Long Quicken Poems

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No Mark

No Mark
by Michael R. Burch

A wave implodes, 
impaled upon
impassive rocks...

this evening
the thunder of the sea
is a wild music filling my ear...

you are leaving
and the ungrieving
winds demur...

telling me
that nothing returns
as it was before...

here where you have...

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Categories: quicken, break up, change, divorce, extended metaphor, farewell,
Form: Verse


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Chapter 73 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: the Historical Hakims' Hit the Road

10 o'clock am the morning 
Quest: A country side bike ride.
Molly woke Dolly and Damian.
Woke Everyone on that July 
Morning of 2038. They had a Bicycle 
Expedition to tend to plus a newly
Minted swimming pool...

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Categories: quicken, cancer, missing you, nonsense, rude, scary, visionary,
Form: Alliteration
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Villanelle: No Man Can On His Own Escape Written Fate, For Thiru-Valluvar

Villanelle: No man can on his own escape written fate

         For Thiru-Valluvar, the “nameless” author of 
the THIRUK-KURAL

Note: In my previous posts, especially on Canto 38, I...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: quicken, beauty, character, creation, god, identity, truth,
Form: Villanelle
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Adieu - Part 1

Do you remember?
We lay in the moonlight, exhausted and content,
Moments from perfection, skin glistening with moisture,
Salty and sweet from love - love so amazing
That it stunned us every time ...
Always better than before, and always...

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Categories: quicken, heartbreak, love, passion, romantic, sad love, true
Form: Free verse
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Rufus and Bill

Now the sun and the sand were treacherously hot
    and not a place for Man or a Beast.
As you must be audaciously quick to find a good spot
    or...

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Categories: quicken, funny, humor, humorous,
Form: Rhyme


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Pipe Lines of Kaimu: Imu Ground Oven

Preparations for 'Luau' (LOU-ow) or a Hawaiian Party-like event, for a church Luau, would be a 'Ho'ike' (hoe-'E-kay). The hunters will tie the hind legs of whatever animal will go into an 'i'mu' (E'-moo), which...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: quicken, appreciation, beautiful, blessing, celebration, happiness, religion, together,
Form: Narrative

Ace colonoscopy doctor Kellen Karl Kovalovich

Ace colonoscopy doctor Kellen Karl Kovalovich

revisited January 23rd, 2024
on the evening before yours truly
(the one and only Matthew Scott Harris),
a stand up comic wannabe, who
historically heartily hales 
from Schwenksville, Pennsylvania
undergoes oh joy rapture colonoscopy.

Three days...

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Categories: quicken, angel, anxiety, appreciation, birthday, blessing, death, health,
Form: Free verse
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Chapter 160-- DAMIAN DELILAH MALLORY HOLANNYA: Property improvement Projects and Prosperity

Date:   June  2051

8:15 am-- Damian scheduled to have 
A few improvements and 
modifications of the house and perimeter.
Family in The house were alert and
Present. Molly and Holly were in the
Children's room bathing...

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Categories: quicken, allusion, best friend, birth, child, color,
Form: Alliteration
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Through Their Eyes

Through Their Eyes

The Poetry Murders Part 3 in the series

Murder She Wrote

It was a dark night with a full moon
The alley narrow, my hopes high
My footsteps echoed in the ears of the invisible
I quicken my...

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Categories: quicken, funny, grave, hilarious, history, imagery, inspiration, introspection,
Form: Free verse
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An Omen of the Taste of Twilight

Vanished

the wild magic of this place;

this wilderness I now roam alone
as its lifeblood seeps 
into 
Afterlife

..my mournful howls
across time and distance
go unanswered -
Oh, how I long to join again
in my brethren’s song..

fading sunlight falls in...

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Categories: quicken, animal, death, fate, grief, howl, longing, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
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Despite Every Crime, He Is Mine

Sounding like the goosebump tickles,
on the edges of naked breath,
awaiting the solace of prickly feelings
hesitant as the gossamer gentling
each hue of delicate blossoms and blooms,
each bud caressed by the night’s quiet dew…

Glistening like the star...

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Categories: quicken, appreciation, christian, god, inspirational love, jesus, life,
Form: Free verse

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: quicken, 12th grade, adventure, analogy, appreciation, beautiful, gender,
Form: Free verse
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The Woman In the Window

Can you see the woman in the window?
                           ...

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Categories: quicken, abuse, loss, woman,
Form: Free verse
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Spirits In the Wood

Standing all alone in the woods;
eyes shut, I feel the lilting light.
Sun dodges needles through the crown,
beams land on my skin softly so.
Brisk breezes quicken and rustle.
Bristlecone pines ever sway slowly,
while pockets of air blush...

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© Greg Gaul  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: quicken, death, earth, fantasy, sin, sound, spiritual, tree,
Form: Free verse

Ace Colonoscopy Doctors Kellen Karl Kovalovich and Larry Borowsky

Ace colonoscopy doctors Kellen Karl Kovalovich
and Larry Borowsky

Though necessary to down: 
four Dulcolax laxative tablets, 
quaff half 238 gram bottle of Miralax 
over span of eight hours, 
and if necessary even one Fleets Enema, 
I...

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Categories: quicken, adventure, age, anxiety, appreciation, blessing, care, death,
Form: Free verse

The Longest Dawn Part 2 Hc Sonnets

THE LONGEST DAWN PART 2 H C SONNETS
5
Each stage of life left without a goodbye
Youth, adult, work to live to earn your place
Strive to eat, learn a trade you need to ply
Bills, bills, bills, bills...

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Categories: quicken, life,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
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At the Gate of Dreamland- My First Contest Entry and Win

I know you are there
On the other side
Waiting anxiously for me
There at Dreamland’s Gate
So I close my eyes tight
To hurry myself to you
Hoping sleep comes quickly
To carry me to your arms
Which are reaching through the...

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Categories: quicken, dream,
Form: Free verse

Cri de coeur courtesy thirty something English earl cry baby

Cri de coeur courtesy thirty something English earl cry baby

the Earl of Yarmouth (William Seymour)
a descendant of very late
(to the power of Google - ha) Jane Seymour,
Henry VIII's third wife
currently in a legal battle with...

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Categories: quicken, adventure, anger, depression, england, fate, humorous, recovery
Form: Free verse
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Dark Angels of Highgate

Enough Angelina, drop the bouquet of harebells.  
The flowers wilt as your graying hands stiffen. See, how grave
is our newborn son. We gift him a black crêpe layette.
Say Darling Edward, say, Golubushka, make me...

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Categories: quicken, death,
Form: Sestina

Maze

Stranger ; the slight neglect 
of conversation has passed 
	as Tempest. 
& the Desert is silent , and pure 
For nothing thou will find but bones and dust.
	Nor will a Lover be 
	by Reason then,...

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Categories: quicken, artheart, night, sweet, rain, heaven, heart, heaven,
Form: Free verse

Food Missed

The poetry of the COVID era (read to the end)

Thai pineapple rice. Wonton and Yaki Soba
Tortufo ice cream. Scallopini veal, halva and also soda
Tamago, octopus and yellowtail. Ribs, pasta fagioli.
Meat lover’s pie, sword fish, big...

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© Ed Kay  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: quicken, america, food,
Form: Rhyme

Remember Me By This

"Remember me by this"
is what you said
as you bequeathed what you bequothe to me
from within your hand upon to mine,
a locket you yourself had made
and just a day before,
with the very hands that grazed mine...

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Categories: quicken, beautiful, heartbroken, jealousy, life, love hurts, sad
Form: Free verse

My Dark Friend

An evil falls within your bodyThat no one can see
A darkness that's meant for you and me 
Never in this world have I found a soulAs evil as dark as broken as mine
Hood up eyes...

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© Sejia Valo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: quicken, death, dedication, devotion, faith, fear, friendship, loss,
Form: ABC
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At the Gate of Dreamland

I know you are there
On the other side
Waiting anxiously for me
There at Dreamland’s Gate
So I close my eyes tight
To hurry myself to you
Hoping sleep comes quickly
To carry me to your arms
Which are reaching through the...

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Categories: quicken, desire, dream, passion,
Form: Free verse
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Murdered By My Own Shadow

Cold misty clouds rise above the grates
The streets only illumination, tossing shadows like pennies
Faded street lamps at each end
The cold is biting, as I roll the collar over my neck

I received a call earlier that...

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Categories: quicken, dark, fantasy, murder, mystery,
Form: Light Verse
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