Long Pining Poems
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Matsuo Basho Haiku Translations IiDusk-gliding swallow,
please spare my small friends
flitting among the flowers!
—Matsuo Basho translation by Michael R. Burch
A bee emerging
from deep within the peony's hairy recesses
flies off, sated
—Matsuo Basho translation by Michael R. Burch
That dying cricket,...
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Categories:
pining, autumn, death, life, seasons, spring, summer, winter,
Form:
Haiku
Otomo No Sakanoue No Iratsume TranslationTo a Daughter More Precious than Gems
by Otomo no Sakanoue no Iratsume
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
Heaven's cold dew has fallen—
and thus another season arrives.
Oh, my child living so far away,
do you pine for me...
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Categories:
pining, child, childhood, children, daughter, girl, mother, mother
Form:
Tanka
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:
pining, adventure, america, animal, celebration, confidence, february, spring,
Form:
Rhyme
Laughing Pines, Part TwoWill you, won’t you join the dance,
We like to dance here every night,
Moving slowly at the speed of light.
Won’t you give yourself half a chance,
Even two left feet are alright.
The Bipolar Coaster is an excellent...
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Categories:
pining, adventure, allusion, analogy, imagery, imagination, metaphor, travel,
Form:
Rhyme
WorthwhileWorthwhile
Your smile is a sonic boom, it blows me away.
I didn’t have a wow moment,
There is no word that can say,
How amazed I was,
I was lost,
I was gone.
I ceased to exist and I was reborn...
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Categories:
pining, beauty, desire, love, romantic love, rose, smile,
Form:
Bio
Circa February 12th, 2122 10:30 PmCirca February 12th, 2122 ~ 10:30 PM
Equals twenty one thirty 22:30 military time
future time traveler looks back one century ago,
oceanic waterways overladen with green slime,
yours truly attempted crafting id est feeble rhyme
far from madding crowd,...
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Categories:
pining, absence, age, celebration, dark, destiny, fantasy, heaven,
Form:
Rhyme
The Secret Lives of Chimney Pots ViStrategically placed when raised
Upwards
By your masterful and well
Practiced hand.
To mingle with ever changing
Skylines
That frown down with arrogant
Scowls
Upon the indigenous populous of
This just and tolerant island.
To study and pontificate upon...
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Categories:
pining, philosophy,
Form:
Rhyme
2nd Part Canzon Form ExampleA big thanks to Bob Newman for the fine Volecentral resource.
My example
Impatient Pleas (Cazone)
Come lie with me you pretty, pretty thing,
and let us stop our toying with our...
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Categories:
pining, poetry,
Form:
Canzone
Future Time Traveler Looks Back One Century AgoFuture time traveler looks back one century ago
The following poem tweaked
courtesy original author who crafted
literary endeavor some couple years ago.
Now circa August 20th, 2122,
or 1930 military time,
yours truly attempted
drafting id est feeble...
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Categories:
pining, adventure, anniversary, appreciation, august, celebrity, crazy, destiny,
Form:
Rhyme
Aye Passively Plead Death To Please Release Me From Agonizing Clutches(alternately titled: Typical daily mindset today –
July 17th, 2020)
The following words
mostly unredacted, nevertheless finessed
for curbed poetic/prosaic appeal
lock, stock and barrel
codify, and edify (hoopfully not mortify)
any reader unbeknownst and/or familiar
with unsteady state of yours truly,
(an...
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Categories:
pining, absence, cheer up, death, fate, grief, hope,
Form:
Free verse
Future time traveler looks back one century agoFuture time traveler looks back one century ago
I exhibit health and virility at one hundred and
64 years astride planet earth, whereby spouse,
(who remained married to yours truly for about
one century – which elapsed in...
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Categories:
pining, absence, adventure, anniversary, birth, celebration, cool, dad,
Form:
Free verse
Tell the Night To Hold MeI made for you, a castle
But I built it in the sand
I steadfastly tried to constrain the tide
...
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Categories:
pining, heartbreak, lost love, metaphor, soulmate, true love,
Form:
Lyric
Growing Up Too Soongrowing up too soon
you said: is there anything more excruciating than lagging behind
being passed by
a hasbeen
still knocking on portals
twitching toes twirling thumbs
in fidgety drawn-curtained waiting rooms
and...
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Categories:
pining, age, growing up, lonely, longing, psychological, women,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Me To Myself(myself to myself on myself for myself)
When you hear the clamor of the birds loud
shrieking shockingly it shouldn’t frighten
you they simply don’t realize the magnitude
of the head of sand that gets washed away
onto your shoulders...
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Categories:
pining, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
Happy 68th Birthday Maryann Sage Revisited January 12th 2021Happy 68th birthday MaryAnn Sage - revisited January 12th, 2021
Wherever you might be holed up
within this whirled wide web wassup?
Mein kampf still equals board
hardscrabble existence deplored
analogous to Norwegian bachelor,
whose Lake Wobegon nestled within fjord
forcing me...
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Categories:
pining, birthday, devotion, endurance, heartbroken, husband, january, lost
Form:
Rhyme
tell the night to hold me -
I made for you, a castle
but I built it in the sand
I steadfastly tried
to constrain the tide
but the bastions didn't stand
I planned for you, an Eden
with needs to see us through
but the ripened fruits
had corrupted...
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Categories:
pining, forgiveness, heartbreak, heartbroken, lost love, love,
Form:
Lyric
My Crumpled Thoughts(CRUMPLED THOUGHTS POETRY CONTEST)
When you hear the clamor of the birds loud
shrieking shockingly it shouldn’t frighten
you they simply don’t realize the magnitude
of the head of sand that gets washed away
onto your shoulders and violates sanctity.
Did...
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Categories:
pining, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
The NarrowingGlowing days that were once red-cheeked and ripe with promise,
Are narrowing like tall candles in a church window,
Tapering from the golden stand and the sturdy base,
To the glorious flame and the ever fading light.
The final...
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Categories:
pining, 10th grade,
Form:
Free verse
The NarrowingGlowing days that were once red-cheeked and ripe with promise,
Are narrowing like tall candles in a church window,
Tapering from the golden stand and the sturdy base,
To the glorious flame and the ever fading light.
The final...
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Categories:
pining, 10th grade,
Form:
ABC
Solitude At SeaI tried to find a place at sea to set my aching spirit free so I took a ride in a dug-out boat and row towards the foot of the mount.
No one was in...
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Categories:
pining, adventure, appreciation, culture, earth, education, environment, lost,
Form:
Narrative
Is Aranjuez a Pining After the Composer's MotherIs ARANJUEZ a pining after the composer's mother ?
(Joaquin Rodrigo - 1901-1999 - who composed the " Aranjuez " concerto on piano in 1938/9 and which later was destined for the guitar and orchestra, turned...
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Categories:
pining, how i feel, longing, loss, memory, mother
Form:
Free verse
No Excuses and Well, No ResultsIs it that time again
Is it time once again
for me to stand before this jury
and repeat the words I'm sorry
for me to stand before this council
list my excuses for being away for so long
What's the...
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Categories:
pining, sad,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
pining, appreciation, emotions, feelings, love, muse,
Form:
Rhyme
Sonnet 14, Part 1 of 31. Ripples in warm sunbeams dwell.
From a sandy cocoon I wake and stir.
A floater in the blue does knell,
A dot, a stain, a blackened blur.
Am I the only one who sees?
No, the beach is afoot...
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Categories:
pining, evil, fantasy, fear, horror, scary, science fiction,
Form:
Sonnet
Lovely FollowersCreative Columbine, rich and vibrant,
In hues of blushing rose, soft
As shadows fading beneath the moonlight,
Glorious sighs, planted in colors,
Black earth, fresh as the dawn,
And basking in the heat of a sun,
Who blazes promises on the...
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Categories:
pining, appreciation, blessing, christian, encouraging, flower, god, inspirational,
Form:
Free verse