Long Unexceptional Poems
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Moon N MeAs darkness absorbed in my reveries, my usual lapse accommodated itself in height of melancholy but not in this conscience. Then I found myself in my room and my window opened. Everything in upheaval, a...
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Categories:
unexceptional, anxiety, conflict, depression, fantasy, peace, sleep, sympathy,
Form:
Prose
Zen Death Haiku XZEN DEATH HAIKU X
These are my modern English translations of Japanese Zen Death Haiku.
Forbearing the night
with its growing brilliance:
the summer moon.
—Tsukioka Yooshi (1839-1892) , loose translation/interpretation of his jisei (death poem) by...
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Categories:
unexceptional, age, analogy, animal, anxiety, august, autumn,
Form:
Haiku
Doctors Particularly Biomedical EngineersDoctors (particularly biomedical engineers)...
really trolley train hard to keep track of patients
Eye tell ya we (spuds)
pulled up stakes after four yar
and zero scores ago living in Bryn Mawr
salutary heart and lungs figurative
storied Main Line Health...
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Categories:
unexceptional, 11th grade, 12th grade, appreciation, drug, leadership,
Form:
Free verse
Mother's StoriesI warned you about Mother telling her stories.
I warned you,
but you wouldn’t listen.
I warned you about the magic
of golem and djinn,
about lilac walks
and mysterious circuses.
Stranded mice,
abandoned mice,
runaway mice,
unexceptional princesses,
all fodder for the worst sort...
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Categories:
unexceptional, books, childhood, fantasy, gothic, mystery, poets,
Form:
Free verse
Tech-No-LogicTech-No-Logic
Of keyboard and swipe
a screens deliberation circuit electronic
in metal skin and paper thin
push button hums the chord of plastic
tech-no-logical inventum
such marvels to grind the wheel
impartial utensils the battery static
a signal from pre-molded concrete
sends the flip...
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Categories:
unexceptional, nature, technology,
Form:
Free verse
Smudged InkLoin cloth draped around his anorexic body the Buddha
Searched for the Middle Way between Nothing and All
Counted his blessings and figs as his thoughts focussed
In meditation for humility compassion and lasting peace
The tree of life’s...
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Categories:
unexceptional, philosophy,
Form:
Free verse
Ordinary Orange
In life and nature orange is all around us, just ordinary orange,
orange cats, nothing special, orange leaves we kick out of the way;
marigold flowers and we just walk by, ordinary things in life,
tiger lily's...
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Categories:
unexceptional, life,
Form:
Free verse
Vanilla Is“Little boxes on the hillside; Little boxes made of ticky tacky
Little boxes on the hillside; Little boxes all the same”
from first verse of “Little Boxes” by Malvina Reynolds
Vanilla Is . . .
the typical white...
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Categories:
unexceptional, emotions,
Form:
List
Warrington ProphetessAllowed preachers to be unexceptional
Sacrificed priesthood as liberty ordain
Prophecy lingua by Hiberno accent
Endued with melodic timbrels and dances
No differs from Sufi whirling for their God
Sung the song as Moses led the sacred song
Anthemic and ambience...
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Categories:
unexceptional, patriotic, peace, tribute,
Form:
Imagism
Opposites AttractI stood on a corner, act naturally they said !
There was a tap on my shoulder and I let out a silent scream
Good grief you scared me !. But no surprise there as...
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Categories:
unexceptional, fun,
Form:
Light Verse
The Ordinary MugCoffee mug, mediocre and customary,
Though a marvel of paint and pottery,
Rests on a levelled shelf of kitchen,
Peeps out of glass anxiously.
I pick up every fine morning,
So that it doesn't go uninspired,
To make a great shake...
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Categories:
unexceptional, care,
Form:
Quatrain