Long Wrappings Poems

There was once a widow who had nothing but her beloved twin babies, Rosemary, and Ethan. The Widow loved her twins more than the Earth loved the Sun, and vowed to give them anything they...

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Form: Free-Verse

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Window Teacher
                      by Odin Roark

As teacher
She was petite
Unassuming
Framed in layered paint
No make-up on her
Save...

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Rechargeable Electric Mosquito Bat

Ho, ho,ho..!  

What a joyous Christmas season it is gonna be…
This little gift my favourite little gal has just bought me…
Tore away the gift wrappings to reveal another  plastic wrapping……
Shades...

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Myself 
All that I am

I could dye my hair to please you
  Yet I won't

A little mascara might
Make me attractive

Although the value of my gift
Cannot be measured in wrappings


I will not sing For you
But...

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Little Davy wanted a puppy for Christmas
His parents, though, were totally against it
Davy whimpered and whined til he was breathless
“Please,” he wrote to Santa, “bring a puppy, Mr. Clause”

The big day drew closer and Davy...

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It was the last lap of highschool and a boy had dreams. He knew that half his life had been torn away from him but he postponed the pain and somehow thought the abundance of...

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Female Sempai, Geisha for her Man,
has not shed her feminine garb.
No replacement theology of female kimono 
designing of tailored and defiant underhand.
. Her graceful steel honor honored still. in your gaze Blossoms bloom in beauty’s...

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The Eve before Christmas day,
No snow but clear skies 
And visible stars
A full moon and the Milky way,
Sprinkling its magic, while
My gran and mom jam packed
Cookies into jars.
A dip in the swimming pool,
For it’s sizzling...

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During election and after, buzzwords loud and clear, brags loud and clear,
the motherer lumps all milestone feats into his merits sphere,
as if to the national pantheon he had already drawn near.
Still one declarable thing we...

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In the city of the dead, underneath the whispering sands,
Lies a curse written in blood's script.
Beware defilers, for death's vengeance, guards
This sacred tomb.
Beneath wrappings decayed flesh and twisted
 Mangled bones,
A forsaken spirit, has been entombed...

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Wishing Well by Juke55 @ Deviant Art



I circle from pale to shade,
countless steps
around the abandoned well.
Wasted wishes rest 
in dried-up depths, 
we perish
in its hollows. 
Promises break
but wishes will wait 
to be retrieved,
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The relentless rain ravished the old village.
No one dared to leave their warm homes.
Except for one dark-hooded human being
Zigzagging and hiding along paths and roads,
After leaving a bundle on a Convent step
And ringing quickly the...

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So close, 
    all the prep and anticipation 
    aching to be set free with adulation,
    shimmer, sparkle, scintillating inclinations 
    push pulling...

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Life is a gift
wrapped in struggle
Decorated by memories
And tied with a ribbon of love.

But this gift is finite.
We prepare ourselves with the knowledge of not knowing.
Knowing we will die
Not knowing when, or how, or who.

We...

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The Christmas Rapper
Loch David Crane
December 7, 1989

Hello there Virginia,
	and welcome too--
here's an answer to the question
	posed by you.

You ask "who's Santa Claus?"
	here he is--there!
The question is
	 not WHO but WHERE.

Santa's not found 
	in the beard...

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In her room decorated like a princess’s, she sat quietly on the floor.
Carefully wrapping a small gold box and keeping an eye on the door. 
She twirled the silver ribbons and tied it on the...

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"Possums on the  Run - Part 1"


Well she ran away
danced the F.U.	 
Revolutionary Dance
Jokers are trumps
Euchre, 500, 
Queens Slippers
no Deuce, no Romance

Holey holy 
blue jeans torn and buried
underneath the house 
with uneaten sandwiches
going mouldy...

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old man friend of mine

old man friend of mine
skin of leather
heart of stone
sits alone
a dying old thing 
in an age old chair wearing his old man clothes
two decades of sweaters buttoned up to his chin
heavy...

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She's a soul survivor, the only one left in her family tree
the root which's been yanked up and thrown to the sea
There's no grandma's wisdom, there's no "'member when?"
She'll never step foot in her mom's...

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Welcome,
To the fake world,

Enjoy,
The breath - taking nature,

Rubber trees,
With fragrance - free leaves,

All kinds of immortal flowers,
Dipped in all colors of paint, and eternal shine,

Here, grab a magical brush,
Draw on a fake smile,

Walk around, with...

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To capture a moment in your hands
To hold it, study it,
Look deeply into all things composing this moment.
Compiling a mental list of ingredients
And dissecting the consequences of this moment.

To crush this moment that you are...

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It seems not everyone adores
Witty phrasing or metaphors

     But this time of year's so dark
     I thought I'd fan a yuletide spark

See, it's winter and I'm listless
Still,...

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I stand with my café-   surveying my living room clutter.
Oh sigh!  All the beautifull wrappings and boxes just garbage-
I go get a huge green bag and soon all of it is gone.
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Just another holiday coming round in the season
  as the weather changes warm to cold.
A chill upon the body cooling the spirits
  to tepid memories long passed.
Thanksgiving full of laughter
  gatherings of...

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