Long A hundred Poems
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More Pickles Than One
For 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:
a hundred, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Deception Part 2 - Translation From Tagore
This is the second part of Rabindranath Tagore's Narrative poem - Phanki (Deception). The first part has been already posted.
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Categories:
a hundred, life, women,
Form:
Narrative
Fairer, Indeed
WOMEN ...
Truly amaze me ... they possess the super-human
strength to birth a child - one of the most painful
and demanding physical and emotional feats of end-
urance known to our species - yet they have the
self-confidence...
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Categories:
a hundred, appreciation, humanity, love, wisdom, woman, women,
Form:
Free verse
Limericks Iii - Grab Bag
Limericks III - Grab Bag
Being a peace activist, I once wrote a limerick in an attempt to stop needless wars:
Of Tetley’s and V-2's
(or "Why Not to Bomb the Brits")
by Michael R. Burch
The English are very...
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Categories:
a hundred, humor, humorous, light, nonsense, silly, war, writing,
Form:
Limerick
You Never Listened
You Never Listened
by Michael R. Burch
You never listened,
though each night the rain
wove its patterns again
and trembled and glistened...
You were not watching,
though each night the stars
shone, brightening the tears
in her eyes palely fetching...
You...
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Categories:
a hundred, baby, birth, children, extended metaphor, feelings, soulmate,
Form:
Sonnet
A Christmas Snow Angel - Part 1
The young lady's car slowed to a stop ...
As she pulled as far off the highway, (onto the shoulder), as she could
(Allowing for any snow plow that might come along).
She had chosen poorly this time
Believing...
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Categories:
a hundred, angel, appreciation, christmas, snow, uplifting,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Chapter 99 -- Damian Delilah Mallory Dj Damali Nyaf and Rico: the Celebration-- Mass Invitations
Date: April 2045
An excellent April afternoon blooming.
Damali is now 19 years old this
Day. Damali was thinking of his future
Stretched out at his study desk.
He had been enrolled for a year...
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Categories:
a hundred, granddaughter,
Form:
Alliteration
Turkish Poetry Translations Ii
Turkish Poetry Translations II
Çanakkale Sehitlerine
"For the Çanakkale Martyrs"
by Mehmet Akif Ersoy
loose English translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Was there ever anything like the Bosphorus war??
The earth’s mightiest armies pressing Marmara,
Forcing entry between her mountain passes
To a...
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Categories:
a hundred, autumn, god, love, sea, time, war, world,
Form:
Free verse
Stranger Than Fiction
*warning* disturbing lines have been detected - you have been warned, readers. Okay, enjoy this somewhat deep and astounding poem from me that took days to write...>:)
I bet you anything that I'm the laziest guy...
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Categories:
a hundred, deep, universe,
Form:
Free verse
Rum n Raisin 11 - One Hundred Million Years BC
Sneaking into the museum to avoid the sudden rain
Raisin said, “I don’t want to get soaked right through again,
It was bad enough when that truck through that puddle dashed
And you and me - but mainly...
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Categories:
a hundred, adventure, cat, fantasy, time,
Form:
Narrative
Memories In the Sand
If ever a moment in real life deserved a romantic, melancholy
backing track, it would have been that one ... we'd spent the
entire afternoon at Ferry Beach, sunning and playing frisbee, I
playing guitar, she practicing her...
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Categories:
a hundred, memory, missing you, passion, relationship, soulmate, time,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Where Do We Come In
Where do we come in
in medias res not knowing nor caring when
doesn’t everybody pine being number one we leave behind our lives in pages pictures or else make for images of what...
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Categories:
a hundred, caregiving, character, humanity, leadership, people, rights, sports,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
On My Mother Passing
ON MY MOTHER’S PASSING
i wanted to keep my mother physically with me
but it would be like trying to hold the sun
like in life she still shines brighter than any star
is as gentle as the finest...
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Categories:
a hundred, cheer up, mother, mother son,
Form:
Narrative
Unleashed
I got up this morning in a good mood
searching for solitude in the distant skies
And watching the clouds rolling by
I stopped and listened to the sounds around me
While contemplating my sacred destiny
Barking dogs and...
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Categories:
a hundred, appreciation, confidence, future, happy, loneliness, love, places,
Form:
Narrative
The Ghost Dance Part III
Wovoka in the Feverland
In the Dying-Grass Moon came another winter to claim the old and sick.
This was when the first messengers came
To the desolation known as Pine Ridge.
They came riding in at the end of...
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Categories:
a hundred, emotions, heartbreak, native american, tribute,
Form:
Free verse
Around 4 Am - Lived Life As a Loser Snoozer
I have a lot to write and say, buddy, so hear me out some more
Don’t make me feel lower than I have ever felt before…
Listen, understand and stay quiet until I say no more…sorry if...
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Categories:
a hundred, addiction, anxiety, betrayal, conflict, confusion, desire, emotions,
Form:
I do not know?
Prolegomena Soliloquy - Pt 1
Tell me, my friend,
does infinity not unsettle your reason,
or is it a comfort—to believe it meaningless?
Look beyond the rust of your disbelief—
this isn’t the frostbitten dogma you...
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Categories:
a hundred, beauty, christian, easter, faith, longing, science, universe,
Form:
Lyric
Understand Where I Stood
Good boy gone bad enters the stage with a spotlight overhead, despite being misunderstood in my ghetto neighborhood
The lonely applause celebrates in my cracked, corrupted, and crazed cranium
I exaggerate too much and so too much,...
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Categories:
a hundred, anger, angst, anxiety, conflict, courage, dedication, deep,
Form:
Free verse
Of Winks and Wings - Part 3
"You see this here spot on the bench, where it's all worn away?" Clarence asked.
"Yeah, I've noticed that a few times, and wondered why they didn't paint it again." I...
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Categories:
a hundred, autumn, life, lost love, nature, soulmate,
Form:
Free verse
The Gospel According To the Bluesman
The Gospel according to The Bluesman
Gianni watched the clouds move in
Closed his window for the rain
It was spring and that meant
That it was gonna storm again
He looked out at the street outside
He saw a man...
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Categories:
a hundred, 7th grade, america, gospel,
Form:
Rhyme
What Remains Within - Reverse Rejection and Recycle Reassurance Again
They weren’t thinking things all the way through as I weren’t able
They took me for granite and used me in the wrong way possible
I need some reassurance tonight to get through this plight...
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Categories:
a hundred, angst, courage, emotions, fear, hope, longing, moving
Form:
Free verse
My Daughter the Need a Walk From the Dark Side, Into the Darkness
My Daughter
My beautiful Daughter, walks life’s paths alone,
She does so, by design – not of hers – on her own.
She travels heavily !, from place to empty space,
from space to vacant place – in what...
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Categories:
a hundred, daughter, girlfriend,
Form:
Rhyme
Packed Up Pachyderm
You know when I think about it now and what I have to do,
a lot of you folk out there would have a bit of envy too;
you see I'm a 'lacky' for a vet, well...
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Categories:
a hundred, humorous,
Form:
Epic
A World Without Pity
After wishing me a good morning, he said that it was all set,
It was time to raze the house, even though I wasn't in debt!
But they wanted to build a big highway, exactly in this...
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Categories:
a hundred, adventure, fantasy, home, lost, time, world,
Form:
Couplet
A New Car Rental Place
Cecelia was a new person in town to see
about the rooms for rent with availability.
This woman came to start a car rental company.
It would serve the people within this community.
Cecelia knew Prester was the name...
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Categories:
a hundred, christian, fantasy, religious,
Form:
Rhyme