Retentive Poems - Poems about Retentive

Etched in Stone

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                               Etched in Stone

In the soothing serene silence of a shining summer day
Strolling along a lonely alley laid in black stones
Bordered on both sides with verdant ...

Retention Pond

...If displaced, found nowhere, but in water
     of the retention pond,
no longer in V-formation, nowhere
     in the bluest sky,
however, beneath and at the behest
     of angels, ruled b...

The Tapestry of Memory

...Written: October 16, 2023
Changed past Poetry Contest               Sponsored by: Fire Bird
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The intricate tapestry of my ...

Once a Pawn a Time Within Castellated Bishopric

...Once a pawn a time within castellated bishopric

We purchased 2020 Hyundai Elantra
at Enterprise Car Rental
1207 West Ridge Pike
Conshohocken, Pennsylvania 19428
April thirteenth two thousand t...

Compassionate Education

...Back in the day
of exclusively straight white male
****-retentive missionaries,
the Church

Whether monoculturally Catholic
(which may become an oxymoron
one enlightened day)
or Protestant,
...

Riding Sixties Shotgun

...I was in the shotgun seat
in 1960 Lansing Michigan
headed straight as a harddrive
through ghettoizing "Negra Section"
hunting down our commercial whitebread 
heavenly ThriftyAcres

Wanna be a ...

The Angels Came For Her

...The depths of their hearts
a storm that never quits.
its lamentation…pausing
between flashes of lightning,
lighting up the frozen stage
of irreconcilable grief…
the breakpoint - unexpected,
gu...

More Song and Dance Please

...What to gladly sing
about our global economic politics
and socially inept monoculturing predation?
divinely self-righteous 
missionary terrorist zeal
also known as religious
colonization.

Su...

Humanity In Composition

...Value of kindness and compassion towards other beings,                                             people that serve humans by fraternity teachings.

Tagore believed to have contact with the divine...

Dancing Questions

...I have a lot of questions
questions
questions
he repeats
slowly swinging
and dancing
on our creaky screened porch swing.

Radiant
in fiery ginger godliness,
mind centering omnipotence

He...

In Youth, Beauty That Sets Eager Hearts To Flutter

...Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass,
Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron,
Can be retentive to the strength of spirit;
But life, being weary of these worldly bars,
Never lacks pow...

Piano

...eighty eight 
keys with only
eight fingers and
two thumbs to plunk

away at what
ever i want to say
expressively or 
depressively or

possably atonally
not anally retentive
that i need ev...

Memory Needle

...My mind is a plain white cloth 
On which the memory needle often pricks 
Sharp, bright, retentive and so forth 
Occasionally it will also plays tricks 
With its unlimited gigabytes 
It can store...

Donkey Run

...la 
                                                    got  
                                                   take a
                                                 sneering
                 ...

At Nought--

...AT NOUGHT—

Under feet covered with my bad choices
I’m uncaring and I don’t care how it’s going
All caught up, unwavering, demining, stop judging the brethren
Unrestricted
I have a following
M...

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