Long Urbane Poems
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Urbane History LessonsI have a hardbound copy of
"The City of Hartford 1784-1984"
although most of this coffee table story
of unfortunate events
takes place between 1850 and 1950s,
before and after the UnCivil War,
and,
like the U.S. Catholic Church
and many MainLine Protestant...
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Categories:
urbane, caregiving, city, health, integrity, meaningful, universe,
Form:
Political Verse
Factoidman and Shallowman - Part 1[Well, ShallowMan’s ne’er at a loss
for voicing shallow thoughts that gloss.
With trenchant wit he reaps the dross
when seeking sense in applesauce.
But to his aid flies FactoidMan
who always has a Fact at hand;
with him, who needs...
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Categories:
urbane, society, truth, universe,
Form:
Rhyme
Greenpower DreamsLast night I dreamed.
I dream--
sometimes too athletically,
fertile regeneratively,
viral, positive and negatively
and in-between sub-climax performing
some wins and some perpetual losses
more ambiguously back and forth, up and down, in and out,
and not nearly sensual...
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Categories:
urbane, culture, education, health, integrity, peace, religion, science,
Form:
Political Verse
Existential Crisis Still Encompasses Mein Kampf Valentine's Day 2022Existential crisis still encompasses mein kampf Valentine's day 2022
The following lines written disjointed fashion
attempting to mimic strategically
moving pieces erratically on chessboard
ideally yielding ultimate resultant checkmate
opposing men captured for the queen to use.
Jurassic throwback terrible...
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Categories:
urbane, angst, endurance, february, how i feel, humanity,
Form:
Free verse
Class of 1970When I was in my Michigan high school
I found something both promising
and sacred,
portentous with rural, yet also urbane, PositivEnergy,
in and among our graduating classes
of 1970.
Ending with mindful roundness
of Zero.
Preceded by almost octave fullness
of sacred potentiating...
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Categories:
urbane, age, gospel, health, high school, humor, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse
Regressive ProgressIn Shaker Heights, Ohio,
founding fathers co-invested in:
Change doesn't happen
without planning
This, despite
unstraight
unwhite
unmale volatile experiences
feeling sometimes victimized
and sometimes blessed
by unexpected weather transitions,
despite feeling like vulnerable chameleons
on a highly complex day,
despite feeble farming
in narrowing spaces
between floods and famine,
Despite...
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Categories:
urbane, fear, health, integrity, love, passion, peace, power,
Form:
Political Verse
Time Will TellTIME WILL TELL
A modest planet and quietly progressing
Troubling no other and fealty confessing
Surviving well enough and paying its dues;
Quiet corner of the galaxy. No foreseen surprise to bemuse
The ruling committee were in contented...
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Categories:
urbane, science fiction,
Form:
Narrative
Eva NellEVE NELL
BY
JOHN M. ARRIBAS
EVA NELL WAS A BEAUTIFUL BABY, LATER A TEEN
A GORGEOUS WOMAN, AS HAS EVER BEEN SEEN
COQUETTISH, CHARMING, WITH INVITING SIGHS
SOME SAID THERE WAS EVIL BEHIND THOSE EYES
OF ALL THE...
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Categories:
urbane, allegory, betrayal, dark, irony, muse, satire,
Form:
Rhyme
Democratic TrustWhen I drove away from the family farm
to embrace my freshman year
at the University of Michigan
in Vietnam-era 1970,
I was planning on majoring in political science
which later turned into a double major
in communication theory
and positive neuro-psychology
Persuasion,
cognitive/affective...
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Categories:
urbane, america, conflict, health, integrity, political, relationship, trust,
Form:
Political Verse
Differences That Matter MostWhat if the difference,
or a more significant difference,
a profound past of Tipping Point reference,
between nondual Left-Right bicameral consciousness
and more dualistic philosophies
and religious theologies
Is ZeroPrime rooted
more in listening to outdoor acclimators
more than indoor would-be-transformative,
reforming,
retributive punishing
WinLose competition...
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Categories:
urbane, childhood, creation, happiness, health, innocence, integrity, love,
Form:
Political Verse
My Small Brown Dog--My Small Brown Dog I see so quite brown ever so furry rather shiny domestic dog;
rather brown domestic dog decidedly kind;
Positively shiny clear, good, hairy
All sharp keen whiskers, tranquil beard;
Polite hands Bow-Wow what??
...
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Categories:
urbane, analogy, animal, dog,
Form:
Concrete
Obliviousness Concerning Lapsed Driver License(alternate title: days of yore bubba's zayda
flush with buggy boo horse sense).
Norristown City Hall police person
informed yours truly
on September 15th, 2020
mine automotive driver license expired,
thus between January 13th 2019
and September 17th, 2020
I drove automobile,
(whether borrowed...
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Categories:
urbane, 11th grade, 12th grade, angel, appreciation, fate,
Form:
Rhyme
The Poet SpeaksToday December 27 two thousand nineteen
Start time: at sixteen minutes
after seven o'clock post meridian
End time: nine minutes after
nine o'clock post meridian.
Where the outer limits as Guiding Light
regarding twilight zone,
vis a vis edge of night
i.e. est...
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Categories:
urbane, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
July 25th, 1996 Tied the Gordian KnotJuly 25th, 1996 tied the Gordian knot,...
(I spent noose cents)
begot deux daughters, the major events
both since flew cuckoo's nest,
the eldest angry at papa for offense
sieve behavior fatherly bond
forever sundered permanent rents
unforgiving progeny vents
bile, explosive vitriol...
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Categories:
urbane, 12th grade, anniversary, celebration, humorous, judgement, july,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
EphemerealWho is this woman?
Who has made a sudden apparition?
Who lilted as she turned to look at me through the silvery haze of the fog,
Her Compelling, and faint yet loud to the senses,
, gorgeous musky...
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Categories:
urbane, angel, beautiful, blessing, dance, desire, dream, girl,
Form:
I do not know?
Intellectual SnobberyWhen I was in grade school
I was, already,
on my leftbrain dominant path
toward acting the intellectual snob.
This, in large part
my best offense,
my trump card, sadly,
against marginalizing prejudice
of our community's non-farmer economic
and political Elite;
The few kids
whose...
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Categories:
urbane, appreciation, emotions, farm, gender, health, integrity, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
The FoxYou might see me in the back streets
By the light of the full moon
With my look refined and cunning
I will almost make you swoon
Don't treat me as an enemy
Or fear me as a foe
Don't use...
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Categories:
urbane, animal, urban,
Form:
Light Verse
The God ParticleI asked the desert
to carry me from this place
of the Qubbanet El-Qirud’ infertile soil
suddenly, that whisper of wind
took my hand, and walked
along and alone with me
I, heard...
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Categories:
urbane, analogy, inspirational, psychological, spiritual, symbolism, visionary,
Form:
Free verse
Benediction For Lord Apple MacintoshToday the Sunday special brief
iCloud online worship session, I did attend
(via remote support)
found me feeling pampered,
when adept technical support
...
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Categories:
urbane, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form:
Light Verse
Loud Grunting(Innuendo -- Pigs)
All around are sticks and stone
Feel God's loving arms around you
-----At last, I am redeemed-----
A feast of my soul, you shall receive
A cake for dinner, I made out of stones
Ratchet pigs fill their...
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Categories:
urbane, anger, animal, evil, slam, soldier, tribute,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Pronounced Side Effect Upon My DreamsPronounced side effect upon my dreams...
courtesy Fluoxetine hydrochloride
Fluoxetine Hcl (C17H18F3NO·HCl)
known as Selective Serotonin
Reuptake Inhibitor (SSRI),
especially prescribed to treat
depression, panic disorder,
and obsessive-compulsive disorder
the above symptoms
profoundly experienced by yours truly
said prescription medication
seriously impacts sleep (mine).
Debilitating panic attacks
wrought...
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Categories:
urbane, adventure, confusion, imagination, journey, mystery, sleep, surreal,
Form:
Free verse
Rain Brings Happy and Gloomy Togetherrain comes rain
rain wets my pain,
wets my dust of gain,
cleans my walking lane,
find I inside a path of sane
rain comes on empty green fields
cows, calves, goats run away dancing
rain comes and wets nature
dogs, cocks,...
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Categories:
urbane, dark, depression, happy, how i feel, rain,
Form:
Free verse
An Oblation On a DeathSummer day; Chittagong, Bangladesh
Though there is no difficulty for the holy Fasting
The sun in its usual service
From our concrete life, global warming kidnaps jovial motion of the wind
Winter is far away from the spring
The hotness...
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Categories:
urbane, religious, remember,
Form:
Free verse
Götterdämmerung Part 2This is the second half, read part one before this
...This life was unlike others, not ripe, not light
We curs't them, 'stood not their mutual blight
There was a strange ambience, a UV map
of Pyrrhic love, a...
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Categories:
urbane, lost love, lovedark, dark, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Transient Troubadour Traverses Terrestrial Terrain'Course as a grim teller of tall tales,
(albeit poetic) reasonable rhyming
quasi roundelay I readily admitted to feign
cuz, stringing words together with
pride and prejudice plus
sense and sensibility, jocularity,
and conformity I dissed deign
(spoiler alert) iamb, trochaic,
dactylic, and...
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Categories:
urbane, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure,
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme