Long Rootless Poems
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Long In the Tooth Male Doth Recount Reflect Reimagine
Long in the tooth male doth recount, reflect, reimagine...
his woebegone damn dental daze today May 5th, 2021
No particular rhyme nor reason
garden variety indentured flunky (me)
revisits his salmagundi salad days,
when oral blight smote
left...
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Categories:
rootless, 2nd grade, absence, age, body, cinco de
Form:
Rhyme
Last Trap of Zulaikha
Zulaikha:
What a bird you are, o red-billed Bird,
you don’t eat reddish mangoes!
By eating which ash, will you exist then
in this bower of fate?
Yusuf:
That there is any fruit better than the name of God
and any...
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Categories:
rootless, dream,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
An Introduction: An Introduction
Considering how many times I set out to pen a small,
Master piece of art, a gem that might underwrite,
The utter liability of being just that stamp,
Or tramp, or whatever other denomination one might reliably take...
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Categories:
rootless, humorous,
Form:
Free verse
Strong-Rooted Thesis
I have been reading a rootless thesis:
Lack of commitment to a permanent home
causes depression,
over-commitment to inside claustrophobic voices,
failing deep-rooted immune systems,
obesity,
disassociation,
Fear of outdoor climate pathologies,
un-walled infestations
alien predators
threats to our own ongoing ecopolitical empowerment
too competitively overwhelming
to...
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Categories:
rootless, earth, environment, health, home, humor, integrity, power,
Form:
Political Verse
Chinese translations Li Bai
Li Bai translations
These are my modern English translations of Chinese poems by Li Bai, also known as Li Po.
Zazen on Ching-t’ing Mountain
by Li Bai
translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Now the birds have deserted the sky
and the...
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Categories:
rootless, age, bird, farewell, goodbye, green, introspection, mountains,
Form:
Free verse
Mushin
A sizzling hot pancake metropolis
Kingsize of all market places,
Every mystery is salable
The wind and shadows move and speeds transaction times;
And the delicious...
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Categories:
rootless, dedication
Form:
Free verse
Keep the Faith 2
I attended a meeting with, supposedly a friend, and was introduced to
Despised, Dehumanized, Decreased, Diminished, Disregarded, and Devalued, ...
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Categories:
rootless, faith,
Form:
Personification
Immortal Exodus
I dwell on virgin moments lightly spent
beyond the lips of verdant fairy glens
A grand invincibility was mine
and life, ah life, the sweetest purest wine.
I danced on dainty rings of dryad saddles,
I fought and died in...
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Categories:
rootless, imagination, death, death, earth, love, time,
Form:
Rhyme
Who Am I and Who Are You
Who are you, my Lord?
And what am I standing here as a weather-beaten tombstone,
O Lord, reveal yourself to me on the tombstone standing here alone.
Long, long ago
Cain averted his face from the light,
the condemned river,...
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Categories:
rootless, cry, dark, emotions, faith, jesus,
Form:
Free verse
Legend
Written: April 1st For Legend Silent One contest
Rumi Quote: Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.
...
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Categories:
rootless, appreciation, celebrity,
Form:
Rhyme
Flower Chide IX, Thornpact
"Eons back, we feared the petal's grace,
called beauty pride, and named it place"
"Mistakes were made, but wisdom stayed"
said Thallorin,"not every path must be replayed".
Each bloom now understood, but still
Knowing alone could never kill,
The monster born...
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Categories:
rootless, fantasy,
Form:
Narrative
Minus identity who am I
Written: June 30, 2024 For Unseeking Seeker Contest
Quote by Aristotle "Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom"
...
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Categories:
rootless, analogy, identity,
Form:
Rhyme
Honor Thy Father is a Punchline
It don't hurt.
—Johnny Thunders, lead guitarist of The Dolls, last words
My ancestors are made of malt and barley,
barely a drop of water left—
Midas in jorts and Nikes,
overplaying hands, turning...
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Categories:
rootless, abuse, addiction, anger, growth,
Form:
Free verse
Unadorned Conscience
Thinking it sophisticated, he declared himself a sophist.
Dwelling deep in Plato’s cave, he became learned in the shapes of shadows.
Enamored by their dim dancing, he concluded there can be no truth.
One day he...
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Categories:
rootless, allegory, allusion, heart, humanity, judgement, philosophy, truth,
Form:
Didactic
Lyric Of The Lavender Lagoon
Aviating aspirations
of effervescent incandescence
spread psychic plasma
of primal sensual spectrum,
painting the exuding exuberance
of the indigo emotions
on the convoluted sullen sky,
fantasy...
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Categories:
rootless, analogy, imagery, longing,
Form:
Free verse
I Pine
Among a stand of pines I lived my life,
blissful in the ignorance of my own fate.
Tall and proud, my fellow trees and I
stood along a ridge that overlooked a lake -
its crystal surface mirroring our...
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Categories:
rootless, nature,
Form:
Free verse
Poem To the Tree
To the tree
The standby viewer , the fortune teller who avoided my path,
What was it ? The way I looked? Or my innocence you envied? you were selfish and heartless or should I say...
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Categories:
rootless, break up, deep, depression, fate, green, nostalgia,
Form:
I do not know?
In the mystery of night, when stars sing a forgotten hymn
In the mystery of night, when stars sing a forgotten hymn,
I travel through the shadows of silence, seeking an abstract truth within.
Through labyrinths of thoughts, an underground river carries me,
With each ripple, closer to the...
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Categories:
rootless, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
Street Kids
My Bothers and Sisters
(Street Kids)
We grow up in public landfills, train stations,
under the bridges of towns,
victims of all kinds of abuse, but we still had rights…
because of conflicts with our relatives,
we did not...
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Categories:
rootless, abortion, anger, birthday, bullying, caregiving, childhood, children,
Form:
I do not know?
Dear You
Dear You,
Listen for God's sake!!
The world sends vibrations so frequently
you've memorized the frequency
and hear it a mile away drawing closer
...but when closer becomes here
eyes widen like deer uncertain of their doom
Man, must...
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Categories:
rootless, introspectionworld, day,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Sea Rage
rootless on sapphire seas
tides dishonored then begrimed
a keel eroded, relentlessly thinned
barnacles disguised with time
drifting toward dark horizons
battered and barely alive
distant isles beg an appearance
pleading I arrive
beyond the rotting corpses
mired and run...
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Categories:
rootless, love, relationship,
Form:
Rhyme
The Charity of Forgetting
I watched you set fire to everything I had left-
the already charred remnants you had been
trying to leave behind since you discovered
the charity of forgetting.
“You can leave anything in the past, if you...
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Categories:
rootless, depression, girlfriend, grief, hurt, longing, love, relationship,
Form:
Free verse
Spirits In the Sky
SPIRITS IN THE SKY
To be lost is to be rootless
Without guide, form, future or past.
Go to the mountains with care lest
You lose your path through this world...
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Categories:
rootless, adventurelost, lost, travel,
Form:
Quatrain
I Remembered Home
I remembered those tall trees,
I remembered those naked children
I remembered those mould houses,
I remembered where I was uprooted
I remembered home; a guiltless home.
I remembered those girls we touched
Their nipples and they died in excitement,
We hid...
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Categories:
rootless, africa, art,
Form:
Ballad
Lessons Paramount
Folks,
Look to what's right and just, not man-made rules,
Keep wary of constituents who cater to fools,
Count not on so-called friends, count on your next breath,
Breathing ominous volumes of understanding curbs the...
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Categories:
rootless, inspirational
Form:
Rhyme Royal