Long Stiffly Poems
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Ante Bellum
“ANTE BELLUM”
BEIGEBest served where it can’t be seen
On Stirling Silver platters
With redruM narcotics
Delivered by sharp Blood-Red
Well-mannered talons
Strutting in sleek wet rolling tight-skirted
Long French Silk Stockinged legs all the way down to
Lethal Six Inch stilettos...
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Categories:
stiffly, america, bible, corruption, imagery, war,
Form:
Free verse
And Still I Drive - Part One
Stars fall under failing skies...stars fall...stars fall...
And sadly...i start to drive.
Through the unremarkable village with its tall
Georgian Bay window panes, lightless,
devoid of visages; outwardly staring back at my
Abject countenance with detached contempt and...
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Categories:
stiffly, heartbreak, places,
Form:
Rhyme
Preface
Greetings to those who would willingly seek admission to theater of the absurd. Zoltan Goliath and Otis Trench are masters of the avant-garde genre silent musicals for the imaginary stage, an art form sui generis....
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Categories:
stiffly, allegory, literature,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
The Job - Part 2
On the plane I meditated or at least I tried to. Most of the time I get a seat to myself. These days it’s just a ****ing Greyhound in the sky. I...
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Categories:
stiffly, death, desire, first love,
Form:
Narrative
Escape From Horror
When I first awoke in this hospital, they tell me I had stared straight ahead and never uttered a word. I was in shock for a while, but now Dr. Albright, the therapist assigned to...
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Categories:
stiffly, horror,
Form:
Narrative
Calibration
Here I stand, entirely symmetrical
with the longitudinal lines
that thrusts perfectly through
the balance of our planet
with not a moment of fluctuation.
Stiffly positioned in a direct stance,
ensuring not a single curve
in the chain...
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Categories:
stiffly, 12th grade, blessing, care, creation, religion, strength,
Form:
Free verse
A Lost Touch
I touched her hand and the warmth of her soul
rushed my veins like a mad river,
obliterating all doubts.
Would that I survive the tumult, the undying desire
to touch her skin again, even for a moment, to...
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Categories:
stiffly, missing you,
Form:
Free verse
Odyssey From Africa 13d 14a
Chapter 13d
Yet at length he reawakened
As if in another lifetime
Han discerned a sound and movement
Stiffly rose to look about him
And he saw his precious Matto
Crouching near him in the vessel!
That was now...
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Categories:
stiffly, adventure, africa, animal, children, mythology, sea, voyage,
Form:
Narrative
My Visit To Nirmal Hriday
Perhaps from my childhood, it had been my burning desire,
To glance Nirmal Hriday (Pure Heart) - a home I did admire;
At the thought of Kolkotta - Mother's house - my heart did churn,
To be with...
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Categories:
stiffly, caregiving, dedication, happiness, joy, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Black Up My Brown
Let me jump into your river run rich as Euphrates.
Let me lay in your tall grass valleys nestled between two hard black mountain peaks,
where I
Can drink up the sunrays.
...
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Categories:
stiffly, girlfriend-boyfriend, love, nature, passionme, sweet, earth, me,
Form:
I do not know?
Al Dente Western
He rides his horse into town with dramatic cowboy flair
where suddenly a certain amount of tension fills the air
wide rimmed cowboy hat pulled down low
with guns strapped to his sides ready to go
All the townsfolk...
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Categories:
stiffly, angst, food, , western,
Form:
Rhyme
A Night To Remember (Continued)
A Night To Remember (continued)
Quick, turn off the light. Don’t move. Shhh... Shhh!
“Not a word,” I said. “What is it, mom?”
“What? What’s out there? What is that noise, ma?”
“I don’t...
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Categories:
stiffly, adventure, familyson, son, universe,
Form:
Free verse
Kids and Rings and Funny Things
Eugene awoke and looked upon
His Mirror in the morning Dawn
He saw himself and stopped to yawn
Then saw instead his friend Antoine.
Well Antoine said ‘come in, come on
I’ll whisk you with this Magic Wand
Then we can...
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Categories:
stiffly, adventure, children, fantasy, kids, fun, kid,
Form:
Rhyme
Father Allan - Part 1
He was born of seven children
The middle of the bunch
His older siblings dressed him up
And packed a simple lunch
His mother used to scrub his ears
Until they shone bright red
His father wasn’t round much
Only home when...
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Categories:
stiffly, age, remember,
Form:
Epic
The Realm of Depression
5/28/2018
What am I doing in a place like this?
So distant yet right at my fingertips…only a few know it exists.
A coat of Pacific blue chipping off into an opaque faded shade of grey—stony tone—of...
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Categories:
stiffly, deep, depression, imagery, loneliness, mystery, scary, world,
Form:
Rhyme
Africa Revolution 1
I believe my words meets you in good state of mind
and health
Do you believe africa can become a better continent?
If so,how?
Young pepole must change their attitude__any part
of their mindset holding them...
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Categories:
stiffly, courage, on work and working, science, work,
Form:
Narrative
A Raksha Bandhan Lay
A Raksha Bandhan Lay
Oh! Once again autumn marked its onset
The flowers now shed and leaves now torn
But the fragrance of love and charm now set
As once again dear sister you made those tender days...
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Categories:
stiffly, sister, sister, me, heart, sweet, autumn, heart,
Form:
Lay
I Am From pt2
I am from sitting in the front row church pew I never wanted to be in twice.
The genuine smiles in the photos on the memory board were oh-so-different from
The ones we plastered on at the...
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Categories:
stiffly, death, funeral, grandmother, grandparents, grief, i am,
Form:
Elegiac Lyric
Ruby
Ruby
Ruby Bridges was one of the first Black American pupils
in a 'White' school
after racial segregation was declared unconstitutional.
It was November 14th, 1960 when six year old Ruby sat in school alone,
children and teachers stayed...
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Categories:
stiffly, black african american, discrimination, freedom, racism, society,
Form:
Free verse
Twice Beaten By Life
Twice beaten by life in my race but
Am not shy nor intimated to stand again.
Life herself is a lesson of Gold to learn,
I breast no thought to change the
Narrative and pattern of nature in...
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Categories:
stiffly, abuse, africa, age, art,
Form:
Blank verse
Hank's Last Roundup
Hank had cowboyed on the Triple T Ranch fer nigh on fifty years.
He'd rode the range herdin' beef peerin' betwixt his hoss's ears.
Durin' cattle stampedes he'd broke bones and many a time was throwed,
And he'd...
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Categories:
stiffly, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Going Home - the Bravest and the Best
Johnny’s going home today
His glory days are past
His buddies stand at attention
Eyes tearful and downcast
The sound of taps is softly heard
The mournful tune rings true
And all rise to salute him
As his cortege comes in view
Another...
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Categories:
stiffly, song-lyrichome, children, home, soldier,
Form:
Narrative
A Deluge Or Predilection
Ran; they were running up the hill.
Sea was rising to level unseen
I sat in my old shabby car,
All terrified of what it could be.
I floated in it and was stuck among branches.
The water receded,...
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Categories:
stiffly, bereavement, bible, death, philosophy,
Form:
Free verse
Winters End
Hereabouts the thinning glades
Of sparse grey Birches:
Brackens crisp copper tresses
All aglow;
Gently waking Snowdrops
Lift their sleepy heads
From leafy beds of woodland moil,
When tucked snugly up,
Out of intrusive sight and just
Below.
Fondly the slowing bend
Hugs upon...
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Categories:
stiffly, winter,
Form:
Rhyme
Cradle Killed Love
Cradle Killed Love
...
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Categories:
stiffly, life, love hurts, native american,
Form:
Couplet