Long Approaching Poems
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The Night Before Christmas Eve
The night Before Christmas Eve
By Franklin Price
12/17/2016
Prologue
The Night Before Christmas
A most famous of poems
Read to children aloud
By their parents in homes
To children who gather
'Round the brightly lit tree
To hear Santa is coming
Presents for...
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Categories:
approaching, christmas,
Form:
Rhyme
Where Art Thou Anonymous Benefactor To Offer Me Succor
Where art thou anonymous benefactor...to offer me succor?
Ah... methinks legal tender
could be a boon to help me bolster
mein kampf with necessary material equipage,
which prospect to acquire essential
commodities sabotaged
at the altar of...
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Categories:
approaching, 8th grade, absence, anger, angst, boy, confusion,
Form:
Free verse
Limericks I - Relatives and Relativity
Limericks I - Relatives and Relativity
The Cosmological Constant
by Michael R. Burch
Einstein, the frizzy-haired,
said E equals MC squared.
Thus all mass decreases
as activity ceases?
Not my mass, my a$$ declared!
A$$-tronomical
by Michael R. Burch
Relativity, the theorists’ creed,
says mass increases...
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Categories:
approaching, humor, humorous, light, nonsense, science, space, time,
Form:
Limerick
Peace In the Nowhere
"Peace in the Nowhere"
Ghosts remain in this place
they read their words
marked each day on walls
like prayers, it gives them
peace in the nowhere
someplace relevant to go
Ghosts commune in this place
disowned long ago or walked
off the...
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Categories:
approaching, muse, poems, poets,
Form:
Narrative
Making Curious Space For Love
It might take a more comprehensive review
to explain why I thought it would make sense
to read
The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook for Anger:
Using DBT Mindfulness
and Emotion Regulation Skills to Manage Anger
(Chapman and Gratz)
AND
Evolutionary Enlightenment:
A New...
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Categories:
approaching, anger, culture, fear, history, love, universe,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Enheduanna Translations
Enheduanna is the first writer we know by name. She created the first poetry anthology and hymnal, circa 2250 BC, in ancient Sumer. She was the daughter of King Saragon the Great.
Lament to the...
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Categories:
approaching, god, moon, poems, poetess, poetry, religion, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
Chapter 98 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: Teenager Invaders Misbehavior
Late evening March 2045
The Teenagers were adventurous
They were venturing. DJ and
Damali Trech were both 18 years
Old. The Copy Cat Club was the
Place to be for teens. It mostly
Served...
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Categories:
approaching, confidence, courage, emotions, father daughter, father son,
Form:
Alliteration
Adam and Eve - Part One
Year One -
Tell me Eve,
does this Garden have everything we need,
do you think the walls are too tall,
are the gatekeepers reasonable, tolerable, right about it all,
what did Lilith know, where did she go
far past the...
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Categories:
approaching, art, creation, love,
Form:
Epic
Miklos Radnoti Translations of Holocaust Poems
Postcard 1
by Miklós Radnóti
written August 30, 1944
translated by Michael R. Burch
Out of Bulgaria, the great wild roar of the artillery thunders,
resounds on the mountain ridges, rebounds, then ebbs into silence
while here men, beasts, wagons...
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Categories:
approaching, death, grave, holocaust, horror, humanity, memorial, world
Form:
Free verse
Rum n Raisin 11 - One Hundred Million Years BC
Sneaking into the museum to avoid the sudden rain
Raisin said, “I don’t want to get soaked right through again,
It was bad enough when that truck through that puddle dashed
And you and me - but mainly...
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Categories:
approaching, adventure, cat, fantasy, time,
Form:
Narrative
I hanker and pine for wood burning stove weather
I hanker and pine for wood burning stove weather
I haint no spring chicken,
("Buk buk buk buk ba-gawk!")
but in Summer re:
long in tooth sexagenarian
nostalgic for the following imagery
evoked yesterday with very little effort
(aside...
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Categories:
approaching, age, allegory, appreciation, celebration, confusion, halloween, natural
Form:
Free verse
LA Sewers
When I was a child in Los Angeles, you could size up groups approaching by watching their movements.
I remember this gang of older kids approaching me, watching them carefully while looking down to see if...
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Categories:
approaching, abuse, child, child abuse, childhood, children, culture,
Form:
Narrative
A Brief Epistle in Urgent Forewarning against Melancholia--Part I
(Somewhere in late 18th-century Europe a friend, Laetitia, by way of a letter warns her beloved girlfriend, Euphoria--a young, gay and unsuspecting mistress--against the almost inevitable seductions of the infamous and maundering philanderer, Melancholia.).
Dear Euphoria,
...
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Categories:
approaching, depression, friend, metaphor, philosophy, psychological, uplifting, wisdom,
Form:
Prose
8 Little Egypts
Something strange
and unexplainable comes this way,
this way, it comes to us sly and fast,
some say, perhaps,
it has already arrived,
it walks unseen, in the midst of all, of us
we go about our...
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Categories:
approaching, easter, humanity, words,
Form:
Narrative
My Inner Voice Told Me
A plethora of complex verbiage clogs and clutters solemn university tombs,
gem-encrusted sequestered vaults impervious on mountain peak percentage practical basis,
when express benevolence enjoins the ultimate in empirical assessment ...
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Categories:
approaching, care, character, dedication, deep, encouraging, feelings, growth,
Form:
Free verse
Truth Is All An Act In Government Exposed
One small little country which houses
one of the highest paid governments
in this modern world joke ran upside down
A big part of our life existing reality
when the backbone is gone snakes appear with...
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Categories:
approaching, betrayal, ireland, political, rights, society, truth,
Form:
Political Verse
The Gift
From the window of my chic city office, lost in thought, I gaze out.
The pedestrians scurry like frenzied ants below, caught up in their bustling state of holiday insanity.
In his haste to cross the street...
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Categories:
approaching, allegory, holiday, hope,
Form:
Prose
Red and Blue Estrangered Families
Dear Siblings Three,
I was reading a story
in which some siblings became estranged
after their parents died,
while others moved toward greater solidarity.
This is a variation on a diaspora story.
But, here growing physical distance
is seen more as a...
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Categories:
approaching, earth, faith, family, health, integrity, religion, usa,
Form:
Political Verse
Deadly Voyage
DEADLY VOYAGE:
This is ANDERSON WALKINGSHOES
Intro:
The road is slippery,
And we got to tread cauteously,
So we don't miss our step, basical
This is ANDERSON WALKINGSHOES
This is ANDERSON WALKINGSHOES....
Chorus:
Hajei....hajei....hajei....
Perception is troubling everyone,
Everyone is being...
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Categories:
approaching, analogy,
Form:
Classicism
The Juniper Prize: Between the Known and the Unknown
“The Juniper Prize: Between the Known and the Unknown”
That man built a house
of straw and sticks
and the stories that burned within -
all consuming the titled prize;
like a bird
sings a song
the metre repeats and...
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Categories:
approaching, muse,
Form:
Narrative
Across Country With Crystalsky
Hello CRYSTALSKY*. ...
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Categories:
approaching, america, travel,
Form:
Free verse
Saturday, September 23, 2023
Saturday, 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:
approaching, animal, appreciation, autumn, celebration, cool, environment, heaven,
Form:
Free verse
Lament To the Spirit of War
Lament to the Spirit of War
by Enheduanna (circa 2285-2250 BCE)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
You hack down everything you see, War God!
Rising on fearsome wings
you rush to destroy the land:
raging like thunderstorms,
howling like hurricanes,
screaming like...
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Categories:
approaching, allegory, analogy, conflict, death, soldier, storm, war,
Form:
Free verse
Geese, Goslings and the Bridge
Geese, Goslings and the Bridge
Sometimes, when you least expect it, Mother Nature makes a u-turn and draws you into the ridiculous. Such was the time recently as I was returning from a friend’s home...
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Categories:
approaching, bird, family,
Form:
Metrical Tale
Strange Creatures and the Forest of Egregore
“Strange Creatures and The Forest of Egregore”
Where do we go -
when our rosebuds
stop still in the cold,
unwanted,
along the unopened road?
we walk into the
forest alone,
there we meet
strange creatures -
some say
they...
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Categories:
approaching, dark, light, love, muse,
Form:
Free verse