Long What if Poems
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Constructive CritismThere's consequences in all we say and do
Go forward and walk your walk and I'll go ahead and talk my talk
Quite distraught due to the fact that you're too good to be true
I...
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Categories:
what if, deep,
Form:
Free verse
Pursuit of Infinite Knowledge and Understanding(In a Lush Garden Somewhere Out There)
The student stands where shifting sands of thought
Once firm with reason
now elusive truths are sought.
Its splendor wanes
a threadbare fading strand,
A quest for wisdom
in this digital land.
Sage:...
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Categories:
what if, journey, passion, philosophy, psychological, truth, wisdom,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Chapter 48 -- Damian Delilah Mallory and Damian JuniorYear 2031 would soon come
To a close. Everyone will be
A little wiser.
Damian Junior wanted a
Girlfriend and he was soon to
Be 13. Amadeus and
Desharah will both turn 10.
The oldest kids had a desire to
Add...
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Categories:
what if, beautiful, birth, black love, business, cute, emotions,
Form:
Alliteration
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:
what if, america, culture, health, humanity, humor, integrity, music,
Form:
Political Verse
Earthy EmpathyYou've heard that self-unfulfilling prophecy?
"I love humanity--
it's just people I can't stand."
I love healthy humanity--
it's just uppity and/or snooty people I can't stand
I love cooperative humanity--
it's just overly-competitive individuals I can't stand.
Not so distant from,
I...
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Categories:
what if, caregiving, gospel, health, humor, integrity, peace, political,
Form:
Political Verse
Revolutionary AnthroMatriarchyThose who get,
get more widely.
Those who want,
want more deeply.
Normal slow-grown inter-religiously co-invested evolution
is not survival of the wealthiest and strongest species,
but thrival of the deepest win/win fit
with least panentheistic disruption required
within,
whether we speak...
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Categories:
what if, health, integrity, love, political, religious, science, wisdom,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Warrior
“Warrior”
When the Argonauts, came across
the abandoned Starship, they
found within the wrecked
command console, a DNA code
with encrypted message.
It took several attempts to
reactivate, but when opened,
the following was translated: ...
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Categories:
what if, humanity, muse, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
2020 RevolutionNumbers, numerals,
like words,
combinations of letters,
mean something,
sometimes more secular,
sometimes more sacred ecological.
Numerals and letters share sacred iconic human-intelligence root systems
within a bicameral ecology of mind-body nonduality,
both RightBrain matriarchal empowering flow of integrity (Czikszentmihalyi)
and LeftBrain patriarchal Yang...
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Categories:
what if, beauty, culture, earth, health, math, trust, truth,
Form:
Political Verse
Have Faith - the Egg Timer Style~ Have Faith ~
( Egg Timer )
~O~
Lord wants you live right
Have Love Faith Hope
Enjoy Peace
Always
Too
Too
Always
Enjoy Peace
Have Love Faith Hope
Lord wants you live right
Just Believe in God
Love with all heart
Worship Pray
To Him
Too
Too
To...
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Categories:
what if, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
List of limericks and other funny tricks
A young woman from Glascow named Myrtle
was as strong as the shell of a turtle.
Once, when an intruder snuck in,
she bare knuckled his glassy chin,
then floored him with her iron girdle.
I asked this...
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Categories:
what if, crazy, funny, giggle, howl, humor, silly,
Form:
Limerick
Brain DamagePain settles in quite instantly your senses
are totally unprepared for this graveness
the notion to sleep sets in like an energetic
twilight phase the injury abruptly strangles
thought my ears are always ringing with this...
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Categories:
what if, allah,
Form:
Munajat
FBI ARLINGTON HEIGHTS ILLINOIS CIVIL RIGHTS DIVISION CRISIS TEAM OF CONFIDENTIAL HUMAN SOURCESCRISIS TEAM : HELLO WE ARE HERE TO HELP
AGENT BROWN: I AWAKEN EVERY NIGHT IN TOTAL FEAR FOR MY SAFETY AFTER WEARING WIRES PREGNANT BUYING WEAPONS AND DRUGS FEARING FOR MINE AND MY CHILDREN...
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Categories:
what if, america, analogy, anxiety, forgiveness, hero,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
1969 Abraham Lincoln Tomb Springfield IllinoisMy first grade field trip begin Joseph Medill school of journalism Chicago my first grade class sang African American spiritual hymns performing at the Schubert theater the museum of science and industry the museum of...
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Categories:
what if, allah,
Form:
Kyrielle
MY TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURYBLINDING FLASHES FROM MY EYE SOCKET BEING CRUSHED MY NASAL ARCH NOSE FRACTURE RHINOPLASTY SURGERY HELPS WITH MY AIRWAYS THE SEVERE TRAUMA ON IMPACT SEVERE CAR ACCIDENT TWO MEN ON A LADDER ADJUSTING THE STREET...
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Categories:
what if, allah,
Form:
Naat
Beary Tales Episodes 25-33, Poet's NotesNote to Readers of Previous Versions:
There are so many new vignettes scattered throughout the poem that I hope you will reread the whole thing! There are new GEMS, improvements to previous verses and improved footnotes...
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Categories:
what if, adventure, appreciation, best friend, blessing, innocence, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Xenophobia Pt 1TITLE:
Xenophobia
Heed the warning
This isn't for the faint of heart
Verbalizing my deepest yearnings
They're bound to be a bit tart...
Because where I'm from is called the Bible Belt
Where folks...
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Categories:
what if, america, anxiety, prejudice, universe,
Form:
Lyric
But Just Where Is God(Musings of a poet with huge doubts and a fragile faith)
Introduction: Is God A Joke Or Human Vanity?
When close friends die and other’s thoughts are suicidal,
When mankind’s soup du jour is loneliness with anguish
When mental...
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Categories:
what if, god, mental illness, perspective, , atheist,
Form:
Blank verse
querulous( A university-life vignette)
It’s Saturday morning. Lisa, Leong and I were in the common area, lazing about. “This is what happened to us (Lisa and I) last night.” I said, beginning to explain last night's...
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Categories:
what if, abuse, anxiety, funeral, humor, music, school, student,
Form:
Free verse
BLACK AUDI PARKED REMIND ME OF ALICIA HILTON MY ABUSIVE HUSBAND STRIPPERTHE LAST TIME I SAW A BLACK AUDI IT CUT US OFF PARKED THE SMELL OF DEATH WAS BREWING FUNNY HOW MANY TIMES I SCREAMED HELP SOMEONE IS GOING TO HURT MY CHILDREN AND I...
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Categories:
what if, allah,
Form:
Naat
Phoenix I feel so damn trapped in rage
Like a rainbow lion in a cage
I feel so much pain in my brain
And it's driving me quite insane
Numb my solace shame
Get me feeling more...
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Categories:
what if, 11th grade, 3rd grade, 6th grade, 7th
Form:
Free verse
Prolegomena Soliloquy - Pt 1Tell me, my friend,
does infinity not unsettle your reason,
or is it a comfort—to believe it meaningless?
Look beyond the rust of your disbelief—
this isn’t the frostbitten dogma you...
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Categories:
what if, beauty, christian, easter, faith, longing, science, universe,
Form:
Lyric
Sublime TerrorLet's say I am an antro-privileged terrorist.
What would we be saying?
And is human nature supremacy
over all other less sacred nature/spirits
as monotheistically redundant
as anthro-industrious militarism?
If you are a HolySpirit panentheist,
is "religious terrorist" as oxymoronic
as using...
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Categories:
what if, earth, earth day, fear, identity, peace, political,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Found and SafeClose your eyes
Explicit shame sheds rage in my eyes
I’ll be alright in the morning light and the night’s so bright
Open up your eyes
Sharpen me like your pensive pencil……
Begin with me, thinking I’m not thin
Paper thin,...
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Categories:
what if, words,
Form:
Free verse
10 Things I Hate About Me1 - I can't be alone
I struggle to be by myself because my dark thoughts come
But when I'm with people my heart is numb
On top of a lot of pain is what I built my...
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Categories:
what if, deep, emotions, encouraging, growing up, growth, inspiration,
Form:
Free verse
ProcrastinationThe invaluable dream you had in mind
Yesterday, you said you would take steps on achieving it tomorrow,
Yesterday's tomorrow has come today, so you still postpone it to tomorrow.
When will you stop procrastinating!
What is the connection...
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Categories:
what if, inspiration, inspirational, motivation, work,
Form:
Free verse