Long Amasses Poems

Early Poems XV

Ambition
by Michael R. Burch 

Men speak of their “ambition”
and I smile to hear them say
that within them burns such fire,
such a longing to be great ...

But I laugh at their “Ambition”
as their wistfulness...

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Eloquence of speech does not garner satisfaction
being verbose, at most, only proves to show ones higher learning
but to have a higher yearning for something thats burning
inside with a rage that cant be circumvented
its unrelenting
the way...

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the good

The doors to my mind and heart
circle as revolving doors.
A peek inside and you see
happy memories and joyous events,
the loves, and lifelong friendships

A cul-de-sac, though a dead end,
has a circular finish, a merry-go-round
that accumulates...

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What is justice to those who are not apart of society?
I say this with a clear mind with no need for a test of sobriety
A society works by each have a need
An agreement is formed...

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A young boy walked into our bookstore…browsed a minute…then in a gesture beautiful and grand…said, “I just want to thank you…here’s a tip.” Then he put two quarters in my hand.

He saiid, “This is just...

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Come!

On the white mare he rides 
The crowned spectre is charging
With the white bow in hand
Devout malady imparting
In shadowed smoked entrance
Venom absorbing the lands
Fear the approach of Pestilence
Or breathe your last by his hand

Come!

Crimson stallion...

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WEIGHT OF PROSPERITY 

Just as water is sucked by plant, 
The rich greed eats like an elephant 
But inconveniently discharge like a cow. 
Time of release so as to accommodate more is now. 
Open the...

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Beneath the valley, a story amasses
A long song of days of old
Of a lad and his lady
And their love so un-tamely  and her eyes that sparkled of gold
She led him towards the sycamore tree...

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Urge...!

There lay behind every act, 'an urge'-
from the 'conscious' or the 'unconscious';
former an urge that churns life,
the latter - amasses and continues!

Profound thirst for life - to live,
seeks to quench from one's own!
Visible end apparent...

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Open Word Classes

In language there are classes, we are told,
Of words both new and old.
Nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs too,
And among them, open word classes few.

Nouns, the names of things and beings,
Verbs, actions that give them...

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A train that’s ridden from birth to death
Picking up passengers along the way
Some people there as short as a breath
Others that are there almost every day

I watch as some people keep their distance
Tending to their...

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the sus is only an average sized star
but it amasses the earth 330,000 times greater by far
the sun with it's dymanic energy is approximately
93 million miles from earth
but from it's energy on a sunny day...

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The herd amasses together
The numbers provide the semblance of societal norms
It's a collective value system called conformity
Like bees to a bee hive - they swarm

Non-compliance is unacceptable
The fear of alienation is what drives the herd
The...

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It was a winter morning, last November
I recall my journey from my treasured frames
of amasses, titters and acts.
 
She was in an intermediate between red and blue
and her eyes pored out from all realisms
with a...

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Is peace of mind for all the souls possible?
Can the happiness of the World we double?
These questions are totally unanswerable
As the loving part of human heart is feeble

Man is supreme among all the living races
By...

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I came to interview for a job,
instead I got a casket.

The dead peasant investment,
if I die I'll make them rich.

Toiling and slaving at minimum wage,
the cage,
...that can't pay a single bill,
just amasses debt and waits...

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When God forged Man, 

He made an angle for every clan.

He didn't vacate him solitary, 

But created his soul and core benefactor. 

This is nature's irony, 

Two souls tied concurrently in destiny.

Then why is it...

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Since time immemorial, strangely the humanity
Has muddled the issue, that is alive even today
Superimposing material affluence on lasting joy
And run after things which but offer fleeting joy.

Wealth has become a sine qua non for happiness
Hence...

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This poem was written to include three or more words of the seven out of favor words from use at the CDC as a part of a flood of art and language and truth, in...

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I followed the dust particle floating across my room;
more interesting than the flickering TV it passed,
rising rapidly from the heat the screen generated,
swirling for a heartbeat, captured in some unseen vortex.

Then, moving on, collecting a...

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another tower, rising up the skies,
a high terrasse, a night, a starry weather,
a caviar, a bird of paradise
for every towerer, a golden feather
on tux’s sleeve… 
         ...

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In the hollows of the night
I lie and face the stars, the things behind the veil
In dreams, I turn from things afar; I feel my soul quake 
In the hallows of my night, there in...

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his hair 
blown
back
by

the
wind
section
which he

had
doubled
like all the 
other sections

no mic
rophones
back in the
day but wood

made
strings
that would
abundantly

ring
ton
ality
sing

songs
from the
mad mind
though socially

refined and
an equally com
posed composure
defined as a conductor

conducting
electricity
from the
ether

sit in the center
of a cathedral as
his requiem mass
amasses as if...

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She moves northward steady and strong.
Her winds increase with each passing second.
Her devastation amasses above the currents.
Yet, she has a name of beauty, Katrina.

Her body, though powerful, moves slowly,
while her outward punches move increasingly faster.
Her...

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