Long Afternoons Poems
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Dream of InfinityDream of Infinity
by Michael R. Burch
Have you tasted the bitterness of tears of despair?
Have you watched the sun sink through such pale, balmless air
that your soul sought its shell like a crab on a beach,
then...
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Categories:
afternoons, confusion, depression, dream, farewell, leaving, loneliness, longing,
Form:
Couplet
Desert RoseI was driving to Utah, because I had gotten a promotion;
And chose the scenic route, so as to put things in motion.
I had been traveling from Los Angeles, to Salt Lake City;
And the scenery along...
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Categories:
afternoons, beauty, faith, fantasy, inspiration, lost, purple, rose,
Form:
Couplet
Mockingbird - Crown of Sonnets#1
"It is a sin to kill a Mockingbird.
While playing games with rocks or guns, defray,
them, please, ...shoot old tin cans. Each whispered song
from Mockingbirds, can heal the wounds of the day"
Virtues are...
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Categories:
afternoons, children, discrimination, integrity, prejudice,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Film Travel - Both Audio and TextBy watching lots of foreign films I’ve seen a lot of places
I’ve never been…and don’t expect to ever make it to…
But I’d have only made the time, and spent the cost, to see them...
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Categories:
afternoons, together, travel,
Form:
Narrative
Unwoven MemoriesI grew up and out on a four family-owned,
and cooperatively-organized,
extended matriarchal farm.
Four interdependent 1940s through 1970s patriarchally managed businesses,
without substantial questions about who should wear pants,
yet with a surprising matriarchal cooperative understory.
The boxers outnumbered the...
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Categories:
afternoons, culture, family, farm, happiness, health, political, usa,
Form:
Prose Poetry
AthensWe’re (Lisa and I) back in Athens Georgia (hometown USA), where it’s the halcyon days of summer. The south used to be the home of summer heat - not anymore. Now everyone has their little...
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Categories:
afternoons, humor, mom, school, student, summer,
Form:
Free verse
Princess Diana PoemsPRINCESS DIANA POEMS
Fairest Diana: an Epitaph for Princess Diana
by Michael R. Burch
Fairest Diana, princess of dreams,
born to be loved and yet distant and lone,
why did you linger?so solemn, so lovely?
an orchid ablaze in a crevice...
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Categories:
afternoons, angel, beautiful, beauty, england, princess, rose, woman,
Form:
Epitaph
The Twilight Zone“We may think of freedom, not as the right thing to do, but as the opportunity to do what is right.” ...
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Categories:
afternoons, granddaughter, grave, prison,
Form:
Narrative
A Scraping of ShovelsMy 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:
afternoons, abuse, childhood, death, grief, growing up, innocence,
Form:
Free verse
Perpetual Quandries of DischordPerpetual Quandries of Dischord
Permanent irreversible Attatchment disorder
A lemonade stand at the Mexican Border
A traumatised disorganised old lady hoarder
The incriminating evidence on an old tape recorder
Elements of discontent shivering through a crowd
Firmaments of promises...
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Categories:
afternoons, international,
Form:
Rhyme
SolsticeI want more solstice evening silhouettes.
And nights of rhapsody filled with rental stars.
To explore blurred mornings when the sun rises.
With transitions dripping through the trees.
I want to know how the seasons change.
Who makes time a...
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Categories:
afternoons, imagination, relationship, romance, seasons, sun, sunset, winter,
Form:
Romanticism
LonelyYes it's true that I have by-gone friends that I once knew.
...
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Categories:
afternoons, loneliness,
Form:
Personification
Unsanctuaried SoulsI currently conjoin with AllSouls,
a sacred green communion of saints
and sometimes sinners.
A few live together,
couples,
extending families
reaching multiculturally out
through AllSoul roots
regenerating pasts,
transforming future generations
now repressed by fear of global climate pathology
as thick and toxic
as lose/lose ecopolitical...
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Categories:
afternoons, appreciation, christian, community, earth, engagement, health, soulmate,
Form:
Political Verse
The CoopThe People's Coop
is a warm inviting place,
for some
a reading and meditation
and arts practice and performance space,
for others
a place to ride sleek bicycles
with self-and-other improvement book racks
while peddling energy into the cooperative Grid,
sheltered by solar panel...
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Categories:
afternoons, change, earth, gospel, health, integrity, spiritual, visionary,
Form:
Political Verse
Nudging Recreation AlongWhat are fair and effective nudges
for too much freedom of wounding weaponed speech?
Maybe equal freedom to listen nutritionally
and not speak toxically?
What's a fair response
to competitive over-investment in fear-mongering--
Threats to hold your breath 'til everyone sees...
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Categories:
afternoons, celebration, earth, health, humor, integrity, nature, society,
Form:
Political Verse
What Do I SeeWhat do I see when I drive through my old neighborhood?
Not the familiar cookie cutter houses or the elementary school I attended with my friends. Instead…
I see my ten-year-old self clad in saddle oxford shoes...
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Categories:
afternoons, 12th grade, childhood, friend, friendship, memory, youth,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Let Dust Blur the PagesLet Dust Blur The Pages
By Phan Tan Hai
Let's close the pages, where the dreams still linger
let pen and ink flow the lines of poetry on their own
words written down...
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Categories:
afternoons, anniversary, appreciation, art, best friend, dedication,
Form:
Free verse
The Butterfly WhispererI saw Pop sitting just outside the veranda, slumped over in his wheelchair, his limp left arm tied to the chair’s railing. He looked up and waved with his good hand. “Sara!” he...
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Categories:
afternoons, butterfly, father, father daughter, grief, inspirational,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Men, Yes, We Became MenWhat have we become?
We who used to sit in my bedroom
listening to Beatles records on headphones.
We spoke...
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Categories:
afternoons,
Form:
Free verse
Domestic EntertainmentsI find my entertainments close to home
as nothing could be more wildly hilarious
and downright curious
than my own complex teenagers
who sometimes speak
and do their math
about what adds up toward our shared
and independent
futures.
Then there are cacophonous...
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Categories:
afternoons, adventure, earth, happiness, home, humor, nature, night,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Fresh As MayI was born in everlasting springtime, as happenstance often does to others,
Like natural green halls wherein joy sings, to its wilder sisters and brothers.
I was situated in mellowed sunshine, like a colorful ship on the...
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Categories:
afternoons, beauty, fantasy, flower, joy, memory, senses, spring,
Form:
Couplet
Flying Highin loving memory of my nephew, Eric
Jones, who is now flying with the
angels
I was a professional kite flyer, and had won big contests and tournaments,
As the one who has glimpsed a dream, and hasn't ever...
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Categories:
afternoons, career, fantasy, flying, imagery, nature, sky,
Form:
Couplet
Invisible Enemydriving to work is a regular part of the day for her,
but the specialised hospital is too far -
twenty-five days, exactly at nine!
the best option is the subway ..why not?
instead of watching those busy roads,
immersing...
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Categories:
afternoons, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, cancer,
Form:
Free verse
Children of the Summer GardenCHILDREN OF THE SUMMER GARDEN
In the lazy days of summer
When heat streams up in afternoons
Come into the season’s garden –
Nature’s outdoor living room.
Early riser, blue Morning Glory vine
Opens at dawn and sometimes...
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Categories:
afternoons, flower, garden, summer,
Form:
Rhyme
Singing Memories My Annual Birthday Poem*** SINGING MEMORIES ***
“Many days you have lingered around my cabin door.
Hard times, come again no more.” **
A memory came flying through to me this afternoon
— a fine memory, not recently seen,
Up from long ago,...
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Categories:
afternoons, friendship, guitar, imagery, memory, mountains, river, song,
Form:
Prose Poetry