Long Alloys Poems

Poems about Poems VI

The Board
by Michael R. Burch

Accessible rhyme is never good.
The penalty is understood?
soft titters from dark board rooms where
the businessmen paste on their hair
and, Walter Mitties, woo the Muse
with reprimands of Dr. Seuss.

The...

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Salve
by Michael R. Burch

for the victims and survivors of 9-11

The world is unsalvageable ...
but as we lie here
in bed
stricken to the heart by love
despite war’s
flickering images,

sometimes we still touch,

laughing, amazed,
that our flesh
does not despair
of love
as...

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Sonnets XC-XCVII

Artificial Smile
by Michael R. Burch

I’m waiting for my artificial teeth
to stretch belief, to hollow out the cob
of zealous righteousness, to grasp life’s stub
between clenched molars, and yank out the grief.

Mine must be art-official?zenlike Art?
a...

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God Bless Each Day's Magnetic Field On Earth!

God Bless Each Day's Magnetic Field On Earth!

God bless each day's magnetic field on Earth (1) that shields the human race
from cosmic rays bombarding Earth and us (from...

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Our lusty voice was in the tramp of narrow, winding,
     Scree-littered, deep-rutted roads;     
 Ravens, uttering guttural croaks, slow-wheeling above      
 ...

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Deep in a silva of the Emerald Isle there hides a peculiar coppice,
Shaped in a spiral labyrinth which is seen only on the summer solstice. 

As the sun rises to its highest of tides and...

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A subtle numbness overtakes my senses. I feel a slight heavy weight fall upon me in the gentlest of ways, almost like you’re wearing a fur coat in a meat locker and someone’s pissing on...

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*THE ARMAGEDDON   IN THE SOUTH*

Blessed with inestimable reservoirs 
Countless traps sealing gas yet untouched 
Seated on wealth beyond its numbers 
Wealth to sustain their  tenth generations 
Enough  to feed the glutton...

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*WHEN I DIED LAST NIGHT*

I never had it that smooth 
That I had to get up bed so cool
Seem like my power-packed so full
Gazing in the sky so blue
The doors  never again squeaked 
And...

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I am the mother of hundred billion,
Now dumb and ears shut,
Orphaned by my own children,
For whom I bequeathed myself,
I am the Goddess of creation,
The creator of evolution,
Now I stand chained and hand cuffed,
Like a slave...

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Copper blooms, titanium too below the iron of the sky
Rich fields of ore, quarried, lay everywhere without a quarrel
In conjunction with all things shiny on the land and rust of day

Mountains pinnacles are miles high
With...

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Right from the start when he fallen for you 
fall for you in the midst of your heart
like a rain that falls in a desert
not a rain in an ocean that 
goes for a waste.

Your...

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We shall meet again in month end
Should I say, I shall resurrect again by month end
Even though two ends can’t meet, they never ended
Living for survival, only resurface to pay the bill,
The question I ask...

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Adroit Android

Somewhere between the outer limits and twilight zone
Operating within acceptable parameters of functionality
Sam Android, according to his name plate
Etched along his metallic neck and back
Came from outer space with an agenda
He did not come...

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Crack open an eye on Saturday morn,
and reach out to give him a cuddle.
To find he's been up since break of dawn,
and crouched in a black oily puddle.
Began with the Polo, a fast one I...

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SWEET SORROW ON THE CROSS

Many say He was in pain
Many agree He was painfully slain
Many attest to His mockery and disdain
	I do not deny or argue this truth
	For He Himself wished the cup would pass...

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To live a day safely in a city
where citizens must be echoes
and human rights are a fairy tale
but you want your mouth not pinched
your ears not pulled by anyone
or coconut not to hit your head;
a...

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I am a bar of gold as shiny as can be
At least that is what I see
But inwardly other alloys lie
Seen only by the refiners eye

So intent is he to make me pure
Fiery trials sent,...

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6/7/22



It's the lamest
I hate it
All these snake pits
Another rapist and racist
You name it
Still to this day it's
The same tricks
And same 
Don't tell me to watch my language

Why's there always gotta be a bailiff and plaintiff
Always...

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Ceritifacation
you must be Seventeen
autherorization to marry
from a curcuit court
or a a certifacate from
a licenced physicain.
the act of marrying
Jewelled Brooch
Granite stone
Swages
anceint Manuscripts

Liquid B'Tween the lenses
Cad-

creating and cloning fattail sheep
and with afganain rams to Ewees and
Tissue and...

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Earth blanketed
in plush, green, quilted fabric from which
boundless rows of life emerge.
A season of reward, given for seasons of reserve.
Woodlands. Cavernous, leaf-bound sentinels.
Refuge and shelter to every frail, native creature.
The green leaf of summer refreshes...

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In the deep chambers of thought came an idea of the optimal comfortable personal transport vehicle.
An extremely extraordinary craft using off world bio medium technology, with alloys making it highly tactical and strategical.
The outer core...

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tempered steelheads migrating through the
 shallows, their metallic scales lubricated 
with penzoil two stroke motor oil.

 moving over sand and rocks
 some gray, some brown, 
 some smooth,  some jagged and torn.

  with...

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Favoured poems allow me to feel blessed, letting me rejoice
Announcing soul’s gratefulness midst apathetic noise 
Vouching expression anchored upon faith’s poise
Optimizing reflective times, despite doubt ploys
Resonating human nature's bests and decoys 
Expressing earnestness of heart’s...

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Words expressed directly action intense
Alphabet sudden numerous transmit combination
Occasion conscious verb too Communication
Tediously enhance romantically atmosphere
Lasting event Artistic monseigneur extremely
A poem, engage elements monopolizing routine
Conceived prevailing attitude prelate
Or Communication seem translucent establish
An French treatise geologic...

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