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Longhand Poems - Poems about Longhand

Premium MemberShine 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



Premium MemberAnything

...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

Premium MemberBe 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

Premium MemberBackboard 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

Premium MemberFor 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

Premium MemberFor 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

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Why don’t they ever come back? 
      Even if it’s just to say
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Categories: longhand, philosophy, tribute,
Form: Quatrain

Premium MemberGrowing 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

Premium MemberAnyone 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

Premium MemberIn 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

Premium MemberThinking 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

Premium MemberWhere 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

Premium MemberPrizes 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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