Long Tallies Poems
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C a T and the Sphinx
*** C A T and the SPHINX***
Cat is on the prowl
Without taking a step!
Proud fellow, often unseen,
Gracefully gliding by.
He feels he knows it all —
At least all that is necessary to know —
Of the...
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Categories:
tallies, cat, fantasy, fun, imagery, memorial, november,
Form:
Narrative
Anything Goes -- 2020 Election Version
(Updated in such form that Cole Porter would sue)
[Intro]
Times have changed
And we've often rewound the clock
Since Nixon got the shock
When he crashed on Daley’s bloc
If today
Any shock they should try to stem
'Stead of...
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Categories:
tallies, corruption, humor, integrity, satire, truth,
Form:
Lyric
Stops Along An American Dream - Part 2
(Historical train-ride on the first Transcontinental Railroad in 1870 from Omaha to Ogden aboard the Union Pacific Railroad) © 2009 (Jim Sularz)
Wyoming winds blow like a hurricane,
the flimsy bridge sways to...
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Categories:
tallies, america, history, travel,
Form:
Quatrain
I Am Jacob
Not now the Egypt of my death for I
Have not seen my Bethel yet, nor have I
The coat of many colors made, let me meet
First the soft Rachel of my enslaved years
My heart for her...
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Categories:
tallies, faith, inspirational, peoplegod, me, autumn, longing, god,
Form:
Sonnet
My Spiritual Expeditions
Forty-Five years ago, it was, then
I held my Bible, as a close friend
Yelled loudly and thumped my finger
If you don’t believe like me; a sinner
In my self righteous indignation
Looked upon folks as heathen
However, I’ve mellowed...
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Categories:
tallies, spiritual,
Form:
Couplet
Why Are We Here
Written: August 09, 2023, Why Are We Here Poetry Contest
...
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Categories:
tallies, analogy, appreciation, bereavement, dream, fate, life,
Form:
Rhyme
The Evolution of Want
Listen up, 'cause I'm about to break it down
From caveman to spaceman, desires abound
Security, survival, that's where it begins
Food, water, shelter, protection from our sins
But we ain't stop there, oh no, we expand
Love, knowledge, purpose,...
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Categories:
tallies, desire, earth, engagement, environment, humanity, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
How Precious Life Is
How precious life is…
When the old rocker rocks in his wheelchair…
ACDC heavy precious metal ‘like a wheel spinning’
...
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Categories:
tallies, growth,
Form:
Free verse
Art As Activism II
*Henry Ford developed plastic from soybeans for cars. It degrades!
Art As Activism II
Imagine no longer the sounds of seagulls squawking ...
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Categories:
tallies, earth, environment, pollution, youth,
Form:
Free verse
The Journey a Birthday Wish
Diamonds don’t glisten until they are put through the fire,
Making them precious commodities for the buyer
Butterflies don’t flutter through the air,
Until they breakthrough their fibrous tares
Life is a process just like the rest,
But after the...
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Categories:
tallies, birthday, christian, faith, for her, friend, jesus,
Form:
Rhyme
My Journey To Invisibility
I mark the days I failed to starve up on my wrist in tallies.
It's gotten to the point where I have almost ran out of room to count the times I’ve inflicted pain to...
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Categories:
tallies, body, depression, image, journey, mental illness, pain,
Form:
Free verse
Alphabet Soup
Admirable Almights all I ask appreciatively allow me to attain,
be beyond bourgeois breeding ballads for the brain.
Create colloquialisms that cast competently into chimeras,
directing dramatists with doubtful determinations to
delightful dactylic discriptions.
Edible...
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Categories:
tallies, art, confusion, family, imagination, inspirational, life, love,
Form:
I do not know?
My Ship To Sea!
To sea! –This Ship to sea! Her misty spray and heaving swells,
to her mirrored finish from winds which failed
vast, changing, enchanted, seas -swiftly sailed.
All salty, bitter, battered, brimming, brine
of all things vast, sky and sea,...
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Categories:
tallies, faith, sea, sea, sea,
Form:
Rhyme
Gun Addicts Despair
Gun addicts sad and looking glum
No lives were lost to guns today...
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Categories:
tallies, america, death, destiny, holiday, humanity, satire, symbolism,
Form:
Rhyme
The Funeral Urn
“we look for that that does not come and go
it cannot be organic form, subject to decay
thoughts and beliefs are fickle, how little we know
yet come what may, our inner child continues to play”
The...
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Categories:
tallies, allusion, analogy, appreciation, character, growing up, hope,
Form:
Concrete
Without Regrets What Have I Left
The end of days is a term
Dark enough
To make men squirm
And real enough
In a way
To make one consider
His final day…
Without regrets…who’s to say
And doing so I must look back
On what I wrought
And what I wrecked
What...
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Categories:
tallies, death, humanity, life, philosophy, wisdom,
Form:
Narrative
naturally protective reflex
Mayonnaise in my mouth;
it was turkey—the first Pollack
I saw. His fault that the splatter
looked like a forgotten egg on the side.
Walking toward the waste
basket, I...
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Categories:
tallies, allusion, extended metaphor, symbolism, writing,
Form:
Free verse
Retro-Introspective
My life has travelled roads less taken,
a tumbleweed, east, west, north and south,
all around the world.
Sprouting, enticing horizons beckoned,
each just as fair, opened to discover
by youthful emancipation from entangled roots.
Never an answer...
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Categories:
tallies, age, eulogy, introspection, life,
Form:
Free verse
Unopposed Oxymoron
Unopposed Oxymoron
This poem is light as a heavy contradicting complement
and rhymes with no correspondence of sound sharp at
the cutting horizon’s edge of melting confusing fission
Serious like a foolish jester and in trivial necessity it wants...
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Categories:
tallies, boxing day ,
Form:
Rhyme
Narrow Margin
First printouts show Number One's, ahead,
a feigned smile fades to a small office,
two arms outstretched hold a desk instead,
one ponders deeply surprising spread,
one knew the field and tallies--cautious.
Too close for comfort--it is strangling,
for one with...
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Categories:
tallies, allusion, analogy, anxiety, betrayal, career, mother son,
Form:
Rhyme
The Scarlet Emerald
I see the emerald stones that embellish her shroud.
There is an aching beneath those jade charms that I have seen.
She buries her feeble manners in a cloak ever so cold.
Never shall she bear the complemented...
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Categories:
tallies, betrayal, courage, father daughter, heartbreak, love,
Form:
Romanticism
The Fools Who Stole Our Trust
How unfortified are favored mystics;
ripened men devoid of backbones,
ladies with bogus analogies,
others, their nuisances known.
Some put fools on pedestals,
without attention to outcome,
but things are much different
when dealing with intellectuals.
If recollection tallies,
them...
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Categories:
tallies, politicalmen, integrity,
Form:
Lyric
A Cup Runneth Over
A Cup Runneth Over
His cup runneth over, yet he craves more
As flights of hubris on wings of greed soar,
Rich is the life of caviar and champagne,
Where ruthlessness wins his races in fast-lane
And nightmares roil semblance...
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Categories:
tallies, emotions, humanity, perspective,
Form:
Rhyme
A Time to Reflect
Quite far we have traversed, in pursuit of goals we chose,
Through troubles and trepidations of seasons in throes;
Sometimes reveling sunshine, sometime in glum of shadows,
Always together~ on barren terrains, or verdant meadows.
In albums of...
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Categories:
tallies, introspection, life, memory,
Form:
Rhyme
Reserata Carcerem Liii
Quoth felon fate t' nosy nature -
savoring sapid strays punctured.
Worn winds for eerie eavesdrop tarr':
"Why oft does thou nurse salty scars?"
Nosy nature hewn smooth visage
'to a sassy smirk - crushed chins' sway.
Ergo writ she ñ...
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Categories:
tallies, myth,
Form:
Sonnet