Long Balaclava Poems
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Poems About Things That Break IiPoems about Things that Break II
These are poems about things that break and/or shatter.
Water and Gold
by Michael R. Burch
You came to me as rain breaks on the desert
when every flower...
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Categories:
balaclava, break up, depression, divorce, emotions, farewell, goodbye,
Form:
Rhyme
Smuggler's BoatMigrants on the move from violence
their only possession
breath-space on a smuggler’s boat
secured with back-bent harvests
in pretzel-bent systems
weight of crates of strawberries
hoisted on hell-bent backs
just trying to reach Spanish-shores’-east
from Moroccan beach with a...
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Categories:
balaclava, boat, death, hope, journey, life, sea, violence,
Form:
Free verse
N'Ironstrife riven island corner, rough hewn by rival visitation
vexed, looking in, looking out, on the edge of places to go
thrang in thrall of other realms, banners furling, batons flung
across...
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Categories:
balaclava, community, culture, destiny, history, hope, humanity, places,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
New Years Day 2016Commodities calmly caressing. Calling carrots. Calling capers. Calamity is not an injested window wiper nor a window sill so dare to jump off a pinnacle to declare justice. Arachnid akmed. Duty done. Swerved to serve....
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Categories:
balaclava, age, angel, new years day,
Form:
I do not know?
The British Soldier At BalaclavaBy Robert J (Bob) Moore © 2016
I am a British soldier, been a soldier all my life
and back home in England, I left 2 kids and a wife
now I’m outside Sebastapol, with Cardigans Brigade
waiting to...
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Categories:
balaclava, adventure, conflict, death, england, military, war,
Form:
Rhyme
A Journey To ZenithWritten: June 25, 2023
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We evolved toward the Zenith Ringers.
While no daylight is expected, I am thrilled.
With Banana Cakes, Cheez Whiz, and Zingers.
At Family Dollar's end, our hearts are tilled.
Maybe with Viagra or Valium to help...
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Categories:
balaclava, analogy, anger, bereavement, depression, poverty,
Form:
Rhyme
A Summer In ReflectionThe morning sun hovers coyly
behind broad shoulders of the John Crow Mountain
before unwrapping petals of fever plant and Venice.
Mama’s countenance was far contrast to one so radiant,
so when the old Leyland bus went shuddering...
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Categories:
balaclava, childhoodold, children, morning, old, sun,
Form:
Lyric
A Fall of Snow In the Fifties Part 2Domestic sounds from the kitchen below creep under the bedroom door
and I scamper, teeth a’ chatter, across the bedroom floor.
Out of the bedroom and across the landing, down the stairs I clatter,
Mother calls...
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Categories:
balaclava, childhood, memory, winter,
Form:
Rhyme
And Then There Were NunsBlack hoodie, black gloves and a black balaclava
Allegiances born of belligerent father
A council estate with yards full of tyres
A rucksack that’s laden with tin tacks and wires
Cars outside boozers where loyalist losers
Don’t spot...
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Categories:
balaclava, ireland, religion,
Form:
Rhyme
Playing With the Paintpickle a paper and print paint playfully pointing pins
Knitting needles in a fish and chip shop is about as useful or as necessary as eating a soup with a spade. Dramatic are the arriving interludes...
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Categories:
balaclava, absence, allah, allusion, angel, aubade, beauty,
Form:
I do not know?
Adam Mickiewicz Translation: the Ruins of BalaclavaSonnet: The Ruins of Balaclava
by Adam Mickiewicz (1798-1855)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Oh, barren Crimean land, these dreary shades
of castles?once your indisputable pride?
are now where ghostly owls and lizards hide
as blackguards arm themselves for nightly...
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Categories:
balaclava, death, depression, grave, romantic, sorrow, violence, war,
Form:
Sonnet
When a Rappist Turns Into a Murderer......"Leave you slumpt on the dutty streets........
...I dunno where you from..But....thats how its done in east".....
Was what a pathetic chav so full of snide had once said
Those words turned prophetic once he'd knifed a lad...
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Categories:
balaclava, murder,
Form:
I do not know?
Fortitiude Is Not An Attitude Nor a Forked Out Relay RaceFor anyone going through crap here is a bit of madness xxxxxxx
Why is it that a juice isnt speaking to a nine foot tree? A nine mile climb to a fortune tree, is a vertical...
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Categories:
balaclava, absence, allegory, allusion,
Form:
I do not know?
BlacknessBLACKNESS
No racism, we are all made of black
Like a bacon-eating balaclava-wearing bachelor Jack,
And even if you're white or Caucasian,
Can't run from black hair like typical Asian
Cos of creation we all had our fair share
And even...
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Categories:
balaclava, 1st grade, africa, black african american, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
Latent Black PaybackLosses not consolidated leave contributor raw
Arrears rip pages of rational compassionate law
Turblent thoughts toss turn to channel retaliation
Embittered brain rubs static into smooth radio station
Nocturnal curtain eternal drawn over forgiving stance
Tortured cortex tar drips...
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Categories:
balaclava, absence, betrayal, evil, fear,
Form:
Acrostic
Jenny Free VerseJENNY FREE VERSE
Balaclava over my head,
I nipped into the John Hewitt
and went nervously up to the bar.
'Are you a poet?' a woman's voice inquired.
I dreaded the question, so embarrassed. It was...
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Categories:
balaclava, fantasy, me, me,
Form:
Narrative
Erotic GamesPlayers in the stadium
Patient as waiting soldiers
Seek stirring to signify
Attack artillery emboldened
Provisions are messages
Loaded with fresh opening
Responses rapidly fired
Lonely's ease encroaching
Place plus time is firmed
Balaclava covered burgler
Creeps comically around corners
Salivating, smiling, eager
Tally the touches,...
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Categories:
balaclava, cool, metaphor,
Form:
Rhyme