Long Amuses Poems

Impossible 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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Heat Lightening
by Michael R. Burch

Each night beneath the elms, we never knew
which lights beyond dark hills might stall, advance,
then lurch into strange headbeams tilted up
like searchlights seeking contact in the distance . . .

Quiescent unions...

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I find my entertainments close to home
as nothing could be more wildly hilarious
and downright curious
than my own complex teenagers
who sometimes speak
and do their math
about what adds up toward our shared
and independent 
futures.

Then there are cacophonous...

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(alternately titled: tick tock runneth amuck)

Ever since the advent of civilization
contrivances crafted to measure
days, weeks, months...
analytical “gifted” anonymous minds
wrought ever more sophisticated inventions
to divide existence into manageable units.

Now twenty first century Homo sapiens
technological atomic clock...

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Of Cars in Malaysia Part 1

In this part of the world where I am at, a motorcar is every somebody’s must have…
Simply because reliable and regular scheduled public transportations is not as we should ...

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I sit here pondering the next move as I watch the hour slowly slips away, and chance standing in the horizon muse steadfast at me. It is that little nudge that you get when you...

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Shanelle is 15 years old and goes to school as often as she can
She's popular at school and is expected to do well on her exams
Her smile covers 100 scars and tragedies she's had to...

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Sacred music
is not a performance Thing,
an exterior-focused 
ego-enhancement event
that expertly v nascently happens
to win/lose competitive
LeftBrain dominant Me

An individual
dissociated ego-identity
divorced from eco/theo-logically reflective
systemically interconnected We.

Music
muses and amuses
my resonant climaxing relationships
of co-passionate interior robust eruption
revolving voiced resonance
between...

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I am the harrowed whore who has your heart beat humming 
I've got you all strung up, harassed, helpless, and hopelessly horny 
Tied up and tormented, teased, playing between pleasure and pain 
Somewhat fearfully fantasizing,...

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My 29th birthday 
it was set up to be a miserable experience
without many friends or family
I was left to smile through the half-created festivities
Until...
my best friend showed up with a box
and sat it on my...

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Loves Definite

 An intense feeling of deep affection
Love

Love is depicted in so many ways.
We say love and share this love, in ways that seem forbidden or hidden.
Laced in secrecy, sometimes it seems foreign.
Mistreated, misunderstood and...

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“The fairy was flying in loops and swirls around her,
shedding fairy dust as she went. Throwing it at Wendy.
Delighted, the human girl raised her arms up
to fully experience what was happening. Delicate
golden sparkles floated down...

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‘Bama Winter
Dr. James E. Martin
©January, 2014

The first big storm of twenty fourteen
Caught everyone completely off guard.
Something that surely was long not seen
Hit ‘Bama extremely hard.

People were stranded everywhere.
Vehicles could simply not go.
Story after story for...

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*Image of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde poster by Wiki.

That's Close Enough

Shapeshifters, and or, shapeshifting ... preps our world always,
A speck sans a cavass, ... materializes a work of art,
At spans of reckoning, ... outlandish...

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Poetry reveals, enlightens, consoles
Holding reflecting mirrors up to our souls,
Showing what we might not otherwise see
Suggests how our lives might better be
Poetry instructs, refreshes, and amuses,
Often fascinates; sometimes confuses.

Poetry blends the colors of our experiences
Breaks...

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I like reminders, so I email my husband every day from work:  
Remind me to bring chili tomorrow, wear a silly hat on Tuesday, bring a baby shower card on Thursday.
The dog’s appointment is...

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she had a mind like a brushfire
ate the testicles of men at a glance 
and knew how to foreplay
my weaknesses like loaded dice
I was in a state of moral exhaustion
seeking the counsel of voodoo princesses
in...

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Circus XX 2
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Welcome one all,
I picked up a straight jacket just for you
climb into my wild world of corruption
challenge my diverse spotted intellect.

Come on in.
have a seat on my spiked throne
feel the satisfaction of its...

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I'll hide the waste the fire can't burn
I'll move in a hurry, before the stench of agony sickens the air

Enter the orchard, dying branches begging for fruit
This season is rough, but this weather is brief

I...

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Mr. Bean has made the world go laughing
and if laughter tis the best medicine
then Mr. Bean sure is doctor of laughter
for quite apt is he at appealing humour!

Perhaps the world's best most beloved buffoon
with antics...

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Broken pieces of my heart,
Lay shattered on the floor.
I wanted to hate you for what you did;
But I still love you, just as before.

You ask why I can't forgive you,
And I look at all the...

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Call me small, petite, skinny and/or tiny as these names have aired 
during my life on repeat.  I wonder if my size is just coincidence
or predetermined to be dispensed because my first name came...

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“Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.”
Thus declared Ephesians 6:1 of the Holy Scriptures…
I confess that I’m guilty of juvenile stubbornness 
With my naughty quirks I can’t deny
…Now somehow revealed by...

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Watching them fuss 
Amuses me
As she colors 
As he reads
Listening to his words
Aloud he says "pathologist"
And my mind can't wrap
Itself around this nine year old
Boy saying these words 
And this little girl beside him
Coloring her own picture 
Of life...

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I suppose it is surprising
And I shouldn't let you know it,
I've a hankering for the poetry
Of that old time Hoosier poet.
Perhaps you think his poems with
Their easy, rustic flavor
Are not poetic offerings
Sophisticates would savor.
"Little Orphant...

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