Long Tolerable Poems
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Where Art Thou Anonymous Benefactor To Offer Me Succor
Where art thou anonymous benefactor...to offer me succor?
Ah... methinks legal tender
could be a boon to help me bolster
mein kampf with necessary material equipage,
which prospect to acquire essential
commodities sabotaged
at the altar of...
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Categories:
tolerable, 8th grade, absence, anger, angst, boy, confusion,
Form:
Free verse
Adam and Eve - Part One
Year One -
Tell me Eve,
does this Garden have everything we need,
do you think the walls are too tall,
are the gatekeepers reasonable, tolerable, right about it all,
what did Lilith know, where did she go
far past the...
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Categories:
tolerable, art, creation, love,
Form:
Epic
Miracle of Hypocrisy
I was listening to Cornell West,
who described our catastrophic tolerance of disvalues for others,
situations we would never tolerate for ourselves,
disvalues like homelessness and hunger,
but also like random violence,
abuse and neglect,
lack of caring,
as a "conspiracy"...
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Categories:
tolerable, abuse, culture, earth, integrity, nature, psychological,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Once Upon a Reservation
Back in the height
of our pre-millennial military-industrial
post-revolutionary days
of competing excess...
No, love,
Stick with
Once upon our Sacred Times...
Once upon a time
here in the US of Northern Americas
we used a Reservation Model
to dispose of hopelessly disabled aboriginals,
too RightBrain...
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Categories:
tolerable, destiny, education, environment, green, health, humor, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Off fish hill Daylight saving time 2025
Off fish hill Daylight saving time 2025
min(no) newt effect on me.
As part and parcel of terpsichorean repertoire,
one whirling dervish
flaps his wings at the speed of sound.
With twenty three hours
Sunday March 9th, 2025
essentially 2:00:00 to...
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Categories:
tolerable, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure,
Form:
Free verse
Ace colonoscopy doctor Kellen Karl Kovalovich
Ace colonoscopy doctor Kellen Karl Kovalovich
revisited January 23rd, 2024
on the evening before yours truly
(the one and only Matthew Scott Harris),
a stand up comic wannabe, who
historically heartily hales
from Schwenksville, Pennsylvania
undergoes oh joy rapture colonoscopy.
Three days...
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Categories:
tolerable, angel, anxiety, appreciation, birthday, blessing, death, health,
Form:
Free verse
Tolerating Intolerance
I cannot tolerate
those who are intolerant,
I cannot stand
those who take a stand
against unknown others
unlike themselves,
much less than we are truly
health and safety seekers
multiculturally alike.
I can tolerate anything
except intolerance,
most certainly including impatience with myself,
not excluding...
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Categories:
tolerable, bullying, caregiving, change, growth, happiness, health, humanity,
Form:
Political Verse
The Unaltared Copassion Call
Our UU ecofeminist minister
was verbally accosted one Sunday morning
after celebrating multicultural peace
and respect
and integrity
sufficient to restore private ego- and public eco-justice.
This was far too much to take in,
to peacefully and holistically rake in,
for a...
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Categories:
tolerable, anger, culture, fear, hate, health, humanity, humor,
Form:
Political Verse
Daylight savings time more'n minute effect on me
Daylight savings time more'n minute effect on me
In 2024, daylight savings time will begin at two o'clock ante meridiem on Sunday, March tenth. That will mean losing an hour of precious sleep and moving the...
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Categories:
tolerable, adventure, age, appreciation, creation, imagination, march, time,
Form:
Rhyme
Nova Proletarium
From the ashes of the never before,
Lacking symbol, nor take to guide,
A Phoenix rises from storied lore,
In a portent of thrashing hide.
Trumpets are a pathetic symbol,
For the lack of mind within the echelons,
Who...
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Categories:
tolerable, america, anger, angst, anxiety, education, jobs, life,
Form:
Free verse
Ace Colonoscopy Doctors Kellen Karl Kovalovich and Larry Borowsky
Ace colonoscopy doctors Kellen Karl Kovalovich
and Larry Borowsky
Though necessary to down:
four Dulcolax laxative tablets,
quaff half 238 gram bottle of Miralax
over span of eight hours,
and if necessary even one Fleets Enema,
I...
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Categories:
tolerable, adventure, age, anxiety, appreciation, blessing, care, death,
Form:
Free verse
Be Not Complacent Bout Dire Global Warming
Be not complacent 'bout dire global warming...
Thus spake Zarathustra
necessitating donning layered clothing
in tandem, especially trumpeting
being with wise mind and economical
exercising usage of fossil fuel
completing most tasks
involving driving automobile
courtesy designing...
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Categories:
tolerable, 12th grade, appreciation, april, bereavement, caregiving, conflict,
Form:
Rhyme
Time Will Tell
TIME WILL TELL
A modest planet and quietly progressing
Troubling no other and fealty confessing
Surviving well enough and paying its dues;
Quiet corner of the galaxy. No foreseen surprise to bemuse
The ruling committee were in contented...
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Categories:
tolerable, science fiction,
Form:
Narrative
Digging my own grave synonymous with a sense of accomplishment
Digging my own grave synonymous with a sense of accomplishment
Quite an undertaking
to break ground
figuratively, and symbolically linkedin
while able bodied and mindedness
readies cemetery plot within Elysian Fields
although honestly, and truthfully
as an organ donor,
yours truly opts for...
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Categories:
tolerable, addiction, age, angel, atheist, blessing, creation, grave,
Form:
Free verse
Dear Eden Eldest Daughter
(Garden yourself and Emmanuel
against risking life and limb,
especially as dark shadows edge -
of night bring dim
mention onset of when shifting shapes swim
all around reducing slice
of daylight slim).
I write thee today
September 13th, 2019...
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Categories:
tolerable, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, birthday,
Form:
Free verse
Daylight Savings Time 2023
Daylight Savings Time 2023...
in Pennsylvania will begin at 2:00 AM
on Sunday, March twelfth
and moost likely will impact
min-née-ute effect on me
a run of the mill on the Floss
amazingly gracefully aging
long haired pencil necked geek,
who welcomes...
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Categories:
tolerable, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 8th
Form:
Rhyme
Nasir Kazmi Translations
What Happened to Them?
by Nasir Kazmi
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
Those who came ashore, what happened to them?
Those who sailed away, what happened to them?
Those who were coming at dawn, when dawn never arrived ...
Those...
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Categories:
tolerable, grief, love, night, pain, soulmate, urdu, youth,
Form:
Ghazal
A Night I Will Never Forget
It was the end of a long, hard day, made tolerable because the work was performed to benefit victims of the earthquake.
The other volunteers and I ate our bowl of soggy, undercooked rice and beans...
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Categories:
tolerable, life, mystery, passion, night, me, night, sleep,
Form:
Narrative
How Can We Define?
What is human nature and how can we define?
Human nature is adorable and understandable.
Human nature is actionable and appreciable.
Human nature is appraisable and affectable.
Human nature is affable and affectionable.
Human nature is admissible and admireable.
Human nature...
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Categories:
tolerable, adventure, devotion, education, faith, friendship, life, passion,
Form:
Verse
Why Me Father Daughter Relationship
Why me father/daughter relationship
important to this papa
Fourteen and a half years
since death of mother (mine),
nary one iota of communication
in general and compassion
in particular while
she lived, now wears
heavy and yokes
mantle fostering tears
indirectly sabotaging rapport
with eldest daughter
futility...
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Categories:
tolerable, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, appreciation,
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
Blackout
Soaring like a bald eagle. ...
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Categories:
tolerable, abuse, addiction, allusion, conflict, confusion, drink, drug,
Form:
Free verse
monkey bites
Here it comes again, the daily reminder ...
cold sweats out of nowhere that hit me like a slap
on the face, my entire body turning clammy wet in an
instant, three-or-four times every day. Then there's the
uncontrollably...
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Categories:
tolerable, drug, irony, metaphor,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
The Service of Symbols -
The things I've been, the things I have been, the things I am, things I'm to be,
a symbol so dark, a sign so brite, a mark of the heart,
shadow of the soul,
rind of mind,
as the...
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Categories:
tolerable, blue, endurance, nature,
Form:
Didactic
Daylight Savings Time Min Ute Effect On Me
just moments ago, a dawning realization
arose within this sol son begat
from ma late mother
and octogenarian widower father,
oh..no nothing cat
tuss strophic,...
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Categories:
tolerable, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, humanity,
Form:
Free verse
Never Quite Home To Me
Not all of my family and friends that grew up there would AGREE. They remember all the pleasantries and being happy and FREE. This tale regards
the place where I was born and once...
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Categories:
tolerable, heart, home, , western,
Form:
Narrative