Long Tamp Poems
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A Canadian's Letter To Americans: a Thousand Points of Light
A Thousand Points of Light! ! ! ! !
Once a beacon of democracy
A shining light on the hill
The ‘American Dream’
Anyone can ‘make it’
Never more than aspirational
Structurally delusional
Always susceptible to its
Achilles heel of...
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Categories:
tamp, conflict, corruption, leadership, power, racism, violence, war,
Form:
Free verse
Ramsay RoeI am Flight Sgt Ramsay Roe, and my memories have faded,
Of my experiences in Burma, and their chronological order,
But into my memory’s deep recesses i have dug and waded,
Although the exact...
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Categories:
tamp, courage, hero, history, political, pride, remember, world
Form:
Quatrain
The RavingFrom 2010. Narrator is Robert Gibbs, snooty White House Press Secretary.
Lay, O Lord, a curse on press men, rude and churlish, sad, obsessed men
Who persist to query me on matters they know I must...
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Categories:
tamp, hip hop, parody, raven,
Form:
Narrative
Ignominious Cult Leader Best Kept Locked UpOur unhinged president,
(a veritable loathsome miscreant)
cannot get away with murder,
nor will mine paltry poetic
(side winding) gambit
help clinch deserved punishment
for leader of free world hell bent
on destroying civilization.
Nevertheless cathartic and therapeutic
to craft (ala literary blitzkrieg)
sentiments lambasting...
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Categories:
tamp, 11th grade, 12th grade, abuse, conflict, evil,
Form:
Free verse
Purple MajestyWe had saved our precious stock of grandpa’s grape
prepared the ground and amended the soil.
After laying out the orchard, we planted cuttings with our own hands.
Fed the young vines with love and creek water
and waited...
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Categories:
tamp, family, life, work, work, rain, birth, giving,
Form:
Villanelle
The Old Summer CampIn the green Adirondack foothills lies
the haven of our old summer camp,
once a place of adventure and outdoor joy,
and the loud cries of precocious scamps,
their energy you never could tamp,
scurrying ’round on small, rapid feet,
leaping...
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Categories:
tamp, childhood, lost, remember, sad, summer, time, youth,
Form:
Rhyme Royal
Rebounding With Energy After MidnightMethinks resurgence of wakefulness
after bewitching hour i.e. midnight
quickly dissipating before dawn
quasi baptism regarding
preternatural soulful immersion
amidst spiritus mundi
foretaste awaiting expiration
regarding corporeal being
yours truly approaching mortality,
despite atheistic predilections
mine consciousness anointed
amist pantheon renown authors
analogous to dead poet society
ephemerally,...
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Categories:
tamp, allusion, atheist, baptism, crazy, inspirational, language, mystery,
Form:
Elegiac Lyric
PollyannaQuotes from the 1960 movie, Pollyanna:
Pollyanna: Why don't you come out of the front door like normal people?
Jimmy: They won't let us. I can come out anytime I want with my tree.
Pollyanna: You could also...
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Categories:
tamp, children, innocence, meaningful,
Form:
Sijo
Andrea Correct Me If Im WrongTantamount Andrea,
Your beauty crumbles my veins and compels me to whisper to desire.
My heart blossoms as the fantasizes stir to my brains,
Call it desire, bonny or may be, mirage.
You’re a princess I think of during...
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Categories:
tamp, desire, for her,
Form:
Name
Taking Today's Tumblerful Tea TimeTaking Today's Tumblerful Tea Time
This teetotaler turns to tea
torquing temptation
towards tippling
thankfully, though
that tremendous tugging
teasing tendency thirst trumped,
thru teaching this totally tubular
toothless titular Texan thuggish tyrant
(titled Tsar Terry Troutman)
transcendental theology
tenets taught transferring
torpedoing, taming threatening
titanic tsunami tempest
tastefully...
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Categories:
tamp, 12th grade, adventure, appreciation, blessing, devotion, drink,
Form:
Free verse
Taking Todays Tumblerful Tea TimeThis teetotaler turns to tea
torquing temptation
towards tippling
thankfully, though
that tremendous tugging
teasing tendency thirst trumped,
thru teaching this totally tubular
toothless titular Texan thuggish tyrant
(titled Tsar Terry Troutman)
transcendental theology
tenets taught transferring
torpedoing, taming threatening
titanic tsunami tempest
tastefully tickling temperance
testing trying taut...
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Categories:
tamp, 11th grade, 12th grade, destiny, health, hyperbole,
Form:
Free verse
Cup of LoveCup of love
I create you
And consume you
Every day
Froth you
Grind you
Tamp you down
Extract all there is
From your little bean
Pour it into your frothy foam
And that first sip of heavenly you
Makes me love...
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Categories:
tamp, addiction, analogy, break up, butterfly, conflict, love,
Form:
Free verse
Never Under Estimate a ChildMy identical twin sister came to school with me once
Many moons ago.
We wore the same clothes, and the same socks and the same shoes.
Only our underwear was different.
I had her walk through the cafeteria, then...
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Categories:
tamp, fear, hilarious,
Form:
Free verse
If I Knew What Love IsI too would rummage around for one to stub out my thirst;
To unfurl me with familiar lies and tamp me with such taste,
Or as luck would have it find mine woman holy, innocent and...
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Categories:
tamp, life, lonely, love,
Form:
I do not know?
My Battles As a SoldierStreaking skyward the tracers rip
Into hanging soldiers
Falling about into mayhem
Pulsing through blood-filled ears
Hearing comrades scream
Understanding nothing
This is the war I found…
Hatred filled hardened hunter
Into smashed building
Homes pulverized rubble
Strewn about the decaying mass
The scorched metal burning
Bodies...
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Categories:
tamp, introspection, life, loss, social, time, war, war,
Form:
Free verse
When You Bury MeWhen You Bury Me
Bury me with dentures in case I'll need to eat
a Beano annual from Christmas, nineteen-sixty-eight
summer scent remembered from the fallow field
my wee red trike with its wobbly wheels
Bury with me a walking...
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Categories:
tamp, funeral, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Sabotaged By Chateau CharleneChateau Charlene pulled out all the pins today
Trying to watch Cheeky Wall fall.
Cheeky Wall has had too much experience
Showing the world her sassy, funny, hilarious side
Keeping our true feelings inside
As deep down as possible
Emotions...
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Categories:
tamp, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, emotions,
Form:
Free verse
You Bring the Rain and the Gray and TanYou bring the tan and the gray to tamp my oranges and hot pinks.
My sun smiles at your dark moon, glad he is ancient and kind.
The kitchen cupboards laugh as you reach for your cup.
Knowing...
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Categories:
tamp, husband, marriage,
Form:
Verse
My Certain CourageThe day of courage has come, I'll tamp down our rage,
Take studies in strides as I re-new Truth's defense,
Steady the chapters, the verses of pen and page,
Embrace the tabled periods, make joyful sense.
No more brutal...
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Categories:
tamp, confidence, poetry,
Form:
Sonnet
Ah To ReminisceAh, to reminisce,
to peer through rose colored glasses
smooth the edges of
pointed encounters
tamp down the burning
embers of memory
smoldering in silent seclusion.
To change the tone
texture and import
of echoed retorts
polish the participation trophy
sitting alone on the shelf
knowing that...
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Categories:
tamp, life, memory, perspective,
Form:
Free verse
Counter CultureToday's closing hangs lower than it did yesterday,
trying to mess with tomorrow's dreams.
Sitting here, dressed in a wry smile, my heart
whispers to a sky, tie-dyed with the jewel
of Navaho stone and...
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Categories:
tamp, native american, nature,
Form:
Free verse
If the Loneliness Creeps InThe normal joy of Christmas is dead in my house.
No enthusiasm or anticipation of laughter
It will be another day without family or friends
I may have a twinge or two of loneliness
But I will...
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Categories:
tamp, christmas,
Form:
Free verse
The Fire InsideTHE FIRE INSIDE
I have to tamp down
the fire inside
for not all are stoked
with flaming eyes
my cheeriness
might be their demise
the fire inside
explosive it drives
the quiet insane
so i try extra hard
to contain myself
the gypsy dance
leaps and thrives
with...
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Categories:
tamp, happiness,
Form:
Free verse
My PlantersEach year when the summer is nigh
I drag out my planters and buy
Some flowers to plant
But somehow I can't
Make them grow, though I really do...
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Categories:
tamp, me, nature,
Form:
Limerick