Long Berates Poems

Various Heresies 2

You
by Michael R. Burch

For thirty years You have not spoken to me;
I heard the dull hollow echo of silence
as though strange communion between us.

For thirty years You would not open to me;
You remained...

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Enough!
by Michael R. Burch

It’s not that I don’t want to die;
I shall be glad to go.
Enough of diabetes pie,
and eating sickly crow!
Enough of win and place and show.
Enough of endless woe!

Enough of suffering and vice!
I’ve...

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Well, here we are in the Araneta Coliseum
In Cubao, Quezon City in the Philippines
To witness two modern boxing Gladiators
Their prowess, stature, about to be seen

This will be the third between the WBC, WBA
Stepping into the...

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Grimm's Fairy Tale:
Cat and Mouse in Partnership

Summary: 

A cat befriends a mouse and is so persuasive about her fondness for the smaller animal that the mouse agrees they should set up house together. The cat...

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To Crush Mar a Lago Estate, and lower the Economic debt ceiling...

Now that DACA docked amidst 
marshy tidal outskirts of Poker flats 
(readied to be sunk) off shore 
(beach combing divers – ectoplasmic flotsam 
glorying...

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False promises and bold faced lies
			From leaders we call men,
			Too foolish, vain and unwise
			It’s the election blues again.

			Feign to believe the web they weave
			With patient ears we listen,
			Future balanced if they achieve
			From deceitful eyes teeth...

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Ummm...
.
Sometimes when I linger in between the absolutes,
I look toward Heaven for some kind of cue,
But it seems as if Heaven is reluctant to move.
I’m impatiently waiting not sure what to do.
Again it seems like...

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Ummm...
.
Sometimes when I linger in between the absolutes,
I look toward Heaven for some kind of cue,
But it seems as if Heaven is reluctant to move.
I’m impatiently waiting not sure what to do.
Again it seems like...

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Ummm...
.
Sometimes when I linger in between the absolutes,
I look toward Heaven for some kind of cue,
But it seems as if Heaven is reluctant to move.
I’m impatiently waiting not sure what to do.
Again it seems like...

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I Wish I Had More!

By: Woodrow Lucas

Hey man!! I know it's cold out here.  Here is a dollar and a God Bless You.  I wish I had more.

Hey man!! I know that it...

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A Walk With The Rhyme Numb


Smiles and flowers
All gush and out flow of love
So much praise to sweetly drop
In curly Q’s 
With tender precious little tinker bells
Smiles

And so much color to profess
And so much better...

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The Anger Speaks To Me


The anger speaks to me of some long distant
fear.  I do not remember becoming angry, only
that I am angry.  The anger is hidden, or so I’d
like to think, deep...

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Blue dreams filtered through blood soaked eyes.
Dreams that swept by with tornado speed
creating a vacuum that pulls my very being
awake to face another day. i`m thirsty.

My skin crawls with a thousand chills from
the cheap wine...

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The blindfold slips away under currents of corrosive tears

	Shadows line myopic eyes in blistering haze

Cataracts melt sightless accusations and brooding incisions

	A flickering candle waxes and wanes the stare

Monosyllabic lines dance repetitions in the moribund chorus

	Sound...

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Lord, I need your help tonight
I’m alone and I’m afraid
I’ve made some mistakes
And the pain in my heart berates

Lord, I need your help tonight
I’m lost among unhappy thoughts
I’ve been left in a place of hurt
Where...

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What kind of sadistic delirium dwells in an 
obtuse parent whose child emulates their 
behavior in showing it is okay to bully other 
children whose only egregious fault is shyness? 

Bullied and tormented and teased...

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It was the first time in years the four of them had been all together.
“Hey, do ya’ll know the riddle of the sphinx?” “This should be our family version.”
“What pouts in the morning, laughs at...

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Amidst Swirling Eddies Of Fate...

Negligible power prevails
no matter one jock or nerd
feverishly hollars, fumes
decries, berates... absurd

fickle finger (middle phalange
doubling up as
flipping the bird),
unlikely the powers

that be heard
such lament, would not forfeit
issuing the last juicy,
meaty and...

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Tightrope

There's tension
As the crowd below
Looks up aghast
Before the show

A gentle breeze
Like fingers strum
On string of fate
A vibrant hum

At last, the feet 
Of mortal man
Berates the gods
Like no-one can

A step, a wave
The journey starts
So high, so...

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Let's all face it, We've all said, "we're off to da races!"
Thinkin we were all aces.
Many phaces, all different styles and phases, with many unlikely cases.
 Seeks acceptance and approval.
Some from the gate detest and...

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We can't all be the same
Diplomacy fails us
Hunt us down
Cage us
Berate us endlessly;
It cannot be, It cannot be, it cannot be!
Impose, demand, declare
Where are the ultimatums?

You are the chain that binds
The world that judges
The everyone...

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America! America! Land of my birth
I sing to you with utmost pride in my heart
Many treasures we still must unearth
I am so saddened when we are apart.

CHORUS 
How I love to sing of America, America,
My...

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Exhausted
I once loved a man so much, that I yearned for his touch.
His complex issues, were so confusing.
Bruising our emotions. 
Where we once joyfully danced to, Pachelbel Canon In D.
The pain he carried from the...

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ultimate betrayal

in the eyes of a bairn 
fresh from the hands 
of the creator
there is only wonder 
at all it sees!

curiosity
at the discoveries
of fingers then toes
and as it grows 
a world spreads out before

full of...

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in the eyes of a bairn 
fresh from the hands 
of the creator
there is only wonder 
at all it sees!

curiosity
at the discoveries
of fingers then toes
and as it grows 
a world spreads out before

full of questions
its...

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