Long Shrewdness Poems

"I am the wisdom of Greeks 
I am the gnosis of the savage barbarians 
I am the shrewdness of Greeks 
I am the prudence of the lawless barbarians 
I am despised everywhere 
I am loved...

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Your ropes are a fuzzy memory
It resonated deeply in my heart
with eyes as calm as the moon
Shepherd of the endless mix
White and glistening wilderness
Vast clouds kneel before your desuetude.
A thin smile that conceals deceit
A halcyon...

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Being the clan’s chosen representative
Dad Chimpanzee prepares himself with fervor’s zest
ready to attend this significant event
exposing creature’s welfare development
over centuries against challenges
since in his cognition, changes are inevitable indeed.

Reaching the conference hall
he shakes hands with...

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They walk along the corridors with heavy boots and tension burning in their shoes, their rifle is fixed across their chest in a special position and their bodies laden with weapon up to their neck....

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Written: April 8, 2025, for contest sponsored by Brian Strand

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love fleeting 
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Looking upon the purities of pureness

Playing within the playgrounds of innocence

Amid the undefiled lives from long ago

As I venture across these regions of space and time

The spheres of which I confront and question now

In regards...

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So you're stuck on 15-down for the name of a barren of mules!
Groups of creatures...

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Well thank God they left. Nice local sports bar; I sat close to an elderly man, probably 80 years old, and a younger guy that was his son, as I gathered from their conversation. The...

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I have many qualities and talents 
that make me popular and likeable for my kindness,
and unpretentious gallantry;
ask me if I'm blue-blooded like the gentry!


I exist for a purpose and I intend reveal my cause;
honesty and...

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Oh! Erato, 
Divine Muse of the poetry of love,
I beseech you to inspire me today
For
I aspire for HIM to write 
HIM: CUPID, the son of Venus
Goddess of beauty, and of Mercury, the cunning
Messenger of Gods.

Guide...

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We all have a hideous enemy,
to make us its prisoners indefinitely,
and regardless of how visible or invisible, 
suppressible or unsuppressible;
it controls the inborn conception in our  minds
to affect all thoughts, actions and desires...


Be vigilant...

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There were wolves, coyotes and wildcats:
all fighting for supremacy in vast grasslands,
but envy made them greener than grass and harder than rock...
trying to break up the alliance between the rabbit and the fox.

Morning came without...

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Author:
Fernando Ceballos Lachica

3HOPE

I sit alone in the dark feeling lonely
My loneliness lingers
As the last drop of rain
Have gone away
I breathe the warm rays of sunlight
And feel life's enlivening all around me
Yet, cannot dwell within me

I...

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CUPID/EROS 


Oh! Erato, 
Muse of the poetry of love
Inspire me today
I supplicate you for 
I aspire for HIM to write 
HIM: CUPID, the son of Venus
Goddess of beauty, and of Mercury, 
The cunning messenger 
Of...

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It comes to me in wondrous visions...
when my untroubled consciousness 
is at its highest and mellowest peak,
I watch it soar over the gleaming deep.


It's an eagle with strong beaks, keen sight
and long, wide wings that...

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I craft poems by evening time since I can't slumber.
I'm dreary of the one with a springtime splendor.
I'm lacking in rest, shrewdness, and moral dignity.
I've lost my aware vicinity and spotless anger.

We are not blinded...

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Ignite your heart and let there be light
When darkness of lust ushers love and peace take flight
The claws of wars and strife maul the face of mankind
Termite of time swallows the soul and mind

Souls are...

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Ignite your heart and let there be light
When darkness of lust ushers love and peace take flight
The claws of wars and strife maul the face of mankind
Termite of time swallows the soul and mind

Souls are...

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( Nothing will be yours, no need to invoke your voiceless deity)

Many are the gods we can appease
with our lust, greed, and thievery;
there's one God who won't accept any or all of these:
let's invoke Him...

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You seem to like a complex life.
You go out looking for struggle and strife.
You call this just a step up to the cause.
Do you solve any issues at all?
Then I see that you have team...

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Offering yielded, yield back to the sovereign king
Devoted to duty, rise in the morning of its flame
Intellect's child, imprinted on Yahweh's soaring wing
Nurturer. natured with heaven's milk, sweet you came
Kindness kindled in hibiscus fire, passion...

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Being selfish is not a blessing that makes one proud,
does it really render one happy seeing misery,
keeping all to oneself and turning a blind eye
is ignoring who needs urgent solidarity...
more than food to fill the...

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The glitter surrounding our world
Has thinned out extensively 
To such an extent
That darkness has not only infiltrated
Through our borders, but,
Has completely invaded our essence!

The rampage upon our confused hearts
Has already started
And the darkness has made...

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This mahjong game
Swirls round the square;
Four winds by name
As shrewdness bares.


A session round
The square table;
On crafty grounds
As wit grapples.


Here at the East,
I sit and watch;
Cache of pure feast,
Cunning to dodge.


Watch card discards,
Study the way;
Each player...

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In the realm of dreams and gaiety
A rose blooms in my heart, glamour strikes with vivacity 
My stretched hand reaches to fondly pet the palm 
But like wind, the goddess ghostly evanesces with a calm...

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