Long Robustness Poems

"To My Dear and Loving Husband"
by Anne Bradstreet


If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee;
If ever wife was happy in a man,
Compare me with ye women if...

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Daylight savings time more'n minute effect on me

In 2024, daylight savings time will begin at two o'clock ante meridiem on Sunday, March tenth. That will mean losing an hour of precious sleep and moving the...

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Courtesy severely receding hair line..., 
yours truly enveloped within morose mood

I (Samson incarnate) 
frankly experience zapped strength,
hence sulk and pine for salad days of youth
when abundant golden locks adorned me noggin.

Now in doddering dotage scant wisps...

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Walking exhausted through the busy streets,
I kept drowning in the pool of thoughts.
Ignoring the dreadful sight of creeps,
Gazing at me addled in all sorts.

With tears streaming down my face,
And my heart weighing a ton.
Legs giving...

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Small minds people’s frailties deride
Drawing comfort and report
Although average minds decide
Events to discuss in their effort

To imitate great minds
Who ideas and ideals discuss
Upfront and behind blinds
Where they fuss

On humankind greatness
Buried into ideas
Whose robustness
Fears

Nothing as they...

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Albert Francis Simmons; in Detroit, Michigan, was born,
His robustness, with intelligence, nature did adorn;
Though, worked as a high-ranking Secret Service official,
His moral sense became a matter so prejudicial...!

Burnt, like charcoal, by Jason Wynn, his service,...

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early this year
gentle as calm ocean waters
lapping along a weir
thumb and fore finger
of right hand would peal back,

(via diagonally flippant motion
asper calendar
representing progression of time)
gets flipped over to veer
in one direction (linear)

revealing the next month...

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Are the exploits slowly fading of the folk who forged this land?
Are there more important factors, today for us to understand?
Are we prepared to lose our national character?
Erase our borderlines, and forget about Australia,
where squatter...

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Let go of cargoes of folly
Your imagination entertains
Unless you want Molly
To catalyze the increase of strains of pains 

You loathe to endure
In a bid to preserve the sanity
Ensconced in the mind you lure
To expunge the...

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The robin led straight to the tenant,
Notre Dame, though not Gothic at all. 
The huge dormers were closed. I chose onlookers on the sight, 
Not to the main bulletin--to its left winsome, 
The onlooker in...

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By Stanley Collymore

There’s more to parenting than being a mother
who, whether consciously or accidentally so, 
conceives and subsequently delivers into
a world of uncertainty the helpless 
infant she’s successfully carried
for its full term, with or minus
the...

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On the path of the colorful trees, in autumn days I walk;
And I am filled with the beautiful sights and forest sounds.
In the chill season of glory, upon a vivid nature catwalk,
Acorns and leaves are...

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The Frail

The frail know not the zeal of robustness. 
Nonetheless, hopes seal
Daydreams that hearts conceal.


© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
January 26, 2010

Poetic form:  Englyn 
NOTE: There are several forms for this type of Welch poem. ...

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Friends
Dr. Jim Martin


Fervency in repetitious meetings,
  Forwardness in eager greetings.
Randomness in concerted activities,
  Robustness in varied festivities.
Intolerance purposefully rejected,
  Inclusion lovingly elected.
Energies on each other spending,
  Evasion of frustration’s venting.
Needing no...

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