Long Sheltered Poems
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The Night Before Christmas EveThe night Before Christmas Eve
By Franklin Price
12/17/2016
Prologue
The Night Before Christmas
A most famous of poems
Read to children aloud
By their parents in homes
To children who gather
'Round the brightly lit tree
To hear Santa is coming
Presents for...
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Categories:
sheltered, christmas,
Form:
Rhyme
ErinErin, for a girl who embodies Ireland
by Michael R. Burch
All that’s left of Ireland is her hair—
bright carrot—and her milkmaid-pallid skin,
her brilliant air of cavalier despair,
her train of children—some conceived in sin,
the others to avoid...
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Categories:
sheltered, ireland,
Form:
Sonnet
Peace In the Nowhere
"Peace in the Nowhere"
Ghosts remain in this place
they read their words
marked each day on walls
like prayers, it gives them
peace in the nowhere
someplace relevant to go
Ghosts commune in this place
disowned long ago or walked
off the...
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Categories:
sheltered, muse, poems, poets,
Form:
Narrative
Ono No Komachi Translation: AutumnWatching wan moonlight
illuminate tree limbs,
my heart also brims,
overflowing with autumn.
—Ono no Komachi, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
As I slept in isolation
my desired beloved appeared to me;
therefore, dreams have become my reality
and consolation.
—Ono...
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Categories:
sheltered, age, autumn, death, depression, desire, heartbreak, women,
Form:
Tanka
Ono No Komachi TranslationsAs I slept in isolation
my desired beloved appeared to me;
therefore, dreams have become my reality
and consolation.
—Ono no Komachi, translation by Michael R. Burch
Submit to you—is that what you advise?
The way the ripples...
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Categories:
sheltered, desire, life, longing, love, nature, woman, women,
Form:
Tanka
Dandling Up and Down Upon the Lap of the Wind Part Number Three RescuedYes, love is no more or less reliable the more you check on this. Just like the frigid days of winter make their way for the pleasures that lay in awe of Spring I'm finding....
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Categories:
sheltered, 11th grade, 12th grade, 1st grade, 4th
Form:
Bio
The Dilettante Diaries: the Divine Feminine - a Tale of Seduction
“But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet;Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
–“He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven,” by W.B. Yeats
“I love you...
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Categories:
sheltered, friendship, fun, happiness, journey, love, romance, sensual,
Form:
Romanticism
Mystical Song of TreesPRELUDE.
When the sky and world are dark no sounds are heard in the woods. Perhaps the scrabbling of night creatures on the hunt fo food. But no sound of woodpeckers ra ta tatting, bird song...
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Categories:
sheltered, animal, conflict, desire, environment, fairy, grief,
Form:
Free verse
Heroic Crown of Sonnets 28.Reading
I see them all rise to an endless sky.
Tumbling burnt pages from raging fire,
To leave ash of closer, to pacify.
A single deep breath near flaming pyre.
To see destruction with a silent face.
My eyes will cry...
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Categories:
sheltered, poetry,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Liquor of Lament: My Phase of Craze/^Inspired by "Someone Else" by Miley Cyrus, "All of Me" by John Legend and many other awesome songs^\
(Spoken)
Hold me close
Stop pretending that I'm not aware of what's happening
Anything goes
So, quit trying to be...
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Categories:
sheltered, addiction, confusion, crazy, cute love, deep, depression,
Form:
Lyric
QuestAt least one of my greatest QUESTS ...
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Categories:
sheltered, heart, thank you,
Form:
Free verse
En-TrumpedEn-trumped
There are many en-tities. Narrative psychologist speak of living and telling
a story. Our lives should be as we en-live them and en-story them. We tell
our tale as we see it, at the moment...
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Categories:
sheltered, horror,
Form:
Narrative
The Love Song of L Marie ModenbachWe disagree
I want to breathe people
Feel a timeless, immortal pulse
My solitude is anonymous observation
Strolling in unnoticed contemplation through worlds stacked upon worlds
The Flâneuse
My sustenance is colorful variety
Diving into the expressionism of bizarre fringes
Taste testing any...
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Categories:
sheltered, change, emotions, growth, humanity, love, society, together,
Form:
Free verse
Strange and the Stranger - a Short StoryDue to some rare, genetic disorder, Cliff was born with physical features that made him different from everyone else. Although, most people would say “different” was a kind term to use to describe Cliff....
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Categories:
sheltered, life,
Form:
Narrative
The Girl of Light and the Fly Peoplea collaborative work with Alfred Vassalo
The Stars sparkled in her eyes
As light interlaced with her shadow
Causing her to question her senses
Even though she closed her eyes
light continued to seep out
Her brilliance, competed with the sun...
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Categories:
sheltered, beautiful, depression, desire, dream, fantasy, fire, loneliness,
Form:
Epic
Overarching GenocideOverarching Genocide
Noah built the wooden Ark in his homeland instructed by God
to save his wife three sons and their wives from drowning a life
raft rescue boat of sorts with three decks and only one...
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Categories:
sheltered, betrayal,
Form:
Free verse
I Could Never Be the RainMy life started with rain,
the steady stream of drops,
hitting the trees gently
and ending its descent to our world
on the wet pavement.
I am on the sidewalk,
sheltered by a makeshift roof and
a border of trees.
The...
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Categories:
sheltered, body, loneliness, longing, passion, rain, symbolism, voice,
Form:
Free verse
Incomplete Metamorphosis of Distilled AdolescentIncomplete metamorphosis of distilled adolescent...
therefore he characterizes himself as an anomaly...any idea why?
Mortified, petrified, stultified, et cetera sheltered,
and mortally wounded prepubescent,
I consider myself
analogously buttressed, cocooned,
garrisoned (for bing keeler),
hardened, insulated,
where cell baited jumping frog
o'...
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Categories:
sheltered, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 7th
Form:
Rhyme
Consciousness correctionClutching the moment
Before yesterday became yesterday,
The promise,
Before he pledged his love to me,
The colors,
Before autumn waltzed away,
Swaying in shadows of soft snowfall,
Breathing white, plunging into the thought,
A blizzard erasing the gentle flames,
Sheltered by...
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Categories:
sheltered, appreciation, god, heaven, hope, joy, life, light,
Form:
Free verse
Intangible AssetINTANGIBLE ASSET – The Transcript
He learned very young rather vaguely very untidily and blissfully unaware. He thought the only reason to do something was to do it differently to establish its difference by his own...
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Categories:
sheltered, life, lost, perspective,
Form:
Prose Poetry
My TownFrom north, south, east and west
This is the town to beat the rest,
Where history and present blend
As through its many streets you wend.
Where once a monastery so great
From every view would dominate,
Where Pilgrims...
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Categories:
sheltered, city, history, home, me, places, tribute,
Form:
Rhyme
Seeds
"Seeds"
Blue reaches reflections
touching ripples
tears in time ephemeral
caresses fragrant Green my canopy
opens the light
inside me
cracked eggshell
golden-yoked sunshine
pale turquoise kintsugi
splintered paths inside my mind
in the smallness
of me
something
quietly blooms
ragged yet refined
a gecko...
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Categories:
sheltered, muse, romance, sensual,
Form:
Free verse
Beautiul ScarsMorning unfolds me into
its warm and accepting light.
I sweep my front porch, read to my boys,
walk the dog. I let the breeze blow my hair
and rustle my skirt into fluid waves
exposing my beautiful...
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Categories:
sheltered, forgiveness, introspection, life, memory, moving on, pain,
Form:
Free verse
Stranger Than Fiction Part 2I told him who I was and explained my predicament and asked would it be possible to use their phone to get help, he said” unfortunately we do not have a telephone.”Strange I thought,...
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Categories:
sheltered, death, religious, world war ii,
Form:
Prose
A Dashing BladeIn a house high on a hill an old man grows weak, many years have gone, he lays in his old bed,
Back in the day, a dashing young officer with a brilliant red uniform he...
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Categories:
sheltered, nostalgia, beautiful, old, sweet, beauty, summer, beautiful,
Form:
Prose Poetry