Long Tome Poems

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PETER GARGANO KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS WHITE MAN WITH A GRAY BEARD

THIS ALL BEGAN 1994 MY FOUR TEAR OLD DAUGHTER HAD SLEEPS OVERS WITH CIRO GARGANO STEP DAUGHTERS EVERYTHING SEEMED FINE ONLY I WAS NOT AWARE OF THE STRIP CLUB MY ABUSIVE EX ATTENDING FREQUENTLY WITH...

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Categories: tome, allah,
Form: Naat


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Rush Amid the Rapids Published

The greatest performance of my life.  
Howard’s proud piece de resistance award  on Poetry Nook for my magnum opus “Rush Amid The Rapids” in their daily member section.
After endless hours of toil, tribulation,...

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Categories: tome, adventure, age, appreciation, art, beautiful, beauty, feelings,
Form: Prose
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Preface

Greetings to those who would willingly seek admission to theater of the absurd. Zoltan Goliath and Otis Trench are masters of the avant-garde genre silent musicals for the imaginary stage, an art form sui generis....

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Categories: tome, allegory, literature,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Beware the Ides of March 2023

Beware The Ides of March 2023
 
Ides simply referred to first new moon, 
which usually fell between 
the thirteenth and fifteenth day
of a given month.

The following events all occurred
fifteenth of March 
across span of millenniums.

One:...

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Categories: tome, abuse, age, anniversary, betrayal, conflict, crush, dark,
Form: Rhyme

Recluse By Dint of Circumstance

Recluse by dint of circumstance

Proud anonymous troglodytes 
forerunners of mine
confronted threats less horrific
than forty fifth commander in chief
of United States of America.

He/him (matted hair, ratty, scrawny, 
and tetchy ugly villain)   
scurried into dark...

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Categories: tome, adventure, america, angst, anti bullying, betrayal, character,
Form: Free verse


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The Raven and The Bard

The Raven and the Bard
-Daniel Henry Rodgers

The Raven's quill drips shades of blackest night,
Its haunting words, a melody of fright.
The Bard's natural lines, like "Evangeline's" fair hair,
Shed history's warm light to chase away all care...

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Categories: tome, philosophy, poets, psychological,
Form: Dramatic Verse

How I Got Rich and What Happened Then

Written in summer of 1976.


I used to eat my lunch with groups
of businessmen from Campbell Soups.

We drank a drink at lunch each day
Of Coca-Cola mixed with hay

And talked of pending corporate plans
And willow-haired orangutans.

I spent...

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© John Mudge  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tome, business, humor, humorous, money, nonsense, satire,
Form: Couplet

Move on over ole Joe

Move on over ole Joe...

and let the youngbloods take the reins
infusing our promised land with hope.

You done good for America,
serving as laudatory President
from 2020 to the present
Vice President from 2009 to 2017,
and in the United...

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Categories: tome, america, anger, anxiety, care, faith, grave, political,
Form: Free verse

Friday May 13th 2022

Friday May 13th, 2022

An excerpt taken from a lengthy tome,
written courtesy a favorite poet of mine.

Paraskevidekatriaphobia  struck within a blink,
I swear yours truly never took a drink,
nevertheless he witnessed
and falsely accused of being a...

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Categories: tome, atheist, dark, destiny, gothic, history, husband, may,
Form: Free verse
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Surrender Your Fear

Hear my poem announce, then refine and restate
its life lesson suggestion Surrender YOUR Fear!
Yes, Surrender Your FEAR, watch stick rafters release
(note: I’m ‘Missing, Roof’ too, and I still love my life)
see life’s cobbled roofs fly,...

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Categories: tome, faith, life, love,
Form: Rhyme

June nineteenth one hundred and fifty nine years ago

June nineteenth one hundred and fifty nine years ago

The conclusion of the American Civil War commenced with the articles of surrender agreement of the Army of Northern Virginia on April 9, at Appomattox Court House,...

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Categories: tome, america, anxiety, crush, evil, humanity, november, racism,
Form: Free verse
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Ledger of Love: PART I

Ledger of Love

In the dim-lit chambers of the Victorian home,
Resides a wife, her heart a silent tome.
Once, love’s flame burned bright within her breast,
But now a thin whisp, a ghostly jest.

Her gaze averts from her...

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Categories: tome, confusion, desire, heartbreak, longing, love, marriage, sad
Form: Narrative

Crow Fights The Raven

Beneath the pall of an eldritch moon, 
                           ...

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Categories: tome, betrayal, bird, gothic, horror, metaphor, murder, night,
Form: Free verse

Deciphering Crossword Puzzles, Cryptograms and Scrabblegrams Once Favorite Pastimes

Deciphering crossword puzzles, cryptograms and scrabblegrams once favorite pastimes

Livingsocial at 324 Level Road
circa post high school graduation
found yours truly voluntarily holed up
for an inordinate amount of time
within familiar four walls of his bedroom.

He preferred solitude versus
interacting...

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Categories: tome, 12th grade, angel, anxiety, books, boy, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
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Poetry Soup Anthology Part 2 Inspiration To Write

Woven are these pages in poetic verse,
With bare threads of our deepest feelings,
You will find laughter, tears and remorse,
and words of wisdom, prayer and healings.

What compels their pens to shed poetic ink?
What forlorn moment inspired...

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Categories: tome, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme

A Meadow For Autumn

A meadow for Autumn

Forest, I lay me down to rest
upon bed of moss.
 
Eternal sleep immediately overtakes me 
lichen kenning myself 
as Rip Van Winkle 
except being repurposed
as  oldest living species. 

With an estimated...

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Categories: tome, animal, appreciation, autumn, creation, dark, environment, heaven,
Form: Free verse
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the ruby spires

there, among those Ruby Spires
        stood I, a-gazing toward the mist
            red winds cut skin, heaven-kissed
 ...

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Categories: tome, adventure, analogy, appreciation, science fiction,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme

Movie of Shame

I was new at the Jewish senior home
In the center garden I saw old man read a tome
I asked his name, to start a conversation, 
"Marvin Klutznik", he replied, to my consternation.

I had paid so...

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© Gem Stone  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tome, addiction, bullying, corruption, evil, jewish,
Form: Lyric

Wednesday September 2021 At 320 Pm

Wednesday, September 2021 at 3:20 PM...
eastern standard time Autumn Equinox arrives

That seasonal occasion twill arise
when darkness and light doth bring
equilibrium between night and day
raking leaves will constitute exercise
espied and witnessed by observant earthling
namely me who...

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Categories: tome, appreciation, autumn, celebration, destiny, environment, fate, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme

Making a Big Pie By Mr E Fortisque

It is time. Yes. It is time. Time for all time telling devices to climb up trees. The grandfather clocks can climb the oaks. The watches can climb the willows. The alarm clocks can climb...

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Categories: tome, art, august, , western,
Form: I do not know?
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History Repeats Itself

I was an accomplished librarian, who took pleasure from written words,
As opera singers find their pleasure, in the halls where music is heard.

I was well matched to such absorbing work, knowing it was worthwhile,
Like stars...

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Categories: tome, books, fantasy, history, imagery, life, magic, nature,
Form: Couplet

Swtor Encyclopedia Receives Any Movie Trailer

Previous moment My partner and i wandered along the particular aisles regarding Waterstones My partner and i has been minted simply by having less SWTOR encyclopedias. Right now there My partner and i has been...

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© Lea Hela  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tome, computer-internet, today,
Form: Free verse
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The Child of Perdition lyrics



Ah-ah-ah-ah ah-ah-ah-ah
Ah-ah-ah-ah ah-ah-ah-ah

Doom, accursed echos held in a miasmic gloom
Suffering and hatred, the vendetta against light
For mortals, war of heaven and hell eternal fight  
Mirrors mask, broken oath
Spectral unfathomable sweeping storm of despair
Substitute love,...

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© G. Jay  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tome, bible, dark, death, evil, loss, sad, sin,
Form: Lyric

Simple Synchronization X

Weary weapons wearing writhing works wonderfully wreathed wigs...... Oh wow how magnificent the yellow radiance of a piece of straw. Leaning bending learning. Admire nit a wisdom curl if a pitch of ball. Throw away...

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Categories: tome, baseball, bird,
Form: I do not know?
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Trailer Park

After work at Google, I sat with the guys
I said we were elite, enlightened and wise
We had to censor those in this benighted nation
Who spread disruptive disinformation.

A Venture Cap named Hank said this isn't fair
He...

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Categories: tome, america, culture, discrimination, humor,
Form: Lyric
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