Long Spenserian Poems

Spring

As He looked down from the heavens above,
He created spring and prepared the earth.
He decided Eden needed more love
and made this the season for a new birth.

A perfect garden but man was alone.
One night He...

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"Whoever you are -- I have always depended on the kindness of strangers."
-- Blanche speaking to whoever you are

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Ladies and Gentlemen Callers!
Tonight for your listening pleasure --
Madame Goddam!
...

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Rejection of worldly goods has been seen
as means for spiritual growth, to lead
a life in balance with HIS will, to wean
every material thing with no greed.

It's said, the poverty of spirit freed
one to empty of...

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Where will they go, those creatures of the wild;
  
their territory lost through human cause.
 
Confused, they enter private yards; exiled,

they're waved or shushed away without a pause.

Wealth traded for the end of forest...

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The old, relaxed; we pour ourselves a glass.
There is no need to stretch or change our way.
We know the flavors here; the only task:
ensuring it is just like yesterday.
Like sediment, this attitude does weigh;
we lie...

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or  

The Prejudice Most Precious

"Mothers are the most maniacal of mass murderers."
-- not yours the child killed
by a teenage mass school shooter  

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"O! ...

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Remember that kid who followed you around
Or sometimes led you by the hand? 
Who kept you up nights with impossible questions
About mysteries that no one can understand?

Then one day, he up and locked his door
And...

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"The universe is an implacable force sans any intention period."
-- Physics 101, 
Lesson 1: "The Horror!  The Horror!"  
 
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In Dixie, all us kin...

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T’is the season of jolly and such fun
Ending a year and starting out brand new
Others will be looking to the long run
Uplifting many with words from a few
Celebrating the new binding like glue
Moving together with...

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(Re: Old Poems)



Far away on the moor, wind creeps quiet:
When the golden rays fade and the day's gone;
From a nook rustling in the woods of night,
Cries a whippoorwill ever and anon.
Thickets skirting and swirling untill...

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They set aside views sometimes avoiding conflict real.
Voicing their concerns to no-one that matters truly,
Ones that stir the pot, while time is what they steal,
These voices in shadows sustain all that’s unruly.
Riding the severity, ripping...

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CLEAR    VISION

In a distant crowd innumerable
Our friends  -  like stars  -  look rather similar.
Their very sameness seems immutable:
Bland and unused days on our calendar.

Some dimly fill the nightly...

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I was obsessed
with a thought of winning her
but my true feelings she never assessed
yet hope I lost never
hoping that positivity wins ever
I continued to impress with feelings pure and true 
she smiled, said meet at...

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You're startin to feel lonely, the guilt is settin in, it's changing,
you're only so strong as you portray, and now it's fading-
into a red bubbling mess, boiling, rearranging
into something new, indestructible and its paying-
for the...

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This is the last poem forming a trilogy of Spenserian Sonnets written in trochee pentameter relating to the sea. The first poem is titled Mike's Bar, second poem Shanghaied, third poem Bucket Of Bolts.


Servin' me...

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A dreaming beam of light sighs knowingly
Teasing with cool pride and shining brightly
The blushing sky moans mercifully 
Mum with quiet snowy strain 
At the same time, moving gently in the quiet terrain
The wintry wind sings...

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On this last railroad journey, all’s ablaze
new stars pulse over veins of feathered trees,
and melt in their faint blinks of night's decrees
they flicker through me white solace and haze. 

Quite often, I have scanned the...

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Obsession
                      (Spenserian Sonnet)

     You came with songs of love’s gifts...

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The night reveals the beauty of your love,
As senses fall, one by one, it’s you I see,
I am below and you – you are above,
A goddess taking all her want from me.
In your embrace you...

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RIVER


The river has a flowing power strong
By rocks and weeds it’s guided in its pace 
If you put in a foot that’s somehow wrong
The flow soon wipes away your very trace

So hug the bank, avoid...

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Celibacy 

Buxom spouse desired of most any man
 His love his life must nature wash away 
  Voluptuous swaying hips man’s eyes scan 
   His gaze into those hazel eyes doeth sway...

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The therapist became her endless shame.
A married man with children still at home,
Too soon began to play the cheating game.
Just like before his lust began to roam.
Her shattered life was scattered like sea foam.
And childhood...

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Our love had been built on a firm foundation
Trust, compassion and fidelity as well
I thought there’d be no cause for consternation
We thrived for a time in a magical spell
He was my white knight and I...

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Out hunting in the woods, late in the fall
I came upon a wild persimmon tree
Strewn all around were reddish-yellow balls
A treasure it had dropped, now mine for free

With empty game bag down upon one knee
Inspecting...

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To kiss moist lips and taste their sweet desire
Then see the need, that want, through lust filled eyes
How quickly sparks ignite a night on fire
Flame so intense, it burns out at sunrise

The morning after comes...

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