Long Turn on Poems
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Flint
Flint
Within its brilliance gleaming
Cool black in lacquered polished silver chrome
Cranked up pistons bleached in summer’s heat
Hot steam rising as gears thundering
Beyond the crystal liquid city lights
Highways built across the land
In hearts felt pride American...
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Categories:
turn on,
Form:
Abecedarian
Additional Advice To Those Would Be King From the Thiruk-Kural With Commentary
Additional free advice to those* who would be King from the THIRUK-KURAL with Commentary
[*like presidents, prime ministers, dictators of declining (falling or fallen) nations or even empires]
K442: urranOy niikki uraa amai munkaakkum
...
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Categories:
turn on, bullying, immigration, prison, religion, sympathy, tamil, violence,
Form:
Epigram
Geese, Goslings and the Bridge
Geese, Goslings and the Bridge
Sometimes, when you least expect it, Mother Nature makes a u-turn and draws you into the ridiculous. Such was the time recently as I was returning from a friend’s home...
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Categories:
turn on, bird, family,
Form:
Metrical Tale
I Cry
I cry at baptisms, funerals, and touchy movies. There are more ...
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Categories:
turn on, change, family,
Form:
Verse
Mcgillicuddy's Wake
Two new crutches and two double shots of Bushmills Irish Whiskey enabled Joe Faherty to move from the back seat of Moira Murphy's 1976 Buick into Eagan's Funeral Home for Tim McGillicuddy's wake. At 87,...
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Categories:
turn on, death of a friend, fantasy,
Form:
Prose
Asked and Answered - An Echo Poem
HOW I WOULD DESCRIBE MYSELF
People often say to me
“What can you tell me about yourself”
guess it’s my duty to explain to them
and so I look them in the face and reply
My...
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Categories:
turn on, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Bear Creek '98
_ a symphonic, folk rock, blues song
1.
I'm an old man looking
For the lost, best parts of me.
I'm an old man looking
For the lost, best parts of me.
I'm looking in the places
Where the people say love...
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Categories:
turn on, change, conflict,
Form:
Rhyme
Upon Waking
“Upon Waking”
Slumber has its upsides
while the outside runs around
like a split fowlyard,
cacophonous
pecking at each other
and at the ground…
Elsewhere,
like dull background noise
through the fog of dream
the sound of the gamble...
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Categories:
turn on, gothic, muse, poets,
Form:
Narrative
Rum N Raisin 4 - Homer Lone
Rum was feeling playful so he went to find a mouse
He looked in every nook and cranny right throughout the house
But all the mice were sound asleep for it was dark outside
And then Rum saw...
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Categories:
turn on, animal, cat,
Form:
Narrative
LIFE AS AN FBI INFORMANT WEARING WIRES PREGNANT WITH AN ABUSIVE SPOUSE
AFTER WEARING WIRES PREGNANT FOR THE FBI BUYING WEAPONS AND DRUGS COMPLETING SEVERAL IT WAS CLEAR MY ABUSIVE EX HUSBAND WAS SEVERELY JUNK SICK HE GREW ANGRY BITTER VERY BITTER PARINOID OF BEING KILLED HE...
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Categories:
turn on, allah,
Form:
Naat
Phantom Mechanisms
Mechanism 1
Part #1
The things outside of my window dry out my eyes. The egg that I saturated has mold on it. The moon decays when I speak. The stars are all just God’s germs. Lately...
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Categories:
turn on, mystery, me, night, people, me, moon, night,
Form:
Free verse
Digital Creationism
Digital Creationism
(Man 0, God 1)
Part 1: Binary God
For men it seems God is a binary function
And like ones and zeros 'HE IS ON or 'he's off.'
Is...
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Categories:
turn on, relationship,
Form:
Rhyme
Respectfully
At the end of this message to you I shall write respectfully a word that shows that you’re being polite, but really, does it matter? I’m not truly feeling contrite
See respect is something earned and...
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Categories:
turn on, anger,
Form:
Rhyme
Stressors
*last winter break*
I woke up abruptly, my chest gripped and tight. My face felt hot but my arms stung as if frostbitten. I gasped for air that wouldn’t come, as if I had a plastic...
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Categories:
turn on, brother, christmas, dream, growing up, sister, teen,
Form:
Free verse
Common Cold
Achooo!
It begins, almost always, with a sneeze,
Which, in some cultures,
Invites blessings,
But, in some others, a curse,
As it’s held to be ominous!
Blessing or curse, soon the frequency
And the decibels increase—
Incredibly, irritatingly, inconveniently, and...
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Categories:
turn on, funny, irony, philosophy, psychological, , cute,
Form:
Free verse
THE KILLING FIELDS
This horrendous Cambodian war-time story,
Ends with Cambodian glory,
Journalists forged a strong friendship within hard cruel times,
It is one of the best movies ever and all so true,
These two men Sydney Schanberg and Dith Pran
In the...
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Categories:
turn on, political,
Form:
Free verse
Winter Weary - a Seasonal Tale
Winter Weary
A rhyme that sends a winters “chill’.
With snow, not knowing where to start.
But as he’s had some time to “chill”.
A fellow with a changing heart.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~...
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Categories:
turn on, poetry, snow,
Form:
Rhyme
Ghost Hunter - Continued
The elderly, the injured,
The deficient, the mentally ill,
The sick, the chastened,
The weary, the suicidal,
The innocent, the broken,
The lost, lost, LOST ...
You are NOT there with them ...
Only sadness and loss and pain.
The animals, the...
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Categories:
turn on, philosophy, religion, self,
Form:
Free verse
Scent of a Woman, Scent of a Man, Bawdy and Poop Warning - Now a Collaboration
Folk purchase this celeb’s new candle
It’s something my brain cannot handle
‘Smells like my v’gina’
Could give folk angina
This fragrance has caused quite a scandal
Inspired by a comment from a fancy friend...
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Categories:
turn on, humorous, senses, wind,
Form:
Limerick
Another Day In Dreamland
Another day in dreamland
Wake up. Watch the sun ease in the light
like the day before, goin back, and on some more.
Cuddle with the reasons why while I collect
my unconscious back from the sky.
Okay, get...
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Categories:
turn on, dream,
Form:
Free verse
The Rites of Business
When one hits pay-dirt
How far can this go
The thrill in success is habit forming
Success becoming currency of the day’s blo'
Materialism playing a heavy hand as judgment
With minions waiting to join in
Groping for a share... a...
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Categories:
turn on, betrayal, business, corruption, culture, life, self, work,
Form:
Rhyme
That's What They Say
They say...
Still waters run deep...
Then why are there so many shallow people?
When it rains it pours...
Usually the day after I wash my truck.
Walk softly and carry a big stick...
Or walk hard and carry a small...
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Categories:
turn on, america, cheer up,
Form:
Free verse
Looking-Back Smile
We were chasing each other through the woods,
behind the old neighborhood
where your parents still live.
I was heaving with bent-over laughter,
trying to catch up to your looking-back smile,
and then you disappeared into that opening
where the sun...
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Categories:
turn on, beauty, best friend, childhood, growing up, happy,
Form:
Free verse
Attention
See them opening the doors to welcome you to the shore. See them opening the door, they are asking you for more. Get your business in line and make way for the divine, open up...
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Categories:
turn on, business, change, deep, england, environment, food, freedom,
Form:
Prose
Happy Spouse Happy House
Before I even start, this is for some women, not all. If it don’t apply, let it fly, but if the shoe fit, don’t be mad.
People, people, people, why has society implanted in the mind...
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Categories:
turn on, happiness, house, husband, life, marriage, wife, women,
Form:
Narrative