Long Spends Poems
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Beary Tales Episodes 15-24, More Poet's NotesNote to Readers of Previous Versions:
There are so many new vignettes scattered throughout the poem that I hope you will reread the whole thing! There are many new GEMS, improvements to previous verses and improved...
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Categories:
spends, adventure, beauty, friendship, innocence, love, mentor,
Form:
Quatrain
Unquotable Quotes: Journalists - Dedication To Andre Fontaine - XxviUnquotable quotes: Tale-Carriers, Gossip-Mongers, Courrier-Pigeon Caretakers, Smoke-Signal Puffers and Tom-Tom Thumpers – XXVI
Could there be such things as political shenanigans or inter-continental warfares, even catastrophes, natural disasters, tsunamis, irruptions, conflagrations, inundations, landslides, typhoons, tornadoes, hurricanes,...
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Categories:
spends, power,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
The Bailout Ballad - the Layman's LamentOne day not long past our economy faltered
And wouldn’t improve if our course were unaltered.
'Cause we buy stuff at Wal-Mart (where things are dirt cheap)
'Cause they buy from China (treats workers like sheep
(So farmers left...
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Categories:
spends, business, humor, humorous, money, political, satire,
Form:
Couplet
RegenerateREGENERATE :
Doctorated at a premium university,
Lost his concentration to absurdity,
Discarded his desire for rationality.
Sorry for this dude's unfortunate category.
As solemn as his heart aches,
Peace was lost from the face.
Deep troubles that he stake,
Wrong squad...
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Categories:
spends, adventure, celebration, dedication, destiny,
Form:
Lyric
Operating At a LossI
How long have I been doing this
Throwing my time & money
Into a hole
Filling up notebooks
Mining overheard conversation
For lines
Squeezing the sponge
Of my wine soaked
Mind
Into the bucket
Of poetry
And now here we are
Gulping down the
Lead tainted water
Like Romans
Romans
Forced...
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Categories:
spends, anger, destiny, political,
Form:
Free verse
Look Through Any WindowIf you could look through any window
Of any house on any given street,
You might find yourself quite surprised
At the variety of people you would meet.
The couple at number twenty-three
Have been married nearly seven years
They...
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Categories:
spends, community,
Form:
Couplet
The DebateA Debate
The Atheist
I see no reason for a god
Indeed for any type of god at all
I look around at all the churchmen
The pompous richly dressed ones
And wonder what their founder would have thought
And then at...
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Categories:
spends, philosophy, god, god, universe, , atheist,
Form:
Free verse
The Mountain PeopleDaylight breaks through the gate and a bright light shine intensely on my face from a distance. I wasn’t sure what was going on, but I fold one arm and held on tightly to the...
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Categories:
spends, best friend, books, business, change, childhood, community,
Form:
Narrative
Personal Vicissitudes Pronounced Irrepressible Self LoathingPersonal vicissitudes pronounced irrepressible self loathing
Ever since mine late boyhood
when unstoppable coded
cellular processes did segue
I experienced abhorrence
toward yours truly,
an extremely introverted kid,
whose parents nor siblings
(one younger and older sister) could
not arouse him
out of...
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Categories:
spends, 12th grade, 2nd grade, anger, anxiety, bereavement,
Form:
Free verse
MaselimboMasalembo
2016 © Fleetwood
Blue-green ocean tipped with whitecaps rolling toward the shore
Plane is humming with the pilot talking about life and your ride is there parked on the hill for easy starting next to the palm...
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Categories:
spends, work,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Awaiting a growth spurt that never happenedAwaiting a growth spurt that never happened
When a boy,
I wanted to be as tall as my father
(he passed away October seventh
two thousand and twenty
linkedin to congestive heart failure),
who stood at his prime
about six feet and...
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Categories:
spends, 12th grade, 9th grade, anger, angst, birth,
Form:
Free verse
While Waiting For My Return Flight Home"You in the military?"
I was confused at first and didn't know why the man would ask me such a question. But then I remembered my recent haircut.
"No... is it because I shaved my head, that...
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Categories:
spends, bereavement, life, stress, travel,
Form:
Narrative
EgoEgo a three letter word,
rules a man's world,
and make him wish,
he ruled the world!
With it in his head
man feels he is the best,
definitely better than the rest.
About himself he always praises.
Ego make him buy things
weather...
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Categories:
spends, life,
Form:
Free verse
A BlossomingAlthough I had always adored flowers, I had never had a green thumb;
And while I tried awfully hard, my efforts always had sorry outcomes.
Like the sorrow of old garden roses, during the unanticipated drought,
Or storms...
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Categories:
spends, beautiful, fantasy, flower, garden, happiness, imagery, people,
Form:
Couplet
Roaring TwentiesRoaring Twenties
Nostalgia and age like bacon and eggs,
With buttered toast and jam on the side for breakfast;
And coffee, and a glass of orange juice to drink,
And a memory in-between to rethink.
The day begins with boring...
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Categories:
spends, america, culture, education, history, perspective, society, usa,
Form:
Verse
Dear Friend, Waiting For Youflying over Gulf of Mexico
...
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Categories:
spends, best friend, bird,
Form:
Personification
When You Wear a Dirty ShirtWhen you wear a dirty shirt,
You're a book getting judged by its cover.
People think you're really poor, or nutty,
Or that you have a menial job.
Or that you're all three of those,
And then they throw in...
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Categories:
spends, humor,
Form:
Free verse
Friends - About How Avid Antiquers View Their Most Cherished PiecesOn a long extended trip, to a far off foreign place,
In a shop of fine antiquities, this old and friendly face
Approached my wife and I and asked, “And where are you folks from?”
And I replied,...
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Categories:
spends, friendship,
Form:
Narrative
Start the DayLisa and I were watching one of our favorite series last night, a Japanese manga called “The Way of the Househusband” and I could barely keep my eyes open. I went to bed at a...
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Categories:
spends, angst, friendship, humor, school, student, teacher, work,
Form:
Free verse
Muppets In the Soup - Join InWrite a limerick of your own about a Muppet.
If you post it in a comment or in soup mail to me,
and I find it appropriate, I'll add it on. ;-)
Sesame Street's Count von...
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Categories:
spends, fun,
Form:
Limerick
Highlights From Highland ManorHighlights from Highland Manor
Courtesy Goofus and Gallant
who began their broadly-drawn
moral plays in the 1950s,
initially depicted as identical twins,
but later on, editors for Highlights
indicated the two were brothers,
but not twins, and...
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Categories:
spends, adventure, age, animal, celebration, environment, green, july,
Form:
Rhyme
Free Cee Naughty Neon NightsNAUGHTY NEON NIGHTS
Apron strings gave way to springs unstrung
her hubby made her cry
when he said baby, bye-bye
and so she had to think of what to do now ...
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Categories:
spends, angst, night, money, night,
Form:
Free verse
Peggy Cahill Divine Heavenly LadyPeggy Cahill divine heavenly lady
Saint Vincent dePaul Food Pantry
at Saint Mary's Parish
in Spring Mount blessed,
graced, and praised
courtesy grateful recipient,
he who crafts these words.
Acknowledgement forthcoming today
June 11th, 2022
Matthew Scott Harris
expresses gratitude concerning largesse
regarding quite a...
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Categories:
spends, adventure, angel, appreciation, beautiful, bible, blessing, community,
Form:
Free verse
The Window Of My SoulShe stood at the window all day watching the children at play, she never leaves that room she stands there morning, night and noon, and the only time she leaves that place is when she...
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Categories:
spends, animal, blessing, business, change, community, culture, environment,
Form:
Narrative
Cat and MouseGrimm's Fairy Tale:
Cat and Mouse in Partnership
Summary:
A cat befriends a mouse and is so persuasive about her fondness for the smaller animal that the mouse agrees they should set up house together. The cat...
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Categories:
spends, animal, cat, children, fairy, fantasy, irony, myth,
Form:
Rhyme