Long Ruinous Poems
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The Payload
"The Payload"
The payload
came crashing down
like rain expelled
from the fat belly
of a ruinous pregnant cloud
bilious with buxom promise
it came crashing down
like school fish released
from the tight confines
of a course rope...
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Categories:
ruinous, fantasy, muse, mystery, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
Adam and Eve - Part OneYear One -
Tell me Eve,
does this Garden have everything we need,
do you think the walls are too tall,
are the gatekeepers reasonable, tolerable, right about it all,
what did Lilith know, where did she go
far past the...
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Categories:
ruinous, art, creation, love,
Form:
Epic
Speaker, Subject, and Theme In Edna St Vincent Millay's ''Women Have Loved Before As I Love Now''“Women Have Loved Before As I Love Now”
by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Women have loved before as I love now;
At least, in lively chronicles of the past-
Of Irish waters by a Cornish prow
Or Trojan waters by...
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Categories:
ruinous, betrayal, desire, literature, love, passion, poetess, sin,
Form:
Prose
I dread the United States presidential 2024 outcomeI dread the United States presidential 2024 outcome...
Whereby yours truly presages and doth abhor
nothing short of an imminent civil war
dwarfing insurrection on January 6, 2021
oddly enough even reducing
ordinary decibels to a mute whisper
madding crowd trumpeting...
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Categories:
ruinous, abuse, america, anger, animal, corruption, emotions, fate,
Form:
Free verse
My Winter's WishesIn the May-time of my life
time bloomed each day a prickly boll –
but I, like the softest cotton within such a sharp seed
swaddled in the purity of security
for what seemed like eternity...
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Categories:
ruinous, age, god, hope, introspection, life, lost, winter,
Form:
Free verse
A Model For Our TimesAs the sun shone in southern skies, I was finally on my vacation,
And I turned the pages of a magazine, with new fashion creations.
I lounged beside the resort pool, in a straw hat and sunglasses,
Sipping...
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Categories:
ruinous, dream, fantasy, fashion, future, love, magic, people,
Form:
Couplet
UtopiaOur lives and our time
Fired useless
Into the air
Toy cap gun shots
Those winter palaces unstormed
No tax offices ransacked
Where is utopia I asked
And no-one knew
They looked at me with pity
As if I still talked
To an imaginary friend
At...
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Categories:
ruinous, political,
Form:
Blank verse
Reflections Upon Mine Gender Identity ReduxReflections upon mine gender identity redux
Although heterosexual
predilections punctuated
physiological pulsations
about five inches below
innie belly button of mine
showcasing undersize
male member, when fully erect
not much to crow
about, contributed
diminished masculinity within
body electric regarding
wordsmith...
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Categories:
ruinous, age, analogy, anxiety, atheist, birth, boy, confidence,
Form:
Free verse
The Ecstatic Calliope
"Here rise to life again, dead poetry!
Let it, O holy Muses, for I am yours,
And here Calliope, strike a higher key,
Accompanying my song with that sweet air
which made the wretched Magpies feel a blow
that turned...
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Categories:
ruinous, freedom, identity, imagery, imagination, inspirational love, love,
Form:
Free verse
Captive Deep Blue Je Reviens
"Captive Deep Blue Je Reviens"
I walk beside you
in your dreams,
you are always in me
warm and pounding,
twin heart,
burning bright flame,
beautiful addiction
captive deep blue je reviens
Sun igniting,
I stand with you, invisible...
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Categories:
ruinous, desire, longing, romance, sensual,
Form:
Romanticism
Starry Eyed Cloud of Surreal AngelsUtmost nadir of despair found
this atheist craning his neck skyward
hearing resplendent August orchestra
today June 10th, 2022
choral symphony may sound absurd,
but...mine supreme auditory sense
(compensated with poor vision,
i.e. extreme myopia) impossible mission
driving after dark
genetically injured
acute undoubted gifted...
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Categories:
ruinous, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure,
Form:
Rhyme
Starry Eyed Cloud of Surreal Angelsstarry eyed cloud of surreal angels
utmost nadir of despair found
this atheist craning his neck skyward
hearing resplendent August
choral symphony may sound absurd,
but...mine supreme auditory sense
(compensated with poor vision,
i.e. extreme myopia) genetically injured
acute undoubted gifted courtesy,
viz cochlear...
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Categories:
ruinous, appreciation, april, crazy, joy, muse, sky, surreal,
Form:
Elegy
Ronald Rump Reasonably RoastedRonald Rump reasonably roasted
Remarkable – recourse retaining rickety
rambling reverence regarding “r.”
Ronald Rump
repugnant racist republican reviled -
rickettsia re:itch ruler.
Rapaciously ravaged
revered reverential rubric.
Radical ruthless renegade
rapidly riotously ripped rigged ramparts.
Refrained retaining remnant
redolent...
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Categories:
ruinous, 12th grade, america, betrayal, december, grave, grief,
Form:
Free verse
Ronald Rumprepugnant racist republican reviled - rickettsia re:itch ruler.
rapaciously ravaged revered reverential rubric.
radical ruthless renegade rapidly riotously rips rigged ramparts.
refrains retaining remnant redolent regal, resplendent rafters.
riches rudely rupture rooted rectified rights.
ruckus ricochets revenant...
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Categories:
ruinous, allusion, analogy, confusion, crazy, funny, imagination, lost,
Form:
Alliteration
Riding the Night MareFriends and foes of flesh and bone from me they have flown
A different company I keep in reveries of twilight sleep
When night’s dark blanket does fall, I begin to hear their call
Carriage wheels creak,...
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Categories:
ruinous, visionary, words, dark, body, dark,
Form:
Narrative
Dear FateDear Fate,
I hate you.
I detest you.
I despise you.
I loathe you in ridicule.
I reject you outright.
You are no good Fate. I am sure of it.
Que sera, sera.
Whatever will be, will be....
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Categories:
ruinous, anger, fate, god, humorous, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
A Decision of SilenceThose who savour do know well the taste,
The rest may form but the images abstract;
Unsubstantial eyes penetrate deep into realities,
But the carnal look with superficial glance.
Spent I time pondering over the...
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Categories:
ruinous, dedication, faith, mystery, visionary, heart, heart,
Form:
Verse
The Dilettante Diaries: In Stasis, Black Iris
The Dilettante Diaries: "In Stasis, Black Iris"
Oriental Lily's
Stamen bleeds
blush ochre dust
like icing sugar
duelling tongues
sweet captive
musk
over stagnant
white pure perfume
Stains soft feather fingerprints
sweet bruises across warm velvet skin
imprints a new story
a...
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Categories:
ruinous, art, freedom, imagery, psychological, romance, sensual, symbolism,
Form:
Romanticism
Greek TragedyWaiting in line,
Before the ATM of closed banks for 60 Euros to withdraw under the scourging sun
Old and invalid people are submitted to this daily torture, constantly moaning, for Our country’s suffering...
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Categories:
ruinous, courage, grief, hope,
Form:
Free verse
A Broken Glass03-01-07
03-04-07
A BROKEN GLASS
How many years I’ve shook-off,
Grabbed from that deceiving time.
To gave birth while walking to the scaffold,
Something I’ve ever dreamed to be mine.
Carry it under my clothes,
To give no space to that ruinous ruse.
Embrace...
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Categories:
ruinous, betrayal, brother, friend, friendship, lonely, loss,
Form:
Free verse
Odd Lovers
"Odd Lovers"
I feel your reign o’er my warm skin
your eyes cast their burning cerebral majesty
sharp diamonds cool blue sky twinning rays
the same time dawn and dusk glistening towards me
like the rapturous Sun in debate...
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Categories:
ruinous, moon, sensual, sun,
Form:
Romanticism
Kill All, Be God“Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.”
- Jean Rostand
Behold, when the old woman woke up
Then all around are...
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Categories:
ruinous, war, world,
Form:
Free verse
Deviance By CandlelightThe candlelight flickers as I try to write, A chill runs through me this cold winter night
I attempt to create without any sound, disquise my deviance from eyes that
surround.
Spending hours on thought with intention,...
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Categories:
ruinous, lifelife,
Form:
I do not know?
Featherless Angelsyou’re nameless and faceless
some shun you, claiming your existence is baseless
you’ve been with me right from the start,
always together, never apart
you’ve spoken to me softly over the years
sometimes your wisdom reduces me to tears
you’ve...
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Categories:
ruinous, angel, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
Music of Our YearsDon't you remember the summer when we first woo each other, and, that same summer we made out?
We were so pure to the ways of life, my love, don't you...
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Categories:
ruinous, love,
Form:
Free verse