Long Quests Poems
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World War Ii Poems and Holocaust Poems - Iv - Primo LeviWorld War II Poems and Holocaust Poems - IV - Primo Levi
Shema
by Primo Levi
translation by Michael R. Burch
You who live secure
in your comfortable houses,
who return each evening to find
warm food,
welcoming faces...
consider whether this...
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Categories:
quests, evil, holocaust, race, racism, war, world, world
Form:
Free verse
Judging V MediatingJudging v Mediating,
like Teaching v Mentoring,
like Win/Lose Retributive Motives v Win/Win Restorative Motivators
like dogmatic Preaching v compassionately Communicating,
As felt
and appreciated by my LeftBrain dominant
RightWing hand
nurturing StraightWhite patriarchal
overpoweringly privileged
systemically elitist judgment
Branching, colonizing,
extending up and...
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Categories:
quests, community, culture, earth, environment, health, integrity, passion,
Form:
Political Verse
Ghosts of the Sun Dance-Part 28. Transformation
Yielding to those who have mastered the art
Of grasping one's place in existence's grand scheme
Life’s constant challenges never depart
But humble diligence will grow the dream
In passing from childhood to adulthood
Innocence to responsibility
Firm new role...
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Categories:
quests, spiritual, sports,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
QuestAt least one of my greatest QUESTS ...
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Categories:
quests, heart, thank you,
Form:
Free verse
My New YearIf there is life there
must be an encounteration.
Even the moons and
the suns, all get to return
back if they passed
to their eventual
transportation. The morning
lights shunned and pass
like flying clouds. When...
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Categories:
quests, africa,
Form:
ABC
New Mlk Day ResolutionsI have heard almost nothing about New Year Resolutions
this pandemic year;
Although personal sound waves are filled
replete with incomplete invitations
to take better health care
of personal
and social
and economic
and democratic
and public
and green climate nonviolent communication
wealth optimization
As we move...
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Categories:
quests, creation, health, hope, integrity, leadership, new year,
Form:
Political Verse
Ghosts of the Sun Dance-Part 1Ghosts of the Sun Dance
1. The Path
A quest dating back through our history
Surpassing the flesh, a spiritual path
Human endurance, road to mystery
Dark trail winding through the gardens of wrath
It echoes through me, this deep ambition
Half...
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Categories:
quests, spiritual, sports, endurance, drug,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
O' BaobabO' Baobab! O' Baobab! O' Baobab
Ace of the furnace, finest of the dynasty
You strut your breast high
And ply strain against the yearn,
Against the fire, the desire for sigh
Haughty, you stand, before the...
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Categories:
quests, africa, mystery, myth, nature,
Form:
Free verse
Pixie Pixela's Purgatory RebellionA young girl’s voice, lost in the data, cries out,
"Why are we here?"
Pixie Pixela, her words soft and low, murmurs,
"This world is yours, dear, a garden for stories to grow."
But her digital eyes hold a...
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Categories:
quests, child, freedom, internet, satire, vanity,
Form:
Free verse
Growing Up, La - Part 3Chapter 3: College Preparation
My freshman year started quite smooth
Touch football broke my leg
My luck we had a tennis coach,
That brought things down a peg!
My algebra was like a dream,
Played tennis, found it fun,
And Science Fairs...
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Categories:
quests, life, , cute,
Form:
Rhyme
Seeking Wealthier QuestionsSaid the evangelical
straight white male
God-privileged Pastor
to the UU lesbian black ecofeminist
Reverend:
You are not feeding your flock,
You are not spiritually nurturing
with scripture teaching,
You are not preaching
religious family value answers
Your faithful community
remains hungry for divinely inspired...
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Categories:
quests, community, faith, health, integrity, peace, political, power,
Form:
Political Verse
Verses In Dialogue: Joyce and Atwood RevisedJames Joyce:
In winding streets of Dublin, I did dwell,
found Ulyssean tales to weave and tell.
In this modern age, voices rise anew.
What themes thrive, Margaret, in works like you?
Margaret Atwood:
Ah, James, your stream, like a cerebral...
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Categories:
quests, appreciation, literature,
Form:
Verse
The Hero Code: DecodedEnthralled by each panel, a world in my grasp,
Comic books whisked me beyond time's clasp.
Starlight's soft shimmer, on planets unknown,
Myths spun with heroes, on quests all their own.
With villains I tangled, with champions I soared,
Their...
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Categories:
quests, hero, imagination, literature, youth,
Form:
Narrative
Evaporating Tankahearken to the sound
of reality come round
crowing to the sun
a brand new day just begun
much more mundane than profound
the universe hums
until eternity comes
shifting light plasma
moves through sparse cosmic miasma
the interstellar stanza
universe springs forth
actual mountains of...
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Categories:
quests, creation, culture, hope, perspective, philosophy, time,
Form:
Tanka
Why Cant I Get You To SeeWhy can’t I get you to see, that you complete me!
And mean everything in the world to me?
Why is it so hard for you to simply discern,
that you my love will always be my...
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Categories:
quests, destiny, faith, feelings, for her, how i
Form:
Couplet
Solomon CrowleyLearn to heed the warning
of queer and ominous tale
the weird of Solomon Crowley
his madness and long bewail
Once deemed as prominent prince
sullen noble becomes fallen wanderer
deepest rages drive burning thirst
the burden of daily desire
so...
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Categories:
quests,
Form:
I do not know?
Skin-Color Doesn'T Matter, Part II remember when I was young,
playing with my best friend Jerome,
we had some woods behind our houses,
our frontier, where we would go roam.
We played soldier, explorer, cowboy,
as most young boys are known to do,
we were...
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Categories:
quests, culture, how i feel, race, racism, society,
Form:
Narrative
Zarathustra Gave Me the Green Light Part Twofrom conscionable, fashionable,
and inimitable laudable official,
regal unequivocal x all did (re: exalted)
gratuitously justifiable management,
this citizen banker does hint intend zealous altercation,
but bestir commonwealth, dutifully engineering
fairness, given hover into jaundiced keeper
LivingSocial lee,...
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Categories:
quests, america, anger, angst, betrayal, conflict, discrimination, fate,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Beyond BeliefA Dedication to Leanne, my beloved wife.
Beyond Belief
Harken,
Heed these words,
They are more than mere sounds,
Trumpeting make-belief ideas,
They will be as rain and sunlight,
To a wilting flower,
Love will heal you,
Beyond all beliefs.
Words that sound...
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Categories:
quests, devotion, fire, for her, inspiration, love,
Form:
Carpe Diem
Traditional Poetry and a New Age PoetryMany a poet I know a fool
acting like they know-it-all
many a poet I know a tool
acting like "Mr Poet-all"
unknowingly showing me
their knowledge of poetry
has boundaries surrounding
ideas rebounding around
their impounded grounds
only seeing...
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Categories:
quests, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
Lord God, You Are My Battle ConquerorFebruary 22 Relationship to God Bible Meditations
Based on Deuteronomy 20-24
Key Verse – Deuteronomy 20:1 When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and seest horses, and chariots, and a people more than thou,...
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Categories:
quests, blessing, christian, faith, god, jesus, spiritual, thanksgiving,
Form:
Rhyme
Predilections of the Phallic BeastAdulterous besieging capstone damnation
exploitation foists groping, heaving
insidiously jerking
knowingly lunges
machinations notoriously nymphomaniacal
officiating penile quests
rapaciously, sadistically
tenaciously, unstoppably
vasocongested wickedness
Xerses yawped zeolously.
***************************
All throughout history of man/woman kind
ascendent civilizations extensively gouged,
impailed, kindled, murderous...
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Categories:
quests, abuse, age, anger, discrimination, horror, lust, prayer,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Twas the Night Before CexmasThis poem was submitted for a work competition at CEX
Twas the first day of CeXmas, and all through the land
The taverns were a buzz as grog was in hand,
Participants were giddy about the quests they...
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Categories:
quests, character, christmas,
Form:
Rhyme
Dad's LegacyAdmonishing against arrogance and apathy
Building lives buttressed with leadership brace
Caring for his children, blending compassion and circumspection
Daddy* dearest is decisive, determined, diligent, dedicated, disciplinarian...
Empowering with his enabling encouragement
Fatherly figure, firming up family fortress by his...
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Categories:
quests, appreciation, blessing, christian, faith, father, god, memory,
Form:
ABC
Dan the Hero, Part Vii...“Remember what I told you of my pa,
of what I shouted at you on that night,
you want a better world? Then help others,
but you gotta do it one at a time.
“I save one person,...
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Categories:
quests, appreciation, character, conflict, hero, hope, perspective, uplifting,
Form:
Epic