Long Abuse Poems
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My Uncanny Sighs of Distress and the Tears of TribulationI’m in distress
I can’t express
How I feel deep down inside
This feeling is a terrible tide
How do I impress
Everyone here in excess?
I’m just here to simply abide
By God’s Law, I don’t subside
My tears are diamonds in...
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Categories:
abuse, angst, courage, emotions, encouraging, endurance,
Form:
Rhyme
Kaos In -part 5- final partHate the feelings of ew's and ugh's...let's pause before we put our paws on this unmanageable cause with silent applause (quiet interest or hushed enthusiasm)
What's the cause of these negative, gross, worthless flawful laws that...
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Categories:
abuse, deep,
Form:
Free verse
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:
absence, abuse, adventure, anger, black african american,
Form:
Rhyme
SUMMER
“SUMMER”
Where
has Summer
gone?
The world
has lost
Summer
Sweet
little
dream
missing
all those other
beautiful
small dreams
seen as toys
small and
inconsequential
casually tossed aside,
disposable play,
things
pure shining lights
smiling eyes once so bright,
switched off,
'neath...
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Categories:
abuse, child abuse,
Form:
Epic
Yellow winged angel I.
He was patient very-very
with child's tenderness in eyes
yellow winged angel's unwary,
He was living quiet in skies.
Without disputes, without roughness,...
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Categories:
abuse, angel, angst, philosophy, solitude, yellow,
Form:
I do not know?
Various Heresies 7Pagans Protest the Intolerance of Christianity
by Michael R. Burch
“We have a common sky.” — Quintus Aurelius Symmachus
We had a common sky
before the Christians came.
We thought there might be gods
but did not know their names.
The common...
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Categories:
abuse, angel, atheist, bible, christian, faith, god, jesus,
Form:
Rhyme
Juvenilia: Early Poems VIJuvenilia: Early Poems VI
An Illusion
by Michael R. Burch
The sky was as hushed as the breath of a bee
and the world was bathed in shades of palest gold
when I awoke.
She came to me with the sound...
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Categories:
abuse, poetry, poets, teen, teenage, write, writing, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
The Storm Is In The CalmThe angles are in the storm
Just before the break of dawn
Sending a message to everyone
Telling them to remain calm
The angels are singing out loud
They want to break the treacherous cloud
and relinquish that awful...
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Categories:
abuse, america, angel, anger, betrayal, community, england,
Form:
Narrative
You Never ListenedYou 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:
abuse, baby, birth, children, extended metaphor, feelings, soulmate,
Form:
Sonnet
This Is Feminist UsIt's peaceful here in my backyard.
The crows sound happy
with warm October sunlight.
I just read about a deadly gathering in Las Vegas.
Absence of sun-drenched peace.
Inconvenient this time of lost loss.
Death is always inconvenient,
even when invited.
A veteran,
about...
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Categories:
abuse, anger, fear, humor, integrity, mental illness, military,
Form:
Political Verse
What Good Are Our TearsWhat Good Are Our Tears?
by Michael R. Burch
What good are our tears?
They will not spare the dying their anguish.
What good is our concern
to a child sick of living, waiting to perish?
What good, the warm benevolence...
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Categories:
child, child abuse, children, death, poverty, sick,
Form:
Free verse
The 996th PoemFulfilled fantasies and legitimate realities…you do know how to please…
Are you listening to my voice of longing and yearning?
No, don’t backstab me with your broken promises…stop being a horrid tease…
Do not worry, Lord, I am...
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Categories:
abuse, beauty, change, corruption, courage, crazy, deep, writing,
Form:
Free verse
Miracle of HypocrisyI was listening to Cornell West,
who described our catastrophic tolerance of disvalues for others,
situations we would never tolerate for ourselves,
disvalues like homelessness and hunger,
but also like random violence,
abuse and neglect,
lack of caring,
as a "conspiracy"...
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Categories:
abuse, culture, earth, nature, psychological, integrity,
Form:
Free verse
Watering TerrorI'm so confused,
raised to believe cooperative love overpowers competing fears
about scarcity of time,
and other resources,
and anger about past over- and under-valuing of myself
as a regenerative resource,
CoPresence Source,
raised to believe the Golden Rule
is most effectively...
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Categories:
abuse, anger, destiny, fear, hate, love, power, violence,
Form:
Epic
Veronica Franco translationsVeronica Franco translations
Veronica Franco (1546-1591) was a Venetian courtesan who wrote literary-quality poetry and prose.
Capitolo 19: A Courtesan's Love Lyric (I)
by Veronica Franco
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
"I resolved to make a virtue of...
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Categories:
abuse, desire, french, joy, love, lust, poetess, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Indignation 1-6-21How dare you desecrate the Capitol with urine and feces!
Even filthy pigs refuse to defecate near their own dwelling place.
How dare you flaunt confederate flags, grim reminders of our bloody history,
Alongside swastikas, hate symbols...
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Categories:
abuse, anger, discrimination, emotions, hurt, prejudice, racism, violence,
Form:
Free verse
Dillen's Continuing DMV AdventuresI wrote a sad but true urban legend called “Dillen and the DMV” last week.
Here follows an update.
Background Review:
One of my health care employees, Dillen, has wicked ADD, borderline intelligence, not qualifying for disability supports,...
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Categories:
abuse, betrayal, culture, health, humanity, language, political, race,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Poems about Things that Break IIIPoems about Things that Break III
These are poems about things that break and/or shatter: a bubble, glass, a mirror, a twig or tree limb, a thunderstorm, cities and towers in times of war, old...
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Categories:
abuse, break up, farewell, pain, relationship, society, solitude,
Form:
Rhyme
A Poem For My Algebra TeacherI know I promised
no more ‘Make you Cry Poems’
I said I'd never write another
‘Wipe your eye poem’
And for three years
I tried not to retract,
but after so many tears
I have...
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Categories:
6th grade, abuse, betrayal, children, confusion, family,
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:
absence, abuse, anger, appreciation, bereavement, cry, dance,
Form:
Free verse
Thank You Lord - The Bell Style
~ Thank You Lord ~
( The Bell )
~O~
Day
By day Love
Pray Praise the Lord
When in need of friend
He's always there for me
You show Your Love Goodness
To...
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Categories:
abuse, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
dante's divine comedy first canto translationPremise
The great poem by the italian poet Dante is the DIVINA COMMEDIA
I have tried to translate in english verses of INFERNO (HELL).
It was a very difficult task.
I expect criticism.
When just the midway of my...
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Categories:
abuse, dream, poems,
Form:
Terza Rima
Various Heresies 6Various Heresies 6
Altared Spots
by Michael R. Burch
The mother leopard buries her cub,
then cries three nights for his bones to rise
clad in new flesh, to celebrate the sunrise.
Good mother leopard, pensive thought
and fiercest love’s wild insurrection
yield...
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Categories:
abuse, atheist, bible, christian, faith, god, jesus, prayer,
Form:
Rhyme
LA SewersWhen I was a child in the streets of Los Angeles you would sized up groups approaching by watching the movements they made.
I remember this group/gang of older kids approaching me, watching them carefully while...
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Categories:
abuse, growing up,
Form:
Narrative
Echoes of The Angel's Fallen
Invocation to the Muse
From the gleaming skin of life’s underbelly,
sin unreconciled, formed from Nephilim seed,
fleet footed jokers mask pawns into flight;
To the epistle of the Most High.
For in the beginning, the true and only...
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Categories:
abuse, allegory, angel, christian,
Form:
Epic