Long Refusal Poems
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Burning Logs
Each flame
elegantly weaves in waves
flowing up from resources red cinder hot,
similar in warm color
temperature decrees
of beauty as integrity's truth
trust each surrounding flame.
Each flame
unique in point of origin below
as ubiquitously flickering fading destinations above.
Yet...
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Categories:
refusal, caregiving, community, creation, health, integrity, love hurts,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Water, 30 random word prompt
The weight of the water is heavy in my chest, a force pressing against the ribs. It rises when I don’t expect it, like a flood breaking through cracked, neglected seams. The truck of my...
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Categories:
refusal, 10th grade, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
Additional Advice To Those Would Be King From the Thiruk-Kural With Commentary
Additional 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:
refusal, bullying, immigration, prison, religion, sympathy, tamil, violence,
Form:
Epigram
God's Love Brings Light - the White Light Style
~ God's Love Brings Light ~
(White Light )
~O~
God's
Love brings Light
And His Light is bright
With God there's never darkness
Go to Him and He gives me Hope, Peace
I smile
I put God first
Best...
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Categories:
refusal, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
Let Love Live - Candle of Hope Style
~ Let Love Live ~
( Candle Of Hope)
Let
Love Hope
Peace fill heart
As walk with Lord
In Him find best friend
May heart rejoice
Love the Lord
Worship
Him
Let your heart sing Him songs
With His...
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Categories:
refusal, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
Liturgy for the Damned of Progress
My wounded heart drinks deep from the rotting gut of misery,
Humanity vomits its relics onto the oozing tiles of the real.
I see kids chewing syringes like candy canes,
Their innocence smashed, face down on the concrete...
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Categories:
refusal, america, change, christian, community,
Form:
Rhyme
Misanthropic Melodies
Misanthropic melodies played from a broken violin
Prehistoric prophecies that ignite new ideas before they begin
Telescopic telomeres that formulate a scientific grin
Endoscopic X-rays and a doctor drunk on gin
Valiant human beings with virtue among the discord
Salient...
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Categories:
refusal, life,
Form:
Rhyme
The Dance of Salome
The Dance of Salome
Herod bellowed out the night's festive orders..
"Bring the torches, bring the tables..
more wine, that we may rejoice,
for tonight we revel in kindred friendship."
Herod strolled onto the terrace, nearly stumbled in...
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Categories:
refusal, dance, daughter, moon, mother daughter, night, sin,
Form:
Narrative
Ah methinks I could sleep forever
Ah... methinks I could sleep forever
Basking in a supine position
with eyes wide shut
while the space heater churns out
fast moving molecules of heat
solitudinarian drowsy thinker fêted
by miniature fantasy
of tropical island paradise
accompanying and populating slumber
courtesy flickering,...
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Categories:
refusal, adventure, appreciation, atheist, beautiful, freedom, humorous, motivation,
Form:
Rhyme
The Nuckleberry
There are times in life when we deal with strife
And are helpless to the powers that be.
Where we are sequestered by doubt... and still tossed about
By others...
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Categories:
refusal, adventure, humor, inspiration,
Form:
Rhyme
Bleeding Homeland
The value of her name is fading,
Oh mother Ghana, mother of beauty and richness.
Every sector in her government is creating hopelessness.
A place attained from the sweat of passed souls within nationalism and confidence,
Today has appeared...
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Categories:
refusal, africa, angst,
Form:
Political Verse
A Tale of Two Drive-Throughs
“Goooood morning! I’m Wade, and I’m having a fantastic morning here at Starbucks! What can I get started for you today?”
I look over at the Starbucks drive-through lane from the Goodwill donation drop-off...
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Categories:
refusal, america, appreciation, encouraging, good morning, happiness, smile,
Form:
Free verse
A Night With Joe Bonamassa
Billboard named him the year finest blues musician.
Joe Bonamassa is a blues-rock musician,
He was designed to be a famous musician.
His family owns a guitar store in upstate New York,
After years of practice, Bonamassa will...
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Categories:
refusal, analogy, appreciation, celebrity, history, music,
Form:
Bio
Lifeboat the End
Part 10
The Sun high above was swiftly given a shove
As the Moon appeared to swallow the night.
And with another miserable day... just hours away,
They all slept to...
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Categories:
refusal, adventure, allegory, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Samson
Joyful music filled the village
when mother’s barren womb gave birth.
Born to end Philistine pillage,
and fill sad, anxious hearts with mirth.
No wine or product of the vine,
should pass your palate when you dine.
No razor...
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Categories:
refusal, betrayal, conflict, dark, passion, religion, religious, vanity,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Ironies Within Ironies
The morning sun filters through dust-laden windows of the district education office like an unwelcome truth trying to penetrate wilful ignorance. Shelves buckle under the weight of untouched research journals like abandoned promises, their spines...
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Categories:
refusal, education, irony,
Form:
Haibun
Where the wild flowers grow
Inspiration for this poem is Ruby Tuesday by The Stones 22/6/25 1392
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Categories:
refusal, flower, freedom,
Form:
Shape
What I Deserve
The personal is political and I take the political quite personal
and please do not get me wrong because I am not one to moan
for only those taking responsibility themselves should be allowed
to criticize what the...
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Categories:
refusal, judgement,
Form:
Political Verse
My Broken Heart
~Conversation With My Broken Heart~
Since I woke up today my heart has been complaining why
lately I am tormenting it, why cant I leave it alone, why am
I pushing it to the limit of...
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Categories:
refusal, loneliness, lost love, recovery from,
Form:
Free verse
Dream Awareness - Quiet Reflection
Written: April, 16, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Kai Michael Neumann
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From a deep weariness of the soul
to the discomfort embedded in our bones. ...
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Categories:
refusal, appreciation, confusion,
Form:
Free verse
A Dream That Came True
A Dream That Came True.
In my mind's eye I had seen her undress a thousand times
sending hot flashes that exploded with her moaning
Months before ever summoning the courage to speak to her
I...
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Categories:
refusal, beauty, dance, emotions, love, lust, memory, passion,
Form:
Narrative
Gerard Sekoto, In Memorium: 1913 - 1993 Parts One and Two
[Poem read at Sekoto’s inhumation ceremony at the Neuilly-sur-Marne-93 Cemetery, near Paris. Channel 4 in London recorded the reading as they did the funeral rites in the presence of his close relatives come from...
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Categories:
refusal, anger, friendship, may, words,
Form:
Elegy
Spore your appreciation, edification, information
Spore your appreciation, edification, information...,
orchestration, and utilization,
a moss fungi (fun guy) attests his marriage
synonymous with symbiotic relationship.
Nostalgic acquiescence about fictitious life,
oblivescence about current travails
and reminiscence about
transcendence into utopia
prompts me to revisit livingsocial,
now that yours truly
among...
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Categories:
refusal, adventure, age, anxiety, betrayal, creation, fate, father,
Form:
Rhyme
I Hear He's a Winner
WINNING STANCE OF BOLSONARO
Assertively, the winning personal motto
he established in 2016 is John 8:32* of the Bible,
"The truth will set you free."
Bravely, Jair Messias Bolsonaro...
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Categories:
refusal, character, god, integrity, leadership, meaningful, perspective, truth,
Form:
ABC
Man is the only creature that refuses to be what it is
Man is the only creature that refuses to be what it is,
An immortal soul trapped in mortal flesh, a dreamer wandering through unknown realms,
Searching for hidden treasures and uncharted miracles under the starry sky of...
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Categories:
refusal, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse