Shine Bright O' Golden Pen
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Shine Bright O' Golden Pen
To Empower & Inspire The Masses Of Men,
Burn Ever Luminous & Blaze As The Sun
And Let Thy Ballpoint Scintillate Like The Chosen One,
Fill Thy Longhand With Prest...
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Categories:
longhand, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
LETTERS TO THE POETS WE LIKE
...LETTERS TO THE POETS WE LIKE
The first and last poem that you wrote
A limerick indeed, but it was just for me
In response to a poem I wrote about you
In many ways it was intended to be true
Ab...
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Categories:
longhand, friendship, poems,
Form: Rhyme
Anything
...Tender graceful butterfly
Gentle little dove
This poem that I'm writing
Is all about my love
That's kept hidden inside me
Just longing to come out
But knows it has to stay there
No shadow of ...
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Categories:
longhand, for her, i love
Form: Rhyme
Be That One
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Time has flown by. Much of your life
you've spent denying all the strife.
But you can never answer why
much of your lifetime has flown by.
Hand each sad tale you write in. Long,
ambi...
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Categories:
longhand, age, growing up, truth,
Form: Quatrain
Backboard Game
...It had nothing to do with March Madness or the NCAA final championship game between Arkansas and Duke in 1994, but it was one great game.* In fact, it was one of the greatest games I have ever witnes...
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Categories:
longhand, basketball,
Form: Narrative
Artemisia, Part 2 of 12
...(It was 1860 when the English poet Robert Browning
stumbled upon an interesting artefact as he walked
through the city of Florence. It was a file of documents
from an old Italian criminal trial, ...
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Categories:
longhand,
Form: Blank verse
Disappear
...DISAPPEAR
Tremors are the worst,
the full-body shakes
its like my skin is too tight,
my body doesn’t fit,
my life doesn’t fit
the anxiety no one understands
its invisible,
I’m invisible.
“Sn...
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Categories:
longhand, anxiety, mental illness,
Form: Free verse
For Old Star-Gazer Master Khayyam - a Name Like Shakespeare's For Some Other Giants - Part Two
...For Old Star-Gazer Master Khayyam – a name like Shakespeare’s for “some” other giants – Part Two
III
Is there an answer to this gaping question
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Categories:
longhand, confidence, dedication, devotion, humanity,
Form: Quatrain
For Old Star-Gazer Master Khayyam - a Name Like Shakespeare's For Some Other Giants - Part One
...For old Star-Gazer Master Khayyam – a name like Shakespeare’s for « some » other giants - Part One
I
Why don’t they ever come back?
Even if it’s just to say
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Categories:
longhand, philosophy, tribute,
Form: Quatrain
Growing Up Too Soon
...growing up too soon
you said: is there anything more excruciating than lagging behind
being passed by
a hasbeen
still knocking on portals
twitching toes twirling thumbs
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Categories:
longhand, age, growing up, lonely,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Anyone For Humiliation
... anyone for humiliation
do even the best cringe
in shame
at the bottled-up look they take of themselves
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Categories:
longhand, abuse, angst, courage, life,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
In Bed
... In Bed
The central nervous heating system
pumping the womb
floating free
in seminal fluid
sucking on the umblical chor...
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Categories:
longhand, baby, birth, fear, hate,
Form: Free verse
Thinking Materially Gaseous Mineral
... Think(ing) materially gaseous Mineral
if anything can be thought to be certain
what thinks thinks up the multiverses
in the first place
minus the ego
so solipsistic faram...
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Categories:
longhand, creation, nature, philosophy, religion,
Form: Free verse
Where Do We Come In
...Where do we come in
in medias res not knowing nor caring when
doesn’t everybody pine being number one we leave behind our lives in pages pictures or else make for images of what we saw d...
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Categories:
longhand, caregiving, character, humanity, leadership,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Prizes For Ultimate Sacrifices - Part Two
...Prizes for Ultimate Sacrifices
is there a prize for living
for caring
for doing what is ri...
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Categories:
longhand, howl, inspirational, metaphor, satire,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
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