Long Retold Poems
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Fully Employed NowHumanity keeps looking forward, toward the coming of a birth,
and we’re all deemed as equals on our first day on this earth,
but as the years go quickly by our lives become our own;
we’re seen as...
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retold, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
The Old Dark HouseThe Old Dark House
This tale of “The Old Dark House” is one that’s replete with a
most horrid sense of pure evil and macabre, and is worth being
retold each year during the deep-dark hours of All...
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Categories:
retold, dark, dream, evil, fantasy, god, metaphor, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
- the Old Dark House -This tale of “The Old Dark House” is one that’s replete with a
most horrid sense of pure evil and macabre, and is worth being
retold each year during the deep-dark hours of All Hallows’ Eve
before the...
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Categories:
retold, dark, dream, evil, fantasy, god, metaphor, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
The Old Dark HouseThis tale of “The Old Dark House” is one that’s replete with a
most horrid sense of pure evil and macabre, and is worth being
retold each year during the deep-dark hours of All Hallows’ Eve
before the...
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Categories:
retold, dark, dream, evil, fantasy, god, metaphor, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
Enabled EmpathyIt's weird
and sometimes wild
living with a non-LeftBrain verbal dominant
aspiring child,
now young adult
I find myself waiting for him
to nonverbally connect
and correct me
about my patriarchal domineering
economic and political ableist sins
of felt omission from commercial value
and, perhaps worse,
my...
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retold, culture, health, humor, identity, love, peace, relationship,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
If You'Re Like MeFear of Climate Success
If you're like me,
which probably already reduces the size of my captive audience
to Zero,
Regardless,
if we're like we used to be
when we were born
with all the potential integrity neurons
of the uniting universe,
Through childhood...
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Categories:
retold, childhood, green, health, integrity, nature, psychological, time,
Form:
Political Verse
Greatest Story Never ToldThis story remains unfinished
as do all the best tales told.
Yet I must warn you
it has a happy healthy ending,
not dystopian,
although not a finished
political wealth utopia,
Ever After LoveLife;
warm accompaniment
trusted energy of democracy
Where this power story...
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Categories:
retold, community, earth, environment, health, nature, peace, proposal,
Form:
Political Verse
Social and Antisocial CapitalHybrids,
like a good creole stew,
are amazingly viral cooperators,
competitively so,
reacclimating tastes toward richer anticipations.
We have all heard of social capital
and natural capital,
of social democrats as antisocial plutocrats
and cooperatively-owned capitalist corporations,
including bipolar republics, perhaps.
These are all forms...
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Categories:
retold, culture, earth, health, language, love, religion, science,
Form:
Political Verse
The Stranger*Image of Thunder & Lightning by Pixabay.
The Stranger
My life warps by its beasts of woes
depression dogs my day
at night, stress drains my restless soul
the wrongs have no delay
Myself am I, forsook decreed
hope laid by things...
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retold, allegory, encouraging, faith, meaningful, missing, mother son,
Form:
Rhyme
God's Zen VoiceOnce upon this time
I was listening to the Christian Fathers
retell traditional stories
of God's election and predestination.
Predestination
is like being born into royalty,
power,
privileges of humane Earth's regenerative grace.
Election is more democratic.
Selection based on God's vote for mercy,
apparently,
because...
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Categories:
retold, blessing, culture, gender, god, health, strength,
Form:
Political Verse
Sacred ProcessImages of God as active dynamic process
have evolved through theological circles,
and marched through anthrocentric political squares,
for at least as long as I have been able to regenerate my alpha-thru-omega bet.
But, the idea of Sacred EcoLogical...
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Categories:
retold, culture, destiny, god, humor, nature, religion, spiritual,
Form:
Political Verse
Climate Health HistorySometimes, as individuals
and as a learning species,
we jump too quickly,
eagerly,
enthusiastically on empathic trust feelings of familiarity,
forgetting these may include both health with pathological tensions
residing within this intuitive moment,
this feeling of happiness toward potential true and...
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Categories:
retold, beauty, culture, health, history, political, power, science,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Were You ThereWere you there
when we nailed health culture
to the cross?
Weren't you there?
I thought we were all there!
Wasn't that our Big Bang of an Idea?
Let's just forgive each other for all that angry history
of hurt and loss...
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Categories:
retold, christian, creation, god, gospel, health, humanity, humor,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Spirit of ChristmastideBeneath the mantel's alabaster gleam
Where verdigris flames pirouette, in cerulean ballet's beam...
We gather close—a familial love—
In hallowed halls where chimes of crystal laughter, stream.
Amid the yuletide glow, memories take flight, a morning dove...
Cinnamon-kissed balsam and...
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retold, christmas, december, joy, love, nostalgia, winter,
Form:
Narrative
Fate Once Birthed Lovers, Golden True and Dear Third Poet Honored, From My Dedication Series(2)*Second poem honoring Edgar Allan Poe*
Fate Once Birthed Lovers, Golden True And Dear
We had raced a good race, with wind cool and fair,
There were romantic nights steaming hot for a while,
And golden rays of sunshine...
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Categories:
retold, appreciation, art, dark, literature, poetry, poets, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Nudging Recreation AlongWhat are fair and effective nudges
for too much freedom of wounding weaponed speech?
Maybe equal freedom to listen nutritionally
and not speak toxically?
What's a fair response
to competitive over-investment in fear-mongering--
Threats to hold your breath 'til everyone sees...
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Categories:
retold, celebration, earth, health, humor, integrity, nature, society,
Form:
Political Verse
In the Dream Foretold a Devotion Series Poem*** In the Dream Foretold *** A Devotion Series Poem
I am getting over paralysis from nerves twisted along my spine. The agonies are
passing, but not gone, so I am standing, leaning over the kitchen...
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Categories:
retold, beautiful, dream, fate, husband, love, romantic love,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Random Acts of KindnessRandom acts of kindness
and mercy
are right-brain experienced
as healthy invitations to stretch kindness
throughout all nature/spirit boundaries,
secular/sacred midways.
Random stories and kind myths of diverse cultures
have been transactionally told and retold
invested and re-invested
and transcendently heard
with compound cooperative interest
and...
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Categories:
retold, birth, health, integrity, marriage, myth, relationship, truth,
Form:
Political Verse
Mother Nature - The GreatIn the realm of existence, where time unfolds,
A tale of wonder, in verses untold.
A symphony of life, in hues of vast,
A saga of futures, present, and past.
From the womb of chaos, creation springs,
With every heartbeat,...
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Categories:
retold, absence, anger, earth day, emotions, evil, july,
Form:
Narrative
Grimms Fairy Tale RetoldGRIMM’S FAIRY TALE RETOLD
In a beautiful huge green forest,
Lived 3 honest people, Hansel and Gretal
And their father,
And two wicked women, the witch,
And a wife who was also a step-mother.
The honest three were approached by the...
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Categories:
retold, children,
Form:
Free verse
The Yellow ShineWhat golden fevers disease drives the madman’s insanity,
A toxic yellow shines metal, that glitter beneath the polar Aurora,
Of greed’s horded treasure of the Klondike’s curse!
By sheer brawn's heaving and hoe, did these fortune hunters so...
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Categories:
retold, adventure, boat, death, history, image, imagination, inspirational,
Form:
Free verse
The Inner CityI woke up early this morning contemplating,
pondering over the meaning of this dream,
Dreams that take me to mountains and valleys
Dreams that lands me into big cities,
Cheerful dreams ,troubling dreams
Dreams with no fitting answer...
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Categories:
retold, angel, birth, death, dream, spiritual, truth, wisdom,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Chicanery Grabbed Lustfully Repeatedly YupChicanery 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:
retold, abuse, age, america, analogy, anger, animal, betrayal,
Form:
Rhyme
A Gullah Angel“Be still sad heart and cease repining;
Behind the clouds the sun is shining,
Thy fate is the common fate of all,
Into each life a little rain must fall,
Some days must be dark and dreary.”- - Longfellow
Charleston,...
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Categories:
retold, love, heart, old, heart, old, time,
Form:
Narrative
Can We Feel MusicCan We “Feel” Music?
By Carol Geyer
Can we “feel” music? Can the notes cool or warm us?
Soothing like green aloe balm, or warm as flaming Yule logs,
or as majestic as a fully leafed oak?
...
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Categories:
retold, music,
Form:
Free verse