Long Selections Poems
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Literary Feud Among - Pt 2
Step Forward McCarthy vs. Hellman
What is this The Digital Crucible of Truth?
On a stage of scrutiny,
titans c l a s h— ...
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Categories:
selections, emotions, judgement, literature, poetry, poets, rude, writing,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
On the Need To Avoid Being Envious: Canto Xvii, K161, K162 of the Thiruk-Kural
On the need to avoid being envious: Canto XVII, K161, K162 of the THIRUK-KURAL, Translation with Commentary
[ ENVY, of course, knows no racial nor ethnic boundaries, but I wouldn't be wrong, I dare say, ...
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Categories:
selections, evil, hate, jealousy, racism, tamil,
Form:
Couplet
The People From Those Xxxx-Hole Countries
The People from Those ****-Hole Countries
The people from “those” ****-Hole countries, eh??
Really?? Really?? You don’t say?? I didn’t know that!!
This is a recent stream of consciousness comment, which
constitutes a new low in the American...
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Categories:
selections, allusion, america, betrayal, corruption, judgement, political, racism,
Form:
Political Verse
Buyer's Remorse, Karma Deserved
“Buyers Remorse, Karma Deserved”
Many voters are regretting their voting choice
Realizing they have stymied their voice
The voters on the right side of history
Will not join in their misery
Empathy will not be shared, nor will we gloat
Karma...
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Categories:
selections, anxiety, betrayal, conflict,
Form:
Rhyme
Words Specifically
Collecting words has
resulted into a lifetime of gathering.
now I am choosing which
words to send you;
I send you choice words on special days,
and specific words on chosen days.
I share words that are specific to
‘’The cause’ ’or...
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Categories:
selections, emo, extended metaphor, simile, words,
Form:
Free verse
Gordon Lightfoot Inspiration
Gordon Lightfoot was born on Nov. 17, 1938, in Orillia, Ca.
His first concert at Massey Hall in Toronto, encouraged by his parents,
He won a contest for boys with unmodified voices prior to turning 13.
In the early...
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Categories:
selections, analogy, appreciation, celebrity, history, music,
Form:
Bio
Mimi and Me
Mimi is my fond, constant companion, my nearest and dearest loyal friend,
Mimi makes golden, precious days brighter, like orange sun that never ends.
Mimi has the rare gift for loving, that causes one to respond in...
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Categories:
selections, cat, fantasy, friend, imagery, life, love, nature,
Form:
Couplet
Greed (Part Two)
Our Supreme Court
Just allowed corporations free rein,
Unlimited power to effect our popular elections.
This regardless of,
Where stockholders may live or stay,
Corrupting the whole process of our Reps selections.
What this means to you,
Is the next Representative you'll...
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Categories:
selections, politicaleducation, voice, may, money, power, voice,
Form:
Narrative
Rehashing History: Squanto and the Pilgrims, the First Thanksgiving
The winter of 1621 in Plymouth was harsh as could be,
The Pilgrims were sick and sorry they'd come,
They missed their warm English beds and their tea.
The still ambulatory shivered and shuffled about,
As they grinched, and...
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Categories:
selections, history, humor, thanksgiving,
Form:
Light Verse
Real Mccoy - Or Is She - POTD
POTD
Synthetic hyper realistic - eclectic not eccentric
Android Humanoid - naturalistic totally orgasmic
Unnatural physicality this futuristic fem-bot fantasy
Against all normality she is the ultimate sexpot ecstasy
Soulless secretions a monster metallic
A...
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Categories:
selections, desire, future, lust, technology,
Form:
Light Verse
My Falling Rose My Mother
First breath Sep 2, 1931 and a special child with a heart shaped like a rose named Emma is born into this world.
This special child develops into a beautiful woman with an old fashioned tea...
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Categories:
selections, beauty, death, first love, funeral, love, mother,
Form:
Free verse
Meep Meep
“Hello, and thank you for calling Acme Products! Please listen to the following selections as our menu options changed 5 years ago and we want to make sure you have them memorized.
If you need help...
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Categories:
selections, business, funny, hilarious, parody,
Form:
Prose
My Focal Points
My heart repeatedly pushes redemption, ...
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Categories:
selections, devotion, inspirational, life, passion, philosophy, social, visionary,
Form:
I do not know?
Subliminal Perception
Was it some kind of a subliminal perception?
Confusing my interpretations of a misconception.
Was it you that pulled an affectionate deception?
Forcing me into a fake deflection.
A maneuver of the circumstance selections.
A ruse, a scheme, a hoodwinked...
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Categories:
selections, deep, feelings, identity, meaningful, mental illness, truth,
Form:
Rhyme
Mad and the Roots
Gripped by the throat with tension
Mad aggression pumping thru my veins
Changing my complexion
Pressing thru the world of small selections
Fencing off the other feelings of oppression
And while I'm resting
I don't wanna...
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Categories:
selections, crazy,
Form:
Rhyme
The Nuts Fall Close To the Tree
In the dimmed theater, the stage is set
not for a play though, yet a performance
one of baton, brass, notes, timpani
the performance I have waited for has come
As the stage lights grow brighter like...
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Categories:
selections, family, lovebrother, brother,
Form:
Narrative
Bouzingo: the Gathering of the Poets
The boy was aged about eighteen,
Pale and pensive,
Weary and frail in appearance.
He could have been
Goethe's Werther,
Senancour's Obermann
Or Chateaubriand's melancholy hero,
Embraced by a generation,
And about whom Sainte-Beuve said:
"Rene, c'est...
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Categories:
selections, paris, poetry, poets, youth,
Form:
Free verse
A Horn and Hardart Story
A Horn and Hardart Story
By Sy Roth
It begins with buttons,
ivory buttons,
Pearlized pieces--
Not the plastic crap,
Over-industrialized flotsam
that adorns clothing these days—
Eager hands fluttering like twin doves in flight,
Delivered buttons.
His effort earned him...
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Categories:
selections, celebration,
Form:
Free verse
Triskaidekaphobia
Triskaidekaphobia
And so, you have “Triskaidekaphobia” on your mind.
Indeed, fear of the Number “13” does have a real and
a certain palpable feel and meaning for people who
harbor this particular phobia and carry it with them in
their...
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Categories:
selections, allusion, culture, fear, history, imagery, metaphor, places,
Form:
Narrative
The Monarchs Engaged Us
THE MONARCHS ENGAGED US
The monarchs engage us. We amazed them. We’ ‘the colorful butterfly people'' saw silent fluttering hovering overhead, their duty to the flowers n trees was now shared with us, eight colorful and...
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Categories:
selections, nature,
Form:
Classicism
The Fat Man At the Buffet
The Fat Man at the Buffet
By Elton Camp
Saturday eve, we thought it might be nice
To go to “All-You-Can-Eat-for-One Price.”
But as we were standing in the line to pay
We spotted quite a man on down the...
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Categories:
selections, funnyfood,
Form:
Rhyme
Seductive Selections
What is the main difference
and primary points of comparison
between being inductively seductive
and becoming deductively submissive?
Between being illusive
and becoming illusioned?
Between being deluded
and becoming delusional?
Between being precluded
and becoming included?
Between being illusory
and becoming luminated?
Between being enlightened
and becoming relit?
Between...
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Categories:
selections, health, integrity, passion, political, power, psychological, wisdom,
Form:
Political Verse
Let Facebook Drama End With Karma
Most of the people I see on facebook must be living double lives
Most of what I see is filled with deceit and lies
Some I know outside of facebook in the public eye
From their lips...
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Categories:
selections, anti bullying, internet,
Form:
Rhyme
Remember Waterloo
Ladies and gentlemen, laddies, lassies one and all
Water, water everywhere, be careful lest you fall.
Please take into account, we've found wet boards do shrink
and remind your children, this water's not to drink.
WHY, ye...
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Categories:
selections, 11th grade, humor, poetry, water,
Form:
Narrative
A WINDOW OF TIME
YOU PEER THROUGH THE WINDOW
IN SEARCH OF DIRECTION.
ALL YOU SEE, IS YOUR OWN
REFLECTION.
WITH A ONE WAY GLASS
YOU HAVE LIMITED SELECTION.
THEY'RE TWO SIDES TO A WINDOW ,
TWO DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS.
SO NOW YOU HAVE ,
TWO...
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Categories:
selections, creation, imagination, life, symbolism, time, universe, word
Form:
Free verse