indentured days
were uncomprehended . . . far, far...
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Categories:
paddled, child, childhood, children, love, school, teen, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
Halloween Night
A Hallows Eve of trick or treating, elaborate costumes, candy eating,
Lantern’s dimming upon nightfall, locked doors marks next year’s meeting.
My recalling of my day and for the next...
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Categories:
paddled, death, evil, fear, halloween, october, psychological, scary,
Form:
Rhyme
The River
I finished work at noon on Friday and headed home to pack
Put my gear in the trunk and put my canoe on the roof rack
Headed out down the freeway and got off at exit seven
The...
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Categories:
paddled, adventure, america, death, river, surreal, water,
Form:
Narrative
The Window
She stares at the paper not a word comes to write
Surrounded by peace on a dark rainy night.
Like the page in her notebook her mind remains clear.
Not a word to be written, her pen she...
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Categories:
paddled, childhood, father daughter, memory, together,
Form:
Free verse
Rolling Stones
Once upon a time in the lands from the north, south, east to west
Navigating on the cold white sands formed of sugar and ice ...
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Categories:
paddled, funny, mountains, ocean, river, silly,
Form:
I do not know?
A Perfect Day To Journey and a Perfect Day To Learn - Part 2
A Perfect Day to Learn
We took our late lunch in a wooden cabin at the foot of the mountain where exotic foods in sumptuous meal were served. I enjoyed immensely the fried fish and...
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Categories:
paddled, adventure, courage, encouraging,
Form:
Haibun
Where Art Thou Anonymous Benefactor To Offer Me Succor
Where art thou anonymous benefactor...to offer me succor?
Castaway stranded on figurative
deserted island pitted with absolute
zero salvation, sole recourse
finds scant consolation with prayer
lifetime atheist draws futile faith
within himself grudgingly accepting
feeble accomplishments...
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Categories:
paddled, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, anger,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
For Flesh and Blood
These were letters written in tablets of blood
We wrote the pains of yesterday today wittily
On this seaside of swaying embargo of tablets
She was the song swept in pity and cruelty
Daring the concubines that...
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Categories:
paddled, absence, abuse, africa,
Form:
Ballad
Return, My Love
Return, my love! Let’s flee the gates to leave our scornful town,
And roam outside in deepest woods where Nature wears her crown!
Beside the river stands unmoved, as many years ago,
The ruined castle’s narrow...
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Categories:
paddled, longing, loss, lost love, love, nature, romance,
Form:
Rhyme
Odyssey From Africa 1a
Chapter 1 THE FISHERMAN
At the dawn of humankind in
Africa's great land of sunlight
This adventure of survival
Of a family's arduous journey
One of exile and betrayal
And of hopeful brave endurance
Happened long before all...
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Categories:
paddled, adventure, africa, history, humanity, identity, mythology, world,
Form:
Narrative
Blue Jade
Shivering shimmers of scars passed out of my scarlet, scarred past. My ginger demons engulfed the fermented pain as I watched my regal orchid—the fussiest, sacred damsel who jitterbugs as an exiled seraph. Her candlelight...
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Categories:
paddled, addiction, appreciation, art, blue, deep, desire, devotion,
Form:
Free verse
Odyssey From Africa 11b
CHAPTER 11b The Island Kingdom, continued...
In an ocean-going vessel
Now this group of island warriors
Journeyed on an expedition
From the island to the mainland
Han could sense a strength of purpose
And a loyalty between...
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Categories:
paddled, adventure, africa, endurance, history, mythology, nature, voyage,
Form:
Narrative
Odyssey From Africa 3b
Chapter 3 THE RIVER continued (b)
Carefully they placed the children
In the small canoe amidships;
Pushing out into the current
Han swam alongside to guide them
Kwona, as she stood and waited
On the shore now took the...
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Categories:
paddled, adventure, africa, fantasy, history, mythology, science,
Form:
Narrative
The Widow In Her Cabin, Part I
It was back about 1803,
there stood a small cabin near to the sea,
where a widow lived by the name of Joanne,
who could not grieve for the death of her man,
since six years back he’d vanished...
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Categories:
paddled, desire, family, heartbreak, history, loneliness, loss, love,
Form:
Epic
Ocean Princess
Once upon a time there lived a boy called Musa,
who lived in an Island called Pemba. He loved
going fishing and long journeys into the deep,
blue ocean with his uncle, Kassim.
For centuries stories went round the...
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Categories:
paddled, deep, fantasy, love, magic, mystery, ocean, power,
Form:
Narrative
Soul Stance River - 2
The rivers are racing with a glee of free morning stampede today
carrying the currency of silted centuries and the cool silk of the wind's summer saga,
within my heart I feel the rambunctious rush of wanderlust
this...
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Categories:
paddled, courage,
Form:
Epic
The Stench of a Broken Heart
When I looked in to her eyes,
In it I saw a prospect of a paradise.
A paradise whose entry was not
contingent on my righteousness.
My days of startling agony, still battled my
hope of finding true love.
Like...
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Categories:
paddled, emotions, heartbreak, loss, lost, love, metaphor, trust,
Form:
Free verse
Biography
PROLOGUE
Biographies are for men who have a need to cry
To spell out what we remember is to subtract all
We forget, for knowing then nothing knew, a lie
Conjured by history, there's no a priori here at...
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Categories:
paddled, history, introspection, philosophy, me, me, time,
Form:
Free verse
Thru Maritime Miles 4-A New Destiny
My mind was relieved when my treasure was found
A matey retrieved it by scouting around
The pirate ship captain made sure that I knew
That me and my booty could stay with the crew
To all the dear...
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Categories:
paddled, humor, ocean, romance, word play,
Form:
Epic
Beacon of Light
A beacon of light...from a lighthouse in the ocean...
An unfortunate group of sailors...
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Categories:
paddled, inspirational, life,
Form:
Free verse
Come With Me
I am the greatest adventurer the world will ever know,
Just take my hand and off we'll go.
I have been to the mines of Moira,
To the very center of paranoia.
I have been to London and France,
I...
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Categories:
paddled, adventure, books, culture, happy, journey, uplifting,
Form:
Rhyme
Parallel Universe
Two pools lie in Druid Hill Park.
One for the white skinned, the other for the dark.
A high bed of grass grows were ebony feet splashed and kicked and paddled.
Each blade of grass is a soul,...
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Categories:
paddled, appreciation, humanity, race, time, travel,
Form:
Free verse