Long Seventies Poems
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RumorsRumors
How we arrived at where we are
By Franklin Price
05/03/2020
By now you've heard the rumors
How Covid-19 came to Earth
How it did not come here naturally
How Wuhan, China gave it birth
Maybe aided by our government
To make...
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seventies, america, health, hope, leadership, perspective, recovery from,
Form:
Rhyme
Unquotable Quotes: Journalists - Dedication To Andre Fontaine - XxviUnquotable quotes: Tale-Carriers, Gossip-Mongers, Courrier-Pigeon Caretakers, Smoke-Signal Puffers and Tom-Tom Thumpers – XXVI
Could there be such things as political shenanigans or inter-continental warfares, even catastrophes, natural disasters, tsunamis, irruptions, conflagrations, inundations, landslides, typhoons, tornadoes, hurricanes,...
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Categories:
seventies, power,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
'continental Drift' - the Metaphor'Continental Drift' - The Metaphor
In the seventies (1), few people dreamed ‘it’ was true,
guessed by scientists first when rough coastlines compared (2)
matched like parts of a puzzle (a jigsaw), found place
that joined ‘drop-offs’ waves hid...
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Categories:
seventies, faith, science,
Form:
Rhyme
Translation of Eric Mottram's Time Sight Unseen, Part 1 By T WignesanTranslation of Eric Mottram’s TIME SIGHT UNSEEN, Part One by T. Wignesan
"Instead of an item in a school of rhetoric, the poem could have variety of articulations, continuity and discontinuity, sentence and parataxis, and an...
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seventies, imagery, introspection, literature, philosophy, writing,
Form:
Free verse
Translation of Eric Mottram's Time Sight Unseen, Part Two By T WignesanTranslation of Eric Mottram’s TIME SIGHT UNSEEN, Part Two by T. Wignesan
"Instead of an item in a school of rhetoric, the poem could have variety of articulations, continuity and discontinuity, sentence and parataxis, and an...
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seventies, art, creation, literature, philosophy, word play, writing,
Form:
Free verse
Translation of Eric Mottram's Time Sight Unseen, Part 4 By T Wignesan Translation of Eric Mottram’s TIME SIGHT UNSEEN - Part Four by T. Wignesan
"Instead of an item in a school of rhetoric, the poem could have variety of articulations, continuity and discontinuity, sentence and parataxis,...
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Categories:
seventies, literature, political, rights, society, time,
Form:
Free verse
Mine Courtship and Marriage With Deadly ObsessionMine courtship and marriage with deadly obsession...
As September daze will soon arrive
recollections from a
psychologically checkered past
loom large recalling
tragic storied days of mein kampf.
Circa early nineteen seventies:
As a mere slip of a...
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Categories:
seventies, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 7th
Form:
Free verse
What Is My Ethnic Name and Who Are the NamersI arose a proud African lineage from far Mid Northern, Southern, Western;
Stolen, Trick,...
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Categories:
seventies, africa, america, black african american, change, confusion,
Form:
Ballad
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:
seventies, anger, culture, education, fear, humor, military, stress,
Form:
Political Verse
Dear Evangelical BrotherDear Brother,
When we were children
adults often asked us
What do you hope to be
when you grow up?
But, our brothers and sisters
were more likely,
and probably more wise,
to ask
Who would you most hope to become?
To be like?
Which implies,...
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Categories:
seventies, appreciation, brother, caregiving, christian, health, , western,
Form:
Free verse
Food For Thought Over What Has Been LostFood for thought !
Over what has been lost.
Days of long ago - filled with much flavour,
Foods exotic – for the discerning palate to savour.
There was Beef Wellington to enjoy.
Delicious, Lobster Thermador – Oh Boy !
There...
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Categories:
seventies, food,
Form:
Rhyme
Stop Writing Literature, You Garrulous Indianfor Eric Mottram (1924 - 1995)*
a life of toil for the man in the centre
a hub in the peripheral tireless wheel
where he go then where he go this working...
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Categories:
seventies, celebrity, people, words, work, , literature,
Form:
Elegy
Pypu Pull Yo Pants UpPYPU what ya gonna do boyz
PYPU what ya gonna do boyz
PYPU what ya gonna do boyz
don't need to see your Fruit or your Looms
don't wanna see your buttocks in those..
Vincent Motega's don't wanna see your...
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Categories:
seventies, america, analogy, body, change, character, clothes, metaphor,
Form:
Ballad
One generic baby boomer, a garden variety sexagenarianOne generic baby boomer, (a garden variety sexagenarian)...
offers his interpretation of critical race theory
I, (an articulate, charming, domesticated,
erudite, friendly, genteel, humorous, intelligent,
kind, learned, male, albeit modest – married)
with freshly clipped formerly gnarly toenails
discounts...
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Categories:
seventies, 12th grade, abuse, africa, america, anger, betrayal,
Form:
Rhyme
Translation of Eric Mottram's Time Sight Unseen, Part 3 By T WignesanTranslation of Eric Mottram’s TIME SIGHT UNSEEN, Part Three by T. Wignesan
"Instead of an item in a school of rhetoric, the poem could have variety of articulations, continuity and discontinuity, sentence and parataxis, and an...
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Categories:
seventies, art, literature, metaphor, philosophy, word play,
Form:
Free verse
Translation of Eric Mottram's Krim: Autobiography To September 1989- Ii By T WignesanTranslation of Eric Mottram’s KRIM: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY TO SEPTEMBER 1989 - II by T. Wignesan
( This poem is from the collection, ESTUARIES: Poems 1989-91. Twickenham: Solaris, 1992, 62p. Pub. by Yasmin and Peterjon Skelt. Back...
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Categories:
seventies, america, angst, drug, emotions, future, mental illness,
Form:
Free verse
Translation of Eric Mottram's Krim: Autobiography To September 1989- I By T WignesanTranslation of Eric Mottram’s KRIM: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY TO SEPTEMBER 1989 - I by T. Wignesan
( This poem is from the collection, ESTUARIES: Poems 1989-91. Twickenham: Solaris, 1992, 62p. Pub. by Yasmin and Peterjon Skelt. Back...
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Categories:
seventies, america, angst, art, friend, writing,
Form:
Free verse
A Nun I Once KnewI am not a catholic but have been fortunate to know a few, ...
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Categories:
seventies, christian, love,
Form:
Free verse
Translation of Eric Mottram's Krim: Autobiography To September 1989- Iii By T WignesanTranslation of Eric Mottram’s KRIM: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY TO SEPTEMBER 1989 - III by T. Wignesan
( This poem is from the collection, ESTUARIES: Poems 1989-91. Twickenham: Solaris, 1992, 62p. Pub. by Yasmin and Peterjon Skelt. Back...
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Categories:
seventies, america, angst, character, conflict, future, howl, sick,
Form:
Free verse
Why There Are No More Sorcerers, Part IThere was a young man named Anton,
who lived back in the seventies,
he wasn’t the type to fit in,
felt outcast from society.
Never got along with others,
and didn’t enjoy playing sports,
his parent’s said, “Just get out more.”
It...
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Categories:
seventies, allegory, corruption, dark, evil, magic, power, technology,
Form:
Narrative
Golden Harmonies of ExistenceGolden Harmonies of Existence
Grace falling in essence of pure gold from the sky
Place the lightning bright vision from the centre of my third eye
Embrace the old derision as the armies can only try
The lace...
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Categories:
seventies, beautiful, courage, freedom, future, inspiration,
Form:
Rhyme
Settling Old Grudges, Part IThis house belonged to grandfather Rudolph,
though its history goes much further back,
all the way to the eighteen seventies,
when to this vast land Herbert Blake did trek.
It had once been a grand ranch homestead,
centerpiece of sixteen...
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Categories:
seventies, conflict, confusion, family, father daughter, history, native
Form:
Narrative
Atheists Under AttackI was called a winter’s child by most people,
Who were in my life when I was a young child,
But I always saw myself as a summer bumpkin,
Sprung from spring as I was optimistic...
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Categories:
seventies, anger, freedom, god, how i feel, religion,
Form:
Rhyme
The Way I See It'Things have really progressed since my childhood,
Some changes are tremendous, some just no good.
When we baby boomers were young TV has just begun,
It came after the Great World War, our parents young then.
In the early...
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Categories:
seventies, faithchildren, parents, prayer, children, parents, time, drug,
Form:
Rhyme
The Lady Sung the BluesAnticipation,
faces sparkling,
wrinkles smiling,
memories at the ready.
Friends inter-mingling, while great grandchildren run through the gathering crowd.
Sun streaking through branches, warming joints, and turned up faces seeking the rare appearance of the coastal sun.
The growing color of...
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Categories:
seventies, age, friendship, fun, grandparents, guitar, music, remember,
Form:
Free verse