Long Rueful Poems
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The Tower Rebuilt
I shall resolve to leave this
Place now...
And steadfastly search out,
Nestling between ridge and bluff
Amidst the folds of a foreign
Land,
Several acres of unkempt ground
Fallow and rough;
Upon which stands...
Crumbled stone walls
With an exposed slate roof in
Some...
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Categories:
rueful, hope,
Form:
Rhyme
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:
rueful, philosophy, senses,
Form:
Rhyme
Nascent Poetic Tribute To Black History Month
Nascent poetic tribute to black history month...
crafted before onset when people of color
got acknowledged for twenty eight or nine days
depending if leap year occurred.
Though I yam Caucasian,
rightful to honor most bitter
racist genocidal...
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Categories:
rueful, abuse, dream, evil, february, grave, hate, history,
Form:
Rhyme
Lost libido as rez erected cockamamie Shtrungool haint no prickly fallacy
Lost libido as rez erected cockamamie Shtrungool haint no prickly fallacy
The following pastiche
poetically pricked prick,
whereby fantasy courtesy Eros
(????) cow licked
country bumpin videlicet hick
bullied who consider me
on account of a dinky dick.
Me primate...
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Categories:
rueful, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form:
Free verse
Rainbow Roses - See Me Through
See me through
All I say or do is true
I admit it - I am ashamed...
I am the one to be blamed
For now, I'm the rueful, disdainful hue of blue
Leave me be...
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Categories:
rueful, beauty, deep, hope, hurt, nature,
Form:
Lyric
It Doesn'T Matter
Hello, how have you been?
I have to call to You again
Something happened, you have forgotten
Someone once said to me in this den...
“You are different from all the other men”
It’s time to stand tall, time to...
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Categories:
rueful, angst, depression, desire,
Form:
Lyric
Pieces of You
"ALL THE LITTLE PIECES OF YOU DIED"
If only there was a way I could have given you a piece of my peace…
Maybe your brokenness would be mended
with my loving sutures. If only I had...
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Categories:
rueful, death, loss, missing you,
Form:
Verse
A Wish For a New Day
What happened to my boisterous boy,
beloved keeper
...
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Categories:
rueful, bird, day, emotions, loneliness, nature, sky,
Form:
Free verse
Polly Astley
Polly Astley loved to have visitors, for she loved piquant, plum people;
Like counting stars when we were young, in milky moonlight, peaceful.
Her days were spent teaching children, with faces perky as sunflowers,
When redbirds danced in...
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Categories:
rueful, fantasy, friendship, home, imagery, nature, nursery rhyme,
Form:
Couplet
Counting Waves
An old man ravaged by age
His gangling frame impelled against the cancerous bark of the forever weeping willow
Lined with wrinkles of time, his ashen face unshaven
Cast down among creeping shadows
Folding my legs, I sit...
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Categories:
rueful, old, parents,
Form:
Narrative
Jukebox Gigolo
Old Zack Adams sits a slouch’n so sloppy drunk on a bar-room stool,
Wear’n his cheap-threaded cowboy suit and a stained satin shirt.
All the while a peek’n and a leer’n at women like an old poor...
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Categories:
rueful, abuse, addiction, allegory, emotions, hurt, life, lust,
Form:
Quatrain
To Professor Minoo Varzegar
(On My Shock at the Sad News of Dr Fatemi’s Decease)
Dressed in mourning in a photo I came across at daybreak,
You broke the rueful, bitter news and struck me with shock and ache.
Would that I...
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Categories:
rueful, tribute,
Form:
Couplet
The Service of Symbols -
The things I've been, the things I have been, the things I am, things I'm to be,
a symbol so dark, a sign so brite, a mark of the heart,
shadow of the soul,
rind of mind,
as the...
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Categories:
rueful, blue, endurance, nature,
Form:
Didactic
The Greatest Show From Hell
~The Greatest Show from Hell~
A circus quietly drifted through our town,
causing everyone here to curse the ground–
where they toiled to set~up their ghastly show.
They passed the town, demonic eyes aglow—
~*~
†
No jugglers, tight ropes...
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Categories:
rueful, gothic, horror, sin, symbolism, , Lullaby,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Weather Forecast
The New Year has come wafting on the wings of winter
The high latitudinal areas of the northern hemisphere
Would be in the grip of frequent snowstorms severe
Throwing life in desolate isolation and out of gear.
The cold...
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Categories:
rueful, analogy, life, new year, weather,
Form:
Free verse
Hater Alligator
I feel worthless
Am I worth it?
I feel hopeless
Wondering if you'll ever save me
Save me
Save me from my saddened heart of dismay
The ocean of commotion
Is where you're swimming on your own
The sea of devilish devotion
Is...
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Categories:
rueful, anger, angst, betrayal, deep, depression,
Form:
Free verse
Holidays Are Knocking In Some Other Housewarming Eve
It could simply be a midnight musing,
where these ears are not!
A life floating in NAY-Nay sound
is also a simpering one, throughout!
I call it: Just a “mood swing”,
and...
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Categories:
rueful, anti bullying, anxiety, appreciation,
Form:
Free verse
Violet
In London, away in a terrace
Half-hidden with elm trees and grime,
Lived young Violet, in her parents' house,
Left alone for near all of the time,
As her mother had no patience to teach her
And her father was...
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Categories:
rueful, adventure, angst, death, loss, sad, song-teen,
Form:
Ballad
Neon cased, luminaire, a work order about crystal chandelier
Neon cased, luminaire, a work order about crystal chandelier
Neon cased, luminaire, a work order about crystal chandelier
Neon cased, luminaire, a work order about crystal chandelier
(Verily, this is rueful) you are only mine
farther shimmering, the glow...
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Categories:
rueful, beauty, bible, divorce,
Form:
Free verse
The Little Sisters of Divine Disapproval
The Little Sisters of Divine Disapproval
A holy order with a long long history
Known to women but to men: still a mystery
For ascendance of our gender we are crucial
The little sisters of Divine Disapproval
When your men...
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Categories:
rueful, humor, relationship,
Form:
Rhyme
Twenty Poetic Devices of My Woe
My heart is an ebon swallowed night where nobody ever goes,
raging in a recondite rift like ripples resounding in rueful repose. ...
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Categories:
rueful, poetry, sorrow,
Form:
Couplet
The Victor
The corpus millennia has crawled down the vale, ...
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Categories:
rueful, feelings, life,
Form:
Lyric
Days of Innocence
We danced in the rain
fleeing under our zincked roof only when the thunder roared
like we stepped on its tail
as the soles of our feet pattered on the earth
Mother would make supper
calling out to me,...
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Categories:
rueful, childhood, life, love, memory, mother, mother son,
Form:
Free verse
Freyja the Fair One
Wandering through the dreamy clouds on her golden chariot
swift as wind, glistening wheels throwing sparks of gold and silver.
Pulled by the pretty sapphire cats with glowing florescent eyes,
lighting up the sky with bursting shimmers and...
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Categories:
rueful, mythology,
Form:
Free verse
What Might They Find There
I’ve pondered and wondered on what may be found
In the depths of my being.
A deep sadness from my yesterdays and maybe a sliver
of hope for my tomorrows. I’ve seen the days of broken
glass under...
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Categories:
rueful, grief, sorrow,
Form:
Free verse