Long Scissors Poems
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Caregiving Stories RepriseWounded Sacred Dementia: Part Two
Dementia's derelict WinLose SocialWorker
suboptimizingly hesitates
when I tell her
I have not changed my mind
about not adopting Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
into my vulnerable home
with a seven-year-old AfricanAmerican boy
blind
and unable to defend himself,
or even run...
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Categories:
scissors, caregiving, culture, earth, health, integrity, love, parents,
Form:
Political Verse
Yosa Buson TranslationsYosa Buson haiku translations
On the temple’s great bronze gong
a butterfly
snoozes.
?Yosa Buson, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Hard to describe:
this light sensation of being pinched
by a butterfly!
?Yosa Buson, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Not to worry...
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Categories:
scissors, age, animal, autumn, father, moon, mother, nature,
Form:
Haiku
MOST REVEREND ARCH BISHOP CARDINAL JEROME LISTEKIOTETS THE MANY DAYS AND NIGHT YOU LENT ME YOUR
DIVINE EAR THROUGH PRAYER DURING HARDSHIP TIMES
AND ILLNESS RAISING MY GRANDDAUGHTER KEEPING HER
SAFE IN CATHOLIC SCHOOLS IN WISCONSIN OUR LADY OF
MOUNT CARMEL...
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Categories:
scissors, america, angel, miracle, seasons, teachers day, uplifting,
Form:
Free verse
A Poem For My Algebra TeacherI know I promised
no more ‘Make you Cry Poems’
I said I'd never write another
‘Wipe your eye poem’
And for three years
I tried not to retract,
but after so many tears
I have...
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Categories:
scissors, 6th grade, abuse, betrayal, children, confusion, family,
Form:
Free verse
This Is Unfinished Feminist UsSo I was feeling badly,
sad,
because I share our mutually complicit status
for my compatriot's difficult terrorizing
chronic stress disordering
time.
I too have been there,
lost there,
to a more moderate extent.
I just walked away.
I wish I had done more at...
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Categories:
scissors, anger, culture, education, fear, humor, military, stress,
Form:
Political Verse
Revenge Kisses and Afternoon ShamsHave I failed you as a man?
Our only communication was what washed up on shore
But there's so much space between the ocean floor and the sand
One cascades and the other crystalizes
But you...
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Categories:
scissors, emotions, extended metaphor, fear, imagery, irony,
Form:
Free verse
Random MusingsThe Quality of Mercy.
A mouse doesn't ask for mercy from a cat. It can't meow the syllables.
Though its stomach is full, the cat,being unacqainted with mercy,
will toy with a mouse.
Does the tiny heart...
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Categories:
scissors, growing up, heartbroken, imagination, inspirational, introspection, judgement,
Form:
I do not know?
Free FruitsGreen light means go ahead
Make your choice
Here’s a list of the Green light or free, fruits go, go, go and eat them up
Apples, dried: Dried apples make a great snack food and are easy to...
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Categories:
scissors, fruit,
Form:
List
Finding a New FriendTeddiboo was trifling and trifling so
He just kept wandering to and fro
His barber Mr. Smith had grown old and gray
Mr. Smith had just moved far far away
Teddiboo was a Spaazzoozle and don't you know
His hair...
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Categories:
scissors, children, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Unconditional Love ConditionsIn times of a virus spreading its unruly truths I wonder why
What matters most seems to be toilet paper
Loops and loops of the stuff and people care about their bum
Three ply of course because thin...
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Categories:
scissors, community,
Form:
Free verse
Way Down SouthPoet: Ken Jordan
Poem: Way Down South
Edited by: Sparkle Jordan
written: June/2014
Growing up
way
down south
in
Florida -
was like
a
fiesta -
We would
go to
the
beach,
swim, run,
and
play
in
the white
sand -
and
soon as
we
get home,
It was
time
to raid
the
sugarcane
farm -
Life
was sweet,
in
the
Sunshine
State -
Each day
was
better than
the
day before...
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Categories:
scissors, childhood,
Form:
Prose Poetry
A Futuristic Christmas-ContestHereafter in the times of tomorrows yesterday,
...
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Categories:
scissors, christmas, future, snow, winter,
Form:
Couplet
SaseSelf-Addressed Stamped Envelope
Horrid tin on wet paper. Coastal fragments of an empire twilight. Nonsense to corners in a deck along the warped cabin. Would you be silent for a moment? Afraid it seems, all these...
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Categories:
scissors, friendship,
Form:
Prose
Up Up the Fly Away Wig Doth Go Revisited and Revised April 19th, 2023Up up the fly away wig doth go revisited and revised April 19th, 2023
IM pen named Pilot Jane A. Rug
who ascribes to writing poetry
as opportunistic, holistic, and cathartic
warming me body electric
courtesy an outsize
warm brimful...
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Categories:
scissors, absence, adventure, april, farewell, fate, heartbroken, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Ground To Pieces‘Fragments and crumbs of life, all the little pieces’
...
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Categories:
scissors, change,
Form:
Free verse
I Samson wannabe feel aghast at latest turn of events regarding GazaI (Samson wannabe) feel aghast at latest turn of events regarding Gaza
Omnipresent grief and horror
abounds toward ceaseless killing fields
impossible mission for me
to summon forth fading magic powers
since Delilah imposter hashtagged,
(and subsequently outed)
as a mortal...
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Categories:
scissors, abuse, anger, angst, bereavement, conflict, crush, howl,
Form:
Free verse
Grandma NiniGrandma NiNi
We don’t know when
But she’s at it again
By and by it rained
A rumbling roar,
Near deafening ,
Awakened grandma from her silence
A flicker of light crossed the sky
And her words came to...
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Categories:
scissors, age, america, beautiful, care, grandparents, journey, paradise,
Form:
Narrative
Scissors ManYou're a waste of a man
The last choice for a sane person
The weirdest weirdo amidst weirdos
You just don't fit in —
Like a pole climbing strap
Trying to be forced into a blue Jeans
What an abuse of...
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Categories:
scissors, inspiration, inspirational, integrity, metaphor, truth, visionary, youth,
Form:
Free verse
Up up the fly away wig doth go revisited and revised March 10th, 2024Up up the fly away wig doth go revisited and revised March 10th, 2024...
(Any resemblance between the following humorous account and real life circumstance tis purely coincidental).
Went off for hair raising shindig
donning noggin of villager...
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Categories:
scissors, absence, adventure, confusion, humorous, march, missing,
Form:
Rhyme
Through the broken lines of destiny, the shattered strings of time are revealedThrough the broken lines of destiny, the shattered strings of time are revealed,
The thread of fate snaps, the springs of eternity unravel silently,
Fallen idols, marble faces cracked under the weight of eternity,
People sleeping in beds...
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Categories:
scissors, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
Up Up the Fly Away Wig Doth Go Revisited and Revised March 10th, 2022Up up the fly away wig doth go revisited and revised March 10th, 2022...
Went off for hair raising shindig
donning noggin of villager in Nigg
(historic county of Ross-shire,
historic region of Ross
and Cromarty, northeast
coast of Scotland).
Somehow postiche...
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Categories:
scissors, absence, america, appreciation, beauty, character, england, farewell,
Form:
Rhyme
Strokin' - Part Three and Part FourSTROKIN’: PART THREE
THE FULLBACK
He was twenty-eight yards and
thirty-two seconds from the end of a career
He had broken several bones, had a permanent
limp, knew the burden of performance to be an
unforgiving weight like the heavy black...
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Categories:
scissors, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
In Dream With SatanI have Learned,
I need to tell others,
I have to take precautions,
I should never forget.
That was the darkest day,
Also the brightest night;
Things which should have been done,
They were enlightening my path,
I should have been...
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Categories:
scissors, dark,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
I Am Poetry
I am poetry a nightingale stringing blues
Of medieval lyrics---swords sliding bows.
...
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Categories:
scissors, age, bird, child, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Morning MailA hymen or a hyena on a hyperlink is akin to a rotating rogue on a rhododendron. Balancing is deemed important by heavy duty wheels upon petals. Such a fascination for the hibernating hybrid horses....
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Categories:
scissors, absence,
Form:
I do not know?