Long Rural Poems
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Cymbric ValeI believed that I was rural … that I lived in country style,
where the city was close handy … that big distance was a mile.
Trains and buses ferried daily; a freeway ran close by …
comforts...
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Categories:
rural, holiday,
Form:
Rhyme
Son Say Goodnight To Grandpa“Son”...”say goodnight to grandpa”
Spurred by mother dearest
as well as other politesse
drummed into her second born
fobbing blandishments as incentive
tumbled off fingers of prodigal son
tripped wordsmith to splutter forth
forthwith the following lines.
Back in the day
quaint...
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Categories:
rural, 12th grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, absence,
Form:
Rhyme
Pandemic-Climate Recovery TeamsIn Colchester, CT,
and possibly in your town too,
we have a LongTerm ReCoVery Committee
looking at 20/20 prevision
for post-pandemic climate health revisions
for wealthy local and global EarthJustice.
So, what have I noticed
that might be economically
and ecologically win/win useful?
In...
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Categories:
rural, community, earth, health, integrity, peace, political, power,
Form:
Political Verse
Polypathic Political ScientistsI have had a highly redundant,
one might even choose polypathic,
graduate studies experience
spanning my adult life to date.
This began with a semester of Philosophy.
Just enough to learn I wanted something more experiential,
a more communitarian environment of...
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Categories:
rural, beauty, culture, health, political, religion, trust, truth,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Christian Evangelical-Charismatic RepublicansI grew up with rural Michigan white red-neck evangelical root systems.
These did not always feed my multicultural self/other liberation of the GLBTQ subclimatic root system
for regeneratively healthy instincts,
yet I learned to survive within this fundamentalist-alien-straight...
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Categories:
rural, beauty, christian, gender, health, political, rights, trust,
Form:
Political Verse
My Spirit AnimalThe soul of the earth is wrapped up inside
And the spirit of God is walking beside me
The universe rests upon my shoulder
And I can feel its power moving all over
embracing the soul of man
And causing...
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Categories:
rural, 8th grade, blessing, character, encouraging, environment, faith,
Form:
Narrative
Engaging the Family LaundryPerhaps infertile
incomplete
unwashed memories
of elder v younger,
Goliath v David,
crusades v communion
critical, yet part of chronic, events
speak extended family disengagement truth
to powerful dirty laundry engagement failures.
That disclaimer said,
I have two incomplete conversations
in mind and heart
and what I...
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Categories:
rural, culture, destiny, games, health, integrity, peace, religion,
Form:
Political Verse
Sacred EnergyFascism lives in tension with holy optimism,
as hatred fades in presence of mutual love,
as WinLose evolutionary models
give way to WinWin sacred Energy
stories and songs and dances,
as patriarchal colonization
gives way to matriarchal creolization.
Fascism,
synonymous with Totalitarianism,
as written...
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Categories:
rural, anti bullying, caregiving, education, health, integrity, parents,
Form:
Political Verse
Badboy MonotheistsWhere do we think all this economic and politically empowering
cooperative
nutritional
organically luscious imagination
and ecologically exegetical orthopraxis
started?
George Lakoff speaks of strictly straight stern paternalistic God the Universalist Fathers,
vertically Winning over an otherwise Loser, yet highly competitive, ecopolitical...
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Categories:
rural, games, health, integrity, math, peace, political, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
Inxs of Poison From Iron Maiden Scorpion Mamma and Ac Dc Charged Aries PapaInxs of poison from iron maiden scorpion mamma and ac/dc charged aries papa
Although gainfully unemployed
(fate now finds me receiving
social security disability –
for approximately
the last baker's dozen years -
the yeast divine intercession...
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Categories:
rural, 12th grade, abuse, anger, anxiety, atheist, bullying,
Form:
Free verse
In My Beautiful BalloonWith summer nearly gone, we all wanted to do something special,
And decided it should be daring, rather than the usual and dull.
So, we listed the things we desired to do, but hadn't yet tried,
And we...
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Categories:
rural, adventure, beauty, fantasy, lost, miracle, nature, prayer,
Form:
Couplet
Youth's Sweet Friendship Fragments"Fragments and crumbs of life, all the little pieces"
John Ruskin, 1853
I think of youth’s sweet...
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Categories:
rural, friendship,
Form:
Prose
Bothyang and AlsoyinIt's hard to think in Either-Or Deductive,
while speaking and acting in Both-And Inductive.
For example,
If my Brother is kind and loving
(and he usually is),
and really not all that judgmental and condemning
with his wife and kids especially...
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Categories:
rural, christian, earth, family, health, history, humor, usa,
Form:
Political Verse
Mad About Towns
When we set out on a road trip
We didn’t stick to the old script
And were gladly amazed
And rarely unfazed
Hitting strange towns though some were skipped
We started from Thatsnot, OK
Which was more or less ok
But then...
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Categories:
rural, humorous, travel, word play,
Form:
Limerick
Triple WhammyThis is based on a completely true event - and every time someone mentions either of these 2 towns, I get hives -
...
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Categories:
rural, lost love,
Form:
Narrative
Georg Cantor Chasing Infinity I MustGeorg Cantor. Chasing infinity. I must!
He was a very lonely man
Tortured by desire to understand
The world and the God’s mind
Like a fearless seasoned sailor
He embarked an elegant boat
Of extreme mental endeavor
With...
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Categories:
rural, anxiety, death, dedication, deep, depression, philosophy, sad,
Form:
Ballad
A Trick My Father Learned In PrisonI’m not saying my father hated the English, God forbid. If he were still alive, he’d hate to hear me say that. He’d correct me right away and say he didn’t hate the English. Truth...
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Categories:
rural, ireland, prison, war, , western,
Form:
Prose
Reflection On An Aging NomadI finally finished retiring four years ago,
a process that started in my mid-fifties
due to late adopting kids with special needs,
including needs for me to be home
to personally walk them on,
harness them in,
and wheel them back...
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Categories:
rural, age, health, integrity, relationship, religion, retirement, river,
Form:
Political Verse
Ah Satisfactorily Succumbing Into Salubrious SleepAh...Satisfactorily Succumbing Into Salubrious Sleep
Aye sandman, I surrender to yar supreme governance
surreal spectacular soiree gifts subconscious sphere
soothing (analogous to natural palliative), ah...REM
member nought, asper exquisite entertaining cerebral
kaleidoscope replete with nonpareil visual trappings
aesthetically tantalizing unforgettable..., but...
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Categories:
rural, 12th grade, adventure, appreciation, celebration, dance, devotion,
Form:
Free verse
What Is the OrderI get up to the sound of drilling, banging and speeding cars with sleepy passengers shouting, “a who did a give the order,” and the fading response of another passenger “ a the woman with...
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Categories:
rural, 8th grade, absence, america, beauty, butterfly, confidence,
Form:
Narrative
A Visit To Quiet TownWhile returning home from my job, in bustling New York City,
The blaring horns of traffic, and the noise were getting to me.
With loud yelling on the sidewalks, and cawing crows up above,
And my poor aching...
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Categories:
rural, fantasy, imagery, people, places, silence, travel, vacation,
Form:
Couplet
The Silence In MeThe Silence In Me
I have been on this road several times, and I have been contemplating
the movement of the clouds, the direction of the trees, and the depth of the sea. The heart of...
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Categories:
rural, appreciation, beauty, celebration, character, community, holiday, hope,
Form:
Narrative
Pride and Prejudice: the Lacking MarginsPride and Prejudice: The Lacking Margins
Pride and Prejudice, a passionate novel by Jane Austen, published anonymously in three volumes in 1813. A masterpiece of English literature, composed with penetrating wittiness and exquisite character delineation, it...
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Categories:
rural, marriage, meaningful, men, muse, sister,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
The Nifty Town 2I walked pass the neighborhood restaurants and saw Americans
browsing on their laptops and having their Saturday evening meals
Some were having a serious chat over dinner
I could see angry faces filled with disappointments and resentments
There is...
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Categories:
rural, absence, abuse, america, anti bullying, break up,
Form:
Narrative
Out In That SkyOut in that sky, no one sleeps, not even the stars.
We are at the 24-hour late-nite diner
and they’re serving up fruit
from the plants growing out of the floor.
We watch bodies fall to the ground outside
like...
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Categories:
rural, hope, magic, psychological, stars, symbolism,
Form:
Dramatic Verse