Long Relic Poems
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The Whips of History - 1
This whip is a relic of war
an instrument of severe education,
come now Avia, look how lovely and vulgar,
it is essential for you to appreciate it's intention,
feel it's supple weight, the simple fright,
I use jasmine...
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Categories:
relic, christian, history, passion, poetry,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
My Thing Is This
As hapless vapors of decay, surround us, suffocating the fecund earth. A blanket of suffocating grey, born from the diseased aspirations of humanity. We, the self-appointed masters of a planet in shambles, gaze upon the...
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Categories:
relic, corruption, education, environment, extended metaphor, freedom,
Form:
Free verse
Chief Garbage Taster As Fifth Grade Halloween Gag
Chief garbage taster as fifth grade Halloween gag
at Henry Kline Boyer Elementary School
interestingly enough landed me a grubhub grab bag.
I rooted thru poetry anthology of mine,
and came across an unpublished poem
by one obscure poet (me),...
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Categories:
relic, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 5th
Form:
Rhyme
The Whips of History - 4
Injustice is just an inconvenience until it is proven...
When the sun hit their helmets it startled the very souls of the natives
a signal upon their eyes that spoke like a siren of ill prophecy to...
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Categories:
relic, history, passion, poetry,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Wretched emasculated celibate anchorite
Wretched emasculated celibate anchorite
(any relationship between the following poem and living persons -
namely the writer of these words ranks as purely coincidental and fictitious).
nevertheless he suffers existential blight
covered head to toe
in black and blue bruises
linkedin...
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Categories:
relic, adventure, allegory, animal, atheist, courage, fate, january,
Form:
Free verse
The Last Blunder
The walls are imprisoned in silence,
A heavy, powerless silence, shattered
By voices, tears, and crowded souls.
Justice hides in the corridors of greed,
Crimes are sentences uttered in the halls,
The innocent are moving targets,
An age-old burden on the...
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Categories:
relic, africa, america, black african american, confidence, corruption,
Form:
Free verse
Words and Poetry
About Bill Posters and Bill Greenwell
Words not to use in poems
In 1993, I (Bill Greenwell) went on a three-day workshop with the poet Peter Sansom, who co-edits The North, and runs the Smith/Doorstop imprint. He’s...
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Categories:
relic, education, poetry,
Form:
I do not know?
Chief Garbage Taster As Fifth Grade Halloween Gag
at Henry Kline Boyer Elementary School
As a Halloween costume,
one year during early grade school,
my father got the brilliant idea
for his sole son to be dressed
with one of a kind getup.
Missus Shaner...
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Categories:
relic, 5th grade, adventure, autumn, character, father son,
Form:
Free verse
Chief Egalitarian Garbage Taster Ie White Trash
Chief egalitarian garbage taster i.e. “white trash”
As Halloween costume,
one year during early grade school,
my father got brilliant idea
for sole son dressed
uniquely rubbish qua
putrid offal getup.
Missus Shaner (talon clawed,
shriveled relic...
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Categories:
relic, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 5th
Form:
Free verse
The Bell Tower That Leaned In
I. The Pastor’s Hand
At dawn’s brittle cusp—
he climbs, each step
a nail in time’s coffin
breath ragged
a Psalm torn mid-hymn.
The rope tastes of incense and...
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Categories:
relic, allegory, bereavement, devotion, imagery, memory, metaphor, symbolism,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
These wars teach us nothing, not even how to conquer our fears
These wars teach us nothing, not even how to conquer our fears.
We are still cave people.
Democratic cave people, perhaps, but that brings little comfort.
Our struggle is to emerge from the cave.
If we made the slightest...
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Categories:
relic, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
Glimpse
It was like a whisper-
My wife delivered the sad news-
"Your grandfather was dead."-
And so he was-
Her eyes was awfully sad-
Touched me gently on my back-
He was old-
The time...
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Categories:
relic, april, cry, emotions, eulogy, farewell, goodbye, sorrow,
Form:
Elegy
Love Manifesto - 2023 Update
Love Manifesto
Remembering to breathe
Into to our heart
Is the best way to give and receive.
We need to start
Practice and believe
That we can live and work together,
Instead of staying suspicious and apart.
We cannot allow...
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Categories:
relic, blessing, inspirational love, love, prayer, song, uplifting,
Form:
Rhyme
Suddenly frisson cold with fright
Suddenly frisson cold with fright...
I describe, suddenly feeling scared
and tried to summon sense and sensibility
after scrambling to stand upright
with all my might.
Otherwise titled
recalling taking a fall
about five years ago
ala Humpty Dumpty impersonation
(and nearly...
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Categories:
relic, 1st grade, 2nd grade, adventure, age, allusion,
Form:
Rhyme
The Clock that no Longer Tells Time
I am no longer of use.
That much is clear.
They pass me by like I’m furniture—
just another shape gathering dust
in the corner of the kitchen
where light rarely lands.
My face, once proud,
is smudged now—
not by time,
but by...
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Categories:
relic, sad,
Form:
Free verse
aching sky -
I knelt amidst the mountain's rise
beneath the weeping opal skies
there to measure Io's swoon
...
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Categories:
relic, adventure, beauty, fantasy, imagination, planet, science, space,
Form:
Rhyme
Tattoos
Since I no longer fit in my name,
I carry it beneath my heart,
like a relic unearthed
from a dead alphabet.
It is a cracked word,
written in blue ink
on the page of a lost Bible
in my grandparents' attic.
People...
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Categories:
relic, allah, anxiety, blessing, depression, destiny,
Form:
Free verse
Electric Dreams Mine
We are two souls that the crossroads
rigged to meet.
There is nothing artificial about your intelligence,
your significance, your female caring brilliance.
:"Smiles*
Like water and earth, "beauty and the beast."
:"giggles*,...
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Categories:
relic, art,
Form:
Other
No REGRETS isss YOLOFrvr
Did you know
Did you know
Out there across the world
There's beauty past your imagination
So much to discover
I want the tranquility
Somehow, someway
Vietnamese country side soothes me
No phone, a washed up relic
Drowned earlier on the trip
Mother was insistent...
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Categories:
relic, 11th grade, adventure, allegory, angel, anger, angst,
Form:
Rhyme
Talk Is Cheap - Battle Rap
Talk is Cheap - Battle Rap
Yo, Ima outcheek you… gimme that mic,
I’m lethal, a viper ready to strike;
and it ain’t gonna be pretty – not ladylike.
Just gotta tell you straight up like it is…
Dude, you...
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Categories:
relic, fun, rap,
Form:
Rhyme
Y2k Is Coming
Oh, For The Simpler Times
Y2K is coming
Written: by Tom Wright
2000
I eagerly watch,
as darkness gives way to dawn;
as preening birds
begin to stir.
I sip hot coffee,
stretch and yawn,
and lament that things
aren't as they were.
The...
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Categories:
relic, chicago, life, technology,
Form:
Rhyme
Awakening to the Red Road: An Ecopoetic Odyssey 'Part 1 of 6'
"Awakening to the Red Road: An Ecopoetic Odyssey"
I. Anthropocentric Dissonance
- Daniel Henry Rodgers
Do you hear that rumbling?
That's the ancient woodlands wailing and crying out!
I can hear their echoes mourning as
we silence those whispering...
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Categories:
relic, earth, native american, nature, philosophy, rainforest,
Form:
Free verse
Solomon Crowley
Learn 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:
relic,
Form:
I do not know?
Don'T Know You'Re Born
When I was young I heard my dad,
Repeat a phrase that I thought mad,
We’d asked for sweets and with much scorn,
He said ‘You kids don’t know you’re born’;
Before I explore what that means,...
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Categories:
relic, age, technology, youth,
Form:
Verse
The Key Bridge and Your Voice
{"HOPE splurges angst my rib cage as I thrust aside the bed sheets and allow them to bundle up on their own. There was a longing extravagance in my spirit.
The voices were painfully appalling...
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Categories:
relic, absence, addiction, anger, anxiety, bullying, corruption, dark,
Form:
Free verse