Long Roosting Poems
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A Former Great Nations Squandered Wealth I
Swept up into piles; everywhere
Abouts; in collected heaps all
Around.
It is almost as if the drab
Streets were strewn...
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Categories:
roosting, philosophy, senses,
Form:
Rhyme
When Ungifted
"A gift is different from something you buy, possessed of meaning outside its material boundaries. You never dishonor the gift." Robin Wall Kimmerer
A social gift,
a gift for compassionate verbal
and nonverbal communication,
a healing gift,
is different from...
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Categories:
roosting, caregiving, earth day, health, humor, integrity, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Wiseelder Turkeys
My parenting totem
was the Hawk
of bicamerally perfect egocentric vision
usually greeted by a loud Yang squawk
and vigorous walk
in the other wrong direction.
My WiseElder totem
is the Turkey,
CoMessiah of CoRedemptive Dying
as notnot loving EarthTribe's future lives.
At eight,
my totem...
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Categories:
roosting, age, earth, health, humor, mythology, native american,
Form:
Political Verse
An Emerald, Most Rare
It was glorious ...
A glorious, glowing morn ...
crimson crept up the sky, as if air-brushed ...
little round globs of fair-weather clouds tiptoed on the reach,
(so as to not wake the moon, laying down its head...
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Categories:
roosting, beauty, color, memory, ocean, sea, travel,
Form:
Narrative
A Bird's Eye View
A little bird has flown the nest
to seek a world of wonder
and spreads...
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Categories:
roosting, war, world,
Form:
Rhyme
Take the Ripe Plum
How far from nature and life it is
the gray clouds, airplanes in them
the night cooing and pigeons roosting
Sirma's garden gone to roses and seed
That airplane overhead!
pointing the way
pointing to war
War being an aggravated condition of...
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Categories:
roosting, beautiful, day, garden, moon, night, rose, war,
Form:
Verse
Theater of Utter Charm Part 9
Part 9
there is a wraith with an hourglass
dancing quietly in my shadow
he's gone when I look
but I can hear him do a shuffle step on the ice
his inside out umbrella more than a fashion statement
about...
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Categories:
roosting, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
Invitation To Sorrows
Come, O sorrows and be my waking call,
Be to my life of joys a bit of blight,
Upon a hard day's work a short respite,
Be pleasant autumn before barren fall.
Come with dark...
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Categories:
roosting, grief, pain,
Form:
Ode
To the Sable Side of An Iago-American Mirror
Strange, yet a reality none the less:
the oppressed destroying themselves
for the sake of the oppressor.
The battle of creatures of the sea
has now become that of the humanity
of the conquered land. A bizarre misguided
catharsis...
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Categories:
roosting, allegory, analogy, black african american, forgiveness, imagery,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Resolution To Too Tooth Thou
Resolution To...Too... Tooth... Thou..
(house sand zero, and own nine)
Wine hot ja... jes... justa bead devout
boo... boos...booze hound 'n
frog git (hic cup) bout...
new yea ears rez: hill loo... dang
(burp) louche huns, eh an...,
and beg... agh hen...
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Categories:
roosting, adventure, assonance, character, humorous, motivation, nonsense, wisdom,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
A Night Bird Sings
When sleep deserted me
I crawled out of my bed unseen
To delve into the crevices of the dark
With the curiosity of an explorer
And the near comatose of a somnambulist
I walked up and down the steep slopes...
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Categories:
roosting, fantasy, night, poetess,
Form:
Free verse
Bird of Prey
Bird of Prey
On Banyon Lake, where waterfowl dwell,
The night was tranquil and held no fear.
Until came a sound ascended from Hell.
I heard a menacing cry as I drew near.
Upon the shore no wave did break.
No...
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Categories:
roosting, bird, fear, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
The Crow
One cold, stormy and dreary night
While I was long lost in my musing,
There came a knocking, faint and light
Yet startled me from my dozing.
In the grim glow of a solitary candle
I got out of my...
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Categories:
roosting, fear,
Form:
Rhyme
The Opening
We are the foes of dawn
Our secrets slow the light
The blood of stars is drawn
We guard the wounded night
With evening azure treads
Fur-wreathed in thick wild scent
Ancient horn ripples air
A cool, rich chorus...
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Categories:
roosting, allegory, nature, stars,
Form:
Verse
Song of a Night Bird
When sleep deserted me,
I crawled out of my bed unseen
to delve into the crevices of the dark
with the curiosity of an explorer
and the near comatose...
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Categories:
roosting, bird, night, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
The Path I Dare You To Cross
When you cross worlds of uncertainty and confusion
Are you not the one delighted in the trouncing of it all?
Or would you rather kick and scream until you are left squirming?
Embrace the shadowy terrain of soulful...
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Categories:
roosting, adventure, anger, blessing, care, conflict, confusion, courage,
Form:
Free verse
Swarming Ravens
The ravens swarm before me
above the railroad tracks
I walk
downriver pilgrim toward silent wilderness,
away from more civilized savagery,
pre-revolutionary, I fear,
as they chatter and clatter flap their wings
roosting and dry clatter bones stalking me,
inviting me to continue...
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Categories:
roosting, journey, raven, river,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Continuation Regarding Lunatic Roosting Inside Me Noggin Iv
upon one or other posterior cheeks
of ma bony derriere no lie,
the sharp pain of the needle
stoically I bore, while my
thoughts adrift upon cerebral raft
of mental weaknesses de nigh
yule lovely bones epitomized...
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Categories:
roosting, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Rhyme
The Clocks Go Back One Hour
Time changes with life and life changes with time.
October grows too old,
Hobbling backwards
With the burden of years,
On the sinuous alcove of time,
Tenebrous and feathery,
Her hidden lamps blinking furiously
At the silhouettes of wasted days.
The wasted leaves...
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Categories:
roosting, march, october, spring, summer, time,
Form:
Free verse
Turkey 1776- the Eagle, Dove, Turkey
"Turkey Fowl"
1776: The Eagle, The Dove, or the Turkey?
Great Seal of the United States
What should we choose for a symbol of our new life?
American birth of a nation
Declaration Committee chosen
Midwife of an egg Eagle, Dove,...
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Categories:
roosting, bird,
Form:
Free verse
Maundy Thursday
MAUNDY THURSDAY
The Upper Room was hushed that night,
As frightened friends supped their last as one.
Shoving back the morrow
When their leader would be gone.
This is my body—broken for you;
You are my beloved—take my blood, too.
Do...
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Categories:
roosting, death, easter, passion, , Lullaby,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Maundy Thursday
MAUNDY THURSDAY
The Upper Room was hushed that night,
As frightened friends supped their last as one.
Shoving back the morrow
When their leader would be gone.
This is my body—broken for you;
You are my beloved—take my blood, too.
Do...
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Categories:
roosting, faith, imagery,
Form:
Narrative
Throat Voices
I want to run her thoughts
through a carwash, they are not dirty,
just old, the way a classic corvette
needs a rinse occasionally, but never a re-paint
Not that I think of her as a car,
more...
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Categories:
roosting, poetry,
Form:
Blank verse
Continuation Regarding Lunatic Roosting Inside Me Noggin Iii
Please pardon mine assertion
I dared to surmise
familiarity with me,
an avid reader and prolific writer
(mainly to appease personal pleasure)
thus upon embarking upon
reaching out, your curiosity piqued.
Daily onslaught from schoolyard
punkish bullies ace
thus, storybooks provided
haven...
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Categories:
roosting, 11th grade, 12th grade, 1st grade, abuse,
Form:
Rhyme
Apples and Cinnamon
~
Flour on her hands, and centuries on her elbow
Fingers balance a 'hand-me-down' dish,
Roosting deftly on finger-tips, high in mid-air
Lovingly she spins it, magician's hands twirling
Trimming the edges with flourish and flair
A bit like Da...
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Categories:
roosting, childhood, food, nostalgia,
Form:
Free verse