Long Unknowns Poems
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Canto Xxi Hell TranslationSo bridge to bridge, of other things speaking
Of which my comedy does not take care,
We walked; and reached the top, when seeking
For watching the next slit, then we stopped there
Malebolge to see and crying vain;
And...
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Categories:
unknowns, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
Sick Art
"Sick Art"
I walk the streets
still and quiet
I do not lie
I do not betray
what the heart belies
pickled kidneys
I am a ghost
of my former self
ears lent to hear
the sweet music
of the sounds so fraught
caught up...
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Categories:
unknowns, dark, horror, mystery,
Form:
Free verse
On Noms-De-PlumeJustin Von Depathos strode across the ballroom floor
To sit with Carlton Vishizwa and Charlotte Genivieve,
While I watched, in silent fascination, from the door,
The “major players” waltzing ‘round the room that Friday eve.
Thurston Beaumont...
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Categories:
unknowns, funny, humor, poetry, writing,
Form:
Verse
Mothmananxiety, intense -
but I am not frightened ...
my heart races ... I want to flee
my blood heats and lies to
my senses ...
'get out! go now! dear gawd, fool, run!!'
for you are formidable -
eighty inches tall,...
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Categories:
unknowns, adventure, fantasy, moon, mystery, myth, science fiction,
Form:
Free verse
The JourneyI
It all began so many years ago,
his journey down the narrow winding path,
and where it was to lead just fate could know
as it would take him through life’s aftermath.
The journey long and hard that he...
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Categories:
unknowns, destiny, journey, life,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Inferno Yawnrise and shine deflect common sense while white dilapidated guts spawn oppossing beats an treats that are not so daring as uncommon feats and relativity clings to gravity and in spite of everything nothingness has...
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Categories:
unknowns, beauty, desire, dream, hope, life, love, sun,
Form:
I do not know?
PandemicPandemic!
A pandemic is widespread and affects everything and everyone. No one is safe and there are no lives without risk. Pandemic’s once unleashed on unsuspecting, innocent people wreaks havoc. There are numerous unknown’s and more...
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Categories:
unknowns, bereavement, confusion, daughter, death, fear, heartbroken, mom,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
PandemicPandemic!
A pandemic is widespread and affects everything and everyone. No one is safe and there are no lives without risk. Pandemic’s once unleashed on unsuspecting, innocent people wreaks havoc. There are numerous unknown’s and more...
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Categories:
unknowns, bereavement, confusion, daughter, death, fear, heartbroken, mom,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Feathers of Pride and HumilityIn twilight's realm, where moonbeams entwine,
Two owls engaged in a contrast of minds:
A Great Horned Owl, proud and strong,
And a Great Gray Owl, cunning and long.
Amidst the trees, their feathers shone,
"Who is the wisest?" their...
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Categories:
unknowns, allegory, education, humanity, philosophy, pride, visionary, wisdom,
Form:
Didactic
Barney's SongAs I awake this morning
I remember a Barney song
for my more oppositionally misaligned daughter.
I love you
and you love me
even if I couldn't realign my four B's,
Brain,
and Branches,
and Belly,
and Butt,
these four aligned
good government.
If you...
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Categories:
unknowns, day, dream, earth, health, night, passion, power,
Form:
Political Verse
Ss SultanaSS SULTANA
Boiler, or bomb, the Sultana sank on April 27, eighteen sixty five
Taking down with her, a good rounded off number of 1,800 lives
Carrying Union soldiers, who were ex-prisoners of war, up north
From Vicksburg...
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Categories:
unknowns, betrayal, boat, history, lost, soldier, war, write,
Form:
Couplet
The Truth, the Poem, the MetaphoricI'm the roving reporter on the move again
(despite having a cold I had to take the children to gymnastics and because I'm disorganised I'm crossing several lanes of traffic on foot whilst they are in...
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Categories:
unknowns, cheer up,
Form:
Rhyme
Redeeming the TimeTo each of us
Whose origins are from the dust,
An allotment of TIME is freely given
For us to love, to care, and to share.
We know neither quantity nor quality.
TIME has been defined as a period during
Which...
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Categories:
unknowns, christian, faith, god, time,
Form:
Rhyme
Kindness and Resiliencychildren look forward, adults look around, elders look back
looking back, I remember a long-forgotten accident I had. While riding my bicycle with no hands, I closed my eyes, daring myself...
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Categories:
unknowns, adventure, blessing, care, education, inspirational, remember, thanks,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The Queen's Slippers - Part 1Look at the eyes, windows of the soul.
Then the intent, link below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jc9En9WUzI8
"The Queen's Slippers - Part 1"
There is an owl it perches
on my heart
digs it’s talons in like
nine inch nails piercing
thick skin gone thin
it softly...
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Categories:
unknowns, imagery, life, love, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
The TrunkThe attic trunk, dirty, and oh so old
Had survived the many years untold
Sitting there midst the quiet dust
The hasp and hinges brown with rust
In the young girls’ mind she was compelled
To see what it was...
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Categories:
unknowns, family, history, identity, nostalgia, perspective,
Form:
Rhyme
The Battle WithinThe mind, a wilderness and untamed
A place of unknowns and darkened woods
A battleground where ambitions are drained
And life plays out in the most uncontrolled goods
As a student, I fought through the...
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Categories:
unknowns, anxiety, confidence, courage, desire, mental health, strength,
Form:
Rhyme
Lessons From NatureUpon His soul leaving the body it once rested in,
a storm of atramentous clouds formed over the mountain top
that we once stood upon like kings.
Loss caused the quaking thunder
to shake the foundation of my heart,
and...
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Categories:
unknowns, absence, death, father, god, life, nature, tribute,
Form:
Romanticism
My Public Service Part OneMy occupation is supplying individuals with the substance of their worst desire
Most dealers driving force is the desire to increase their wealth, monetary gain
My driving force the result of my own treacherous case of Heroin...
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Categories:
unknowns, abuse, addiction, desire, jobs, sin, drug,
Form:
Prose Poetry
A Place To StandTo look back now,?to the times when I was young,?there were so many unknowns?that the girl I was ?didn’t realize existed.?I did not know?if I could ever trust a man to care.?I did not know?if...
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Categories:
unknowns, abuse, anxiety, art, depression, mental illness, poems,
Form:
Free verse
KNOWN JUST TO GOD AND MEKNOWN JUST TO GOD AND ME
...
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Categories:
unknowns, death, grave, history, patriotic, soldier, war, world
Form:
Rhyme
Eye of the Tropical January SunExercising belief about unknowns.
Makes sense to take your best guess.
Using history, numbers, extrapolation.
Getting the trajectory right for re-entry.
Few dissenters left for climate change, evolution.
Nuclear power brings a process to earth
that occurs only in space. Dangerous
but...
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Categories:
unknowns, death, fire, food, innocence, january, senses, song,
Form:
Verse
Venus De MiloIt’s not so much her rubenesque shape or her
amazonian height of six feet/eight nor even
her firm bare breasts – modest for a sex goddess –
and therefore of no glued focus in most...
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Categories:
unknowns, art, humor,
Form:
Light Verse
AfterDay One
The bomb when it fell sent the planet to hell
With unrestrained retaliation
The damage was done and the end had begun
With no hope of human salvation
I woke with a scream from that God...
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Categories:
unknowns, conflict, war,
Form:
Rhyme
Of and About It All*** OF AND ABOUT IT ALL ***
Life’s so much a-coming or a-going,
With hours of waiting or flowing
From now to next
While we step about, hopefully blessed —
On a quest for things major or minor to...
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Categories:
unknowns, age, art, immigration, jesus, journey, life, time,
Form:
Rhyme