Long Rods Poems
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FlintFlint
Within its brilliance gleaming
Cool black in lacquered polished silver chrome
Cranked up pistons bleached in summer’s heat
Hot steam rising as gears thundering
Beyond the crystal liquid city lights
Highways built across the land
In hearts felt pride American...
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rods,
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Abecedarian
Some PoemsA Stolen Memory
A Mirthful Chorus
By Sy Roth
We surrounded him
Asked to let go.
She stared at the misshapen face,
Unshaven sandpapery skin
Eyelids a tabula rasa
Fluttery sere skin
And we could see the humor blossoming in his...
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Categories:
rods, dream, loneliness,
Form:
Free verse
The Alaskan Oil PipelineThe Alaskan Oil Pipeline
Nineteen sixty-eight confirmed the year
Of discovery by ‘Humble Oil’
To North America’s largest oil field,
On the North Slope of the Brooks Range;
A west to east Northern Alaskan mountain chain.
An area forty miles wide...
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Categories:
rods, education, environment, history, technology, tribute, usa,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Week 3 - Brian's Poet of Note - 'Richard Wilbur Part 1'Imitation! Creative Compliment, Lacking in Originality, or Plagiarism?
This week takes me back to college days. I was taking a graduate course (as a Physics major) in 'Modern Poets' at the University of...
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Categories:
rods, love, poetry, poets, , Lullaby,
Form:
Free verse
The Depths
"The Depths"
From the depths
silence.
Where
are the voices
of other
women?
In that other place,
the monsters violate,
they take and take
bloody all, what they want
the dreams of women
are torched, murdered,
next to them,
the sweet dreams of lives...
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Categories:
rods, children, humanity, women,
Form:
Narrative
The Giant of LisbellawStood I there, that last day,
On an iron bridge...
An aqueduct by design,
Where, looking dreamily out over
The Ernes Lower Lough,
My compressed shadow
Momentarily paused -
To contently recline:
Amidst coy Junes radiant beams
of sweet benign!
All was stilled,...
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Categories:
rods, philosophy,
Form:
Rhyme
ChernobylChernobyl.
A nuclear disaster, in the Russian town Chernobyl,
An odor-less killer, the invisible force.
As the radiation escapes, from the crumbling reactor,
We must cool it down, before it blows.
Evacuate Pripyat, the employee’s town,
The town of 35000; first...
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Categories:
rods, cry, death, sun, world,
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I do not know?
Ooniversal OoOOOniversal oo
Frightened tepid antisocial ant was football training avidly but failing to attend a fragrant tailor army. Oh dear. That was sure to be put forward to the sacred sanction ship and the sacred sanction...
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Categories:
rods, absence, adventure, angst, anti bullying, anxiety, appreciation,
Form:
I do not know?
CladestineTHE CHIMNEY
The once fine air, refreshens with dust
Between the village horizon and crest
Since the sailing of a death chemical chimney.
Young green plants seedlings growing on slope
Are left to sip these carcinogenic dusts, sapling
And entwined...
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Categories:
rods, corruption, death of a friend, depression, emotions,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Resurrection Machine
In the purple shadows of the black's monoliths, where an ancient echo calls forth, at the blurry forge of "Ralkon Dis",
a salient dragon from mystery's petra cliffs drifts you...
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Categories:
rods, art,
Form:
Rhyme
First Fish With Gramps - Both Audio and Text - W-IllustrationI didn’t even know about the trip we were to make.
That very first adventure that old Gramps and I would take,
I’ll not forget the way it felt when I first saw the lake.
The sunrise...
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Categories:
rods, fishing, grandfather,
Form:
Narrative
Kindness Generates Rewardsa heave and a shove, into the ocean she goes
where she stops no one knows,
floats and floats till it may sink
you may spot it with red ribbon bows.
message in a bottle set off to...
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Categories:
rods, appreciation, giving,
Form:
Free verse
Storm WarningI love spending nights on the lake.
Once the oven-like sun disappears,
things get suddenly quiet, except for
the occasional hoot of an owl, crickets, frogs
and the soft lapping of the lake on the boat.
When the moon rises...
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Categories:
rods, adventure, fun, life, storm, summer, teen, weather,
Form:
Free verse
Week 3 - Brian's Poet of Note - 'Richard Wilbur Part 2'(5) At the same time, the US was exploring space, and we were able to view the stars for the first time in space above the atmosphere. Earthbound telescopes have to look through...
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Categories:
rods, love, poetry, poets,
Form:
Free verse
Norse Mythology, Return of the Slayer of DragonsNorse Mythology, Return Of The Slayer Of Dragons
( Part One, Darkness Arrives)
I - (THE PLEA)
Slayer of weak beasts, ravager of torn breasts
Darkness from East, dragons its armored crests
What hero dares to slay this foul evil
What...
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rods, art, conflict, creation, destiny, fantasy, imagery, mythology,
Form:
Epic
Haunting Fruits and Innocent WishesThanks to Muhammad Imtiaz for allowing me to work with him to create this piece. I added a bit of fantasy to his real life experience. He was moved by seeing poverty up close in...
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Categories:
rods, boy, confusion, journey, poverty,
Form:
Prose Poetry
I Still Feel Under the Weather Today April 2nd, 2023I still feel under the weather today April 2nd, 2023
Unseen enemy invades my body
with platoon of green berets air
rating, and enfilading immune system viz
Hib bully knock and sock kin me
courtesy roebuck seers...
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Categories:
rods, adventure, anger, anxiety, april, body, caregiving, health,
Form:
Rhyme
Yuliya's Father's Cottage Part 2We enter through the glassed-in porch
And I feel even more at ease,
Remembering that as a child
My own room once had been a porch
But there are even more windows here
With glass on all three sides.
Old...
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Categories:
rods, love,
Form:
Blank verse
Strong
"STRONG"
A child finds strength
in the holding of his hand
The Beatitudes in his mind
repetition 8 times cast
whispers the loneliness
in a Man -
Who held his hand?
Like Bede, venerable,
he's counting beads dropping
like blood drops,
steel...
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Categories:
rods, freedom, poets, psychological, strength,
Form:
Free verse
I'M Dying To See You - LiterallyDad was loadin' rods and tackle, I was addin' fuel, as Mom hopped on with a picnic lunch that balmy afternoon.
Another Sunday outing on the lake - our old routine - as sister Susie tossed...
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Categories:
rods, depression, loneliness, suicide,
Form:
Rhyme
The Church of Pasiphae
“The Church of Pasiphaë”
inside the church of me
a heart on fire blazes brighter
than any morning star you could capture
to wish a life away, a Lawrence forest ripped,
lit like a funeral pyre I wish...
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Categories:
rods, fire, light, muse,
Form:
Free verse
Albedo effect in full force after appreciable snowfallAlbedo effect in full force after appreciable snowfall
After descent of eventide
luminescence of freshly fallen snow
still illuminates the terrestrial firma bright
even upon the onset of dusk,
when dark shadows
betoken the edge of night
analogously herald outer limits
invoking intimations...
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Categories:
rods, appreciation, break up, celebration, dark, imagery, perspective,
Form:
Free verse
The Secret Lives of Chimney Pots IiiMarching out of the cloaked shires
Of landowners, stockbrokers,
Hereditary Peers, and ruddy faced
Squires:
A vast multitude of many varied
Tribes.
Amassing in the great cities, where,
Inhabiting shadowy chambers,
Behind nodding sighs and hushed
Whispers,
The Masonic...
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Categories:
rods, philosophy,
Form:
Rhyme
I Loathe Feeling Under the WeatherI loathe feeling under the weather...,
especially when nasty elephant
(named Thomas the pachyderm)
stomping to break loose courtesy tether,
where antibodies of mine
struggle to band together
loosely analogous to voters
standing in a queue
waiting to cast their vote
(while...
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Categories:
rods, 12th grade, adventure, animal, black african american,
Form:
Rhyme
Another Day At the Jail - Acts 16: 19-34A jailer has never two similar days
never knowing what will be next
I should know for that's what I do
way back in the days of no text
There were these two prisoners
two Christians Paul and Silas by...
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Categories:
rods, day, prison, truth,
Form:
Rhyme