Short Whitman Poems

Poetic
Travels
Told...

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I lean and I laugh
Loafing on my throne of grass
Remembering you....

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I         I
         I
   I   
             i
                   I
I    
          me oh mi...

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she fell in love with sultry words
                        from Whitman, Poe and constellations…

10/4/2020...

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Walt Whitman junior,so sensual
with poems&essays so influential
Transcendental writer&realist
with verse libre did insist...

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Walt Whitman raised by Quakers in Brooklyn
with typographical poetics did begin
'Leaves of Grass&Song of Myself'
devoted to the US commonwealth...

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who would have thought that

                                        poetry a contact sport

                                       Walt Whitman chagrined...

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W-ord
A-bout
L-iterary
T-opic

W-ith
H-eart
I-s
T-ruly
M-agnificent
A-nd
N-oble

Topic: Birthday of Poet Walt Whitman (May 31) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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A TRIBUTE FOUND POEM IN 5 PARTS
INSPIRED BY PHRASES FROM LEAVES OF GRASS
Part 4
your questioning
out of the glance
      of the eye
what I tell you
  .....is so
here and now...

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A TRIBUTE FOUND POEM IN 5 PARTS
INSPIRED BY PHRASES FROM INSCRIPTIONS

Part B

in silence
a biography
begins
at intervals
resumes
a journey
in 
season
with so much
to say...

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A TRIBUTE FOUND POEM IN 5 PARTS
INSPIRED BY PHRASES FROM INSCRIPTIONS

Part D
a retrospective
          of me
whatever
      qualities 
they may be
pensive
silent
or profound...

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A TRIBUTE FOUND POEM IN 5 PARTS
INSPIRED BY PHRASES FROM LEAVES OF GRASS
Part 5
for ever and ever
offspring
         great&small
past&present
somewhere
    waiting for
         you...

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A TRIBUTE FOUND POEM IN 5 PARTS
INSPIRED BY PHRASES FROM LEAVES OF GRASS

Part 3
in the beams
    of the moon
the wonder is always
all
shall delight us even
   as I stand
mind not me...

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A TRIBUTE FOUND POEM IN 5 PARTS
INSPIRED BY PHRASES FROM INSCRIPTIONS

Part C

as I look
       back
I hear
    and see
and thrill
at my page
with
pride and love
with faith
and identity...

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A TRIBUTE FOUND POEM IN 5 PARTS
INSPIRED BY PHRASES FROM INSCRIPTIONS

Part E

on my way
      I pause
through these poems
read 
the hints
and wait..
      and wait..
...now haste 
   on with me...

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A TRIBUTE FOUND POEM IN 5 PARTS
INSPIRED BY PHRASES FROM INSCRIPTIONS

Part A

oneself
a name
a separate
     being
what destiny
awaits
in this puzzle
of life
what bygones
around
the idea
of me...

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A TRIBUTE FOUND POEM IN 5 PARTS
INSPIRED BY PHRASES FROM LEAVES OF GRASS
Part 2
come..depart
scattering
      freely
        forever
a song of 
           self
tell everybody
of passionate
   ....love...

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A TRIBUTE FOUND POEM IN 5 PARTS
INSPIRED BY PHRASES FROM LEAVES OF GRASS

Part 1

original energy
filter it from
        your self
for what is 
        ahead
witness&wait
for it cannot be
shaken
      away...

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it surprises me 
that you don't 
get more 
comments
what's 
with it 
here

getting feelings 
there's a great 
race on
amount 
beats 
quality
surely

Whitman 
would be 
the bottom 
of the list
he didn't
do haikus...

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Sarah Adams 14 August 1848

Conrad Aiken 17 August 1973

Kinsley Amis 22 October 1995

Allen Gingsberg 5 April 1997

Pablo Nerudo 23 September 1973

Walt Whitman 26 March 1892

I hope it is not too soon that i too

Am welcomed home...

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An inkwell cupcake if you please.
Frost it with adverbs.
Sprinkle it with adjectives.
Don’t be stingy.
You can add more.
Make it glitter.
Make it pop!
Startle yourself.
Bake it whatever degree
Coleridge, Whitman, Thoreau and Poe would have used....

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He celebrated America and himself
Keeping his face always towards sunshine
Seeing, hearing, feeling
All people, all races, all religions
Living a life,when every moment
Of light and dark was miracle
Singing about himself, singing about America
Which was the greatest poem for him...

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and I know
or
I guess
it maybe
that
I am
  to be
    pleased
with thee:
my love
  it shall
  be you
out of all
   the earth:
come..
but not here
      not there
but
for ever
&
through
all of time..
be
   mine

A phrasis inspired by Whitman phrases the Song of Myself...

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The Chosen
Miracle Man Thoughts
12-25-2021

Year 2021, and Christmas Day,
my awaking thoughts are frozen.
Not on gifts or Santa’s sleigh,
my musings rest on the chosen.
Happy Birthday Jesus!

“The gift is to the giver, it comes back most to him.”  
Walt Whitman
...

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Heroic spirit,
      fervent soul,
      wild river conscious
      that fulilled the sea of liquid ideas...
      You were further than a hero,
      you were a poet, you were a man
      bigger than the mountain
      higher than the space..
      you are
      Walt Whitman poetry.. !...

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