Long Slanted Poems
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Visit To Antietam
Alone I arrive, walking from Frederick
over the gaps, across gentle hills
out onto a knoll
overlooking this burnished landscape.
Before me I see countless writhing rows
of indiscernible shapes gathered
in terrible rituals mid fire and smoke
darkening the sun.
From distant...
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Categories:
slanted, america, conflict, history, together, war,
Form:
Ode
A Poem For My History Teacher
I wanted to write
The best slavery poem ever written—
Perhaps win a Pulitzer or Faulkner.
I had every intention of conforming
To the standards
Of modern verse and composition,
Lyrics fluidly written,
Perfect...
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Categories:
slanted, assonance, forgiveness, history, holocaust, humanity, memorial, slavery,
Form:
Rhyme
Jacqueline Trestrail
On this day 40 years ago in 1978 my mother, Jacqueline Anne Trestrail, left this world after a relatively short battle with cancer - she was 46. Jimmy Carter was President and Annie Hall won...
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Categories:
slanted, mother, tribute,
Form:
Prose
Tozzath
Pellucid pachyderms wade across
the purpling River Manjees
and Tozzath watches from the bank,
the seat of his maroon pantaloons soaked with mud,
his nostrils flaring with the fragrance of ombadalias,
whose lacey petals flutter
like the wings of long-dead...
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Categories:
slanted, death, fantasy, girl, magic, word play,
Form:
Free verse
Artificial Iris
"Artificial Iris"
Orwell was lurking in the background, somewhere;
the dream was eerily familiar,
the words and their meanings, read in Syntax,
once read between pages of hardcopy in school
were aptly ignored -
however,
our Overlords were...
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Categories:
slanted, surreal,
Form:
Narrative
Storm
The day was fine and sunlit,
Decorated by several clouds
drifting aimlessly in the radiant ocean-blue sky.
Chorused by gentle puffs of the morning breeze,
Sending leaves on the streets twirling like
ballerinas in a dazzling and mesmerising dance.
and...
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Categories:
slanted, courage, fear, metaphor, natural disasters, school, ,
Form:
Imagism
Jane Eyre Crown
This is a Crown of Sonnets I wrote about one of my favorite books and movies (the version in 1943 with Liz Taylor, who was only 11 had a small role, Joan Fontaine and Orson...
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Categories:
slanted, life,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 28
Quietly, the memory of my grandfather manifested itself,
In the colors and shimmers of the Holy Spirit,
I saw his human face,
The familiar lines, the flesh,
The pair of oceanic eyes, slowly blinking
Smiling,
Like a heavenly beam
Splashing...
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Categories:
slanted, allegory, analogy, deep, emotions, humanity, meaningful, wisdom,
Form:
Epic
Storm Concrete
The day was fine and sunlit, Decorated by several clouds drifting
aimlessly in the radiant ocean-blue sky. Chorused by gentle
...
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Categories:
slanted, school, storm,
Form:
Concrete
Love In the Silence of the Soul
As a young boy
Sitting in a pew
The winter darkness pressing down
Candlelight waves from hidden drafts
Shadows danced on the walls
I heard the words destined to me
“Be still . . . know that I am God”
So I...
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Categories:
slanted, death, love, sorrow,
Form:
Narrative
Memories and Tears
There are photos of our childhood
Our long ago sweet...
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Categories:
slanted, bereavement, brother, childhood, cousin, death, heartbroken, nostalgia,
Form:
Epitaph
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 25
I was restless all the night,
The demoness softly singing a haunting tune
The Holy Spirit sifted in swirls around me,
And she touched with her claws its essence with strange wonder
I awoke to his songs strong and...
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Categories:
slanted, courage, gothic, heart, light, lost, love, truth,
Form:
Epic
Birthing the Vortex
"Birthing the Vortex"
the complexities of a myth
borne from the birth
of amorphous seat
in dark matter brain
storming dimensions never seen
merely guessed, intuitive, unblessed
visage of a lost majesty
she’s returning to true self
all wrapped up in...
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Categories:
slanted, desire, romance, sensual,
Form:
Romanticism
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 27
Of Him and not me?
Muttered the dragon, full-formed, wretched,
Stench unfathomable, seething and snarling
His great lungs expanding and exhaling puffs of darkness
Slanted, shining, scorching eyes burning into my own
What light shines but His own?
Have...
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Categories:
slanted, adventure, beautiful, bereavement, desire, evil, gothic, strength,
Form:
Epic
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 10
“Clap your terrible wings, vivacious serpent of old!
Imagine my plight as dangerous as your spite,
Stomp your clawed feet on these prison floors,
Peace shall always follow the sink of your fangs…”
Silenced were the wailing demons round,
Crouched...
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Categories:
slanted, adventure, confusion, growth, imagination, psychological, senses,
Form:
Free verse
the ruby spires
there, among those Ruby Spires
stood I, a-gazing toward the mist
red winds cut skin, heaven-kissed
...
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Categories:
slanted, adventure, analogy, appreciation, science fiction,
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
Ribaldo
RIbaldO the Clown
RIbaldO the Clown
he wore a black bandana and no make up yet his eyes were slanted up and
when he was on the street everyone saw a clown he looked like a clown...
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Categories:
slanted, anti bullying, betrayal, dark, daffodils,
Form:
Prose Poetry
ukrainian regrets
There was poetry,
In the open fields,
On the slanted blueberries,
On the skirts of schoolgirls,
There was poetry,
In the sunny cupboards,
In the quiet gardens,
In the sweet air of spring,
There was some poetry
In the caressing hands,
In the chalk of...
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Categories:
slanted, poetry, war,
Form:
Free verse
Einstein and Bucky's Fifth Quarter
Bucky:
Why didn't you remind people
that spacetime relativityship
is double-bound temporal
and fractally revolutioned rhythm
under the RNA Root-Zero Metric Assumption
of 3 spatial-CAG
and 1 bilateral U dipolar progenitive time-functional only dimension
equals a Zero-Moment (+/-,-)c-squared spacetime-centric
balancing thermodynamic...
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Categories:
slanted, environment, math, philosophy, science, universe,
Form:
Metrical Tale
Pearls Beneath the Harbor
Our bank accounts nearly emptied so we could afford a vacation; two young working girls who'd never been far from home. We were looking forward to finding love on a romantic tropical island. Maybe someone...
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Categories:
slanted, people, places, world war ii,
Form:
Haibun
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 31
The Dragon, serpentine, jagged, fuming
Curved neck twisted my way,
His scales shimmering and reflecting the bottom depths of the well,
Scrutinized me with fires of his personal hells
Burning into my cool, oceanic repose
He could see the universe...
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Categories:
slanted, adventure, change, dark, destiny, inspirational, war, water,
Form:
Epic
Vietnam In '68
Vietnam in '68
By Franklin Price
08/10/2020
January '68, I arrived at Cam Rahn Bay
Found out this place, in Vietnam, was the best place I could play
Ground bound, in the Air Force, and living on the beach,
On a...
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Categories:
slanted, america, history, war,
Form:
Couplet
Never Land Part 4
A sodden dreg with wooden leg is dancing for a dime,
to sacred psalms and other balms, all ticking with the time.
He’s 22, he’s almost through, he’s melted in his prime,
his bane is firm, the canker...
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Categories:
slanted, fantasy, universe,
Form:
Rhyme
The Trials of Tommy Tucker
Tommy Tucker was a youth of slight build, seeming younger than twenty,
Which was Tommy's true age; like a lone, silver star, apart from the plenty.
Tommy was well known for his great singing voice, so silky...
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Categories:
slanted, change, fantasy, happiness, heartbreak, nature, song, wedding,
Form:
Couplet
Jane-By-The-Sea
Carmel-By-The-Sea, CA is 114 miles from my home in San Francisco. It's home to my friend Jane (a former fellow worker) she now finds California's central coastline to be the next best place to live.
She's...
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Categories:
slanted, friendship, girl,
Form:
Free verse