Long Trenchant Poems
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Factoidman and Shallowman - Part 1[Well, ShallowMan’s ne’er at a loss
for voicing shallow thoughts that gloss.
With trenchant wit he reaps the dross
when seeking sense in applesauce.
But to his aid flies FactoidMan
who always has a Fact at hand;
with him, who needs...
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Categories:
trenchant, society, truth, universe,
Form:
Rhyme
The Story of HistoryThe Story of History
Beyond those beaten days’ depleted daylight
Beyond the bathos of a pandemic bondage
With the resurrected sashay’s charmed night
Down in the dumps at the pretentious proscenium
A ...
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Categories:
trenchant, history,
Form:
Free verse
Transmigration of the WindThe strong gust of wind was cut off from its source; a frigid early spring blast that swept across a lofty mountain range, high above British Columbia.
It then encircled one of the lesser peaks and...
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Categories:
trenchant, imagery, journey, nature, sky, spring, water, wind,
Form:
Prose
OldiesI’m laughing this morning, spontaneously. We’re not studying any more. Our sophomore school year is over. I’m giddy, giggling, like a 9 year old on sugar.
I think I just finished the hardest class that I’ll...
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Categories:
trenchant, humor, music, student, teen, vacation, write,
Form:
Free verse
The Antics of a Yoyo ThiefThe Antics Of A Yoyo Thief
Potential life of as juvenile delinquent
(ala bam mean future streetwise thug)
stopped dead in the tracks – manacles
the above two lines hopefully gives hint
nearly changing changing life of one boy
an undersized...
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Categories:
trenchant, 5th grade, 6th grade, adventure, angel, anxiety,
Form:
Rhyme
Citadel of CensorshipThe noblemen control the pen, indeed they own the farm,
but nonetheless exude finesse (and need I mention charm?)
with revenue to sate the few, exulting arm in arm;
for all the rest, they wish the best and...
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Categories:
trenchant, society,
Form:
Rhyme
Still Binge Reading Bertrand RussellStill binge reading Bertrand Russell...
9/8/2020
I plunge further into
erudite epistemological philosophication
courtesy said renown British polymath,
philosopher, logician, mathematician,
historian, writer, social critic,
political activist, and Nobel laureate.
Whew! His treatise
A History of Western Philosophy Quite profound
grist for intellectual mill
yours...
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Categories:
trenchant, 12th grade, adventure, age, america, appreciation, growth,
Form:
Free verse
The Antics of a Yoyo ThiefNow scores of years
after botched minor theft penchant
courtesy security guard
analogous to inquisitorial trenchant
unforgettable verbal lashing
(suppressing me ululation to vent)
unwittingly arresting snitch behavior
plus potential life of crime.
Not a peep passed thru
pursed lip o'...
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Categories:
trenchant, 5th grade, adventure, age, child, courage, education,
Form:
Rhyme
Think SpringNow, unlike my usually trenchant literary librettos, i regale the unknown (tum me) reader for savoir faire articulation, elocution, and indomitable tour de force proffered by spectrum of bounteous expropriated hegemony rightful to Mother Nature....
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Categories:
trenchant, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Imagism
Brilliant, Grandiloquent, Magnificent, TrenchantBrilliant, grandiloquent, magnificent, trenchant...
albeit modest word zealot
Writing prompts burst asunder
snap, crackle, and sweet Mary poppin
within me scrambled noggin
witnessing yours truly to blunder
blindly along this dark and stormy night
deafening soundcloud roared
with apocalyptic thunder
'course only audible to...
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Categories:
trenchant, adventure, animal, april, celebration, courage, environment, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Brilliant, Grandiloquent Magnificent TrenchantBrilliant, grandiloquent, magnificent, trenchant...
Writing prompts burst asunder
deafening soundcloud roared
with apocalyptic thunder
'course only audible to yours truly,
I did dumbfoundedly wonder...
At o'clock tick tocking wee hours brisk
December seventeenth
two thousand nineteen
simultaneous blinding fiery kindling
quickening xing risk
within winkin blinkin...
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Categories:
trenchant, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, betrayal,
Form:
Political Verse
Aurora BorealisA light beacon in the iciest of regions,
Solar winds full of both brilliance and bluster
Glory of trenchant travelers from afar;
Skyward sorcery that time does not mar.
Shining with such a wonderful lustre,
Lantern of lucidity wherefore philosophers...
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Categories:
trenchant, angel, appreciation, art, beauty, childhood, family, relationship,
Form:
Rhyme
The Gift of WordsHow does an old soul express oneself?
Pass down to others their experiences and heartaches
As well as the conquering of all tribulations
In what manner shall I share my life ventures?
For I have climbed the highest...
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Categories:
trenchant, life, on writing and words, visionary, life,
Form:
Free verse
Gamut of History Spans Everyday LifeAnalogous, how said month name
September under went
ramifications throughout millennium
steeped in blood thirsty antiquity,
awash with torment,
where most twenty
...
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Categories:
trenchant, 12th grade, 7th grade, heartbreak, old, planet,
Form:
Free verse
On Reading Bertrand RussellOn Reading Bertrand Russell --
A History of Western Philosophy
copyright date 1945
Trenchant treatise purchased
August 25th, 2020
at Limerick Chapel Book Sale
(in Church gym)
offered old library books
cost 25 cents apiece.
Musty tome
seventy five years out of print
found welcome home
nevertheless...
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Categories:
trenchant, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, age,
Form:
Free verse
The Antics of a Would Be Mamas Yoyo ThiefThe Antics Of A Would Be Mama's Yoyo Thief
(now a penchant with less Zionist trenchant ululation to vent.)
Not a peep passed thru mine -
aye vaguely attest
what ten? eleven? twelve? age
of following anecdote at best
guest, but...
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Categories:
trenchant, 4th grade, 5th grade, adventure, fear, green,
Form:
Metrical Tale
The Great NamesThis, as it is, stripped and reduced - undone by
raging, torrential, opened senses;
To its elemental couplings of unbridled pieces.
Here is life, in towering, brindled expanse, that
swallows whole all of the lightest and darkest;
Peaks,...
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Categories:
trenchant, birth, creation, earth, magic, nature, paradise, power,
Form:
Free verse
A Bissel Mashuggathis alteh kocker nostalgically reflects
being ma late mama's boytchik
(now, she long since deceased,
whose cremated remains of day
scattered to all points...
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Categories:
trenchant, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form:
Free verse
JUST A TRIP TO THE FUTURE
I have slept while awake,
And on an oneiric trip,
To stroll down the street;
And prognosticate in these rays,
Behold the white monster,
With a mask to fissile...
So, I peeped through the lens,
Of my conscience, my acme!
The future is...
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Categories:
trenchant, age, anxiety, conflict, dark, good night, life,
Form:
Free verse
Sunday Morning ProgrammeSunday cockcrow nascent
aural essays reveal
laissez-faire raptures.
Enigmatic silken piece compost ushered in by
trenchant trademark tremulous signature.
Doe-eyed instrumentalist’s strident brass ensemble,
wakey wakey for the pier gazing loiterer whose blasé
sashay amble’s out of kilter.
Maverick antennae on a ...
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Categories:
trenchant, august, birth, celebration, character, color, day, surreal,
Form:
Imagism
The AdversaryThe Adversary
He watched them as day passed upon day, peering upon the intimate scene,
As God communed heart to heart, one on one with the woman and the man the only
Beings where his likeness and image...
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Categories:
trenchant, conflict,
Form:
Rhyme
Trenchant Recalcitrant Poet Welcomes Animadversion(alternately titled: aery diction galloped jocosely)
Abbreviation asper "FAKE"
abdication (wishful thinking),
an aberration Trump accepted
abjuration (or alternative) i.e.
ablation, thee apprenticed
president, would never forsake
abnegation (sooner his cold,
dead paws pried loose Putin
on the Ritz Carlton), this
abomination, his indiscriminate
abrogation appears...
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Categories:
trenchant, 12th grade, fate, goodbye, hyperbole, mental illness,
Form:
Free verse
Long Since Stopped Binge Reading Bertrand RussellI, (a bookish educated intelligent nerd,
albeit three score plus tres años)
constitutes a novel titled
The Virgin's Lover
by Philippa Gregory
another writer from England.
Not so much to boast
yours truly sunk trenchant figurative teeth
into material authored courtesy
aforementioned...
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Categories:
trenchant, 11th grade, 12th grade, atheist, culture, deep,
Form:
Rhyme
Interlocking Rueful Sky and Trapped EarthAzure blue skies weep in rent glacial torrents,
iridescent earth sun trap poised to garner sympathy,
dark red cloud’s indignant float might yet rumble,
toxic deluge drenches mudbank plot as toilers whine,
thunderstruck I gaze at wild indigo...
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Categories:
trenchant, anxiety, art, august, care, character, devotion, environment,
Form:
Free verse
In Morning's Sweet Silence"Like the silence that screams cursing solitude . . .
whispers of faith sing patiently with prayers."
...
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Categories:
trenchant, morning, prayer,
Form:
Terza Rima