Long Skimming Poems
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Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 84
“Look,” Lumi shouted over the wind, and pointing off to their right. Jutting above the clouds was the peak of a large mountain. He shifted the team in that direction. As the...
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Categories:
skimming, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Speaker, Subject, and Theme In Edna St Vincent Millay's ''Women Have Loved Before As I Love Now''
“Women Have Loved Before As I Love Now”
by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Women have loved before as I love now;
At least, in lively chronicles of the past-
Of Irish waters by a Cornish prow
Or Trojan waters by...
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Categories:
skimming, betrayal, desire, literature, love, passion, poetess, sin,
Form:
Prose
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 63
Then from Dyndoeth came another question,
“Now that we know the animals are capable of moving through the sky, what about the sleigh.”
“Have you...
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Categories:
skimming, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
I Knew Anne Silently - My Ravenous Poe
**Trigger Warning**
"I Knew Anne Silently - My Ravenous Poe"
I knew Anne.
you’d think
with a name like hers
she’d be able to find her way
out of unchartered waters.
it didn’t come as a suprise,
then, on...
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Categories:
skimming, dark, love, poets,
Form:
Narrative
Transmigration of the Wind
The strong gust of wind was cut off from its source; a frigid early spring blast that swept across a lofty mountain range, high above British Columbia.
It then encircled one of the lesser peaks and...
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Categories:
skimming, imagery, journey, nature, sky, spring, water, wind,
Form:
Prose
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 62
Joulupukki hesitated for a few seconds,
“I know this is going to sound ridiculous, but what if we feed the magic corn to a team of deer and they pull...
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Categories:
skimming, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Shadow
It was a glorious summer day and I woke up with the lark
Got my wheelchair ready and then headed to the park
I noticed a girl out jogging, with her dog down by the lake
And felt...
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Categories:
skimming, dog, memory, soldier, war,
Form:
Narrative
Assassin's Regime
Clouded vision as I wake up early morning. Just before dawn, so the neighbor's still snoring. Got 2 messages from my boss sounding ticked. So, I got up, took a shower, made my self some...
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Categories:
skimming, fantasy, music, me, me, time,
Form:
Rhyme
Motherland
"Motherland"
The “Removed”,
Charlestons across the keyboard,
fingers have a personality and a mind
of their own, don’t you agree?
the stalwart mind converses with the frivolous fingers
its stark increduality, considers All above All
they’re incorrigible, those lithe fingers,
like...
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Categories:
skimming, child abuse, dark, light,
Form:
Narrative
Beneath the Surface
Have you swam the forests under the seas
glided it's waters wandered it's keys
watched the gray giants ...
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Categories:
skimming, boat, creation, earth, fish, imagery, nature, water,
Form:
Verse
Simple Synchronization X
Weary weapons wearing writhing works wonderfully wreathed wigs...... Oh wow how magnificent the yellow radiance of a piece of straw. Leaning bending learning. Admire nit a wisdom curl if a pitch of ball. Throw away...
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Categories:
skimming, baseball, bird,
Form:
I do not know?
Getaway Vacation
"Baby, this view is fantastic,
Who knew what you could buy with plastic!
With these credit cards, unlimited funds,
Any regrets, heck no, baby I got none.
Riding on an interest rate of twenty percent,...
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Categories:
skimming, humorous, vacation,
Form:
Free verse
Beowulf translation by Michael R Burch
Beowulf Excerpts
anonymous Old English/Anglo-Saxon poem, circa 8th-10th century AD
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
LO, praise the prowess of the Spear-Danes
whose clan-thanes ruled in days bygone,
possessed of dauntless courage and valor.
All have heard the honors the...
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Categories:
skimming, courage, dream, heart, heaven, visionary, war, world,
Form:
Free verse
Never-Ending Adventure
Where have you been?
Where are you off to? Here I am again
It’s been a while since I last talked to you
Long time, no see
You’re still sprouting like a unwavering tree
Running the extra mile for a...
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Categories:
skimming, adventure, confusion, courage, encouraging, faith, heart, hope,
Form:
Rhyme
Old Benson, Part I
Harvey grew up in a small Maine town,
due north of Portland, and out of the way,
like most kids he’d go to the school bus
at the beginning of every week day.
And every day that he made...
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Categories:
skimming, history, perspective, philosophy, science, science fiction, surreal,
Form:
Narrative
Ropes
The wind came down from the canyon with a quite heat
It was to his back as he faced the crashing waves
He watched the pelicans skimming the rolling surf
The sun warmed sand felt comforting beneath his...
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Categories:
skimming, death, family, life, house, family, family, house,
Form:
Free verse
Odyssey From Africa 6c
CHAPTER 6 (continued, c)
Several of the primate children
Sat together in the branches
Of a tree; they did not notice
Danger silently approaching
Through the leaves a brown and yellow
Shiny scaly serpent slithered
Closer to the young gorillas
Eyes unblinking glimmered...
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Categories:
skimming, adventure, africa, imagination, mythology, nature, science,
Form:
Narrative
Only He Can Undo
In a way, this worn-out frame is becoming something new…but, there’s hardly anything aversion and/or love together can undo
I still haven’t even realized myself in a long while…
I have accidently lost hundreds of my poetry...
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Categories:
skimming, deep, depression, encouraging,
Form:
Verse
Skeleton Quay - Source Poem For Goosebumps Contest
Foreword: Contains excepts from, and additions to, my own three part poem ‘Bone Idol’, which is way too long to submit here.
Skeleton Quay
He lingers on the quayside and heeds the phantom howls
Out on mist shrouded...
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Categories:
skimming, best friend, death, grave, together,
Form:
Rhyme
A Tide of Jus On a Plate
A baby gorilla's bedtime is a harmonic period when the bananas line up with little leaf rattles to softly croon to slumber the furry ball. Priceless is the process of pacification and pacifications are not...
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Categories:
skimming, bangla, beach,
Form:
I do not know?
Anchored On a Windy Beach
I
Anchored on a sun filtered shore
Upon rocks which lay the days of yore
In swirling pristine aquas of alluring calm
Let it serenade heal my bruised palm
To chronicle tales of my hearts longings
And...
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Categories:
skimming, africa, beach, beautiful, confidence, imagery, inspiration, nature,
Form:
Free verse
The Alcoholic
You were an alcoholic, my mother says,
Fixing me with her timid tear-watered gaze –
You lived in paradise, on the wings of angels,
And you were an alcoholic…
So we had to take you away...
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Categories:
skimming, angst, life, lossme, life, me, mother, paradise,
Form:
Free verse
The Partitioned Wailing Wall - Part One
for Alan Painter
I have put into many ports
...
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Categories:
skimming, war,
Form:
Free verse
Talking House
Standing on a ridge a sight can be seen. The kettles were choosing a queen. Bouquets were bought for the waters within. For waters will want wonderful and wonderful it was. The chosen kettle was...
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Categories:
skimming, analogy, august, baseball,
Form:
I do not know?
Beachside Food and Drink Slinks
A is for algae, red, green, blue cells, soaking up sun, sliming teeth
B is for bacterial mat, clumping underneath, earliest born, never asleep
C is for coral reef, the place we all find cover or...
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Categories:
skimming, adventure, animal, beach, death, food, life, nature,
Form:
Couplet