Long Prizing Poems

On the extremity of  a tall bank 
Of big broken stones in round circle done
We reached up a more cruel clutter flank;

And there, for the horrible and strong stun
Of rotten stench which the deep...

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You can’t expect miracles in the eyes of men 
We must wait patiently with heartfelt acceptance
You will not look back & slip into your comfort zone again
We MUST gain eternal freedom & experience 
The attitude...

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Elegy to Child Lost


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Our unhinged president,
(a veritable loathsome miscreant)
cannot get away with murder,
nor will mine paltry poetic
(side winding) gambit
help clinch deserved punishment
for leader of free world hell bent
on destroying civilization.

Nevertheless cathartic and therapeutic
to craft (ala literary blitzkrieg)
sentiments lambasting...

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*To seek divine mercy in the aftermath of a major coronary surgery I underwent towards the end of last month.


Placed 9th in:
No. 1255 New Poem Only Poetry Contest
Sponsored By Brian Strand


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Author: Runping Chen

The desk sends forth its particular fragrance
That gladden people’s hearts.
That is the sweet-smelling of the old camphor bodies
And into the impression of my childhood immerses.

The shade extended my fellow villagers’ strolling;
Countless summer nights...

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In war, no glory confides absolutely.
Or is resolute in its righteousness.
Its essence holds no certainties nor goal...nor future.
Clear objectives fade... Justification merely a work in progress.
Clandestine agendas drive enmity across air, sea, sand and meadow.
Misdirected.
Towards...

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You took me out, the door is closed,
But I don't mind I'd like get lost,
And you can shoot yourself, it's nice,
They will say it's only whim and lies,
They will ask you make it twice.

I'll go...

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Lurking sun behind high trees,
Winking slit at frequent breeze,
Beside was ocean spread long,
Motion hides curious pride prolong
intrepid waves too rush bright,
O'er open moisture shell delight.

As sailor goes somewhere light,
My enthusiastic step dashed slight.
Little congestion were...

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Prizing self entails being true to who you are.
There are flaws and candles that ignite the air.
Man must determine his trifles and vision.
to be known for his victory, not his omission.

Everything vibrates and breathes with...

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Oh, Bandit, what's your impish task
While sporting, sly, that little mask?

You seem quite innocent and frail
Yet the kitchen tells a different tale

Floor all messy, the counters, too
Paw prints that led straight to you

But while I...

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A father tends to his children's fears
with sweet kisses while drying their tears.
And his hug embraces them with love,
prizing each as a gift from above.

Can you tell me of a father's kiss?

A lover acknowledges your...

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Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap
but by the seeds that you plant.
—Robert Louis Stevenson

A HANDFUL OF SEEDS-RLS

Plenipotentiary plea,
A handful of seeds; on bent knee.
Tilling the soil of the deceased,
As the sun rises...

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You don’t call him Terrorist’
Who can’t dislocate a wrist:
Whose speeches do the plain harm
While he might not waste a farm.

His palms like ancestors bares,
Ancient styles promotes like wares;
He’d forgotten worldly cares,
Save open taunts of false...

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I have a book of bones,
it props up bookend shadows
a frame and spine for all other books 
as yet unearthed or published.

Poetry is all about bones,
it gives clouds bones,
myths their bones,
boneyards their bones.

A book being...

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So sad when folks resent other’s successes
When so many offer them a warm handclasp,
Any person, to succeed, must learn processes
Then, success of their own is in their grasp.

All roads to success are paved with hard...

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Remember all those tea ads with the chimps on?
We’ll prostitute the Prague of Gustav Mahler
and desecrate the divas of La Scala.
Would Bart betray begettor Homer Simpson
(he’s not so much a whoreson as a pimp-son)
to get...

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