Long Smooths Poems
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Unquotable Quotes: Paris the Last Week of the August Reprieve- Xxxv Part TwoUnquotable quotes: Paris, the last week of the August reprieve – XXXV Part Two
II
The first signs reek tell-tale
Buffer-to-buffer...
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Categories:
smooths, august, autumn, farewell, lost love, winter,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Digital CreationismDigital Creationism
(Man 0, God 1)
Part 1: Binary God
For men it seems God is a binary function
And like ones and zeros 'HE IS ON or 'he's off.'
Is...
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Categories:
smooths, relationship,
Form:
Rhyme
Castles In the SandPicture a man’s solitary stroll on a sandy seaside,
Early time of day, just a short time after low tide,
Water almost calm, gentle waves lapping the shore,
Early morning sun brilliantly blazing the horizon.
Feel the wonderful breeze…smell...
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Categories:
smooths, beach, child, cry, metaphor, sea, water,
Form:
Narrative
Falling Into BooksAnd I disappeared back into the books,
Whirling in a seamless stream of context,
By whose scarlet blood I assumed some looks,
Forevermore ready for what was next.
From this moment on I could not assume,
That what I had...
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Categories:
smooths, books, identity, inspirational, universe,
Form:
Rhyme
When I Was Drunk and Wanted Big WordsWe are all improbable in our own way,
and who can augur the future?
I never could have laid out my course in advance,
though in looking back it all makes sense,
even if...
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Categories:
smooths, addiction, drink, earth, wine, word play, words,
Form:
Prose
Good Ol' RexHe heard the car and came running,
Jumped and whirled in the air,
Barking his happiness!
Dad lifted her down in her yellow-flowered
Camisole and high heeled shoes.
The dog dropped,
His hind quarters hunched down,
Body sprung parallel...
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Categories:
smooths, 8th grade, dog, happiness, woman,
Form:
Free verse
Timeless Truths
Time colors the dawn
In hues of the morning sun
Buttery soft silence like the light
That kisses gentle with its touch
Time breathes a sweet melody
Songs alive in echoes of faith
Whispering music through me
Enlightening my...
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Categories:
smooths, bible, time,
Form:
Free verse
TestingLisa was carefully pulling a strand of cotton candy off a paper-coned “barbe à papa” - winding it around her finger while absentmindedly gazing at a carousel. She seemed hypnotized by its white horses, trimmed...
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Categories:
smooths, morning, school, spring, stress, student, teen,
Form:
Free verse
The Pain of LoveDo you know where my heart goes?
It moves in and out of me.
I don't have the strength to put it aside, work on the other things in life I value and...
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Categories:
smooths, love, passion, life, pain, body, life,
Form:
Free verse
Jelly Beaming Lights - RevisedWhen the sky rains down in jelly bean lights
Colors bright, multiplying themselves through lightning bolts
Seen through their candy cracks opened loud
Like clouded green glass glowing thick
Glowing wide jello wavering in a blinding flash
Across the landscape...
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Categories:
smooths, adventure, baby, beautiful, candy, celebration, children, easter,
Form:
Free verse
Symphony of SoulsWritten: September 1st 2023
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Blithering from the depths, every word I trace
A crimson river of my soul's embrace.
Ink spills such as tears onto a vacant page.
Etching tales of love, joy, and rage.
A metronome dances in sync,
To...
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Categories:
smooths, analogy, appreciation, beauty, soulmate,
Form:
Rhyme
Time TravelerAs he sits all alone in his rocking chair
the frail, old man smooths his thin, gray hair
With his companion, Loneliness, he whiles away the time
Rummaging through memories in the attic of his mind
A young man...
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Categories:
smooths, childhood, death, family, life, nostalgia, time, happy,
Form:
Rhyme
A Nightcliff EveningA Nightcliff Evening
The pastel light of evening fades to the indigo of night,
Trees brooding silhouettes above, save where the string
Of lights picks out the furrows of pale trunks and
Thrusting limbs.
“42; pizza” rings out in...
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Categories:
smooths, friendship, imagery, social,
Form:
Verse
A Face of Age Yet BeautifulA face of age, a septuagenarian that magically reverts to my twenties when I turn away from the mirror.
My hair of silver does what it pleases to cover my face. I can't move one...
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Categories:
smooths, age, metaphor,
Form:
Free verse
Purging Anxiety Thru Transcendental MeditationTemporary nirvana (albeit elusive),
nonetheless I strive to access
attaining bliss mine soul bless
exceeding exhilaration winning
(with fewest moves against
deadly opponent) bittersweet game,
where life analogous playing chess
mortality embraced hesitantly, I confess
gnarled, knotted, pitted... old fingers
wrinkled mottled flesh doth...
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Categories:
smooths, angst, courage, freedom, goodbye, hyperbole, leaving, obituary,
Form:
Free verse
Whispering WingsGraceful lights pouring over
Dew covered petals
Gentle as a caress, kissing the spirit
With inspiration and serenity
Joy that comes from knowing a blessing
Has fallen from heaven’s realms
Calling to the soul, a breath
Of insight, hope, imagination that...
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Categories:
smooths, inspirational,
Form:
Free verse
Three Gems On Loving a Rock Star“I open the door and cross the threshold of imagination”
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Lavish locks sprawl pillowed in peace this morn.
Gently whiskered cheeks hint of last night's lipstick
Tensions banished blue grassy fiddling lingers
Let's take it easy
I'll make the omelets
while...
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Categories:
smooths, imagination, love, music, , Lullaby,
Form:
Sapphic stanza
Home Time For TrumpHe slumps in his chair
Looks at the papers
Spread over the desk
It has been a long day.
Walking to the bathroom
He stops to look in the mirror
Smooths his fingers
Through his hair
Shit, another grey hair
Already?!
He's...
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Categories:
smooths, america, change, culture, funny, international, political,
Form:
Blank verse
Family Love UnfoldsThe young and the old are part of man's fold.
Love between them, better than gold…tenfold.
The past before told, as the future shall behold.
Depends upon love shown, not an empty billfold.
Chores hide and seek, anger vanquished…controlled.
Life...
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Categories:
smooths, caregiving, family, happiness, inspirational, love
Form:
Monorhyme
ExodusExodus
Under a big holm oak, I sat on a stone resting a little
the sun so early in the year was hot, years ago there were
flocks of sheep here they laid chewing ignoring me.
This...
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Categories:
smooths, abuse, gothic, graduate, grandfather, grandmother, grandparents,
Form:
Blank verse
Cut and BleedRippling water
Smooths my tears
Silk and thread
Ribbons and lace
Sooths my deepest fears
The darkness swallow's the sun deep
And my heart nearly burst from all the secrets I keep
The silver lining I hold to my flesh and slash
Leaving...
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Categories:
smooths, depressionme, heart, heart, me,
Form:
I do not know?
Bricks and CementLaying brick by brick, with stickum in between.
A stone on top of another: dream quest and scene,
erected diligently, with a blueprint at the ready.
Each dot and line progression is sure and steady.
Despite storms, hurdles, and...
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Categories:
smooths, analogy, appreciation, home,
Form:
Rhyme
Play By Play-The Pinkerton StoryClimb those many stairs, up to the stars.
“Cut!” Comes the child, the wee Pinkerton.
Stunt double, doubles down, with plethora of scars.
Fate is what it is, bumps, bruises...sorta fun.
Pinkerton rolls and bounces, ooches and ouches.
Then they...
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Categories:
smooths, fun, silly,
Form:
Light Verse
The Wordsmith
He welds and melts, pours and molds
In his "Conversations with My Soul"
He smooths the rough steel of syllables
Into a "Portrait" graced by his "Play on Words"
Unrolling "Scenes from a Countryside" to "That Starry Night"
Whether "October...
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Categories:
smooths, appreciation, friendship, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
On Loving a Rock Star - ReduxLavish locks sprawl pillowed in peace this morn.
Gently whiskered cheeks hint of last night's lipstick
Tensions banished blue grassy fiddling lingers
Let's take it easy
I'll make the omelets
while you get a shower, dear.
Oh? You'd rather play some...
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Categories:
smooths, love, , Lullaby,
Form:
Rhyme