Long Unpretentious Poems
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Is It All In Vain?
Is It All In Vain?
Experimental scientific observations inside a laboratory
Consequential specific consecrations that combine to form a sacred story
Monumental consternations that speak beyond the allegory
Environmental commiserations as the situations become horrifically gory...
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Categories:
unpretentious, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Mother Hen
I felt great calmness and perfect peace. I had the feelings of a poor man who has just come under the protection of the Royal Family, and has obtained an annual pension for life-the dreadful...
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Categories:
unpretentious, animal, bird, blessing, devotion, love, mother, mothers
Form:
Free verse
The Debate
A Debate
The Atheist
I see no reason for a god
Indeed for any type of god at all
I look around at all the churchmen
The pompous richly dressed ones
And wonder what their founder would have thought
And then at...
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Categories:
unpretentious, philosophy, god, god, universe, , atheist,
Form:
Free verse
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 13
In his seething silence, I spoke, softly to him,
“Did I desire once to be higher than you, oh seething heart?
Could I, in my human flesh, sympathize for your imminent demise?
Cradling you in my sorrows, as...
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Categories:
unpretentious, adventure, confusion, courage, heart, inspirational, meaningful, passion,
Form:
Epic
Obsessed
Obsessed
Hours and hours practising
“Practice makes perfect!”
Others have described Antonio’s playing as perfect.
He has played in spectacular locations. Even before Kings and Queens. One day Carnegie Hall,
the next day the Britannia Panaopticon Music Hall,...
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Categories:
unpretentious, appreciation, art, creation, fantasy, music, sensual, woman,
Form:
Narrative
Adolescent infatuations never consummated
Adolescent infatuations...never consummated
Greetings reader from a cross between an aging seventy inch long (ringing ding dong) haired pencil necked geek and a Norwegian bachelor farmer wannabe; meaning yours truly actually a virtually married Pennsylvania man,...
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Categories:
unpretentious, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th grade, 9th
Form:
Free verse
A Portrait
~A Portrait ~
A mother feels that her life resembles
to an unpretentious painting
hanging on the wall in her residency,
it projects nothing except
emptiness,stagnant,old,
no ocean with the seagulls
flying on top humming
happy sounds to...
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Categories:
unpretentious, devotion, emotions, identity,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Miracle Ova Fertilized Cell
Miracle ova fertilized cell...
Yielded pink bundle of joy
self determined autonomous millennial
relocated University of Pennsylvania
Engineering graduate class of 2019
calls Oakland, California home
(employed at Certified B Corporation)
lives with her lovely beau,
and two beautiful tortoiseshell cats.
December twenty second
two...
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Categories:
unpretentious, adventure, angel, anniversary, anxiety, beautiful, birthday, celebration,
Form:
Free verse
Thats What A Buddhas Like
(Rinpoche in Sarnath, 1987)
That’s What A Buddha’s Like
It’s hard to know where to start
when talking about the ineffable.
Maybe starting at the end is best.
It’s taken me a lifetime to appreciate
the little things, the simple, unadorned,...
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Categories:
unpretentious, appreciation, devotion, friendship, teacher,
Form:
Narrative
Divine Heathen Lurches Philosophical
index finger of left hand
(likened to Michelangelo
meticulously chiseling away
at marble block), this poe
whit attempts to coax (zealously
tap into his latent...
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Categories:
unpretentious, 10th grade, 11th grade, 9th grade, atheist,
Form:
Free verse
Fertile Crescent, Iii
Fertile Crescent
and Vestigial Conscience
The sun overshadowing my morality
my self- righteousness eclipsed
Where early mans' dawn is,
Our sun over my left *should* threaten to tinge me if
I pontificate platitudes that fail to connect us to
full stomachs...
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Categories:
unpretentious, america, angst, character, conflict, courage, culture, devotion,
Form:
Epic
Shelton Washington State
County seat, of Mason County, Washington, highly rates
United States Westernmost city on Puget Sound e quates
above ground sans tectonic plates
Population 9,834 per 2010 census
end result from biological mates
maintains commission form of government
drafted...
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Categories:
unpretentious, america, beautiful, blue, christmas, creation, environment, heaven,
Form:
Free verse
Serious Sibling Subluxation
Serious sibling subluxation...
rapprochement somewhat salvaged dislocation
Truth be told about following poem
mostly written quite some years ago,
and revisions made to recreate
and revise a more satisfactory literary product.
This trademark ungainly, unsightly,
and unwieldy title essentially
huzzah...
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Categories:
unpretentious, absence, age, angel, appreciation, betrayal, childhood, relationship,
Form:
Rhyme
A Few Pages
on a sultry day when there was nothing else to accomplish,
roaming around listlessly in my parents' house, stumbled at a little diary from my teenage years!
with a pretty picture of a rose bouquet on the...
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Categories:
unpretentious, me, memory, teenage,
Form:
Narrative
Shelton Washington State
(do enjoy frolicking gently imaginatively)
County seat, of Mason County,
Washington, United States
westernmost city on Puget Sound
above ground sans tectonic plates
population 9,834 per 2010 census
end...
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Categories:
unpretentious, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th grade, america,
Form:
Epic
Serious Sibling Subluxation
Serious Sibling Subluxation...
Rapprochement Somewhat Salvaged Dislocation
This trademark ungainly, unsightly,
and unwieldy title essentially
huzzah mask queer aid,
and accentuates tendency
(mine) to administer
...
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Categories:
unpretentious, 8th grade, deep, growing up, jewish, magic,
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
Shelton - Washington State
this paean to the place name sans title of poem actually mooch oh years decades? ago, when my youngest sister began her decades long residence along the Pacific Northwest.
- - - - - - -...
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Categories:
unpretentious, adventure, age, brother, city, destiny, environment, home,
Form:
Free verse
An Innocent Little Book
Once upon a time on a table lay an innocent little book;
Do not open it, a label warned, not even to take a look.
You want to know, don’t you, why so many have come back,
To...
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Categories:
unpretentious, inspirational, life,
Form:
Lyric
The Real Mccoy
He's a man of an unforgetting mind. He's a gentleman, caring, and kind. ...
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Categories:
unpretentious, friendship,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Fall Down On Your Knees
Fall down on knees so humble
Reverent of this awesome God
Who gave us sun and moon
Along with the shimmering stars
Fall down on knees so meek
Willing to give Him full adoration
For all that He is – love...
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Categories:
unpretentious, faith, inspirational, jesus,
Form:
Free verse
No Man Should Know Unbearable Grief
No man should know unbearable grief,
and carry with him it's uneasy burden;
and regret could be as heavy as that,
not to have accomplished much before his death:
wouldn't a loving father be proud of his only son?
But...
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Categories:
unpretentious, deathlife, me,
Form:
Sestina
What If Thanksgiving Celebrated 365 Days a Year Part I
an earlier draft of this barely satisfactory missive ex post facto, i chomped asper with upper dentures upon evincing a couple of typographical errors, in up rye or draft, and did not wanna dodge being...
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Categories:
unpretentious, culture, food, house, joy, meaningful, senses, thanksgiving
Form:
Epic
Quiet Moments
Quiet moments,
Spent with the dawn – spent…
With an all-consuming love, God
Who knows me like no other…
He knows me better than a brother.
Quiet moments,
Still as the rising sun – shadowed…
By the moon’s departing glow,
Awaiting its destiny...
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Categories:
unpretentious, appreciation, courage, faith, god, heart, heaven, inspirational
Form:
Rhyme
The Color of Butter
While closing my eyes, I return once again
to an image that nestles at the foot of the mountains
Snow crowns San Jacinto as it shadows the valley
I am there as a child in the house with...
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Categories:
unpretentious, child, childhood, home, house,
Form:
Free verse
When Does It End
When Does It End
When is it ok for a person to make a child and not take care of them?
When is it ok for a person to be happy when a part of them is...
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Categories:
unpretentious, life, drug,
Form:
Dramatic Verse