Long Ringer Poems
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Growing Up, La - Part 2- - Chapter 2: Adult Responsibility (With Some Breaks) - -
By ten years old, no weekends off,
Or Saturday cartoons,
Although I did have cash to spend,
I felt my...
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Categories:
ringer, life, , cute,
Form:
Rhyme
The Ringer and the CleanskinThe True Story
A Poem of the time, when as a 16 year old young fellow, and fresh from Blighty I spent 7 years as a Ringer in North Queensland, Australia. A Ringer is the Queensland...
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Categories:
ringer, nature,
Form:
Ballad
That Spark of HopeA little girl lost her home this year, for her, Christmas wouldn't be there.
Her family was angry from all the troubles, they simply couldn't repair.
Don’t bother us about presents her parents said, they were depressed...
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Categories:
ringer, christmas, conflict, confusion, depression, devotion, dream, emotions,
Form:
Narrative
Eulogy For FrankMy father died prematurely while away on
a business trip from a rogue blood clot to the heart
I never doubted he loved me, would have liked me,
(not the same thing), adult to...
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Categories:
ringer, hero,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
When We Were YoungWhen We Were Young
He left for work each morning,
Wearing steel-toed boots and a tin hat.
He took long strides that were three times
The length of mine.
In one hand he carried a lunch pail and...
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Categories:
ringer, childhood, family,
Form:
Free verse
Doing Laundry On a Farm In the FifitiesGrandma Gretchen's in her rocker and she has something to say.
She tells a visitor, a young man from the city, if he plans to write a book about life on a farm in the...
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Categories:
ringer, age, farm,
Form:
Prose
Honoring You In Living ColorKitchen counters alive; the vivid colors of red, green, purple and yellow glass jars. Your garden flourished.
.
Pickled beets mingle boiled eggs; a pretty periwinkle purple.
.
Yellow and purple tinted fingers; dandelions and elderberries distilling; musty aroma...
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Categories:
ringer, mom, mother, mother daughter, tribute,
Form:
Free verse
Dark Angels of HighgateEnough Angelina, drop the bouquet of harebells.
The flowers wilt as your graying hands stiffen. See, how grave
is our newborn son. We gift him a black crêpe layette.
Say Darling Edward, say, Golubushka, make me...
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Categories:
ringer, death,
Form:
Sestina
Please don't be late for this world's greatest escape part one"O Please don't be late and seal your fates
O Please don't be late for this ole world's
greatest escape cause you'll all be really
sorry if you just happen to be left behind!
Many of you all are...
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Categories:
ringer, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Prose
Twas the Night Before InspectionTwas The Night Before Inspection...,
Not a human creature stirred, nor seen
through out Highland Manor,
property carpeted in lush green
(a deathlike stillness descended un keen
hilly quiet, October 10th,
...
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Categories:
ringer, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure, conflict, fate,
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
My ParentsMemories of My Parents
Memories of my father
Bring forth the autumn walks.
Shades of nature on the crunchy leaves
At the man-made lake down the hill
From the little white house
With the green picket fence,
Which our large family lived...
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Categories:
ringer, autumn, brother, childhood, christmas, dad, family, mother,
Form:
Free verse
Dear Joe,Ah, the life surreal. Nothing like wearing the weirdness like a greatcoat as I sip bad hotel coffee and muse over where the last few years have taken me while watching ice flow around old...
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Categories:
ringer, humor,
Form:
Prose
Bluey's ReflectionsBlue was feeling melancholy and was far from feeling jolly
by the window of his quarters on that moonlight night in May.
The old mate was broken hearted since young Jess and he had parted:...
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Categories:
ringer, funny, song-night, old, girl, night, old, cousin,
Form:
Ballad
When the Evidence Went MissingI was perched upon a wooden bench beneath a bottle tree
when this worn out wiry ringer stopped to rest his gammy knee.
I’d been touring through the outback and had sought to sit a...
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Categories:
ringer, funny, life, old, me, old,
Form:
Rhyme
My Primary Emotion~ My Primary Emotion~
Three days ago I decided to become heartless by
eliminating my Spirit and Soul I could not take
the agony anymore.
I urged my lawyer to come, he looked at me and
asked, what is...
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Categories:
ringer, brother, poetry, , cute,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Twas Fortnight Before Inspection 2021Twas fortnight before inspection 2021...,
Not a human creature stirred, nor seen
throughout Highland Manor,
property carpeted in lush green
gently hilly terrain,
(a deathlike stillness descended un keen
quiet and quite cool April 26th,
deux thousand twenty one).
Vicious...
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Categories:
ringer, abuse, anxiety, april, community, courage, cry, destiny,
Form:
Rhyme
Under the heavy and ash-gray wing of the eveningUnder the heavy and ash-gray wing of the evening,
In the melancholic waltz of memories awakened in rains,
Through the night stretching its hand like an old bell-ringer,
Ringing the bell of departure and appearing desolate in the...
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Categories:
ringer, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
HomeHome
Cosmopolitan suburbs take shape
Form, not far from the metropolis
Streets bustle, enlist design, become cities
Drawn down the street, concrete solid
Buildings line up one by one
In the calm one structure at a time evolves
There on the...
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Categories:
ringer, absence, age, home, identity, image, life, places,
Form:
Free verse
The Fresno Fuzzy Socks and the Chattahoochee CrocsNo-one knows precisely when the rivalry began;
thirty-two the legend goes; eighteen or nineteen?
It's not clear, nor can it be confirmed.
Apart from once in fifty-nine
For reasons lost in time;
The Fresno Fuzzy Socks
And The Chattahoochee Crocs
Have...
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Categories:
ringer, humor,
Form:
Free verse
Poetnumber1 Or the Baked Bean CompetitionNow I don't know if you've heard
Of the Baked Bean competition
Where contestants eat as much as can
In just twenty five minutes
Up they lined ready to start
To gobble up these dishes
Standing by were huge black pots
Ready...
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Categories:
ringer, humor,
Form:
Free verse
I Hate RobocallsI hate robocalls!
Inxs of recorded messages
transmitted automatically
to my telephone number
by automatic dialing device.
I turn off damn ringer,
and disassemble (carefully
as disabling a time bomb)
internal workings nevertheless...
telephone still buzzes
twenty four...
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Categories:
ringer, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form:
Free verse
About the 1500'sMost people got married in June because
They took their yearly bath in May
Body odor was the reason
Of the flowers in a bouquet
A big tub of hot water was used
For a bath, so that's not complex...
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Categories:
ringer, england, history, people,
Form:
Quatrain
Tooth ExtractionCommon American Phrase: Suck it up, Buttercup
I shudder and shake with epinephrine as the needle stings inside my cheek, like a bee stings. I’m not a child, I’m a buttercup. The shaking rattles me but...
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Categories:
ringer, pain,
Form:
Prose
Sub Life Interims End Doubts of Our Real BeingI seem to of late to live between an inner life of double doubt and life aberrant that relates to a coincintude that female hate is alive and well, as it subjigates its tentacles around...
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Categories:
ringer, anxiety, children, family, freedom, political, satire, society,
Form:
Free verse
Wistful Accursed Penniless Fate God Dime MittWistful Accursed Penniless Fate...God Dime Mitt!
(neither defamation, nor blasphemy meant, sans Title)
Despite ingestion of
anti anxiety medications
ferocious hellish onslaught
pummels me aback
finds...
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Categories:
ringer, 12th grade, allusion, analogy, chocolate, cry, death,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue