Long Portland Poems
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Paul and Sarah - Part TwoConditions were harsh out in Kansas,
For the children and Sarah and Paul.
Neighbors and friends packed up and were gone;
Headed west they could hear fortune's call.
Never sure year to year of the harvest,
So their talents were...
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Categories:
portland, adventure, america, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Operation Money JumpThanksgiving, 1971,
a parachute pilgrim approaches Northwest Flight 305
as Dan Cooper, anonymous businessman, anarchist airborne,
black suit, black sunglasses, a black tie
and a black briefcase broaching black motives,
Portland to Seattle, prison or criminal pantheon,
before...
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Categories:
portland, america, history, mystery,
Form:
Epic
Translation of Eric Mottram's a Faithful Private - 7 -Excerpts From Notes On Poetics By T WignesanTranslation of Eric Mottram’s A Faithful Private 7 with excerpts from “Notes on Poetics” by T. Wignesan
(Note: With this post, I bring to a close EM’s pamphlet collection: Faithful Private, GENERA editions by Colin Simms,...
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Categories:
portland, england, poetry, political, power,
Form:
Free verse
Outdoor OperativesCommunity outdoor innovators
are challenged by premillennial lack
of potlatch cooperative investments
paid-forward
by ZeroZone invested WiseElders,
Limited by Space
for developing multifamily co-housing
with cooperative community organic gardens.
Limited by volunteer outdoor ego-eco therapeutic
Time.
Limited by competitive economic grid
and profile assumptions
for future WinLose...
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Categories:
portland, caregiving, community, education, family, health, humor, nature,
Form:
Political Verse
When I Got StabbedWHEN I GOT STABBED
The blade went through my flesh like a knife through melting butter.
Thoughts ran through my head as I bled out, like no more will I see my mother
Anger and rage streamed through...
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Categories:
portland, life, car, mom, me, voice, car, me,
Form:
ABC
Hellboy's Fight RecordHellboy danced with the best of them,
With a record here, though incomplete...
Winning almost all of the time,
What a miraculous feat!
Date Opponent Location Result
----------------------------------------------------------------------
XXxX Hecate L (fatality)
2004 Rasputin W
XXxX osiris club W
XXxX Witch L (fatality)
XXxX Dragon...
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Categories:
portland, appreciation,
Form:
List
The Last of the Funerals“the last of the funerals”
today “the last of the funerals”
takes place &
the killings in CT get placed on the
shelf,
alongside the deaths at Columbine,
Virginia Tech...
those were the “big ones” right?
well, now, Aurora was a “big one,”...
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Categories:
portland, life, high school,
Form:
Free verse
My Life JourneyMY LIFE JOURNEY
Let me tell you a story ……
I could have not imagined that my life journey
would take me to see, wander around and
enjoy few of the world’s famous gardens.
Yes, in Europe, Canada and Western...
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Categories:
portland, garden, journey,
Form:
Narrative
Do You Value Your FreedomsIf you value your freedoms?
If you value the right to vote?
If you value your freedom of speech?
If you value your freedom of the press?
If you value your freedom of religion?
If you value your freedoms and...
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Categories:
portland, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 7th
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
If You Value Your Freedoms, Please Stop President Joe Biden Part OneIf you value your freedoms, please stop President Joe Biden's
reelection campaign for 2024 for the following reasons:
i) Nine members of his immediate family have business
interests in Red China including his prodigal son,
Hunter Biden.
1A) President Joe...
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Categories:
portland, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Because We Have DebasedIt's sister dramatic verse is: The Entertainment Rating System.**
Because we have debased the word 'mother,'
by adding onto to it the F***Bomb!
Because we have debased both the words:
adult and maturity to also mean
pornography!**
Because we have...
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Categories:
portland, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Don'T Fall For the Biden Agenda Part 2If the people of the state of Georgia are smart, they will elect their republican candidate for senator against the democratic one. It will succeed in a 50/50 evenly divided senate and it will take...
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Categories:
portland, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Narrative
The Shipping ForecastIn homage to the waters around the UK and all those who sail them...
Late at night and early dawn
Like clockwork - every day are heard
Those dulcet tones “set fair” to warn
With poetic, most prophetic words
What...
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Categories:
portland, high school, jealousy, nature, ocean, sea, travel,
Form:
I do not know?
Brain WashAccording to Dr. Jennifer Clark, our students in our public school systems.
And our colleges and universities are being brain washed and indoctrinated into the doctrine of Progressive Socialism. They are being brain washed into thinking...
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Categories:
portland, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Old Benson, Part IHarvey grew up in a small Maine town,
due north of Portland, and out of the way,
like most kids he’d go to the school bus
at the beginning of every week day.
And every day that he made...
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Categories:
portland, history, perspective, philosophy, science, science fiction, surreal,
Form:
Narrative
People Need Free SocietiesPeople need free societies, but I am not referring to the deadly monstrous global pandemic! They need freedom of expression on line and/or in person.
And they need the freedom of speech coupled by a free...
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Categories:
portland, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Let Them Burn"Let them burn! Let them all burn!" A radical woman lost her job because of the backlash she received from very angry Canadian Christians. Thus far about eleven churches have been burned down because they...
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Categories:
portland, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
The DinnerYour eyes were locked on target, looking beyond what you saw into the unknown, (me) and as you stared at me, I felt like everyone of my last thoughts you owned.
As you sat there..i could...
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Categories:
portland, black love, dance, fire, lust, romantic,
Form:
Romanticism
Stop Defunding the Seattle Police DepartmentThe Seattle City council is under the influence of radicals. Seeking to defund their city's police department by 50%. Fifty years ago, Communist China did the exact same thing. Now communist China is...
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Categories:
portland, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Upon Visiting GortmoreThe new roves are not like the old,
They purvey an unwieldy aspect
To their elderly kindred folk;
Even on this steep hill forms encroach
Upon an edifice grand of bygone grandeur;
So to ‘Ghurt Muire’ that Jacobean domain
With...
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Categories:
portland, uplifting,
Form:
Pastoral
Lyrics~ Hush Missing ChildHush little baby, dont cry now,
I know your scared and just want to go home,
this storm will pass, this storm will go,
but little child, dont ever give up hope,
be good angel, i know you...
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Categories:
portland, musiccry, hope, june, storm,
Form:
I do not know?
Victims of the Cancel Culture Part TwoGeorge Orwell wrote a book entitled 1984. It was about one man, who stood alone, against Big Brother. Big Brother had its own surveillance society and used television screens. People had numbers but no names....
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Categories:
portland, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Suicidal Ideation March 30th, 2022 LinkedinSuicidal Ideation March 30th, 2022 linkedin...
to mein kampf insync with mine body dysmorphia
After reading articles
published within April 4/11 2022
of The Nation
I challenged the efficacy
taking prescription medication
categorized as SSRIs
and/or SNRIs.
Unpleasant side effects
such as earth shaking...
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Categories:
portland, 6th grade, 7th grade, absence, bereavement, depression,
Form:
Rhyme
Mountain ManFrom Chicago to Tampa Bay in a Ford Granada some time in the mid- 70's. Unfortunately, we were not interested in mountains, because we took interstate 75 and drove through Tennessee 'at night'. We felt...
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Categories:
portland, mountains, travel, vacation,
Form:
Narrative
Inner Vocal QuiverAs if a child should understand an adult’s muddle,
putrid oil slick puddle,
the dreadful pain we foist on wide-eyed offspring.
Robotic elders crush with rigid slabs of Portland censure,
whatever spark remains in tiny rosebud coloured...
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Categories:
portland, care, caregiving, change, dedication, deep, devotion, environment,
Form:
Prose Poetry