Long Starves Poems
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Let's Be KinderIn his essay "Let's Be Reasonable"
Rev. Todd Eklof [The Gadfly Papers]
reduces reasonable to logical;
This is a common left-brain dominant error,
confusion between deductive premises
and coldly reductive conclusions
calculated assuming cause v effect linear formulas
more than feedback...
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Categories:
starves, health, humanity, integrity, math, political, power, relationship,
Form:
Political Verse
Mating of the Rich and FamousI once walked into my backyard
and found two slugs mating in a bucket
I had just learned how slugs go about mating,
or trust-I would have been rightly confused
Here hangs a long line of slime, almost...
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Categories:
starves, animal, beauty, cat, dance, love, nature,
Form:
Prose
Healing Grandmother's EarthCould you more faithfully believe?
Your enemies
probably do not sacrifice their first born children
right before they eat them
And they do not worship
big
predative Jewish
and terrorizing Muslim
ruthlessly bought and sold
international pagan colonizing corporations.
Could we believe
in cooperative...
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Categories:
starves, allusion, earth day, environment, green, health, humanity,
Form:
Political Verse
Not Your NegroLast night I was mesmerized
by James Baldwin
in a documentary
"I Am Not Your Negro"
in which Baldwin reflects on
Medger, Malcolm, and Martin
who were shot in that order
within six years of each other,
all under age forty,
by guns newer...
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Categories:
starves, community, health, history, integrity, love, race, racism,
Form:
Political Verse
Red China's World Domination's Date PlansWe were aware of Red China's Communist's President plans to achieve world dominion by 2035 or even earlier. But are we aware he plans "to flatten America by as early as 2025!" As well as...
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Categories:
starves, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Narrative
Gemini Garden-Silent One“birds care not for whom they sing” - Silent One
The Gemini Garden stays close to mountain springs.
In this magic garden, countless flowers bloom and wither,
With pruned trees, shrubs and sprawling lawns,
And beds of geraniums...
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Categories:
starves, appreciation, bird, garden,
Form:
Free verse
Ode To Taylor Swift and the Car Park IncidentOde to Taylor Swift and the Car Park Incident
Today I saw the most ridiculous thing
Taylor Swift existing backwards from a car park
So she wouldn’t be seen
On her un-best side that is
Does she...
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Categories:
starves, celebrity, humor, satire,
Form:
Ode
Maos China Must FallBeyond what’s said and be done,
Lies the hideous Black Sun,
Whose aim is to run a’ground,
To tear and destroy all around,
Plan in the years passed away,
Silent this Dragon appeared to stay,
But behind this stillness insidious lay,
When...
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Categories:
starves, america, conflict, courage, crush, military, usa, war,
Form:
Quatrain
God, Do You Understand My LanguageGod, my mother told me,
You are the embodiment of love.
Since then, I have adored you most.
But I wonder do you understand me?
I read your book in the foreign language
of those who rule us.
Are you on...
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Categories:
starves, atheist, bible, discrimination, faith, grief, irony, literature,
Form:
Light Verse
Beneath the frozen dome of a late December, I learned with melancholyBeneath the frozen dome of a late December, I learned with melancholy
That those who gave me wings are not the titans I summoned in my childhood dreams,
But two earthlings, stirring my dreams into an aura,...
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Categories:
starves, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
Our World Without Colour - RemasteredClassic silent films
Redundant technicolour
Piano plays mood
Panther and snow leopard duelling with chess
Under a scintillating firmament
A dome of diamonds floating on infinity
Moonlight softly slicing the shadows
Illuminating their world of concentration
Alternating attrition
Pawn takes pawn
Bishop takes pawn
Rook takes...
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Categories:
starves, allegory, animal, color, conflict, food, parody, surreal,
Form:
Free verse
Doctor Rippy Tampa General Hospital Aged TwelveWhen i was a young boy - ink stained test once with the girl
and the ink was sweet he 'said';
it made us unclean this test, from the man for he was the tester;
And that picture...
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Categories:
starves, 12th grade, abuse, anger,
Form:
Bio
Our World Without ColourClassic silent films
Redundant technicolour
Piano plays mood
Panther and snow leopard
Duelling with chess
Under a scintillating firmament
A dome of diamonds floating on infinity
Moonlight softly slicing the shadows
Illuminating their world of concentration
Alternating attrition
Pawn takes pawn
Bishop takes pawn
Rook takes pawn
Knight...
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Categories:
starves, allegory, animal, color, fantasy, humanity, light, parody,
Form:
Free verse
Insomnia1am: The clock strikes like bolts of lightning as my brain rapidly
fires neurons creating a torturous play field in my tired mind.
Pangs of loneliness hit me like a full speed train.
My bed feels emptier than...
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Categories:
starves, sleep, spoken word,
Form:
Personification
Brainstorma diabolical grace ...
dark, deep, warm-black arms of
an endless night wrap me ...
head thrown back in abdication -
arms spread wide in surrender,
falling backward, back, back, onto a
hard dogwood blackness ...
nails of my own stark weakness
fasten...
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Categories:
starves, abuse, addiction, analogy, introspection, metaphor, truth,
Form:
Free verse
Turning Mud Pie into Poetry Soup, Part Ate
Kapow! Here’s mud in your face!
Poetasting rhymes, rhythms and nuclear waste.
Playing in mud pits, kitchens and certainly laced
Everyting that’s made . . . in this mysterious place.
Prob’ly shouldn’t eat this...
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Categories:
starves, appreciation, poets,
Form:
Rhyme
The Insatiable HungerWritten: August 14, 2023
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Today's man, a vessel of desire,
Feeds his body with mutant foods,
Yet hunger deeper, his soul afire,
Cravings are what incite the wildest moods.
In today's world, he falls into a sea of abounds
Consuming without...
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Categories:
starves, analogy, drink, garden, inspirational,
Form:
Rhyme
GenerationI continue to think
About the daily situations that happen
In our generation
Hating is spreading
Like the movie contagion
The virus is spreading
Through the iris
Because everything we see
Influences us to be
The very people we
Idolize...
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Categories:
starves, growing up, inspirational, people, uplifting, life, people,
Form:
Rhyme Royal
Tell MeDon't tell me my dreams are dependent on a twenty thousand dollar tuition fee. Don't tell me, you scored high in this and low in that, so this is what you can be. Don't tell...
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Categories:
starves, political, slam, words, me, me,
Form:
Rhyme
Blinded By Tears Or Ignorancehttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/shankmrbob/00290-24.jpg
^visit the above link
thoughts of emotional detachment
yet I'm so happy that I cried
how selfish of me
to take joy in sadness
their eyes filled with hope
the sparkle fading fast
like yesterdays dream of bread
or of a loving hug
maybe...
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Categories:
starves, life, people, sad, joy,
Form:
Free verse
The Evils of WarWas not every one a child?
Joy to their mother and father
And growing up as a kid
With wonder and laughter
Then they go to school
Playing games having fun
And become a voice for others
When they don’t have...
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Categories:
starves, angst, history, introspection, life, philosophy, war, war,
Form:
Light Verse
The FlowWho turned the taps off so tight?
Let’s dance through the evening
Embrace through the night.
Sip from the fountain, cool
morning sun on our faces,
blinking, so bright.
Laughing, racing
drinking it in. Follow the traces.
Cutting a dash, careless delight
Swish...
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Categories:
starves, emotions, feelings, how i feel, love, metaphor,
Form:
Rhyme
Raggle Taggle Gypsy
Raggle Taggle gypsy boy
born somewhere different
in the countryside, though
not far from a big city.
Hanzi, at the age of eight
he used to live as a gypsy boy,
going from here to there
and everywhere.
He has never had...
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Categories:
starves, allegory, allusion, blessing, dance, england, freedom, lonely,
Form:
Free verse
Mama's GirlKnee high to a grasshopper
That was yesterday
I try to slow or stop her
But she refuses to stay
My baby she'll be
Until I am no more
She'll hold my memory
As I knock on Heaven's door
I often forget to...
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Categories:
starves, caregiving, change, daughter, emotions, growing up,
Form:
Free verse
Hate MailIt comes to you in the post
the first day you’re born
certified and normalized your invoice of sale
in Christmas cards sent you
while you’re at school
authorized, depersonalized
let’s all hope you do not fail
It falls on...
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Categories:
starves, people, social, society,
Form:
Free verse