Long Absent Poems
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The Sun's a Liar-Children's Story Short Contest-The Sun Is a Liar
It’s been quite some time since I've awoke early enough to meet the sun coming over the horizon. As I gazed out the window from my bedroom window seat, the sky...
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Categories:
absent, childhood,
Form:
Prose
Gluttonous Connoisseur of Ethnic Culinary CuisinesYours truly would never be confused for a gourmand, nevertheless I could enjoy experiencing taste testing select food samples if offered an opportunity of attending a fancy feast viz smörgåsbord, whereby oral indulgence would arouse,...
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Categories:
absent, addiction, appreciation, birthday, blessing, chicago, dream, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Poem Revised Memorial Day May 30th, 2022 At 1500 HoursPoem revised Memorial Day May 30th, 2022 at 1500 hours
Flagrante delict adulterous sordid behavior
automatically linkedin with Lothario;
an unscrupulous seducer of women,
based upon a character
in The Impertinent Curious Man,
a story within a...
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Categories:
absent, absence, abuse, adventure, anger, black african american,
Form:
Rhyme
The Tender Weight of Her SighsThe Tender Weight of Her Sighs
by Michael R. Burch
The tender weight of her sighs
lies heavily upon my heart;
apart from her, full of doubt,
without her presence to revolve around,
found wanting direction or course,
cursed with the thought...
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Categories:
absent, creation, depression, divorce, farewell, goodbye, sorrow, sorry,
Form:
Sonnet
Let Us Speak ClearlyLet me speak clearly with you
dear religious and atheist Trumpians,
A fool in executive office
is a leader
only in foolish directions.
A rich thief
is the worst thief
as survival motives
are absent,
so self-thrival motives
remain piratically rampant.
An intellectual prostitute
to feel-good AmericaFirst...
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Categories:
absent, caregiving, culture, education, health, integrity, love, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Self Destructive Wickedness Arrested, Convicted, and GaoledSelf destructive wickedness arrested, convicted, and gaoled...
with kidnapping little boy
ordered to suffer
life sentence without parole.
The deadly scourge of
one obsessive/compulsive disorder
nearly left me starving to death.
Anorexia nervosa absent bulimia
nadir of onset
diagnoses...
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Categories:
absent, 2nd grade, 6th grade, 7th grade, absence,
Form:
Free verse
Blitzkrieg : a Kookaburra Laughs
“Now behind the eyes and secrets of the dreamers in the streets rocked to sleep by the sea, see the titbits and topsyturvies, bobs and buttontops, bags and bones, ash and rind and dandruff and...
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Categories:
absent, dark, destiny, dream,
Form:
Free verse
Harriet Harris, Nee Kuritsky Gave Up the GhostHarriet Harris, née Kuritsky gave up the ghost...
~ May fourth, 2005
wedded bliss nearly fifty years
half a century almost
me not most favorite grown offspring,
she (when alive) did boast,
about youngest sister and her family,
unlike me – severely...
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Categories:
absent, absence, abuse, anger, appreciation, bereavement, cry, dance,
Form:
Free verse
Romeo and Juliet: the RemixThree voices required,
Professor,
and two students:
Yang as Fr. Time
YinYin as Sr. Gaia
In a college classroom with Win-Win Game Theory written on whiteboard.
Professor:
Today we are going to role play
a Win-Win enculturation game.
We will define enculturation...
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Categories:
absent, absence, allegory, destiny, games, humor, love, myth,
Form:
Narrative
Still wrestling with impasse to contentmentStill wrestling with impasse to contentment
Dispense sing with fidelity blithely agog
just me and mine dark shadow
slinking along outer limits of
the edge of night doth blog
passivity, the path
of least resistance ohm my dog,
shocking...
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Categories:
absent, abuse, adventure, beauty, body, christmas, desire, father
Form:
Rhyme
Translation of the Windmills of Your Mind By T WignesanTranslation of Les Moulins de mon Cœur-THE WINDMILLS OF YOUR MIND by T. Wignesan
(For the orignal text in French by Eddy MARNAY : see here below. The English version by Marilyn and Alan BERGMAN differs...
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Categories:
absent, autumn, destiny, heartbroken, lost love, poetry, solitude,
Form:
Elegiac Lyric
A Long Loud Sighgenius?
sometimes you are in its minimal spotted light...sometimes!
other times you just know you've been touched and you freeze,
moved but frozen...like a stranger it moves in, does its work and leaves.
...maybe it's been a while since...
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Categories:
absent, introspection, drug,
Form:
Free verse
Amberina BallerinaA born lioness my untamed heart? ha!
a mouse, this pulsing token ruled by unruly wants
at times given, traded or stolen - sometimes
thrown down on a dare to be won or lost
till it became...
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Categories:
absent, destiny, emotions, inspiration, introspection, memory, metaphor, nostalgia,
Form:
Free verse
Saturday, September 23, 2023Saturday, September 23, 2023
Coincides with first day of fall
and Autumnal equinox for said year,
where colorful splash kindled like tinder.
After I riff flecked about thee August
Autumn Equinox 2023,
this seasonal polymath teached you
fall Equinox...
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Categories:
absent, animal, appreciation, autumn, celebration, cool, environment, heaven,
Form:
Free verse
Wrestling With Impasse To ContentmentWrestling with impasse to contentment
Dispense sing with fidelity blithely agog
just me and mine dark shadow
slinking along the edge of night doth blog
passivity, the path of least resistance ohm my dog,
shocking voltage surges an emphatic...
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Categories:
absent, abuse, adventure, age, anger, betrayal, black african
Form:
Rhyme
Attempts At Lifelong Friendships and Holy MatrimonyIntroduction: once again I incorporate
my trademark penchant
to fabricate fictitiously
portions of the following poetic endeavor
can you care to
discern fact from fiction?
Attempts at lifelong friendships and holy matrimony...
Shot thru with figuratively cankerous nub,
cuz yours...
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Categories:
absent, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure, age, anger,
Form:
Rhyme
On the Need To Avoid Being Envious: Canto Xvii, K161, K162 of the Thiruk-KuralOn the need to avoid being envious: Canto XVII, K161, K162 of the THIRUK-KURAL, Translation with Commentary
[ ENVY, of course, knows no racial nor ethnic boundaries, but I wouldn't be wrong, I dare say, ...
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Categories:
absent, evil, hate, jealousy, racism, tamil,
Form:
Couplet
Sick Art
"Sick Art"
I walk the streets
still and quiet
I do not lie
I do not betray
what the heart belies
pickled kidneys
I am a ghost
of my former self
ears lent to hear
the sweet music
of the sounds so fraught
caught up...
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Categories:
absent, dark, horror, mystery,
Form:
Free verse
Old FriendsQuakers build their cooperative politics
on following consensually-held fertile lights.
Buddha adds,
Follow your TruthLight,
back through our universal co-arising (0)-spacetime equi-valence
dualdark Out/In Breathing-Landscapes BiCameral MindBody Balance,
ecology of birth through regenerate rebirth
of eco-ego-cooperative Zen-Zero-investment
Earth-0-centric Health EcoReGenerativity,
Creativity of Love and...
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Categories:
absent, destiny, earth, earth day, freedom, humanity, light,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Permaculture's Political Lexicon of GraceCompassion,
rooted in economic capacity and political experience
within a co-empathic nutritional environment;
like before you came out of Mom.
Nutrition,
rooted in deep listening, learning, and, giving-and-taking,
absorbing and investing
consuming and producing,
competing and cooperating
double-negatives as positive double-bind dipolar
regenerating...
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Categories:
absent, beauty, earth, education, health, philosophy, political, integrity,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The Crow Ghost of Haunting FootstepsBreak my neck; snap it in two, snap it in half
don't give me that incredulous, frightened look as I ask
don't hesitate in front of me, please just do me this favor
so I gain a halo,...
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Categories:
absent, i love you, i miss you, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
Favorite Recurring Nightmares Part 1Don't you think that this title is darkly divine?
But, of course, there will have to be weirdness that’s funny,
Though my nightmares are many and have complex arcs
There’s some risk here I might have to work...
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Categories:
absent, anxiety, crazy, fun, funeral, holocaust, humorous, life,
Form:
Quatrain
Son, You Need A Haircut: 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline"A dressed day has disrobed into the depth of a drawer's nightstand."
(Oh, how positively awesome that what can be sorted out in such an explanatory pattern that a difference would maketh a day.)
The muskiness...
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Categories:
absent, anger, angst, anxiety, conflict, confusion, jealousy,
Form:
Prose
Ego Speaks For Yangyin HistoryMost everything I learned about the history of evolution
feels colored by Julian Jaynes' theory of language
and culture
and history
and icons of ecological systems and functions,
forms and frequencies,
rhythms and ironic, ionic
dualdark cosmological bicameral transparency.
This is not...
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Categories:
absent, creation, earth, humanity, identity, love, psychological, sun,
Form:
Narrative
This Transit RegenerationMy TransITion began there
right there
in my woodland playground,
when I first knew
something right feels wrong to others.
I was blind to curve-balls
hurled at me.
Being "It" is not why I grow
this TransIt mind and body!
Or, is it?
Could I...
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Categories:
absent, angst, birth, bullying, culture, destiny, earth, environment,
Form:
Political Verse