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Poems About Flight, Flying and Birds Ii
Poems about Flight, Flying, and Birds
Flying
by Michael R. Burch
I shall rise
and try the bloody wings of thought
ten thousand times
before I fly...
and then I'll sleep
and waste ten thousand nights
before I dream;
but when at last...
I soar the...
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Categories:
bantering, animal, bird, flying, nature,
Form:
Free verse
Chinese Translations I
Chinese Poets: English Translations
These are modern English translations of poems by some of the greatest Chinese poets of all time, including Du Fu, Huang O, Li Bai, Li Ching-jau, Li Qingzhao, Po Chu-I, Tzu Yeh,...
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Categories:
bantering, children, heaven, moon, sorrow, spring, water, wine,
Form:
Free verse
Gloriously luxuriating in eternal sleep
Gloriously luxuriating in eternal sleep...
versus being alive
predicated victory videre licet lunatic
if Trump trumped Kamala Harris
and stole 2024 presidential election,
(whereat Musk bribed
significant number of voters
handing out wads of cash)
courtesy underhanded modus operandi
and...
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Categories:
bantering, absence, america, angst, beautiful, courage, death, humanity,
Form:
Rhyme
Gloriously Luxuriating In Eternal Sleep
Gloriously luxuriating in eternal sleep
Forlorn; bereft of golden
(slippered) opportunities I weep;
Three score and four years
replete with mailer daemons,
hence mindset adrip
with self denouncing expletive filled bleep
unwritten expressed recriminations
wielded upon figurative head of wimpy blip;
decades elapsed at...
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Categories:
bantering, age, angel, anger, angst, anxiety, autumn, death,
Form:
Rhyme
Mocking Dance of the Dead
Written: September 19, 2023
Mocking The Dead Poetry Contest Sponsored by: Silent One
"Do not be afraid of death. Death transforms to something wider. Death is...
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Categories:
bantering, analogy, bereavement, death, giggle,
Form:
Rhyme
And Now the Policeman Picks Up His Club
uncle sam took a moment to sit down
at the diner counter & shove a couple more
doughnuts down his gullet,
but don’t you worry,
now that Kofi Annan has thrown in the towel,
the big ****ing bully of the...
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Categories:
bantering, life,
Form:
Free verse
~ the Great Writers ~ (A Riddle) ~ Part #1 Chap #1
(~)
There was a story of a man-
who wrote from the heart.
With pen in hand he cut-
through worldly waters-
absent of all, but his faith.
(~)
He wrote:
(~)
He-comes-in-the-morning ... !
(~)
~
~
~
"I-
am the wick He is the light ......
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Categories:
bantering, upliftinggod, me, people, god, me, people,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Benediction For Lord Apple Macintosh
Today the Sunday special brief
iCloud online worship session, I did attend
(via remote support)
found me feeling pampered,
when adept technical support
...
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Categories:
bantering, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form:
Light Verse
Naked Before the Mob
When is ‘Almost Good Enough’
never good enough?
When is ‘Clearly Not Enough’
an ounce more than enough?
When is ‘Almost What You Need’
the most you’ll ever have?
When is ‘It’s Not Only That’
...
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Categories:
bantering, irony,
Form:
Free verse
Naked Before the Mob
Why is ‘Almost Good Enough’
never what you need?
Why is ‘Clearly Not Enough’
an ounce more than you deserve?
Why is ‘Almost What You Need’
the most you’ll ever have?
Why is ‘It’s Not...
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Categories:
bantering, truth, words,
Form:
Free verse
Aye Das Scribe Desirous Nothing Short
Sans Whole Body Out Of Country Transplant
hmm...methinks mebbe aye
can empty the ocean
one teaspoon at time bine bye
and after about
a bajillion years cry
tears of joy, when...
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Categories:
bantering, 10th grade, 11th grade, 6th grade, 9th
Form:
Light Verse
Sunrise, Television Talk Back Show:
The mild soothing voice
Of the bald Financial Guru
Is spreading the needs of others
While the lovely bouncing
Voice of Mel, charms an interview
With gentle kindness she will
Invite you to reveal your soul
And commanding vocal manner if needed
Will...
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Categories:
bantering, people,
Form:
Prose
Cool, Old Guys
Every one knows those cool old guys
who seem like they’ve always been there,
you see them in bit parts in movies,
they seem to pop up everywhere.
Sometimes they sing a new duet
with a hot, young star on...
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Categories:
bantering, age, change, death, how i feel, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Head In the Clouds
HEAD IN THE CLOUDS
By Roy Merritt
Once there was boy who kept his head in the clouds
He was trying to hear God by ignoring the crowds
He was sick of the noise and the constant disdain
The endless...
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Categories:
bantering, beauty, emotions, heaven, religion,
Form:
Rhyme
Witches Stirring the Soup's Brew
Three busy witches stood stirring a stew
Cauldron filled with freaky things for a brew
Each Halloween they made
soup in their escapade
Adding ingredients to a brown roux
Jan, of course, as she always wants to do
added a bouquet...
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Categories:
bantering, halloween, humor,
Form:
Limerick
The Shoe Store Bantering
She jiggled like pink jello into the store
with platinum blonde hair and red rouge on her face
the shoe clerk mumbled it must be 1950's day
watching her strut around with a hanky made out of lace
She...
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Categories:
bantering, funny love, silly,
Form:
Light Verse
Bahay Kubo
BAHAY KUBO
Our Bahay Kubo
Is made of light materials of woods, nipa and bamboo
It is situated near the sand dunes of the sea
Its fence surrounding it is made of bamboo too
And kitchen wares from indigenous and...
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Categories:
bantering, places
Form:
Free verse
The Sounds of Radio
I 'spose I'm revealing my age but how I hanker once in awhile,
To return to days of yore and spin ye old Crosley radio dial!
To our delicate ears, those shows were considered wholesome,
Unlike some television...
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Categories:
bantering, nostalgia
Form:
Rhyme
Fly On the Wall
Rep. Kevin McCarthy is powwowing
with Pro-Trump, QAnon-loving kook, Greene.
The big contentious...
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Categories:
bantering, perspective, political,
Form:
Political Verse
Distant Friends
Sometimes friends that are far away
can be your best friend
He lives in Malta
Which is 7,609 km in distance from where I am
I came to PoetrySoup in Jan of 2016
Obviously, at first, I didn’t know him
But...
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Categories:
bantering, friendship, inspiration, mentor,
Form:
Narrative
Love Like a Red Red Rose
She blushed as the rose, taken from her ebony hair,
moved gracefully, slowly, sensually sliding,
brushing her eyelids, cheeks, and ruby lips,
tickled her neck, teased her décolletage, further
pinching her countenance with ruddy heat.
He spoke in whispers as...
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Categories:
bantering, beauty, love, sensual,
Form:
Verse
Picture
It stands on a bookcase shelf in the kitchen.
A picture of my father and me.
"Chillin'" at our favorite watering hole,
Smiles and seemingly happy,
Don't know why this one time,
Brought the surf wave of pain,
at that point,
I'd...
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Categories:
bantering, angst, death, depression, devotion, father, loss, nostalgia,
Form:
Free verse
More Than Ink
I Adamantly Refuse to Care or Show Concern,
After All
I Served Sincerely and Genuinely, Now I Sever
Hoaxed Mundane Emotions that No Longer Appeal to My Growth
Flippantly Burning Icy Bridges
This is More or Less What You...
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Categories:
bantering, betrayal, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
A Way Station
Author: Runping Chen
Here arrived the strange way station
And the train was like a long snake,
Leaning on the small platform. The dawn was at the scene
While I was silently standing on the strange place,
Just as a...
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Categories:
bantering, dream, emotions, feelings, journey, world,
Form:
Free verse
They're Cute At This Age
subtitled: The Bolder Boys (rivals of The Golden Girls)
written for a word bank contest - twenty really weird ones
Two graying seniors with appalling chimera
bantering back and forth - mental meandering.
Be it mirage...
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Categories:
bantering, 11th grade, old, retirement, romance,
Form:
Quatrain