Long Self restraint Poems

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Gluttonous Connoisseur of Ethnic Culinary Cuisines

Yours truly would never be confused for a gourmand, nevertheless I could enjoy experiencing taste testing select food samples if offered an opportunity of attending a fancy feast viz smörgåsbord, whereby oral indulgence would arouse,...

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Categories: self restraint, addiction, appreciation, birthday, blessing, chicago, dream, humorous,
Form: Rhyme


Food glorious food

Food glorious food

Asia generic guy gastronomy (and how gourmet foods eat destructively clearly beyond any) excess enthusiasm, the necessity to feed and clothe this lean mean exercising machine gunning corporeal essence christened Matthew Scott Harris...

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Categories: self restraint, 12th grade, adventure, america, appreciation, blessing, celebration,
Form: Rhyme
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Under Earth's Political Skin

Shalom, Aloha, Namaste

Healthy identity is rooted in wealthy socioeconomic trust,
beginning in utero
swimming about in embryonic nutrition,
rather than active distrust
or more passive mistrust of the unknown
yet frightening alien, aggressive Other.

Psychological fuel for polypathic political trust
is safe...

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Categories: self restraint, beauty, blessing, culture, health, humor, psychological, social,
Form: Political Verse

Wildmoor Symphony

FIRST MOVEMENT (Minor Key)

Times such as these test body soul and mind
So should our thoughts be pain and dark confined
Or loosed to concentrate on brighter things
Like furry puppies, flowers and girls on swings

In this bright...

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Categories: self restraint, nature,
Form: Rhyme

Precedent setting the stage for kerning and tracking piqued my interest

Precedent setting the stage for kerning and tracking piqued my interest

Just before logging off for the day,
and ready to boogie out of the joint
an email landed squarely in my inbox
cordially inviting me 
into the management...

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Categories: self restraint, adventure, appreciation, business, fashion, humorous, nature, writing,
Form: Free verse


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Anyone Can

Anyone Can steal; Anyone Can lie;
Anyone Can cheat and then deny.
Anyone Can be resentful and bitter,
Give up easily and be then, a quitter.

Anyone Can allow themselves to hate;
Feed into their ego and perpetuate.
Anyone Can serve...

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Categories: self restraint, character,
Form: Rhyme
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Advocating Patriotism For Earthlings

It is not patriotic
to desecrate a flag
or even denigrate a nationalistic anthem
celebrating a war-torn patriotic flag.

Yet is it even anti-patriotic
to refuse to bow to it,
the flag, that is,
to not stand with supremacist intentions
while singing about...

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Categories: self restraint, culture, games, health, humor, integrity, patriotic, usa,
Form: Political Verse

Food Glorious Food Third Helping

Thus upon a strategic seat we hoped for,
or politely sought from manager of the house
ah, our luck to be situated in close proximity,
where impossibility to stave gaming hunger,
though neither myself nor honorable guest grouse.

Now decision...

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Categories: self restraint, america, appreciation, celebration, christmas, december, eve, feelings,
Form: Light Verse

He Did Not Come Back the Same, Part I

When Laurie was just eighteen years of age
she fell in love with a brazen young man,
rode his own bike, knew just what to say,
ever quick with a joke was her Stan,
oh, the adventures that those...

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Categories: self restraint, growth, introspection, loss, love, perspective, relationship, war,
Form: Narrative

Inferiority Complex As a Kid and Adult

Inferiority Complex As A Kid And Adult!

I recall father, (now behold
at near ninety years old - maintains stronghold
on life, cuz born of sturdy mettle -
rumor claims bullion – ne'er did buckle nar fold
meaning bull +...

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Categories: self restraint, 1st grade, 6th grade, age, boy, environment,
Form: Bio
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W-I Carry the Yoga Safely- Yoga Kchhamam Vahamyaham

Yoga, a Sanskrit word, an abstract noun meaning oneness
It points to the meeting of soul and the Absolute or Godhood
To attain this oneness one has to go through eight stages. 

Five kinds of mental anguish...

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Categories: self restraint, inspirational,
Form: Free verse

Cycles of Life

Times such as these test body soul and mind
So should our thoughts be pain and dark confined
Or loosed to concentrate on brighter things
Like furry puppies, flowers and girls on swings

In this bright morning sun as...

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Categories: self restraint, nature,
Form: Verse
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Pizza Delivery

I’m going to each of my suitemates' rooms. One at a time, methodically. I pause, for dramatic purpose, until I have their full attention. Once I have it, I rushingly, excitedly, breathlessly say, “I’M getting...

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Categories: self restraint, friendship, humor, school, teen,
Form: Free verse

Time Traveler

mourning death
                       in between breaths

       pretending 
...

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Categories: self restraint, introspection, lost love, science fiction, visionary,
Form: Rhyme

Learning Friendship Upon Todays Society

Everyone around me is so down in mood, 
Not a single smile to shine through, 
Everyone in hand has an electronic tool
 Is that the new rule?  

Thinking talking has been erased,
And replaced. 
Not...

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Categories: self restraint, friendship, hello, social, uplifting,
Form: Free verse

Natures Miracles Homo Sapiens Never Measured

Ground trembled
Houses fell, city mangled
Loss and Chaos bull having free run

Many deaths, overnight many born as new orphan  
On Ritchers scale, quake measured by Homo Sapien  

Human destroying Nature on big scale 
Natures...

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Categories: self restraint, natural disasters, naturenature, nature,
Form: Rhyme

Of Offices and Orifices

Sordid tales your eyebrows tell
Insinuations start to sing
Things we all know very well--
Say, did you miss my wedding ring?

You’d do you worst right here and now
A stealthy drink from your chalice
Want me to forget the...

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Categories: self restraint, relationship, wife, woman, work,
Form: Quatrain

Her Presence Still Lingers

The streetlights cast empty shadows,
Stretching across the roads of destiny. 
The ghost of a time long past glows,
Echoing secrets long lost to me. 
It’s now the time to rise,
Building up a structure so flawless. 
The...

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© Steve M.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: self restraint, destiny, devotion, dream, growth, happiness, health, hope,
Form: Rhyme

A Shadow of the Former You

The paranoia you caused me triggered a change in my character my personality adapted to certain ways that weren't planned for and when challenged I latched on which created imbalancement with a chain reaction generating...

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Categories: self restraint, character, confusion, courage, feelings, hip hop, poetry,
Form: Rhyme

A Moment of Clarity

He had already said it as those words came from deep down inside
Knowing just how hard they would hit in it all being about his pride
And quickly he had much regret in realizing what such...

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Categories: self restraint, anger, betrayal, spoken word,
Form: Rhyme

My Cross

I hold my  Cross I drop to my knees for self-restraint against the evil forces that often  fly to sting like a bee trying to take my blessings away every day my prayers...

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Categories: self restraint, blessing, change, christian, confidence,
Form: Bio

Blind Faith Fosters Understanding

Still waters rage from the depths of hell.
The fiery furnaces’ forces propel.
No longer shall earth see speedwell or bluebell.
The cleansing fire has begun its deadly smell.

God’s created earth now feels its decadence.
Evil “ate” souls because...

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Categories: self restraint, angst, faith, natural disastersfire, earth, fire,
Form: Rhyme
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We Dance

We dance with desire; we dance with dislike.
As human beings, we all are alike.
Flames of desire will always leap higher.
We dance with dislike; we dance with desire.

If desire is lust, we must slow the dance.
Slow...

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Categories: self restraint, life,
Form: Quatrain

Love Affair

Gentle fingers brush my face
Followed by a loving embrace
Soft kisses caress my lips
As my self restraint soon slips
Following my clothing to the floor
At the nervous expectations
Of your initiations
My body no longer standing
Your actions becoming more...

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Categories: self restraint, body, desire, love, lust, passion, relationship, sensual,
Form: I do not know?

A Fool's Death

Drop after drop
my calm burns by the cold fireplace
like the rain on the glass, reminding
me of a taping dance.
Patience is the bastard son of virtue
running in short supply.
The wind is adding to the window's torment,
impatiently...

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Categories: self restraint, adventure, allusion,
Form: Blank verse
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