Long Tortuous Poems
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Hitchhiker From Another World 4
“Come on, let's get introduced to my play mate in a palm.
Linda, these are Joshua’s true other selfs.”
Lelia emitting a peculiar chuckle.
A comic situation arose where I changed my voice for each of my...
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tortuous, art, beautiful, beauty, celebration, character, emotions, environment,
Form:
Prose
Additional Advice To Those Would Be King From the Thiruk-Kural With Commentary
Additional free advice to those* who would be King from the THIRUK-KURAL with Commentary
[*like presidents, prime ministers, dictators of declining (falling or fallen) nations or even empires]
K442: urranOy niikki uraa amai munkaakkum
...
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Categories:
tortuous, bullying, immigration, prison, religion, sympathy, tamil, violence,
Form:
Epigram
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 4
March 18-27
This time I woke,
He was staring readily,
Smiling, plotting steadily
I lifted my body and gently gazed at his grotesque beauty
He was always at his best in thought…
“You look ravishing…” He began.
“Mouth-parched, crusty-eyed, hair...
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Categories:
tortuous, adventure, anger, angst, anxiety, appreciation, beauty, blessing,
Form:
Free verse
Chapter 10 -- Damian Hakim: Graduation and Teenage Aspirations
Merrily Merrily cold January 2018
Damian wakes up late Saturday morning
There was hardly a warning and
She danced her way over to Damian's
Bed. Hey lover, how's life?" 10 am.
He pulled her onto his lap,...
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tortuous, best friend, dance, sensual,
Form:
Prose
Megan's Quest Part 7of7
Megan saw what had happened and motioned a reply
to the others who turned for a look.
When ever so slowly the Troll King opened his eyes
as the poor...
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Categories:
tortuous, adventure, courage,
Form:
Rhyme
At a Crossroad
At a Crossroad **
Treading down the I ...
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Categories:
tortuous, faith, god, inspirational, life, light, spiritual,
Form:
Concrete
A Poetic Litany of Poems Celebrating Mlk Day
The Man…The Spirit
His name was Dr. Martin Luther King;
He was a peace-loving human being.
HIM
Preaching peace and love–
A mountain top of a man:-
Martin Luther King.
THE HUMAN DOVE
He came bearing a dream for humanity
Teaching nonviolence, peace,...
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tortuous, black african american, high school, inspirational, metaphor,
Form:
Alliteration
I Can No Longer Fight You
{“You can’t fight for what’s left in you,
You cannot fight against the waging war that disrupts within you.
You can’t be against it, it was fulfilled with nature, the nature of you with every...
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Categories:
tortuous, absence, abuse, addiction, anger, corruption, deep, devotion,
Form:
Free verse
Drugs and Sex Come With Pain
A typically depressing inky dark night
He sat at the corner waiting for the light
His mind as usual not fully engaged
His pounding psyche had him enraged
As if on cue she opened the door plopping into...
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Categories:
tortuous, addiction, drug,
Form:
Rhyme
A Progressive Shadow
A Progressive Shadow
A series of real challenges and troubling world events
In our twenty-first century give us a definite reason and
An urgency to pause and reflect on mankind’s situation.
Our world today—more than at any other...
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tortuous, change, earth, history, international, introspection, nature, war,
Form:
Terza Rima
To See Or Not To See
TO SEE OR NOT TO SEE
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS
I’ve an important story that I need to share today
There are several endings, you’ll have the final say
It’s about a young man born without his sight
Living every moment...
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Categories:
tortuous, angst, anxiety, conflict, confusion, future, introspection, self,
Form:
Rhyme
I Haint Donning Royal Carpet Treatment
I haint donning royal carpet treatment
No stuntman/woman showed up,
albeit intervened in timely fashion
to thwart mishaps experienced
courtesy me I bemoan,
and poet lore re: yet of Perkiomen Valley
Pennsylvania, United States of America
never suffered major illness...
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Categories:
tortuous, adventure, allusion, angel, blessing, father, grave, october,
Form:
Rhyme
The Lost Summer
From June to September
I cannot remember
A damn thing that I did
What took me over
Was a monster called Bipolar
Which escaped from the shadows where it hid
And to add to this schism
I was fighting alcoholism
A Demon that...
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tortuous, addiction, allusion, analogy, mental illness, metaphor, self,
Form:
Rhyme
Love Has Gone and Left Me
Love has gone and left me
Yet the day continues on
I wake to ruminations
Plaguing me from dusk till dawn.
____________________________________
My feet now hit the carpet
As I gather up my wits
Rub my eyes and stretch my limbs
And persevere...
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Categories:
tortuous, angst, conflict, emotions,
Form:
Rhyme
Categories:
tortuous, appreciation, inspirational, life, self,
Form:
Verse
What Happened To Yesterday
I was a famous, learned historian, living a good life in prevalent today;
As vast, grey clouds must move on, once wild storms are swept away.
I spent many golden days and plum evenings, perusing historical books,
Like...
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Categories:
tortuous, dream, fantasy, growth, life, nature, time,
Form:
Couplet
Forever After Meeting
The moment I laid eyes on you,
I knew I finally found God's perfection.
All the beauty He crafted and sculptured,
Created you without any correction.
I wonder if there were circumstances,
Where I courageously ask your number.
I express all...
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Categories:
tortuous, beautiful, best friend, blessing, butterfly, first love,
Form:
Free verse
Primary Lesson - End of Class
Here is a lesson, a tortuous tale for your next-of-kin,
About a political hack we'll call the Bigly Pumpkin.
It's a bit like star wars, he is more an older Anakin,
Who fooled the Nation even though he's...
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Categories:
tortuous, america, patriotic, political, presidents day,
Form:
Rhyme
To My Best Friend Becca
Dear Becca, Rebecca, or Moose, (Whatever your heart prefers! )
It has been my deepest inclination to write you a poem,
Befitting your absolute beauty, and expressing my thanks for your loyalty
You are constant and true, giving,...
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Categories:
tortuous, appreciation, beautiful, best friend, cheer up, dedication,
Form:
Ode
BRING ON THE NIGHT
WORDS. They are my silent friends. I love them. Really love them. Always have. Always will.
I slumber on at night in fitful sleep. Then they come for me, wondrous and insistent, and torture me relentlessly....
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Categories:
tortuous, addiction,
Form:
Free verse
The Jig Is Up
When Irish eyes are smiling,
And the gymnast smile extends to curve her petal-red lips,
That's when she'll let her waves fall down with the grace of
a faerie.
If in a wheat field the sheathes would glow...
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Categories:
tortuous, lost love, love, passionme, me, sun,
Form:
Free verse
Thy Name Is Poet
Some poets write with a rapier blade,
meaning to cut a thing down
to its bare-boned ism.
Others write of fanciful affairs with a voice
as silk is,
to a fair maiden’s slip.
Some write from the void (the out world...
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Categories:
tortuous, on writing and words, peopleheart, write, heart,
Form:
Free verse
Behind a Curtain Somewhere
I am a master in my eyes, a master in disguise. So cleverly concealing pertinent feelings of thoughts, one's intrusive dealings, that are boiling my insides. A wizard behind a curtain, that’s how this all...
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Categories:
tortuous, adventure, deep, feelings, perspective, symbolism,
Form:
Rhyme
A Shining Afterglow
A Shining Afterglow
we have rambled together
along the Ganges river
just you and me
gazing at each other
we have trodden together
the streets of...
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Categories:
tortuous, feelings, life, love,
Form:
Free verse
12 Days of Christmas Holiday In Sikkim Himalaya
On the 1st Day of Christmas I trekked in the Sikkim high mountains
along the tortuous but exhilarating track
of the heavenly Himalaya.
On the 2nd Day of Christmas I reached an idyllic hospitable hamlet,
cradled picturesquely in the...
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Categories:
tortuous, christmas, mountains,
Form:
Lyric