Long Sentry Poems
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Haiku 1
The Original Sin: Rhyming Haiku!
Haiku
should never rhyme:
it’s a crime!
-Michael R. Burch
The herons stand,
sentry-like, at attention ...
rigid observers of some unknown command.
-Michael R. Burch
Late
fall;
all
the golden leaves turn black underfoot:
soot
-Michael R. Burch
Dry leaf...
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Categories:
sentry, family, heart, love, mother son, nature, seasons,
Form:
Haiku
Zen Death Haiku
Zen Death Haiku
Brittle cicada shell,
little did I know
you were my life!
—Shuho, translation by Michael R. Burch
Returning
as it came,
this naked worm.
—Shidoken, translation by Michael R. Burch
As dew glistens
on a lotus leaf,
so too I soon must vanish.
—Shinsui,...
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Categories:
sentry, age, autumn, bereavement, death, death of a
Form:
Haiku
Words From the Heart - a Collaboration With Frederic Parker
These words of love I give to you, my dear
to have comfort in the stillness of time
and meld two souls to keep love's wishes near
when the length of the years and age will climb
I will...
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Categories:
sentry, beauty, emotions, love, passion, romantic, sensual, soulmate,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Tessellate
“Tessellate”
on the surface
it’s easy to see
we tessellate
inadvertent
decorative ostentatious
flirtatious lives taking risks
with the other sides
planned strategic functional
quantity rich quality lacking
Human
our words our ways
opposites
like magnets attract, it all fits
we think it...
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Categories:
sentry, earth, humanity, muse,
Form:
Narrative
Words From the Heart With Collaboration From Susan Ashley
These words of love I give to you, my dear
to have comfort in the stillness of time
and meld two souls to keep love's wishes near
when the length of the years and age will climb
I will...
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Categories:
sentry, love, romance,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
The Sentinel
THE SENTINEL
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS
I took the elevator to the lobby of the small hotel
I’d been here six days the ennui was starting to tell
I’d been sent to cover an international gathering
Sessions so long and dull...
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Categories:
sentry, horror,
Form:
Rhyme
The Farmer and the Fox
A Farmer built a chicken coop
from extra wood and wire.
To satisfy the pent demand
for eggs from many buyers.
He hoped to make some money
...
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Categories:
sentry, funny, humor, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Armegeddon Prayer
Have you ever found yourself stranded in the tract
between what you think is fiction and what you think is fact?
And whipped so hard with the bible belt, your minds a welt of doubt
throbbing in confusion...
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Categories:
sentry, religious,
Form:
Couplet
The Penelope Squad
“The Penelope Squad”
A line of bluebirds
tittering on a line
swaying on the winds
like comedian pageboys
having a good time
poop in the peg bucket
words wooden and sharp
fly off with frosty notes
dirt and sherry stains
imprinted on
Penelope’s...
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Categories:
sentry, giggle, humor, muse, mystery,
Form:
Free verse
A Town He Once Called Home
Like a beacon on a hill
The white church steeple gleaming still
For all the many years gone past
It marks the path for home at last
Up and down each tree-lined street
Where childhood friends and neighbors meet
In history...
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Categories:
sentry, childhood, home, nostalgia, tribute,
Form:
Rhyme
Disabling Corporate Culture
Dynamically spiraling fractions
of potentially integral energy
win/win cooperative
and win/lose disruptive
Against peaceful eight octaves
of eight
is one hundred per day
full-octave spectral revolutions
during bilateral peace-sentry nights
DoubleBinary
for fractal 4 = NonZero ReGenerative
indigenous spacetime dynamic
century sensory wisdom
Integrity's sacred RightBrain ReWeaving Potential
to...
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Categories:
sentry, culture, education, health, integrity, passion, peace, power,
Form:
Political Verse
The Extinction of a Spruce
Seeing no light......................................makes me sad
...
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Categories:
sentry, natureme,
Form:
Concrete
Super Moon, Gnomes, and Dragon
December is our busy month, just like that charming Spring Break, you bet!
And Dragon’s in the thick of things, something that others sometimes regret.
But not our Fraternity buddies, it’s Dragon time, and mischief… all the...
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Categories:
sentry, adventure, fantasy, fun, funny, humor, humorous, imagination,
Form:
Light Verse
Experiencing Emerging Adulthood Stage While Inching Toward Being An Old Geezer
Me, an aging baby boomer
long haired pencil necked geek
burning, depleting, using... fossil fuels,
thus a global nonrenewable resource(s)
repentant consumer
admitting heavily trod carbon footprint
additionally deeply enmired
within very late adolescence,
hence I shriek
with utter dismay
starkly aware personal hygiene
suffers direct...
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Categories:
sentry, anger, childhood, confusion, father daughter, health, mom,
Form:
Free verse
Polar Bears
Symphonic sirens serenade me from afar;
distinctive, delectable scents tickle and tantalise:
my senses awash with anticipation
as, finally, I lay eyes on my prey.
Slowly and surreptitiously,
I draw ever closer to my quarry.
Prancing and playing, oblivious to the...
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Categories:
sentry, animal, environment, mother, mother son, nature, snow,
Form:
Free verse
Come forth our Angel of the North Stokesy
Come forth our Angel of the North
Working class…but VIP pass…standing sentry for cricketing gentry
Towering injury tarnished Talisman penury
Revarnished..primacy rebooted for his mooted destiny and legacy
Poetry in motion..the emotion
The devotion..our commotion potion
Rejuvenation
India rue what Stokes does...
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Categories:
sentry, sports,
Form:
Rhyme
Theater of Utter Charm Part 2
of terminally opinionated snake charmers
for art's sake of course
well what else could define our course of action
when the end of unknowing
is only a mouse click away
when we'd still rather quack like a sinking duck
and bark...
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Categories:
sentry, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
sentry, happiness, miracle,
Form:
Personification
Nobody Likes a Know It All Part 3 of 4
Nobody Likes A Know-It-All
(Or ... But I Know, What I Know)
... About Play-Time & Rest & Work-Shift Gears
About GOD & Laws & Holy Spirit Pure
About Faith & Hope & Man-Made Cures
Yeah, I Know of Somethings...
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Categories:
sentry, analogy, bible, character, christian, education, introspection, life,
Form:
Free verse
The Alchemist's Tale
Prologue
Of the alchemist’s physique I expound upon thee
A white feathered cap wore he jauntily, cocked to a side.
His sight like a moles’, aided by technology.
Shoulders broad with features fair
Emerald eyes he had with a...
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Categories:
sentry, imaginationme, night, me, night,
Form:
Light Verse
By the Bedside, Weeping
A visitor,
I sit by night and day
unmoved to pen a loving word
no more the Muse its lightning thrusts
of inspiration cast my woeful way
while waiting, watching,
nothing left
of hope, of comfort –
nothing right to...
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Categories:
sentry, angst, death, mother, words, day,
Form:
Free verse
Beat of the Aerobat
Into the buoyant blue of a summer sky
I throw my fortune and my hopes.
With wings and wonder I survey
the world above and need some time
up there before descending back to earth.
Advancing throttle up I climb,...
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Categories:
sentry, art, courage, fear, flying, summer,
Form:
Free verse
The Philosophy of War
"Men die by the hundred thousand"
Just like that, with one command
As if we're discussing grains of rice, or sand
As though there's no need to expand
When in truth every one felled
Can mean more than
The cause and...
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Categories:
sentry, philosophy, warwar, war,
Form:
Free verse
Nemesis
"NEMESIS"
“Where do Angels go in their dreams?
They go where wolves go to catch foxes,
venturing forth out of small caged boxes
to the Between-Hours of Lost Love Woods”
NEMESIS
is watching her
from his dreams
prowling soft Silver...
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Categories:
sentry, adventure, angel, gothic, imagery, mystery, romance, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
Fascist State
FASCIST STATE
They did not come upon us like blitzkrieg in the night
or goose step into town like a plague of parasites.
They crept on us like shadows in increments so small
they did not...
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Categories:
sentry, political, , cute,
Form:
Couplet