Long Recuperating Poems

Moby Dick, a novel by Herman Melville, published in London in October 1851 as The Whale and a month later in New York City as Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. It is dedicated to Nathaniel Hawthorne....

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Convalescence of Richard McGeehan

Spouse of my eldest sister
marital bond fixed in place
strong as mortise and tenon,
he hales of hearty Irish stock
genes of said septuagenarian
analogous to pith and marrow
wrought courtesy divine providence.

At present aforementioned brother in...

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I enjoyed an almost idyllic childhood. This was marred only at the age of ten by my circumcision, a cruel and primitive custom among my otherwise enlightened people. In my grandmother’s hut, I was held...

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Black and blue boo boo bruises courtesy hurled Bobo box

No matter I sustained multiple contusions about the face and neck and minor head concussion after the missus tossed an unopened box of five apple pie...

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MLK recruited teens to march in demonstrations in Birmingham, AL. Due to ADULTS 
would not be influenced to march by his speeches. Fire Water hoses were turned on 
the disobedient teens at a high power...

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Daylight swerves around the road
Shouting from corner to corner
Morning comes alive 
The traffic starts rolling
And people start flowing
I walk briskly up the road
And walk along Market Street
The layover vendors are just waking up
And some of...

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Mabel Jones and her four kids, Tyrese, Sheldon, Christopher, and Myriah (each with different fathers) went to church every Sunday, and the kids attended bible school five days a week in the summertime.
As a family,...

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A  is for Antenna

A  is for Antenna, the two-in-one, receiving in and transmitting away.
B  is for Broadband, to fire away on the high speed  digital highway.
C  is for Current, what...

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'Course as a grim teller of tall tales,
(albeit poetic) reasonable rhyming
quasi roundelay I readily admitted to feign
cuz, stringing words together with
pride and prejudice plus
sense and sensibility, jocularity,
and conformity I dissed deign
(spoiler alert) iamb, trochaic,

dactylic, and...

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I was out walking in the park

When something grabbed me from the dark

I felt its fangs tear into my flesh

I could smell the blood, sickly fresh

 

It is quite strange, but at the time

I did...

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America twenty twenty-five
This year is all the way live
Drones in the Jersey Sky
In California, the fires fly
Planes crashing in the air
Black Hawk helicopters unaware
Who do we blame?

Affirmative action, DEI, what is in a name?
Puerto Rico's...

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As a law-abiding senior citizen of Hawai
I was living a pretty decent life 
Until my absence alerted my neighbours 
And the paramedics broke the front door of my house
To find me lying unconscious inside
Now I...

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I sit here now with heart and mind;
Pray fond endow to send most kind.


God bless your days with courage bold;
Let light fill stay with warmth when cold.


May all you feel bring fond good cheer;
Let lovely...

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Magically, the usually late
Is in front of their school’s gate
Ready to a gentle push give it
Or open fling it.

Now, he is commendably trim,
The hand of the lord strongly upon him,
Miraculously, he tries strides  with...

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Eyes to see but we don’t look


People are recuperating about COVID 19
On this planet we call earth
Every nation is affected by COVID 19
America is slowly rising
*
To become one of the greatest nation
Striving to see [Eternal]...

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Flannelette 
After Brexit, killings, and France losing -I will not giggle, it is 
good to write something that is of little consequence. 
The sun shines hot and makes the village white and brilliant, 
rustic is...

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 What I hear when I Dare to Stop.

The Quiet Places,

Here in this room I hear the
Echoes of when my daughter slept,
Her cat’s purr when she curled on her hip,
So many years, I’ve forgot.

The fan...

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December did not call him out
to the creek,
it was a prod from a walking god
whose legs had grown stiff.

The softening stream is smoky,
a recuperating sun is unlocking the frozen,
slivers and floes jostle to be one...

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Day dawns on me breathlessly with drudgery,
Gayless is my countenance to elude the cartload of tasks.
Yeah is only the option that makes me trot with lunch box,
Mayhem is the state of affairs that drain me...

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In the same month,
my husband had
two close encounters
with death.

First, a stray bullet
that landed a few inches
from where he was.
What are the odds!

Then a week later,
He had a small stroke.
It forces him to undergo 
a carotid...

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People are recuperating about COVID 19
On this planet we call earth
Every nation is affected by COVID 19
America is slowly rising

To become one of the greatest nation
Striving to see God
God is everywhere
He sends mortal and immortal...

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Glacial sent wet winds to chase out autumn radiance,
Snowdrift saints powdered white many gardens,
Leaving long flakes to peel open the morning ~
   Secretly smiling...

Morning emerged radiantly recuperating,
Silence silenced, replaced by stormy sunshine,
Winter's wetness...

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