Long Abject Poems
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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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Categories:
abject, 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:
abject, art, body, god, life, romantic, visionary, writing,
Form:
Sonnet
Rainer Maria Rilke Translation: the Panther
The Panther
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
His weary vision's so overwhelmed by iron bars,
his exhausted eyes see only blank Oblivion.
His world is not our world. It has no stars.
No light. Ten thousand...
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Categories:
abject, allegory, analogy, animal, cat, extended metaphor, freedom,
Form:
Sonnet
The Pied Piper From New York City - Part One
The Pied Piper from New York City – Part One
Dare his name be said?
I say, of course, Yes!
The Pied Piper, himself, is the man, the myth, the legend.
And they, the so-called incurious lot of...
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Categories:
abject, allusion, america, betrayal, corruption, judgement, new york,
Form:
Political Verse
And Still I Drive - Part One
Stars fall under failing skies...stars fall...stars fall...
And sadly...i start to drive.
Through the unremarkable village with its tall
Georgian Bay window panes, lightless,
devoid of visages; outwardly staring back at my
Abject countenance with detached contempt and...
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Categories:
abject, heartbreak, places,
Form:
Rhyme
Brave New World
(based on Aldous Huxley's book "Brave New World")
Human hatchery
Clink clink clink clink...
Test tubes prattling past
along the chrome plated production line.
Glistening under fake fluorescence
humming in harmony
with the magnetic motors
of conveyors, centrifuges and camshafts.
Biological blobs of gamete...
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Categories:
abject, confusion, depression, heartbreak, humanity, introspection, political, science
Form:
Free verse
Living With Uncertainty, Chaos and Corruption
The world is constantly changing
People are steadily rearranging
Life seems to be a gigantic nightmare
Keep moving, but never getting there
This country was built on the backs of slaves
Our ancestors buried in...
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Categories:
abject, confusion, corruption, spoken word,
Form:
Free verse
A Most Courageous American President For the Ages
A Most Courageous American President for the Ages
I thought it would be most appropriate for me to take a moment to
share some of my reflections on the life and distinguished public
service of the late 41st...
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Categories:
abject, america, celebration, character, inspiration, patriotic, political, tribute,
Form:
Narrative
Killer Dog
It was a late Saturday morning, and I was getting my 12-year-old self ready for our weekly summer sand-lot baseball game. I had my ball glove hanging on my bicycle handlebars, two baseballs, and my...
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Categories:
abject, friend, friendship, trust,
Form:
Narrative
A Former Great Nations Squandered Wealth I
Swept up into piles; everywhere
Abouts; in collected heaps all
Around.
It is almost as if the drab
Streets were strewn...
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Categories:
abject, philosophy, senses,
Form:
Rhyme
Human Rights Charter For Australian Aborigines By Oodgeroo Noonuccal
La Charte des Droits de l’Homme pour les Aborigènes - Translation of Oodgeroo Noonuccal's Aboriginal Charter of Rights by T. Wignesan
Nous avons besoin de l’espoir, pas de racisme,
La fraternité, pas d’ostracisme
Du progrès pour les Noirs,...
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Categories:
abject, 3rd grade, abuse, discrimination, humanity, language, slavery,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
The Search For Idealism
Placed First in:
Can`t Believe It was a Na Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Silent One
...
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Categories:
abject, humanity, inspirational, men, world,
Form:
Quatrain
Rilke Translations I
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:
abject, art, life, love, tribute, visionary, voice, wine,
Form:
Verse
For Spacious Time
I need some natural,
organic,
spacious kinda time.
Where is nature in this time,
my time,
our time?
Perhaps nature is to time
as solid forms are to flowing recreation,
as body solidarity is to mind creativity,
as Yang is to Yin,
as Full-Blown Climaxing...
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Categories:
abject, culture, love, music, race, sensual, society, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
The Truth Of This Magnitude
The Truth Of This Magnitude”
Obstinate defiance from an indignant child
Consummate reliance on the spirit of the Wild
Intricate compositions of meticulous art
A syndicate of derision that is waiting to depart
The honorary commemoration...
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Categories:
abject, creation, humanity, life, truth,
Form:
Rhyme
The Bug's Tale
A bug upon a green leaf sat
Cautiously eyeing up a cat
Who, unaware of the bug's intentions
Continued with its cruel conventions:
Of catching a mouse then setting it free
Then leaping up it once more with glee
Until the...
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Categories:
abject, humorous,
Form:
Epic
The Conditions of Living
The Conditions of Living
Stark organisations of my observations
Respond to beauty with pure elation
Instead of chronic devastation
Process the abject consternation
From contrived over-saturation
And acute mass manipulation
That should be in legal confiscation
Truth found...
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Categories:
abject, 12th grade,
Form:
Rhyme
Interview with an Angel
Interview with an Angel
After a long surgery brewed in urgency,
I lie supine with the body pining with fury
With eyelids...
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Categories:
abject, angel, inspirational, life, motivation, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
A Scraping of Shovels
My momma was big on naps when I was a girl.
Until I was eight years old, she sent me to my room on summer afternoons.
It was probably because of the heat in the south,
The way...
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Categories:
abject, abuse, childhood, death, grief, growing up, innocence,
Form:
Free verse
Unquotable Quotes: Gals, Dolls, Bitches and Broads - Xxxvii Part Two
Unquotable quotes: Gals, Dolls, Bitches and Broads – XXXVII
An adulterous couple soon make lying, cheating and downright treachery (not to mention their role as carriers of germs within the orbit of the family) the principal...
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Categories:
abject, girl, mother, mother daughter, mother son, nature,
Form:
Epigram
Donald Trump Must Be Permanently Barred and Furloughed Today
FROM WHITE HOUSE
I ham aghast at increasing banality, deviltry, ferocity,
imbecility, liability, obscenity, rapacity, ugly
offal popularity witnessed by Donald trump
hence aye aerate thoughts,
how ass a nine...
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Categories:
abject, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, betrayal,
Form:
Cowboy Poetry
Mighty White the Us
Mighty White the US!
How ‘white’ whites are who worship Sun and think a tan line’s fine
though folks whose skin is darker tone won’t see a valentine!
Let’s say proof’s real, fear’s justified, and poverty breeds crime,
but...
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Categories:
abject, character, family, history, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Traveling Death Salesman
I can't sleep.
Or, I can
and did
for three hours
but I continue waking
into a Stephen King nightmare
too real to ignore
because I feel isolated
in this quagmire
of hopeless history.
In this my collective nightmare,
President Trump goes to Saudi Arabia
like Mr....
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Categories:
abject, depression, dream, fear, health, military, night, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Under the Bridge In Del Rio, Texas Usa
Under the bridge in Del Rio are stopped, stuck, stationed
Thousands of migrant Haitians, not Ukrainians
Frankly, if they were the latter, they wouldn’t be sanctioned
Detained, abased, mistreated and deported like Haitians
Like herds of cattle to detention...
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Categories:
abject, africa, america, anti bullying, black african american,
Form:
Rhyme
I Taught I Taw a Puddycat
Expiry date
14.
I taught...
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Categories:
abject, death, imagination, nature,
Form:
Rhyme