Long Strains Poems
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Summer Solstice 2025
Summer Solstice 2025
Friday, June twentieth
at 10:42 Post Meridian
Eastern standard time
will find Earth's North Pole tilted
closest toward sun.
This demarcates
most daylight hours of the year
for people living
within the northern hemisphere.
Just shy of the supposed...
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Categories:
strains, adventure, anniversary, appreciation, beauty, dedication, earth, summer,
Form:
Free verse
THE LAST GOODBYE
This is for the Contest - 'Titanic - Fare Thee Well' Sponsored by Tom Woody.
...
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Categories:
strains, death, inspirational, loss, love,
Form:
Narrative
Fishy Science School of Geometric Arts
Math speaks through us
within us
of cognitive landscapes
imagined still and/or moving.
Primal metrics are rational and symmetrical,
good as true as straightforward,
complex creation story problems
unfolding with precise answers,
right as at least not not ecologically wrong,
ecopolitically suboptimal perhaps,
yet at...
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Categories:
strains, adventure, earth, life, light, math, science fiction,
Form:
Political Verse
Tuan Tata: Song of Uda - Parts One and Two
TUAN TATA : Song of Uda - I
by T. Wignesan
(Patrick Noone, a British anthropologist, discovered the Ple-Temiar tribe living isolated in the jungle highlands in the State of Perak on the west coast of...
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Categories:
strains, death, murder, tiger, wife,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Factoidman and Shallowman - Part 1
[Well, ShallowMan’s ne’er at a loss
for voicing shallow thoughts that gloss.
With trenchant wit he reaps the dross
when seeking sense in applesauce.
But to his aid flies FactoidMan
who always has a Fact at hand;
with him, who needs...
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Categories:
strains, society, truth, universe,
Form:
Rhyme
This Spaceship Is Sinking
The Titanic played its music
...
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Categories:
strains, earth, hope,
Form:
Rhyme
Bleeding Before Rome -2
Yet at this very moment the cathedral was crumbling
down upon the cries of foresaken refugees,
the monastery's walls wobbling from war's wreckage,
and as the black bursts billowed into sun drenched brutality
with the bodies of...
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Categories:
strains, culture, heart, war, world war ii,
Form:
Epic
Wise Elders
Wise Elders are patient,
fully embrace compassion's communication
and health care
of climates and cultural landscapes,
animated persons,
sacred spaces,
organic places,
panentheistic plants
and monotheistic planet
impassioned hopes
and pleasant dreams
rebuilding positive faith.
Wise Elders co-passionately listen
for karmic grace of love peaks
overflowing.
If Wise Revolutionaries...
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Categories:
strains, 5th grade, caregiving, class, health, time, wisdom,
Form:
Political Verse
Travel Light
* This poem was written for a contest originally, but was used by Professor Anne-Marie Thornton of Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey, to teach her WAR POETRY class in the spring semester of 2017. My...
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Categories:
strains, child, children, loss, war,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
travel light
Her small angelic face ...
Once a place where broad smiles bloomed like butterflies on marigolds,
is streaked with the furrows that countless tears have etched into the
layers of dust and dirt and explosive residue that now...
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Categories:
strains, child, conflict, courage, war,
Form:
Free verse
The White Tomb Trembles
* For J.K. Rowling *
~
now, deliberate your hearing
to bring back the pages...
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Categories:
strains, evil, fantasy, magic,
Form:
Epic
Desperate Hope
Placed First in:
This or That Vol 22 Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Edward Ibeh ...
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Categories:
strains, emotions, god, humanity, inspirational, men, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
Sound of Silence - Lady Hawke - With Darren White
Synopsis
The lovely Lady Isabeau and her lover, medieval French Knight Etienne escape to flee the lustful advances of wicked Bishop of Aquila causing them to run afoul of him. The evil-bishop places them under a...
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Categories:
strains, betrayal, desire, emotions, evil, love, romance,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Malkavian the Second
The constant assault of the silence on his senses is intense
Hands clenched in fist he wished for noise and bliss
Buddy stopped talking and drinking he begins pacing as he’s thinking
Tired from walking he...
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Categories:
strains, dark, drug,
Form:
Alliteration
Georges Scoriety Bash
Picture this..? Seedy joint.'mediocre comedy one Kiev night.
Hunky billionaire bored and sour, joins his guests Uneventful hour.?
A pan faced man is on the stage, mocking life with inward rage.
George faintly get the vibe, listens more...
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Categories:
strains, addiction,
Form:
Rhyme
Deprived Of Your Love -When My Life Changed
Glib rhetoric concerned with striking independence may seem frivolous,
nuanced rational quite often a typical traumatic casualty,
the once interminable interdependent passionate zeal disintegrating in rapid spasms,
a longing sated and mutually embraced by two compatible persons...
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Categories:
strains, break up, courage, cry, emotions, feelings, grief,
Form:
Free verse
Captivated By the Music
I loved my job as a librarian, and today I was walking to work,
In the warmth of a summer morning, when golden butterflies lurk.
I had some extra time, and it happens I took the scenic...
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Categories:
strains, beauty, fantasy, imagery, music, nature, song, summer,
Form:
Couplet
Loving Defiance
Punishing for revenge,
could this occur to natural systems
without capacity to imagine alternative futures?
Punishing others for their defiant behavior,
actions and words stronger than ignorantly ignoring,
bolder than merely angry with Other
and our defenseless selves
But how much...
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Categories:
strains, anger, fear, love, nature, peace, political, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
God Hunt
Love murmurs in my ear that to be hunted
is infinitely more enviable than to be the hunter.
...
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Categories:
strains, integrity, nature, passion, psychological, religion, science, society,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
travel light
* I’m honored to say that this piece was used for a “War Poetry” class by Ann Marie Thornton at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey. Many thanks to her and the students for their questions...
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Categories:
strains, analogy, child, war,
Form:
Epic
Ledger of Love: PART II
Ledger of Love
In the shadows of the Victorian night,
Where candles flicker with amorous light,
A forbidden love fiercely burns,
In a pounding heart, passion yearns.
Amidst the lace and satin array,
Where masks conceal bygone dismay,
A dance of desire,...
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Categories:
strains, break up, emotions, heartbroken, life, longing, lost
Form:
Narrative
Ways of Providence
9.7 Bhagavad Gita As It Is "The whole cosmic order is under Me."
10.8 Bhagavad Gita As It Is "I am the source of all spiritual and material worlds. Everything emanates from Me ."
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Categories:
strains, faith, fate, inspirational, life, universe,
Form:
Rhyme
Granddaughter to Grandmother, Grandmother to Grandmother
The wind is blowing cold tonight
...
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Categories:
strains, age, granddaughter, grandmother, time,
Form:
Rhyme
Translation of David Broza's Ay Amor Que Seria De Mi, Lyrics By E N Glass
Translation of David Broza's " ! Ay Amor ! Que seria de mi ! " by T. Wignesan
( I'm not certain if this' s the original title of the lyrics composed by Eitan Nahmias GLASS....
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Categories:
strains, anxiety, break up, heartbreak, sad love, song,
Form:
Elegiac Lyric
Sacred Vestments
Rebuilding bipartisan explorations,
at least two-sided appositions,
like generously inclusive
and conservatively exclusive
worldviews of MotherEarth
Sacred polytheistic strains
and peak experiences felt
through love of life
resilient win/win relationships
weightless
Freeing secular monopolistic brains
deeply thoughtful glad
LeftBrain speaking minds
no longer stuck
in win/lose sad
bad
mad...
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Categories:
strains, happiness, health, integrity, introspection, peace, science, senses,
Form:
Political Verse