Long Pittance Poems
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Nottingham Girl At The Goose Fair Prt 1Every year In Robin Hood Country Nottingham
There in October, they hold. What is known, as the Goose Fair. It's huge. and goes back centuries, straining the Middle Ages, perhaps even longer.
My pals and I back...
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Categories:
pittance, history, longing,
Form:
Free verse
The Plagueas the PROPHETS of profits, WE lead and WE’re fair
while WE’re living the life of the poor BILLIONAIRE
– silver yachts, pearly castles, cash (plenty to spare) –
with the world on OUR backs... ah! the burdens...
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Categories:
pittance, society,
Form:
Quatrain
Parts Two and Three Honoring Elizabeth Barrett Browning(4.)
As Midnight Hours Call In More Darkened Hosts
Slow flows a river of doubt and regret
foaming its swirling eddies and sad pits
cavernous echoes one can not forget
nor withstand jagged cuts and hardest hits!
As sun retreats and...
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Categories:
pittance, appreciation, art, creation, poetry, poets, tribute, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
The Reaper Denied - Both Audio and Text - W-IllustrationOh stone of death, I beg thee, now…relinquish me thy guest.
Release unto this specter but the soul beneath thy breast
What waits but to be wakened, and then taken now, to rest.
Mine is thine...
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Categories:
pittance, death, gothic, grave,
Form:
Narrative
Labour DayWritten 28 April 2024
“Genius begins great works. Labour alone finishes them.”
Joseph Joubert
...
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Categories:
pittance, appreciation, inspirational, jobs, rights, work,
Form:
Rhyme
Mchenry's HorseBallaraat’s known for its bounty of gold,
and the days of Eureka Stockade,
plus winning horses, on racing courses,
where flanks of the horses are flayed.
And the offer of prize is a bountiful one,
for a winner that’s greeting...
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Categories:
pittance, horse, humor, race,
Form:
Rhyme
In the Fairest Circumstance - Both Audio and Text“His fastball, so they tell me, has been clocked at 105!
His ERA is 1 point 4! The guy can really pitch!
I heard he’s making more than any athlete alive,
doing what…when baseball started…didn’t make...
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Categories:
pittance, meaningful,
Form:
Rhyme
Categories:
pittance, appreciation, career, celebrity, image, vanity, writing,
Form:
Free verse
What The Roses Don't SayWhat The Roses Don’t Say
by Michael R. Burch
Oblivious to love, the roses bloom
and never touch ... They gather calm and still
to watch the busy insects swarm their leaves ...
They sway, bemused ... till rain falls...
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Categories:
pittance, angst, fear, lost love, love, rose, roses
Form:
Sonnet
Le Rat Noir - Translation of Iris Clayton's the Black Rat By T WignesanLe Rat Noir – Translation of Iris Clayton’s « The Black Rat » by T. Wignesan
(Iris Clayton of the Wiradjuri tribe in New South Wales was born in 1945. One of nine children, six of...
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Categories:
pittance, discrimination, hero, political, war, world war ii,
Form:
Quatrain
False Accusations, Part Ii...His starting point, after much hustling,
was a diner at the edge of the town,
the man who had once built massive bridges
now spent his days at work frying hash browns.
Working for a pittance, day after day,
the...
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Categories:
pittance, abuse, evil, loss, lost love, men, sad,
Form:
Epic
April ShowersOf first embrace and broken glass
I cherish that first spark
New light upon our forest' dark.
Do you recall that northern wind?
It came at first so swift
Perhaps our growing light enraged
Poor Hopelessness', her whims denied
Inspired shadows...
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Categories:
pittance, devotion, life, love, passion, light, dark, dark,
Form:
Free verse
The UnknownI ask you, “Where might we go:
A land to, or a land fro;
Let the land like a river flow.
Leave yourself behind, and dare,
Dare to know Thoreau.”
Ahh, how the day is
The simplest of all revolutions.
The...
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Categories:
pittance, absence, adventure, imagery, imagination, meaningful, mentor, symbolism,
Form:
Rhyme
Reaney's LamborghiniSo slick and sexy. Purred past Temple Bar.
That throaty engine advertising punch.
All legal London, strolling out for lunch,
with turning heads declared, “Now that’s a car!”
So many barristers are – if not losers,
low earners...
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Categories:
pittance, humorous,
Form:
Quatrain
Disappointed Devil Hood Das Fume and FretDisappointed Devil - Hood Das Fume And Fret
'Curse darned demon
of that thar
underworld nudged me abet
as a permanent solution
to a temporary...
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Categories:
pittance, 10th grade, 8th grade, 9th grade, happiness,
Form:
Free verse
Potential I Presume More LimericksPotential I Presume More Limericks
Big and tremendous come to mind.
Tremendous, stupendous, upend us.
Gargantuan, passion, trashing.
Immensive, aggressive, sensitive.
Ultimate Utmost, out grossed, horrible host.
Pittance, sentence, repentance.
In effect essential, provocative, potential, quite intentional.
Necessity, complexity, anxiety.
Court Municipal, Peter Principle,...
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Categories:
pittance, allegory, analogy,
Form:
Limerick
Finding YouOne hundred and one
Lifetimes seem a pittance
To seek and find
True enlightenment...
Here I am once more
In a mortal garment
Adorned with an impulse
An echo of Your Call...
Still, I search
Not finding You
Because I look for You
In all...
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Categories:
pittance, allusion,
Form:
Free verse
Truth Behind TraditionMel got knocked up very early
when out playing the field,
then she went and murdered it
before it all got ‘too real.’
Now her baby haunts her dreams,
and she sees only perdition,
there’s a reason we don’t kill kids,
there’s...
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Categories:
pittance, culture, how i feel, life, men, society,
Form:
Rhyme
The Famine Ship - a Smile Born At Last-
Terence a Griffiths of Tyrone or Leitrim!
Did he know but later of 1820 he would be there born
A Flax Grower a renter from landlords of Lord Leitrim's domain
To thresh and sack and cloth and sow...
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Categories:
pittance, familyfamily, home, family, food, green, home, money,
Form:
I do not know?
Free Cee a Complicatd Fate D CompliA COMPLICATED FATE D' COMPLI
Your bedroom closet is larger than this room
Where fears father plays the part of Lady Sorrow's groom
Your master bath is three times larger than the one I enter using a key...
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Categories:
pittance, angst, heart, heart, , fate,
Form:
Quatrain
Unzipped LipsPart 1
1958 (Introduction to employment)
Often I drift back to the days, where it all began. To feel again
the sharp brisk morning air against my inferior nakedness,
whilst...
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Categories:
pittance, day, life, morning, work,
Form:
Free verse
Free Cee a Fate D CompliA COMPLICATED FATE D’ COMPLI
Your bedroom closet is larger than this room
Where fear’s father plays the part of Lady Sorrow’s groom
Your master bath is three times larger than mine
The one I share with the...
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Categories:
pittance, angst, heart, heart, , fate,
Form:
Free verse
Black Hills LegacyBlack Hills Legacy
In the vaults of the U.S. government,
Sits a cache of money gathering interest.
But money cannot buy the hearts of a people
In exchange for land and legacy
For breaking the Laramie Treaty.
The ‘Black Hills’ have...
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Categories:
pittance, america, education, history, native american, usa,
Form:
Verse
Anonymously SoldIt happened back in time, quite a long way,
Back in the day, as they today like to say:
An era when most donations to yeshivas** **Rabbinical academies, often
Didn't require much of...
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Categories:
pittance, appreciation, education, how i feel, money, teacher,
Form:
Narrative
Mnm In MemoriamMy days in the streets of despair took me from scanty shanties
Intermittent through dreams drinking the syllables of books
Cast before my eyes, I was at the bottom of nooks and crannies
Hiding in barren valleys of...
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Categories:
pittance, peoplesweet, sweet, , In Memoriam, in memoriam,
Form:
Acrostic