Long Shank Poems
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The Inner ChamberTHE INNER CHAMBER
Please. Stop holding back on me.
Like a child standing at the neighborhood ice cream truck, arm outstretched, eyes huge, mouth watering.
I stand here longing to slip underneath your decades of cold-rolled steel...
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Categories:
shank, betrayal, courage, devotion, love, love hurts, relationship,
Form:
Prose
Drunk Tank ShankI once spent a week in the drunk tank
couldn't handle the spirits that I drank
the cuisine wasn't half bad
we even had a few laughs
but I had to guard my butt with a shank
……………………………………………………………………….
It used to...
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Categories:
shank, drink, joy, tribute,
Form:
Limerick
Temporal incarnation of AphroditeTemporal incarnation of Aphrodite...
induces idyllic reverie
delight evoking similar surge,
when skirting, and eluding
fidelity defining the marital law
on par with courting in flagrante delicto.
After reading about
Greek goddess of love
fancy notion woke whereof
warmth suffused me
snug as...
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Categories:
shank, absence, adventure, angel, april, beautiful, blessing, dream,
Form:
Rhyme
Tea and Poetry In the Ides of March - Part OneBeneath a misty veil of ‘Euphoria’ by Calvin Klein, she dares to dream of acceptance in a world of wanna-be Literary Giants who are members of an elite writer’s group, as she drives along a...
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Categories:
shank, satire,
Form:
Free verse
No Love LostFor several years I'd worked as a life coach, assisting clients day by day,
Like blazing colors in the shank of the evening, chases deep blues away.
It was an occupation that I enjoyed, as helping others...
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Categories:
shank, best friend, break up, fantasy, imagery, love,
Form:
Couplet
Arni Kleftiko Stolen LambArni Kleftiko Stolen Lamb
The Cypriots and Greeks have a few differences,
And can argue a great deal,
But both agree when it comes to ‘Kleftiko”
It has forever been, the most delectable
Traditional Greek meal,
That ever a bandit...
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Categories:
shank, sky,
Form:
Rhyme
Beddie Bye Boo Ski Time For Yours Truly and Or the MissusBeddie bye boo ski time for yours truly and/or the missus
Found us abed thee twelfth day
of December, cuz yours truly
still felt dehydration, physical
fatigue and soreness,
which possibly linkedin
to using stationary bicycle.
Our bed (mine and...
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Categories:
shank, angel, december, dream, good night, husband, journey,
Form:
Rhyme
History's Sad SongHistory's Sad Song (Revised)
throughout my life
I've heard many a sad song
relating to the lyrics
that seemed to play too long
way back during the Crusade
where religious debt was paid
by the bloodlust of so many
could not ye God...
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Categories:
shank, introspection, life, , western,
Form:
Free verse
TenchThere is a water glint,
just shining through the copse beyond.
Autumn's sinking sun,
barred by spindle trees and the last
of summer's brindled reeds
and sedge and rush that fringe this stilling pond.
.
Damp leaves hide...
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Categories:
shank, fishing,
Form:
Rhyme
2 Lost Poems: Lost In The UK and Lost In The USA
I: LOST IN THE UK
Poling, Patching, Nether Wallop,
Matching Tye and Droop
Plumpton, Lickfold, Puddletown,
Westward Ho! and Throop.
Hole of Horcum, New Invention,
Boghead, Frome, Cat's Ash
North Piddle, Staines and Pen*stone,
Wash Dyke, East Breast and Flash.
Six Mile...
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Categories:
shank, america, england, humor, humorous, london, places, travel,
Form:
List
My Contingency Measure In Case of GotterdammerungMy contingency measure in case of…götterdämmerung
A scenario unfolds
more abominable among
any previous warring factions,
his wicked weltanschauung
charred effigies futilely hung
against regime of brutality
considerably more unbearable
than infestation of fruit flies brung
about courtesy evil monster sprung
shortchanging restless and young.
Seconds...
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Categories:
shank, angst, anxiety, bereavement, conflict, crush, grave, humanity,
Form:
Rhyme
Sane Sexagenarian Scribe Seeks Asylum In CanadaSane sexagenarian scribe seeks asylum in Canada...
should Trump swindle electorate by hook or crook,
(1003 days, 9 hours, and
32 minutes until 2024 election),
yours truly steels, girds, braces... himself,
and plots serious outlook
pondering exiting United States
(stage door left)
while...
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Categories:
shank, angst, anxiety, betrayal, conflict, freedom, loss, november,
Form:
Rhyme
Beddie Bye Boo Ski Time For Yours Truly and Or the MissusBeddie bye boo ski time for yours truly and/or the missus
(joining "Wynken, Blynken and Nod"
at figurative drop of hat
even if yours truly immediately
woke from his slumbers).
When zapped of energy the sandman doth knock
no matter readout...
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Categories:
shank, 12th grade, adventure, appreciation, beautiful, blessing, deep,
Form:
Rhyme
The Black Pearl Poem - Booty ReturnedLike many merchant vessels
That sailed from our Mersey shore
This sturdy piece of timber
Can hold its own in tales of yore
A dried up piece of flotsam
Washed up on Wirral banks
Was dutifully cleaned and dressed
And a verse...
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Categories:
shank, adventure, boat, celebration, community, dedication, humorous, together,
Form:
Ballad
Second Third Fourth Stimulus ChecksSecond, third, fourth... stimulus check(s)...
ah... the stuff a dream come true would be made!
Such would constitute,
the closest phenomena
approximating winning the lottery
cuz yours truly never blessed
winning sizable, nor
minuscule amount of money
beset with one after another setback
token...
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Categories:
shank, angel, celebration, fate, father, freedom, humorous, hyperbole,
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
Five From LAin a room laced with gloom
his beats boom he dreams of wreckin' the mike
his momma's home she's alone
a sad song she struggles she fights
his lil' sis' is quite a miss
but them fives...
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Categories:
shank, society,
Form:
Free verse
A Stray Tear Doth Adieu Occasionally Shedtoward thee spunky gal,
whose impregnation and debut appearance
way to brief a tale for Aesop
cuz, (umpteen iterations recounted),
out...
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Categories:
shank, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form:
Epitaph
An Unrepentant Spitball Marksmanthe upshot constituted a figurative straw
that broke the virtual camels back
where yours truly fingered as scape goat,
who meekly, passively, and subserviently
...
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Categories:
shank, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form:
Free verse
Societies InsomniaSocieties Insomnia
The true problem; is each of us.
The true problem; is all of us.
It is not their fault, as the cause.
The cause is not their fault, alone.
You...
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Categories:
shank, sad, truth,
Form:
Rhyme
You Can'T Hurt MeResounding echoes awaken the child
demons in the attic beckon unto him
stark fear grips his Vick's laden chest
shivers vibrate rusty springs of down
footsteps creak closer upon loose floorboards
while steamed filled pipes play taps
a somber teddybear snarls
causing...
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Categories:
shank, introspection, life, sad, education,
Form:
Free verse
3 Women, One and the SameThe VICTIM
a heart much larger than the mind
outgoing, free spirited
defenseless, blind
loving, trusting
naive to the ways of mankind
few can escape their fate
as if born to satisfy the need
of predators who lie in wait
to make the...
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Categories:
shank, hope, life, sad, innocence,
Form:
Rhyme
War On UkraineKyiv, cultural hub of Eastern Europe
ancestral home of ancient Slavs
bombardment implacable
...
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Categories:
shank, conflict, courage, heartbreak, war,
Form:
Free verse
EntwinedIn that season when the wind blew
A love note, remains timeless and still
A conversation of close-knit tone began
And abideth like day and night till...
We, two beings, entwined in spirit
Have the pleasure of owning the...
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Categories:
shank, adventure, africa, best friend, bird, black african
Form:
Verse
Temporal Incarnation of Aphrodite Act Twowhile playboy hallucination at my male member does yank
key mud hood dill, where reality doth usually tank
with muss elf feeling prick
sans figurative or real shaft shank
quite the opposite...
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Categories:
shank, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form:
Elegiac Lyric
Flailin'Flailin’, flailin’, flailin’;
There goes my ball sailin’
Into a trap, the water or the woods.
Flailin’, flailin’, flailin’;
You can hear me wailin’,
“Why won’t that damn ball go where it should?
Drives go right. Putts go wrong.
I...
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Categories:
shank, addiction, angst, conflict, confusion, dedication, depression, desire,
Form:
Rhyme