Long Protracted Poems
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Canto Xvii Hell Translation“Here the fierce with the thin pointed tail,
Who passes mountains and breaks arms and walls!
Here who with stench can the world assail!”
So my duke started to talk with his calls;
And hinted then it to get...
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Categories:
protracted, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
February 27th, 2018 literary tinkering rejiggered October 11th, 2024February 27th, 2018 literary tinkering rejiggered October 11th, 2024
I believed fortune cookie maxim
cryptic message couched
Apple Macbook Pro update process
alternately titled “markedly
a Luke warm welcome Matt unfurled
courtesy Jimmy John,
who embarked on
imp apostle bull...
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Categories:
protracted, absence, abuse, adventure, allegory, allusion, analogy, autumn,
Form:
Free verse
Recluse By Dint of CircumstanceRecluse by dint of circumstance
Proud anonymous troglodytes
forerunners of mine
confronted threats less horrific
than forty fifth commander in chief
of United States of America.
He/him (matted hair, ratty, scrawny,
and tetchy ugly villain)
scurried into dark...
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Categories:
protracted, adventure, america, angst, anti bullying, betrayal, character,
Form:
Free verse
The Story of HistoryThe Story of History
Beyond those beaten days’ depleted daylight
Beyond the bathos of a pandemic bondage
With the resurrected sashay’s charmed night
Down in the dumps at the pretentious proscenium
A ...
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Categories:
protracted, history,
Form:
Free verse
Half a Dozen Plus Years Ago the Following Became a Near RealityHalf a dozen plus years ago the following became a near reality
Countdown to homelessness –
mars this earthlinked sole Harris - son
panhandler would would register
pyrrhic victory won.
10…9…8…3..2..1…
Found me linkedin at the end of...
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Categories:
protracted, age, america, anger, angst, anniversary, anxiety, appreciation,
Form:
Rhyme
Onerous Task Confronted Teachers and ParentsOnerous task confronted teachers and parents
As prospective students
ably ready themselves to matriculate
and/or first set little feet
inside halls of learning,
I rebroadcast a poem crafted
at the height of Covid-19.
A couple years gone back educators
adaptation regarding coronavirus...
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Categories:
protracted, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Free verse
Subject, Aspects of Interest, and Effect of John Keats's ''On the Sonnet''“On the Sonnet”
by John Keats
If by dull rhymes our English must be chained,
And, like Andromeda, the Sonnet sweet
Fettered, in spite of painéd loveliness;
Let us find out, if we must be constrained,
Sandals more interwoven and complete
To...
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Categories:
protracted, england, fate, literature, muse, poems, poetry, poets,
Form:
Prose
Present Wedded Bliss Haint No TouchstonePresent wedded bliss haint no touchstone...
Circa ~ late spring/ early summer 1978
twas at behest of Harriet Harris,
thus due credit mother dearest
(she long since passed away)
who tried, to bribe, coax, exhort...
(protracted effort not all in vain),
cuz...
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Categories:
protracted, adventure, appreciation, celebration, dedication, devotion, husband, marriage,
Form:
Free verse
Love of Earth HistoryLove of history
commences a health and pathology journey
toward totalitarian terror
and unitarian awareness,
fragmented numbness of prey
and integral consciousness
of co-empathically benign predators
casing out
Framing one Earth-rhetorical spiraling event
within which herstory
of commodified
and domesticating victims
remains too unlargely untold
to optimize healthy...
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Categories:
protracted, health, history, humanity, passion, peace, perspective, philosophy,
Form:
Political Verse
Karma InspirationsAn Eastern term, karma
for Western causes
leading to subsequent events,
one bilateral lined dimension
temporally expressed,
explicated,
delineated,
articulated
co-arising dipolarity
correlational
co-relational,
negative and/or positive
Energy
empowerment/disempowerment
enlightenment/disenlightenment
Pathological benightedness
dualdark bilateral
East v West dissociative energy
potential power
shadowed unfore-giving lacking light
Repeatedly,
redundantly enough
that we create "pathology" language
to describe constant,
or nearly constant,
win/lose...
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Categories:
protracted, analogy, health, humanity, inspiration, integrity, mental illness,
Form:
Political Verse
Circa February 12th, 2122 10:30 PmCirca February 12th, 2122 ~ 10:30 PM
Equals twenty one thirty 22:30 military time
future time traveler looks back one century ago,
oceanic waterways overladen with green slime,
yours truly attempted crafting id est feeble rhyme
far from madding crowd,...
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Categories:
protracted, absence, age, celebration, dark, destiny, fantasy, heaven,
Form:
Rhyme
One must possess the patience of Job,“The patience of Job” applied as an idiom that means to have great patience or endurance in the face of suffering. It's used to describe someone who perseveres through many problems or hardships.
One must possess...
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Categories:
protracted, 12th grade, adventure, analogy, appreciation, beautiful, gender,
Form:
Free verse
The Compensatory Man Par ExcellenceI seldom indulge in letter writing
Because I consider it
To be a cold and illusory
Means of communication.
I will only send someone a letter
If I'm certain it's going to serve
A definite...
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Categories:
protracted, me,
Form:
Free verse
Future Time Traveler Looks Back One Century AgoFuture time traveler looks back one century ago
The following poem tweaked
courtesy original author who crafted
literary endeavor some couple years ago.
Now circa August 20th, 2122,
or 1930 military time,
yours truly attempted
drafting id est feeble...
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Categories:
protracted, adventure, anniversary, appreciation, august, celebrity, crazy, destiny,
Form:
Rhyme
HiccupsHiccups
An involuntary spasm
of the diaphragm
and respiratory organs,
with a sudden closure
of the glottis
and a characteristic
sound like that of a cough.
Rather mundane topic
lest one cursed
with said minor inconvenience
that...
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Categories:
protracted, 12th grade, anxiety, blue, cheer up, drink,
Form:
Rhyme
Future time traveler looks back one century agoFuture time traveler looks back one century ago
I exhibit health and virility at one hundred and
64 years astride planet earth, whereby spouse,
(who remained married to yours truly for about
one century – which elapsed in...
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Categories:
protracted, absence, adventure, anniversary, birth, celebration, cool, dad,
Form:
Free verse
Antics of a Buzzfeed Ding HouseflyAntics Of A Buzzfeed Ding Housefly...
Non random, but (based on my very
far out, flimsy laughably
amateurish thinking)
faux feigned aye
firmly believe,...
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Categories:
protracted, 12th grade, 8th grade, 9th grade, flying,
Form:
Free verse
Counselling PinchNothing much though will the heathen's heart accept from the duties of the eye,
Dated back to some years,this man was seen in a very dirty cloth and a slipper,
No one bothered to speak to...
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Categories:
protracted, angel, beautiful,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Sobbing of MotherSobbing of Mother
Who would be more knower definition of love?
When mother’s son sleeps untimely on the pool of blood
Timid when fires bullet triggering gun
Nozzle remains to outlet without cause
There, price of tear of mother’s
Crazy...
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Categories:
protracted, anxiety, deep, devotion, heartbroken, introspection, judgement,
Form:
Personification
As the Storm Come To PassEnveloped in the mayhem of covid-19
We are seating ducks in our homes
Anxiously pondering about how the world post Covid- 19 would be like
Would it be welcoming?
Or rather vicious like a mad dog?
But one thing is...
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Categories:
protracted, encouraging, hope,
Form:
Free verse
An Invisible Dictatorship Subtle Tyranny and Mask To attentive Observers is now Slipping and FastAn Invisible Dictatorship Subtle Tyranny & Mask - To attentive Observers is now Slipping & Fast
Overture toward false Maritime Law,
Commercial illegality Certificate of Births,
What on Earth then are we really here for?
Is but one query...
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Categories:
protracted, history,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Daimon Hellstrom
" Jesus, Rex Judaeorum," how best could he
Have shown his qualities than dying on the cross, a fatal fee.
What could he have said while dying than;
"Deusin manus tuas commendo...
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Categories:
protracted, fantasy, mystery, god, me, old, god, me,
Form:
Elegy
Fortune Cookie Maxim Minimizes Apple Macbook Pro Update Processagonizingly dutifully didst wait
to distract anticipatory anxiety,
(analogous to an expectant father)
while protracted procedure promised
nothing short of a millennium
whereby echoing thru the corridors of time
olly olly gluten free ranging NON GMO, oxen
oiled lubricated cloven hoof
nsync cup...
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Categories:
protracted, 10th grade, 11th grade, funny, perspective, power,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Recluse By Dint of CircumstanceHeretic condemned to burn at stake
reprieve eleventh hour granted clemency
commuted death penalty
criminal sentenced solitary isolation
rat infested dungeon ultimate punishment
doled out after protracted proceedings
courtesy amazing graceful puffed dragon
unwittingly delivered merciful respite.
Cowled ascetic busied himself
exotic gaseous/ liquified...
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Categories:
protracted, 11th grade, 12th grade, abuse, betrayal, earth,
Form:
Carpe Diem
In My Right MindMy healthy right mind
is not one likely to retain left brain
disparate details
more than elastic and interconnected trends.
So it has been with U.S. religious history recall.
I live immersed in impressions of indigenous communities
without investment in...
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Categories:
protracted, earth, health, history, integrity, nature, religion, spiritual,
Form:
Political Verse