Long Shiny Poems

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Childhood Dreams Part 1

When I was a child
Everything was magical
Full of mystery and the unknown
I read hundreds of books
The library my haven
My home
Hours upon hours
Night and day
I read and got lost in text
They supplied me with adventures
Secret journeys
Fun...

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Categories: shiny, childhood, cinderella, dream, fairy,
Form: Free verse


Kaos In -Part 5- Final Part

Hate the feelings of ew's and ugh's...let's pause before we put our paws on this unmanageable cause with silent applause (quiet interest or hushed enthusiasm)
What's the cause of these negative, gross, worthless flawful laws that...

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Categories: shiny, abuse, deep,
Form: Free verse

Unfaithful

Ah yeah ah oh
Ah yeah ah oh
So scared and fragile...
So weak for only awhile...
Unfaithful me is as cold as glaciers of disgrace glamorized 
Unfaithful you is as hot as fire of desire, burning...you and I...

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Categories: shiny, deep, drug,
Form: Lyric

The True Mother

“The True Mother”

What part of a heart
in another could one trust
when betrayal comes
like a silver bullet, words and deeds
sharp piercing to burrow 
bleed out Life’s dreams 
rust crumbles to dust

Virulent apathy spreads 
Betrayal’s destruction 
hand...

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Categories: shiny, betrayal, imagery, love, mother daughter, psychological, symbolism,
Form: Free verse

Salvage

"Salvage"


Salvage the fixating salvation 
unfurling from the wreckage
of a numb world twisted inside
treasure climbs swimming 
the ladder from the deep of all things 
reaching upwards travelling in a new time
of melting morpheme moments overlapping 
dissolved...

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Categories: shiny, muse, paradise, poets,
Form: Romanticism


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Ante Bellum

“ANTE BELLUM”


BEIGEBest served where it can’t be seen
On Stirling Silver platters
With redruM narcotics
Delivered by sharp Blood-Red
Well-mannered talons
Strutting in sleek wet rolling tight-skirted
Long French Silk Stockinged legs all the way down to 
Lethal Six Inch stilettos...

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Categories: shiny, america, bible, corruption, imagery, war,
Form: Free verse

Some Poems

A Stolen Memory
A Mirthful Chorus
By Sy Roth 


We surrounded him 
Asked to let go.
She stared at the misshapen face,
Unshaven sandpapery skin 
Eyelids a tabula rasa
Fluttery sere skin
And we could see the humor blossoming in his...

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© Sy Roth  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shiny, dream, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
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The Reluctant Serpent - a Fairy Tale

Once Upon a Time Everything was Perfect in Eden, NSW, Australia

This is a story about why snakes are reluctant to leave whenever you see them. 
Why they hang about, instead of scurrying off.
A reluctant snake...

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Categories: shiny, fairy,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Stardust and the Ivory Castle

Once upon a time there was a castle made of pure ivory. Pillars pale and barren, holding a surface of grace and elegance. This castle was the home of a mighty unicorn named Stardust. She...

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Categories: shiny, beauty, fantasy, imagination,
Form: Narrative
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Divine Comedy, Second Canto

The day was going off, and the brown air
To the terrestrial animals gave rest
For their labors; and only me was there

Just ready to withstand the war at best
Both of the journey and of the torment,
Which...

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Categories: shiny, fantasy, proposal,
Form: Terza Rima

The number that died

I used to slit my arms open like I was peeling fruit—careful, slow, watching the skin give way like wet paper. The box cutter blade was dull, sticky from God knows what—maybe dried glue, maybe...

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Categories: shiny, anger, depression, emotions, for teens, gothic, hate,
Form: Free verse
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My Melodious Muse

** I apologize, but if you're viewing this on a phone, it probably wont look right, as the browser page on a phone is not wide enough to indent the right edge properly. It was...

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Categories: shiny, analogy, inspiration, love, metaphor, muse, music,
Form: Concrete
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thin fractures

Thoughts can be thin fractures in the order of things.
Sometimes my dorm room seems a sterile sarcophagus, like an accusation, or an interrogation about my romantic choices, with nothing warm or inviting there. Sometimes I’ve...

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Categories: shiny, drink, forgiveness, integrity, morning, romance, school, student,
Form: Free verse
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Classified Part Three

The photograph that Tim had shown me a few hours earlier certainly did not do it justice.
From what I could see it was a large triangular shape on three legs which were all at a...

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Categories: shiny, science fiction,
Form: Prose
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Living With Uncertainty, Chaos and Corruption

The world is constantly changing 
People are steadily rearranging 
Life seems to be a gigantic nightmare 
Keep moving, but never getting there 

This country was built on the backs of slaves 
Our ancestors buried in...

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© Floyd Neal  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shiny, confusion, corruption, spoken word,
Form: Free verse

The-Hour-Glass

Please, save me!!
Solitude is speaking, oh so lonely...

We have plenty of gain 
In our pockets, overflowing with light
You are like an airplane,
Landing safely from a fantastic flight 

My beating heart can't take this anymore
The moment...

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Categories: shiny, betrayal, deep, depression, desire, lost, passion, time,
Form: Lyric

Candy Girl - 2

"Candy Girl" - 2



He had been watching her from the far end of the Ice Bar, where he was sitting propped up on an ice ledge which was cushioned in plush Reindeer hide and Yak...

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Categories: shiny, adventure, muse, mystery,
Form: Narrative
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A Journey Through Time Final Part Revised

Now as the years passed by everyone became so tired
the heaps of things scattered around became too much to bear
some benevolence was certainly grand but this was too much
the two felt unable to undertake ...

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Categories: shiny, journey, symbolism, visionary,
Form: Epic

FICTIONAL BIO:

FICTIONAL BIO:

The missus asked me
(hitherto known as her bozo)
just mere moments ago
to craft humorous poem to glow
nsync with the shiny nose of Rudolph
keeping syncopated metrical flow
thus methought to crow
about being equally as foolish
streaking naked outside...

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Categories: shiny, adventure, allegory, courage, cute, hair, humorous,
Form: Rhyme

King of the Castle

The King of the Castle 



Said I’m but a child
Afraid of the world outside 
Afraid to run wild and to  be proud
Of the freedom it provides
Afraid of love 
Afraid of the dark 

Said you...

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Categories: shiny, betrayal, corruption, depression, evil, lost, memory, mental
Form: Narrative

The Forge

I remember the beach sand and swing
when you and mother were still something
I remember the ducks in the lake
you held my hand watching their wake
I remember the sheep dogs when the day was through
and the...

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Categories: shiny, abuse, angst, emotions, life, recovery from, violence,
Form: Rhyme
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Son, You Need A Haircut: 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline

"A dressed day has disrobed into the depth of a drawer's nightstand." 

(Oh, how positively awesome that what can be sorted out in such an explanatory pattern that a difference would maketh a day.)

The muskiness...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shiny, anger, angst, anxiety, conflict, confusion, jealousy,
Form: Prose
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Unforgettable Places - Acts

I have so many places/acts dear to my heart
I’m just dying to share some with you
Not to boast, I but honor them, all played a part,
I'm sure helped to bring me in your view!

Tell me...

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Categories: shiny, appreciation, blessing, family, life, love,
Form: Quatrain
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-mama Linda-

You know some verse and poems are Fiction this is a True story that happen to me today...
______________________________________________________________
…Well, it’s 9:28 am…
On today August 16, 2019
I was on break twixt my job, of driving school children.
Was...

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Categories: shiny, adventure, analogy, friendship, humanity, spoken word, surreal,
Form: Narrative
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Another Time and Place

Another time and Place
                               ...

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Categories: shiny, appreciation, friend, poets, remember, smile, time,
Form: Rhyme
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