Long Self reliant Poems
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The Screaming Souls of a Soundless Forest
I romanticize the single room without a jurisdiction
If only I could filter through a voice of logic over reaction
Would it impel my inner child to regress into an illusion?
My mind composes a structure but...
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Categories:
self reliant, absence, anger, angst, betrayal, birthday, conflict, longing,
Form:
Free verse
The Cry of Dolores
A popular priest in 1810, Spanish rule he spoke against
those who had overthrown the Spanish Viceroy José de Iturrigaray
A speech calling upon the people to protect in angst
Their King Ferdinand VII was held captive El...
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Categories:
self reliant, cinco de mayo, cry, culture, history, holiday,
Form:
Rhyme
A Progressive Shadow
A Progressive Shadow
A series of real challenges and troubling world events
In our twenty-first century give us a definite reason and
An urgency to pause and reflect on mankind’s situation.
Our world today—more than at any other...
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Categories:
self reliant, change, earth, history, international, introspection, nature, war,
Form:
Terza Rima
On Conserving Responsible Governance
Note to Grover Norquist
and others with corporate political non-responsibility persuasions:
When you were 21 you "decided that nobody learned anything about politics after the age of 21."
A few financially well-greased years later, as a professional lobbyist,
you...
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Categories:
self reliant, community, freedom, health, patriotic, political,
Form:
Political Verse
Another Bon Voyage On Next Leg of Journey
Another bon voyage on next leg of journey...
into the unknown courting lovely lass
crafted four years ago to date
flying colors while eldest progeny
an undergraduate
at storied university did pass.
Even at a young age, she
first...
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Categories:
self reliant, absence, adventure, america, anniversary, books, career, courage,
Form:
Free verse
Is It Justice Or Injustice
If i allow a mother to steal food, in order to feed her babies. Does that make me
an angel or criminal? How do we as people not take responsibilty to change our
own destiny?
For...
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Categories:
self reliant, education, introspection, philosophy, child, me, self, child,
Form:
I do not know?
The Sweat of Thy Face
The Sweat of Thy Face
When we were young,...
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Categories:
self reliant, america, vanity, work,
Form:
Didactic
When I Was Drunk and Wanted Big Words
We are all improbable in our own way,
and who can augur the future?
I never could have laid out my course in advance,
though in looking back it all makes sense,
even if...
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Categories:
self reliant, addiction, drink, earth, wine, word play, words,
Form:
Prose
Germination
Ah, the fortitude of a circle
the circular wisdom
of spring to summer fall to winter
the spinning wheel’s twist of threads -
at once both self-reliant and reliant
my soul to embryo seed...
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Categories:
self reliant, birth, faith, flower, garden, growth, nature, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
Two In One
There are two kinds of cultures
- Defined in different ways
In different countries and lifestyles,
Valley vs Mountain, Settled vs Nomadic
Or in modern America, City vs Country -
With their two opposing attitudes,
“Let us tell you what...
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Categories:
self reliant, allegory, culture, introspection, perspective,
Form:
Narrative
Sarah Hill Revision First Page
(composed about eight years ago
moments ago this poem underwent
slight poetic surgical face lift
modifications by this bro)
this spine tingling reaction,
sans flushed testosterone
...
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Categories:
self reliant, appreciation, care, celebration, flower, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
Another Bon Voyage On Next Leg of Journey Into the Unknown Lovely Lass
Beloved daughter dubbed "Munchkin",
an appellation engineered by "mother"
now evinces enviable survival skills,
this papa dismissed himself attaining,
and though sites set
to attain satisfactory income
courtesy asper keeping
your inherited Semitic
nose to the grindstone
(cute as a button)
toward fiercely dedicated
academic success...
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Categories:
self reliant, absence, adventure, encouraging, goodbye, heart, inspirational love,
Form:
Ballad
Unspoken Vitriolic Wickedness Woke
(alternatively titled eldest daughter despises us)
Eden (beloved eldest daughter) icy
flat tone of voice spoke volumes,
when she talked with the missus and me
courtesy cellular telecommunications key
December twenty seventh
two thousand nineteen
unwavering listless dull verbalization see
I subsequently told...
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Categories:
self reliant, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form:
Free verse
Empty Hands
Empty Hands
I arrived with nothing, an empty vessel
No thoughts or opinions
No knowledge of what was around me
Simply hands held out for help.
Along the way I began to learn
My opinions were molded by those around...
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Categories:
self reliant, christian,
Form:
Free verse
Tmfb -Incomplete-
To my future boyfriend I do not want a “price charming”. I do not need to be rescued from this ivory tower that I have built around myself to protect myself-worth and esteem that so...
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Categories:
self reliant, angst, boyfriend, dedication, feelings, love, sad love,
Form:
Free verse
A Changed Dictionary - For Kate
Maybe I have a problem
my world seems empty
without you here
maybe there’s something wrong
I shouldn’t feel so lost so easily
could be I’m too dependent
I used to be self reliant
and never felt this kind of...
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Categories:
self reliant, love, missing you, soulmate, together,
Form:
Free verse
Restoration
some people think life's a game
hurting others over and over again
I came from a broken family
I came from a broken home
and someties I was locked out on the streets to roam,
the brokeness in my...
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Categories:
self reliant, faithlife, god, me, people, sorry, god, life,
Form:
Rhyme
A World On Fire
We live today in a world of great tumult
And of rising uncertainty and anxiety
Which pervade the world stage like a cancer
Despite soaring technological advances
Our environment and our home Earth
Are bearing an unimaginable burden
People are...
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Categories:
self reliant, allegory, change, earth, history, international, introspection, nature,
Form:
Narrative
'38 Caddy
On either side
Of a crowded family dinner table
There are signs of ambition and resentment
Success and failure
Marked by those who pass
The plate
And those who only take.
A lighter than air blimp
Floated
Lazy circles
High above...
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Categories:
self reliant, lifeaugust,
Form:
Narrative
Four Years of Growth, A Lifetime Found
As newcomers, we arrived, shy and uncertain,
Wandering through the corridors, looking for a remedy.
To the intense sensation of being a newcomer,
Seeking our spot, uncertain about what actions to take.
We carried our...
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Categories:
self reliant, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form:
Free verse
Hierarchical Paradigm of the Amish Community
Hierarchical paradigm of the Amish community
After reading the novel titled
Broken English by Paul L Gaus...
accentuating, exhibiting, incorporating...
the Amish, whose long history of farming
with horses and mules, dates back
to when horse-drawn plows
first used to break up...
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Categories:
self reliant, adventure, america, animal, beautiful, character, confidence, endurance,
Form:
Rhyme
There's Something About a Dog
The following words are not written to disparages cats or birds or frogs
or any other animal for that matter…it’s just, in my opinion…
there’s something about a dog!
To start with…and this can’t be a coincidence…
I mean...
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Categories:
self reliant, dog,
Form:
Verse
Store Scott
Alpha male
No doubt about it
It's in the way he walks
It's in the way he talks
Self confidence and presence
He knows he's in a powerful position
When women at work call him Mc Dreamy
I always ask "Who's That??"
They...
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Categories:
self reliant, appreciation, art, beauty, blessing, community, leadership, work,
Form:
Free verse
A God In Me
There has to be a God in this
Who else could mold, perfect and breathe life into a heap of soil
And in so doing entrust the entire universe into the inexperienced hands of a bunch...
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Categories:
self reliant, art, beauty, blessing, universe,
Form:
Verse
Sarah Hill
this spine tingling reaction that flushed testosterone from heads to toe
sketched out sometime from ~july or august 2012
and triggered a chain reaction
of wishful desires in overdrive seeing this aesthetically pleasing gal
in the summer of her...
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Categories:
self reliant, appreciation, blessing, family, integrity, me, mentor, my
Form:
Free verse