Long Viewing Poems
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The Flash Mob ApplicationI'd like to apply for a permit
for a protest march
on the Washington Mall.
Lovely idea.
But, we're only issuing Mall permits
for Song and Dance Events.
I think this might be a violation of my Rights
to Free Speech.
I see...
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Categories:
viewing, america, culture, health, humanity, humor, integrity, music,
Form:
Political Verse
Factoidman and Shallowman - Part 2[Now ShallowMan is quite content
receiving FactoidMan’s consent
to quibble and express dissent
as long as keeping covenant
with fingers crossed and belfry bent
when viewing Facts in sealed cement:]
SM
“The Facts you give me circumvent
those ‘truths’ your chuckles supplement;
although they...
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Categories:
viewing, society, truth, universe,
Form:
Rhyme
Mario William Vitale Latest WritingsThe language and images of Mario Vitale's poetry are so closely bound to the natural cycles of seasons, of generations, of the body's functioning, that is surprising to realize how many of his poems deal...
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Categories:
viewing, art,
Form:
Free verse
Echoes of the Angel's FallenInvocation to the Muse
From the gleaming skin of life’s underbelly,
sin unreconciled, formed from Nephilim seed,
fleet footed jokers mask pawns into flight;
To the epistle of the Most High.
For in the beginning, the true and only...
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Categories:
viewing, allegory, angel, christian,
Form:
Epic
Nowhere ManNowhere Man
Star dust, the stuff of a fool’s dreams.
Oh !!!, to travel upon star dust streams
- that glorious, never ending journey -
into the realms, the space of many.
This old spirit, seems, not to fit into...
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Categories:
viewing, history,
Form:
Rhyme
My Melodious Muse** I apologize, but if you're viewing this on a phone, it probably wont look right, as the browser page on a phone is not wide enough to indent the right edge properly. It was...
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Categories:
viewing, analogy, inspiration, love, metaphor, muse, music,
Form:
Concrete
Once Upon a Time In TipirIt was noon, he was in the bush, he enjoyed this type of living, he sometimes played with the animals just to make himself happy and spend some time, Leisure and embraced them all as...
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Categories:
viewing, africa, age, animal, best friend,
Form:
Free verse
My Eyes the Painting Photograph In the Sky- -"I am a painter and my eyes are the paint brushes I had if I look up with my open eye I see the Horizon I see the clouds to be continued
Oh shutter as I...
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Categories:
viewing, allusion, analogy, appreciation,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Mom's Old Photos - 2nd Half Text Plus Full AudioHere's the deal, folks...
This is, as indicated, the 2nd HALF of this fairly lengthy poem. Due to Poetry Soup's file-size limitations, this piece had to be posted in 2 parts.
...
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Categories:
viewing, memory, mom,
Form:
Narrative
MonofilamaniaIt is so hard to let go of love,
lovingly.
It sharks,
unpeels more gut more quickly
than reel or reeler ever lost
in all those years of lazy inches
in and out:
casting,
winding in and playing out,
hardly fishing, rarely catching
anything
from...
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Categories:
viewing, allegory, passion, woman, memory, sea, fish, lust,
Form:
Free verse
Mom's Old Photos - 1st Half Text Plus Full AudioHere's the scoop, friends...
This is, as indicated, the 1st HALF of this fairly lengthy poem. The 2nd half had to be posted separately due to Poetry Soup's file-size limitations. No other way...
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Categories:
viewing, love, memory, mom,
Form:
Narrative
If My Heart Was a BackpackOn the outskirts of the city
a young woman walked
gazing at art and viewing it lovingly.
Inside her bright red backpack
that carried the contents of her life
was a painting.
The painting was years old
and at one point...
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Categories:
viewing, feelings, i miss you, loneliness, lost love,
Form:
Free verse
Matsuo Basho New Haiku TranslationsMatsuo Basho New Haiku Translations
Air ballet:
twin butterflies, twice white,
meet, match & mate
—Matsuo Basho, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Denied transformation
into a butterfly,
autumn worsens for the worm
—Matsuo Basho, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Dusk-gliding...
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Categories:
viewing, animal, death, earth, life, nature, philosophy, world,
Form:
Haiku
Watch Part TwoBob was the first man she had ever loved, sure she had some crushes when she was in school but nothing like she had felt with Bob. He was six years older handsome and self...
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Categories:
viewing, mystery,
Form:
Prose
De'Ja Vu - Wuthering Heights - 1st HalfThis poem was inspired by one of my all time favorite motion picture classics, particularly the 1939 (the 1st) edition, in good old black ad white...
NOTE: This is part 1 of a 2...
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Categories:
viewing, lost love,
Form:
Narrative
Hermit Kingdom
They sit on their own
in their Hermit Kingdom
other side of the wall
singing their song
entitled
nothing to envy
peeling the skin
away in generations
it's worse than a famine
where colour
is wrung
from the inside out
emotive...
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Categories:
viewing, freedom, muse,
Form:
Narrative
Friends Speak - An Echo Poem(Brian Johnston speaks to Lora Colon)
Getting older don't you wonder
What your life is all about?
Wages earned don't leap to haunt me
Like my dreams of fighting trout -
Lightning flash and...
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Categories:
viewing, relationship,
Form:
Rhyme
One Summer NightI was rehearsing for an upcoming play, but it wasn't going well,
For I somehow lacked inspiration, and my delivery did not excel.
If only I could read more feelingly, I uttered with a sad sigh,
I would...
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Categories:
viewing, career, dream, fantasy, magic, rose, summer, time,
Form:
Couplet
Perpetual Quandries of DischordPerpetual Quandries of Dischord
Permanent irreversible Attatchment disorder
A lemonade stand at the Mexican Border
A traumatised disorganised old lady hoarder
The incriminating evidence on an old tape recorder
Elements of discontent shivering through a crowd
Firmaments of promises...
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Categories:
viewing, international,
Form:
Rhyme
Thinking of the DevilI am outside without me
I am…using my third eye and I smile, sugar-coating a truth with a plastic, messy lie
I don’t know the day you crashed, but you are going through so much in your...
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Categories:
viewing, beautiful, best friend, betrayal, blessing, depression, desire,
Form:
Free verse
The Purposes of GodVIDEO/AUDIO on YouTube above. NOTE: On the video; double-click to enlarge, and/or, right-click for the drop-down menu and click on 'Loop' for auto-repeat, click settings and pick the highest level for quality viewing.
VIDEO: Lyrics in...
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Categories:
viewing, creation, easter,
Form:
Lyric
Re: viewing the emotionally prosperous papa razz zee life I did not liveRe: viewing the emotionally prosperous papa razz zee life I did not live
The following poetic account
written more'n a dozen
dirty dancing decades ago,
while I (a socially
withdrawn Homo Sapiens)
one indigent Yahoo
groveled...
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Categories:
viewing, abuse, america, angst, bereavement, children, confusion, daughter,
Form:
Rhyme
Easter BirdThe Sinai Rose finch, oblivious to the commotion in the nearby city, busily gathered dry grass and floral fodder to repair her nest, disturbed by a human behemoth, snatching the thorny brambles which hid the...
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Categories:
viewing, bird, easter, nature,
Form:
Prose
Back With Poetry VengeanceBack with poetry vengeance,
Don’t fear this, Transcendence
Or from the Abyss?
Elohim’s Prince,
Or a Demonic Word Smith with written myths?
These flames destroy man’s deceitful tactics and machines,
Once seen…….
Story Rhymes dreamt and told,
To the...
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Categories:
viewing, allegory, meaningful, metaphor, poetry, wisdom, work, writing,
Form:
Epic
Family MediationsI have confronted family,
and acquaintances
at the edge of my familiars
to understand my hurt
when they economically
and politically
and socially
and monoculturally
StraightWhiteMale privileged support
RightWing LeftBrained
Patriarchal-Capitalism
Because my Kids of Color,
with physical and mental,
natural and spiritual challenges,
lack of LeftBrain full accessibility
And...
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Categories:
viewing, america, anti bullying, earth, health, integrity, peace,
Form:
Political Verse