Long Ante up Poems
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SnapshotsSnapshots
by Michael R. Burch
Here I scrawl extravagant rainbows.
And there you go, skipping your way to school.
And here we are, drifting apart
like untethered balloons.
Here I am, creating "art,"
chanting in shadows,
pale as the crinoline moon,
ignoring your face.
There...
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Categories:
ante up, divorce,
Form:
Free verse
Sonnets Xlii-LiSonnets XLII-LI
Distances
by Michael R. Burch
Moonbeams on water?
the reflected light
of a halcyon star
now drowning in night...
So your memories are.
Footprints on beaches
now flooding with water;
the small, broken ribcage
of some primitive slaughter...
So near, yet so far.
A Surfeit of...
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Categories:
ante up, bereavement, death, death of a friend, funeral,
Form:
Sonnet
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:
ante up, christian, death, earth, heaven, sorrow, sorry, soulmate,
Form:
Rhyme
Ante Bellum
“ANTE BELLUM”
BEIGEBest served where it can’t be seen
On Stirling Silver platters
With redruM narcotics
Delivered by sharp Blood-Red
Well-mannered talons
Strutting in sleek wet rolling tight-skirted
Long French Silk Stockinged legs all the way down to
Lethal Six Inch stilettos...
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Categories:
ante up, america, bible, corruption, imagery, war,
Form:
Free verse
Starlight and Moonlight IiStarlight and Moonlight II
These are poems about starlight and moonlight, moons and stars, dreams and visions, illuminations and intimations …
Deliver Us...
by Michael R. Burch
for my mother, Christine Ena Burch
The night is dark and scary—
under...
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Categories:
ante up, dream, love, moon, night, sky, star, stars,
Form:
Rhyme
The Daily Star Tuesday IssueThe daily star Tuesday issue...
announces Summer Solstice 2023
regarding ray zing planetary earthlings
Wednesday, June twenty first
at 10:57 Ante Meridian
Eastern standard time
will find Earth's North Pole tilted
closest toward sun. This demarcates
most daylight hours of the year for
people...
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Categories:
ante up, age, angel, appreciation, beautiful, creation, england, summer,
Form:
Free verse
Saturday, September 23, 2023Saturday, September 23, 2023
Coincides with first day of fall
and Autumnal equinox for said year,
where colorful splash kindled like tinder.
After I riff flecked about thee August
Autumn Equinox 2023,
this seasonal polymath teached you
fall Equinox...
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Categories:
ante up, animal, appreciation, autumn, celebration, cool, environment, heaven,
Form:
Free verse
Raid Versus WoeRaid versus woe
Black flag(s) show up
on social media platforms
when potential homicidal maniac(s)
communicate(s) intent to strike
with ambush and ready
read - able, eager, and willing
to embark upon murderous rampage.
Prospective killer armed to the teeth
usually a young bucking...
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Categories:
ante up, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 1st
Form:
Rhyme
Love Poems IvLOVE POEMS IV by Michael R. Burch
These are love poems by Michael R. Burch: original poems and translations about love, passion, desire, lust, sex, dating, romance, relationships and marriage.
She Was Very Strange, and Beautiful
by...
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Categories:
ante up, desire, love, lust, marriage, passion, relationship, romance,
Form:
Rhyme
The Daily Star Announces Summer Solstice 2022The daily star announces Summer Solstice 2022
Tuesday, June twenty first
at 5:13 Ante Meridian
Eastern standard time
will find Earth's North Pole tilted
closest toward sun. This demarcates
most daylight hours of the year for
people living the northern hemisphere.
Just shy...
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Categories:
ante up, appreciation, beautiful, blessing, celebration, creation, devotion, june,
Form:
Rhyme
Heavens's Poker GameIn the beginning after God had finished creating this land.
Satan boldly challenged the heavens for the absolute control of man.
Gods’ architectural blueprint stretched for ages across the sky
He watered the...
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Categories:
ante up, bible, christian, conflict, emotions, encouraging, god, satire,
Form:
Rhyme
Poe's Untimely Demise*Note
I had to bring this one back, though I've been posting mostly new writes here that PS hasn't seen before. This poem has been edited many times over the years. I consider it to...
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Categories:
ante up, horror,
Form:
Rhyme
While Daydreaming About Timepiece InventorsWhile daydreaming about timepiece inventors...
as the figurative curtain closes on 2022
How arbitrary the assignment
of seconds, minutes, hours,
days, months, years...
to the passage of time,
and I would be hard pressed
to differentiate one moment
from the next without the...
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Categories:
ante up, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure, creation, december,
Form:
Free verse
Leaving a book incompletely read tantamount to being sacrilegiousPreface:
On February 4, 1861,
the seven states that had seceded
by this point convened and created
the Confederate States of America
under the leadership of Jefferson Davis.
Just under two months later,
on April 12, 1861, Confederate forces
opened fire on...
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Categories:
ante up, absence, america, anxiety, baptism, bereavement, break up,
Form:
Free verse
Daylight savings time more'n minute effect on meDaylight savings time more'n minute effect on me
In 2024, daylight savings time will begin at two o'clock ante meridiem on Sunday, March tenth. That will mean losing an hour of precious sleep and moving the...
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Categories:
ante up, adventure, age, appreciation, creation, imagination, march, time,
Form:
Rhyme
Letter To EdenMy deplorable emotional collapse.
Lucky for me, she happened to be in her many hour siestas!
My dear sister amelie came over (previously arranged to pick up some rocks that z mama rolled in a pile)...
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Categories:
ante up, angel, beautiful, caregiving, child, dad, daughter, father,
Form:
Narrative
Rodeo and JulietOn the spur of the moment forecast by eternal script in the stars
The Bard strummed his guitar and sung a ballade from heart’s lute
Wild horses would not keep him away from her as he...
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Categories:
ante up, happiness,
Form:
Free verse
One Out of Six
Who among you is brave enough
(or dumb enough)
to take the challenge
Bet your life to beat the odds ...
One out of six
Load the chamber with one bullet,
spin the cylinder,
spin it good
Place the wager with a...
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Categories:
ante up, change, dark, imagery, perspective,
Form:
Epic
Humanity CanteenHumanity Canteen
My restaurant is exclusive and classy no paupers allowed though I
have to declare that I picked up the chef near the township where
on a paraffin cooker in his garden of plenty lots of dishevelment...
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Categories:
ante up, humanity,
Form:
Free verse
Unquotable Quotes: Xlviii - Tongue TeasersUNQUOTABLE QUOTES: XLVIII - Tongue Teasers
If the « Yellow Race » could have invented the alphabet, they wouldn’t still be seeing « Images » when they close their eyes. Picasso, Dadaism, Surrealist and Abstract painting...
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Categories:
ante up, humor, imagery, irony, satire, word play,
Form:
Epigram
Free Cee Naughty Neon NightsNAUGHTY NEON NIGHTS
Apron strings gave way to springs unstrung
her hubby made her cry
when he said baby, bye-bye
and so she had to think of what to do now ...
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Categories:
ante up, angst, night, money, night,
Form:
Free verse
Daylight Savings Time March 13th, 2022Daylight Savings Time – March 13th, 2022
A long time graduate courtesy
Hard Knocks alum,
once again yours truly
posts reasonable rhyme
about shortest day of the year.
Two o'clock Ante Meridiem
nostri Jesu Christi
hour...
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Categories:
ante up, allusion, color, dream, flying, fun, god, imagery,
Form:
Rhyme
Upcoming Mild Temperatures Will Quickly Melt SnowI looked outside the bedroom window
here at B44 Highland Manor Apartments
today March 13th, 2022 low and behold
took stock of soundless grounded sideshow.
Barenaked lady, i.e. mother earth
partially sloughed off
excess weight around her girth
her downy soft...
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Categories:
ante up, abuse, anger, anxiety, beautiful, conflict, cry, dark,
Form:
Rhyme
RoundsRounds
by Michael R. Burch
Solitude surrounds me
though nearby laughter sounds;
around me mingle men who think
to drink their demons down,
in rounds.
Now agony still hounds me
though elsewhere mirth abounds;
hidebound I stand and try to think,
not sink still further...
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Categories:
ante up, addiction, birth, drink, drug, poetry, poets, words,
Form:
Rhyme
Come Closer”.... taste me….”
tell me how
in a keystroke
to make you come…
~ dripp
into me
”...with a devil’s tongue…”
suck it!
I’m undone!
and HOW
dare you
came!
don’t run
now coward
it’s ME…
your game
shreds a fabric
to burn a name
”...I want fire….”
eyes
flashed sin
seeking out
what’s really been
known
for all...
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Categories:
ante up, faith, fantasy, imagination, love, passion, peaceme,
Form:
I do not know?