Long Transported Poems
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The Amistad MutinyThe Amistad Mutiny
Slavery, a dirty word no matter how it’s pronounced:
Abducted and herded to the slave fortress of Lomboko1 for trade.
To be tossed in chains below deck on the Portuguese ship Tecora,2
Sailing the Atlantic Middle...
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Categories:
transported, africa, america, history, racism, slavery, world,
Form:
Verse
Marina Tsvetaeva TranslationsI Know The Truth
by Marina Tsvetaeva
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
I know the truth?abandon lesser truths!
There's no need for anyone living to struggle!
See? Evening falls, night quickly descends!
So why the useless disputes?generals, poets, lovers?
The wind...
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Categories:
transported, love, poems, poetess, poetry, poets, truth, women,
Form:
Free verse
The Swoon Hypothesis - Part 2
"The Swoon Hypothesis" - Part 2
Arimathea stands next to you and I on the deck, soon we are back in Nazareth, you press into my palm,
“A very rare Dubunni coin” you say - on...
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Categories:
transported, imagery, jesus, love,
Form:
Free verse
Visitor Finale - a Collaboration With July MorningThe Story so far…
Makani (The Rising Wind), a beautiful extra-terrestrial researcher is sent to a remote island to observe earth. She finds Sam, a shipwrecked earthling near death owing to drowning. Sam (Ka ‘Lo -...
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Categories:
transported, adventure, romance, science fiction, sensual,
Form:
Narrative
Christmas In the Cathedral of the Forest Deep
"Christmas in the Cathedral of the Forest Deep"
The silent heart is found
embedded in the
Cathedral of
The Forest Deep
The lost jewel
shines in the dark
see the reflection of emerald eyes
endless hazel woods scried
On Christmas Eve
when...
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Categories:
transported, christmas, love, mother daughter,
Form:
Epic
Barefoot In the Bushfires of the Vanities
"Barefoot in the Bushfires of the Vanities"
Heat rises slowly to rapture flames licking and teasing
Blue Ghostgums to stretch and crack wide open
as Fire spreads molten sweet sap bleeding burgundy all over
amber gold wild bush...
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Categories:
transported, art, life, muse, psychological, sensual,
Form:
Free verse
Visitor - Part 2 - a Collaboration With July MorningThe Story so far continued from 'Visitor'…
An attractive extra-terrestrial female researcher sent to a remote island to observe earth and beam back her findings is struggling with unfamiliar, alien romantic emotions. Even though she is...
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Categories:
transported, adventure, romance, science fiction, sensual,
Form:
Narrative
Chapter 149-- DAMIAN DELILAH MALLORY HOLANNYA: Next Hawaiian DayDate: March 2051
The next Hawaiian rendezvous:
Warm Hawaiian breeze. Wooo! This
Is LIFE!!! Holly scream for Dolly and
Molly to hear. Molly said, "We should
Explore as long as we're here. This place
Is full of curiosities."...
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Categories:
transported, allusion,
Form:
Alliteration
UnfinishA Dark Identity
Days into nights... time without time
Normalities of everyday life beckons to remain
Shadows with lights.... to find to define
I am he who goes by without a name
The world is only up to date
And I’ve...
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Categories:
transported, on writing and words, me, world, time,
Form:
Rhyme
Slow Gin and Astral Conversations
"Slow Gin and Astral Conversations"
A maze me?
I’m the architect
of my own destiny
he beguiled her
incessantly
from the depths of
his bottled up Carceri
she knew him
before he became
a complex
well-hidden
Piranesi
twixt your world
and...
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Categories:
transported, dark, muse, symbolism,
Form:
Epic
Sun ThiefOnce upon a time, there lived a boy called Simon.
He was an ordinary boy who did what ordinary nine year old
boys do: collecting bugs and putting them in jars,
speaking to imaginary friends, riding a bike...
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Categories:
transported, conflict, fantasy, imagery, mystery, myth, power,
Form:
Narrative
The Lorax SequelI took the only seed of hope
for any future healthy Truffula Trees,
but reminded my clinically depressed acquaintance
we are all born co-redeemers,
not addictively incubating extractors.
Ours is not to commodify
what we did not recreate
for its sufficient...
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Categories:
transported, earth, environment, integrity, love,
Form:
Narrative
Pheonix: Bleeding Hearts and Blue Violets
"PHOENIX: Bleeding Hearts and Blue Violets”
Broken Hearts bleeding red
You lie in white sheets
Turning in the crisp clean pages muddy with
Black Dogs barking in your head
They run all night chasing your tail
You twist and turn...
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Categories:
transported, children, daughter, faith, family, imagery, love, mother,
Form:
Free verse
Dearly Departing ChristiansMany of you live
humbly and heartily
patriotically and industriously
nutritiously and faithfully
in Western and Southern States,
United in this time of shrinking reservoirs,
dying rivers,
hurricaned coastal residents
Displaced by floods,
invasive mold,
voracious rot and rats,
Barren top soil,
failing electrical networks,
drought,
inhumane heat,
decimated forests
Bereft...
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Categories:
transported, america, christian, culture, environment, health, integrity, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Memories and Broken Pieces of You(His Version of Pieces and Memories of You)
A smile one so beautiful that I asked myself, could she be real? As I sat there looking at your picture you would never believe me when I...
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Categories:
transported, heartbreak,
Form:
Rhyme
Chapter 115 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: Damian's PlanDamian stayed awake half the night
Contemplating, brainstorming
And roving over it
Repeatedly. He knew it would be
Desperately Dynamic diligent and
Definitely undeniably necessary,
but if he Didn't force great effort he knew
It would spell sure doom...
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Categories:
transported, birth,
Form:
Alliteration
A Matter of Personal TasteI inherited a restaurant, from my parents who had retired.
It was a classy one, and only the best of staff were hired.
Overseeing its operation, was genuinely a labor of love,
As the noon warming sunshine, oversees...
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Categories:
transported, fantasy, fate, food, humorous, imagery, people, work,
Form:
Couplet
Light of the Devil's Chord - Day 39KNOWING LESS THAN BEFORE…
That whisper of the night before struck me powerfully,
It affected me more than I intended to admit
Hades—stupid Hades, a follower, loyal enough—
But nothing to compare with the suicidal, lovely
Red glow of...
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Categories:
transported, appreciation, bible, courage, growth, romantic love, words,
Form:
Epic
Personal Vicissitudes Pronounced Irrepressible Self LoathingPersonal vicissitudes pronounced irrepressible self loathing
Ever since mine late boyhood
when unstoppable coded
cellular processes did segue
I experienced abhorrence
toward yours truly,
an extremely introverted kid,
whose parents nor siblings
(one younger and older sister) could
not arouse him
out of...
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Categories:
transported, 12th grade, 2nd grade, anger, anxiety, bereavement,
Form:
Free verse
The Castle On White Otter LakeThe Castle On White Otter Lake
That rustic, old log castle
Stands facing the lake.
Built by hand, by one man
To acknowledge his presence,
In a changing world, he felt
He could not participate in.
And so chose to live like...
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Categories:
transported, endurance, nature, tribute,
Form:
Verse
The Five SecretsThe Five Secrets"
?????? I had this amazing dream .....
I had this dream. I dreamt I was in this room and there were bookcases from floor to ceiling on all four walls, with no windows. The...
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Categories:
transported, anxiety, assonance, dream, old,
Form:
Narrative
Doors To Power PerceptionSogyal Rinpoche
tells a Doors to Perception story.
Positive and negative feeling individuals
bear witness to a river.
Those more goddess-like
see this river as great
savory
fragrant
nutritious
beautifully resonant
musically harmonic
multiculturally rich,
a transporter of karmic mediation
preferring win/win cooperative
ecofeminist
green energy conservational
and black lives matter...
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Categories:
transported, earth, health, pollution, power, river, water, woman,
Form:
Political Verse
Easter BirdThe Sinai Rose finch, oblivious to the commotion in the nearby city, busily gathered dry grass and floral fodder to repair her nest, disturbed by a human behemoth, snatching the thorny brambles which hid the...
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Categories:
transported, bird, easter, nature,
Form:
Prose
The Stone UnturnedThere are three little words on tiny stones strewn along the floor
of a never-ending stream which runs through a misty moor.
A marvelous moor of uncertainty where mysteriously all are led
to cross a flowing water all...
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Categories:
transported, love, metaphor, , extended metaphor,
Form:
Rhyme
3 PoemsSy Roth - 3 Poems
12/17/20130 Comments
Picture
Silence
I’ve dreamt often that she crept deep
Into my cellular structure,
Some time in the nightfall of my being
And planted deeply into my mitochondrion,
A magical silence pill,
Drowning the kittens of...
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Categories:
transported, conflict,
Form:
Free verse