Long Transitioned Poems
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Hurricane Katrina - 20 years later
On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina stormed through New Orleans and Louisiana. The only difference was, in New Orleans (intentional or not), the levees broke. The flood waters flooded the 9th ward and most of...
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Categories:
transitioned, anniversary, change, life, people, storm, usa, world,
Form:
Narrative
Part 1: Confusion of the Muse
The large, bright Winter moon shone it's heavenly light over and out amongst the snow-covered city. The city was large, the city was noisy. It was midnight and the bustling still urged on. People ached...
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Categories:
transitioned,
Form:
I do not know?
Youth's Sweet Friendship Fragments
"Fragments and crumbs of life, all the little pieces"
John Ruskin, 1853
I think of youth’s sweet...
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Categories:
transitioned, friendship,
Form:
Prose
Inferiority Complex As a Kid, Adolescent and Emerging Adult
Inferiority complex as a kid, adolescent and emerging adult
Yours truly (an amazingly,
gracefully, and markedly modest
passively aging baby boomer -
formerly introverted long haired
pencil necked geek),
prattling wordsmith doth behold
nostalgic memories regarding father
(Boyce Brandon Harris)
long ago lapsed decades
during...
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Categories:
transitioned, 11th grade, 12th grade, 1st grade, 2nd
Form:
Rhyme
The Calming of Her Storm
"The Calming of Her Storm"
My mother gave me solace
I fell into her deep hollows
to kiss the wisdom of her
breath chanting quietly
I still hear her
nightingale birdsong caressing
the soft fluttering
of her tireless...
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Categories:
transitioned, love, mirror, muse,
Form:
Free verse
Recounting Wounding Costs
I know what it costs
to parent a tyrant
24/7
52 weeks/year
and yet avoid judging,
feeling guilty,
self-blaming shame
for all I am not sufficient,
yet.
I remember learning curious distinctions
between genuine remorse
given, when LeftBrain verbally requested,
yet without RightBrain capacity
to feel even the...
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Categories:
transitioned, caregiving, discrimination, emotions, feelings, humor, parody, voice,
Form:
Political Verse
The Pepperman and the Ancient World of Wisdom the Conclusion
BEING ABLE TO SEE
MY OWN ENERGY,
MY OWN FREQUENCY
FROM INSIDE OUT
AND OUTSIDE IN
AT THE SAME TIME,
FELT AND SEEMED NORMAL.
I COULD FEEL THE ENERGY.
I WAS THE ENERGY.
I AM THE ENERGY, THE FREQUENCY.
I AM WHOLE,...
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Categories:
transitioned, identity, imagery, imagination, philosophy,
Form:
Free verse
Exegesis
"Exegesis"
At 7 he was
thrown to the wolves
Bede marked his territory
hidden secrets
kept in the abbey
he escaped
went to war
where the unwanted trod
First regiment,
Vietnam
he took with him
like a comfort blanket
his Nicene creed and God
and on returning...
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Categories:
transitioned, father daughter, love, muse,
Form:
Free verse
Should the Levee Ever Break, Act 1, Scene 3, Part 4
Steve: This sounds like the traditional Hindu caste system. I get it; all that Kama Sutra stuff.
John: You mean Kama Sutra IPA? It’s a local brew. Not bad.
Steve: Douche bag say wha?
John: Wha?
Steve: Please continue,...
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Categories:
transitioned, allegory, society,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Health Loss Wargames
As I transitioned from high school
to the University of Michigan,
one of the leading national health and safety issues
was painfully violent loss of Vietnamese and U.S. lives,
and hundreds of thousands hurt,
maimed for life,
if only on our...
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Categories:
transitioned, america, conflict, confusion, growing up, happiness, health,
Form:
Political Verse
Your Special Day Happy Birthday
Today you were born so many years ago, hell opened wide and spit out your soul
You rose from the ashes, from the brimstone far below, and you gave birth to a monster that had no...
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Categories:
transitioned, dark, death, lust,
Form:
Rhyme
Life After Death
It is normal for people to say, “Sorry for your loss.”
Was it a loss? Or was it a gain?
Should we now say, “Grateful for your gain?”
If, because of this person’s life, you gained joy, love,...
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Categories:
transitioned, bereavement, death, god, heaven, life, loss, people,
Form:
Narrative
Inferiority Complex As a Kid, Adolescent and Emerging Adult Part One
Yours truly (an amazingly,
gracefully, and markedly modest
passively aging baby boomer -
formerly introverted long haired
pencil necked geek),
prattling wordsmith doth behold
nostalgic memories regarding father
(Boyce Brandon Harris)
long ago lapsed decades
during papa's prime time
many years past when complacence
existed about...
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Categories:
transitioned, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 1st
Form:
Rhyme
October Seventeenth Ninety Sixty One
October seventeenth ninety sixty one ...
Born sixty one years ago,
the follow poem from your bro
transmitted courtesy flagship
named Jacques-Yves Cousteau
constituting countless ones and zeroes
instantaneously traversing cyberspace
as packeted, framed dataflow
binary digits bit of information
to acknowledge when
thee transitioned...
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Categories:
transitioned, absence, adventure, anniversary, birthday, endurance, family, hello,
Form:
Rhyme
The Whispers
I see them but I don’t hear them,
I feel them but I don’t penetrate them.
They say that I am the main character in the show
And I make their heart glow, my spirit is...
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Categories:
transitioned, appreciation, betrayal, confidence, encouraging, endurance, environment, hope,
Form:
Narrative
My Credo
I listen because Sound is not dead, but living.
I listen because I hear life through a variety of sounds. Sounds shout, cry, sing, soothe, provoke, and sometimes even pause.
I don’t listen when sound is...
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Categories:
transitioned, absence,
Form:
Narrative
Perfectly Positioned: You Are Important To God
The world is full of violence, death, chaos and so confusing
And it seems that in most of us our minds we are losing
But there is this one thing that I want you to take to...
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Categories:
transitioned, encouraging, faith, god, inspirational, spiritual,
Form:
Didactic
A Smart Kid I Once Knew - Not Funny Comedy, Stayed Alive In Poetry
I have always been curious about people from Kurdistan
I wonder why they are called kurds
I wonder when the kurds would become keese
Just like curd becomes cheese
I wonder if birds are called “birds” because they come...
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Categories:
transitioned, boy, feelings, fun, funny love, giggle, giving,
Form:
Free verse
A Lovely Day
From the past days of old.
At Seventh Street & Florence Avenue.
Vehicles in pristine finished.
Bragging Rights Mint Condition.
Proudly rolled by in a yearly tribute.
Very close behind did the present.
Spanking brand new, Virgilina's, VA.
Town's first responders debut...
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Categories:
transitioned, celebration, community, history, holiday, memorial day, patriotic,
Form:
Free verse
Mommy Can Your Hear Me
Mommy Can You Hear Me?
I know you're not ready to raise a baby, because you're all alone now, but mommy can you hear me?
You thought he was going to stay because he made you feel...
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Categories:
transitioned, birth, death, me, pain,
Form:
Narrative
Retail Therapy
I have never heard my mother express her love for my father.
Perhaps after having seven children, she lacked the energy to articulate those sentiments.
Many women convey their emotions through their unique forms of...
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Categories:
transitioned, abuse, age, analogy, appreciation,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Regrets of a woke therapist
I was a woke shrink, I sadly write this verse.
My patients came in bad shape, ended up worse.
Today there was Cohen, who thought he was French.
I told him either way, his privilege gave a stench.
I...
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Categories:
transitioned, happiness, humor, psychological, sorry,
Form:
Narrative
Lost At Sea
Lost at Sea
By Kevin Robey
May 1, 2013
The ice cold water lapped across his weary face
He opened his eyes and surveyed the fateful scene
How did he fail, and find himself in this place?
His memory...
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Categories:
transitioned, death, depression, emo,
Form:
Rhyme
Tired
I'm tired of it
I'm tired of all the politics
I'm tired of everyone acting like they care
But won't stand up because they're sitting down on fear
I'm tired of the factitious love spread
I'm tired of people sitting...
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Categories:
transitioned, anti bullying, change, environment,
Form:
Free verse
The Season Person
The season person comes around for a time and then has to leave
It’s not personal, so don’t take the absence as something done lightly or with ease
The season person just can’t stay forever,...
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Categories:
transitioned, adventure, america, blue, england, london, usa, world,
Form:
Free verse