Long Powder Poems
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I Am My Father's SonThey were gambling in front of the house.
Manservants and pages bustled about
Serving Suitors who just curse and carouse.
Few mix wine with water. I heard one shout,
"Clean down the tables with wet sponges! Rouse
Yourselves! And when...
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Categories:
powder, adventure, anger, anxiety, bullying, father, history, introspection,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
BergfriedI. The Settlement
Hickory bark bluffs
at the blend of two
...
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Categories:
powder, adventure, allusion, metaphor, myth, native american, remember,
Form:
Narrative
Sophisticated Lady - Small Town Girl - Both Audio and Text Versions“Sophisticated lady” gropes the table at her bedside, blindly taking random swipes to kill the morning scream
That shatters little privacies she shares with no one else, and steals, with full impunity, her one recurring...
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Categories:
powder, sorrow,
Form:
Narrative
Sophisticated Lady, Small Town Girl“Sophisticated lady” gropes the table at her bedside, blindly taking random swipes to kill the morning scream
That shatters little privacies she shares with no one else, and steals, with full impunity, her one recurring...
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Categories:
powder, loneliness, sorry,
Form:
Rhyme
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 36I sung all the night with the Devil,
It seemed harmony had found itself spooning with dissonance
Not indeed needing to be one or the same
Yes—the light indeed could sustain itself in the midst
Of what then was...
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Categories:
powder, appreciation, dark, desire, endurance, inspiration, literature, meaningful,
Form:
Epic
Celena, Brave Celena- Part 1From Judges 11.
Pronunciation: Seh-LAY-nah
His brothers cast the young man out, the child of an harlot;
He fled away to distant Tob before they found an outlet
For anger, more than what they'd done, to fully disinherit
And drive...
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Categories:
powder, assonance, bible, christian, dance, goodbye,
Form:
Narrative
Dante's Divine Comedy Translation Canto IxThat color vileness painted on my face
When coming back my duke to me I saw
His new squeezing inside much more took place.
He heedful stopped as man hearing to draw;
Because his eye could not reach...
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Categories:
powder, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
Attempts At Lifelong Friendships and Holy MatrimonyIntroduction: once again I incorporate
my trademark penchant
to fabricate fictitiously
portions of the following poetic endeavor
can you care to
discern fact from fiction?
Attempts at lifelong friendships and holy matrimony...
Shot thru with figuratively cankerous nub,
cuz yours...
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Categories:
powder, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure, age, anger,
Form:
Rhyme
Such Does ExistI ran out of breath on the road to Mumbai ...
Not for sake of dust or smog or even health. I had rounded a curve on
my motorcycle,...
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Categories:
powder, appreciation, beauty, imagery, travel, world, , western,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Reflections By Commodore John Barry“He fought often and once bled in the cause of freedom, but his habits of War did not lessen in him the peaceful virtues which adorn his private life.” Doctor Benjamin Rush, signer of...
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Categories:
powder, adventure, autumn, dedication, history, longing, military, sea,
Form:
Epic
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:
powder, art, future, humanity,
Form:
Free verse
Candy Girl - 2
"Candy Girl" - 2
He had been watching her from the far end of the Ice Bar, where he was sitting propped up on an ice ledge which was cushioned in plush Reindeer hide and Yak...
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Categories:
powder, adventure, muse, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
Last Rose For a Rebel - Part 1SHE was my wife, once ...
long ago, so very long ago ...
we met on the showboat, up-river,
almost fifty years back now ...
I was a young officer for the Confederacy,
working for the Yanks after The Turn,
supplying...
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Categories:
powder, history, sad love, soulmate, true love,
Form:
Free verse
The Spirits of CullodenThe Spirits of Culloden.
This is like a pilgrimage, a try tae come every year,
Gather at the cairn, meet old friends, wipe away a tear.
Standin on that moor, that once with blood was sodden,
Paying respects...
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Categories:
powder, anniversary, death, dedication, memorial day, memory,
Form:
Rhyme
Au Revoir Oh Perilous FreedomAu revoir oh perilous freedom...
Since pledging my troth
to the missus July 25th, 1996
after the comma error
punctuated mein kampf with disequilibrium.
Ever since the notions
of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness
coalesced within the mindscape
attributed to one
or more...
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Categories:
powder, age, america, anger, anxiety, bereavement, best friend,
Form:
Free verse
In America June 14th Equals Flag DayIn America June 14th equals flag day
and in Pennsylvania a federal holiday.
"...I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. And to the republic for which it stands. One nation under god...
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Categories:
powder, 1st grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th
Form:
Rhyme
Embrace the LinesEmbrace The Lines
Vitality marks gently stretch your soft skin beyond the wildest dreams of
beauty unbound where children had once or thrice embraced your womb
the soothing waters cushioning and cradling three miracles three water
marks engraved...
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Categories:
powder, life,
Form:
Free verse
Part One - a Gunshot Wound To the Heat - a Short Story From My MemoirGUNSHOT WOUND TO THE HEART
From a two-room schoolhouse high on a hill over the Fundy Bay, I sat at an old wooden desk daydreaming. The ink stains and etchings which were dug deep into...
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Categories:
powder, nostalgia,
Form:
Prose
The Whiskey Bottle WishThe Whiskey Bottle Wish
One late summer night outside a saloon in the mid-west, an intoxicated Dusty Rogers, stumbles out of the Bar nearly taking one of the revolving doors with him. As he flutters...
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Categories:
powder, bible, drink, judgement,
Form:
Narrative
Stricken With Anguished NauseaStricken with anguished nausea
Written three years ago tomorrow,
yet superimposed (likened to
emotional palimpsest) upon
mental state of yore
recent post traumatic stress
triggered courtesy war
torn legally tendered greenbacks,
where enemy bonded, heisted, and netted
mine...
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Categories:
powder, abuse, age, analogy, angst, anniversary, anxiety, betrayal,
Form:
Rhyme
MaelstromA situation or state of confused movement or violent turmoil. (dictionary definition #2 of Maelstrom)
Today’s opinions are so contrasting and divisive that nobody seems to know up from down!
I believe fairly strongly in what I...
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Categories:
powder, philosophy,
Form:
Political Verse
Transmigration of the WindThe strong gust of wind was cut off from its source; a frigid early spring blast that swept across a lofty mountain range, high above British Columbia.
It then encircled one of the lesser peaks and...
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Categories:
powder, imagery, journey, nature, sky, spring, water, wind,
Form:
Prose
On Property ManagementMy wife and I were apartment managers for 18 grueling years that rented exclusively to college students, and - though everything I claim here is either disgusting or scary - or BOTH....it’s all true!
Well, it’s...
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Categories:
powder, funny, humor,
Form:
Narrative
Of Unknown OriginNylon waste is often akin to a brushed out stable, manger, or stall. But brushing the carpet is often a resemblance of a swirling cloud of dust and tobacco shards and tobacco shards are not...
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Categories:
powder, beach, beautiful,
Form:
I do not know?
Twice Told Toilet Tale a Cheeky Execrable Gross FableTwice told toilet tale – a cheeky execrable gross fable
which poetic product best be affixed
with hashtag STINKY label.
As a young whippersnapper
and one precocious lad to boot,
I discovered common combustible materials
found in the bathroom.
At opportune...
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Categories:
powder, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure, blessing, father,
Form:
Rhyme