Long Ravages Poems
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Cymbric ValeI believed that I was rural … that I lived in country style,
where the city was close handy … that big distance was a mile.
Trains and buses ferried daily; a freeway ran close by …
comforts...
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Categories:
ravages, holiday,
Form:
Rhyme
Additional Advice To Those Would Be King From the Thiruk-Kural With CommentaryAdditional free advice to those* who would be King from the THIRUK-KURAL with Commentary
[*like presidents, prime ministers, dictators of declining (falling or fallen) nations or even empires]
K442: urranOy niikki uraa amai munkaakkum
...
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Categories:
ravages, bullying, immigration, prison, religion, sympathy, tamil, violence,
Form:
Epigram
Treasures That May Be Found In Destiny's New ShiftI.
Treasures That May Be Found In Destiny's New Shift
( Mille viri sententia agere nescit donec suscipit calamum scribere.)
For a brief spell, I hung my hammock in the shade
of the ancient tall oak tree, that God's...
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Categories:
ravages, appreciation, art, blessing, care, dedication, poetry, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Backhand
"Backhand"
You have turned me
inside out, cut open
like a tennis ball
I used to beat backhand
along with the racket
hard against the garage wall
To make sense of it all
as a child, the grief stolen
all too swiftly and replaced...
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Categories:
ravages, child abuse, mother daughter, strength,
Form:
Free verse
Adopting YuaThe dust had all but settled from the sultry morning air when Sergeant Kessler tapped me on the arm to wake me up.
“Gonna be a hot one,” he announced, “a chance o’ rain...and could get...
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Categories:
ravages, child, daughter, inspirational, inspirational love, uplifting,
Form:
Narrative
Femme FataleFemme Fatale By A Wishing Well
(In The Wastelands Of War)
Warm as breath on placid skin,
Soft as gentle summer rains,
Loud as natures angry clouds
That gather in ambushed lanes,
To confer with the wounded boys
Whose...
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Categories:
ravages, war,
Form:
Rhyme
Olympic Desires Born, Gods A'Playing(1.)
Olympic Desires Born, Gods A'playing
Poseidon arose, trident a'gleaming.
Mermaids danced, fallen hair a'streaming.
Olympic desires born, Gods a'playing
Mighty Zeus often on earth a'staying
There below mortals stopped a'praying
Hades play, man's evil a'repaying!
Poseidon arose, trident a'gleaming.
Mermaids danced, fallen hair...
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Categories:
ravages, appreciation, art, creation, jealousy, mythology, repetition, war,
Form:
Rhyme
To War, From Youthoh youth in all its callow shades
is from our hope, precisely made
...
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Categories:
ravages, war,
Form:
Epic
With Each MorningWritten 3 September 2023 For
With Each Morning Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Martin Bram
...
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Categories:
ravages, feelings, god, humanity, inspirational, life, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
My TownFrom north, south, east and west
This is the town to beat the rest,
Where history and present blend
As through its many streets you wend.
Where once a monastery so great
From every view would dominate,
Where Pilgrims...
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Categories:
ravages, city, history, home, me, places, tribute,
Form:
Rhyme
Poetry Soup Anthology Part 2 Inspiration To WriteWoven are these pages in poetic verse,
With bare threads of our deepest feelings,
You will find laughter, tears and remorse,
and words of wisdom, prayer and healings.
What compels their pens to shed poetic ink?
What forlorn moment inspired...
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Categories:
ravages, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form:
Rhyme
Of Fate and the Choosing Between Scylla and CharybdisOf Fate And The Choosing Between Scylla and Charybdis
(From Continued Greek Heroes And Mythology Series)
Part Two....
referenced,
*Scylla and Charybdis, *Homer, *Iliad and The Odyssey, *Hades, *Heaven
Of Fate And The Choosing Between Scylla and Charybdis
(From Continued...
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Categories:
ravages, art, encouraging, fate, history, humanity, mythology, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Chaos Theory
"Chaos Theory"
The Message is sent on a breeze
Fire eats the wounds of a Mother
Her skin blisters
cracks and peels
Her children inhale a different pollen
Drones bark messengers like Bowie's Diamond Dogs
Tables now turn
machines are giving orders...
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Categories:
ravages, future, humanity, world,
Form:
Free verse
Unquotable Quotes: Xlviii - Tongue TeasersUNQUOTABLE QUOTES: XLVIII - Tongue Teasers
If the « Yellow Race » could have invented the alphabet, they wouldn’t still be seeing « Images » when they close their eyes. Picasso, Dadaism, Surrealist and Abstract painting...
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Categories:
ravages, humor, imagery, irony, satire, word play,
Form:
Epigram
A Famine A Nation Starved
If I could have chose to love another,
And the heavens had fallen from the sky,
And the fields which offer little or no hope,
Would I have chosen another love, or die?
If the ravages within...
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Categories:
ravages, death, ireland,
Form:
Rhyme
Barbarossa IWhen giants hide their heads beneath the sand,
the body lies unshielded from the Sun.
‘Tis but a hedge to seemingly withstand
the winds of war that nothing will out run.
‘Tis opportune for those that seek to rise...
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Categories:
ravages, world war ii,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
A Few Choice Words From My DaughterBusy getting ready to go to a meeting
I was looking through my closet for something to wear
My 20 year old daughter, Shereen, was in my bedroom
Showing me her new clothes
I marveled at her
What a body
What...
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Categories:
ravages, mother daughter, woman, words,
Form:
Narrative
Modern Age GirlDeep down my heart veins,
There prevails the clouds of
darkness that rains
But I condense them like
morning dew,
Apply on my eyes with its kohl,
And the world hymns, so divine
and beautiful.
Sometimes my blood runs cold...
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Categories:
ravages, girl
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
The River Mersey and the Black Pearl New BrightonThe River Mersey and The Black Pearl New Brighton
Let the Caribee and sultry sea call to the pirates bold.
But on this shore, with its tales of lore, The Mersey keeps its hold
For merchants,...
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Categories:
ravages, adventure, beach, boat, imagination, river,
Form:
Verse
Thirukkural: Translation of Canto Xxxviii With CommentaryTHIRUKKURAL: Translation of Canto XXXVIII with notes and commentary
Canto XXXVIII of the Thirukkural on the topic of FATE which I give here in translation (by stages) forms, in itself, a separate "book" in its own...
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Categories:
ravages, fate, humanity, life, nature, riddle, wisdom,
Form:
Couplet
Beyond the HorizonBEYOND THE HORIZON
Beyond the horizon, three oceans meet the sky,
It is the land of plenty; you cannot travel in a day,
It is wider than the man’s vision and has no end.
Beyond the horizon, there is...
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Categories:
ravages, faith, inspirational, religion, world, peace, peace, sun,
Form:
Narrative
This Nonestablishmentarian Iman Kant RiffThis nonestablishmentarian (Iman) kant riff!
Otherwise titled as: Thanksgiving
nothing more'n gobbledygook
we stuff ourselves with.
Mine suburban outpost
approximately thirty seven plus miles
southeast of where liberty bell marks
history upon cobblestone streets
where sounds of silence
from walking...
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Categories:
ravages, america, autumn, celebration, food, life, thanksgiving, thanksgiving
Form:
Rhyme
Should the Levee Ever Break, Act 1, Scene 3, Part 2Mitchell: The most expensive working girls employed by this establishment are what I call shielas. Class A shielas include all specimens of female physicality who were blessed to have inherited near perfect DNA, have taken...
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Categories:
ravages, allegory, society,
Form:
Prose Poetry
How Convenient Slated To Receive Second DoseHow convenient slated to receive second dose...
COVID-19 February 13th, 2021
Here at Highland Manor apartments
me and the missus occupy room B44
courtesy qualified medical personnel
Lansdale, Penna CVS store #01379.
No qualm regarding being vaccinated
though yours truly NOT panic...
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Categories:
ravages, adventure, africa, blessing, caregiving, celebration, courage, future,
Form:
Rhyme
Reckoning With Lifelong DespairWhich late afternoon/ early evening
today adventuristic, edenic, and idyllic
April 13th, 2021
pitch perfect weather
serves as temporary tonic
to balm away blues.
Like a tumbleweed
aimlessly blowing in the wind
across infinitely wobegon open wide
prairie home companion land
(which wasteland famously
epitomized by...
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Categories:
ravages, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 2nd
Form:
Free verse