Long Undertook Poems
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Jean Lapresle: the Solitary Oak On Mount Kremlin Bicetre
A French ‘Indianist’ Doctor: A Tribute to a Die-hard Humanist
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Categories:
undertook, celebrity, endurance, french, loss, solitude, tribute,
Form:
Elegy
A Former Great Nations Squandered Wealth I
Swept up into piles; everywhere
Abouts; in collected heaps all
Around.
It is almost as if the drab
Streets were strewn...
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Categories:
undertook, philosophy, senses,
Form:
Rhyme
Soliloquio Del Individuo By Nicanor Parra, Translated By T Wignesan
Soliloquio del Individuo by Nicanor Parra, Translated by T. Wignesan
(Homage to Nicanor PARRA, 1914-2018, the Chilean ANTI-POET, winner of the "Cervantes Prize" (the highest literary honour for writers in Spanish), four times nominated for the...
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Categories:
undertook, allegory, humanity, loneliness, philosophy, psychological, world,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
The Andromeda Strain Part I: ILMO - my son
I thought of writing about another High School Social Studies book report. This is an intriguing piece riddled with a complicated set of circumstances. I chose to write it as a short story as it...
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Categories:
undertook, mystery, science fiction,
Form:
Narrative
We Will Get Our - Hyphen
" We Will Get Our - Hyphen "
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Categories:
undertook, humanity, introspection, life, truth,
Form:
Rhyme
Argh Daylight Savings Time March 13th 2022
Argh Daylight Savings Time – March 13th, 2022
Once again, yours truly
dishes out his regular dose
of literary gobbledygook
even Count Dracula
would not even bat an eye
nor give me his evil curse,
butta I avoid tempting him
courtesy fanged...
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Categories:
undertook, america, change, confusion, history, light, march, morning,
Form:
Rhyme
Argh Daylight Savings Time March 14th 2021
Argh Daylight Savings Time – March 14th, 2021
Once again, yours truly
dishes out his regular dose
of literary gobbledygook
even Count Dracula
would not even bat an eye
nor give me his evil,
(albeit harmless) look
regarding feeble effort I undertook.
Don't forget...
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Categories:
undertook, adventure, confusion, evil, good night, hello, husband,
Form:
Rhyme
THREE ROCKS
THREE ROCKS
Written for Competition : A Magical Journey
Sponsor : Constance La France
[ Prompt : I hold three magic rocks in my hand
Rolling them over and over and over
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Categories:
undertook, adventure, allegory, extended metaphor, fairy, imagery, metaphor,
Form:
Alliteration
The Andromeda Strain Part II: ILMO - my son
Dr. Mark Hall undertook the task of unarming the rigged satellite there in the secluded part of the lab. He is trapped in a section that, due to an oversight, has no substation. He must...
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Categories:
undertook, mystery, science fiction,
Form:
Narrative
Santa's Special Delivery: a Collab
Brutal was the biting wind,
sweeping brown locks of a tiny urchin
side to side, often hiding her eyes.
Oversized slippers she had donned
were lost in deep snow drifts.
She plodded forth barefoot, risking frostbite.
Little daylight...
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Categories:
undertook, granddaughter, grandfather, love,
Form:
Prose
Alfred the Great modern English translations by Michael R Burch
KING ALFRED THE GREAT MODERN ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS
King Alfred the Great (c. 849-899), arguably the first great king of England, may have done more to lay the groundwork for English literacy and literature than any...
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Categories:
undertook, england, leadership, literature, poetry, power, war, words,
Form:
Free verse
Martial Translation COQ AU VIN
Martial Translations
Coq au vin (Cook or wine)
by Martial, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
1.
Hosts always invite you to dinner, Phoebe,
but are you merely an éclair to the greedy?
2.
Hosts always invite you to dinner, Phoebe,
but are...
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Categories:
undertook, addiction, drink, food, house, wine,
Form:
Epigram
Where Art Sisyphus
Tis quite a beast of burden to bear atlas (shrug off not allowed)
Atlas shrugged an impossibility
tantamount to skinny dipping in the lock nest lagoon
Tantamount to shrugging Atlas off mine bony,
ill suited,...
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Categories:
undertook, absence, allegory, anxiety, deep, faith, fate, heaven,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
undertook, emotions, together, work,
Form:
Free verse
Many Lives Many Masters
I desire only Peace
But I must face the Truth here
He is numbered among them
I look down at the campfires
He is lost in the vastness of their army
His tent is guarded by Warriors when he...
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Categories:
undertook, uplifting, voice, world,
Form:
Free verse
The Stranger Man 5
Before I tramp the course of my cause,
A family indeed we were, I and Kole
But I short of years from the other.
Only by words we keep memory of
A deceased mother like morning dew
Sought for by...
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Categories:
undertook, adventure, earth, journey, life, philosophy, psychological, relationship,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Just For Giggles
For those who don't read blogs or know of Jan's successful first book, I've written a limerick for her and included it in my comment on her blog. She's included her interview in a podcast....
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Categories:
undertook, friendship,
Form:
Limerick
Piecing Together Harris Kuritsky Tattered Family Tree
Piecing together Harris/ Kuritsky tattered family tree
(Betsy Ross would beam at unflagging effort)
Ah, here all along yours truly
thought himself an abductee,
and/or zoologically
linkedin with chimpanzee,
hence imagine my disappointment
flipping laminated pages ye
ja undertook undoubtedly
painstaking effort,
plus wireless subcommittee
stitched...
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Categories:
undertook, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Free verse
Late Morning Today February 17 2021
Late morning today (February 17, 2021)
I (accompanied by missus)
drove to bed bath and beyond
Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania
off Chemical Road location for naught.
After arriving
at said destination alas and alack
with intent to purchase:
ZeroWater®
10-Cup Ready Pour™ Pitcher - $17.50
and...
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Categories:
undertook, angst, anxiety, business, confusion, husband, planet, wife,
Form:
Rhyme
You'Re My Inspiration - Dedicated To My Amazing Mum
How do I begin to describe you
Such an incredible person
Yet even now you doubt your abilities
You lost your own mum when you were eight - you never ever got over it
You worked all...
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Categories:
undertook, mother, mum, tribute,
Form:
Free verse
The Green Silk Dress
The Green Silk Dress
Eons back in time, was a tall maiden fair
A long pair of legs and equally long blond hair.
A green silk dress, she once did espy
The colour would pick the green out in...
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Categories:
undertook, growing up, day, green, may,
Form:
Light Verse
Cross Roads
The year was Ten Ninety Five,
Christianity by decree.
Off to the Holy Land men were sent,
to set all Christians free.
Peter the Hermit was first to go,
church unsanctioned was the start.
Whipping followers into a...
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Categories:
undertook, history, people, places,
Form:
Rhyme
Illusion Within You
Oh, my creator,
In my journey from falsehood to reality, From deceit to truth,
From confinement to boundlessness,
From obscurity to illumination,
From malevolence to benevolence,
From nonexistence to existence,
From familiarity to the unfamiliar.
Oh, my...
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Categories:
undertook, goodbye, leaving, planet, world,
Form:
Free verse
Predictable
What were the odds they did not know?
So many, many years ago, according to the records
they had left in there, it seems the answer was, quite low.
How strange the paradox of nature, how unpredictable
the...
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Categories:
undertook, angst, art, bereavement, environment, eulogy, future, humanity,
Form:
Free verse
Many
MANY
many undertook,
many renounced their pasts,
and many came unwilling,
and many more baulked
at the prospects
of what we would consider,
an undertaking of great proportions,
to a journey;
to this far off place,
this complete unknown.
where some came willing,
where some came...
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Categories:
undertook, appreciation, celebration, character, immigration,
Form:
Free verse