Long Retracted Poems
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The Fallen
“The Fallen”
Remote,
he sees himself
in the reflection of cold close
yet distant shop windows,
his final journey along the
Hard Time Road
walking alone,
unforgiven, no home
for the rest of his natural life
a million knives...
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Categories:
retracted, family, freedom, friendship, god, i am, jesus,
Form:
Free verse
Lost libido as rez erected cockamamie Shtrungool haint no prickly fallacy
Lost libido as rez erected cockamamie Shtrungool haint no prickly fallacy
The following pastiche
poetically pricked prick,
whereby fantasy courtesy Eros
(????) cow licked
country bumpin videlicet hick
bullied who consider me
on account of a dinky dick.
Me primate...
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Categories:
retracted, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form:
Free verse
Where My Soul Belongs
While a part of my soul longs,
To be carried away,
Far far,
From myself,
To another world,
To a mountain top,
To a lonely place,
To where the air is thin and light,
To where sensations stop,
To where feelings end,
To where noise...
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Categories:
retracted, identity,
Form:
Free verse
In Prays of Legal Tender
Preface:
Aye do attest
that poetry may not be best
to express whoosh to chest
git a lee till bitta chump change
boot an overpowering literary force
to pocket earning for a grange
(hmm...who knows maybe
...
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Categories:
retracted, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form:
Free verse
Middle Child Syndrome
When I was 4 1/2 years old,
as abrupt as a spanking,
my once reliable mother brought home
a hospital surprise
with an alien face and
a blood-darkened eerie belly clip
that was to suddenly...
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Categories:
retracted, absence, childhood, me, memory, sad, solitude, writing,
Form:
Prose
Dark Smile, Hazel Eyes
What if I wanted to break...what if I already have
The scattered pieces of my farce of a heart
have retracted, signed the lease of residency
returning by magnets to me, the magnets of sadness
when all I want...
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Categories:
retracted, sad love, universe,
Form:
Free verse
The Day Billy Graham Came For Dinner
It was 1991 and Mission Scotland had finally arrived,
My dad's big dream of being choirmaster had come true,
At Murryfield his 1000 voice choir blasted Just As I Am,
In Celtic Park 800 sang When I Survey...
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Categories:
retracted, america, bible, books, death, history, jesus, leadership,
Form:
Tail-rhyme
Anything With a Mother and a Dead Child
now that the casey anthony extravaganza is
over,
the vultures begin to fly round the carcass
wanting in on whatever bit of
rotting meat
is leftover---
anthony is said to make at least $750,000 from
a book deal, while the...
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Categories:
retracted, lifefaith,
Form:
Free verse
7 Seconds of Spring
There is something more precious than a diamond that shines brighter than the sun found in a moment of innocence frozen in time
Patience is the key to the prize because… a moment can last an...
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Categories:
retracted, angel, beautiful, funny, heaven, memory, spring, time,
Form:
Narrative
2 Ways To Go Which 1 Chose
On the news today
The headline storyline was presented
and reported as follows
In Liverpool today some local right wing
protestors who's arms are up in flame's
replacing pitchforks for placards
Which was later retracted in place
of rabble of...
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Categories:
retracted, slam,
Form:
Free verse
A Babel of Benighted Psalms
Death orifice my Libidinous command,
I contras life's ecumenical demand!
Now reach down in this thistle grim,
Desolate me with the edged limb.
Grant this voyeur that glimpse of dead,
A comatose where life and I unwed...
As minutes kiss my...
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Categories:
retracted, death, depression, emo, farewell, poetry, sorrow, suicide,
Form:
Rhyme
Felines
FELINES
She enters into the bedroom in the dark,
After a secret take-out in the park,
Was it a mouse, a bird a lizard or a rat,
One of these she caught and ate,
That’s a fact!
She sleeps all day...
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Categories:
retracted, cat, humorous, pets,
Form:
Rhyme
Stop Along the Path of No Direction
whilst perusing the gallery o’ conditioners of
air,
a hand comes flying up toward him,
insistently shaking & uttering the man’s name
as if he is supposed to remember---
“john doe here, how are you?” remarks the man,
a salesman with...
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Categories:
retracted, life, hair, red, hair, red,
Form:
Free verse
Let It Out
I closed my eyes.
A long time has passed
Since i saw It.
I unchained the door.
Opened the countless locks.
Broke the last seal.
Took a deep breath.
Pushed open the heavy door.
Dust everywhere, jumping in confusion by the sudden gust...
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Categories:
retracted, change, courage, deep, imagery, mirror, scary, self,
Form:
Free verse
Audience Participation
A story probably most of you already know.
This took place on a football team not too long ago.
The owner and all the coaches together agreed,
that a star receiver was their immediate need.
The best all-pro pass...
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Categories:
retracted, sports
Form:
Rhyme
How Boot a Mud Pie For the Birthday Girl
How boot a mud pie for the birthday girl?
(yes, that would be the snoozing missus,
hook lames to need mooch beauty sleep),
hence who might not arise for bajillion years.
Thou me noggin forced to remember
how me heart...
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Categories:
retracted, age, animal, appreciation, dream, food, for her,
Form:
Free verse
My Children Are Mexicans
out in the county and up the highway
anger hangs like lost voodoo over Miami
dances on bumperstickers
floats on airwaves
scars faces with perpetual glares
colors perceptions darkly
alters moods and
drives young men to football coaches
then army recruiters
anger that beats...
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Categories:
retracted, social, children, son, old, lost, wife, children,
Form:
Free verse
Lost Part 2
Inside him he can feel flurries of powerful fury
and curiosity that come and go in a hurry,
bringing to life short lived waves of bravery,
then supressed by depression, owner of mental slavery.
Paired with anxiety he's a...
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Categories:
retracted, anxiety, depression, lost, mental illness, sad,
Form:
Rhyme
And Now I Say To Love Goodbye
It's came the day that I must leave now
In loving times, when our hearts were paired
Life was great, in the feelings between us shared.
Our relationship flourished, And contentment grew
In each other...
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Categories:
retracted, farewell, first love,
Form:
Rhyme
Black Fruits - In French -
Fruits noirs
Sans qu’on y prenne garde,
Le ciel se tisse du grillage
Sombre des branches.
Elles s’étendent chaque année,
Et chaque année,
Grignotent un peu plus d’espace,
Au point de parfaire une voûte
Et d’arriver à se rejoindre,
En confisquant le...
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Categories:
retracted, allegory, animal, nature, winter,
Form:
Free verse
Shadows 'Agear' Shattered Anon
It was not only the losers that were staging a hasty exodus around the airport.Largely outnumbering them were native frantic runaways.
Like goaded gazelles, pell-mell, they yelled at hell
where only disaster and despair could leap...
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Categories:
retracted, flying, sad,
Form:
Prose Poetry
In Loving Times
In loving times, when our hearts were paired
Life was great, in the feelings between us shared.
Our relationship flourished, And contentment grew
In each other we trusted, in the years love did...
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Categories:
retracted, emotions, love, love hurts,
Form:
Blank verse
Cusp of Springtime
As I stood, night half fell in the car park,
Stuck between twilight and sheer dark,
Suicidal on the ledge of near dark,
And I touched the fire-station wall.
In the quiet empty void of a slow chill,
Like the...
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Categories:
retracted, life, loss, sad, seasons, time, light, light,
Form:
Verse
So Heres Your Bouquet Okay
SO HERE’S YOUR BOUQUET, OKAY?
I handed her a bouquet of hurtful words
Hand picked by fingers that held her wretchedly by the throat
That bouquet was formed by selfishness alone’
And then she placed that bouquet in a...
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Categories:
retracted, angstgarden, love,
Form:
Free verse
I Tried
I memorize the look in your eyes and how many times you told me
Those favorite three words that every girl loves to hear
I sit back and reminisce on how many ways and how many...
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Categories:
retracted, black african american, lost love, urban, words,
Form:
I do not know?