Long Reposing Poems

World's Longest Love Poem (second edition)


Title: My love my all

Edited by Izunna Okafor


Editor's Note:

Out of their ardency, eighteen poets and poetry lovers identified with the need to give the 2020 Valentine celebration a poetic taste...

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Terrence the Turkey was feeling quite perky
Passing time in his rafter and doing no harm
No fighting nor squabbling, just gabbling and gobbling
Turkey talking turkey down on the farm.

Whilst having a natter, tame turkey type chatter
Before...

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Nature hunts health
to heal those and that hunted.

Spirit healths those and that haunted
by haunting those and that unhealed.

Human nature incarnates this universal search
of why and why not health, 
healing, 
nurturing confluent intimacy,
lover as content of...

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According to the will of fate 
I have come... 
I emerge from the flood 
A living soul. 
My memory is torn by the night. 
The night is enshrouded with darkness. 
I wander around the world...

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He grabbed me up from where I lay, peaceful in the sun, 
with my brothers and my sisters round about me. 
I felt four digits seeming to be one of a whole, 
which clasped around...

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Beneath thoughts with feelings
uniting and dispersing,

Within Earth's human constitutions,
democratic and win/lose cynical,
or even lose/lose nihilistic,

We each breathe in encultured nutritional space,
from a preferred multicultural healthy place,
for a polypathic wealthy outcome lifetime pace.

As we breathe in...

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Child lying
In a deep pallor
Looking out of a balcony
The last greeting
To island nature

Sunset is preparing
To surrender to the darkness
The gloomy and regal laurel
And the flight of the swifts
In the gulf and the plain

Sitting with a...

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Funeral in 1963


Beveled dusty cracked glass shielding Mother Mary enthroned,
Amidst flying angelic devotions atop whipped clouds of icy air,
Enslaved by an antique miracle made manifest in stained blood,
With silent invisible memorized prayers uttered in ancient...

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He's a seasoned outdoorsman; a lover
               and explorer of nature who frequently
   goes camping, on occasion, hunting; even fly-fishing.
...

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There are not enough words to describe
The devotion and compassion this poet's eyes beheld.

It was a plain room arranged for safety, 
comfort, and care.
A fine bantam table re-purposed with medical supplies 
for any emergent unplanned...

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Eleven years ago, it was a glimmering, gleaming, spanking new house
And we were so pleased, as we had designed it, our way, for us.
We immediately eliminated a dining room, preferring to eat in the
Livingroom on...

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Sometimes trees’ green fingers
Stand still like reposing harbingers
Of hope and despair; they meditate
On our ignorance of them who medicate
Us when diseases burgle into our souls
Taking us unawares like April fools.

At times tree branches and leaves
Come...

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The first words every computer speaks to me are always
"Untitled page". Therefore, my poetry which I have inked with the delicate
Ripples off time and tide is, undoubtedly untitled
Although my poems do not speak much about...

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Jose Mendoza, was a young migrant farmworker,
he was harvesting sweet potatoes on
Barnes Farming property in Spring Hope, 
North Carolina on September 5, 2023.
The temperature was in the 90's,
and Jose began to not feel well.

He went...

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* A collaboration with the wonderful poetess Subhadra Naryann. Please check out her heartfelt poems here on PS.

In transcendental dreams a lover's voice
seduces from beyond a distant star.
Enchanted by her song I face this choice-
to...

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Those born unto a family large will know whereof I speak.
When you sat at table, to get your fill there was a technique!
During Pa's interminable grace, bellies would begin to growl,
Anticipating the meat and taters...

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I've been privileged to behold glorious sunsets around this orb.
All so spectacular, 'tis almost more than I can absorb!
No artist could e'er blend oils to match The Creator's skill,
Nor with their most exquisite viruosity my...

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A lone cottonwood tree stands on the rolling Colorado plain.
A rippling stream flows nearby, its existence to sustain.
Its lofty branches reach for the pristine Colorado sky.
Tho' badly scarred, the ravages of time it continues to...

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The good ship "Vision of the Seas" crossed the tidal rip,
And now glides majestically toward her mooring slip.
Seattle 'wakens from its slumber as I gaze across the bay.
A glow in the eastern sky heralds another...

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"Hello there, forlorn old clock upon the antique store shelf!
I can't bear to leave you there reminiscing by yourself.
You'd sure look fine reposing upon the mantel in my house!
Let me fetch some bail to redeem...

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The old man and his faithful dog relish their daily stroll.
'Tis the autumn of their lives, alas, time doth take its toll!
He's not as spry nor is his dog as rowdy as he used to...

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So many irksome dilemmas in life can be cured by simple solutions.
All are not necessarily fixed by the latest technological revolutions.
To remedy the many vicissitudes that rain down upon myself,
I grab that handy box of...

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George Schultz

1898-1917

I was reposing voiceless on my deathbed,

As with the silent fog on a winter’s morning,

On the way out of here from kidney failure,

And as I closed my windows there,

On north Painter Street,

I tried to...

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Inside their souls grows an imagination turning concrete.......POETRY
Memory grows in fondness and nostalgia, remembering...........PAST
Mindful of time passing, migrating to unforeseen distance........ EVER
Omen of an illusive dream, of masses yearning for a vision....PEACE 
Renegaded, represseed, reposing...

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Far away by the oceanside  I sit and watch the seagulls fly
inside a pale orange sun that has yet to warm a reposing sand
Over by the boardwalk the air still hums of yesterday's feet
two...

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