Long Observational Poems
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poetry about life, society and the natural world
Long poems (300 words or more), most recently posted poems first.
SweetKittyCat5
Poem Published
1st Dec 2024 8:37pm
1st Dec 2024 8:37pm
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sing
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Mama, I know why the caged bird really sings
When the mind as an offering hears sovereignty echoed from the mountains let it ring
From the cradle of birth is to give authority to our mental dreams
Our deferred aspirations we seek to the highest of our esteem
How can I learn to fly when my heart cannot even walk
Animosity, resentment is always found in wagging tongues who doesn’t...
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Mama, I know why the caged bird really sings
When the mind as an offering hears sovereignty echoed from the mountains let it ring
From the cradle of birth is to give authority to our mental dreams
Our deferred aspirations we seek to the highest of our esteem
How can I learn to fly when my heart cannot even walk
Animosity, resentment is always found in wagging tongues who doesn’t...
#hate
#peace
#racism
210 reads
Academic
Poem Published
1st Dec 2024 1:37pm
1st Dec 2024 1:37pm
A very plausible letter written by Kate Middleton's PR team!
By Stanley Collymore
Oh give it a rest Daily Mail and clearly
crucially likeminded monarchical
sycophants! Kate Middleton
was perfectly well enough for Wimbledon in
the summer so this odiously contrived crap
you're promulgating Daily Mail has actually
got to be sarcasm, right? Kate a beacon of strength, really? Someone, who effectively
takes a year of "work" while very evidently
discernibly ordinary people, regardless of
truly healthy, or otherwise circumstances
actually have no choice but to soldier on! ...
Oh give it a rest Daily Mail and clearly
crucially likeminded monarchical
sycophants! Kate Middleton
was perfectly well enough for Wimbledon in
the summer so this odiously contrived crap
you're promulgating Daily Mail has actually
got to be sarcasm, right? Kate a beacon of strength, really? Someone, who effectively
takes a year of "work" while very evidently
discernibly ordinary people, regardless of
truly healthy, or otherwise circumstances
actually have no choice but to soldier on! ...
#dark
#denial
#emptiness
#greed
#hate
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SweetKittyCat5
Poem Published
30th Nov 2024 11:31pm
30th Nov 2024 11:31pm
A Chance Encounter
Annex Building
Manhattan, New York
Assocation Meeting
Raised voices echoed in the corridor sliced through the quietness of the boardroom. Everyone attending, including Isabella appeared nervous and anxious to get this meeting underway.
Julius stood ready to greet his employer.
The brown door opened, and emitted a light-auburn headed woman. Where have she seen her before? Isabella pondered as she tried to recollect. Accompanying her presence was a tall sinewy muscular-built man.
No! Someone tell her this cannot be...
Manhattan, New York
Assocation Meeting
Raised voices echoed in the corridor sliced through the quietness of the boardroom. Everyone attending, including Isabella appeared nervous and anxious to get this meeting underway.
Julius stood ready to greet his employer.
The brown door opened, and emitted a light-auburn headed woman. Where have she seen her before? Isabella pondered as she tried to recollect. Accompanying her presence was a tall sinewy muscular-built man.
No! Someone tell her this cannot be...
#romantic
221 reads
Academic
Poem Published
28th Nov 2024 8:18pm
28th Nov 2024 8:18pm
The vacuous Richard Eden - and falsified vulturine stories in the Daily Mail again!
By Stanley Collymore
Whatever each of you brainwashed
and braindead morons really think,
Meghan will never, even obviously
wearing a shroud, return to Britain
under any circumstances, so truly
get over it, as well as evidently so
your Richard Eden evilly fancifully
made up stories. And that clearly
similarly includes unquestionably
requisite, and significantly feudal
so-called serfs really pathetically
very preposterously royal duties!
That rather pointedly also, refers
irrefutably, to Meghan's husband ...
Whatever each of you brainwashed
and braindead morons really think,
Meghan will never, even obviously
wearing a shroud, return to Britain
under any circumstances, so truly
get over it, as well as evidently so
your Richard Eden evilly fancifully
made up stories. And that clearly
similarly includes unquestionably
requisite, and significantly feudal
so-called serfs really pathetically
very preposterously royal duties!
That rather pointedly also, refers
irrefutably, to Meghan's husband ...
#dark
#denial
#emptiness
#greed
#hate
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SweetKittyCat5
Poem Published
28th Nov 2024 7:47am
28th Nov 2024 7:47am
The Softness Of A Black Water Pearl
It's that quiet whisper
Allow me to esoterically caress the path to that enlightenment
In my company
Under the warmth of the Sun
The skies are our blanket of forevermore
Lay me down upon the soft illumination of a Blue Moon
Relax me in the octopus of your beautiful stardust
Here, there, mmm… I feel the slippery slopes of your love potion
Fusing
Softly siphoning the drops of my resistance in the cocoon of desires
I see the vastness of oceans in your eyes
I tasted the doctrine to the portals to your soul ...
Allow me to esoterically caress the path to that enlightenment
In my company
Under the warmth of the Sun
The skies are our blanket of forevermore
Lay me down upon the soft illumination of a Blue Moon
Relax me in the octopus of your beautiful stardust
Here, there, mmm… I feel the slippery slopes of your love potion
Fusing
Softly siphoning the drops of my resistance in the cocoon of desires
I see the vastness of oceans in your eyes
I tasted the doctrine to the portals to your soul ...
#lover
#passion
#sensual
292 reads
Wordsmith
Poem Published
28th Nov 2024 7:05am
28th Nov 2024 7:05am
The Cry of The Hungry
In the land where the sun kisses the soil
Where abundance once sprang from honest toil
Now hunger prowls... like a restless beast
And famine mocks every hoped-for feast
The yam barns are empty... the granaries bare
The fields once golden... now stripped of care
Scarcity spreads... like harmattan dust
A bitter curse... on a broken trust
A goat tied too long... will chew the rope
But here even ropes... can’t kindle hope
The people cry... their stomachs hollow
Yet promises are all they’re forced to swallow
Once we...
Where abundance once sprang from honest toil
Now hunger prowls... like a restless beast
And famine mocks every hoped-for feast
The yam barns are empty... the granaries bare
The fields once golden... now stripped of care
Scarcity spreads... like harmattan dust
A bitter curse... on a broken trust
A goat tied too long... will chew the rope
But here even ropes... can’t kindle hope
The people cry... their stomachs hollow
Yet promises are all they’re forced to swallow
Once we...
#corruption
#HumanRights
#inequality
#politics
#poverty
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Wordsmith
Poem Published
28th Nov 2024 6:56am
28th Nov 2024 6:56am
Chains of Freedom
Hold up
Don’t talk
Or the grim reaper will steal your voice.
Words turn weapons stripped of choice
Next you're in cuffs
Bound and subdued
Dragged to halls where fairness is skewed.
“Arise my Lord” the bailiff calls
But justice has crumbled within those walls.
Judged for truths you dared to say
Now silenced tossed like waste-away.
In the jungle of law where power preys
Your rights dissolve in a smoky haze.
In the heart of the city beneath neon lights
Lies Mide a dreamer who fought for rights.
He raised his...
Don’t talk
Or the grim reaper will steal your voice.
Words turn weapons stripped of choice
Next you're in cuffs
Bound and subdued
Dragged to halls where fairness is skewed.
“Arise my Lord” the bailiff calls
But justice has crumbled within those walls.
Judged for truths you dared to say
Now silenced tossed like waste-away.
In the jungle of law where power preys
Your rights dissolve in a smoky haze.
In the heart of the city beneath neon lights
Lies Mide a dreamer who fought for rights.
He raised his...
#CallToAction
#corruption
#freedom
#politics
#rebellion
57 reads
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SweetKittyCat5
Poem Published
27th Nov 2024 00:47am
27th Nov 2024 00:47am
What Would You Bring To Your Table This Holiday
Come and dine at the offering bestowed from my table
Sweet words softly given sweeter than the taste of maple soothing elements to the mind ordained from birth past the first steps of the cradle
The offering unto your palate from centuries ago told
Close your eyes as my incantations from the seventh dimension of time have spiritually caressed and physically consoled
Dwelling in the dominion in the hues of midnight
Baring the burdensome credence of me, myself and I, walking the naked journey as you give authority to the...
Sweet words softly given sweeter than the taste of maple soothing elements to the mind ordained from birth past the first steps of the cradle
The offering unto your palate from centuries ago told
Close your eyes as my incantations from the seventh dimension of time have spiritually caressed and physically consoled
Dwelling in the dominion in the hues of midnight
Baring the burdensome credence of me, myself and I, walking the naked journey as you give authority to the...
#humankind
#mythology
#philosophical #wisdom
#philosophical #wisdom
217 reads
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SweetKittyCat5
Poem Published
26th Nov 2024 00:58am
26th Nov 2024 00:58am
“We Are Here For You Our Nubian Queen”
The Brotherhood Of Islam
New York, New York Chapter
My Nubian Queen, now I know you do not want the Brother Of Islam to balance the fate of this earth
The word floating on the wire has it, this Black Panther King from, get this, from what they are saying on the streets, this Wakanda place where the door of the soul opens, and your life becomes your worth
Now me and the brotherhood do not understand that lingo
So, we are just here to let you know
If Gee ain’t got your back, call us, and we are there for you, no questions asked, and our laws...
New York, New York Chapter
My Nubian Queen, now I know you do not want the Brother Of Islam to balance the fate of this earth
The word floating on the wire has it, this Black Panther King from, get this, from what they are saying on the streets, this Wakanda place where the door of the soul opens, and your life becomes your worth
Now me and the brotherhood do not understand that lingo
So, we are just here to let you know
If Gee ain’t got your back, call us, and we are there for you, no questions asked, and our laws...
#city
222 reads
5 Comments
Academic
Poem Published
25th Nov 2024 10:48am
25th Nov 2024 10:48am
Philip Schofield and Rock Hudson were happily gay players! So why shouldn't Edward Windsor also be?
By Stanley Collymore
A state of affairs known about,
fully acknowledged and also
specifically, supported by
their respective wives. So why then shouldn't Sophie Rhys Jones effectively do the same,
if personally this gay tolerance assured her
the lifestyle, which she discernibly wanted
and still clearly opulently has? Undeniably however what actually had me in stitches
of very boisterous laughter, was the Daily
Mail's hack rather specifically describing
Sophie's Windsor monarichal and...
A state of affairs known about,
fully acknowledged and also
specifically, supported by
their respective wives. So why then shouldn't Sophie Rhys Jones effectively do the same,
if personally this gay tolerance assured her
the lifestyle, which she discernibly wanted
and still clearly opulently has? Undeniably however what actually had me in stitches
of very boisterous laughter, was the Daily
Mail's hack rather specifically describing
Sophie's Windsor monarichal and...
#emotions
#happiness
#kindness
#love
#respect
47 reads
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MalcolmG
Poem Published
24th Nov 2024 3:27pm
24th Nov 2024 3:27pm
Bound by Time ...
We are all brothers and sisters through time,
no matter the generation before or yet to come,
we share the same thoughts and feelings.
Just as you feel when you look out into the oceans and watch the waves,
this was how I felt.
Just as you experience frustration in the tangle of everyday life,
I too lived in days filled with frustration.
Just as you are one of many in a crowd,
I too was a face among the countless.
Just as you are refreshed by the river’s gentle flow,
I too was cleansed and renewed.
Just as you seek relief on a...
no matter the generation before or yet to come,
we share the same thoughts and feelings.
Just as you feel when you look out into the oceans and watch the waves,
this was how I felt.
Just as you experience frustration in the tangle of everyday life,
I too lived in days filled with frustration.
Just as you are one of many in a crowd,
I too was a face among the countless.
Just as you are refreshed by the river’s gentle flow,
I too was cleansed and renewed.
Just as you seek relief on a...
#healing
#honesty
#inspirational
#LifeChangingMoment
#wisdom
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oldmanG
Poem Published
24th Nov 2024 9:48am
24th Nov 2024 9:48am
Getting Paid
We’re getting paid
We both wake up before the rooster calls
Do our routine don’t want to be late for school
Bell rings class is ending
Head for the locker room where I’m the One
You are in the state championship I’m trying too
All the sudden I’m in the papers and screens
We are colliding with greatness on different pay scales
I am better than you I bring more fans to watch me
You are excellent but not as good as me
And you will disagree
You are a tree that gives me shade but I...
We both wake up before the rooster calls
Do our routine don’t want to be late for school
Bell rings class is ending
Head for the locker room where I’m the One
You are in the state championship I’m trying too
All the sudden I’m in the papers and screens
We are colliding with greatness on different pay scales
I am better than you I bring more fans to watch me
You are excellent but not as good as me
And you will disagree
You are a tree that gives me shade but I...
#men
#motivational
#sacrifice
#sports
#women
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DU Poetry : Long Poems about Life, Society and the World (Page 2)
