Long Amuck Poems
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CurrentsCurrents
by Michael R. Burch
How can I write and not be true
to the rhythm that wells within?
How can the ocean not be blue,
not buck with the clapboard slap of tide,
the clockwork shock of wave on rock,
the...
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Categories:
amuck, assonance, extended metaphor, language, metaphor, music, poetry,
Form:
Verse
Impossible Mission To Captcha Infinitesimal MomentImpossible mission to captcha infinitesimal moment
alternately titled: tick tock runneth amuck
seconds elapse imperceptibly
leaving me dumbstruck,
how quickly fleeting tempus fugit;
ofttimes imagined as time thief.
Hence following vignette: quiet as a mouse lurks the time thief...
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Categories:
amuck, 12th grade, analogy, butterfly, death, farewell, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
GilgameshGILGAMESH . . .
Story has it you used your power to run amuck
Putting fear into the people, and brides in Unuk
So the people of Unuk pray to the sky God Anu
To sort out...
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Categories:
amuck, adventure, best friend, brother, character, deep, emotions,
Form:
Epic
The Inner ChamberTHE INNER CHAMBER
Please. Stop holding back on me.
Like a child standing at the neighborhood ice cream truck, arm outstretched, eyes huge, mouth watering.
I stand here longing to slip underneath your decades of cold-rolled steel...
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Categories:
amuck, betrayal, courage, devotion, love, love hurts, relationship,
Form:
Prose
Sonnets Xc-XcviiSonnets 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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Categories:
amuck, art, grave, grief, life, night, pain, smile,
Form:
Sonnet
Fabrication"How Do I Feel Today"
written out of depravity of sleep, of self assurance of happiness
written out of love and vulnerability
I was so sure, aware; I had a plan!
but as the case with all my well...
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Categories:
amuck, how i feel,
Form:
Bio
WritersLet me tell
You some
More stories
Since so many
Of you are into
Stories
This one’s about writers
And a bit about
Social media
I’m no encyclopedia
But I’m a wannabe writer
And I studied
Neuropsychology
And by the way
I can show...
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Categories:
amuck, writing,
Form:
Free verse
Fork Git About Spooner Hiz HamFork git about spooner hiz ham
And join (singing the words
in the next paragraph) whether alone
in a traffic jam
basting, cooking, then eating a lamb
prepared by thee missus
a superb culinary madam.
“A Ram Sam Sam” Lyrics
A ram...
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Categories:
amuck, 1st grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, adventure,
Form:
Rhyme
Mine Courtship and Marriage With Deadly ObsessionMine courtship and marriage with deadly obsession...
As September daze will soon arrive
recollections from a
psychologically checkered past
loom large recalling
tragic storied days of mein kampf.
Circa early nineteen seventies:
As a mere slip of a...
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Categories:
amuck, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 7th
Form:
Free verse
Trash In the CupThere is something amiss with that VACUUM CLEANER.
As if it didn't know, from floor to cup, the debris and dust must go.
It's ailing from something peculiar, but I don't know exactly what. ...
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Categories:
amuck, dedication, endurance,
Form:
Narrative
Cutting FreeI want to say something
to your face, to your ears
grab your carefully created structure and like an earthquake
shake you till your focus lays upon the red ball
above the echo of my words
When I tried this...
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Categories:
amuck, emo, emotions, girl, lost love,
Form:
Free verse
America---TrashedSpeak thee softly, of my countrymen.
Who gave their lives, their blood.
To launch this very great and noble land.
Neither you nor I, could do that task!
America is under siege from within.
Ah, indeed, most vociferously from
without.
I do...
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Categories:
amuck, america, angst, bullying, culture, history, how i
Form:
Free verse
The Flying Saucer AbductionIt was a dark and moonless night. The lights were out. The TV low.
My hubby and I were relaxed, cuddled close, as the TV set the room aglow.
The telly had a “Flying Saucer Abduction”, with...
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Categories:
amuck, adventure, fantasy, funny, halloween, humor, humorous, imagination,
Form:
Light Verse
Anticipatory Anxiety Fosters Catastrophizationanticipatory anxiety fosters catastrophization...,
especially bombardment of online scare tactics
courtesy fiendish insidious loathsome sinister oafs
rubbing their hands at aggrieved party;
punch drunk cyber thieves ecstatic
acquiring by hook and/or crook
sought after precious, priceless, and proverbial data
after loosed ransomware...
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Categories:
amuck, 12th grade, anger, computer, cry, evil, grave,
Form:
Rhyme
Mine Courtship With Deadly ObsessionsMine courtship with deadly obsession(s)
still indelibly scored within
windmills of my mind
this July 22nd, 2020.
Imagine yours truly post pubescence
(no matter ye never met me)
all that life in front of me
argh... precious time squandered
abustle with rattle...
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Categories:
amuck, 6th grade, 7th grade, age, grave, grief,
Form:
Free verse
About the Children For the ChildrenABOUT THE CHILDREN FOR THE CHILDREN
From Inspired words from and Dedicated to Educator & Poetess EVE ROPER
This is about the children
This is for all the children
What ever happen to those happy kids?
Who were raised...
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Categories:
amuck, appreciation, assonance, children, inspirational, teacher,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Nra Please Stop TalkingAnother day
Another mass shooting
?Another incident
of domestic terrorism
?another gun man
killing people
because just because?
The NRA ?And their stooges?
Come out?
Flood the airways
With their noxious
Poisonous weasel words
?The NRA says
Mass shootings?
Are like the weather
?You can’t control them
You can’t predict...
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Categories:
amuck, america, anger, angst, anxiety, grief, political, sorrow,
Form:
Political Verse
Abhorrent Vehement Strife Hijacking Homo SapiensAntiestablishmentarian inherent malevolent violence
wracks human species, a most brutish and nasty beast
case in point Vladimir Putin the population
constituting country of Ukraine he fleeced.
An embittered nihilistic teenager
grown haggard and old,
hence not surprisingly yours truly
crafts pseudo...
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Categories:
amuck, abuse, america, anniversary, bullying, children, conflict, cry,
Form:
Rhyme
Marrow Merry Melodies BereavingOh The Potter's-Rage, two-tone frogs frilly, innocent just-Like; them two-
Faced little-Chuckling Babies, chirping-Sparrows. "Finding-out" they're some-what
Arbor though I can-see-now they still-can sing Just a bit-yes quite-a-good ways-a-
whale about-yeah bellowing up-far-a-ways-out-there-stoked-up-just under-right out
along-a-part them;...
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Categories:
amuck, inspirational
Form:
Prose Poetry
Marrow Merry Melodies Bereaving For What It's Worth Part 2"Oh The Potter's-Rage" two-tone Frogs--frilly, innocent just Like-them two
Faced; Chuckling little-Babies, chirping-Sparrows. "Finding-they'resome what--Arbor; though I can-see-now they still-can sing Just a bit-yes quite-a-good ways-a-whale about-yeah bellowing up-far-a-ways-out-there-stoked-up-just under-right out along-a-part them; like them there...
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Categories:
amuck, lost love
Form:
Epic
Fork Git About Spooner Hiz HamPerchance yar juiced a young man or woman
maybe born, bread and raised in the city that never sleeps
and as a loyal son or daughter take a tram
to enjoy a tasty repast with widowed...
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Categories:
amuck, adventure, appreciation, devotion, family, food, inspiration, mom,
Form:
I do not know?
Venting CrowOne day goes by and you would think my luck sustained from before would carry over
but erupt goes the bad luck and my emotions run amuck
'till it's time to go home
It's simply easier to quit,...
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Categories:
amuck, recovery from, repetition, riddle,
Form:
Free verse
Nothing At AllNot enough? Am i not enough? I thought I was the one. You lied to me, yes indirectly but a
lie is a lie the same. my heart aches with fear of uncertainty but knowledge...
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Categories:
amuck, lost lovedeath, me, death, fear, life, love,
Form:
I do not know?
Putin As Vlad the Impaler ReincarnateThe latter classified as a voivode
(prince) of Wallachia
(part of modern Romania).
Surrounded by enemies
that included the Hungarians,
the Ottomans, his younger brother,
and Walachian nobility,
Vlad employed extremely
cruel gruesome measures
to inspire fear in those
who opposed him.
He earned his nickname
by...
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Categories:
amuck, abuse, anger, bereavement, conflict, crush, dark, goodbye,
Form:
Rhyme
Dragon Out of the MistOut of the mist… In a cloud of smoke… Dragon is at it again!
Yep, He’s out to protect Innocence, Truth, and the American Way!
He grabbed his Superman cape, AGAIN! I thought I’d got rid of...
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Categories:
amuck, adventure, character, fantasy, funny, happy, humorous, imagination,
Form:
Light Verse