Long Toss off Poems

World's Longest Love Poem (second edition)


Title: My love my all

Edited by Izunna Okafor


Editor's Note:

Out of their ardency, eighteen poets and poetry lovers identified with the need to give the 2020 Valentine celebration a poetic taste...

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We were cousins and had grown up
Close friends, living not far apart.
When I was nine and he was eight,
(His sister and my brothers were younger)
We were going to get married
Some day and have ten children,
Ten...

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They told us that we self-repressed,
were too serious about sex,
that it was causing neurosis,
with birth control we could relax.
Encouraged us to ‘explore things,’
said we should abandon restraint,
now there’s porn comics in grade school,
and we all...

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I lie in bed, almost asleep,
But my mind has other ideas
And begins to mull over
Everything in my life!
Suddenly, I am wide awake.
I turn on my side and fluff my pillow
To get more comfortable.
I resolve not...

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Today is Pancake Day and there’s to be a pancake race
folk are on the starting line with a smile upon their face

Ted is ready with his frying pan, he is a fat old josser
but when...

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Today it’s Pancake Day and there’s to be a pancake race
Entrants are on the starting line with a smile upon their face

Old Ted ‘s ready with his frying pan, he is a fat old josser
but...

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Hank had rode the range a-punchin' cattle fer nigh on fifty years,
Ridin' through Texas northers and brandin' cantankerous steers.
He'd herded ornery longhorns along the Chisolm Trail to Abilene.
He'd signed on with the Triple D Ranch...

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Writing to you about the evil I enjoy.
More like knowing the hate I have for fever.
On this sick bed I curse fever.
For employing my body against me.
I sneezed a hundred last night.
Accompanied by a boiling...

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oh im taking all the passages 
the cobble stone pathways
take back in time oh 
take me to the days
where the ships all sank each other
as the horizon swallowed whole
the ocean and the world was flat...

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Once upon a time
there was a mean ol' spider
who bought his socks
in pairs of 4

He bristled with poison
and had a nasty temperment
Spreading fear and killing others
Everywhere he went

One day a sweet hearted slug
came crawling near...

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Yes, “going with the flow” has found new meaning on Hawaii’s coast
The lava there from many fissures covers earth like jam on toast
Though driven just by gravity as soon as it has found release
It’s path...

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"I have sparklies in my eyes", says my daughter
I must agree for conversation fodder
You do have twinkles I can see
It's oh so nice when you are three
The grass is a perfect green for  tea
I think...

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Something I said or did not say?
Something I did or did not do?
Don't get the painful game you play
I want to remain friends with you

So sorry...didn't mean to offend
Thought we were giggling and poking fun
How...

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A backyard planter bursting with
Tomatoes on the vine
Provided treats for several mouths
And one of them was mine.

My son’s the one who grew ‘em.
His daughter and her aunt
Plucked only those deemed red enough;
The rest stayed on...

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