Long Pedestrian Poems
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Dear Neighbors
Dear neighbors,
I realize we have not met,
other than the guy next door
but that doesn't really count
cause that was just to put up a fence between us,
and I have met Marvelously Mad Max,
behind me, on the...
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Categories:
pedestrian, baptism, health, heart, humor, passion, religion, wisdom,
Form:
Political Verse
The Ash Can
The Ash Can ©
I got the call on Sunday night. I was traveling on business. When I looked at the caller ID
I wondered why my husband’s boss would be calling me....
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Categories:
pedestrian, bereavement, introspection, lost love, suicide,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Concrete Hearts, the Deep End Keys and the Miniaturist's Poetry of Sleep
“Concrete Hearts, the Deep End Keys and the Miniaturist's Poetry of Sleep”
Following the Babel paths,
where footprints progress
like rough-hewn braille,
temptation shows itself well deep
to be turned and touched,
substantially labyrinth
The Open
is lead
further in, and...
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Categories:
pedestrian, muse,
Form:
Narrative
Regarding Health and Education
Dear Local Boards of EcoSchool Education,
Departments of Environmentally Protected Walkable Transportation,
Cooperatively Maintaining Public-Private Works
and STEAM Play
and WinWin GreenGames,
Hysterical Historical Associations,
Social Work Departments of Climate Restorative Therapy,
and Public Health-Wealth Departments:
Did you leave anyone out dear?
Just the...
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Categories:
pedestrian, caregiving, earth, gospel, health, humor, patriotic, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
By George burn hing hard, I Shaw tried to be a stinking playwright
By George (burn hing* hard), I Shaw tried to be a stinking playwright
offers his unsolicited tidbits
as scene courtesy
the following virtually
staged philosophical insight.
Arch back like
a professional ballet dancer
to stand out from...
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Categories:
pedestrian, adventure, appreciation, art, encouraging, fun, inspirational, new
Form:
Free verse
Excerpt From Fake Encomium Given Years Ago
Excerpt from “fake” encomium given years ago...
at Lake Wobegone High School (my alma mater),
and recently discovered ridiculous rough draft
amidst plethora of junk emails
while practice reading some lines
regarding Midsummer Night's Dream
upcoming performance.
Arch...
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Categories:
pedestrian, 11th grade, 12th grade, age, america, angel,
Form:
Free verse
Unquotable Quotes: Poets - Xxxvi
Unquotable quotes: Poets, Poetasters and Platos – XXXVI
For James McAuley – in remembrance of a memorable week in Cardiff 1965
The greatest poet ever is NOT Homer, Lao Tse, Ovid,...
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Categories:
pedestrian, creation, poetry, poets, word play, words, writing,
Form:
Epigram
The White Race Has a Point
The white race has a point
But that doesn't mean
They should treat us improper
The white race has a point
Nature is repeating it over and over
White snow, white moon
white Jesus, white angels
white robes, white clouds
White pedestrian crossing
White...
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Categories:
pedestrian, america, angel, betrayal, break up, christmas, discrimination,
Form:
Narrative
By George Burning Hard, I Shaw Tried To Playwright
By George (burning hard), I Shaw tried to playwright
offers his unsolicited tidbits
as scene courtesy
the following virtually
staged philosophical insight.
Arch back like
a professional ballet dancer
to stand out from other pedestrian applicants
seeking...
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Categories:
pedestrian, adventure, age, angel, appreciation, beauty, celebration, character,
Form:
Free verse
On the Road
“Collection Kaki and school bag, collection Kaki and school bag”
These are the words echoing from the woman hustling on the street side. Mindless people passing by glancing at her and listening to her afternoon cry.
...
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Categories:
pedestrian, appreciation, blessing, brother, business, courage, encouraging, faith,
Form:
Narrative
Bewildering
Dunce! You can’t spell cat
Dunce! You can’t spell rat
Dunce! You can’t spell dog
The mad man cries out in the street
Shaming and exposing big men and women.
And shouting expletives upon expletives.
X cloth, Z cloth blue cloth,...
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Categories:
pedestrian, community, conflict, confusion, corruption, education, endurance, environment,
Form:
Narrative
Franciscan Swissophiles
Switzerland,
part of my own historic root system,
has a Bill of Rights for vegetation,
protecting rights of intrinsic dignity
with concomitant human respect for their healthy and aesthetic purposes.
It is not OK to merely throw away
without regard...
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Categories:
pedestrian, gender, health, humor, love, political, poverty, power,
Form:
Political Verse
Advent Funeral With Birthday
The coincidence of Advent
and the HW Bush eulogies
reminded me of DJ Trump's challenge
to laugh about himself
at least as quickly and quietly as he laughs against others.
As compared to any recent US President,
he comes in dead...
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Categories:
pedestrian, anti bullying, birthday, bullying, health, humor, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse
Swing Sets and Jungle Gyms
(or swing sets and monkey bars)
A pitch perfect spring day
such as today April 8th, 2022
within quaint hamlet
of Schwenksville, Pennsylvania
in close proximity within mind's eye
to Lake Wobegon, Minnesota
finds me reminiscing...
When, scads of light years ago
(half...
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Categories:
pedestrian, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th
Form:
Free verse
It's Friday Night
It is Friday and cars are rolling down the street
It is Friday and I can feel your heart beat,
I know that you are thousands of miles away
My spirit is yearning so come and...
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Categories:
pedestrian, beauty, blessing, destiny, england, environment, friend, romance,
Form:
Narrative
Kundalini Empowerment
O raja reigning is the light of all lights
electric rays beaming oscillating waves
I embody my spirit in a physical form
I kindly request her divinity to roam
beseeching with contrition
She begins to uncoil at...
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Categories:
pedestrian, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
Strolling, Not Stalking, Greeneville Ct
When guys get so old
pubic hairs
are as long as penises
It's not time to grow
a longer and fatter, more drivable,
penal delivery system
promising retributive rape
of an entire planet.
It is time to trim back
over-Yanged investment hedges
blocking more pedestrian-friendly
RightBrain...
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Categories:
pedestrian, caregiving, community, education, environment, health, history, native
Form:
Political Verse
Walking Meditation
Walking Meditation
by Odin Roark
“And I thought marriage was hard.”
Taking Meditation for a walk
nags me with...
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Categories:
pedestrian, hope, introspection, metaphor,
Form:
Free verse
Greening Our Neighborhood
Permaculturists,
like Taoists
and Buddhists
and Hindus, etc.
Consider neighbors
extended and respected family,
ZeroZone Kin,
regardless of zone status
near or far,
regardless of species,
regardless of living
or gone
or not yet arrived.
Dear Neighbors,
I make no proud claims
of embracing a GREEN lifestyle,
making green integrity choices,
No...
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Categories:
pedestrian, caregiving, earth, education, environment, health, history, school,
Form:
Political Verse
Storylistening Proposal
I would like to hear and see
how and why you live,
when and where you prefer to die.
I would like to touch and taste
who and what you think and feel
is your greenest dreamed sanctuary
without imagined ultra-violet...
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Categories:
pedestrian, children, culture, earth, environment, green, health, wisdom,
Form:
Political Verse
Horses Are Heroes
I've always admired
horses
and I guess I most surely
always will
No legend without em'
complete
The unsung heroes of
any heroic battle
Pony, colt, filly or mare
ride it bareback if you
dare
Ride them to a trot, ride...
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Categories:
pedestrian, horse
Form:
Quatorzain
Obliviousness Concerning Lapsed Driver License
(alternate title: days of yore bubba's zayda
flush with buggy boo horse sense).
Norristown City Hall police person
informed yours truly
on September 15th, 2020
mine automotive driver license expired,
thus between January 13th 2019
and September 17th, 2020
I drove automobile,
(whether borrowed...
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Categories:
pedestrian, 11th grade, 12th grade, angel, appreciation, fate,
Form:
Rhyme
Fledges Class
footsteps as I walk to the podium*
Lights dim, where words writhe like serpents in the darkness, I concoct a brew of bitter brutalities.
“The cacophonies of criticism, discordant symphonies, assails my sensibilities, a symphony of...
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Categories:
pedestrian, dark,
Form:
Free verse
Tumbleweed Billy and One Eyed Sam
Tumbleweed Billy And One Eyed Sam
Banked off jagged hills, pushed on by memory
Cause and effect took turns churning the sidewinders
Tumbleweed Billy and One Eyed Sam (The patron Saint of snake eyes)
Dragged down from on high...
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Categories:
pedestrian, adventure, business, games, magic, weather, , western,
Form:
Cowboy Poetry
Arthur Rimbaud: Song of the Highest Tower translation by Michael R Burch
Song of the Highest Tower
by Arthur Rimbaud
translation by Michael R. Burch
Let it come, let it come,
The day when all hearts love as one.
I’ve endured so long
That I’d even forgotten
The pain and the terror.
I’ve visited heaven,
And...
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Categories:
pedestrian, brother, child, childhood, heart, love, mother daughter,
Form:
Free verse