Long Swaddled Poems
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Tozzath
Pellucid pachyderms wade across
the purpling River Manjees
and Tozzath watches from the bank,
the seat of his maroon pantaloons soaked with mud,
his nostrils flaring with the fragrance of ombadalias,
whose lacey petals flutter
like the wings of long-dead...
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Categories:
swaddled, death, fantasy, girl, magic, word play,
Form:
Free verse
Held Aloft
We'd laid old George to rest the week before,
at ninety-one he now rejoined his wife,
no heirs to his estate, so one thing more
to do, and that's clear where he'd spent his life.
Downstairs had been quite...
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Categories:
swaddled, heartbreak,
Form:
Sonnet
My Winter's Wishes
In the May-time of my life
time bloomed each day a prickly boll –
but I, like the softest cotton within such a sharp seed
swaddled in the purity of security
for what seemed like eternity...
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Categories:
swaddled, age, god, hope, introspection, life, lost, winter,
Form:
Free verse
Christmas Dream Within the Child
I woke last night and read my Poe
and asked is all that we see or seem
but a dream within a dream of a dream?
I know what I don’t know what I know.
In Bethlehem’s cradle, a...
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Categories:
swaddled, blessing, child, christmas, family, hope, philosophy, star,
Form:
Lyric
The Ghost of Every Road Not Taken
The air is thick with the weight of things unchosen,
paths untrodden, doors closed but never quite sealed.
A shadow clings to every decision,
the ghost of every road not taken,
whispering — what if, what if, what if.
We...
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Categories:
swaddled, deep, moving on, philosophy,
Form:
Free verse
Hope
HOPE BY N3
Slashed at the throat a blow aimed not at the esophagus but at the vocal cords
Paralyzed by something worst than fear,
Speech grows limp even as silent screams are constrained by shame’s chord.
Tethered like...
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Categories:
swaddled, christian, lost, night, drug,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Auric Obsidian - The Face Clean Behind the Gun
"Auric Obsidian - The Face Clean Behind the Gun"
You drew me into your new world,
the corridors of your mind
fitted me perfectly imperfect
into the portraits pegged onto your wall
an unsuspecting target
from...
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Categories:
swaddled, dark, muse,
Form:
Free verse
Botticelli Dreams of Sweet Purple Calicoo - and You
Your image appears through a purple-hued haze of silence…
weaving its whispered dreamy spell, while you re-connect the strings of my sleeping heart
You go about undressing my soul as I watch your image drift in...
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Categories:
swaddled, color, dream, emotions, , sweet love,
Form:
Free verse
To the Dandelion In the Concrete
You probably don't think much of me
save for the season of spring
when your lawn litters itself
with giant over-buttered popcorn
(birds that think they can sing,
supersonic sneezes?
those kinds of things)
And yet here I am,
standing out like a...
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Categories:
swaddled, character, endurance, flower, humorous, nature, spring, summer,
Form:
Personification
Thru a Paroxysm of Tears
Thru a paroxysm of tears...
I inconsolably wept a river of sorrow
starkly aware alienated daughter(s)
implacable woe sundered fatherhood
yesterday, today and tomorrow.
A series of unfortunate events
(move over Lemony Snicket)
set in motion since my birth
unleashed impotent scrawny infant
registering...
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Categories:
swaddled, 6th grade, 7th grade, absence, analogy, april,
Form:
Rhyme
Trumpasaurus Extinction Highly Unlikely
Huge life like mockup
rigged up to bark
dare buzzfeed outsize monstrosity
diet coke, McDonald's and meatloaf
pet banality, execrable, and misogynistic words
greets visitors at formerly named
Mosquito State Park forever known as
Donald Trump State Park.
Whom so e'er decreed...
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Categories:
swaddled, allusion, anger, animal, anti bullying, betrayal, crush,
Form:
Rhyme
Winter Bird
I was a valued, vaunted veterinarian, maintaining health for animals I loved,
As a rainbow sparkled rich colors, from the moment peach sunshine shoved.
I was dedicated to such adorable patients, and they soon responded in kind;
Like...
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Categories:
swaddled, bird, fantasy, friend, home, joy, love, winter,
Form:
Couplet
Easter Lilies
"The meek and the humble will be elevated to places where the haughty can never ascend even with a ladder. Stay humble in victory and calm in defeat"- by poet
far away in ancient Jerusalem,
stood...
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Categories:
swaddled, beautiful, christian, easter, mystery,
Form:
Free verse
Half-Orphan
Mother died
the day you were born
With tears of joy
in her eyes,
her last breath was womb torn
A forty year journey ending prematurely
Your first breaths of life,
tiny infant cries,
were swaddled in innocence
Yet to...
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Categories:
swaddled, birth, death, loss, love, sorrow,
Form:
Free verse
The First Christmas Present
A spider spun a silver web
in a mound of golden straw,
Then he hid himself inside the stack,
away from the wind so raw.
He yelled down to the sheep below
Who were trying...
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Categories:
swaddled, funny, holiday, christmas, baby, night, dream, winter,
Form:
Light Verse
When First These White Walls Were New and Porcelaneously Gleaming
Spartan are the white walls were once hung draperies
And things papered, paneled, plastered...
Yet, 'tis so no more.
Now all is white and wan and sickly,
And the ghostly shadows of the accoutrements and impedimenta that...
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Categories:
swaddled, absence, allegory, angst, anniversary, anxiety, art, bereavement,
Form:
I do not know?
God of Lust
I met a smart aleck who was a god of lust
...
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Categories:
swaddled, allegory,
Form:
Rhyme
Simple Days
Otis Wheat was a simple man. He didn’t have much to say and when he did say something it was worth listening to. He was generally shy to a fault but when the...
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Categories:
swaddled, age,
Form:
Narrative
Eden At 16
First borne kin of me loin, why just like yesterday
Unbeknownst to this then unpracticed dada how tempus fugit
Will in a brief flash (like time lapse photography) steal a way
Thine eldest...
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Categories:
swaddled, angel, beautiful, birthday, care, daughter, emotions, father
Form:
Lyric
The Eye of the Sea - Part 1
(note: The site restrictions don't allow long epic poems, so I have split this into 6 segments, each should run straight on from the previous one.)
THE EYE OF THE SEA
Or
The Rime of the Ancient Kubla...
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Categories:
swaddled, adventure, boat, fantasy, sea, sin, travel,
Form:
Epic
Biography
PROLOGUE
Biographies are for men who have a need to cry
To spell out what we remember is to subtract all
We forget, for knowing then nothing knew, a lie
Conjured by history, there's no a priori here at...
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Categories:
swaddled, history, introspection, philosophy, me, me, time,
Form:
Free verse
Top Ten Children Poems
A Hint at What Is Beautiful :
Lovely is the 'bless your heart'
Wrapped with appreciation,
Offered to peace inclined individuals
Who make a special effort
To nurture shrapnel singed casualties
In the midst of...
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Categories:
swaddled, 10th grade, age, cinderella, color, confidence, corruption,
Form:
ABC
Sobering a Happy Addict
I was born married to the master of subservience,
fell in love with the master of somnolence.
I dissolved Reality,...
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Categories:
swaddled, death, imagination, life, sleep,
Form:
Free verse
A Parent
Convoluted; buoyant, defiant contention,
sleeps in the corridors of mind.
Dreaming of release...
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Categories:
swaddled, allegory, faith, introspection, love, mother, visionary, time,
Form:
Rhyme
Jofradamus can see the future
Oi Oi ..saveloy…caps do doff..bless Joffy boy…with injury woes and blows…
From the off some did scoff…Joff can no longer bowl for toffee…clearly not really…
Not being coy but some of those press hoi polloi said Ben...
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Categories:
swaddled, sports,
Form:
Free verse