Long Skim Poems
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Dillen and the Dmv
TO: Department of Motor Vehicles Commissioner, Chief States Attorney
FROM: Dillen Dye’s Employer
8/16/16
RE: Some apparent non-compliance with the Americans With Disabilities Act; common courtesy, civil respect; freely accessible pursuit of health, happiness, and prosperity
I don’t...
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Categories:
skim, culture, discrimination, health, integrity, perspective, political, race,
Form:
Prose Poetry
August 13th, 2025 twenty six plus years since awful series of unfortunate events
August 13th, 2025 – twenty six plus years since awful series of unfortunate events
The following poem posted about a half hour before the bewitching hour that spelled calamity (which though a freaky Friday the thirteenth)...
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Categories:
skim, abuse, adventure, anger, angst, animal, anniversary, august,
Form:
Free verse
Vacation In New Orleans
Walking down the alley behind the buildings on Royal street the Mandevilla and Jasmine vines line the sidewalk calming my stressed nerves. The sweet fragrance of the flowers intoxicating my senses. My luggage...
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Categories:
skim, dark, evil, scary,
Form:
Haibun
Where the Ocean Meets the Mountain
You, Mariana—deepest trench of my knowing
I call you by name not to possess it
but because it is the only prayer
I have ever known how to...
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Categories:
skim, assonance, love, metaphor, mountains, ocean, woman,
Form:
Lyric
This Day Is Bright Thoughts Take Flight
This day is Bright !
Thoughts take Flight .
Music – the companion of my soul !
Books – the confidants to my mind !
Daughters – the reasons for life to know
more than experience has allowed me...
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Categories:
skim, daughter,
Form:
Rhyme
So Many Yet So Few
?Writing poetry, to me is like a form of catharsis. You are exposing all of your feelings and letting it all hang out. We often are exhibiting extrovert tendencies to cover up our introvert ones....
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Categories:
skim, analogy, encouraging,
Form:
Blank verse
August 13th 2021 Twenty Two Years Since
August 13th, 2021 – twenty two years since...
Wicked bad designed day poem originally crafted
then alternately titled for no particular rhyme nor reason:
courtesy Doctor Donald Dossey
who coined paraskevidekatriaphobia.
August thirteenth nineteen hundred and...
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Categories:
skim, abuse, adventure, animal, confusion, fate, grave, grief,
Form:
Rhyme
Wicked Bad Designed Day
(alternately titled: courtesy Doctor Donald Dossey
who coined paraskevidekatriaphobia
August thirteenth nineteen hundred and ninety nine
forever etched in annals of my personal infamy
as one still sending hair raising shivers down my spine
which following unpleasant...
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Categories:
skim, abuse, adventure, angst, good friday, grave, mom,
Form:
Free verse
Dem New Publicans
Light da Roman candles
for da coming Chariots of Pharaoh holiday
Dem New Publicans
be back in pyramid power
Give a Caesar Palace casino hip, hip-hooray
Happy daze are here again!
Dem New Publicans bray
dey be da common people’s friend
But...
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Categories:
skim, parody, perspective, political, truth,
Form:
Narrative
Should Suffice and Will Entice and More
A Priest Who Had Schumer Humor
Our priest had almost been a baby boomer,
Who is religious and we even heard a rumor
He did dodge,
Having a massage;
Has friend named Schumer with much humor.
Priest always thought he was...
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Categories:
skim, allegory, analogy,
Form:
Limerick
Dante's Hell Translation Canto Xxxiii Part2
We passed over, where was held in frost state
Harshly contained people of the next band,
Not down bent, but all lying in quite strait.
Weeping itself the tears does not disband,
And pain which finds in eyes...
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Categories:
skim, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
Space Suited Shells Are Cute Arent They
A fat flat packed duck billed platypus was not on a platter. In fact it had escaped under a robe. With a robin. The robin was to be stuffed into a pigeon which was stuffed...
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Categories:
skim, animal, , cute,
Form:
I do not know?
Facebook
the bright monitor
glares through inky darkness--
a clock ticks
My heart lurches painfully in my chest as my mind tries to process what I'm seeing. My mug of coffee sits on the coffee table -- how fitting...
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Categories:
skim, life,
Form:
Haibun
Forgiveness
He was never a dad,
not even when he lived there
He was always mad
He would just yell & swear
Of his family he wasn't proud
Pride was never seen
He was just controlling & loud
crushing your self-esteem
He was simply...
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Categories:
skim, abuse, anger, change, childhood, dad, forgiveness, how
Form:
Rhyme
Designed To Communicate
Designed To Communicate
Poetic justice often can communicate;
Never humiliate or ever to prevaricate;
Open a mind;
Curiosity find;
And much more interest in you create.
To me, this is what the name of the game is.
How do I wiggle...
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Categories:
skim, allegory, analogy,
Form:
Limerick
One Way Ships - Part 1
Flings and wings and rings rejected…
Cupid’s arrows fly deflected…
“It clearly is too late” she signed, “to love, adore or pay me mind”
Penciled lines drew cruel conclusions
mocking mirror’s cracked illusions…
Sometimes, in time, I hang awhile,...
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Categories:
skim, lost love, stars,
Form:
Rhyme
The Survival of the Fittest Or the Holy Bible Part 1 of 4
' The Survival of The Fittest '
(The Holy Bible)
(2 Tim. 3: 16, 17/ Matt. 4: 4)
Down Thru The Ages of Our Histories
The Survivor Stands Thru Time, Victoriously
The Survivor Stands Triumphant Over...
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Categories:
skim, bible,
Form:
Epic
A Heart Torn In Half
Mighty ocean, you roar with thunderous waves.
My ears are keen to their wanton...
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Categories:
skim, grief, heart,
Form:
Free verse
The Exile
for Prithwin
first
left downstroke
start from the top
plane out
let the long anchor tip roof-line curve sharply upwards
at the stern down-end
pile it in stuffed in the centre
leave the...
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Categories:
skim, imagination,
Form:
Free verse
Mosquito Bat
Mosquito Bat
Peering closely, I sought to quickly skim through the online latest news …
True to form, I am a stickler for keeping up with the latest happening news…
Given this internet age and its borderless media...
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Categories:
skim, celebration, fantasy, goodbye, silly, war,
Form:
Free verse
Snapshot
Zooming out, I take it all in- the big picture
Is this what you thought it’d look like from the outside after everything was said and done?
A flawed image of our wasted youth
I pan in; seeing...
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Categories:
skim, lost loveme, heart, heart, image, me,
Form:
I do not know?
The Dragon's Pool Meeting
I see you’ve larked with fairy friends,
On bough, in fields, near brooks -
Pebbles skim the water’s edge;
Jump skip, jump skip, hop - over brook…
‘Which side is greener?’ Asked the Dragon mare.
‘The bough of tree...
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Categories:
skim, allegory, fantasy, parody, fairy,
Form:
Quintain (English)
Dauntless
“Put on the dauntless spirit of resolution”. ~ By William Shakespeare
Meet this dweller of the icy continent
Among the few, he is the chief occupant
Out in that territory, it is freezing cold
With nothing but a...
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Categories:
skim, animal, appreciation, inspirational,
Form:
Rhyme
A Plea For Awesome Phrase
On a shattered pebble beach my kernel,
becomes this dervish dancing to the maniacal symbol rash tune,
of inchoate monsoon grass beat timpani,
that’s dimly frowned on by sonic virtuoso,
but terms like briny carrageen sea sweep gain purple...
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Categories:
skim, care, character, color, creation, deep, emotions, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
The Yearning and Ache
Once held a Title
A means to associate oneself
With thee Who meant more
Although it was not felt until
Another time
Perhaps the wrong or right time
It is hard to say
Thee Who Meant something
Even though, at the time
I was...
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Categories:
skim, addiction, grief, heart, how i feel, introspection,
Form:
Free verse