Long Parcel out Poems
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Factoidman and Shallowman - Part 2[Now ShallowMan is quite content
receiving FactoidMan’s consent
to quibble and express dissent
as long as keeping covenant
with fingers crossed and belfry bent
when viewing Facts in sealed cement:]
SM
“The Facts you give me circumvent
those ‘truths’ your chuckles supplement;
although they...
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Categories:
parcel out, society, truth, universe,
Form:
Rhyme
On My Mother PassingON MY MOTHER’S PASSING
i wanted to keep my mother physically with me
but it would be like trying to hold the sun
like in life she still shines brighter than any star
is as gentle as the finest...
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Categories:
parcel out, cheer up, mother, mother son,
Form:
Narrative
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:
parcel out, dedication,
Form:
Narrative
Differences You SayDifferences – you say !
I – me Lass – brave Helios, rides his golden chariot,
drawn by fiery Steeds, into the vastness of this universe.
These mighty Titans, dispatched – brilliant, glowing -
ruled, controlled the blueness...
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Categories:
parcel out, friend, universe,
Form:
Rhyme
Goodbye Six Pack Hello Poetry ScribesGoodbye six pack hello* poetry scribes
My poetic side COSMOFUNNEL
wordsmith thanks tumblr in his noggin
ofttimes triggering babbling brook
to swell after deluge
becoming stream of consciousness runnel
carving, gouging, and liquidating topography
qua zee mow toe natural formed...
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Categories:
parcel out, adventure, angst, april, body, father, hair, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Rum n Raisin 14 Pt 2 - The Flight Before Christmas Pt 2Soon, the sun was lying low, a bright full moon was now on show
Santa switched on Walnut’s glow… “Ho Ho Ho and away we go.”
Walnut played along and led the team of reindeer and their...
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Categories:
parcel out, cat, christmas, dog,
Form:
Narrative
Groundhog day 2024 or Forty one days since 2023 Winter SolsticeGroundhog day 2024 or Forty one days since 2023 Winter Solstice
Rather than be a day late
and dollar short, I opted
to post poem acknowledging
the second of February,
where eponymous groundhog
gets his (most often male)
foretelling...
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Categories:
parcel out, adventure, america, animal, celebration, confidence, february, spring,
Form:
Rhyme
Part One - a Gunshot Wound To the Heat - a Short Story From My MemoirGUNSHOT WOUND TO THE HEART
From a two-room schoolhouse high on a hill over the Fundy Bay, I sat at an old wooden desk daydreaming. The ink stains and etchings which were dug deep into...
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Categories:
parcel out, nostalgia,
Form:
Prose
Covid Walkthermometer reads zero, a chilly breeze blows
apple cores thrown, the blackbirds feed
my multi-layered partner dons her wooly hat
impatiently, she waits for me
securing covid masks amidst my overcoat
...
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Categories:
parcel out, anxiety, feelings, humanity, journey, life,
Form:
Verse
To War, From Youthoh youth in all its callow shades
is from our hope, precisely made
...
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Categories:
parcel out, war,
Form:
Epic
Christmas Eve In JamaicaI stand here in my innocence
Not knowing what is planned in heaven
The skies are grey the wind is still and
The heavy sound system is blasting on the hill
I could not tell what it was all...
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Categories:
parcel out, beauty, business, celebration, christmas, community, courage, endurance,
Form:
Narrative
All the Worlds There AreJust watching raindrops slapping leaves
is better than anything requiring electricity
including fame and posterity. Monday
morning I walk over to the art museum
stand before Homer. I'm imagining
life in ancient Greece, the land largely
deforested to build a navy,...
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Categories:
parcel out, art, change, god, life, old, rain, world,
Form:
Verse
Reflections Upon Mine Gender Identity ReduxReflections upon mine gender identity redux
Although heterosexual
predilections punctuated
physiological pulsations
about five inches below
innie belly button of mine
showcasing undersize
male member, when fully erect
not much to crow
about, contributed
diminished masculinity within
body electric regarding
wordsmith...
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Categories:
parcel out, age, analogy, anxiety, atheist, birth, boy, confidence,
Form:
Free verse
Scammed AgainResponding to an ad I’d found on Market-Place last month, describing what the seller claimed to be a - “true antique”,
I queried - ‘Have you sold this yet?’, nervously suspecting - being the gorgeous...
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Categories:
parcel out, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Lost the Plot To Find a WayDo not read if offended by human imagination
as this will appear heretical to religious people,
and perhaps nonsensical to everyone else
As far as I can perceive this universe began
the moment I was born...
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Categories:
parcel out, death, universe,
Form:
Free verse
I Cannot Single Handedly Rightly So Manageprimary idiopathic palmar/
palmoplantar hyperhidrosis
despite taking Glycopyrrolate
2 MG Tablet three times daily.
Aforementioned physiological malady
the bane worse than death
unwanted and unwonted figurative
(metaphorical) beast of burden
linkedin with matrix constituting mine
corporeal essence genetically
gifted to yours truly,
invariably, objectionably,...
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Categories:
parcel out, 11th grade, 12th grade, anger, angst, anxiety,
Form:
Rhyme
Is ThisIS THIS...? Poem 8/17/
Written for Jim Eslinger , 37-year anniversary
What are these specks we must trudge over,
Transplanting ourselves from one wilderness to
Another?...
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Categories:
parcel out, christian, earth, nature, time,
Form:
Free verse
I Cannot Single Handedly Rightly So ManageI cannot single handedly – rightly so - manage...
primary idiopathic palmar/
palmoplantar hyperhidrosis
despite taking Glycopyrrolate
2 MG Tablet three times daily.
Aforementioned physiological malady
unwanted and unwonted figurative
(metaphorical) beast of burden
linkedin with matrix constituting mine
corporeal essence...
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Categories:
parcel out, 11th grade, 12th grade, allegory, anxiety, body,
Form:
Free verse
Villanelle: Never Political But Spiritual the Ancient Indo-Chinese Pilgrim TiesVillanelle : Never political but spiritual the ancient Indo-Chinese pilgrim ties
In Memory of the late pathologist (and amateur Astronomer)
Associate Professor CHONG Siew Meng, National University of Singapore*
Never...
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Categories:
parcel out, race, relationship, religion, spiritual,
Form:
Villanelle
Of Allegorical Echoers(Apropos of Black Poetic Griots)
We may not be deemed apostolic recorders
But we poets, guided with divine wisdom, are
The lay scribes thereof in the chronicling of
Our life’s sojourn in the shadowing times
we spend here on this...
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Categories:
parcel out, allegory, analogy, black african american, hyperbole, imagery,
Form:
Prose
I Cannot Single Handedly ManageI cannot single handedly manage...
primary idiopathic palmar/
palmoplantar hyperhidrosis
Aforementioned physiological malady
unwanted and unwonted figurative
(metaphorical) beast of burden
linkedin with matrix constituting mine
corporeal essence genetically
gifted to yours truly,
invariably, objectionably, and unquestionably
afflicts, impacts, and upsets
emotional (mental) health
diagnosed with schizoid...
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Categories:
parcel out, angst, birth, dad, fate, grief, me, pain,
Form:
Free verse
Thieves In the NightOur son CJ celebrated his 40th birthday,
Immediate family invited to Ramsgate
In Natal, to celebrate this day in a special way,
A guest house was rented by our son,
Which once again became our fate!
By the sea, what...
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Categories:
parcel out, night,
Form:
Free verse
Living In the Middle EastYou put him in a cage
That pilot you shot down
Pour gasoline on him
And set him ablaze
And the world is silent...
That seventeen year old girl
Writhes on that soiled bed
As you let all those other men
Rape her...
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Categories:
parcel out, violence, perspective,
Form:
Free verse
AnomieShould we invite the neighbors over for dinner?
Their politics so different from ours.
All the more reason. Combat anomie!
He's worried the town's losing population
but opposes immigration. I like immigrants
but hate passing people on my morning walk.
The...
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Categories:
parcel out, conflict, faith, fire, house, life, political, school,
Form:
Free verse
The Punisher and the PunishedThe Punisher and the PunishEd
I
The Punisher needs the...
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Categories:
parcel out, conflict, creation, god, men, satire,
Form:
Free verse