Long Badly Poems
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Seductive Responsibilities
I am exhausted by bad government excuses to avoid responsibility
and I am, today, sick with excuses to avoid my own responsibility,
well within the bounds of my self-governing authority:
"I'm just a mortal human. I make mistakes.
I...
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Categories:
badly, culture, health, humanity, humor, political, race, stress,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The Back Burner
I heard you calling my name in an echoing whisper
I saw a bird take wing in the whirling wind of disaster
I put my weary head on your broad shoulders
The moment we touched, I...
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Categories:
badly, deep, depression,
Form:
Lyric
Yellow Winged Angel
I.
He was patient very-very
with child's tenderness in eyes
yellow winged angel's unwary,
He was living quiet in skies.
Without disputes, without roughness,
without want to weep and moan,
He was dreaming among heartless
building cloud castles alone.
He was waking up...
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Categories:
badly, abuse, angel, angst, philosophy, solitude, yellow,
Form:
I do not know?
Pequot River Land Trust
Once,
or twice,
maybe thrice,
surely not
not fractal
A clan of crazy ecofeminists
conspired within an 88 unit residential castle
in their historically converted
sometimes hysterically clueless condo
colonial-red predative brick
badly bald aging building
With a sometimes soggy south walled school,
but...
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Categories:
badly, blue, culture, environment, green, health, humor, math,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
The 996th Poem
Fulfilled fantasies and legitimate realities…you do know how to please…
Are you listening to my voice of longing and yearning?
No, don’t backstab me with your broken promises…stop being a horrid tease…
Do not worry, Lord, I am...
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Categories:
badly, beauty, change, corruption, courage, crazy, deep, writing,
Form:
Free verse
The Badly Drawn Goat
The pencil now resting the image was 'testing' for the creature before him, (his badly-drawn drawin') had come out 'not right' somewhat twisted and tight.
The picture in question, it burst with suggestion, for lines that...
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Categories:
badly, animal, creation, funny,
Form:
Rhyme
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:
badly, death, grave, holocaust, horror, humanity, memorial, world
Form:
Free verse
Lifeboat the Sinking
As to the this and the that and the how and the why,
I pass no judgement on the tale at hand.
And leave it to scribes to much later decide
...
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Categories:
badly, adventure, allegory, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Prose Poems
Prose Poems
Something
by Michael R. Burch
Something inescapable is lost?lost like a pale vapor curling up into shafts of moonlight, vanishing in a gust of wind toward an expanse of stars immeasurable and void. Something uncapturable is...
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Categories:
badly, animal, child, childhood, children, magic, rose, science,
Form:
Prose
Celena, Brave Celena- Part 1
From Judges 11.
Pronunciation: Seh-LAY-nah
His brothers cast the young man out, the child of an harlot;
He fled away to distant Tob before they found an outlet
For anger, more than what they'd done, to fully disinherit
And drive...
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Categories:
badly, assonance, bible, christian, dance, goodbye,
Form:
Narrative
Canto Xvii Hell Translation
“Here the fierce with the thin pointed tail,
Who passes mountains and breaks arms and walls!
Here who with stench can the world assail!”
So my duke started to talk with his calls;
And hinted then it to get...
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Categories:
badly, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
Dante's Divine Comedy Iii Canto Translation
“Through me you enter the city of woe
Trough me you enter the eternal pain
Through me you go to people lost below.
Justice inspired my highest factor reign;
I was created by act of divine,
Supreme wisdom and the...
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Categories:
badly, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
The Ghost Dance Part III
Wovoka in the Feverland
In the Dying-Grass Moon came another winter to claim the old and sick.
This was when the first messengers came
To the desolation known as Pine Ridge.
They came riding in at the end of...
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Categories:
badly, emotions, heartbreak, native american, tribute,
Form:
Free verse
Insecurity Part Two
I went against my better judgment, I was flattered not appalled, the only affection that I had ever known was just affection that I didn’t want
By a man that was many years older than me,...
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Categories:
badly, abuse,
Form:
Rhyme
The Picture of Dorian Gray: Paint Me As An Event
The Picture of Dorian Gray: Paint Me As An Event
The Picture of Dorian Gray, a decent fanciful novel by Irish writer Oscar Wilde, published in 1890. The novel, the only one written by Wilde, had...
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Categories:
badly, angst, character, muse,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Retribution
In sandy Egypt lived three men
In ancient days when pharaohs reigned
The kingdom of the pyramids,
Osiris and that Isis’ den,
Whom everyone worships and heeds,
Or at least doing so they feigned,
And those gods too blessed them and...
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Categories:
badly, sin,
Form:
Rhyme
Beloved Face, Translation of Bharathiyar's Poem Asai Mugam By T Wignesan
Translation of Mahakavi Bharathiyar’s poem: “Asai Mugam” or “Beloved Face”
...
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Categories:
badly, religion, spiritual,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Hollywood Court In Town Part 2
The people began to say that I am the richest woman in Linstead town, and that cause many people to flock around, me and started to beg me money. Not a dollar in my pocket...
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Categories:
badly, abuse, anti bullying, community, conflict, corruption, courage,
Form:
Narrative
Two Lovers Xi - Carefully Chosen Words
He is looking at her a bit sanctimoniously
He is about to mansplain again
"Am I spooking you?" he asks grinning
"I'm not trying to propose, Cutie.
God no. Could you imagine?
I just think it's possible, you know?
I'm just...
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Categories:
badly, discrimination, lost love, love, relationship, romance, romantic
Form:
Free verse
De Malificorum Faciendis
ON EVIL DOINGS
I blame all of it, the evil doings, on boredom.
It is a widely unrecognised source of wickedness.
Unfortunately, it certainly is.
The absence of purpose is not a lack of things to do,...
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Categories:
badly, emotions, feelings,
Form:
Free verse
Depression Or Anxiety
(Seems that these days a whole lot of people suffer from anxiety and depression. Now whether that's a reflection on our world and society, whether there's actually greater incidence of it or if we just...
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Categories:
badly, absence, angst, depression, mental health,
Form:
Free verse
Following Earth's Light
Borrowing from David Holmgren, Permaculture Principles and Pathways Beyond [Win-Elite v Lose-NonElite] Sustainability, 2002, p. 1
Health ethics are Beloved Community normative principles
used to guide action toward good and light and right outcomes
and away from degeneratively...
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Categories:
badly, creation, destiny, earth day, environment, health, humanity,
Form:
Political Verse
Understanding Suicide Understanding Me
Understanding Suicide Understanding Me
Awhile back I had a dear friend contact me to ask if I heard about the young mans suicide at a nearby towns school. I had not. After asking one time on...
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Categories:
badly, character, childhood, courage, death, emotions,
Form:
Free verse
My X-Mas Wish To Santa, My Letter To Santa, Keep the Worst Buddy
SONNET 1
MY CHRISTMAS WISH TO SANTA
...
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Categories:
badly, appreciation, blessing, christmas, forgiveness, friendship, giving, truth,
Form:
Sonnet
Wisdom's Healthy Passion
"We have an enemy within called the ego
who prevents us from using our mind intelligently.
It hides deep within our heart
and emerges with regularity
to challenge and consume our will."
Rumi (M. Mafi,...
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Categories:
badly, health, integrity, wisdom,
Form:
Political Verse