Long Alfred Poems
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Poems About Poems Ii
Poems about Poems (II)
Kin
by Michael R. Burch
for Richard Moore
1.
Shrill gulls,
how like my thoughts
you, struggling, rise
to distant bliss?
the weightless blue of skies
that are not blue
in any atmosphere,
but closest here...
2.
You seek an air
so clear,
so rarified
the effort leaves...
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Categories:
alfred, muse, poems, poetry, poets, work, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
RASTA ANDREW AND THE LADY WITH THE RED DREADLOCKS
REGGIE WHITE SIGNING AUTOGRAPHS AT UNIVERSITY MALL THE DAY YJAY TOWNSEND JOHNSON HENRY PLOTTED TO HAVE ME MURDERED OVER MY POETRY THE KILLERS LAY AWAITING FOR ANDREWS TAHOE TO PULL IN THEY PARKED IN FRONT...
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Categories:
alfred, allah,
Form:
Naat
LA Sewers
When I was a child in Los Angeles, you could size up groups approaching by watching their movements.
I remember this gang of older kids approaching me, watching them carefully while looking down to see if...
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Categories:
alfred, abuse, child, child abuse, childhood, children, culture,
Form:
Narrative
Unidentified Extraterrestrials Willingly Abducted Me
Unidentified extraterrestrial(s) willingly abducted me
As a divergence
from the apocalyptical, dialectical,
geomorphological, judgmatical,
metaphorical, philosophical...,
I share an out of this
(webbed wide) world,
light hearted anecdote
ye may find far fetched.
Believe me you,
an unspecified number of...
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Categories:
alfred, absence, adventure, august, blessing, confusion, courage, dream,
Form:
Free verse
Supremely Courted Systemic Feelings
I believe it was Alfred North Whitehead,
an early developer of cognitive systems thinking,
who observed frequent miscommunication
and confusion
and chaos
over bilateral complexities
of Set v isolated Individual issues
within a systemic set
of inter-related issues.
This comes to mind
as I listen...
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Categories:
alfred, culture, earth, education, health, integrity, peace, power,
Form:
Political Verse
Poetic Encryption Like Ancient Egyptian
Poetic Encryption Like Ancient Egyptian
This terror and threat to poetic clarity,
Becomes a pet rock for some poets.
Words do count for sure, but so does
Clarity unless poets put a mask on.
Encryption can be used to mask...
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Categories:
alfred, allegory, analogy, emotions, imagination, metaphor, passion, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
Au Revoir Oh Perilous Freedom
Au revoir oh perilous freedom...
Since pledging my troth
to the missus July 25th, 1996
after the comma error
punctuated mein kampf with disequilibrium.
Ever since the notions
of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness
coalesced within the mindscape
attributed to one
or more...
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Categories:
alfred, age, america, anger, anxiety, bereavement, best friend,
Form:
Free verse
Unidentified Flying Object Abducted Yours Truly,
Unidentified flying object abducted yours truly,...
a willing experimental subject
to escape untenable married life.
Upon falling into a deep slumber,
the following subconscious
somnambulant scenario arose
allowing, enabling, and providing
temporary alleviation from
outa harried...
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Categories:
alfred, absence, adventure, anxiety, appreciation, blessing, courage, destiny,
Form:
Free verse
Poems About Poets Vii
Poems about Poets VII
Gallant Knight
by Michael R. Burch
for Alfred Dorn and Anita Dorn
Till you rest with your beautiful Anita,
rouse yourself, Poet; rouse and write.
The world is not ready for your departure,
Gallant Knight.
Teach us to sing...
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Categories:
alfred, christian, dance, poems, poetry, poets, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
And Still I Drive - Part Two
Stars fall under failing skies...stars fall...stars fall...
But stars do not cry.
Into Ochs valley, through the Vale of White Horse...prancing
besides a Dragons Hill;
It was here that a Roundhead - did a Royalist Cavaliers blood in...
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Categories:
alfred, travel,
Form:
Rhyme
From Sunday School To Monday Morning
Once again I tip the scale
And mutter, whoever invented it was a man from hell.
It was not a woman who created weights for size
For women can look past the outer shell
And search deep for what...
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Categories:
alfred, art, history, love,
Form:
Ballad
The Postelection Survey
This is not really a test.
More of a survey,
so there are no right or left answers.
Did you mean to say
Answers are both right and wrong?
Yes.
Isn't that what I said?
Not quite, but go ahead.
How would you...
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Categories:
alfred, health, humor,
Form:
Political Verse
Dedication To Alex Braes
The early hours of a Wednesday morning in a small country town.
An 18-year-old boy struggles to sleep
He had pain so bad
all he could do was weep
he, knee was so painful
he had to go...
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Categories:
alfred, emotions, funeral, grief, pain, poetry, sorrow, stress,
Form:
Free verse
Eulogy For My Mother
Joyce Letitia Richmond-Solomon (A servant of God and a friend to man)
Every life has its seasons and God has created each individual for a purpose. Blessed and happy are those who discover their purpose and...
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Categories:
alfred, bereavement, death, eulogy,
Form:
Free verse
The Girl of Light and the Fly People
a collaborative work with Alfred Vassalo
The Stars sparkled in her eyes
As light interlaced with her shadow
Causing her to question her senses
Even though she closed her eyes
light continued to seep out
Her brilliance, competed with the sun...
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Categories:
alfred, beautiful, depression, desire, dream, fantasy, fire, loneliness,
Form:
Epic
Headstones and Chattels
HEADSTONES AND CHATTELS
‘Twas pure chance that I discovered
Just the other day,
A place passed
Countless times,
Never had the thought of calling in,
Inner thoughts and misplaced fears
Oh there must have been countless other reasons
For one to...
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Categories:
alfred, meaningful, society,
Form:
Free verse
Fretfully Aching To Feel Fit As a Fiddle
Fretfully aching to feel fit as a fiddle
After experiencing a severe,
albeit violent near lethal bout
of irritable bowel syndrome
(yesterday night August 30th, 2023)
triggered courtesy dulcolax caplets plus
healthy portion of lentils,
I (a beatle browed, foo fighting,...
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Categories:
alfred, abuse, angst, anxiety, dad, death, drug, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
The Company of Fools
"No, I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;
...
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Categories:
alfred, angst, solitude,
Form:
Free verse
Drop Dead Drones
By some quirky short circuit.
A drone mutated itself
and became intelligent
.
As fate would have,
The drone decided to take revenge.
Chose Chill Bates as its target
The drone altered its algorithm
and started re-programming.... its fellow...
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Categories:
alfred, technology,
Form:
Free verse
Acknowledgements
1. John Desmond Patrick Keegan
2. Alfred, Lord Tennyson
3. Sally Aline Mae Beller
4. Charles Edward A. Berry
5. Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce...
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Categories:
alfred, appreciation, dedication, inspiration,
Form:
List
If Ever I Had a Country: Lxxix - Bang Bang Who Shot Me Down Like An Un-Licensed Dog
IF EVER I HAD A COUNTRY: LXXIX - Bang! Bang! Who Shot Me Down like an Un-licensed Dog !
IF ever I had a country, a country certainly
not subject to the whistle of a...
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Categories:
alfred, america, fantasy, firework, humor, power, war,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
INCIDENT FAKE YOLANDA NICHOLSEN DIES FATALITIES AND INJURIES IN A HYUNDAI
INCIDENT YOLANDA NICHOLSEN WAS DRIVING A HYUNDIA ACCENT WESTBOUND ON SR 326 HER CAR CROSSED THE CENTER LINE AND SIDE SWIPED A DODGE RAM PICKUP TRUCK TRAVELING EASTBOUND THE HYUNDAI THEN STRUCK A FORD 250...
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Categories:
alfred, allah,
Form:
Naat
Figurative Paralysis Laid Waste Body Electric of Mine
Figurative paralysis laid waste body electric of mine
This is Spinal tap
bamboozling, binding, bleeding, bombing...
ripped from every dog eared
and book marked page
recounting latest ill fated fiasco,
now peppering my life and hard times
causing quite...
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Categories:
alfred, absence, adventure, allusion, analogy, angst, anxiety, conflict,
Form:
Free verse
Revisiting My Poems
Reading a post by Alfred Vassallo, I have decided to start a discussion on soupers about the ortodoxy of poems. Vassallo complains that the site is boring because comments are not directed to favour the...
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Categories:
alfred, courage,
Form:
Prose
The Ages of Carolyn
She grew up in the South, in the age of Jim Crow
In a town divided, no black friends did she know
She has her father's russet red hair and mother's walnut-brown eyes
The rarest combination, I surmise
She...
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Categories:
alfred, dedication, mom, mother, mother daughter,
Form:
Rhyme