Long Alleys Poems
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Village In the Valley
Village in the Valley left behind, and then it's a fine find
Mountain in the making...in the dark alleys of my mind
You're a flashlight
In the night
You are a friend
Till the end
Bite the bullet
You're the village...
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Categories:
alleys, deep,
Form:
Free verse
An Uppercut I Remember
Dad hit me only once, an upper cut to the solar plexus. It nearly lifted me off my feet. I was 17 then and already fairly tall, 6’1.” He was 48 and of medium height,...
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Categories:
alleys, father son,
Form:
Blank verse
Rejection Slips 3
Rejection Slips 3
Rejection Slip
by Michael R. Burch
Whenever my writing gets rejected,
I always wonder how the rejecter got elected.
Are we exchanging at the same Bourse?
(Excepting present company, of course!)
When editors reject my poems, did I slip...
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Categories:
alleys, death, desire, family, heart, life, longing, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Juvenilia: Early Poems Iv
Juvenilia: Early Poems IV
I wrote this around age 17.
Bible Libel
by Michael R. Burch
If God
is good
half the Bible
is libel.
I read the Bible from cover to cover at age eleven, ten chapters per day, at the suggestion...
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Categories:
alleys, poems, poetry, poets, teen, write, writing, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
A Moment of Hope the Invisible Man 30
Sometimes I have the courage to think of the things that made me what I am today,
My memory takes me back to terrible things far away far off into my bitter past,
My mind like a...
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Categories:
alleys, depression, happy, beautiful, me, world, old, dream,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Blind Man’s Five-Legged Dog Rap
Blind Man’s Five-Legged Dog Rap
Yo, gather 'round the table, let me spin you a tale, 'Bout a blind man named Benny, he was never frail. Owned a dog with five legs, yeah, you heard...
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Categories:
alleys, adventure, animal, best friend, crazy, friendship, hilarious,
Form:
Narrative
The Weddng Ceremony of the Dead, Translation of Pierre Emmanuel S Les Noces De La Mort By T Wignesan
The Wedding Ceremony of the Dead, Part One, Translation of Pierre Emmanuel’s Les Noces de la Mort by T. Wignesan
Orgy of stone !
I drank hate in your inferior parts
And bathed during a wild summer our...
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Categories:
alleys, bereavement, marriage, religious,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
China Tour Thoughts 3
China Tour Diary Moment #3
SHANGRI-LA, TIBET
--------------------------------
Paradise on earth: Himalayan range;
A phenomenon carved by elements;
Here magic gives birth to ways that seem strange;
A place where lessons of soul mark movement.
Our tour coach winds round the mountain...
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Categories:
alleys, devotion,
Form:
Rhyme
My Lack of Lucky Charm
You raise me up above the mountains
You bring me below the vibrant valleys
You allow me to weep happy fountains
When I walk in your bright alleys
Enormous in envy my heart is
Nervouscited for what lies ahead...fed...
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Categories:
alleys, deep, desire,
Form:
Verse
The Poet Isadore
He sat behind the counter,
Inside the used bookstore.
I thought I recognized him,
As if we'd met...
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Categories:
alleys, growth, inspiration, journey, wisdom,
Form:
Rhyme
Unquotable Quotes: Beggars - Xxx
Unquotable quotes: Beggars - XXX
Who said beggars cannot be choosers?
Who chooses for them the place, the moment or the people they choose to beg from; the hours of the begging day; the alms they refuse;...
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Categories:
alleys, august, french, holiday, leadership, power, sun,
Form:
Epigram
Wizards and Witches
I'd love to paint, a picture for you, of images in my head.
Of a quirky old town, I'll set the scene, as you rise from a crooked bed.
The room you're in, whilst large in size,...
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Categories:
alleys, adventure, color, magic,
Form:
Rhyme
Categories:
alleys, anger, conflict, death, history, murder, war,
Form:
Free verse
Translation of Marcel Moreau's: a Paris By T Wignesan
Translation of Marcel Moreau's " A Paris " by T. Wignesan
IN PARIS
Paris bores me no end without you
My heart weighted down with melancholia
The spleen given over to asthenia
Empties its own sense of loss on to...
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Categories:
alleys, cute love, nostalgia, november, paris, romantic love,
Form:
Quatrain
Story of the Hungry Poor Child
Mommy, if I make up my bed
Which consist of old Sunday newspapers
Could I have, can I have a slice of bread
And if I sweep the floors with my bare feet
I'm so hungry mommy can I...
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Categories:
alleys, blessing, blue, caregiving, cheer up, inspirational, loss,
Form:
Free verse
Beneath the Rubble of Hate
Written: May 17, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Michael Fulkerson
Quote: “Do good to the people for the sake of God or for the peace of your own soul that you may always see what is...
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Categories:
alleys, angst, hate,
Form:
Free verse
The Coach
His is the whispering voice echoing within the athlete’s field of dreams,
The harkening leader, a teacher of strength and confidence, whom takes
The raw abilities given unto an individual then molds it, shapes it until
This natural...
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Categories:
alleys, adventure, baseball, destiny, football, inspirational, international, sports,
Form:
Free verse
Beyond Death's Honor and Disgrace
Alpha
To live beyond death
we must know life beyond honor and disgrace.
Not "must" in the injunctive sense of "thou shalt"
but Earth's more dusty must
of ecological integrity.
Midway
Those who know do not speak
beyond active listening communion.
Those who...
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Categories:
alleys, analogy, culture, death, destiny, farm, hope, life,
Form:
Free verse
Asian Epicurean Quest
Asian Epicurean Quest
At the heart of China Town, Kuala Lumpur (capital of Malaysia) is Petaling Street.
Domain of hustlers, hucksters, cheap-jacks and diblers; purveyors of street food, rude t-shirts, and rubber sandles to put...
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Categories:
alleys, food,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Two Murders - Part I
1.
In the slow, dead hours that hang attendant
Upon the birth of the dawn,
When all things pure lie safe abed,
Nested in sleep's safe oblivion,
The rituals take place, unseen, unfelt
In woods or alleys
In the dry, dusty corners...
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Categories:
alleys, horror, murder,
Form:
Free verse
Chicago's Sin
Another body dropped as the evil ran through the night
He was on a spree to start a war
The screams blistered the silence
As the metal hit the floor,
As the metal hit the...
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Categories:
alleys, america, chicago, corruption, evil, fire, loss, violence,
Form:
Ballad
Childhood Memories
Childhood Memories!
Playing soccer as a forward and a goalie in early childhood through first grade
meeting a pilot and a stewardess in kindergarten and even wanted to be a pilot for a while because I thought...
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Categories:
alleys, 11th grade, 1st grade, 2nd grade, 3rd
Form:
Narrative
Anathema
Dumbfounded in the raw,
nerves in neon.
Sin-New and bones quartered by time's animation-
Death re-imagined by the law of Thelema and Agenda 21.
Moments of truth corner you in alleys and avenues in the night.
As they are ritually...
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Categories:
alleys, christian, dark, sin,
Form:
Rhyme
Categories:
alleys, angst, body, confusion, dark, evil, fear, feelings,
Form:
Free verse
This Years Champion
This Year’s Champion
It’s the last of the snow
Spring finally arrived
Time to get ready for battle
Time to get my little hands
On my bag of marbles
Way up there since winter
Abandoned on my bookshelf
A droopy, limp blue...
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Categories:
alleys, childhood,
Form:
Free verse