Long Palms Poems
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Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 29Somehow,
Forward, and headlong
I knew it was day again
There was a shift in the dark mutterings of the Devil,
Who now refused to sleep as I refused to sing,
Almost an anticipation in his voice,
As if he...
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Categories:
palms, adventure, bible, conflict, endurance, inspirational, love, war,
Form:
Epic
FlintFlint
Within its brilliance gleaming
Cool black in lacquered polished silver chrome
Cranked up pistons bleached in summer’s heat
Hot steam rising as gears thundering
Beyond the crystal liquid city lights
Highways built across the land
In hearts felt pride American...
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Categories:
palms,
Form:
Abecedarian
Fadwa Tuqan TranslationsFadwa Tuqan has been called the Grand Dame of Palestinian letters and The Poet of Palestine. These are my translations of Fadwa Tuqan poems originally written in Arabic.
Enough for Me
by Fadwa Tuqan
loose translation/interpretation by...
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Categories:
palms, allah, culture, earth, love, nature, voice, writing,
Form:
Free verse
I PromiseTo my dearest,
On this day you turn thirteen, officially a teenager! This meaning you are on the very first stage of discovering yourself, your music tastes, your food preferences, your style of clothing and even...
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Categories:
palms, beautiful, growth,
Form:
Free verse
Chapter 112 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: Damian and the Family Go To ChurchEarly morning dawn July
"Mallory" Damian whispered, sliding
Closer to her. "Mallory" he Whispered
Again gently caressing. She wanted
To say stop. It was to late
he moved quite quickly. He spread
Like wild fire. Soon consuming her.
The...
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Categories:
palms, angst, devotion,
Form:
Alliteration
The Poet of Palestine: Fadwa TuqanEnglish translations of Arabic poems by Fadwa Tuqan aka "The Poet of Palestine"
Enough for Me
by Fadwa Tuqan
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Enough for me to lie in the earth,
to be buried in her,
to sink...
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Categories:
palms, allah, arabic, culture, nature, poetess, poetry, writing,
Form:
Verse
History's Greatest Miracle PlayHistory’s Greatest Miracle Play
Let me tell you a story - Prologue
Actors gather to play their parts
To set the stage – backdrops and props –
In history’s greatest miracle play
Called to speak their lines
On redemption’s stage
In a...
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Categories:
palms, jesus,
Form:
Narrative
Megan's Quest Part 1of7Moon sprites dotted the sky like lilies at dawn
in a ballet meant to cause nocturnal delight.
While Fairies and Pixie Dust covered the lawn
in a dance that would...
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Categories:
palms, adventure, courage, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Dream 1: 4 Weeks In Positano
"Dream 1: 4 Weeks in Positano"
Kisses long linger warm lips tasted intense
so sweet like cured Valencia Oranges
lips liquored triple sec not dry drunk on love
softly grazed, then held long
slow, deep, warm and wet
The story is...
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Categories:
palms, dream, romance, sensual,
Form:
Romanticism
Jean Lapresle: the Solitary Oak On Mount Kremlin Bicetre A French ‘Indianist’ Doctor: A Tribute to a Die-hard Humanist
...
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Categories:
palms, celebrity, endurance, french, loss, solitude, tribute,
Form:
Elegy
Tuan Tata: Song of Uda - Parts One and Two TUAN TATA : Song of Uda - I
by T. Wignesan
(Patrick Noone, a British anthropologist, discovered the Ple-Temiar tribe living isolated in the jungle highlands in the State of Perak on the west coast of...
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Categories:
palms, death, murder, tiger, wife,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Random Excerpts From Ice In My Eyes, Smoke In Yours - a Novel"Hey, you philosophysing Hindu. Give me a break, Buddy. I was just pulling your leg. [...] I want the rest of the story. Really, I mean it.” Theson said nothing. [...] “I can see you’re...
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Categories:
palms, fantasy, growing up, lost, nature, religion,
Form:
Free verse
Words From the Heart - a Collaboration With Frederic ParkerThese words of love I give to you, my dear
to have comfort in the stillness of time
and meld two souls to keep love's wishes near
when the length of the years and age will climb
I will...
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Categories:
palms, beauty, emotions, love, passion, romantic, sensual, soulmate,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
8 Little EgyptsSomething strange
and unexplainable comes this way,
this way, it comes to us sly and fast,
some say, perhaps,
it has already arrived,
it walks unseen, in the midst of all, of us
we go about our...
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Categories:
palms, easter, humanity, words,
Form:
Narrative
Fading Away the Mark of MiseryI must admit
You left me broken…
I am shattered shards,
Spread out on your hands…
Your sweaty palms of uncertainty at hand
But, we will land in a land of I-understand…
Make a stand and things won’t get out of...
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Categories:
palms, angst, emotions, endurance, hope, strength, sympathy, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
The Splice of Life
“The Splice of Life”
When colour
was to be
washed out
of the world
the evil ones
didn’t care
the Actor led
with his
Dementors
either side of him
Laundry,
they resolved
to be the best
pristine method
for...
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Categories:
palms, humanity, political, religion, science,
Form:
Free verse
Megan's Quest Part 5of7At that moment an explosion of mud filled the air
as their tension was now largely increased.
They tried to gather their wits but all took to stare
as for...
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Categories:
palms, adventure, courage,
Form:
Rhyme
Mother of the AgeStately stood Princess Amber in all her finery,
Emerald tunic over a crimson gown,
With gems inlaid in her rustling gown,
Her arms bangled in intricate gold slowly rose,
Her slender fingers rested on her heaving bosom,
Listening to unstopping...
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Categories:
palms, anger, beautiful, emotions, forgiveness, imagery, jealousy,
Form:
Epic
The Dance of SalomeThe Dance of Salome
Herod bellowed out the night's festive orders..
"Bring the torches, bring the tables..
more wine, that we may rejoice,
for tonight we revel in kindred friendship."
Herod strolled onto the terrace, nearly stumbled in...
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Categories:
palms, dance, daughter, moon, mother daughter, night, sin,
Form:
Narrative
The Crow Bar
"The Crow Bar"
she said,
here I bury my dead,
you can hear them sleeping
somnulent forget-me-nots,
snoring blithely unaware,
in neat rows between
the thick,
ink injected lines,
their soiled lives
ploughed and
turned over
replanted
sunnyside down
expunged and
wrung out
eventually,
not totally oblivious,
they...
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Categories:
palms, love, muse, satire,
Form:
Narrative
Glory To Thermodynamics In GeneralGlory to thermodynamics in general...
and generation of heat in particular
cuz yours truly
spoiled with trappings
of Western Civilization.
How ideal I imagine
to dwell in a self sufficient domicile,
where thrum of the central heater...
automatically activated
upon...
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Categories:
palms, adventure, appreciation, april, community, courage, desire, light,
Form:
Rhyme
Chapter 157-- DAMIAN DELILAH MALLORY HOLANNYA: CRUEL Ball FAMILY DaYMay 2051
Damali was preparing for the big event
Beginning today "12:30 bright and
Early like my Dad said". Damali
Was thinking. DJ was on video phone
Now. "Hey Damali! You know who'll
Be here today...
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Categories:
palms, absence, allusion, best friend, birth, black love,
Form:
Prose
One More TimeI will make a collage of my college days
Just like I did with my High School days...at least in my mind every May as long as the memories stay with me...I know they won't stray...
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Categories:
palms, deep, depression, desire,
Form:
Free verse
How I Got Rich and What Happened ThenWritten in summer of 1976.
I used to eat my lunch with groups
of businessmen from Campbell Soups.
We drank a drink at lunch each day
Of Coca-Cola mixed with hay
And talked of pending corporate plans
And willow-haired orangutans.
I spent...
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Categories:
palms, business, humor, humorous, money, nonsense, satire,
Form:
Couplet
The Reptilian Anthropocene
"The Reptilian Anthropocene"
The Reptilians
war daily
enrobed in their
stiff distinction suits
rainbow coloured badges
pinned to their lapels
they beat their breasts
and oily palms
profiting from all
the soft-boiled
foxes on the run
cerebral cortex bound
thinking they are free-willed
and...
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Categories:
palms, horror, humanity, war,
Form:
Free verse