Long Riposte Poems
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Prizes For Ultimate Sacrifices - Part One
Prizes for Ultimate Sacrifices
prizes for the abstemious for abstinence chastity ?
the countless...
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Categories:
riposte, howl, inspirational, metaphor, passion, satire, spoken word,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Though a Democrat, I play the devil's advocate
Though a Democrat, I play the devil's advocate...
after reading the article
(published in the July + August 2024
issue of Mother Jones)
titled Raging bull - Donald Trump's
pugilistic spokesman has taken
campaigning to a whole new level of low.
Beyond...
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Categories:
riposte, america, boxing day , celebrity, football, high school,
Form:
Rhyme
To Heal a Soul Waning In Want
To Heal A Soul Waning In Want
A collaboration with Lawrence Sharp
12th April 2019
To Heal A Soul Waning In Want
Man thus beseeches
Angry midnight moon spat at earth far below
twinkling stars...
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Categories:
riposte, appreciation, art, deep, emotions, humanity, life, world,
Form:
Free verse
Theater of Utter Charm - Part 28
part 28
at least we know what to avoid in a civilization
hypnotism for one
and angst which merely resembles authenticity
by attempting to dissect the inconsequential
which boils down to the matter of
detecting the inconsequential in the first place
what...
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Categories:
riposte, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
The Barghest's Monody
Therewithal, profluent life ettles it's while.
Thitherward, from Death's bleak campanile
Grim antiphonals serenade.
A capriccio, the slashing swipe of the reaper's scythe
will serenade.
Stringent Death forthwith anoints the mithridate to
Life's cantankerous and rankling ado
Hither now come, anon...
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Categories:
riposte, death, life,
Form:
Ballad
To Heal a Soul Waning In Want
To Heal A Soul Waning In Want
A collaboration with Robert Lindley
12th April 2019
Man thus beseeches
Angry midnight moon spat at earth far below
twinkling stars applauded then went dark
time paused,...
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Categories:
riposte, allegory,
Form:
Free verse
Middle School Math Teacher
Should I become a middle school math or English teacher?
Leave my bed early in the morning and return with test papers to grade.
With what authority will I persuade those kids to sit still and perform...
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Categories:
riposte, joy, love, magic, math, school, sexy, teacher,
Form:
Free verse
The Funky Train 2
The nation is very rich indeed
But,
Wounded out of loss direction;
Wounded out of lack of ambition,
Weeping out of lack of impulse;
Wounded out of lack of imagination,
Ingeniously exhumed...
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Categories:
riposte, urbanloss, cry, loss,
Form:
Free verse
Ode To Communicating with a Cedar Tree
Strophe
I
O ancient cedar tree so grand and wise
In BC’s old growth forest ,I found thee
I sat beneath your trunk and asked advice ;
I sensed the presence of the cedar tree
II
I received a...
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Categories:
riposte, nature,
Form:
Ode
C S Lewis J R R Tolkien Elgar and Malverns distress
Around the Hills of Malvern now..Desecration takes place.'
Let me inform all how.' Where Elgars body has rested long
And Tolkien and Lewis did ramble in song.' all of these
Three historical giants, drew breath and inspiration...
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Categories:
riposte, beauty, character, education, england, meaningful,
Form:
Rhyme
Now You Are Put To Rest - Part One
for Jean Franco ?(March 15, 1907- April 15, 1992)
...
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Categories:
riposte, funeral, for him, for him,
Form:
Free verse
The Love Rose
The Love Rose
Love like a red rose bloomed in our hearts
It grew in time but was disguised
Hidden thorns prick and stings in our souls
Until there is no more to unfold
It’s season’s change and love now...
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Categories:
riposte, love, passion, romance,
Form:
Verse
If Thunderbolts Clinch and Pinch My Gold
If streams of my dreams should screech to a halt
Inside a smart heart gone stone cold
Enabling losses, mosses and tosses to unleash the thunderbolt
That with no iota of care clinches and pinches my gold
In addition...
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Categories:
riposte, poems,
Form:
Free verse
Time, the Almighty Landlord
Time: the biggest landlord
At whose feet kings and queens bow
Cockiness and stubborn they can ill afford
When time wipes vanity and sagacity from their brow
In consonance with the mandate
Bestowed on time from on high
As no other...
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Categories:
riposte, poems,
Form:
Free verse
A Conversation With Dorothy Gale
"So Dorothy, your visit here is now in Oz folklore."
"You mean to say," said she, "I'm not in Kansas anymore?"
"Oh dear, I thought you knew that fact; the Munchkins made it clear."
"I joke," she said,...
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Categories:
riposte, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Confusion
It’s a hot and prickly gruel
It swirls and twirls while we fuel
Our weary head in our hands
The mindful world turned to sand
I snick the snack of bloated greed
Sell soul for bloodied coin to feed
And sword...
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Categories:
riposte, angst, appreciation, life, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Battling a Monster
There is a hostile villain that lurks deep inside,
turning the human body into a battleground.
With disdain, it causes pain one cannot abide,
but the fight goes on until a cure can be found.
It strangles hope like...
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Categories:
riposte, cancer,
Form:
Rhyme
Acme
Today I made a converse with the universe
I stared at her beauty and felt guilty
That I'd never had told
Of how beautiful you are
The grandeur of the universe
reminded me of your resplendence
The universe...
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Categories:
riposte, beautiful, beauty, crush, emotions, romance, romantic love,
Form:
Free verse
Twas the Night Before the Wedding
Twas the night before my cousin's
wedding
He reluctantly gave in to the
bachelor party vetting
A burlesque, tawdry strip club was
the setting
Unbeknownst to him, the bridesmaid
was his appetite whetting
With gratuitous lap dance, began
the...
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Categories:
riposte, funnynight, night,
Form:
Rhyme
Odin's Army
I fell in battle, sword in hand,
Invading someone else’s land.
Then I saw her, and she reached down,
To escort me from the battleground.
I’d let her take me anywhere,
With her winged helmet and braided...
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Categories:
riposte, death, muse, mythology, song, violence, war,
Form:
Lyric
Restless Rebel, Control the Ball On the Ground
Restless rebel, control the ball on the gregarious ground
Looking within and hooking dignity to the home
Where a restive riposte resurrects the meandering mound
Detriment and its cement sediment groom
In search of answers and cancers
Growing without control...
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Categories:
riposte, poems,
Form:
Terzanelle
Operating On Christianity
Can I claim to be Christian without casting judgment
in ways that aren’t Christ-like? Aspiring to faith proves faith’s real?
Or does saying, “I’m Christian,” more grant I’m a sinner
apart from God’s Grace that Christ bought on...
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Categories:
riposte, faith, life,
Form:
Rhyme
CESSATION
CESSATION
That pain is like treading on bottle tops
Or stumbling into some hidden caltrops
Suddenly, as when some lightbulb pops
The welcome relief when it finally stops
Like making big gains on currency swaps
The blood pressure and heartrate drops
Yet...
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Categories:
riposte, fate, future,
Form:
Rhyme
For Old Time's Sake
For old time’s sake
The night was cold and devilish too
You pushed me said I’m leaving you
Belligerently you slammed the door
Crushing my heart some beastly claw
I hear the poet who said loved and lost
So much pain...
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Categories:
riposte, forgiveness,
Form:
ABC
Peloponnesian Placepo'
And so life comes to pass
Plato, the Republic, and the riposte of revenge
Knowing history can never fully extend
The Socratic palm of philosophy’s heavy hand
Poisoned by power's thirst for peaceful Persian seas
Which stir lush groves of...
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Categories:
riposte, allegory, confusion, introspection, life, people,
Form:
Free verse