Long Surpassing Poems
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Oak
"Oak"
The guardians
stood around and
shook their heads
great thoughts
quivering
from the ground, roots up,
as if to walk
confidently
with great armies
yet hesitation
was witnessed
in their waving gestures
perplexed
and touching
green crowns,
there they...
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Categories:
surpassing, dark, journey, light, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
Grand Mother Eartha's DreamMy husband and I always enjoy visiting
GrandMother Eartha
on Mother's Day
She often shares
last night's dreams,
which too often follow rather disturbing peak experience themes
Because,
you know,
or maybe not because,
how would I know?
Dreams about Her Straight White AlphaMale trauma
were...
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Categories:
surpassing, culture, earth day, health, mothers day, political,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Additional Advice To Those Would Be King From the Thiruk-Kural With CommentaryAdditional free advice to those* who would be King from the THIRUK-KURAL with Commentary
[*like presidents, prime ministers, dictators of declining (falling or fallen) nations or even empires]
K442: urranOy niikki uraa amai munkaakkum
...
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Categories:
surpassing, bullying, immigration, prison, religion, sympathy, tamil, violence,
Form:
Epigram
The Angry Black WomanShe stood with her back turned to me
Leaning slightly towards where the light tapered off into darkness
Her faced buried deep inside her cupped hands
Her own shadow towered over her seemingly at odds with her...
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Categories:
surpassing, africa, anger, beauty, betrayal, black african american,
Form:
I do not know?
The Queen of EnglandQueen Elizabeth Alexandra Mary ll
Her seemingly eternal monarch--God has now beckoned
Balmoral Castle, reigned over the United Kingdom
"God Save The Queen" The British national anthem
21 April 1926 – 8 September 2022
“We are all visitors to this...
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Categories:
surpassing, appreciation, celebration, grief,
Form:
Clerihew
Love Has a Southern FlavorLove has a Southern flavor: honeydew,
ripe cantaloupe, the honeysuckle’s spout
we tilt to basking faces to breathe out
the ordinary, and inhale perfume ...
Love’s Dixieland-rambunctious: tangled vines,
wild clematis, the gold-brocaded leaves
that will not keep their order in...
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Categories:
surpassing, desire, longing, love, romance, romantic, romantic love,
Form:
Sonnet
Inferiority Complex As a Kid, Adolescent and Emerging AdultInferiority complex as a kid, adolescent and emerging adult
Yours truly (an amazingly,
gracefully, and markedly modest
passively aging baby boomer -
formerly introverted long haired
pencil necked geek),
prattling wordsmith doth behold
nostalgic memories regarding father
(Boyce Brandon Harris)
long ago lapsed decades
during...
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Categories:
surpassing, 11th grade, 12th grade, 1st grade, 2nd
Form:
Rhyme
Ghosts of the Sun Dance-Part 1Ghosts of the Sun Dance
1. The Path
A quest dating back through our history
Surpassing the flesh, a spiritual path
Human endurance, road to mystery
Dark trail winding through the gardens of wrath
It echoes through me, this deep ambition
Half...
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Categories:
surpassing, spiritual, sports, endurance, drug,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Anthrosupremacist QuestionsS/he wonders why
when we breathe in
our left sides
feel right mind dominant
when our rights inside
feel LeftBrain capital deviated,
Dysfunctional
disappointing
disharmonious
sad and lonely
dissonant
disturbed
unbalanced
uneased
Constipated
blocked
trumped
Stuck
obstructed
oppressed
suppressed
repressed
not fluently holistically impressed,
Pressured
disabled
disenabled
feminized
marginalized
enslaved
disempowered
Unenlightened
unarticulated
not understanding
not cooperatively experiencing
co-investing in questioning
Why we continue longing
for bicameral win/win engagement
of all...
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Categories:
surpassing, environment, health, integrity, light, loneliness, peace, power,
Form:
Political Verse
Lost and FoundI loved my job as a botanist, which took me to many foreign lands,
Like the golden sun rises smiling, to meet all our natural demands.
I was always marked for this work, ever since I was...
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Categories:
surpassing, adventure, fantasy, flower, green, lost, nature, work,
Form:
Couplet
Speaking of Common GoodsWhat I wanted to say
the other day
when exalting healthy kindness
for potentially freeing us
from Straight White Men's great meanness
Costing Earth's Green Commons
and charging disinterest against
co-investing in healthy wealth
of all we cooperatively cherish
as good-wellness humored
for me
and win/win...
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Categories:
surpassing, health, humor, irony, relationship, religion,
Form:
Political Verse
INTROSPECTION
INTROSPECTION
In last phase, as life approaches death,
off and on contemplation engrosses me
...
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Categories:
surpassing, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
Me Pretty ParrotMe Pretty Parrot
...
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Categories:
surpassing, 10th grade, appreciation, bird, pets,
Form:
Personification
Notes On Sister AimeeAh the cake before the icing!!!!!!
Notes:
Aimee Semple McPherson (October 9, 1890 – September 27, 1944), also known as Sister Aimee, was a Canadian born in Salford, Ontario. She was a Los Angeles–based evangelist and...
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Categories:
surpassing, angel, mother, religious, romantic, woman,
Form:
Light Verse
Short StoryThe long and short of it is . . . forever
...
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Categories:
surpassing, life, light, love,
Form:
Free verse
Solitary Rituals of Mourning the Write Way RightSolitary rituals of mourning the write way, right?
Papa... bless his (your) heart and soul,
impossible mission your second born
sole male heir cingularly communicates,
viz his avocational crafted poem, since
written words, mine metier
write most pained words
with great difficulty,...
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Categories:
surpassing, 12th grade, absence, death, eulogy, father, memory,
Form:
Elegy
Capitol CityI am a captive
and a prisoner of your affections
draw me with robes of purple
wrapped with cords of silver
...
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Categories:
surpassing, bible, christian, god, hope, jesus, truth, visionary,
Form:
Free verse
The Dreaming TreeSo long I thought my trust was gone
withered in a vase that sat
unwatered neglected posterity's memory
pressed and ordered flat
I suppose some slight yet weak desire
believed that someday still
I'd find one soul who's promise...
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Categories:
surpassing, chocolate, dream, emotions, love, marriage, tree, trust,
Form:
Rhyme
Somewhere In Time This Philosopher Stonily PondersSomewhere in time this Philosopher stonily ponders...
A poet (quite familiar with yours truly)
sat at his computer
trying his darnedest to craft a rhyme
imagining when both parents
of mine lived during their prime,
when me creative father acted out...
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Categories:
surpassing, appreciation, august, conflict, environment, fate, flying, future,
Form:
Rhyme
Death, Art Thou My FriendAnxious, chained at the barrier hither
Musings take hold of my existence
Unsure whether I am an individual or a species
Do I contain contradictions in these multitudes
In a universe beyond my window
As the Lady of Shalott confronts...
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Categories:
surpassing, death, friend,
Form:
Blank verse
Excerpts from GilgameshHe Lived: Excerpts from “Gilgamesh”
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
I.
He who visited hell, his country’s foundation,
Was well-versed in mysteries’ unseemly dark places.
He deeply explored many underworld realms
Where he learned of the Deluge and why Death...
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Categories:
surpassing, death, death of a friend, depression, god,
Form:
Rhyme
Truth, Tears and TemptationVenus’s light grew ever brighter as discovery marked its territory
On new faces—old ones brought to the light of sudden love-falls
I grew wary of the feelings surpassing my entire being
Wavelengths of caution holding their hands up...
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Categories:
surpassing, allusion, beauty, cry, dark, deep, desire, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
A Poetic CallDetermined to read and plant the seed fast
to emulate poets of the present and past.
I staked the library display Whitman, Kilmer, Frost, unnamed arrays
including Sandberg and St. Vincent Millay.
It...
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Categories:
surpassing, poetry, poets, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Odyssey From Africa 1aChapter 1 THE FISHERMAN
At the dawn of humankind in
Africa's great land of sunlight
This adventure of survival
Of a family's arduous journey
One of exile and betrayal
And of hopeful brave endurance
Happened long before all...
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Categories:
surpassing, adventure, africa, history, humanity, identity, mythology, world,
Form:
Narrative
The Broken Piggy BankThe broken piggy bank
strewn into a bajillion little pieces
Unexpected largesse
yours truly patiently waits,
a metaphor of my dire financial straits
courtesy papa's unsuspecting muse
the missus, this wordsmith notates
unwittingly linkedin to his misfortune,
a situation he hates,
especially, an unavoidable...
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Categories:
surpassing, america, analogy, anger, animal, appreciation, august, cry,
Form:
Rhyme