Long Spanning Poems
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Polypathic Political ScientistsI have had a highly redundant,
one might even choose polypathic,
graduate studies experience
spanning my adult life to date.
This began with a semester of Philosophy.
Just enough to learn I wanted something more experiential,
a more communitarian environment of...
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Categories:
spanning, beauty, culture, health, political, religion, trust, truth,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The Tower RebuiltI shall resolve to leave this
Place now...
And steadfastly search out,
Nestling between ridge and bluff
Amidst the folds of a foreign
Land,
Several acres of unkempt ground
Fallow and rough;
Upon which stands...
Crumbled stone walls
With an exposed slate roof in
Some...
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Categories:
spanning, hope,
Form:
Rhyme
DreamsDreams……
In your Dreams, what is it that you see when you close your eyes at night?
In your Dreams, are you alone? Is there a special feeling of something or someone that you can feel but...
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Categories:
spanning, fantasy,
Form:
I do not know?
GrimfreeNote:
Dear Chris,
I could go into souls as mindbody identities with interdependently co-arising individuation, also known as living, and incarnation, but my gut says to go to your 4-soul prototype that has been useful in your...
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Categories:
spanning, birth, creation, culture, deep, destiny, happiness, health,
Form:
Narrative
Spring Equinox Arrives March 20th, 2023 At 5:24 PmSpring equinox arrives March 20th, 2023 at 5:24 PM
Despite what outside temperature registers
(even absolute zero), the official arrival
of spring occurs, when thee eel hip tic
of coe phish hunt holy Mackerel
becomes tangential to barenaked ladies
barren...
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Categories:
spanning, 12th grade, appreciation, beautiful, butterfly, celebration, daffodils,
Form:
Free verse
La La Di Dah Dah LaEarth dwelling mongeese are neither toys nor coins and pedalling backwards then forward is not considered the primary way of jet propulsion off a very high hill. So one two ping means fried rice coming?...
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Categories:
spanning, allusion, baptism,
Form:
I do not know?
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 21
Before them lay the bridge. It was a beautiful arch spanning a small estuary that was bordered on one side by the rock and bolder strewn beach dotted here in there with mostly dying...
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Categories:
spanning, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Leaving a book incompletely read tantamount to being sacrilegiousPreface:
On February 4, 1861,
the seven states that had seceded
by this point convened and created
the Confederate States of America
under the leadership of Jefferson Davis.
Just under two months later,
on April 12, 1861, Confederate forces
opened fire on...
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Categories:
spanning, absence, america, anxiety, baptism, bereavement, break up,
Form:
Free verse
A Dream Come TreeI had for long been an arborist, enthusiastically caring for the trees,
Like a grasshopper immersed in a green world, is glad for all he sees.
I had always loved nature, having begun gardening when I was...
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Categories:
spanning, beauty, dream, fantasy, imagery, magic, nature, tree,
Form:
Couplet
In the Forest, a TreeTo a perfectly perfect stranger
met on a time on the river bank
I asked a simple question,
“How should I live my life
and live life to the full?”
He smiled at me, His eyes dark, wise and...
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Categories:
spanning, allegory,
Form:
I do not know?
Upon Exiting the WombUpon exiting the womb...
23,190 days ago,
Yours truly got hashtagged
as the 2,975,075,410TH
person alive on Earth
according to website
https://worldpopulationhistory.org/
my-population-number/.
Come November 15, 2022
(a little more than
four months from now -
actually one hundred twenty days
after today July 11, 2022),
the world's...
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Categories:
spanning, adventure, africa, america, birth, creation, crush, destiny,
Form:
Free verse
A Midsummer Night's BeachWhen I was a girl, still on the island
I’d sit in the sand
and brood
and revel
in what I thought was utter enlightenment
a teenage rebel
with dime-store refinement
We were all this way, and there is no shame
In the...
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Categories:
spanning, beauty, color, creation, sea, summer, truth, youth,
Form:
Free verse
Seat of KingsA stone round standing fortress crowns forever beauty
The name translated to english Grianan means sunny spot or sun temple
The land bows down inspirational the view
seat of the high kings dating back to 1700 B.C
Overlooking...
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Categories:
spanning, beautiful, green, inspirational, ireland,
Form:
Free verse
Empty Nest Syndrome, Plus Lapsed Romances RevisitedEmpty nest syndrome, plus lapsed romances revisited...
courtesy Matthew Scott Harris
sentimental memorialized mental archive
No matter mine eldest daughter
(born December 22nd, 1996)
starred circa within storied
Matthew Scott Harris family
rendition of Breaking Home Ties.
Now interspersed with
following recherché trivia:
originally titled...
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Categories:
spanning, abuse, anger, bereavement, cry, daughter, father, introspection,
Form:
Bio
Stand By Your Man For ContestI call you Mr Primitive
Because no one will know who you are
Another little secret we now share
We go way back in time
Spanning three decades I believe
Are we really that old?
Such time has passed
We are still...
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Categories:
spanning, appreciation, inspiration, inspirational, love, mentor, universe,
Form:
Free verse
A Tale Told By Trees
A tale told by trees, rooted
in the things that yearn
far from sight and light of day
deep within the earth…
Wisdom, cautious, heeds -
woe befalls one who disturbs
a tale told by trees.
Long ere innocence was lost,
drinking deep...
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Categories:
spanning, assonance, corruption, creation,
Form:
Other
Alligator CharmShe maneuvers gracefully without fins or flippers
creating no ripples in deep blue waters
sneaking calmly upon jittery preys
and disguise herself in the middle of the day
A sudden thrust from beneath the fog
she buries herself under a...
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Categories:
spanning, love, wisdom,
Form:
Didactic
Time of DeathTime is your only friend,
That stays with you from beginning to end.
An immortal guide for your immortal life,
On this very short little ride.
From the womb to the tomb,
Just a short put to doom.
Spanning the years,
Flames...
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Categories:
spanning, christian, death, fate, god, grave, jesus, mystery,
Form:
Rhyme
A Wish For a New DayWhat happened to my boisterous boy,
beloved keeper
...
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Categories:
spanning, bird, day, emotions, loneliness, nature, sky,
Form:
Free verse
Odyssey From Africa 14bChapter 14b (King Ptolemy the Second)
With a travel bag to carry
Their belongings and essentials
And they rode by wheel-borne carriage
On the road down to the harbour
There they stepped aboard the vessel
That would take...
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Categories:
spanning, adventure, africa, history, inspirational, myth, nature, voyage,
Form:
Narrative
Atomic Brinkmanship Double Edged Sword of DamoclesGrisly bared horror jawbones Kristallnacht
totalitarian brandishes, flaunts, launches
global threat half cocked.
Vladimir Putin itching
to loose nuclear bomb
end of the world scenario ofttimes
iterated throughout history
though an atheist (actually Unitarian),
no doubt this, that or another psalm
countless times...
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Categories:
spanning, 11th grade, 12th grade, age, angst, cry,
Form:
Rhyme
You Are My Muse - a Tribute To EileenI wonder: would you make me your mistress
lost in a world of poetry under your wings
I’ll celebrate heaven's gift; more to me a tortured love
wretched wishes: life's greatest anguish
our heaven's in sight, you see...
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Categories:
spanning, muse, poems, poetess, poetry, poets,
Form:
Other
The Meaning of Life: Extinction Or TranscendenceSince humanity first became a sentient species, aware of time, space and its own mortality, there has been only one question that matters:are we just clever animals destined for nothingness, or does a part of...
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Categories:
spanning, appreciation, atheist, death, god, spiritual, world,
Form:
Prose
Pledging Poetic Collaboration I AimEqual copyrights we can both claim
renown impossible mission to envision
just the experience to become linkedin
with literary talents of another motive
couched within these lines I exclaim
no idea regarding the specifics
how to kickstart joint effort game
undoubtedly enterprising...
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Categories:
spanning, adventure, appreciation, blessing, celebration, confidence, devotion, dream,
Form:
Rhyme
Common LanguageThat language you speak,
the one you didn’t have to learn from anyone,
the very original, very human, yet very celestial one
The one you spoke to herald your arrival,
as you made entrance, from the celestial to the...
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Categories:
spanning, allegory, inspirational, introspection, mystery, philosophy, language, joy,
Form:
Ode