Long Steeping Poems
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Bodhisattva Tease
Do you share my concern
that your happiness and healthy life
are too ephemeral,
short-lived?
No! Why? Do you know something I should know?
Not likely.
Just wondering,
awed by your capacity,
your relentlessly positive
EarthAgapic energy for healthy life,
despite the...
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Categories:
steeping, culture, earth, health, history, love, political,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Lifeboat the Sinking
As to the this and the that and the how and the why,
I pass no judgement on the tale at hand.
And leave it to scribes to much later decide
...
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Categories:
steeping, adventure, allegory, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
February 27th, 2018 literary tinkering rejiggered October 11th, 2024
February 27th, 2018 literary tinkering rejiggered October 11th, 2024
I believed fortune cookie maxim
cryptic message couched
Apple Macbook Pro update process
alternately titled “markedly
a Luke warm welcome Matt unfurled
courtesy Jimmy John,
who embarked on
imp apostle bull...
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Categories:
steeping, absence, abuse, adventure, allegory, allusion, analogy, autumn,
Form:
Free verse
My Silent House
I.
GRAIL OF TIDES
from the brewing storm’s steeping chalice
the breath of death’s journey awakens in quiet tides
beckoned by the stirring whisper of mortal winds
furrowed by stoic angels in pallid temporal skies
on wings they dance with...
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Categories:
steeping, death, feelings, humanity, identity, inspiration, loss, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
Public History
I sit here steeping in the History
of Our Land, a class, my eyelids dense.
Our Flag hangs in the corner of the class
Red and White folds in deluge, licking the
framed portrait of our Thomas Jefferson,
our...
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Categories:
steeping, america, education, history, identity,
Form:
I do not know?
Rodney's Cup
RODNEY CUP:
This is ANDERSON WALKINGSHOES...
Chorus:
Aww.. Awww...
Rodney's Cup
Better days aged,
Better days wretched
Around the corner is bloomer,
Inside the room is the beholder,
Alterations on my robe,makes me reprise,
All stands for a big fact...
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Categories:
steeping, adventure,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
If I Died Today March 2nd, 2020
If I died today March 2nd, 2020...?
No matter unfulfilled dreams never came true,
nevertheless yours truly doth gladly bid adieu,
where repurposed afterlife (mine) atomic brew
reconfigured, reconstituted, and reconsolidated
out maws of madness, no matter any blues clue
(yea...
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Categories:
steeping, 10th grade, 12th grade, age, angel, bullying,
Form:
Epitaph
Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock translations of German poems
“To Edward Young”
by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock
translation by Michael R. Burch
Die, aged prophet: your crowning work your fulcrum;
now tears of joy
tremble on angel-lids
as heaven extends its welcome.
Why linger here? Have you not already built, great Mover,
a...
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Categories:
steeping, angel, death, dream, heaven, joy, night, song,
Form:
Rhyme
Still Binge Reading Bertrand Russell
Still binge reading Bertrand Russell...
9/8/2020
I plunge further into
erudite epistemological philosophication
courtesy said renown British polymath,
philosopher, logician, mathematician,
historian, writer, social critic,
political activist, and Nobel laureate.
Whew! His treatise
A History of Western Philosophy Quite profound
grist for intellectual mill
yours...
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Categories:
steeping, 12th grade, adventure, age, america, appreciation, growth,
Form:
Free verse
As the Storm Come To Pass
Enveloped in the mayhem of covid-19
We are seating ducks in our homes
Anxiously pondering about how the world post Covid- 19 would be like
Would it be welcoming?
Or rather vicious like a mad dog?
But one thing is...
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Categories:
steeping, encouraging, hope,
Form:
Free verse
Fortune Cookie Maxim Minimizes Apple Macbook Pro Update Process
agonizingly dutifully didst wait
to distract anticipatory anxiety,
(analogous to an expectant father)
while protracted procedure promised
nothing short of a millennium
whereby echoing thru the corridors of time
olly olly gluten free ranging NON GMO, oxen
oiled lubricated cloven hoof
nsync cup...
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Categories:
steeping, 10th grade, 11th grade, funny, perspective, power,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Lost Love Deliria - Part 2
Part 2
4th Delirium: Lost Souls
Sunken cities , pilgrims peering.. gawking,
squinting eyeballs, blazing sun
Janus facing, shepherds chasing.. stalking,
friends embrace before they shun
Tearooms steaming, tumult teeming.. talking,
lovers listen, poets pun
Broken stones unanchored, quaking.. rocking,
slipping, falling, one...
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Categories:
steeping, lost love,
Form:
Rhyme
Tea Talk
Ten in the night. The porch light flickers on, like a lighthouse in rural darkness. Healing begins with a door left open. An old lady at 90 sets the kettle to boil, chamomile steeping in...
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Categories:
steeping, grief, night, old,
Form:
Haibun
Incomprehensible Space Time Continuum Intrigues
Incomprehensible space/time continuum intrigues...
One insignificant, infinitesimal
incomprehensibleness cosmic speck,
who doth readily confess
swallowed within
infinite cosmic wormhole, nonetheless,
he feels mind boggled, fascinated,
transfixed... helpless to express
following concept suddenly
gripping his feeble mental compass.
I haint never gonna get
smart enough to understand
supposedly...
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Categories:
steeping, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, beauty,
Form:
Elegy
Darkness Where Now Poe and Raven Reside, Part Three
Darkness Where Now Poe And Raven Reside,
(Part Three)
Poe slowly gave distance to this great fight
With sweetest glee, his heart pounding its beat
Glorious would be this blood flowing sight
Better both should die, give beasts more to...
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Categories:
steeping, conflict, dark, death, evil, fate, fire, horror,
Form:
Rhyme
Stepping Downwards
Birds chirping roughly on an avocado tree
I curiously look upwards to see what could that noise be?
Is it a sparrow or a mockingbird?
It's plump and it has all shades of brown
I'm stepping upwards next to...
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Categories:
steeping, childhood, dedication, faith, family, happiness, history, hope,
Form:
Free verse
An Ode To the Pain of Human Hearts
I lay awake in my soft silk
staring into the empty space
that seemed to fill in my pounding heart.
what eyes hath the power
to seep through the brick of skin
and cup my emptiness,
to live, to...
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Categories:
steeping, life, loss, lost love, love, me, lost,
Form:
Ode
Long Since Stopped Binge Reading Bertrand Russell Ii
Slow and methodical
thru telling material I tiresomely did wade
steeping yours truly signature
writing stock in trade
while sprawled out on bed housed within
one bedroom apartment (B44)
Highland Manor Apartments
(situated in Schwenksville, Pennsylvania
owned by Grosse and Quade),
one...
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Categories:
steeping, absence, august, beauty, books, character, class, confusion,
Form:
Rhyme
The Path Became Bloody, the Door Forever Was Shut, Part Two
The Path Became Bloody, The Door Forever Was Shut
(Part Two)
Again, new beast has risen, as was before
Famished, seeking its first meal, blood and gore
With my sword heavy and soaked deep bloody red
I slash...
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Categories:
steeping, courage, dark, death, hope, horror, humanity, scary,
Form:
Rhyme
Division's Re-Vision Through
Southgate and Sterling discourse on the disturbing. Alarming' The focus of classes through
Which much chattering passes, in meme graph and drama a gasp'orama of division's incision draconian Intrusion, reality never meeting; insanity tries our reason,...
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Categories:
steeping, introspection,
Form:
Rhyme
The Dangers of Mankind is Man
Mara’s hair colour touched by time, her voice hedged—struggling to find its way to me
She had once tried to kill herself.
My flippant thought: Did you succeed?
She looked as she had.
An abandoned relic, bopped-up, surfacing
in her...
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Categories:
steeping, grandmother, grief, holocaust, irony, jewish, political, war,
Form:
Free verse
Bruises, Heart Murmurs and Wine
Let me pretend. There is no evidence in my room.
Let me rewind, and erase all sacred momentums.
Let me sprawl, my hatred and explode.
Thou doesn't want to see, the deep of the vitriol I dare not...
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Categories:
steeping, change, desire, eulogy, goodbye,
Form:
Verse
So Many Plums
This was the year for an abundance of plums,
the fruitlets spared by the absence of frost.
The tree was leaning, the branches drooping
with a curtain of fruit downward plunging.
Such was the challenge...
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Categories:
steeping, fruit, humor, wine,
Form:
Verse
Why Worry
Why worry...?
Within the same breath
yukon catastrophize and
make mountain range
out of molehill mental material
impossible to scale
even with best Sherpa as guide.
Take advice from expert
what if...worse case scenario
time and again no fiasco
never makes cerebral showdown
most horrendous debacle
defies...
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Categories:
steeping, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, blue,
Form:
Free verse
Phantom of the Opera
I feel for you, beyond the spectrum your eyes speak to me
Victoria my emotions is possessed by infatuation
Oh my love, please show yourself to me
I will build a kingdom, where you can be my queen
Oh...
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Categories:
steeping, love, love hurts,
Form:
Ballade