Long Ant Poems
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Various HeresiesIf God
is good
half the Bible
is libel.
-Michael R. Burch
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Willy Nilly
Michael R. Burch
Isn’t it silly, Willy Nilly?
You made the stallion,
you made the filly
and now they sleep
in the dark earth, stilly.
Isn’t it silly, Willy Nilly?
Isn’t it silly, Willy...
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Categories:
ant, atheist, christian, faith, god, heaven, religion, spiritual,
Form:
Verse
Willy NillyWilly Nilly
by Michael R. Burch
for the Demiurge aka Yahweh and Jehovah
Isn’t it silly, Willy Nilly?
You made the stallion,
you made the filly,
and now they sleep
in the dark earth, stilly.
Isn’t it silly, Willy Nilly?
Isn’t it...
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Categories:
ant, christian, creation, faith, god, spiritual, truth, world,
Form:
Verse
Fate decreed sexting or texting while married abominableFate decreed sexting/texting while married abominable
Therefore karma caught up to me big time
and delivered yours truly sent to purgatory
(figurative speaking) by casting a spell,
whereby the government issued Safelink
Tracfone got permanently disabled
and all the data
(including contact...
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Categories:
ant, adventure, animal, anxiety, appreciation, black love, dream,
Form:
Rhyme
BeckoningBeckoning
by Michael R. Burch
Yesterday the wind whispered my name
while the blazing locks
of her rampant mane
lay heavy on mine.
And yesterday
I saw the way
the wind caressed tall pines
in forests laced by glinting streams
and thick with...
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Categories:
ant, anxiety, break up, change, confusion, sleep, time,
Form:
Verse
Bipartisan DissonanceWhen oppositional cognitive dissonance
deflects focus from compassion,
I've learned to go back to when I deflected focus from her.
She sends me passive-aggressive messages,
bread crumbs leading back in time
to where she began to feel alone,
marginalized,
siloed,
anxious,
neglected.
If...
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Categories:
ant, conflict, math, parents, political, race, religion, sin,
Form:
Political Verse
I Have Labored Sore TranslationI Have Labored Sore
anonymous medieval lyric (circa the fifteenth century)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
I have labored sore / and suffered death,
so now I rest / and catch my breath.
But I shall come /...
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Categories:
ant, christian, death, earth, heaven, sorrow, sorry, soulmate,
Form:
Rhyme
Winter Awakens My CareWinter Awakens My Care
anonymous Middle English poem, circa 1300
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Winter awakens all my care
as leafless trees grow bare.
For now my sighs are fraught
whenever it enters my thought:
regarding this world's joy,
how everything...
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Categories:
ant, angst, england, joy, sorrow, tree, weather, winter,
Form:
Couplet
Guns and Roses It was 1986 I was setting in after giving
birth to my first son after wearing wires
pregnant for the FBI buying large amounts
of weapons ammunition boxes the dealer
loaded hand grenades silencers scopes gun...
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Categories:
ant, allah, poems, power,
Form:
Kyrielle
Beary Tales Episodes 25-33, Poet's NotesNote to Readers of Previous Versions:
There are so many new vignettes scattered throughout the poem that I hope you will reread the whole thing! There are new GEMS, improvements to previous verses and improved footnotes...
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Categories:
ant, adventure, appreciation, best friend, blessing, innocence, love,
Form:
Rhyme
By How Many Badbyes Can You Measure the Length of Your Day by how many badbyes can you measure the length of your day
first comes...
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Categories:
ant, age, loneliness, memory,
Form:
Free verse
Leaving sooo SoonI guess I’m sorry I was leaving so soon
It came out of the blue,
It came out of the blue moon…blue moon…
I couldn’t find my left shoe
I could have been here
For a little while, while,...
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Categories:
ant, angst, devotion, emotions, encouraging, endurance, hope, how
Form:
Lyric
Beware the Ides of March 2023Beware The Ides of March 2023
Ides simply referred to first new moon,
which usually fell between
the thirteenth and fifteenth day
of a given month.
The following events all occurred
fifteenth of March
across span of millenniums.
One:...
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Categories:
ant, abuse, age, anniversary, betrayal, conflict, crush, dark,
Form:
Rhyme
The Scorpion's Touch
“The Scorpion’s Touch”
Under glass
the sound cuts out sharp
just like under water
and we run out of breath
like insects running around
frantically out of time
we are magnified
in our tight enclosures
internally observed
the external turns away
two heart...
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Categories:
ant, humanity, muse, mystery,
Form:
Free verse
Enabled EmpathyIt's weird
and sometimes wild
living with a non-LeftBrain verbal dominant
aspiring child,
now young adult
I find myself waiting for him
to nonverbally connect
and correct me
about my patriarchal domineering
economic and political ableist sins
of felt omission from commercial value
and, perhaps worse,
my...
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Categories:
ant, culture, health, humor, identity, love, peace, relationship,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
My Most Popular Poems On the Internet IiiMy most popular poems on the Internet (III)
A number of my poems and translations have gone viral, according to Google, and some have been copied onto hundreds to thousands of web pages. That’s a lot...
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Categories:
ant, holocaust, poems, poetry, poets, world war ii,
Form:
Rhyme
Justice In the Quest For LoveI saw how martyrs longed for love, and so began the play of my flitting heart
A strange girl had I become, with airs of fickle dream,
My heart an embodiment of wonder to all that dared...
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Categories:
ant, beauty, birth, change, inspiration, life, light, love,
Form:
Narrative
Feeling Small, Broken EnigmaLet my ears deceive me but I hear it, can't bother to drown it out
the taunting laughter at my misery
Fictional should they be but the reality has cleared the camouflage
which hath once shrouded me
Exposed and...
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Categories:
ant, how i feel, nonsense,
Form:
Free verse
In the Arms of Peace-Abiding AngelsI don’t know what I know
I fly like an eagle – just go with the flow!
I don’t know what I know
I don’t know what you’re thinking about
But I can tell you’re puzzled in your...
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Categories:
ant, adventure, angel, courage, deep,
Form:
Free verse
The Lay of the Best Man - Part 5The Lay of The Best Man - Part Five
Have you heard about the bespectacled man who wore his glasses to bed?
Because when he awoke mornings his dreams were all blurry in his head.
And what about...
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Categories:
ant, humanity, men,
Form:
Lay
Wait a MinuteDid I hear that wrong?
On my way for another appointment
with the vampire bleeding Quest,
big stage conversations on the radio
travel way too fast
for me to stay tuned in
to our nesty mess
at my normal liberal-conserving pace.
A single...
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Categories:
ant, america, caregiving, culture, games, health, humor,
Form:
Political Verse
Robinson CrusoeI killed my friend,
I never wanted,
Do not see me cruel,
I did it for love.
We both ran naked
Under this influential shower.
No one uncoupled his lips
Against this faint madness,
We were indebted,
Either had to earn the prize.
It was...
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Categories:
ant, bereavement, betrayal,
Form:
Imagism
Echoes of the Angel Fallen Part 2Book 2
“Next we will use and abuse, the wedge of doubt. To place a misgiving, a slight of hand, an apprehension into the day, to mold the day thoughts of these apes, these...
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Categories:
ant, allegory, angel, faith,
Form:
Epic
Drinker's Doom In Sobriety's SanctuaryYour drinker's doom
Turned out to be a tranquil tomb
Is there any room
To bring out your brilliant, legitimate bloom?
You linger around my restful haven,
My darksome and lonesome, yet pretty satisfying bedroom
You stared at me vacantly and...
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Categories:
ant, addiction, angst, betrayal, deep, fear, lost, stress,
Form:
Rhyme
Humble B Bumble - 28 - Bee-RealBee-Real
As I flew up, into the air,
I looked back one last time at the hive.
All the bees were standing there.
Some were happy and proud to see me go; some were still crying.
As they held...
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Categories:
ant, flying, friendship, imagery, insect, journey, joy, memory,
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I do not know?
EgoJaded by a few
If only you knew...
What it feels like...
To be neglected like a rusty, old bike...
I'd hike a thousand mountains
I'd cry a thousand fountains
Just to see you flourish
That is my only wish
My...
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Categories:
ant, angst, desire, emotions, endurance, hurt, longing, passion,
Form:
Rhyme