Long Retention Poems
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Pequot River Land TrustOnce,
or twice,
maybe thrice,
surely not
not fractal
A clan of crazy ecofeminists
conspired within an 88 unit residential castle
in their historically converted
sometimes hysterically clueless condo
colonial-red predative brick
badly bald aging building
With a sometimes soggy south walled school,
but...
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Categories:
retention, blue, culture, environment, green, health, humor, math,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
April 9th, 2024 would be ninety fifth birthday poem for dearly departed papaApril 9th, 2024 would be ninety fifth birthday poem for dearly departed papa
The following words crafted soon after the soul of me daddy set adrift into the empyrean realm joining the rank and file of...
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Categories:
retention, absence, age, anniversary, april, bereavement, death, father,
Form:
Rhyme
Problems of SuccessOld misunderstandings of how Earth
and Her species
evolve,
regeneratively and degeneratively change,
sometimes in revolutionary expansive/implosive quick and great transitions,
but more traditionally in slow-grow emergent spacetime development,
are often summarized in secular capitalism's
Might Makes Fertile Right.
While this does capture...
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Categories:
retention, culture, earth, health, mental illness, psychological, science,
Form:
Political Verse
Butt Out - Collaboration - Please Join InI’m lunching with my bestie Mylie
She’s upset and no longer smiley
I ask her what’s wrong
She said in my thong
My bottom is no match for Kylie!
I giggled and said stop your moans
You're perfect not like Bridget...
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Categories:
retention, body, clothes, humorous,
Form:
Limerick
ReCentering Domestic NonViolenceThis brisk, sunny March morning, I return from delivering my son to his adult daycare van.
Upon opening The Norwich Times, I delight to read the new Center for Safe Futures "will be taking...
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Categories:
retention, culture, depression, health, hope, integrity, peace, power,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
The Edges of RhymeThe Edges of Rhyme
I wrote the playbook, watching what they took
While the earth shook I could not look
In the direction of the Big Book
Like a fish caught on a nasty hook...
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Categories:
retention, perspective,
Form:
Rhyme
Flagan the Dragon Part 3The Tale of the Duck
The morning was crisp and in need of assist
from the sun to warm up the day.
The Dragon needed some food to lighten his mood
so...
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Categories:
retention, funny, humor, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
When We Need HealthInsufficient knowledge for fully comprehensive consciousness
is also
more than sufficient ignorance
of our individual and collective participation
in comprehensive disease, weakness, loss, decay,
anger and fearful hatred
wilting climatic change
in both Interior and Exterior Landscapes.
So which do we continue intending...
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Categories:
retention, culture, health, love, peace, political, trust, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
Conspiring MusesI've heard about non-violent communication
but wasn't deeply listening.
It didn't seem to have much of a plot,
a lack of creative tension,
drawing my full survivalist attention.
So this is probably all wrong
that I'm not owning my conspiring dissonant...
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Categories:
retention, anti bullying, community, god, health, humanity, humor,
Form:
Political Verse
On Property ManagementMy wife and I were apartment managers for 18 grueling years that rented exclusively to college students, and - though everything I claim here is either disgusting or scary - or BOTH....it’s all true!
Well, it’s...
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Categories:
retention, funny, humor,
Form:
Narrative
An Inspiraling ExpirationIt might become too ironically
and iconically embareassing
to admit
I am taking a (s)hit
while exploring
my latest
and perhaps final
nutritional surmise
compressing peak climax
surprise
A well-capitalized
Systematic Theology
of EcoLogical Systems
is not such
an inviting much
of a moving title
Yet herein
we might...
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Categories:
retention, earth, environment, health, humor, passion, power, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
Smelly Stuff AbsorbedSmelly Stuff Absorbed
There are many words for those excrements that appear on the fabric in
incremental solid and deliquescent motions because ingestion fulfils that
autonomous need to shed ablutions but here I declare ‘Waste not Want...
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Categories:
retention, pain,
Form:
Free verse
Surely Somethingimagine, wonder, ponder, think
nebulous nothing is "surely something"
more than absence, spontaneous spawning on the brink
let's fantasise, let's dream awake
utter the dubious name of nothing
impostor corralled...
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Categories:
retention, adventure, endurance, hope, philosophy, universe, uplifting,
Form:
Verse
John Michael GreeristicsObamystic Preludes: Things we wish tomorrow for today
Insufficient knowledge for fully comprehensive consciousness
is also more than sufficient ignorance
to cause comprehensive disease.
Knowledge is not optimally resolved
resonantly revolved
accurately measured
in deductive-only information,
rational knowledge is optimally measured with health-trend...
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Categories:
retention, addiction, america, environment, health, life, political, power,
Form:
Free verse
MotherlandWith each morning comes a new genesis
That today would craft a dissimilar, Then
The echo of my voice to be perceived too
As it outs the grief that lies within the soul.
For father, disillusionment was...
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Categories:
retention, freedom,
Form:
Quatrain
Learning How To Live CourtesyLearning How To Live...Courtesy,
Sans Priceless Paternal Experiences
Bequeathed To This Papa From Precious Progeny
The greatest gift cherished, garnered, lamented...,
yet simultaneously recognized as utmost prized
constitutes mine declaration, that both benevolent
daughters (now metaphorically inflight) took wing
to...
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Categories:
retention, absence, age, angel, anger, cry, daughter, father
Form:
Ode
Signs of My Times Fears of My PeersSigns of My Times
Fears of My Peers.
There were little signs
When I was a kid
Prominently posted
Certainly not hid.
They were a little rhyme
To gain parents attention
To warn them of costs
It family lacked “retention”
You could find them
In...
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Categories:
retention, age, anxiety, change, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
Theater of Utter Charm Part 1Irritatingly often unnecessarily compliant
to the whims of those about him
endlessly wordlessly wondering
about the many demented subjective qualities
of our ever present mammalian imperative via
a thought balloon filled with candy and bullets
that lingers menacingly overhead
announcing the death...
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Categories:
retention, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
Please Just Keep All of Your Writings and All of Your Poetry Both Plain and Also SimpleWhy should both writers and/or poets just keep their writings and/or their
poetry just plain and simply easy to understand? What if you try to be so
creative and poetic but your readers do not understand a...
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Categories:
retention, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form:
Narrative
A Message By George CarlinPoets, this is not a poem....
Someone forwarded this to me, today. It’s an amazing message allegedly written by a very popular and great comedian of the ‘70’s and ‘80’s, the late, George Carlin. (Sounds...
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Categories:
retention, introspection, life, time, life, love, time,
Form:
I do not know?
Poet - Stand - Your Name Is Your SealPoet, stand up!
...
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Categories:
retention, on writing and words, heart, heart,
Form:
Free verse
Silence, Translation of Pierre Emmanuel S Silence By T WignesanSILENCE, Translation of Pierre Emmanuel's poem: Silence by T. Wignesan
The silence PRIOR to silence
Silence anterior to the ineffable SYLLABLE where silence is born where it’s accomplished in advance
PERCEPTIBLE syllable distanced by far from pure silence...
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Categories:
retention, creation, universe,
Form:
Free verse
The Light From the ShadowsThe Light from the Shadows
The light from the shadows of a thousand candles burning
The bright configuration of a lighthouse plainly warning
Plain sight considerations of a future that is forming
Contrite observations of memories of the...
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Categories:
retention, 12th grade, courage, environment, humanity,
Form:
Rhyme
The Royal Weddingthe wedding cake: $16,000-$80,000
cleaning of the streets after the wedding in london: $64,000
the flowers: $320,000-$800,000
pre-wedding hideaway (the goring hotel hosting middleton’s family & friends): $552 a night
for double rooms
middleton’s wedding dress: $64,000-$434,000
the engagement ring: valued...
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Categories:
retention, politicalwedding, graduation, wedding, engagement,
Form:
Free verse
Dry Facts Can Perform Juicy ActsDry Facts Can Perform Juicy Acts
In the EFL community
all around the world
it’s an undeniable
and unpleasant reality that
no matter how well-motivated
you and your students are
no matter how real and acute
the need for learning
a language...
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Categories:
retention, education, language, , cute,
Form:
Prose Poetry