Long Sod Poems
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I Am My Father's SonThey were gambling in front of the house.
Manservants and pages bustled about
Serving Suitors who just curse and carouse.
Few mix wine with water. I heard one shout,
"Clean down the tables with wet sponges! Rouse
Yourselves! And when...
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Categories:
sod, adventure, anger, anxiety, bullying, father, history, introspection,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Visit To AntietamAlone 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:
sod, america, conflict, history, together, war,
Form:
Ode
Canto Xxi Hell TranslationSo bridge to bridge, of other things speaking
Of which my comedy does not take care,
We walked; and reached the top, when seeking
For watching the next slit, then we stopped there
Malebolge to see and crying vain;
And...
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Categories:
sod, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
Xenophobia Pt 1TITLE:
Xenophobia
Heed the warning
This isn't for the faint of heart
Verbalizing my deepest yearnings
They're bound to be a bit tart...
Because where I'm from is called the Bible Belt
Where folks...
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Categories:
sod, america, anxiety, prejudice, universe,
Form:
Lyric
Dante's Divine Comedy Translation Canto IxThat color vileness painted on my face
When coming back my duke to me I saw
His new squeezing inside much more took place.
He heedful stopped as man hearing to draw;
Because his eye could not reach...
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Categories:
sod, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
A Poem of RuthThe tears well up, and scarce could she not moan
When father, brother, husband, all have died.
She now has no possessions, neither home,
But travels to a distant, unknown land:
Once so secure, yet now compelled to roam;
Once...
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Categories:
sod, bible, devotion, faith, journey,
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
Life's Fading Light-Part 2-Heroic Crown of SonnetsAlone
For in the end it's just one soul that's passed.
Alone I'll lie in sod of greenest grass
to answer for the sins that I've amassed
at gates of gold I'll see if I may pass.
In to this...
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Categories:
sod, age, love,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
The CavemenUgg and Ogg, on a rock they sat.
The pair were in hiding from the sabred cat.
They had hunted for a whole week long.
But, recently it had all gone wrong.
The ladies were waiting...
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Categories:
sod, funny, humor, silly,
Form:
Verse
Translation of Eric Mottram's 1922 Section 1 In Earth Raids 1976 By T WignesanTranslation of Eric Mottram’s 1922 Section 1 by T. Wignesan
for David Attoe
Notre devise pourrait être: ‘que nous nous ne soyons pas envoûtés’
Wittgenstein in Zettel
laissez pendre la graisse sans cou
où la tête...
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Categories:
sod, america, culture, earth, word play, , literature,
Form:
Free verse
Dante's Hell, Fourth Canto Translation First Part,Fourth canto (first part)
The deep slumber was broken in my head
By a strong thunder, so that I woke up
As person forced to arouse from bed;
My rested eye I moved around then deep,
Erect uprisen, and also...
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Categories:
sod, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
ComparisonsCOMPARISONS
I sit here now back on my bed
Bandaged and still quite sore
I think back to my Mum and Dad
And all they both endured
My Dad he died of cancer
My Mum of MND
Both were unpleasant ways to...
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Categories:
sod, appreciation, bereavement, cancer, courage, health, mum,
Form:
Rhyme
Wellington GateHis walk into town would prove fateful that day,
As his mind wandered idly while finding his way.
His footsteps were brisk like fall chill in the air,
Past Wellington Gate, south of Denby town square.
He paused for...
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Categories:
sod, death, emotions, funeral, goodbye, grave, grief, hurt,
Form:
Narrative
To War, From Youthoh youth in all its callow shades
is from our hope, precisely made
...
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Categories:
sod, war,
Form:
Epic
When You Told MeWhen you told me..,,
When you told me you had cancer,
i could not believe it.
My little sister is poorly and I wish it was me.
You told me not to worry then you said.
“ I’ve got...
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Categories:
sod, bereavement, cancer, cry, god, grief, sister, sympathy,
Form:
Free verse
The Sheriff of NottinghamThe Sheriff, not a pleasant sort
Was learning of a bad report
About a soul, Who stood defiant
And swore an oath, to topple tyrants
Who once was noble, but now has strayed
Hell bend upon his rebels...
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Categories:
sod, fantasy,
Form:
Epic
Scary Tale Of New YorkIt’s Christmas Eve, Babe
In the car pound
It shouldn’t be this way
Should not have been found
But I’m the lucky one
I am the thirteenth one
And when I got a scare
I hi-tailed out of there
But everywhere I went
It...
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Categories:
sod, america, horror,
Form:
Lyric
Coming TogetherWe have all been given access to unite
To no longer walk in confusion of the night
Sadly, many who claim to be of Jesus church
Still building own ways for their souls search
So much division, hate, confusion...
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Categories:
sod, fate,
Form:
Rhyme
Grannys Laughing CakeI often think back to that care free age and those wondrous six weeks of school holidays,
The Prison was out ,
nothing more to learn and with any luck the place would burn .
It...
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Categories:
sod, child, grandparents,
Form:
Rhyme
Bygone Days
Bygone Days
Written: By Tom Wright
4/3/2007
Remember the slogan
“Haskell is moving, are you pushing?
The railroad depot stands no more
In the spot it occupied for so long.
Instead in it’s space, a Homeland store,
But in my memory it...
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Categories:
sod, age, eulogy, time,
Form:
Lyric
Redneck Family ReunionEvery couple 'a years or so
Our family reunites
It takes a couple 'a years or so
To recover from the fights
A family like our'n
Doesn't party like most do
Ours gets a little out of hand
That's why we...
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Categories:
sod, america, crazy, fishing, funny, humor, music, song,
Form:
Rhyme
President BicameralShe runs for President
investing less carbon footprint and dollars
than did her less permacultural rivals,
a top campaign priority.
He invests his Stone Soup platform
with organic roots of cooperative intent
inviting us to share both what we have...
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Categories:
sod, culture, environment, philosophy, political, power, science, voice,
Form:
Free verse
Requiem For An Unknown Tigress Cubstill the climbing green lianoid lass
her tender tendrils torn
massive metal lying like a cutlass
in her lap forlorn
...
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Categories:
sod, childhood, daughter, mother, war, green,
Form:
Free verse
PaddyPaddy
His name is Padraig Torrin McWheaten of County Cork, esq. – Paddy for short! He is Celtic mischief with deep brown eyes the color of Irish sod, a big, black gumdrop nose and a...
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Categories:
sod, dog,
Form:
Prose
Biting ColdIt was a freezing night in Alaska, the temperature had
dropped to well below zero, fifteen below with a driving
wind that shrieked and laughed as it sped viciously past
causing lashing snow flakes to fall...
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Categories:
sod, mountains, nature, snow, winter,
Form:
Epic
To a Public Prosecutor, Translation of Paul Verlaine's a Un Magistrat De BoueTo a Public Prosecutor or a Judge of Mud*, Translation of Paul Verlaine’s : A un magistrat de boue*
...
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Categories:
sod, judgement, , cute,
Form:
Quatrain