Long Unsophisticated Poems

Justin 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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Heretofore stuffing said scandalous fête
worst day of year turkeys do hate
though vegan lifestyle
sweeping culinary tables of late
though me and the missus
still omnivorous foods sate

palates sprinkled (of course
while mouths full with borscht,
and eyes wide shut)
with garbled...

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It amazes me that she came to mind after some 50 years.
She lived far back across the fields, alone with not a care.
She was laughed at and talked about; some were afraid of her.

No one...

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The Petty Posh-Wahzee - Liberation & Ostentation


The Not-So Distant Past:

The fallen fighters for freedom, are unable to turn in their graves,
their battered, fragmented bones, mixed with a handful of torn rags,
are all that remain, a...

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Die Lorelei by Heinrich Heine (1797-1856)- Translated by T. Wignesan
	For Regina von Degenfeld at Waibstadt
	-in respect and unending sufferance-

(Heine, a German Jewish lyrical and satiric poet, journalist and critic,
 settled in Paris from 1831 where...

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.Inspired From Sapper French's Diary from April 23. 1916
                         "Come On...

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There is no place for me to go 
I'll spend my life right here I know, 
I lost my job then lost my dough 
Last night I lost my bride with adio'! 

I stayed the...

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I’m no scholar
I don’t know many things
I’m not so intelligent
That I can pass every test
I’m not a sage
A specialist or doctor
I don’t research all the details
Or have great thoughts 
My intellect isn’t rewarded
With trophies or...

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An unsophisticated feller attending an auction could find himself in a pickle!
The nuances, subtleties and gestures used in bidding could cost him a pretty nickel!
A city feller decided to attend a farm auction to see...

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Anthropomorphic test device to explore
amply, cheaply tricked out 
with super tramping,
albeit unsophisticated trappings 
strewn ceiling to floor
available for purchase at Dollar store
(actually merchandise 
cost more than 100 pennies)
nonetheless unmanned spacecraft made
perfect landing upon alien nation...

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Sixty-Six years ago today a very naïve farm-boy left the Hoosier farm,
To seek adventure beyond the horizon since farming had lost its charm.
He enlisted in the Air Force, a knight in blue to keep the...

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Athletes jog on Victory Field,
I join them to test my endurance,
but underneath the bleachers kids smoke weed;
are these the bright young men of our future,
who will be the backbone of our Nation? 


Drivers converse on...

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Once there was a country boy called Chester,
     he came from the rural Appalachians;
got himself a farming job not far from a big city,
       ...

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When I was young and innocent…while life was still brand knew
as it is with children….my dreams were young and innocent too…

They were straightforward, unsophisticated and simple
They were childlike and free…
And they were a little egotistical...

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Oh, Clown at the abyss;
We’re not laughing at you;
Not funny tis true, you're falling
This we do insist;
a comic entertainer one in a circus, you're falling
wearing a traditional costume and exaggerated makeup.
Lo! Grecian fall unsophisticated rustic;
Falling...
Zanni...

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Mists show vaporous idiosyncrasies
    emotionless crying
      over the essence of the dull sky,
         same as a gentle walking unsophisticated...

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A worrior is a mother,
A saviour is a mother destinied to
Shephard her sheep to the right paths.
She watches from the top to the yonder,
She is never tired nor weak in the look out.
Her smiles glitter...

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Written: November 27, 2023
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Upon the lower, unsophisticated surface
My shadow has arrived with a purpose.

How the blazing sun or frigid rain arrives.
How,...

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Fuelling a need 
that lay dormant
her intro into the world of sex 
was rough and 
unsophisticated

her first time fairy tale
turned into a nightmare
it was nothing
compared to the books she's read 

that stranger scarred her
made her...

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Majestically lissome, a stripling nothing less,
slender in silhouette, a beauty in undress,
standing starkly bared, every limb exposed.
Not for an artist, but the splendour disclosed
is singularly attractive, as any you’ll see:
a natural vision of simplistic symmetry.

Engrossed,...

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HUMANS!


     Why are you always spying on me? It's not my fault I live in a glass house. 
Sorry. Please forgive my very UNsophisticated self for such a rude opening statement,...

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I’m sure ratepayers everywhere
Are aware of the many dangers
Of the cronyism to be found
At their local Council chambers

They build useless monuments
That will never make a buck
For vanity projects of all kinds
To feed egos run amok

All...

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Two women fighting over last cart
                 Unsophisticated, brawling, stubborn,
   Short. Up rolls a knight, armor shining bright,
“Why...

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She was as naïve and honest 
as he was unscrupulous.
Her sincerity resonated in direct contradiction
 to his entire clan’s diabolical ways.

Unsophisticated, unused to any form of deceit,
she fell hard for his bad boy looks and...

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Beneath my mother’s watchful eye,
We had been courting for a year
And now I’m traveling all alone,
Excited with a bit of fear.

A thousand miles to the big city,
Unsophisticated country girl,
Seeking among the million faces
The one who...

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