Long Pristine Poems
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Flint
Flint
Within its brilliance gleaming
Cool black in lacquered polished silver chrome
Cranked up pistons bleached in summer’s heat
Hot steam rising as gears thundering
Beyond the crystal liquid city lights
Highways built across the land
In hearts felt pride American...
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Categories:
pristine,
Form:
Abecedarian
Zen Death Haiku
Zen Death Haiku
Brittle cicada shell,
little did I know
you were my life!
—Shuho, translation by Michael R. Burch
Returning
as it came,
this naked worm.
—Shidoken, translation by Michael R. Burch
As dew glistens
on a lotus leaf,
so too I soon must vanish.
—Shinsui,...
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Categories:
pristine, age, autumn, bereavement, death, death of a
Form:
Haiku
Employment Trauma
My protagonist today,
a Gay Black Religious Mature Male,
not quite ready for silver-grey Obama temples
Is off this morning
to a new full-time job,
8 to 5,
Monday through Friday.
He has been out of his calming,
regular custodial collared routine,
for over...
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Categories:
pristine, betrayal, caregiving, culture, health, prejudice, religion, work,
Form:
Political Verse
World War Ii Poems and Holocaust Poems - Vi - Chaim Nachman Bialik, Erich Fried
World War II Poems and Holocaust Poems - VI - Chaim Nachman Bialik, Erich Fried
After My Death
by Chaim Nachman Bialik
translation by Michael R. Burch
Say this when you eulogize me:
Here was a man—now, poof, he's...
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Categories:
pristine, holocaust, race, racism, truth, war, world, world
Form:
Free verse
Chapter 108 -- Damian Dj Delilah Mallory Damali Cj: the New Temple and Djs Birthday
Date: January 4 2046
Damali and DJ were active in the
Small house sprucing up for their
Day. "Hey happy birthday partner!"
Damali jostled DJ. In the main house
Now 11 morning time. Damian had
Plans...
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Categories:
pristine, color, confidence, deep,
Form:
Alliteration
The Inner Chamber
THE INNER CHAMBER
Please. Stop holding back on me.
Like a child standing at the neighborhood ice cream truck, arm outstretched, eyes huge, mouth watering.
I stand here longing to slip underneath your decades of cold-rolled steel...
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Categories:
pristine, betrayal, courage, devotion, love, love hurts, relationship,
Form:
Prose
The Penetralia Ruby Queen
Hark and listen well, if those foretoken in the eyes of hungers lust
Trapped in their illusion, trampling the Stars into dust
Forced with the detestation stench by the swamp of absolute disgust
Thou blackest scorpion be accursed,...
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Categories:
pristine, allegory, beauty, creation, fantasy, god, inspiration, integrity,
Form:
I do not know?
Smooth Big Cat
"Smooth Big Cat"
He was one of those guys you just knew would be a dud. "Be nice", she said to herself.
She met him on the upswing from the abyss of a dismally closed final chapter....
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Categories:
pristine, adventure, muse, mystery, romance,
Form:
Narrative
Heroic Crown of Sonnets - Part Two
(continued from A Year Of Months (January-June)
https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/heroic_crown_of_sonnets_-_part_one_772928
A Year Of Months (July-December)
8. July
July now follows summer's song of June;
with sun ablaze, her days are humid, warm.
Great time to languish in the afternoon,
and later, watch an evening...
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Categories:
pristine, earth, seasons, thanksgiving day,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
The Juniper Prize: Between the Known and the Unknown
“The Juniper Prize: Between the Known and the Unknown”
That man built a house
of straw and sticks
and the stories that burned within -
all consuming the titled prize;
like a bird
sings a song
the metre repeats and...
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Categories:
pristine, muse,
Form:
Narrative
A Gardening Expose
With these lines I’ll relate an intriguing tale of dubious accuracy
For I Hope to unveil sordid affairs of more than one conspiracy!
Be warned, that though you might be disturbed by the facts I relate?
They are...
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Categories:
pristine, garden, word play,
Form:
Rhyme
The Splice of Life
“The Splice of Life”
When colour
was to be
washed out
of the world
the evil ones
didn’t care
the Actor led
with his
Dementors
either side of him
Laundry,
they resolved
to be the best
pristine method
for...
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Categories:
pristine, humanity, political, religion, science,
Form:
Free verse
Visitor - Part 2 - a Collaboration With July Morning
The Story so far continued from 'Visitor'…
An attractive extra-terrestrial female researcher sent to a remote island to observe earth and beam back her findings is struggling with unfamiliar, alien romantic emotions. Even though she is...
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Categories:
pristine, adventure, romance, science fiction, sensual,
Form:
Narrative
The Legend of the Rose
Long 'ere legends encountered finesse amidst flairs of passionate cravings,
thereupon, be a period wherein an episode occasioned an opportunity that will be reserved forever.
An outbreak of dismembering words are been exchanged between groups of rapscallions.
The...
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Categories:
pristine, allusion, analogy, appreciation, fantasy, flower, imagery, imagination,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
The Sandless Sand Castle
The Sandless Sand Castle
Let me tell you about my eldest brother.
I am: the "Scram!", the "Beat it!", the "What you looking at?!", and the "Turn around and watch the movie!", younger brother. As you can...
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Categories:
pristine, beach, beautiful, brother, celebration, memorial day, memory,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Nascent Poetic Tribute To Black History Month
Nascent poetic tribute to black history month...
crafted before onset when people of color
got acknowledged for twenty eight or nine days
depending if leap year occurred.
Though I yam Caucasian,
rightful to honor most bitter
racist genocidal...
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Categories:
pristine, abuse, dream, evil, february, grave, hate, history,
Form:
Rhyme
The Pages
"The Pages"
Missing all those years
like a page you could turn,
a book you could throw casually aside,
to be eternally forgotten in electric shady libraries;
at some point you turned around,
and remembered, what you long...
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Categories:
pristine, i am, love,
Form:
Free verse
you'll be a man, tomorrow
You’ll be a man tomorrow, child, yes,
If you respect animals and pristine nature,
If you don’t kill elephants for ivory,
If you don’t kill the whales for soap,
You’ll be a man if you can stop time
If you...
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Categories:
pristine, cheer up, education, future, literature,
Form:
Quatrain
After drenching biblical rainfall
After drenching biblical rainfall...
verdant green acres covered the planet of the apes
like a petticoat junction
donning barrel of skinny dipping monkeys.
Once drought stricken vast landscape
far as the eye could see
suddenly flush with promise
of budding new shoots
and...
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Categories:
pristine, adventure, africa, august, earth, environment, history, humorous,
Form:
Free verse
For Shame
The inky black water sucks her in further
As she descends into the black depths of the abyss
Cloying dark swirls cover her head as soundlessly it reaches
Possessing her every inhalation – exhalation - it envelopes her...
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Categories:
pristine, betrayal, environment, natural disasters, peace, pollution,
Form:
Free verse
Chief Garbage Taster As Fifth Grade Halloween Gag
Chief garbage taster as fifth grade Halloween gag
at Henry Kline Boyer Elementary School
interestingly enough landed me a grubhub grab bag.
I rooted thru poetry anthology of mine,
and came across an unpublished poem
by one obscure poet (me),...
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Categories:
pristine, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 5th
Form:
Rhyme
Small Mutinies
"Small Mutinies"
So what if my point of view
is not that which wraps
you in comfortably warm
fluffed-up silky
cashmere blankets
of insecure insincerity
simple scribbles
bleating from the
chirping crickets
and frog croaking
symphonies
muddying waters
cutting pristine lines...
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Categories:
pristine, halloween, muse, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
Van Gogh
Endless sunflower field
Rhythmically swaying in the wind
Like lazy ocean wave stretches
To the distant line of horizon
Touching the edge of the sky
Melting into hot noon brilliance
Boiling all shades of yellow into
One burning brightness of...
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Categories:
pristine, anxiety, art, crazy, desire, pain,
Form:
Free verse
Earth Day 2021 Thursday April 22
POETIC PREFACE:
An inner conflict dust brew
within this scribe, who offers ye to chew
(like sweet treats metaphorically) thee do
tee incumbent, when Doomsday clock
counts down minutes few
according Al Gore rhythm
unstoppably ticking,
when life gets turned to global goo
tenderized...
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Categories:
pristine, appreciation, april, care, earth day, future, gender,
Form:
Rhyme
A Paradise Island
Written 24 December 2023
Placed 5th in :
No 1243 New Poem Only Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Brian Strand
...
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Categories:
pristine, appreciation, beach, ocean, sea, sunshine,
Form:
Rhyme