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Premium Member 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



Recluse By Dint of Circumstance
Recluse 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 History
The 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 Reality
Half 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 Parents
Onerous 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



Premium Member 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 Touchstone
Present 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
Premium Member Love of Earth History
Love 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
Premium Member Karma Inspirations
An 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 Pm
Circa 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
The Compensatory Man Par Excellence
I 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 Ago
Future 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
Hiccups
Hiccups 

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 ago
Future 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 Housefly
Antics 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 Pinch
Nothing 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 Mother
Sobbing 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 Pass
Enveloped 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
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 Process
agonizingly 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 Circumstance
Heretic 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
Premium Member In My Right Mind
My 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
The Trials of Meretrix Canto V
Here, this day, on this inglorious
Field
Thy vain struggles will count no
Valour.
All hope now abandoned,
Imminent defeat unconcealed;
Erstwhile countenance display 
Such waxen, languid pallor.
Surround by your dwindling 
Forces
Ye will but sadly find...
That the stout keep of your...

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Categories: protracted, philosophy, proposal,
Form: Rhyme
Generic Germane Groveling Guy Still Wallows In Weltschmerz
Yours truly does readily confess
the following poem crafted more or less
approximately a year ago,
when coronavirus (COVID-19)
wrought havoc creating global mess
when panic against collective temple did press
a feeling of melancholy and world-weariness.

Along luscious green acres banks...

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Categories: protracted, 12th grade, america, anniversary, confusion, death, depression,
Form: Rhyme
Recluse By Dint of Circumstance First Cell
He/him (ratty, scrawny, 
and tetchy ugly villain)   
scurried into dark recesses of hermitage
averse to cavort, frolic, inure himself
into the duplicitous schemes
capitalized, glorified, popularized

courtesy vanity of Homo sapiens
lest imp of the pervert 
already sacrificed...

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Categories: protracted, age, analogy, animal, appreciation, bible, character, courage,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs