Jack 93
In a world of instant everything, responsibilities we shirk
Remember there’s no replacement for putting in the work
Make decisions not on hope but based on what you know
Life is not a rainbow
So don’t be fooled by the dreams you’re sold
There is no pot of gold
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Categories:
93, future, life, poetry, rainbow,
Form: Rhyme
Chapter 93 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: the Affluent Festive Funeral Family Reunion
There was a twenty minute lull
Before the paramedics arrived to
Remove Greatgrand Dad's
corpse. When the paramedics
Arrived they examed Greatgrand
And confirmed the family's dread.
Damian and CJ accompanied
The body to the Hospital. While
Julius and Father Hakim followed
In a limousine. They wanted to
Assure their family burial prep
Laws, no cremation embalming
Or autopsy. Afterward
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Categories:
93, birth, life,
Form: Alliteration
No Title, Yet - 93
Two years have passed in the blink of an eye
While I’ve lived in a cloud with no emotion.
If I feel a little down and want to cry,
I just think of my new love across the ocean.
It’s not that I despise the ones from my past,
Nor that I’ve become someone I despise.
It’s just that I’m so
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Categories:
93, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Stopping By
hwy 93 glides up into
the misty grey
where billowing black
shifting clouds
shroud the moon
like pirate sails
wheels and metal
destined for what is
forever slipping away
yet drawing nigh
so gentle and so kind
stopping by the horizon
on a summer's eve
"because it could not stop for me" *
(if you read poetry)
sage hills roll on
long after I'm gone
From "Stopping by the Woods on
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Categories:
93, death, life, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
93, blessing, fruit, health, life,
Form: Tanka
Categories:
93, spring,
Form: Haiku
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 93
Their sighting of the Village came more quickly than they anticipated, only a few hours after Joulupukki had mentioned it to Lumi.
“Well, sooner than expected,” Joulupukki said aloud., “almost straight ahead, Lumi, do you see it.”
“Ahhh, ahhh, oh, yes, there it is. By Oden,
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Categories:
93, christmas, fairy,
Form: Epic
Highway 93 Revisited
Ectopic Wanderings
Born far from where
I was supposed to be,
nearer to the end
I chased the beginning
throughout my life
—forever going home
(Red Lodge Montana: September, 2021)
18kt Memories
I’ll wear a Rolex
once I’m dead,
as accolades surround
The past what’s left
of what was right,
buried in the ground
Beneath my dreams
above my hope,
one wish to tell the tale
Of life now lived
with death in
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Categories:
93, travel,
Form: Free verse
Holocaust Poem: 93 Daughters of Israel
Ninety-Three Daughters of Israel
a Holocaust poem by Chaya Feldman
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
We washed our bodies
and cleansed ourselves;
we purified our souls
and became clean.
Death does not terrify us;
we are ready to confront him.
While alive we served God
and now we can best serve our people
by refusing to be taken prisoner.
We have made a covenant of the
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Categories:
93, daughter, death, god, holocaust,
Form: Free verse
Flight 93
Flight 93
by Michael R. Burch
I held the switch in trembling fingers, asked
why existence felt so small, so purposeless,
like a minnow wriggling feebly in my grasp ...
vibrations of huge engines thrummed my arms
as, glistening with sweat, I nudged the switch
to OFF ... I heard the klaxon's shrill alarms
like vultures’ shriekings ... earthward, in a stall ...
we
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Categories:
93, tribute,
Form: Sonnet
November, 93
Twas like every November before it,
But this one came with an air of uncertainty,
For the drums of celebrations had halted in may.
When Owen celebrated his second birthday.
Fate was finally smiling at Evbareke
Those around her had thought,
For indeed she, the child whose mother abandoned just nine months after her birth.
And left in the care
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Categories:
93, life, lonely, loss, lost
Form: Prose Poetry
Categories:
93, imagery, life,
Form: Verse
Categories:
93, leaving, longing,
Form: Verse
Class of 93
A quarter flip, skinny dip
Cool creek, full of trout
Homerun hit, tobacco spit
Moonshine night out
Team shirt, center dirt
Fastballs were a breeze
Mini skirt, fun to flirt
Weakness in the knees
Dirt pile, crooked smile
Pray before the pitch
Worth while, drunk dial
Bronco in the ditch
Dad’s pissed, slapped wrist
Shotgun in the dodge
Can’t miss, first kiss
Cow tippin, giggin frogs
Had a blast, gone fast
Class
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Categories:
93, boy, remember,
Form: Free verse
On 9 11 01 I Got On Flight 93
On 9/11/01 I got on Flight 93 to get home
to my dear wife , who just couldn’t wait
to see me that night.
I heard some fighting with 4 men who
looked liked terrorists and they apparently
would not stop in till one of them yelled
if any of you make a move you would
be killed and that’s unbelievable
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Categories:
93, america, anger, anxiety, blessing,
Form: Heroic Couplet
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