Long Vassallo Poems

Reading a post by Alfred Vassallo, I have decided to start a discussion on soupers about the ortodoxy of poems. Vassallo complains that the site is boring because comments are not directed to favour the...

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The Alphabet Contest
Sponsor: Alfred Vassallo

A Is For Anniversary

Their love story began on April twenty-third, nineteen forty-five,
    two young lovers vowed eternity before their family's eyes.

There were hard days ahead living through the...

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One world, divided by 7 continents.
Different countries, billions of people, discontent 
Different cultures, different religions
Different holy books, but the exact same sins.

Our great grandparents were taught how to hate.
So why must the generation of today,...

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There was just one time I felt unwanted,
    It was after my big sister was killed;
I can still hear my mother screaming,
      Poor father with his weeping...

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I HAVE BEEN TWO PEOPLE

I have been two people, maybe more,
devised ways to meander through the
lives of those I’ve touched.

These encounters have not all been pleasant.
I have been defender, protector, anger’s liaison,
pained deflector of the...

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(Dedication: For Freddie, aka Alfred Vassallo, 
RIP, dear departed prolific PoetrySoup poet.)
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At PoetrySoup, we each pen verse;
Voice in a troupe as poets observe.


Brief passage here where poetry speaks;
Fond message cheers as muse funds peaks.


At curtain...

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Give me another life



God why did you give me life and take my heart ?
Without a soul, it's a dead feigned living,
Took away my love and forced to again start ?

How tough it is if...

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When I was young and so in love…
I felt my heart melting with a glance.
But as I grew older and observed all I learned of…
I recognized the consequence of being askance.

When I touched another’s soul…
I...

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I don't want to 
No I don't
Want to do it
Your way

Your way 
Or the highway
That's what
I hear you say
So I'll pack my bags
I'll soon be on my way

You tell me
You don't 
Mean it
"Please don't go...

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Horrid hellion hunger that rips apart the soul
Sadly starving siblings where death takes its toll
Crippled children crying a mother lives in hell
While wicked ways of man making money for their sell

Vindictive violent victories, of man...

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Witchcraft

In wicked league with the devil,
An occultist or an enchantress,
As an old ugly woman works on evil,
Powers of divination in pythoness,

Just an imagination,
Or a harsh reality ?
A myth or a fiction,
Black magic vitality ?

Dark as...

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Both sides of life

Depth of a loving heart,
Immeasurably truer,
Can make you rich or poor,
Both sides of life!

Shine of a peak sun,
Intensely bright,
Can make you shimmer or blind,
Both sides of life !

Attitude is all that matters,
Gala...

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grapes under green leaves
                               ...

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Dodoitsu Doppelganger Contest
Sponsor:  Alfred Vassallo


                        Vampire drinks blood in the night,
...

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With controversial words he writes
Doesn’t give a shit what he thinks
I read of him last November
Not well loved his subjects stinks.

From what I heard he drinks a lot
Shown explicitly in his works 
He declared himself...

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Weeeeel, It's friday night
And I got my fiddle 
Alfred's here 
And he starting to niggle
I said call the dance
And make those folks wiggle
Here at the Soup hoe down

He stood at the mike
And started talkin' silly
with...

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Homemaker's Alterego



                   Me sincere,she creative,
            ...

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grapes for the best wine
fresh from the richest vineyard
blessed on the altar

grapes for the best wine
fresh from the richest vineyard
connoisseur’s best choice

grapes for the best wine
fresh from the richest vineyard
difficult to spurn

grapes for the best...

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