Long Softened Poems
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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:
softened, bible,
Form:
Ballad
Week 3 - Brian's Poet of Note - 'Richard Wilbur Part 1'Imitation! Creative Compliment, Lacking in Originality, or Plagiarism?
This week takes me back to college days. I was taking a graduate course (as a Physics major) in 'Modern Poets' at the University of...
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Categories:
softened, love, poetry, poets, , Lullaby,
Form:
Free verse
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 14Joulupukki awoke early the next morning and hurriedly dressed. His intention was to catch DynDoeth before the crowds started gathering in the eating hall. He had but one question for him that he...
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Categories:
softened, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Covid Walkthermometer reads zero, a chilly breeze blows
apple cores thrown, the blackbirds feed
my multi-layered partner dons her wooly hat
impatiently, she waits for me
securing covid masks amidst my overcoat
...
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Categories:
softened, anxiety, feelings, humanity, journey, life,
Form:
Verse
A World Without Pity Part IiI will begin my story with this concise summary,
Of the amazing things that have happened to me;
After I had lost a home, where I'd lived my life long,
So they could build a highway, for the...
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Categories:
softened, adventure, earth, fantasy, love, nature, peace, science
Form:
Couplet
Lifeboat To Hunt a ShrillPart 5
They continued to fry under a blistering sky
With little water to stifle the heat.
When the Hippo put forth, "Considering our course,
We have entered the waters of...
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Categories:
softened, adventure, allegory, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 93Their sighting of the Village came more quickly than they anticipated, only a few hours after Joulupukki had mentioned it to Lumi.
“Well, sooner than expected,” Joulupukki said aloud., “almost straight...
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Categories:
softened, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Heavens's Poker GameIn the beginning after God had finished creating this land.
Satan boldly challenged the heavens for the absolute control of man.
Gods’ architectural blueprint stretched for ages across the sky
He watered the...
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Categories:
softened, bible, christian, conflict, emotions, encouraging, god, satire,
Form:
Rhyme
Thinking Out Loud
~writer's notes~
i think out loud
from my fingers to a keyboard
so forgive me if my speak
is somewhat long winded
if it has swirls and curls
this is me
hopefully you want to hear
my voice in its totality
~the prologue~
just...
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Categories:
softened, angel, beauty, love,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
My Love, My Hope, My GoddessMy Love, my Hope, my Goddess there can be no words formed by mortal lips sufficient to proclaim the glory which lived in me the season your love bloomed so completely within my life. My...
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Categories:
softened, heartbreak, loneliness, lost love, love, muse, pain,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Pipe Lines of Kaimu: Much Ado About PoiWelcome to a typical 'Luau' spread. The first thing that is best to learn is the Hawaiian word, 'ono', which means, delicious. It's a word bandied about before and after food goes in your mouth....
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Categories:
softened, allusion, analogy, appreciation, culture, food, motivation, together,
Form:
Narrative
Ghost Hunter - ContinuedThe elderly, the injured,
The deficient, the mentally ill,
The sick, the chastened,
The weary, the suicidal,
The innocent, the broken,
The lost, lost, LOST ...
You are NOT there with them ...
Only sadness and loss and pain.
The animals, the...
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Categories:
softened, philosophy, religion, self,
Form:
Free verse
Christmas Dream Within the ChildI woke last night and read my Poe
and asked is all that we see or seem
but a dream within a dream of a dream?
I know what I don’t know what I know.
In Bethlehem’s cradle, a...
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Categories:
softened, blessing, child, christmas, family, hope, philosophy, star,
Form:
Lyric
The Jewel Of Jesus -
Who's that girl by the ancient tree...
She's the daughter of a butcher, quiet and pouty...
She's always there, contemplating unspoken prophecy...
She scribbles poetry,
they say her Mother is a sibyl raving...
Solitude serves her like the aroma of...
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Categories:
softened, destiny, farewell, jesus, love,
Form:
Epic
Ambrosial AphroditeO beloved chevalier,
cloaked in shimmering champagne armor,
tonight I long to feel your sultry skin,
embroidered with emerald embellishments
and twinkling teal topaz,
tailored to tempt,
veiling these tanned desires.
My soul sways to a chained string
of...
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Categories:
softened, devotion,
Form:
Alliteration
Addictive LiberationsI need to talk about addictions,
about my addiction issues,
and maybe yours.
Addiction gets a deserved bad rap
but that doesn't mean we have no more
than mean-spirited possibilities.
Our first addiction,
and, for the lucky ones,
the functional extended multigenerational
multicultural families
and...
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Categories:
softened, addiction, caregiving, health, integrity, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Love Letters Beneath the Moonlight - a Collaboration With Frederic Parker
My love for you
is beyond prophecy or endowment
and lay before you a love letter from the heart
beneath the moonlight's glow
where our eyes find a silent understanding
that embraces each passionate emotion
swirling and entwined in the depth...
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Categories:
softened, beauty, desire, destiny, devotion, moon, night, romantic
Form:
Free verse
On the Cindered Shoulders of Confused Men
“Fire burning in a hill
The lines are rocky rough
Red angels wait to pick remains
The cindered shoulder
Of confused men”
(Peter Murphy)
"On the Cindered Shoulders of Confused Men"
Close your eyes it was all just a bad...
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Categories:
softened, betrayal, dark, destiny, fate, mirror, trust, truth,
Form:
Free verse
Owlology 101This is a poem I wrote last year for my grand children....one loves bird...future ornithologist, maybe?
Owls belong to one of two different families or classes,
Even though there are more than 216 types in their masses,
The...
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Categories:
softened, bird, education, children, kids, nature, , cute,
Form:
Rhyme
Sea ImpressionWave a sea softened
and a pain and a tenderness
...
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Categories:
softened, allegory, angel, baptism, beach, beautiful, beauty, butterfly,
Form:
Ballade
2015Starched tears stream, crust
over like a spoiled sweet on
pink cheeks, flushed,
from suffocated time,
gasping for air,
I shatter at his words like brittle rust,
crushed to dust,
mind meek.
Fifth time this week.
Shallow breaths to Karma Police,
struggle to...
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Categories:
softened, abuse, addiction, anxiety, emo, emotions, hurt, poetry,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Through it allTo the lily moon that
never forsakes me~
amidst the cruel constellations
that left me stranded in
a melancholic maze
of rain-kissed memories.
I’ll write this prose for you,
on periwinkle paper
perfumed with geranium grace,
in rhyme-less...
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Categories:
softened, emotions,
Form:
Romanticism
Spring-Tide - Memories On the BreezeOh ...
Spring-tide ...
Always things that juxtapose,
Life never flows as smoothly as a gentle rill 'round a stone.
Brief notes of harmony, torn asunder by a cacophony of chaos,
Turmoil the norm ... reality the chill that bites...
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Categories:
softened, appreciation, life, lost love, memory, metaphor, nature,
Form:
Free verse
July MatineeTuck into the public
private seclusion.
My aversion to inclusion
includes a stub, a tub,
a carelessly careful curation,
a velvet rope, a hint of hope,
a folding chair, softened and stickied
by foam and frothing soda spills.
A not soundless though...
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Categories:
softened, love, onomatopoeia,
Form:
Free verse
The Last ShowThe stage was so spectacular I had to wear my glasses.
They only let a handful in with extraordinary passes;
written in a scripted font and lined with foiled gold,
for those of us who had one, they...
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Categories:
softened, 7th grade, 8th grade, 9th grade, adventure,
Form:
Rhyme