Long Respectability Poems
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I a youthsome wholesome jokesome handsome
I (a youthsome, wholesome, jokesome, handsome,...
gamesome, chucklesome, bothersome,
and awesome modest fellow)...
does not deliberately court immortalization,
and wonders what criteria confer elevation,
exaltation, glorification, hero worship,
idolization, veneration, or worship.
I go about a daily humdrum routine
me, a twenty first...
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Categories:
respectability, age, appreciation, birth, creation, desire, fishing, longing,
Form:
Free verse
Therapeutic Talking
Talk therapy
among braver angels
and curious devilish advocates,
Evolves natural contemplative thoughts
of healthy minds and bodies
felt sacredly neuro-systemic
Organic
dynamic systems
reconnecting sensory consciousness
and mindful sexual experience
with worldviews recombining
Liberal YangTruth and Conserving YintegralBeauty
in co-empathic compassion
Nonviolently hopeful
win/win bicameral intelligence
exploring why
And healthy...
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Categories:
respectability, health, humanity, humor, peace, senses, sensual, stress,
Form:
Political Verse
I dread the United States presidential 2024 outcome
I dread the United States presidential 2024 outcome...
Whereby yours truly presages and doth abhor
nothing short of an imminent civil war
dwarfing insurrection on January 6, 2021
oddly enough even reducing
ordinary decibels to a mute whisper
madding crowd trumpeting...
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Categories:
respectability, abuse, america, anger, animal, corruption, emotions, fate,
Form:
Free verse
Forgive Us, Dr King
You died for our equal treatment, and we demand "affirmative action."
You died for integration, and we justify segregation when we throw public brawls and destroy property.
You died to stop the Klan and the supremacists from...
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Categories:
respectability, africa, betrayal, black african american, christian, community,
Form:
Epic
Categories:
respectability, anxiety, break up, first love, grief, heart,
Form:
Narrative
Chicanery Grabbed Lustfully Repeatedly Yup
Chicanery grabbed lustfully repeatedly - yup!
While merrily bobbing along
the boulevard of broken dreams,
which in truth measured
no more than a furlong
think envisioning myself top banana
analogous to bull headed Donkey Kong,
I felt on top of my game,
which...
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Categories:
respectability, abuse, age, america, analogy, anger, animal, betrayal,
Form:
Rhyme
Arthur Rimbaud: The Drunken Boat translation by Michael R Burch
Le Bateau ivre (“The Drunken Boat”), an Excerpt
by Arthur Rimbaud
translation by Michael R. Burch
The impassive river carried me downstream
as howling warriors slashed the bargemen's throats,
then nailed them, naked, to their former posts,
while I observed all...
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Categories:
respectability, beautiful, boat, body, children, dream, morning, river,
Form:
Free verse
Charles Bukowski Road Not Taken
While reading Charles Bukowski poetry?
On the metro ride home?
Listening to Buddha bar music?
On my oh too hip iPod?
I begin to see myself as I was?
Over 30 years ago when...
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Categories:
respectability, absence, adventure, allusion, america, life, poetry, poets,
Form:
Free verse
Ronald Rump Reasonably Roasted
Ronald Rump reasonably roasted
Remarkable – recourse retaining rickety
rambling reverence regarding “r.”
Ronald Rump
repugnant racist republican reviled -
rickettsia re:itch ruler.
Rapaciously ravaged
revered reverential rubric.
Radical ruthless renegade
rapidly riotously ripped rigged ramparts.
Refrained retaining remnant
redolent...
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Categories:
respectability, 12th grade, america, betrayal, december, grave, grief,
Form:
Free verse
Charles Bukowski Road Not Chosen
Charles Bukowski Road Not Chosen
While reading Charles Bukowski poetry
On the metro ride home
Listening to Buddha bar music
On my oh too hip IPod
I begin to see myself as I was
Over 30 years ago when...
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Categories:
respectability, anger, anxiety, career, change, destiny, humorous, sometimes,
Form:
Free verse
Ronald Rump
repugnant racist republican reviled - rickettsia re:itch ruler.
rapaciously ravaged revered reverential rubric.
radical ruthless renegade rapidly riotously rips rigged ramparts.
refrains retaining remnant redolent regal, resplendent rafters.
riches rudely rupture rooted rectified rights.
ruckus ricochets revenant...
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Categories:
respectability, allusion, analogy, confusion, crazy, funny, imagination, lost,
Form:
Alliteration
November 1968: the Hunted
November 1968: The Hunted
Got divorced couple years ago, second time
At first, I mirror myself as a low-life loser
Jack without Jill, McGee without Molly
Ossie without Harriot, Adam absent Eve
No fourth finger, gold band of...
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Categories:
respectability, anniversary, change, divorce, husband, marriage, romantic love,
Form:
Free verse
Pushy Parenting
You create them
You give birth to them
You nurture them
You raise them
All the while seeking to rearrange them
For you insist on always owning them
Kids are forever
Children are our saviour
Dynasties become prolonged
It is never best to have...
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Categories:
respectability, abuse, betrayal, children, dedication, depression, identity, power,
Form:
Free verse
TalAngela JamIN- Dedicated VERSE FOR SHASTA SIMMS ANTHOLOGY 2
TalAngela JamIN
Dance in the early 19th century
There’s s a woman named TalAngela, complementary
She was a pretty woman she wears a crown
And she surely knows how to get down
TalAngela wore 10 inch heels
While out on the...
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Categories:
respectability, adventure, allusion, celebration, character, dance, dedication, fashion,
Form:
Lyric
Table of Contents
Alone in a room,
alone within eminent doom.
I simmer so deep in saturation
that I forget that isolation happens in extended duration.
For the sake of direction, I reference past chapters
to avoid tried and true mistakes and...
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Categories:
respectability, absence, appreciation, best friend, black african american,
Form:
Political Verse
Ventana Thoughts
These are all ruminations that arose from a recent backpacking trip in the Ventana Wilderness
Needing to bring spiritual realities
into the press of raw humanity,
amongst the most humble
the dreamer seems visionary.
Addiction is a mirror;
if I look...
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Categories:
respectability, adventure, faith, forgiveness, imagination, introspection, peace, recovery
Form:
Free verse
Starting With the End
As a young avid reader
I always read the Introduction or Prologue,
when offered,
to see if this treatise overture
would take me some place I cared to wade through.
As an old avid reader
I always begin with the last...
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Categories:
respectability, age, feelings, health, humor, writing,
Form:
Free verse
In Her Copper Coloured Wig
A respectable girl was she; or so she appeared to be
Living alone in her dear little cottage at number seventy three
Each day she left home bright and early, as she walked to the railway...
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Categories:
respectability, dedication, endurance, mental illness, sensual,
Form:
Couplet
Sometimes When Shadows Fall
Sometimes when shadows fall across the ridges
Spirits conjure up images from the foggy valleys
Rapidly fading memories of mountain life yesterday.
Majestic crests still whisper hidden secrets of the past--
Escapes from Trails of Tears, wretched poverty,
Melungeon peoples...
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Categories:
respectability, mountains,
Form:
Free verse
Hidden Behind the Clouds
During these times, our cities stand bare.
In picturesque grey, without a busy business.
A mask the merchandise wear standing there.
In silent closure, venues lost all their riches.
Suddenly, blown down by the wildest hurricane.
Storms...
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Categories:
respectability, anxiety, business, conflict, imagery, lost, poverty,
Form:
Imagism
I Understand
The things we bury within our mind
like a ravenous forager returning a find
all the cracks between our multiple side
along with the secrets we try to hide
drowning in illusory shames false tide
respectability can be a curse
not...
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Categories:
respectability, angst, depression, love, sad, life, life, love,
Form:
Narrative
The Nations Leaders
Pick up the pieces, the remnants of
your folly, you few who shuffle the
decks of life. So few to guide ones
destiny, giving quality or lack of,
to your indigenous subjects.
Contesting paladins that manipulate
every move, each infinitesimal pawn
representing...
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Categories:
respectability, political,
Form:
Free verse
Dignity
Power to the people majority understand good over evil. Evil can't change the truth of the hearts of not one. We individually yet collectively ideas, thoughts, actions, together are the people. We The people. Respectability...
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Categories:
respectability, allah, faith, god, hurt, remember, suicide, world,
Form:
Free verse
The Great Man is like an ice mountain, cold and unwavering, fearless of opinion
The Great Man is like an ice mountain, cold and unwavering, fearless of opinion,
Devoid of virtues that accompany the respect and respectability of the herd,
If he cannot lead, he walks alone on the rough paths...
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Categories:
respectability, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
My Contribution To Saving the Planet
I gave up my clothes drier,
For cleaner air.
I started a metal recycling scheme for my local church,
So as not to leave them in the lurch.
I dig most of my waste food into the garden,
And it...
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Categories:
respectability, analogy, appreciation, blessing, books, care, celebration, hope,
Form:
Burlesque