Long Shrines Poems
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A Journey Through Time Final Part RevisedNow 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:
shrines, journey, symbolism, visionary,
Form:
Epic
Sacred SpacemakingDear Neighbors,
community co-investors,
sharing an outdoor green riverside Commons
and an indoor
historical CommonSpace
Both, and all, sacred
to panentheistic me
and probably more mundanely secular
to monoculturing LeftBrain dominant
verbally rationalistic
you
And yet, co-relational lives of thought
and feeling always matter
to cooperative
effective communication resilience
through...
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Categories:
shrines, community, culture, health, integrity, power, relationship,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Interdependent Americans"I do not see what right any one would have
to object to calling this part
[the South American mainland],
after Americus
who discovered it
and who is a man of intelligence,
Amerigen,
that is, the...
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Categories:
shrines, earth, health, history, humanity, independence day, mental
Form:
Political Verse
The Forgotten GodThe forgotten god
Whose rage should burn hotter
than mine; melt the noon day sun,
dry up all thy rivers, scorch the earth, that
thy crops may burn to ashes before
thine eyes, and the heat from the
very earth...
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Categories:
shrines, africa, anger, change, culture, emotions, grief, spiritual,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
O' BaobabO' Baobab! O' Baobab! O' Baobab
Ace of the furnace, finest of the dynasty
You strut your breast high
And ply strain against the yearn,
Against the fire, the desire for sigh
Haughty, you stand, before the...
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Categories:
shrines, africa, mystery, myth, nature,
Form:
Free verse
The One I Love the One Who Love MeIt is a Sunday morning.
The day before was still,
yet eventful and surprising:
sacredness met in holy places
and inspired persons.
Petrified trees and slave traders’ bedrooms;
cattle grazing and the ancient one sleeping.
The quiet sounds of lit boats by...
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Categories:
shrines, beautiful, beauty, environment, love,
Form:
Lyric
A Land of Poetry It IsIn my dream, appears a mysterious land from far away...
of the vermilion sky at mesmerizing dawn,
Prayers arising from boats on holy river,...
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Categories:
shrines, culture, history,
Form:
Free verse
Secret LoveI cannot express orally, how and how much,
I am unable to say its source and its flow;
Is it from a human or it has divine touch?
Sometimes it is fiercely fast, and other times slow;
Why it's...
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Categories:
shrines, life, love,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
My Healing Justice InterviewI was interviewing our Food Justice Coordinator
for Edible Landscape Projects
nurturing democratic peaceful outcome
projections
and trend analysis,
none of which would competitively sell papers.
She asked most of my questions.
I responded, as usual with her,
writing my tension-filled
marketable consumer-driven
and therefore...
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Categories:
shrines, food, games, green, health, humor, peace, red,
Form:
Political Verse
The Beauty of Charkha the Spinning Wheel 2The Beauty of Charkha the Spinning Wheel 2
The Poem is dedicated to Mahatma Gandhi and his Charkha
Cotton has always won the hearts
Of every men and women
In every age
Whether it was the time...
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Categories:
shrines, beauty,
Form:
Free verse
Trans-West Africa HighwayOn the Trans-West Africa High way we drove
Thoughts of decades we carried
Rich history to be unfolded
Beautiful sights of trees and mountains we view
Hail God’s creation
For his handiwork is perfect
Stories of the Liberian camp at...
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Categories:
shrines, native american, people, beauty, africa, beauty,
Form:
Epic
Primary Lesson - End of ClassHere is a lesson, a tortuous tale for your next-of-kin,
About a political hack we'll call the Bigly Pumpkin.
It's a bit like star wars, he is more an older Anakin,
Who fooled the Nation even though he's...
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Categories:
shrines, america, patriotic, political, presidents day,
Form:
Rhyme
Genocidelet's dive into the thought of that Benue woman.
let's see through her sorrow carved separately,
how many children are born to die before noon?
1966 saw this on the tail of her skins proudly,
till 1977, pogom...
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Categories:
shrines, abuse, anger,
Form:
Blank verse
United Triumph of India - The pride behindIn bustling cities where dreams take flight,
Amidst the chaos, people strive and sway,
A tapestry of faces, colors bright,
Unity in diversity, a sight divine,
In every heart, a love beyond compare.
In boardrooms where deals are made, economy's...
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Categories:
shrines, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Sestina
The Red Chinese Devil Launches An Attack On the Island Nation of TilapiaThe Red Chinese Communist Red Devil's army is currently invading the peaceful Buddhist Island nation of Tali pa. An island nation off of the coast of India. Indian is also on the raider...
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Categories:
shrines, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Narrative
Self-Solving Rubik's CubeWe found the smoking gun but we wouldn’t tell a soul
The you that I would tell everything to
Left me sinning and spinning in my own cave of exulansis,
on my own island of impending...
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Categories:
shrines, anxiety, deep, friendship love, heartbroken, i miss
Form:
Free verse
The Urchin In Dr Radhakrishnan Road - Part TwoPart Two
a hardly flickering oilwick open trough lamp lighting
limply other framed coloured pictures of Ganapati
two half-empty troughs of kunkunum and vibhuti
on the half-opened cicatrised...
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Categories:
shrines, life, magic,
Form:
Free verse
The Virgin Libation, Where Are the GodsWhen our cries travel not again through the sky
And the sun shines directly on our barren heads
Communal labour to clear filth render to apologies
The wise who hear and cautions spoke of no truth
And the land...
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Categories:
shrines, africa, assonance, cry, devotion, forgiveness, metaphor, mystery,
Form:
Epic
Obituary Oblations
Pictures of the dead,
pamphlets of the deceased
They’re passed out at every funeral,
where the broken hearted grieve ...
handed out like business cards
This strange belief
is a superstitious tradition
that truly mystifies me
There’s a lot of underground networking
going on:...
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Categories:
shrines, death, spiritual, truth, wisdom,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Black MadonnaDo you know of the icon of "The Black Madonna"?
She is the Patron of Poland to this day.
It is not the icon I write about
But, the...
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Categories:
shrines, dedication, devotion, faith, hope, inspirational, religion, day,
Form:
Rhyme
Fountain : Liquor Bottle ShrinesFOUNTAIN : LIQUOR BOTTLE SHRINES...
Intoxicated and driven,
Staggering to a higher purpose where they buy their souls
Meeting with their Maker as they peak and overflow
Seeing all these empty faces file in and out in dance to...
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Categories:
shrines, addiction, body, for her, for him, wine,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Take Me Away But I Promise To Sing a Song
NOTE: I have placed this Poem as a Video Poem also on
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/profile.php?id=100001219732381
[ This Poem is dedicated to Freedom of Expression
and Tibetan Dharma Guru Shri Dalai Lama to support
his struggle for the cause of...
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Categories:
shrines, freedom, imagination, inspirational, lost, love, me, people,
Form:
Free verse
Lulling Symphonies of My LandGuarded by towering hills on the East
And flanked by the Arabian Sea on the West
With its easterly shore of stretching sandy swell
That lulls the restless waves to sleep,
There is a land, my...
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Categories:
shrines, appreciation, home, music,
Form:
Free verse
My Folk SongAmadioha the great god of Thunder and Justice
We have gathered at the shrine of Alusi’gwe
To pour libations to you
Even as I do my folk song
Bring me the ogene, to awaken the spirit of my...
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Categories:
shrines, culture, dance, god, philosophy, race, religious,
Form:
Epic
Here Be DragonsThe sea pig wandered aimlessly through the straits of Gibraltar where once upon a time she had seen the pillars of Hercules standing proudly in that so long ago forgotten age
She sighed and swam on...
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Categories:
shrines, allegory, change, loss,
Form:
Free verse