Long 29 Poems
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Hurricane Katrina - 20 years later
On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina stormed through New Orleans and Louisiana. The only difference was, in New Orleans (intentional or not), the levees broke. The flood waters flooded the 9th ward and most of...
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Categories:
29, anniversary, change, life, people, storm, usa, world,
Form:
Narrative
A CRYSTALLINE COLLAGE
A.COUPLETS
IN SIGHT'S EYE
Ideas with nowhere to hide
An eureka moment inside
Indistinct ,then becoming clear
Words & pictures coming near-
A passage of light to my soul,
Inspiration to make me whole.
LOVE'S STORY
Can a letter break a heart
Like the look...
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Categories:
29, appreciation,
Form:
Crystalline
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 29
Somehow,
Forward, and headlong
I knew it was day again
There was a shift in the dark mutterings of the Devil,
Who now refused to sleep as I refused to sing,
Almost an anticipation in his voice,
As if he...
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Categories:
29, adventure, bible, conflict, endurance, inspirational, love, war,
Form:
Epic
HOT MILK DRIPPING
Contest : Alice through the Wormhole
Sponsor : Tom Woody
29. 7.26
______________________________
warm sun sweet liquid
dark moist hole bristles soft sand
wonder exquisite
...
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Categories:
29, allegory, birth, change, character, child, death, heart,
Form:
Other
A Day Under the Sun
Blue Hunter's Moon of the Festival of Lights.
And the day of Vengeance of our Holy One to comfort all those who mourn.
Isaiah 61:3-11
I Proclaim the acceptable Generation or Year and Day of Yehoshua also known...
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Categories:
29, blue, earth day, faith, growth, moon, rainbow,
Form:
Prose
Sappho Translations
Sappho fragment #155
translation by Michael R. Burch
A short revealing frock?
It's just my luck
your lips were made to mock!
*
Sappho fragment #156
translation by Michael R. Burch
She keeps her scents
in a dressing-case.
And her sense?
In some undiscoverable...
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Categories:
29, girl, girlfriend, love, lust, sensual, woman, women,
Form:
Epigram
Enola Gay
Enola Gay
There on the ‘North Field’ tarmac of Tinian Island, Marianas;
Taxis the sleek designed ‘Boeing B-29 Superfortress’ to ready for take-off. 1
Glistening, polished aluminum under the blaring floodlights filmed for posterity,
Maneuvers' the ‘Enola Gay’, chosen...
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Categories:
29, education, history, usa, war, world, world war
Form:
Verse
Sonnets Xxv-Xxxii
Sonnets XXV-XXXII
Archaischer Torso Apollos (“Archaic Torso of Apollo”)
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
We cannot know the beheaded god
nor his eyes' forfeited visions. But still
the figure's trunk glows with the strange vitality
of a...
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29, bereavement, body, cancer, change, death, depression, life,
Form:
Sonnet
Sonnets X-Xvi
Sonnets X-XVI
Archaischer Torso Apollos (“Archaic Torso of Apollo”)
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
We cannot know the beheaded god
nor his eyes' forfeited visions. But still
the figure's trunk glows with the strange vitality
of a...
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Categories:
29, art, body, god, life, romantic, visionary, writing,
Form:
Sonnet
Rilke Translations Ii
Come, You
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
This was Rilke’s last poem, written ten days before his death. He died open-eyed in the arms of his doctor on December 29, 1926, in the...
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Categories:
29, tribute,
Form:
Verse
His Love Is Divine - the Bell Style
~His Love Is Divine~
( The Bell )
Lord
Can really save
His Love is divine
With Lord nothing to fear
Life can be so hard
But with him soul safe
With Lord we...
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Categories:
29, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
Randomlings 1-34
Randomling 1: Matthew Macfadyen
I believe I'm in love with Matthew Macfadyen
He inspires in me a terribly bad yen
But as poetry goes
His name 'spires woes
Cause nothing rhymes with "Macfadyen”.
Randomling 2: Birthday Wishes
For my birthday,...
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29, cat, deep, depression, dog, emotions, funny, love,
Form:
Verse
I Survived '75
KEY - W: Will/Me - F: Friend - M: Mom
Thanksgiving week of '75, as a concurrent student earning multi-degrees from two campuses, and one off. I lived above the Uni, uphill, panicview Hilo Town and...
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Categories:
29, 9th grade, angel, boy, friendship, happiness, natural
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Jesus gave up his life that we might live
????John 10:14-15 NIV??
[14] “I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me— [15] just as the Father knows me and I know the Father—and I lay down my life...
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Categories:
29, faith,
Form:
I do not know?
Beary Tales Episodes 25-33, Poet's Notes
Note to Readers of Previous Versions:
There are so many new vignettes scattered throughout the poem that I hope you will reread the whole thing! There are new GEMS, improvements to previous verses and improved footnotes...
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Categories:
29, adventure, appreciation, best friend, blessing, innocence, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Seek the Lord - the Star of David Style
~ Seek The Lord ~
(Star Of David )
~O~
God
For sure
Knows sees all
Wants best for you
He sure loves...
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Categories:
29, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
Silence reigns supreme in my reich
Silence reigns supreme in my reich
No don (except me)
doth trumpet within the aborted
barren reach of freedoms within expansive realm,
I annexed courtesy manifest destiny,
which peoples now inhabiting said jurisdiction
circumscribed by following coordinates -
Latitude: 40° 16' 22.20"...
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Categories:
29, absence, abuse, addiction, anger, celebration, dark, hair,
Form:
Free verse
The Splice of Life
“The Splice of Life”
When colour
was to be
washed out
of the world
the evil ones
didn’t care
the Actor led
with his
Dementors
either side of him
Laundry,
they resolved
to be the best
pristine method
for...
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Categories:
29, humanity, political, religion, science,
Form:
Free verse
The Untold Story of a Sitar 3
The Untold story of a Sitar Part 3 Concluded
.
A soothing musical note
Was coming out and floating
In the air
In that White coated
Old auditorium
Of a different era
Which was so alive before...
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Categories:
29, music, mystery,
Form:
Free verse
February 29th, 2024
February 29th, 2024
Alternately titled: 111th leap year since 1582
the year Pope Gregory XIII world leader
(i.e. essentially paterfamilias among
Roman Catholic flock)
timely maneuvered around calendrical rock
and hard space implementing
viable system tracking years ad hoc
out of sync and...
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Categories:
29, 12th grade, age, birth, celebration, fate, february,
Form:
Rhyme
He's the One - the Whitney Style
~ He's The One ~
( Whitney )
~O~
Call the Lord
He will be there
For me, gives
Love, Hope, Peace, Joy
Strength, always
He's the...
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Categories:
29, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
Translation of Eric Mottram's Time Sight Unseen, Part 1 By T Wignesan
Translation of Eric Mottram’s TIME SIGHT UNSEEN, Part One by T. Wignesan
"Instead of an item in a school of rhetoric, the poem could have variety of articulations, continuity and discontinuity, sentence and parataxis, and an...
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Categories:
29, imagery, introspection, literature, philosophy, writing,
Form:
Free verse
Youth's Sweet Friendship Fragments
"Fragments and crumbs of life, all the little pieces"
John Ruskin, 1853
I think of youth’s sweet...
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Categories:
29, friendship,
Form:
Prose
The Dance of Salome
The Dance of Salome
Herod bellowed out the night's festive orders..
"Bring the torches, bring the tables..
more wine, that we may rejoice,
for tonight we revel in kindred friendship."
Herod strolled onto the terrace, nearly stumbled in...
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Categories:
29, dance, daughter, moon, mother daughter, night, sin,
Form:
Narrative
Film Noir
Film Noir
By the lamppost at night
with the pale moon shining bright
but obscured by the fog
I saw her in the harbor
standing where my boat lay moored
but she knew that
her azure eyes beckoned me to come
smoke from...
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Categories:
29, forgiveness, i love you,
Form:
Ballade