Long Ban Poems
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Limericks Vii - Naughty, Bawdy, Risque, Absurd
Limericks VII - Naughty, Bawdy, Risque, Absurd
There continue to be modern sequels of the famous "Nantucket" limericks, including this bawdy one of mine:
There was a lewd whore from Nantucket
who intended to pee in a bucket;
but...
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Categories:
ban, humor, humorous, light, nonsense, satire, sexy, smile,
Form:
Limerick
The Battle Hymn of Covid19
I cannot let this obsession with Coronavirus (COVID19) go
It is apparent, from the number of deaths projected, to be in the hundreds of thousands, that many Americans still are not heeding the warnings. I hope...
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Categories:
ban, america, death, health, inspiration,
Form:
Rhyme
The Bartender
Twenty two years had passed by
She blinked, and a lifetime had passed
She started this job as a lark
She never thought it would last
Two husbands and rehab were part of this bar
The husbands...her clients all...
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Categories:
ban, america, community, family, heart, society, strength, wisdom,
Form:
Rhyme
The Thc Ordinance
I am fairly new to this Norwick community.
If I recall correctly
we have about forty thousand households here
where the Connecticut River
conjoins the Mohegan and Iroquois Rivers;
originally deep rich virgin eco-forest
of and for harmonic rhythm and...
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Categories:
ban, community, earth, family, growth, health, humor, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse
Visit To Antietam
Alone I arrive, walking from Frederick
over the gaps, across gentle hills
out onto a knoll
overlooking this burnished landscape.
Before me I see countless writhing rows
of indiscernible shapes gathered
in terrible rituals mid fire and smoke
darkening the sun.
From distant...
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Categories:
ban, america, conflict, history, together, war,
Form:
Ode
Chapter 114 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: Godfrey and Barrington's Fiesta and Food Reperation Shift
Damian was on the tele-video
conference with various Prestigious
Proper people of distinction. The US
Vice president was on Skype along
With Secretary of State. He spoke
With Russia's top diplomat, Valeiry
Sergei Shonikov, South African president
Holu...
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Categories:
color, husband,
Form:
Alliteration
Song of Amergin: Translation
The Song of Amergin: Modern English Translations
The Song of Amergin
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
I am the sea breeze
I am the ocean wave
I am the surf's thunder
I am the stag of the seven tines
I am...
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Categories:
ban, ireland, myth, mythology, song, storm, visionary, war,
Form:
Free verse
Dante's Divina Commedia Translation Canto Viii
I tell, to follow, that long trait before
We reached the back foot of the tower tall,
Our eyes went up to the top core
For two little flames we saw install,
And another responding from so far
That...
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Categories:
ban, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
The Pictish Faeries
The Pictish Faeries
by Michael R. Burch
Smaller and darker
than their closest kin,
the faeries learned only too well
never to dwell
close to the villages of larger men.
Only to dance in the starlight
when the moon was full
and men...
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Categories:
ban, fairy,
Form:
Verse
Jim Crow's Demise
Hello. I was born after the Civil War and met my fate after much civil unrest. You may have never encountered me, but some things you might already know. My name is Jim Crow, and...
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Categories:
ban, race,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Let the Drums Speak
Listen the drums are rumbling and the pots are bubbling
Listen, the drums are rolling and pretty girls are dancing
Listen the drums are speaking and my heart is singing
Listen the drums are beating and I am...
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Categories:
ban, africa, age, business, education, encouraging, farm, growth,
Form:
Narrative
At Heaven's Gate - Parts 1 and 2
PART 1: THE MEETING
Alone one night neath lantern light, I trudged a weary mile.
Forlorn, I went with shoulders bent (the storms around me howled)
until I met...
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Categories:
ban, fantasy,
Form:
Ballad
Neda
Neda
You died in protest in Iran. ...
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Categories:
ban, abuse, appreciation, death, dedication, faith, freedom, loss,
Form:
Free verse
Cautious Optimism
Human foot-traffic is flowing along slightly faster than 2020, ...
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Categories:
ban, world,
Form:
Verse
Face Masks, Face Veils: Same Thing
https://youtu.be/c1gNm21YzfI
When last I visited India almost a decade ago
I recall riding on my brother's scooter
as he drove me around town,
And I saw fully veiled Muslim women
half their faces veiled, masked in Niqab
driving scooters,...
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Categories:
ban, health, truth, , western,
Form:
Prose
We Got a Crowd That's In a Frenzy Bob
The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Chapter L.A.
I like to think of [the habit] as a bonfire or a lighthouse, so that light can shine out into places where there are no resources and there isn’t...
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Categories:
ban, anger, baseball, community, conflict,
Form:
Rhyme
Landlord-Tenant Relationship Protection Available Help Hot-Lines
Landlord-Tenant Relationship Protection: Available Help Hot-Lines!
Greetings everyone and I pray that each of you will overcome this coronavirus pandemic, which has impacted many communities in various ways. The Census Bureau assessment paints an image that's...
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Categories:
ban, angst, conflict, feelings, heartbreak, humanity, people, soldier,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
In the Far Off Land of China
The Battle Hymn of the Republic was the rallying song for the United States of America during the Civil War. It was written and published the first time in February 1862; shortly after the war...
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Categories:
ban, america, encouraging, health, journey, recovery from, success,
Form:
Rhyme
Covid 2020 Dateline Victim of Identity Fraud
The year of covid landing in my household after a stroke severe underlying conditions asthma afirbulation cardiovascular attacks quaritined home schooling throughout the entire summer online reading programs high school graduation were basically drive bys...
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Categories:
ban, allah, care,
Form:
Ghazal
Give Peace a Chance Part 2
Yet Africa is
expected to fall in
line
With speed and
alacrity
Or be headed back to
Europe
For much deserved
censure
And sanitization in
the heart
Of brutish Europe!
Have we not seen
them in action
At Treblinka and
Auschwitz, brother
With their atomic
bombs in Hiroshima
With their...
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Categories:
ban, peace,
Form:
Free verse
In the Far Off Land of China - Edit 1
In the Far Off Land of China
(To the tune of the Battle Hymn of the Republic)
Edit 1
By Franklin Price
03/28/2020
In the Far off land of China many thousand miles away
The Coronavirus came to its first human...
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Categories:
ban, america, confusion, health, inspiration,
Form:
Rhyme
A Field Day Shoe Fit For Mother Goose
A field day shoe fit for Mother Goose
Fruitless effort squeezing figurative juice
Pandora called triggering
helter skelter to get loose
necessitating Bullwinkle J. Moose
to usher at yours truly
(an aspiring wordsmith) vamoose!
Hey diddle diddle the...
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Categories:
ban, 12th grade, adventure, age, animal, bird, color,
Form:
Rhyme
My Contingency Measure In Case of Gotterdammerung
My contingency measure in case of…götterdämmerung
A scenario unfolds
more abominable among
any previous warring factions,
his wicked weltanschauung
charred effigies futilely hung
against regime of brutality
considerably more unbearable
than infestation of fruit flies brung
about courtesy evil monster sprung
shortchanging restless and young.
Seconds...
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Categories:
ban, angst, anxiety, bereavement, conflict, crush, grave, humanity,
Form:
Rhyme
Are We Living In the Last Days
Are we living in the last days?
That expression "last days" or end times, where does it come from?
From a passage in the Bible, at 2Timothy 3:1. There the Apostle Paul relates a prophecy about what...
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Categories:
ban, age, corruption, life, society, sorrow,
Form:
Didactic
Ban Me Thuot
Ban Me Thuot
By Franklin Price
8/31/2018
Out in the Central highlands, far away from Cam Ranh Bay,
In the town of Ban Me Thuot was a place where I would stay.
There was no space available at any compounds...
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Categories:
ban, memory, military, war,
Form:
Couplet