Long Skims Poems
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Make Love To Me In That Ancient Place
The Bedouins, bequeathed with the sacred beauty of paradise harsh,
trusted guardians of jealous gorges and gifted groves
lead me from the Wadi Musa to the humble ingress of Petra,
saying with thrill, the Jin of your Jihad...
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Categories:
skims, adventure, desire, history, love,
Form:
Epic
The boy from my 5 classes again
Sometimes he’s next to me. Close enough that the air feels different, like something charged is sitting between us. My stomach does that thing, tightens, flutters, not because I like him, not like that. It’s...
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Categories:
skims, 10th grade, age, anger, anxiety, boy, care,
Form:
Free verse
Shane
Shane walks in, hurries to the back of the bar. He finds the door opened to an alley littered with the garbage of the restaurant beside it, the one whose neon sign has two lights...
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Categories:
skims, anxiety, best friend, betrayal, brother,
Form:
Prose
Flatness
Flatness
Consider the possibility of becoming
a two-dimensional surface
with no thickness whatsoever.
No, face-down on the floor won’t get it;
at best your nose will be in the way.
You’ve got to get lower, closer,...
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Categories:
skims, art, universe,
Form:
Free verse
Dare I This, To Such Marvelous Dreams Dream
Dare I This, To Such Marvelous Dreams Dream
A baby, once in a small wooden crib,
Humanity's seed, vestige of Adam's rib
I watch as he nurses then falls to sleep
The afternoon sun, beaming golden deep
Quiet spreads, contented...
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Categories:
skims, art, blessing, creation, inspiration, passion, poetry, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Winter Learning Ducks
Afternoons the sky shuts down around the swamp's warning tapes
propped up with restoration piping and dirt leak fencing.
We’re fleeing toward the wild, seeking the names and shapes,
the same way the Cedar Waxwing flit and...
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Categories:
skims, angel, beauty, bird, family, recovery from, river,
Form:
Rhyme
Milk of Roses
“Milk of Roses”
Milk of Roses
was her scent
and great bouquets
of baby's breath
moving messages
that blew across hearts
underneath the bones and skin of breast
baby's breath that bristled like clouds
moved by hidden white doves
who...
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Categories:
skims, muse,
Form:
Narrative
I ain’t enough
I ain’t enough, and I know that truth
Like a blade in the chest or a cracked front tooth.
She’s gold-dust real, while I’m broke and bruised—
Tryna be a king in worn-out shoes.
She walks in rooms, they...
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Categories:
skims, anger,
Form:
Free verse
Yellow Field of Wheat
First Placing : Poetry Marathon 2025
Sponsor: Mark Toney
{ FREEDOM “We may want to linger, to stay, to arrest the flow and talk about it, photograph it, lyricize it. Yet this beauty is mercurial...
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Categories:
skims, angel, child, color, death, emotions, heaven, write,
Form:
Free verse
Free Cee Read This and Every Seagull That Skims the Waves Will Die
IGNORE IT IF IT RINGS
It's strange but so many people say the same fuc*ing thing
they say “take back that necklace, that bracelet and diamond ring”
those same people hand out the very same advice
they say “that...
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Categories:
skims, angst, me, heart, people, heart, love, me,
Form:
Quatrain
Mountain Sleep
Mountain Sleep
Mountain sleeps once upon a lake
Yellow bird skims the surface of liquid blue
Draws in an insect on the slender beak
A subtle noise discerned as it gathers up the bug
Disturbances below are heard, a...
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Categories:
skims, adventure, bird, fish, identity, mountains, nature, sun,
Form:
Free verse
Skimming Stones
Looking down I can see
so many different possibilities
wondering which I shall pick
and with it then what I shall see
smooth pink stone with pits of white
will it fit in my fingers just right
that I might flick...
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Categories:
skims, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Wager With Me
Would you care to flirt with something volitile?
I know a fire that burns - hot and melting
In vivid undulating ripples of heat
That will steal the youth from your skin
And dry the tears hidden in your...
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Categories:
skims, death, war, care, fire, care, fire,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Tangata Manu (The Birdmen)
Somewhere between Easter Island and
Santiago skims an ocean skiff loaded with
slumped islanders bound within the teetering
cargo hold. In the distance can be seen the
eyes of seven monolithic faces defending
islanders from the fury of volcanoes.
One...
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Categories:
skims, history, peopleeaster,
Form:
Free verse
Apples and Cinnamon
~
Flour on her hands, and centuries on her elbow
Fingers balance a 'hand-me-down' dish,
Roosting deftly on finger-tips, high in mid-air
Lovingly she spins it, magician's hands twirling
Trimming the edges with flourish and flair
A bit like Da...
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Categories:
skims, childhood, food, nostalgia,
Form:
Free verse
Persephone's Finger
Persephone’s Finger
By Sy Roth
It wormed its way to the surface.
Pointy finger tested the air,
Wriggled in a sensuous Fatima dance
Etch-a-Sketching the crepuscular sky above,
Shaming the heavens for what lies below,
Marking its inky darkness
While the...
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Categories:
skims, angst, character, day, death,
Form:
Free verse
Steal Me Away
Steal me away
Wind beneath my feet, blowing though my hair, whispering a song in my ear. Smells of sweet nothing everywhere, fresh breath of clean air
As waters crash upon the rocks on the shore
The waves...
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Categories:
skims, imagination, nature, peace, song, sweet, me, song,
Form:
I do not know?
Another Mountain Morning
There is a miracle that happens every morning in the mountains…a little after five.
as the evening heads to bed and the morning comes alive.
As the stars, the moon and the dark of night begin to...
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Categories:
skims, morning, mountains, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
All For One and All
It's all there remains
of their faces and names
in the sanguinous pull of the Ocean.
And ever abides the slow, ugly tides
...
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Categories:
skims, history,
Form:
Free verse
Supernova
I have to say I've been here before
My life has changed but not these shores
Of this salty ocean sea I still drink
I thought I'd escaped it so long ago
When I caressed the ball which skims...
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Categories:
skims, addiction, depression, hurt, life, lost, ocean, water,
Form:
Rhyme
Like a Feather
Floating through life
Like a feather she flies
Wings carry her away from certain demise
Fluttering through skies so blue
The flock chirps their cue
Bad weather is coming
Thunder drumming
Rain pitter patters on the roof,
feathers ruffle
A ball of floof
Chicks in...
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Categories:
skims, bird, flying, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
The Blue-Jay Misses
As she undoes the latch and pushes open the door
The blue-jays breath catches, he wants to say something but can’t.
Before she turns to smile, she re-latches it behind her.
The Blue-Jay reaches out to her silently,...
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Categories:
skims, life, loss, love
Form:
Rhyme
A Father's Voice
Boy at the lake's shore
skims flat stones on its surface
...
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Categories:
skims, absence, angst, bereavement, boy, childhood, father son,
Form:
Free verse
Going Away
The old man sighs:
Thoughts winging by,
Dry tears yet ply,
An unseen cry.
Too much of change:
So out of range,
All seems so strange,
Touch now deranged.
In a sad look:
Watch fatigue nook,
Words in old book,
Bear empty hook.
Here but not here:
In...
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Categories:
skims, change,
Form:
Quatrain
Epochs of Life
A lake is slumbering beneath a halcyon sky,
This land has no daybreak nor blackness vie.
Angst crusts float on their substrate surface,
Able and pallid, it defends an idyllic space.
Gray granite emerges from the dreary edge,
A half-light...
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Categories:
skims, analogy, appreciation, dream, history,
Form:
Rhyme