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In the Middle of the NightI woke up in the middle of the night with tears running from my eyes. I woke up in the middle of the night because my spirit cries
It is not the tear that falls when...
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Categories:
at bats, celebration, community, confidence, courage, england, environment, feelings,
Form:
Narrative
Enheduanna TranslationsEnheduanna 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:
at bats, god, moon, poems, poetess, poetry, religion, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
The Remaining - Prologue: Terra Firma and the Bitumen“The Remaining”
PROLOGUE: “Terra Firma and The Bitumen”
"The slow descent into Hell
Had led Her mind to escape to Heaven
Her firmament was Her Mind
Her body just a Shell"
Heaven for Her existed in The Dream
She called Her...
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Categories:
at bats, angel, daughter, god, heaven, imagery, jesus, mother,
Form:
Free verse
Ol' Babe - Both Audio and Text Versions - W-IllustrationHey…did I ever tell you ‘bout the greatest baseball game,
Or should I say…the one that gave “Ol' Babe” his famous name?
Like several other great ones, there were many hits that day,
And if it hadn't...
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Categories:
at bats, baseball,
Form:
Verse
Rush Amid the Rapids PublishedThe greatest performance of my life.
Howard’s proud piece de resistance award on Poetry Nook for my magnum opus “Rush Amid The Rapids” in their daily member section.
After endless hours of toil, tribulation,...
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Categories:
at bats, adventure, age, appreciation, art, beautiful, beauty, feelings,
Form:
Prose
White Noise and the Motherload of Dark Matter
"White Noise and the Mother Load of Dark Matter"
underneath the static
what exists
is never seen nor heard
for what it truly is
the eyes and mind
retaliate in the deciphering
the invisible return
each night and...
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Categories:
at bats, dark, muse,
Form:
Narrative
The Poo Poo BirdThey pursued it with vigor, they pursued it with crass
They hunted with valor and hope
They proceeded with a dose of good Knightly sass
They chased it with tackle and rope
Now King Arthur declared in a boisterous...
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Categories:
at bats, abortion, adventure, funny, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
The Exaltation of InannaThe Exaltation of Inanna: Opening Lines and Excerpts
by Enheduanna, daughter of Sargon I of Akkad and high priestess of Inanna
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Lady of all divine powers!
Lady of the resplendent light!
Righteous Lady...
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Categories:
at bats, faith, god, light, religion, religious, sin, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
Lament To the Spirit of WarLament 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:
at bats, allegory, analogy, conflict, death, soldier, storm, war,
Form:
Free verse
Ending In a Deadly Minor KeySo here's my question for this dawning day,
like a WinWin ruminating message in a bottle
floating through a LoseLose climate sea
felt still foggy from last night,
some mysterious how now;
One of many
health related strategic WinLose issues
tuning out...
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Categories:
at bats, anger, anti bullying, dark, fear, green, grief,
Form:
Political Verse
In My AlphatownIn our wildly indigenous
western town
we have a notorious Ancient GoodWitch.
Like GrandMother Moon,
she seems to emerge with a new, yet old,
community healing process
about once a FullMoon month.
I heard she would like to co-facilitate
a Future HealthWealth Community...
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Categories:
at bats, caregiving, culture, games, health, humanity, humor, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse
Phobia'sPhobias
A Bluto is not that Disney dog
It was when a mewling
that I would scream
Should they wet my body
And then apply cream
Ablutophobia – fear of bathing, washing, or cleaning
Achluo the demon that lurks
In darkened...
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Categories:
at bats, on writing and words, hair, me, pain,
Form:
Free verse
The Warlord Wars No More -2Pay heed to those deeds from whence the heart must confess...
You're far from Rome Proconsul Caesar...
As they say, "All roads lead to Rome" Ariovistus
and all tresspasses are treated as threats of war...
My recent conquest of...
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Categories:
at bats, history,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Poems About Poets ViiPoems about Poets VII
Gallant Knight
by Michael R. Burch
for Alfred Dorn and Anita Dorn
Till you rest with your beautiful Anita,
rouse yourself, Poet; rouse and write.
The world is not ready for your departure,
Gallant Knight.
Teach us to sing...
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Categories:
at bats, christian, dance, poems, poetry, poets, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Chicken Soup FarmRelationships are like farming,
if you don't plant the seed,
you'll have no crop to harvest.
Rumi (M. Mafi, trans.)
Investing is like farming,
if you don't play the game,
you'll have no winnings.
Economics is like farming,
if you don't play this...
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Categories:
at bats, earth, earth day, nature, philosophy, power, religion,
Form:
Free verse
Stop the Hate Unity In These TimesBruh, I know your up but it’s getting late
I got to make peace with you
Hommie I have bitten off more then I could chew
I’m sweating from the new day’s sun
now I know your in for...
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Categories:
at bats, angst, anxiety, art,
Form:
Free verse
En-TrumpedEn-trumped
There are many en-tities. Narrative psychologist speak of living and telling
a story. Our lives should be as we en-live them and en-story them. We tell
our tale as we see it, at the moment...
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Categories:
at bats, horror,
Form:
Narrative
If All of the Weird Ones Were CroppedThis piece has a fairly tricky rhyme scheme = a-a-B /c-c-B
If All of the Weird Ones Were Cropped
I was sittin’ alone in a booth in a deli in Cody, Wyoming one day,
When a...
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Categories:
at bats, animal, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Font Din BlackFont Din Black
so u real???
Warning! The following choppy, batty,
dopey: elegy = flaky, goofy, history: iffy,
jumpy, kooky: loopy, matty, nappy, nippy,
sketchy material prone to find the reader
dazed and bewildered, yet comfortably...
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Categories:
at bats, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, addiction,
Form:
Free verse
SplatSplat
Explosions do not always signify combustion but often combustion arrives after many years of layering the layers and tightly packing. Thus meaning that a fried piece of fat could slip and burst out of the...
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Categories:
at bats, africa, animal,
Form:
I do not know?
Rum N Raisin 9 - France Or BustRaisin gave the globe a tap to make it slowly spin
“Rum,” she said, “it’s quite a big wide world we’re living in.”
Rum looked up from lapping milk and wiped some from his face,
“Use your nose...
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Categories:
at bats, adventure, animal, cat,
Form:
Narrative
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:
at bats, bereavement, betrayal,
Form:
Imagism
Canzone Poem Form ExamplePoets Collective multi-site network
Canzone
The canzone is an Italian form with strong similarities to the sestina. There are no rhymes; instead there are five keywords that determine the structure of the poem. Every line of...
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Categories:
at bats, poetry,
Form:
Canzone
Theatre of the Absurd - FusionGodot has arrived
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
Alive and well thanks!
...said the haiku poster
Crudely pasted to the fence
Who was too busy selling stolen goods
To notice he was a notice
Announcing a brand new play
A fusion of two classics
Waiting for...
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Categories:
at bats, funny, humor, humorous, nonsense, silly,
Form:
Free verse
To a Dead Mouse
I
Friend, whatever brought your life to end
had no appetite for mouse flesh, nudged your
small gray body on its side with a thorough sniff
and left your corpse exposed on the asphalt path,
then, for reasons of its...
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Categories:
at bats, in memoriam,
Form:
Free verse