Long Potent Poems
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An Bee Cailleach
“Éagmais croí a dhíscaoileadh ar gach eagla.
Faoi dhíon taobh istigh de na blianta seo.
Fanacht i bhfianaise, a dhíscaoileadh ar gach eagla.
Ós rud é go ndearnadh tú a chaitheamh.
Briseadh an tost seo”
"An Bee Cailleach"
She lives to...
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Categories:
potent, fantasy, imagery, joy, life, love, magic, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
The Badly Drawn Goat
The pencil now resting the image was 'testing' for the creature before him, (his badly-drawn drawin') had come out 'not right' somewhat twisted and tight.
The picture in question, it burst with suggestion, for lines that...
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Categories:
potent, animal, creation, funny,
Form:
Rhyme
The Swoon Hypothesis - Part 2
"The Swoon Hypothesis" - Part 2
Arimathea stands next to you and I on the deck, soon we are back in Nazareth, you press into my palm,
“A very rare Dubunni coin” you say - on...
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Categories:
potent, imagery, jesus, love,
Form:
Free verse
A Kept Woman
Dream-worker
delves deeply into my dream;
vibrations fondle anticipation
foreplay wakes wide-eyed
swells of liquid libido quake the rendezvous edge -
a primordial being in his prime
a masculine ego quest for affaire d’amour;
her night-loving body
c h a...
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Categories:
potent, allegory, betrayal, fate, imagery, love, lust, sensual,
Form:
Free verse
Sunday Morning Joggers
Goodness, I nearly lost my balance on the spiral seashells and broken sea stone chipping matrix.
My quaint obsession with marine life and that skyline paradox blossoming so tantalisingly, might be a source of some...
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Categories:
potent, age, art, birth, devotion, feelings, heart, irony,
Form:
Prose
A Walk On the Beach
I went again today ... to that place, the allurement overwhelming ... the one
we called "ours" so tritely, "mine" before you, "mine" again now, (tho' others
have doubtless staked claimed - ages before and since). I...
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Categories:
potent, heartbreak, lost love, ocean, passion, solitude, soulmate,
Form:
Free verse
Terror Bugs: Part 5 - A Freezer Mice Adventure
[Continued from ‘Terror Bugs: Part 4 - A Freezer Mice Adventure’]
__________
A water cannon screeched around the corner on two wheels
Four and twenty Terror Bugs were nipping at its heels
Their acid blistered paint work but it...
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Categories:
potent, adventure,
Form:
Narrative
Retribution
In sandy Egypt lived three men
In ancient days when pharaohs reigned
The kingdom of the pyramids,
Osiris and that Isis’ den,
Whom everyone worships and heeds,
Or at least doing so they feigned,
And those gods too blessed them and...
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Categories:
potent, sin,
Form:
Rhyme
Ali's Song
Ali's Song
by Michael R. Burch
for Muhammad Ali
They say that gold don’t tarnish. It ain’t so.
They say it has a wild, unearthly glow.
A man can be more beautiful, more wild.
I flung their medal to the river,...
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Categories:
potent, boxing day , butterfly, discrimination, race, racism, tribute,
Form:
Verse
Mad Molly Shaw 2 - Molly Stands Firm
[If you’re a glutton for punishment, you
Can find ‘Mad Molly Shaw’ using the poems
Tag at top of screen]
****
Mad Molly Shaw wasn’t...
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Categories:
potent, western,
Form:
Rhyme
How Huxley Sees the World
"How Huxley Sees the World"
He composes his world -
dream extractions
simulated from
the surreal reality of man
colour cognitive from the dead moments
we phantomise to life in sleep
electric light colour bursts forth
from a perspective unique
a hare...
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Categories:
potent, art, future, humanity,
Form:
Free verse
Echoes of the Angel Fallen Part 2
Book 2
“Next we will use and abuse, the wedge of doubt. To place a misgiving, a slight of hand, an apprehension into the day, to mold the day thoughts of these apes, these...
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Categories:
potent, allegory, angel, faith,
Form:
Epic
This Is No Fable
I was relaxing in my sunroom, one very peaceful afternoon,
Enjoying the fables of Aesop, and all the flowers abloom.
The view from the many windows, was gold sunshiny delight,
With blossoms and rich greenery, and many birds...
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Categories:
potent, adventure, animal, fantasy, flower, imagery, life, tree,
Form:
Couplet
Gods For Power
If God
and gods
and other paternal powers
resource love,
and not hate
And if we believe
that love fades
with encroaching fear
Which can overwhelm
personal
and professional
and economic
and local
through global
therapeutic,
and not traumatic,
peace passion experience
And if god
and great paternal rulers
and warriors
and...
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Categories:
potent, courage, earth, god, health, passion, peace, power,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
The Adverse World Unfinished Will Finish
You stole away my lonely melody, Lord,
And made it harmony according to Your accord
I’d like to thank You with all of my heart as I make sound
My mind is trying to look forward to a...
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Categories:
potent, angst, emotions, encouraging, moving on, pain, passion,
Form:
Free 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:
potent, adventure, appreciation, art, encouraging, fun, inspirational, new
Form:
Free verse
Family' Love' Booster'
Family. Love. BOOSTER
...
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Categories:
potent, age, child, daughter, family, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
Growing
Two girls far apart leading different but crazy similar lives
Lots of progress and work - arousing with small talk of becoming wives
But are those emotions genuinely what you wanna explore?
The journeys we will have,...
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Categories:
potent, girlfriend, women,
Form:
Rhyme
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:
potent, 11th grade, 12th grade, age, america, angel,
Form:
Free verse
The Feelings
Once in a great while your soul stands up and takes notice of someone and your inner voice screams yes that one. So loud your sure others heard.
When you are apart you can feel your...
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Categories:
potent, love,
Form:
Free verse
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:
potent, adventure, age, angel, appreciation, beauty, celebration, character,
Form:
Free verse
Secret Love - 2nd Place Contest Win
If you spill your secrets to the breeze,
Don't blame the wind for laying them to light.
Once said, words are disclosed, even to trees.
And claim peace in the leaves that rustle and fight.
Whispered tales of a...
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Categories:
potent, analogy, appreciation, beauty, love,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Ghosts of the Sun Dance-Part 1
Ghosts of the Sun Dance
1. The Path
A quest dating back through our history
Surpassing the flesh, a spiritual path
Human endurance, road to mystery
Dark trail winding through the gardens of wrath
It echoes through me, this deep ambition
Half...
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Categories:
potent, spiritual, sports, endurance, drug,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
For Onion Pt 1
Since you wanna play riddles and poetry puzzles with me
Before we go any further - allow me to bring you up to speed
I just got cheated on - not even a month fresh
After a terrifying,...
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Categories:
potent, friendship, i love you, nostalgia,
Form:
Rhyme
Lament of My Life
Lament of My Life Contest
Sponsor: Casarah Nance
~My Bereaving Eulogy~
Time seemed to pass so much faster than I expected,
All the love, loss, passion and things I have neglected.
How many times have I lost a...
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Categories:
potent, bereavement, blessing, death, eulogy, heaven, life, loss,
Form:
Verse