Long Skipped Poems
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After School Jam SessionHow was school today?
Fine.
Did you learn anything important?
Maybe. I'm not sure yet.
Really? What are you considering?
We talked about Howard Odum's natural trinity
of altruism.
Maybe I skipped that day
way back in premillennial times
before Permaculture Design had taken...
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Categories:
skipped, culture, earth, education, environment, health, humor, science,
Form:
Political Verse
How I Got Richer and What I Did NextHow I Got Richer and What I Did Next
I struck a sly deal with some Wall Street investors.
I shorted 'em stocks that didn't exist!
But they got me back (those post-empty-nesters)
by making fake deals I couldn't...
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Categories:
skipped, allegory, funny, heaven, humor, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
My Corporate Life and How It All EndedI met with some bankers in fine textured suits.
I struck a deal quick. (I had such a knack.)
I offered rare cacti and tropical fruits –
a cure-all for things that ail your back.
I served 'em...
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Categories:
skipped, business, humor, humorous, money, political, satire,
Form:
Couplet
Old Pharaoh - 1 of 2Old Pharaoh had enslaved the Jews; he would not let them go.
So God devised a mighty scheme; his go-to guy was Mo.
His brother Aaron was the voice, for Moses talked real slow,
So he would wave...
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Categories:
skipped, bible,
Form:
Ballad
Thor's Cave
In a small village in the green valleys of the Peak District, Sarah gave birth to a son, after a decade of trying for a child with her husband, Peter B Perfekt. It was...
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Categories:
skipped, allusion, perspective,
Form:
Narrative
Child of the KingI wondered how that I could be a child of the King.
A long lost soul, I had no goal, but to maybe act and sing.
I believed in Jesus, a man of love,
But scared to death...
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Categories:
skipped, blessing, christian, depression, devotion, faith, jesus,
Form:
Rhyme
February 29th, 2024February 29th, 2024
Alternately titled: 111th leap year since 1582
the year Pope Gregory XIII world leader
(i.e. essentially paterfamilias among
Roman Catholic flock)
timely maneuvered around calendrical rock
and hard space implementing
viable system tracking years ad hoc
out of sync and...
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Categories:
skipped, 12th grade, age, birth, celebration, fate, february,
Form:
Rhyme
Geese, Goslings and the BridgeGeese, Goslings and the Bridge
Sometimes, when you least expect it, Mother Nature makes a u-turn and draws you into the ridiculous. Such was the time recently as I was returning from a friend’s home...
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Categories:
skipped, bird, family,
Form:
Metrical Tale
A Haunting Wooded Tale,It's like some long lost fairy tale
That's handed down through time
But couldn't be, as you will see
For this strange tale is mine.
I chose to take a country road
I do from time to time
To...
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Categories:
skipped, adventure, fantasy,
Form:
Rhyme
A Nice Couple the Tale of Jean and William Part 1 2 and 3A nice couple. The Tale of Jean and William. Part 1
Jean Fallen was born in 1999 and had a lonely childhood.
She grew up in Redfern but never went to school.
She lived with her mother...
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Categories:
skipped, 10th grade,
Form:
ABC
Mad About Towns
When we set out on a road trip
We didn’t stick to the old script
And were gladly amazed
And rarely unfazed
Hitting strange towns though some were skipped
We started from Thatsnot, OK
Which was more or less ok
But then...
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Categories:
skipped, humorous, travel, word play,
Form:
Limerick
My Last Las Vegas CesMy Last Las Vegas C.E.S. (1)
(A Memorial Poem)
I long counted Steve Bristow a friend (1) and we'd fly off to lunch
some days (Steve would get 'hours in' he needed for license - small planes).
It was...
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Categories:
skipped, adventure,
Form:
Rhyme
Ms LiskaWhen I was a FreshPerson in a new higher school,
our English Literature class was delighted
to meet a new to our area Ms. Liska,
who was a beautiful teacher
both outside
and in,
and so we all loved her,
and knew...
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Categories:
skipped, death, humanity, humor, life, philosophy, student, teacher,
Form:
Political Verse
The Worm Poem SequelShe was in love
Their expression of it
Was the perfection of it
The way they shared
What they had
Was beyond compare
Today is the next step
Towards their future
Today they bought a house
Overwhelmed
Overjoyed
Her...
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Categories:
skipped, dark,
Form:
Epic
The Present and Future Madame PresidentOn a magnificent morning, in the fragrant month of July,
I was heading to a new job, amidst the golden butterflies.
For I had been hired by Nasa's, Langley Research Center,
To work on new projects, and to...
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Categories:
skipped, adventure, fantasy, friendship love, imagery, political, time,
Form:
Couplet
The Tutor -- One of My Spicier Pieces - Academically Denounced - I'M SureA week before my senior year at Honeysuckle High School, with me our starting quarterback - who’d never failed a test -
The friend of mine who - ever since I’d barely passed the first one...
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Categories:
skipped, humor,
Form:
Verse
GrowingTwo girls far apart leading different but crazy similar lives
Lots of progress and work - arousing with small talk of becoming wives
But are those emotions genuinely what you wanna explore?
The journeys we will have,...
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Categories:
skipped, girlfriend, women,
Form:
Rhyme
chapter 152- DAMIAN DELILAH MALLORY HOLANNYA: Wedding SurpriseDate: April 4, 2051
Dolly had Molly and Holly delayed
In the dinning area while she secured
Any loose ends. They had most of
The assemblages in place. The aisle
The flowers? Delilah had questions
"Mommy...
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Categories:
skipped, allusion, black love,
Form:
Alliteration
The HeroThe thunder struck and the heavy rains came,
He struggled for survival, fought hard.
The downpour wouldn’t stop, the streets now flooded,
the man now lay unconscious on a boulevard.
The next morning, the Sun couldn’t rise,
the clouds overpowered...
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Categories:
skipped, angel, blessing, courage, god, hero, inspirational, strength,
Form:
Rhyme
Goodbyed HelloGood morning from the ascending light
Good night from the descending night
I'm sorry, darling of past glee
I'm not sorry that we were together and happy
I'm a house and you're the ground
I'm the mouse, caught...
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Categories:
skipped, deep,
Form:
Free verse
UpsurgeFar beyond the horizon we gazed at sunlit skies
glowing from gigantic mountains, thick blue clouds
hang peacefully over our heads, painting hopes and
aspirations as we journey relentlessly to recapture
our dreams.
We have been climbing this...
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Categories:
skipped, celebration, faith, success,
Form:
Narrative
Kate and Isobel*There are only two damsels in this tale; all variations were simply for ease of writing.
Once Kate and Isabella went
To see the pretty fields of Gwent
And traipse through forest shade
They packed a picnic lunch for...
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Categories:
skipped, character, friend, girl, hero, history,
Form:
Tail-rhyme
A Fire In the Heart of Our Darkneswe sat, my brother and I
leaning against the old wood pannels of the room
the smoke engulfed us like breath
as the threat of violence loomed
his voice was quiet still
passion and regret burned in his eyes
when he...
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Categories:
skipped, war,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Flying With Wax WingsIs it time again
Is this another day again
where I sit up once more
waste my fingers to the bone
to describe my grievance with the Sorceress
named Sarah...
No...not this time
Is it time again
is this another day when
I sit...
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Categories:
skipped, anger, anxiety, betrayal, depression, devotion, sad love,
Form:
Free verse
I Want To Reach Out To YouI want to reach out to you, but a part of me is scared, what if you don’t remember me? My heart couldn’t take that pain, that despair
What if all these years I have only...
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Categories:
skipped, heartbreak, hurt, i miss you,
Form:
Rhyme