Long Shortsighted Poems
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His Love Is Divine - the Bell Style
~His Love Is Divine~
( The Bell )
Lord
Can really save
His Love is divine
With Lord nothing to fear
Life can be so hard
But with him soul safe
With Lord we...
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Categories:
shortsighted, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
endless leisure hours as distorted time stretch before me
endless leisure hours as distorted time stretch before me...
like the infinite vista
upon the midwestern plain
farther than the eyes of mine
(an ascetic and copacetic
shortsighted father of two grown
twenty something daughters)
can no longer see,
since sockets severely seared
staring...
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Categories:
shortsighted, absence, adventure, allusion, appreciation, beautiful, beauty, crazy,
Form:
Free verse
wonder, full -
we …
are trespassers …
can you feel them?
the blooms, electric?
our world is pregnant with other worlds -
transient planes of existence that are
provisory to entirely disparate
rules and ids and forces …
why do we even question such?
particles and...
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Categories:
shortsighted, analogy, faith, science, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
A Few Things To Consider Before Brown-Nosing In My Presence
1) I hate brown-nosers far more than I hate most other nosers
of virtually any known color!
2) I will make it a point to slap you in front of your superiors,
with a biblical fury, the...
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Categories:
shortsighted, angst, career, corruption, jobs, philosophy, political, work,
Form:
Free verse
Fyi Poem Under Construction
I have waited for the New Age--that Tranelike return to my Mediterranean Sundance Always and Forever missing the journey of the Caravansary of old.
Hence, Only Time and the touch of the Rio Ancho, its...
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Categories:
shortsighted, analogy, conflict, destiny, society, surreal,
Form:
Free verse
Anthropocentrism Wreck Less Track Record
while atop the surface of planet Earth humanity
all abustle skittering
to and fro, hither and yon
engaged in self important activity yielding profits,
...
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Categories:
shortsighted, 5th grade, 8th grade, 9th grade, abuse,
Form:
Free verse
A Strong Unity Give Us the Power To Move Mountain Together
A Strong Unity give us the Power to Move Mountain Together
Many hands can make the works lighter and everything will be faster, so if there is too much work then the only solution is...
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Categories:
shortsighted, poetry, poets,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Encounter Down the Forest Way
I wandered down the forest way
out into clearing bright
flowers wild in breezes sway
burnished in the noon day light
drowsy from the heat I stray
beneath a drooping limb
above I hear a scolding jay
as weary eyes go dim
I...
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Categories:
shortsighted, environment, hope,
Form:
Quatrain
Harbinger - First Place Contest Winner
Behold the harbinger of your ascendance,
A messenger of perfection, I commence.
Attacks are pointless, shortsighted, and weak.
I hold the power to bear you face defeat.
Oh harbinger, foretelling of your rise,
A beacon shining in the darkest skies
Perfection...
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Categories:
shortsighted, analogy, appreciation, character, endurance, environment, introspection,
Form:
Rhyme
Fable: the Ant and the Boy
A little boy and an ant became great friends one day.
But how to live drew them apart, and this is how they ran astray:
In the Ant’s heart was strict authority and constant work to...
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Categories:
shortsighted, analogy, fantasy, imagination, metaphor, nature, philosophy, society,
Form:
Light Verse
The Thread That Binds
A little boy and an ant became great friends one day.
But how to live drew them apart, and this is how they ran astray:
In the Ant’s heart was strict authority and constant work each...
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Categories:
shortsighted, adventure, brother, caregiving, childhood, dedication, devotion, education,
Form:
Rhyme
Mid Eastern Tales
Mid Eastern Tales
Curtis Johnson
Long, long ago, along the corridors of history,
there lived two judges name Deborah and Samson.
They were great and very special people, real and true.
These bigger than life personalities were a God send....
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Categories:
shortsighted, character, death, faith, leadership, passion, sensual, strength,
Form:
Narrative
Let Us Be Free
The music is my destiny it
brings out the best in me
when I'm in the booth its
like I can feel everything
my senses getting
heightened no longer
feeling frightened its just
me and...
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Categories:
shortsighted, africa
Form:
I do not know?
O Charming
Theres a saying that says that opposites attract
Well I am so gorgeous it seems it's a fact
I like a plain girl for whom I can care
Cos I like a girl I'll not have to...
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Categories:
shortsighted, humorous, valentines day,
Form:
Rhyme
A Jerky Reverie
A Jerky Reverie
Where is the moon just now?
The light shining from the sun
appears, to have blotted it out.
The stark darkness of a motionless
void, where atomic debris not seen,
passes
through it, violating solid state.
Harmonious discontent,...
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Categories:
shortsighted, animal, anxiety, august, betrayal, courage, earth, fear,
Form:
Free verse
Inside the Triangle of Hate
Love does not rejoice in iniquity but rejoices in the truth
words taken from the bible that fires an arrow deep
We are living now in a world where people have departed from God
tolerance is needed...
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Categories:
shortsighted, abuse, betrayal, bible, conflict, faith, gospel, truth,
Form:
Narrative
The Hero In Me
With a shade of colourless eyes
Have I looked upon a world of discrimination
My nature is a rare form of uniqueness
And I defile every race by description
Golden hair on pale silver skin
An African...
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Categories:
shortsighted, 12th grade, adventure, anti bullying, appreciation,
Form:
Free verse
Missin kissin I'm No Spring Chicken I'm All Out Of Luck
Whoever invented the Kiss
I'd like to shake their hand
But I won't
Because I'm shortsighted and always miss
It wouldn't be such a problem
If I had Mick Jaggers's lips
But the boss
My Mrs doesn't like it
And slaps me...
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Categories:
shortsighted, divorce, farewell, kiss,
Form:
Free verse
And In Reply, I Wrote
What a load of malarkey I just read...
befuddled in disarray inside his head,
but let me make it clear. The message I see
is a misguided statement left for you and me.
It's another 'Hey diddle...
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Categories:
shortsighted, baby, birth, women,
Form:
Rhyme
My Blue Dress Is Not a Fashion Statement
With inspiration born from noted malcontent
I composed, dismayed at the reason to vent
In defense of poets, I am inclined to defend
I'll wear a blue dress to commend, not offend
I've been waiting for an auspicious occasion
Putting...
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Categories:
shortsighted, perspective,
Form:
Rhyme
Silence of Forever
The silence of forever in eternity
Speaks loudly to me
And should to all who draw breath
Time is too short for lies
Too short for entreaties
Too short for life
...
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Categories:
shortsighted, life,
Form:
Free verse
Bigoted Grandfather
Grandfather
you gave me
no justice
in your seeing
things
with bigoted
injustice
WHY
would you say
when I was
young
that if I
took a black
man
to your home
that
you would
shoot him
Grandfather
I loved you
so much
but
those words
scared me
so much
See ..I was
just starting
to date
appreciating
the...
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Categories:
shortsighted, abuse, corruption,
Form:
Free verse
Hillary Elementary
Oh Hillary, dear Hillary what did I hear
Your emails were given without any care
The powers that be have relented this truth
To empower your foes with the absence of couth
Oh Hillary, dear Hillary what did you...
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Categories:
shortsighted, political,
Form:
Rhyme
Taller Than Twice
Taller than twice
I chose who I want to be
I will never stop my train
I know my destination
Is far from the many
No wonder am winning
I must be hyping
I must be who they...
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Categories:
shortsighted, africa, confidence, courage, freedom, inspiration, power, symbolism,
Form:
Epic
The Firefly Visit
While everything now is lighted
While everything has thrilling light effects
A long-time companion in the dark has been shortsighted
A gushing firefly light has so much to reflect
A child in this generation can only read from books
The...
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Categories:
shortsighted, beauty, desire, freedom, insect, inspirational, light, nature,
Form:
Rhyme