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The Night Before Christmas EveThe night Before Christmas Eve
By Franklin Price
12/17/2016
Prologue
The Night Before Christmas
A most famous of poems
Read to children aloud
By their parents in homes
To children who gather
'Round the brightly lit tree
To hear Santa is coming
Presents for...
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Categories:
bellies, christmas,
Form:
Rhyme
An Bee Cailleach
“Éagmais croí a dhíscaoileadh ar gach eagla.
Faoi dhíon taobh istigh de na blianta seo.
Fanacht i bhfianaise, a dhíscaoileadh ar gach eagla.
Ós rud é go ndearnadh tú a chaitheamh.
Briseadh an tost seo”
"An Bee Cailleach"
She lives to...
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Categories:
bellies, fantasy, imagery, joy, life, love, magic, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
My Most Popular Poems On the Internet IiMy most popular poems on the Internet (II)
A number of my poems and translations have gone viral, according to Google, and some have been copied onto hundreds to thousands of web pages. That’s a lot...
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Categories:
bellies, internet, poems, poetry, poets, social, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About the Coronavirus IiPoems about the Coronavirus II
This World's Joy
(anonymous Middle English lyric, circa early 14th century AD)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Winter awakens all my care
as leafless trees grow bare.
For now my sighs are fraught
whenever it enters...
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Categories:
bellies, fear, loneliness, loss, natural disasters, scary, social,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Fathers and Grandfathers IvPoems about Fathers and Grandfathers IV
Neglect
by Michael R. Burch
What good are your tears?
They will not spare the dying their anguish.
What good is your concern
to a child sick of living, waiting to perish?
What good, the warm...
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Categories:
bellies, family, father, father daughter, father son, fathers
Form:
Rhyme
What Good Are Our TearsWhat Good Are Our Tears?
by Michael R. Burch
What good are our tears?
They will not spare the dying their anguish.
What good is our concern
to a child sick of living, waiting to perish?
What good, the warm benevolence...
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Categories:
bellies, child, child abuse, children, death, poverty, sick,
Form:
Free verse
Christmas In the Cathedral of the Forest Deep
"Christmas in the Cathedral of the Forest Deep"
The silent heart is found
embedded in the
Cathedral of
The Forest Deep
The lost jewel
shines in the dark
see the reflection of emerald eyes
endless hazel woods scried
On Christmas Eve
when...
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Categories:
bellies, christmas, love, mother daughter,
Form:
Epic
Now and Then and Now Again1
Though still within our infancy,
we strive to thrive, but woefully
we flash and flaunt our 'primacy',
display our trophies pridefully.
Our terra firma ecstasy
destroys survival's harmony,
lays waste to life on land and sea.
Mankind, thy name...
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Categories:
bellies, corruption, culture, environment, money, pollution, racism, religion,
Form:
Monorhyme
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 12His words stung me, as the cries from the maelstrom seem to retort
Their scattered, foreign words and wails retching their say
I listened, almost mesmerized,
Pulverized
“Come,” Said he,
With threatening authority
Upwards, higher than the balcony from which we...
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Categories:
bellies, adventure, appreciation, beautiful, blessing, conflict, hope, muse,
Form:
Free verse
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 13“Are there many Fairy Folk other than the elves?” Joulupukki queried.
“Not so many as before the humans took control of the world. The ones left behind in Erin...
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Categories:
bellies, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
A View From a WindowAs dawn unfolds today beyond my fractured windowpane,
a breeze beguiles the ashen drapes. Like snakes they slip aside,
revealing wanton worlds that race and run aground, insane,
immersed in scenes obscene that savants strive to mask and...
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Categories:
bellies, peace, people, political, society,
Form:
Rhyme
I Could Never Be the RainMy life started with rain,
the steady stream of drops,
hitting the trees gently
and ending its descent to our world
on the wet pavement.
I am on the sidewalk,
sheltered by a makeshift roof and
a border of trees.
The...
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Categories:
bellies, body, loneliness, longing, passion, rain, symbolism, voice,
Form:
Free verse
Confessions of a Baby SnatcherThis is my last confession; there will be no more.
I am impercipient and slow from last night's sleeping pill,
wincing away from the harshness of day.
Kitchen cold, the room tear-splintered,
sunlight striking a watery rainbow in my...
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Categories:
bellies, baby, loss,
Form:
Free verse
Our Environment TodayI was taught by my father to be obedient in the dense forest to save the individuals trees, stop destruction to plantation. I cannot be silent under the detriment from lumberjacks to global...
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Categories:
bellies, earth, farm, flower,
Form:
Free verse
A civil war ferociously ragedA civil war ferociously raged...
within complex edifice...
derelict hulking corpse delineated courtesy
seared, singed, smoldered smithereens
formerly robust warrior
slain during prime of his life
heavenly corporeal outstanding entity
subjected to fateful foragers
courtesy camping buzzfeeding carrion -
fancy feast for famished
uber twittering,...
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Categories:
bellies, age, america, angst, anxiety, april, grave, slavery,
Form:
Free verse
The Twelve Months of the YearJanuary: is mountain of blessing where the births sing with hope for those
Semen mentioned on this occasion to Ottoman Empire where conqueror doesn't
Need dozens of sword to shout. He only understands the cap...
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Categories:
bellies, success, symbolism, wisdom, , Lullaby,
Form:
ABC
Spoiled RottenThere was once a widow who had nothing but her beloved twin babies, Rosemary, and Ethan. The Widow loved her twins more than the Earth loved the Sun, and vowed to give them anything they...
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Categories:
bellies, abuse, allusion, baby, caregiving, child abuse, horror,
Form:
Free verse
Canto Xxv Hell Translation Part2Any face of before was there suppressed;
Two and no one the sinner’s wicked face
Was looking; and such way slow pace progressed.
As the green lizard when so strong lambastes
The heat wave of day, then changing the...
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Categories:
bellies, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
Goodbye and good riddance 2023Goodbye and good riddance 2023
Commencement writing this poem
began December 31st: 2:24 PM
ended December 31st: 03:53 PM.
The best geriatric effort I apply
twittering, ushering, and
albeit wheezing Auld Lang Syne
crocodile done deed tear
will yours truly cry
bidding,...
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Categories:
bellies, anniversary, anxiety, celebration, conflict, crush, firework, new
Form:
Rhyme
Soul Stance River - 3Night one on the new river, the campfire is spirited
and the future appears hospitable,
everyone has their rations, everybody is resting their pride
for on an expedition epic to each man and for a republic as well
souls...
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Categories:
bellies, adventure,
Form:
Epic
Child Set FreeThe child sat on the sofa,
her body laiden with bruises and covered in lice.
She was only the age of one,
maybe two.
How could this be true?
I stared at my friend and she at...
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Categories:
bellies, child abuse, freedom, heartbroken, innocence, mother, society,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Human Sack Gruff Ice Agonizingly GlommedHuman Sack Gruff Ice Agonizingly Glommed...
Murderously Skewered, And Torturously Zapped
Directv linkedin to accentuate
piddly money crisis, tis zen uneasy fate,
I imagine dragons gyrate
ting, and licking chops, faux masticate
ting, no matter I didst pre
...
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Categories:
bellies, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th grade, discrimination,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Great New and Old YearsTerrorism,
threat of terrorizing shelters
and habitats
and wombs,
seeds and trees,
mountains and valleys,
forests and deserts and oceans,
fear and anger conjuring and mongering and marketing
do not work long-term
because co-passions of love do work
more cooperatively and therapeutically.
Expressing
and impressing
our sacred healthcare...
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Categories:
bellies, caregiving, earth, health, hope, integrity, math, passion,
Form:
Political Verse
Oklahoma WindsWe all have roots from seeds
In and on the fertile soil of our lives
Where we are planted to need
The place we know as home to thrive
Shaped and harvested we live to die
As the grains of...
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Categories:
bellies, america, courage, family, hope,
Form:
Narrative
Wishing For the Same DreamThe worst thing about having depression for so long is that I've come to like it, that at times that I want to reminisce in the sadness that kills me... that leaves me feeling buried...
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Categories:
bellies, depression, feelings, horror, lost love, stress,
Form:
Free verse