Long Trying on Poems
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Oh Yes
Oh God Most High, oh yes…
I’ve done it again…
I admit…now, I’m in distress
Oh Lord, why did I sin that same sin over and over again?
Why did You allow this to happen to me? Where have...
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Categories:
trying on, change, deep, desire, emotions, faith, hope, how
Form:
Rhyme
body box - what i am now v2
if you saw me
the way i see myself
maybe you'd get it.
"count your calories,
read the nutrition panels,
diet,
exercise,"
i know.
believe me,
i know.
"it's for your health,"
turns into
a chase
after my...
after your
ideal weight for me.
but you say it's...
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Categories:
trying on, anti bullying, body, dark, death, life, slam,
Form:
Free verse
Two Cultural Feet
David Holmgren
a seminal PermaCultural Designer,
if there ever has become one,
suggests most people throughout Earth
in this age of globally interdependent communication
feel we have one foot planted
in our original local community/family culture,
and the other foot planted in...
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Categories:
trying on, culture, earth, health, humanity, humor, integrity, mental
Form:
Political Verse
Summer of Crazy
I still have that letter somewhere.
You made me promise to not tell anyone you wrote it.
So I kept that promise,
I kept it for thirty years.
I’m kinda thinking it’s long enough.
Why was I attracted to you?
It...
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Categories:
trying on, adventure, break up, emotions, jealousy, youth,
Form:
Prose
Light Verse and Nonsense Verse Viii
Wonderworks
by Michael R. Burch
History’s
mysteries
abound
& astound,
found
(profound)
the whole earth ’round,
even if mostly
underground.
The Procrastinator’s Creed
by Michael R. Burch
It’s always, “Tomorrow, I’ll do it.”
Work? I eschew it.
I never collect money I’ve loaned
and the rest of this poem’s been postponed.
WHEN...
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Categories:
trying on, fun, funny, funny love, giggle, humor, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
The Birthday Party
It was my seventh birthday party, mother had everything planned,
Decorations were in the dining room, invitations sent out, balloons;
And on...
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Categories:
trying on, birthday,
Form:
Narrative
Gradations of Color
Hydration day’s a month away.
Online belonging company’s an hour from
startup stardom. Titration hors-d'oeuvre
Viewfinder pigeonholed
to rooftop tourist
traps ruin’d carriage holy woods
Hollywood's margins, Carousel 13.
Things You’ll Bury:
molasses sourdough flowers crypto-
currency...
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Categories:
trying on, absence, addiction, age, allegory, allusion, america, woman,
Form:
Free verse
Reflections On My Seventieth Birthday
...
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Categories:
trying on, birthday, emotions, introspection, life, mythology, poetry, poets,
Form:
Rhyme
Windows of Hope
The songs of the early nineties keeps ringing in my ears, it is the joy and the melody that I continue to feel and hear, I can still feel the chills as the snowflakes...
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Categories:
trying on, business, celebration, city, dance, engagement, fish, strength,
Form:
Narrative
The Prismatic Self
Spelling, syllable count, vanity, too simple, Simon! Be prolific, cruel, smart, up to par, above the bar, fit for the stage. Tap, tap, tap…
—by poet
The Prismatic Self
See the wooden stage, markers for my feet, bright...
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Categories:
trying on, angst, confidence, introspection, writing,
Form:
Free verse
Dare I This, To Such Marvelous Dreams Dream
Dare I This, To Such Marvelous Dreams Dream
A baby, once in a small wooden crib,
Humanity's seed, vestige of Adam's rib
I watch as he nurses then falls to sleep
The afternoon sun, beaming golden deep
Quiet spreads, contented...
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Categories:
trying on, art, blessing, creation, inspiration, passion, poetry, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Fair and Market In Wales
Lost my kids once just for a minute or so in the fair: needle in haystack.
Busy and purposeful Sunday morning. Fascinating bee hive but I wanted my kids back
Thought they were next to...
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Categories:
trying on, childhood,
Form:
Couplet
What About Me?
I’m so very sick of this
I no longer have his touch
I no longer have his kiss
With each passing second
He is the one I will forever miss
And yet love is supposed to be
Happily ever after and...
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Categories:
trying on, angst, confusion, depression, life, lost love, love,
Form:
Romanticism
Market In Brittany, France
MARKET IN BRITTANY, FRANCE
Lost my kids once just for a minute or so in the market: needle in haystack.
Busy...
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Categories:
trying on, family
Form:
Narrative
The Aging Process
Many years ago, when we were all young,
We really thought life, would be so much fun.
While playing dress-up, trying on mom’s stuff,
Putting on make-up, we found to be tough.
Then came our schooling, and boy things...
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Categories:
trying on, age, childhood, children, daughter, family, children, kids,
Form:
Rhyme
Fragmentary Knowledge
Have you ever been puzzled by Bible’s advice
That we “let the dead bury the dead.”
Once it gave me the feeling that God’s veins were ice
It was quite hard to see this as love
But I now...
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Categories:
trying on, faith,
Form:
Rhyme
what i am now
if you saw me
the way i see myself
maybe you'd get it.
"count your calories,
read the nutrition panels,
diet,
exercise,"
i know.
believe me,
i know.
"it's for your health,"
turns into
a chase
after my...
after your
ideal weight for me.
but you say it's...
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Categories:
trying on, sad, slam,
Form:
Free verse
Where Is the Love
Decades down to years
Years down to months
Months down to days
Days down to hours
Hours down to minutes
Minutes down to seconds
No matter what time it is or how long you've been alive
You know at least one person...
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Categories:
trying on, educationworld, family, family,
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
The Creepy Sneak
He's older than dirt and should be dead
but yet he keeps walking around filling us with dread
wears the same dark hooded outfit everyday
showing fashion is not quite his forte
You would think he was a track...
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Categories:
trying on, imagination,
Form:
Rhyme
Cyber Love
Though I wasn't looking for anyone new
One day played a little game & BOOM there was YOU!
GENUINE Intelligent with so much flair
Thought no big deal than I started to really care
Quickly...
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Categories:
trying on, i love you, love,
Form:
Rhyme
My Criminal Past
It’s all too much
I try and try
yet things just don’t
happen right
for me
Just when I think
situations may just
turn around
Out of the blue
it comes to haunt me
My criminal past
Years ago
I was in a...
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Categories:
trying on, abuse, anger, betrayal, dad,
Form:
Ballad
Life As a Ghost
I thought maybe I can get through this
by putting my thoughts to rhyme
maybe doing so will bring me some clarity
a method to ease and help focus my mind.
Here goes.........
If this is life I don't...
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Categories:
trying on, anxiety, depression, emotions, fear, psychological,
Form:
Verse
Happy Mother's Day
To you whom gave me life,
Rocked and sang, sweet melodies lullabies
By night, and cradled me safe and warm,
Within a mother's loving, and tender embrace.
Taught an awkward child, to take her
First steps, and held...
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Categories:
trying on, beautiful, family, international, love, mother daughter, mothers
Form:
Free verse
After- the Birthday Party
It was my seventh birthday party, mother had everything planned,
decorations were in the dining room, invitations sent out, balloons;
and on February 1- I was...
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Categories:
trying on, birthday, sad,
Form:
Narrative
The Three Days, That the Three of Them Changed Me!
The Three Days, That The Three Of Them Changed Me!
~
I was minding my own business, when
my wife wanted to go to a bookstore,
she just needed some cards, dumb me I
went...
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Categories:
trying on, devotion, faith, inspirational, religioncare, me, care, jesus,
Form:
Prose Poetry