Long Football Poems
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More Pickles Than OneFor ten months now I’ve brooded over coming second place
in the pickle section deeming, it no less than a disgrace.
It was written plain and simple, so there can be no excuse,
that the pickles in this...
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Categories:
football, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
EpitaphsEpitaph for a Palestinian Child
by Michael R. Burch
I lived as best I could, and then I died.
Be careful where you step: the grave is wide.
Autumn Conundrum
by Michael R. Burch
It's not that every leaf must finally...
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Categories:
football, bereavement, death, death of a friend, depression,
Form:
Epitaph
Rejection Slips 3Rejection Slips 3
Rejection Slip
by Michael R. Burch
Whenever my writing gets rejected,
I always wonder how the rejecter got elected.
Are we exchanging at the same Bourse?
(Excepting present company, of course!)
When editors reject my poems, did I slip...
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Categories:
football, death, desire, family, heart, life, longing, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Peace PrayerThese are peace poems, prayer poems, hymns and lullabies I have written for family, friends and the world over the years ...
Peace Prayer
by Michael R. Burch
for Jim Dunlap
Be calm.
Be still.
Be silent, content.
Be one with the...
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Categories:
football, beauty, blessing, love, nature, peace, prayer, time,
Form:
Free verse
Chapter 16 -- Damian Hakim Polly Dolly and Molly: Damian's Plans and Family TimeMarch 2026
The final weeks of the CCC plan:
Damian and Polly planned the
Copy Cat Club convergence with
Molly and Dolly. The meet was postponed
A few times until everything was set.
Damian and Dolly knew one another...
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Categories:
football, allusion, best friend,
Form:
Alliteration
Chapter 70 --Damian Delilah Mallory: the Polly ConundrumMolly and Dolly were in their
New getaway room on the top
Floor listening to music.
While Damian spent time with
The kids in the backyard. He
Wanted to install a pool for the
Youngest children, then switch...
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Categories:
football, best friend, feelings, grandson, inspirational,
Form:
Alliteration
Rejection Slips 1Rejection Slips
With over 5,700 publications if I count poems that have gone viral, I suppose I shouldn’t complain … but I do have some poems that have never been accepted for publication. Here are a...
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Categories:
football, day, love, memory, night, rose, seasons, winter,
Form:
Rhyme
4 More Poems About Poetry - BWho hasn't this nightmare of forgetting an inspirational word or phrase happened to?
...
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Categories:
football, poetry,
Form:
Verse
Unquotable Quotes: Journalists - Dedication To Andre Fontaine - XxviUnquotable quotes: Tale-Carriers, Gossip-Mongers, Courrier-Pigeon Caretakers, Smoke-Signal Puffers and Tom-Tom Thumpers – XXVI
Could there be such things as political shenanigans or inter-continental warfares, even catastrophes, natural disasters, tsunamis, irruptions, conflagrations, inundations, landslides, typhoons, tornadoes, hurricanes,...
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Categories:
football, power,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
The Breakfast Program and MeIt was 1968 we'd gathered again in the school auditorium my tiny hands sweating only five years old while my name was called in all of this cold
civil rights riots plagued my little...
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Categories:
football, america, beautiful, black african american, chicago, memory,
Form:
Free verse
Silent Cries and AgoraphobiaI remember feeling so empty the abuse had escalated after four hurricanes witnessing a murder horrific traumatic brain injury I was now uprooted leaving my beautiful home in Fort Myers Florida at the behest of...
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Categories:
football, anxiety,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Domestic Abuse and Abuse of PowerAfter witnessing a murder meant for me after surviving a car bomb igniting my skull crushed my face bruising my brain i received threatening calls from my husbands mistress I'd reported break ins strange behavior...
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Categories:
football, abuse, anxiety, beautiful, love hurts, peace, wisdom,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
The Alaskan Oil PipelineThe Alaskan Oil Pipeline
Nineteen sixty-eight confirmed the year
Of discovery by ‘Humble Oil’
To North America’s largest oil field,
On the North Slope of the Brooks Range;
A west to east Northern Alaskan mountain chain.
An area forty miles wide...
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Categories:
football, education, environment, history, technology, tribute, usa,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Remember WhenRemember when you were very young, ...
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Categories:
football, fun, games, life, love, remember, today, youth,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Life God Gave - the Octa-Tri Style~ Life, God Gave ~
( Octa- Tri )
~O~
God's Love glow
From our hearts let it flow
My Lord, You're my Light, Hope, Joy and Guide.
~o~
You heal heart,...
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Categories:
football, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
I Want a DoggyOh how I want a doggy,
a bundle of love and fur. ...
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Categories:
football, dog, friend, love,
Form:
Narrative
Categories:
football, car, kid, red, snow, vacation, weather, winter,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Autumn AtonementFace to the sky,
Breath of the Caribbean
Woven with earthy Autumn,
Saturates the alveoli of my lungs,
Pouring raw impulses into the neurons of
My pleasure centers, so triggering a myriad of
Memories ... the demurring requiem to summer tide...
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Categories:
football, autumn, heartbreak, metaphor, october, solitude, soulmate, true
Form:
Free verse
Snapshots From a Child's West LondonI remember my cherished Wolf Cub pack,
How I loved those Wednesday evenings,
The games, the pomp and seriousness of the camps,
The different coloured scarves, sweaters and hair
During the mass meetings,
The solemnity...
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Categories:
football, child, childhood, children, england, friendship, london, memory,
Form:
Free verse
Chapter 14 -- Damian and Polly: First ApartmentDate. August 2023
Damian turned 22 and Moved from his
family's estate Into his own
duplex apartment, 5 bedrooms.
One master bedroom and
1 and a half bathrooms.
Down town West Virginia. One night...
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Categories:
football, best friend, confidence, dance, family, home,
Form:
Prose
Mad About Towns
When we set out on a road trip
We didn’t stick to the old script
And were gladly amazed
And rarely unfazed
Hitting strange towns though some were skipped
We started from Thatsnot, OK
Which was more or less ok
But then...
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Categories:
football, humorous, travel, word play,
Form:
Limerick
The Bate's Motel Does Exist - 1st HalfHere's the scoop, friends...like a bunch of my pieces now posted - and coming soon - this is, as indicated, the 1st HALF of this fairly lengthy poem. The 2nd half had to be posted...
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Categories:
football, humor,
Form:
Narrative
It's Not Too LateOne seat back from where I sat in almost every class was where this wimpy, red-haired nerd, I’d hated from the start,
Made a point of sitting, thinking - if he played it right - because...
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Categories:
football, inspirational, relationship,
Form:
Rhyme
Categories:
football, crazy, dream, humor, sister, tree,
Form:
Free verse
The Armless AmbidextrianI. The Love of Minds
The volume on the desk,
The one not claimed by dust or burned
By light, will follow her to bed tonight.
Its pages will be turned and smothered,
Each in turn, so as not to...
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Categories:
football, conflict, death, depression, desire, fear, life,
Form:
Free verse