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Cruse Poems - Poems about Cruse

Years

...The years  passes quickly and my heart kept holding on to something profound and an age old practice refused to leave the town; my heart cannot say goodbye for upon it your destiny lies.

Morning c...
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Categories: cruse, absence, america, books, confidence,
Form: Narrative

Hi-Choo

...Hi-Choo

Early spring in Corinth and I’m bathing in a pollen shower as fuzzy green seedlings are whisked here and there in the blustery March breeze, I sneeze!!

Remnants of last night’s thunders...
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Categories: cruse, environment, funny, health, humor,
Form: Spoken Word



Moonshine

...Oh, Moonshiner, man of the mountains high, 
Where whispers of wind and wildcats' cry. 
Your heart a kiln, your soul aflame, 
With the secret of white lightning's name.

In hollows deep, your sti...
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Categories: cruse, mountains,
Form: Rhyme

a hot day and a smelter

...A hot day and a smelter

Is it in Qatar, or in Dubai a friendly aluminum 
smelter for sale, the one in the picture on a TV add
looks ok
Now that my wife is on holiday with her aunt I cruse
on t...
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Categories: cruse, color, creation, extended metaphor,
Form: Blank verse

Unlikely Mike, for Michael Jackson

...Unlikely Mike
by Michael R. Burch

I married someone else’s fantasy;
she admired me despite my mutilations.

I loved her for her heart’s sake, and for mine.
I hid my face and changed its conno...
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Categories: cruse, blue, divorce, dream, heart,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberTo Celebrate Chanukah Right

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   To celebrate Chanukah right
     is all about kindling light

   Restoring the Holy Temple's site
     one cruse of oil burned so bright ... 

   Israel's eternal plight ~
     to merely ...
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Categories: cruse, chanukah, jewish, light,
Form: Monorhyme

Secrets

...Secrets are what kill us, hidden down deep within, 
Locked away in shadows, the harbor place of sins, 
They fester, and they grow, like germs in the night, 
A burden on our souls, until they’re sh...
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Categories: cruse, change, character, christian, conflict,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberLord God, You Are My Meal Provider

...April 2 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on 1Kings 17-19

Key Verse –1Kings 17:16 And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the L...
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Categories: cruse, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberOde To Summer

...Farewell, au revoir, goodbye, convivial summer. 
The day is late now, and the breeze is warmer. 
A vacant ocean-side barricaded motel. 
Wild geese are soon flying in lines as well.

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Categories: cruse, analogy, appreciation, beauty, summer,
Form: Rhyme

A Request and a Serious Confession

...Don't dangle me by the third finger
Nor dress me in fear's death robes
I am a speck of dust in ghastly winds
That still hope to cruse in steady flows

If pyjamas are the night's necessities
Mak...
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Categories: cruse, allegory, imagery,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberDust Had Gathered

...dust had gathered on her many memories in outlines and heaps

had sheltered her from full on attacks of pain and self lacerations

the broom with razors attached right next to the end of the stic...
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Categories: cruse, anxiety,
Form: Free verse

Hey Pete

...hey pete
by Michael R. Burch
 
hey pete,
it's baseball season
and the sun ascends the sky,
encouraging a schoolboy's dreams
of winter whizzing by;
go out, go out and catch it,
put it in a ja...
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Categories: cruse, america, baseball, boy, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberBattle Cry

..."Who is like unto You, O Lord?"
 The Maccabees' battle cry
   For the sake of God
   They were willing to die 

Their holiday's name is Chanukah
Which is translated as 'dedication'
   The Temp...
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Categories: cruse, celebration, holiday, jewish, light,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Road To Kabul

...The hustle of the
Khyber pass
Dusty 
Dirty
Traffic chaotic 
Pori’s border
Like the ground
Soaking up my foot prints
We move beyond
The bus is silent
In this barren landscape
I look upon th...
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Categories: cruse, destiny, imagery, war,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberFreudiana

...Freudiana

Famous poet Barclay Cruse
curent toast of New York salons
wears tinted glasses and Italian shoes
and composes doggerel for subway johns.

Acclaimed a purist by his colleagues
hard-...
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Categories: cruse, art, celebrity, character, humor,
Form: Light Verse

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