Long Aloof Poems
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Poems About Laughter, Giggles and SmilesHere and Hereafter
by Michael R. Burch
Life’s saving graces are love, pleasure, laughter ...
wisdom, it seems, is for the Hereafter.
Laughter’s Cry
by Michael R. Burch
Because life is a mystery, we laugh
and do not know the half.
Because death...
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Categories:
aloof, cheer up, children, family, giggle, joy, smile,
Form:
Rhyme
Juvenilia: Early Poems XiJuvenilia: Early Poems XI
Myth
by Michael R. Burch
after the sprung rhythm of Dylan Thomas
Here the recalcitrant wind
sighs with grievance and remorse
over fields of wayward gorse
and thistle-throttled lanes.
And she is the myth of the scythed wheat
hewn and...
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Categories:
aloof, boy, poems, poetry, student, teen, teenage, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Pablo Neruda TranslationsI love you only because I love you
by Pablo Neruda
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
I love you only because I love you;
I am torn between loving and not loving you,
Between apathy and desire.
My heart vacillates...
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Categories:
aloof, love, romance, romantic, romantic love, spanish, women,
Form:
Sonnet
Sonnet Lxxxi-LxxxixSonnet LXXXI-LXXXIX
Day, and Night
by Michael R. Burch
The moon exposes pockmarked scars of craters;
her visage, veiled by willows, palely looms.
And we who rise each day to grind a living,
dream each scented night of such perfumes
as drew...
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Categories:
aloof, dream, earth, flower, moon, music, night, stars,
Form:
Sonnet
World War Ii Poems and Holocaust Poems - Iv - Primo LeviWorld War II Poems and Holocaust Poems - IV - Primo Levi
Shema
by Primo Levi
translation by Michael R. Burch
You who live secure
in your comfortable houses,
who return each evening to find
warm food,
welcoming faces...
consider whether this...
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Categories:
aloof, evil, holocaust, race, racism, war, world, world
Form:
Free verse
Prose PoemsProse Poems
Something
by Michael R. Burch
Something inescapable is lost?lost like a pale vapor curling up into shafts of moonlight, vanishing in a gust of wind toward an expanse of stars immeasurable and void. Something uncapturable is...
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Categories:
aloof, animal, child, childhood, children, magic, rose, science,
Form:
Prose
A Lovers ToilOnce upon a time there was a heartless man, he didn’t care for others and compassion he couldn’t understand
His heart was cold there was no love inside, although to the outside world he carried on...
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Categories:
aloof, fantasy, heartbreak, i love you, lost love,
Form:
Rhyme
Categories:
aloof, history, native american,
Form:
Free verse
What Remains Within - Reverse Rejection and Recycle Reassurance AgainThey weren’t thinking things all the way through as I weren’t able
They took me for granite and used me in the wrong way possible
I need some reassurance tonight to get through this plight...
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Categories:
aloof, angst, courage, emotions, fear, hope, longing, moving
Form:
Free verse
The Legend of the RoseLong 'ere legends encountered finesse amidst flairs of passionate cravings,
thereupon, be a period wherein an episode occasioned an opportunity that will be reserved forever.
An outbreak of dismembering words are been exchanged between groups of rapscallions.
The...
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Categories:
aloof, allusion, analogy, appreciation, fantasy, flower, imagery, imagination,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Son, You Need A Haircut: 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline"A dressed day has disrobed into the depth of a drawer's nightstand."
(Oh, how positively awesome that what can be sorted out in such an explanatory pattern that a difference would maketh a day.)
The muskiness...
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Categories:
aloof, anger, angst, anxiety, conflict, confusion, jealousy,
Form:
Prose
Mothmananxiety, intense -
but I am not frightened ...
my heart races ... I want to flee
my blood heats and lies to
my senses ...
'get out! go now! dear gawd, fool, run!!'
for you are formidable -
eighty inches tall,...
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Categories:
aloof, adventure, fantasy, moon, mystery, myth, science fiction,
Form:
Free verse
Lincolns Lesson LearnedHard driven by the embarrassment,
...
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Categories:
aloof, america, beautiful, blessing, community, integrity,
Form:
I do not know?
Surviving Your Own LifeMy father and I did not share all that much,
More like passing a truck on the road
Parent’s squabbles I overheard offered me clues
And at times I caught glimpse of his load.
His freight always sealed with...
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Categories:
aloof, family, father son,
Form:
Ballad
Beloved Green CommonsWhat purpose do I choose to live;
remaining aloof from evil practice and intent?
What meaning can we find to live,
reversing "evil"
that could transcend our individual absence of identity?
Original Intent uncovers love-life's revolutionary invitation
into mutual belonging.
What is...
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Categories:
aloof, anger, creation, evil, fear, humor, love, peace,
Form:
Free verse
Upon Waking
“Upon Waking”
Slumber has its upsides
while the outside runs around
like a split fowlyard,
cacophonous
pecking at each other
and at the ground…
Elsewhere,
like dull background noise
through the fog of dream
the sound of the gamble...
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Categories:
aloof, gothic, muse, poets,
Form:
Narrative
Holier With ThouMy continuing impatience problem
with smug fundamentalists
self-asserting holier than thou moral positions,
is that Christ's main point is not
Holier Than Others, like Chosen People
but Holier With Thou,
as one interdependent EarthBound BodyMind.
British King James monotheistic readers
digest at AntiLiteraturist...
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Categories:
aloof, culture, god, imagination, integrity, love, psychological, religion,
Form:
Political Verse
No Love LostFor several years I'd worked as a life coach, assisting clients day by day,
Like blazing colors in the shank of the evening, chases deep blues away.
It was an occupation that I enjoyed, as helping others...
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Categories:
aloof, best friend, break up, fantasy, imagery, love,
Form:
Couplet
The Abandon FarmI have always wanted something wonderful out of life
But my mother said there is always a price
It has nothing to do with land, money or property
Someone has always been there for me and I...
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Categories:
aloof, betrayal, change, corruption, destiny, farm, hope, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
Precious TimeMy mother always took the bus. I never understood why. We had a car, but she insisted on taking the bus uptown. I think she did it because father would not let...
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Categories:
aloof, growing up, , cute,
Form:
Narrative
The Game Is Finally OverI can feel my spirit crying
And I can tell that someone is dying
I can feel my spirit crying
When a special tear drop from my eyes
It is not a tear of worry,
Neither is it...
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Categories:
aloof, beauty, cheer up, deep, desire, endurance, friendship,
Form:
Narrative
The Monroe MoonIn glamor-light of sunset
a new crowd of cumulus clouds arrive
and revive a sepia sky-scene—
unworldly woolgatherers gather
spinning fantasy fluff into quixotic yarns
of debutantes dancing with honeymoon hunger;
their dewy eyes blurred by the sawdust of stardust
pseudo-princess-pleasure-seekers
—drama daring...
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Categories:
aloof, age, beauty, lust, moon, romantic love, sensual,
Form:
Free verse
FailedHow dare you walk around all cocky and self righteous
Nailing your ASS is going to be my final gift
U know what u did covering it up because you had to
You don't fool me Doc I...
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Categories:
aloof, abuse, loss,
Form:
Rhyme
At the Pivot of Invention Or Piggybackby the interpretation comes perception—the faraway dream, the symbols—or the way I attack myself—in harassing my screams. upon a wishbone, to feel some semblance, listening to darker parts; the curse of the psychiatrist, hassled for...
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Categories:
aloof, black african american,
Form:
Blank verse
Men, Do Not Give Up Your Dreams For These Girls, Keep SleepingMen, do not give up your dreams for these girls, keep sleeping.
My cousin had read this phrase to me in August, when my wife left me for a harvard graduate that moved in our...
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Categories:
aloof, desire, feelings, future, good morning, humor,
Form:
Free verse