Long Qualifies Poems

The Anatomy of a Kural: Maxim Number 245 (taken at random) of the Thirukkural, the Tamil Classic on Ethics by Thiruvalluvar 

allal arulaalvaarkku illai valivalangum

mallalmaa naalam kari (K245)

“The teeming earth's vast realm, round which the...

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What if political parties
all over Earth
were invited together to sign a covenant
at a We The BiCameral People Party;

A covenant to never nominate or endorse or vote for a candidate for public office
without economic
and political
and environmental
and...

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I
Psalm 119 is a Sabbath praise song (Judaism). It is so for me, too, though I'm a Christ - follower, saved by Jesus Christ.

This Psalm or song, about a thousand years in use before Jesus...

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What makes my son special? Let me highlight his qualities…
since his milestones are  my accomplishment-trophies.  
He recently received his “Most Generous” and “Most Well-Groomed” awards; 
and he is now busy, learning with fun,...

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> I do not know if this qualifies as poetry.  I take my ideas from the news, or what happens in life around me.  I hope you don't mind.  My good news...

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In denial is a serious sickness
Watching every move I make
Simply because a word has been uttered to me
A minute time passed
With the hope that nothing has changed
How delusional of me
To have believed in an unknown...

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Over saturation with 
welter weighted Yuletide
drenching world, web, wide
equal and/or greater
effort demands energy tide
to global warming,
lest apocalypse doth ride

high and mighty mandating,
inculcating, buoying... pride
toward planet Earth, the
apathetic, demonic, horrific,
plastic... malleable passive
can no longer run and...

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English onomatopoeic words tick tock does punctuate...
audiological "second" associated with ordinary soundlessness

Second of time not decided arbitrarily, but...

Under International System of Units,
the second currently defined as
duration of 9,192,631,770 periods
of radiation corresponding to transition

between two hyperfine
levels...

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Sleeping Beauty move over, you got fierce competition

Ain't no vicious rumor,
but dead serious joke
cuz no princess
can kiss bajillion times

to get yours truly woke
ah... just one garden variety generic
Geico Frog Prince
(in actuality I
wanna be caveman bloke)

nothing...

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1000 miles per hour scientists have calculated the Earth’s rotation
And 25000 miles in 24 hours according to their quotation
They say it is the distance from the sun qualifies their concession
But it is the facts that...

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Me... creature of comfort? Bah

Once again mine lock, stock
and barrel trade in balderdash
finds yours truly (i.e. me)
to type poem frisson a$$ off
as dentures chatter and gnash,
while still inside me gobstopper,
(the sole way to generate
plea for...

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who is a mother?

a million dollar question 

that flows through ones heart

and asks questions


not every one who gives birth

qualifies to be a mother

some are not motherly enough

to even rear their kids

some sell their kids

some abandon...

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I say things like "never let some a**hole ruin your day",
But regardless of the facade, people get to me. 
I have emotions bottled up inside me decades old,  
I spent too long walking around...

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Fifty nine inch tall wife
once willowy wisp
postmenopausal galloping gourmandiser
playboy centerfold girly
figure ain't no mo,'
which superfluous weight deterrent,

love life yours truly
took Kamikaze nosedive
arousing, exciting, stimulating...
as romancing the stone statue,
but seen thru Tom 
gobbler beady eyes

butterball babe...

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God is here; God is there; God is everywhere.

A-  Absolutely able, that's who Almighty God is;
B - beckoning and bestowing blessings to winners.
C - Creator, Christ, Comforter, He's a Triune God
D - designing a...

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Just Stop Oil

" " PROTESTORS " "

Please 

Well go on then

If you are what you would have us believe

You say you are 

So dedicated and passionate about

Just Stoping Oil 

Here is an idea for you...

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I. God desires your faith my dear, 
Sorry, I just know it's true, 
It's not really in my pay grade 
To explain God's love to you. 

With meager faith I also struggle 
Don't feel like...

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A Virtuous Woman 
  
There are different types of women 
As you may very well know 
I am here to talk about her,
 And her goodness I will show 
A virtuous woman is
 And...

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Animal Magnetism                                 ...

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I'm a dream for a therapist
Except I'm unable to express my pain in person, But on paper I have no issue with sharing it
I've battled depression for too long to hear "life is too short,...

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mind's edge blunted
desert devoid of markers
my tears wet dry sand

Brian Johnston
July 29,2014

Poet' notes: 
Well, this can loosely be called a 'Physics Haiku' as well in the sense that both Poetry Rules and Rules of Physics...

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Going Somewhere

Somewhere is another bizarre place to be, 
especially if didn’t know how you got there.

Somewhere qualifies as another special
metaphysical indeterminate like nowhere.

Generally, we’re all going somewhere as
part of the greater space-time continuum.

In our earthly...

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To Sleep in Ocean Deep

After he did die and then went to sleep
They had him buried in the ocean deep
With big waves and while being so wide
He forever there will remain and abide.

There is something...

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Disasters have plagued our planet since the dawn of time 
When primitive creatures rose from primordial slime 
And a comet came down to hit a dinosaur’s head,
Causing a headache so bad, he was better off...

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When a person reaches that ‘certain age’ (this poet already has), he starts to think about the time when his mental and physical abilities will start to wane. This poem was inspired by the “Mini-Mental...

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