Long Shadowy Poems
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Forever
“Forever”
When The Terrors came,
The Uncontrollable Ones,
she closed her eyes
and listened for the notes
her mother had planted
amongst the deep blues,
beds of Forget-Me-Nots,
she followed the
labyrinthine trail
and through a gate unhinged,
it would seem destroyed, thrown aside,
she...
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Categories:
shadowy, dark, halloween, light, love, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
Grand PrioritiesWhat fills your goals, son?
I told you!
Need to get my car rolling [life rolling, love rolling]
yesterday,
if not today...
If I may interrupt
to process mindful resilience
for a bit...
Let me ask again:
Noticing you are concerned about long-winded
and -winding
and...
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Categories:
shadowy, black african american, earth, health, nature, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Nemesis, Confrontation and the Rejoined Battle, Now CompletedNemesis, Confrontation And The Rejoined Battle,
Now Completed
(Nemesis) - Part One
O'lord of blight dare thee to now abide
Leaving thy abode to earthen realm ride
As punisher with dark universal might
As grief bearer, humanity to smite!
Dar'est thee enter,...
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Categories:
shadowy, art, creation, faith, humanity, light, meaningful, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
Heat LighteningHeat Lightening
by Michael R. Burch
Each night beneath the elms, we never knew
which lights beyond dark hills might stall, advance,
then lurch into strange headbeams tilted up
like searchlights seeking contact in the distance . . .
Quiescent unions...
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Categories:
shadowy, car, crush, desire, love, lust, sexy, teen
Form:
Sonnet
Romeo and Juliet: the RemixThree voices required,
Professor,
and two students:
Yang as Fr. Time
YinYin as Sr. Gaia
In a college classroom with Win-Win Game Theory written on whiteboard.
Professor:
Today we are going to role play
a Win-Win enculturation game.
We will define enculturation...
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Categories:
shadowy, absence, allegory, destiny, games, humor, love, myth,
Form:
Narrative
My Sweetest Gift, a Childhood MemoryMy auntie came to visit when I was three, but nearly four.
I proudly and lovingly wore her name gifted to me, a sweet legacy.
I...
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Categories:
shadowy, angel, childhood, love,
Form:
Free verse
Juozas Miltinis Learning Years In ParisIt was September
Of one thousand
Nine hundred seven
The end of summer
With apples lying thickly
Under the apple trees
And the smell of Autumn
Covering the grass
Filled with ripe yellow
And orange squash
He was born in a little
Wooden house...
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Categories:
shadowy, art, destiny, french, history,
Form:
Bio
Neglecting Democratic HealthI'm feeling some civil
democratic health
neglect
To re-member
monocultural anthropocentrism
is a mental health crisis
In our U.S. Win/Lose normative
miseducational systems,
In our anti-democratic
unhealthy parenting,
self caregiving,
uncare-receiving deformative win/lose
devolutionary anti-thesis
AntiMessianic
to prophecy ReGenerative Earth's unParadise demise,
ecologically degenerative
and theologically rationalized:
Earth isn't Heaven
as Nature isn't...
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Categories:
shadowy, caregiving, community, education, health, humanity, integrity, senses,
Form:
Political Verse
What If - New UpdateWhat if…
If fear did not guard and watch over me?
My seeds of shame and doubt
Would timidly venture out
And finally sprout,
But as they reached the light,
Like a vampire, would wither and die
Without the protection of night.
Or:...
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Categories:
shadowy, conflict, courage, fear, inspiration, longing, motivation, prayer,
Form:
Free verse
The Cold DoorknobsThe Cold Doorknobs
I.
I am sure there will be that profound moment in time
when the dog out back will stop its incessant yapping,
Its unrelenting impulse to belch out its interminable wails,
alas, to inform its...
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Categories:
shadowy, death,
Form:
Free verse
The 'Vice-Canceler' of 'Joizey'Officer Gwendolyn Becker - a “newbie” - at Newark P. D. down in 'Joizey', was combin’ the streets for a couple o’ thieves who’d been holdin’ up stations and stores...
When - back in an alley...
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Categories:
shadowy, violence,
Form:
Narrative
doof-doof“22½ euros for a Martini,” Peter remarked, when he first scanned the menu.
“It’s not like we aren’t going to get them,” I said, “we’re not going to cheap our way to abstinence." The waiter came...
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Categories:
shadowy, humor, mom, paris, student, vacation,
Form:
Free verse
Chapter 153-- DAMIAN DELILAH MALLORY HOLANNYA: The Things That FAMILIES DODate: April 2051
Damian Molly Continuation
Dolly and Molly had a plan to complete
Their exploration before the trip home
In another two days, Molly reported
This to Damian. As they comforted
Each other in...
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Categories:
shadowy, africa, allusion,
Form:
Prose
can’t denyyyI beg for your forgiveness once more
I said too much again…need I say more?
It’s been a crappy, snappy day for me and today will be my day
An attitude of gratitude instead of dismay would be...
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Categories:
shadowy, emotions, fear, feelings,
Form:
Lyric
Thanksgiving InvestmentLeftBrain benefits of WinWin cooperative exchange
reversing competitive capitalist BusinessAsUsual:
Less expensive opportunity costs--
LoseLeft/LoseRight conservational health emergencies,
mutual Left/Right marginalization,
absence of mutual health care giving and receiving,
local and global anti-climatic Fail messages,
absence of holistic eco-vocation/ego-vacation
lack of ecological...
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Categories:
shadowy, beauty, earth, health, integrity, political, psychological, thanksgiving,
Form:
Political Verse
Of Lies Told That Once Destroyed Innocent Girls' Liveshttps://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/the-convergence-of-the-twain/
The Convergence of the Twain
...
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Categories:
shadowy, appreciation, art, betrayal, dark, evil, prejudice, tribute,
Form:
Rhyme
The Secret Lives of Chimney Pots VSpawned from the loins that
Perpetuated the loyal serfs mongrel
Seed:-
These peoples of a conditioned and
"Resigned-To-it-all" breed.
Born into the enveloping tedium
Of interlocking days...Interwoven
With interlocking days -
Victims of stark circumstance
And vague promises unmade.
Gregariously living out their lives
When...
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Categories:
shadowy, philosophy,
Form:
Rhyme
VisionsDare to live your life to the fullest. Take a chance for you
create your own happiness for it is a decision. Life
...
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Categories:
shadowy, surreal,
Form:
Free verse
Because He Lives
Feeding the soul glimpses of grace,
Treasured hope and lasting light, feelings
Forever penetrating the soul who knows…
Love is like the most beautiful star, glowing
Always showing its intentions, bound by emotions
Yet colored in hues of the most...
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Categories:
shadowy, appreciation, bible, christian, faith, god, jesus, joy,
Form:
Free verse
Short Life Span For Real MarriageDeath is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared...
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Categories:
shadowy, adventure, celebration, engagement, family, friendship love, marriage,
Form:
Romanticism
Nemesis, Confrontation and the Rejoined Battle Nemesis - Part OneNemesis, Confrontation And The Rejoined Battle
(Nemesis) - Part One
O'lord of blight dare thee to now abide
Leaving thy abode to earthen realm...
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Categories:
shadowy, art, courage, creation, deep, evil, hero, horror,
Form:
Rhyme
The Night ClubFor years I was an aspiring singer, performing in trendy nightspots,
And I sang my heart out each evening, in all of the local hotspots.
Among the enthusiastic locals, at long last I'd made myself a name,
As...
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Categories:
shadowy, bird, career, fantasy, nature, night, rose, song,
Form:
Couplet
The Others Part 2Suicide isn't an option but I can't say it has never been,
I'll admit, I tried it once, way back when.
I was only a teenager,
And things had just piled too high.
At first, I just did designs,...
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Categories:
shadowy, best friend, psychological,
Form:
Rhyme
Gateway TownGateway town, Mississippi and Missouri river flooding confluence,
with its celebration of manifest destiny, its looming, iconic archway.
Stainless westward marker, its culture flowed southward for influence
within the lawn-jockey, pink flamingo neighborhoods of moral decay.
T.S, Eliot,...
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Categories:
shadowy, allusion, city, class, longing, racism, slavery, urban,
Form:
Rhyme
Much Ado About No Thing"By definition, a ghost is unable to bonk anybody --
save the believer in ghosts."
-- a Rational exorcist of all no things "supernatural"
* * *
Now, once...
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Categories:
shadowy, pain,
Form:
Rhyme