Long Blasts Poems
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Medieval Poems IvMedieval Poems IV
IN LIBRARIOS
by Thomas Campion
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Booksellers laud authors for novel editions
as pimps praise their whores for exotic positions.
Brut (circa 1100 AD, written by Layamon, an excerpt)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R....
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Categories:
blasts, angel, mother, romance, romantic, rose, roses are
Form:
Rhyme
My X-Mas Wish To Santa, My Letter To Santa, Keep the Worst BuddySONNET 1
MY CHRISTMAS WISH TO SANTA
...
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Categories:
blasts, appreciation, blessing, christmas, forgiveness, friendship, giving, truth,
Form:
Sonnet
Dandylion
"Dandylion"
The guy was a
Dandylion
there was
no denying it
full of promises
and making wishes
residing over
this new world
poetically
speaking, he
shone like
the Sun
he sat on his throne
for all to see
the mane man
roaring non-garrulous
declaring
to...
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Categories:
blasts, dream, humor, muse, word play,
Form:
Narrative
Rhythm and PoetryDamn where is my mind at, striving and finding the best way to adapt,
Collapsing the conditioning through written raps that never nap,
...
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Categories:
blasts, destiny, dream, meaningful, psychological, rap, surreal, wisdom,
Form:
Rhyme
Diary Notes: Lament At Dawn - a Year Ago Yet Now No Change Diary Notes: Lament at Dawn A Year Ago and yet now No Change
...
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Categories:
blasts, august, christian, discrimination, hate, immigration, islamic, jewish,
Form:
Free verse
The Battle For BettermentIs it possible, in times like these,
To fight off such adversity and selfishness
And to save other souls that you owe not to?
Gaze into these pain-filled eyes,
Contemplate their crushing calumny
And see why I must...
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Categories:
blasts, blessing, dark, evil, forgiveness, heaven, inspirational, war,
Form:
Free verse
Demons Do ExistDEMONS DO EXIST . . .
You can't spend all your time stuffing them in your bottom drawer
In time they will all work their way out and when they do, it's war
Thousands of years of...
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Categories:
blasts, crazy, humorous, imagination, metaphor, muse, nonsense, scary,
Form:
Epic
Today August 29th 2021 Sluggishness Dogs Yours TrulyToday August 29th, 2021 sluggishness dogs yours truly
Forecasting to thunderous applause
fast as greased lightning draws
upon futuristic atmospheric gewgaws
hot air emanates out these slackened jaws
spluttering courtesy indentured maws
armed with four footed tall paws
gesticulations resembling horizontal seesaws....
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Categories:
blasts, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, absence,
Form:
Rhyme
Vets KnowVets Know
by Odin Roark
Deployment
(Via Refrigerator Magnets)
Sweetheart
Should have told you
I’m sorry
I’ve buttered
the last piece
the heel
you never eat
Can...
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Categories:
blasts, life, , memorial,
Form:
Free verse
The Things Never SaidThe Things Never Said
The terror…
The only things ever said about my daddy’s WWII service were that he’d been to New Guinea where he’d ridden on a truck full of soldiers by a river without a...
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Categories:
blasts, christian, fear, may, political, war,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Made In NeonaziaMade in Neonazia
Life wrote you and I this poem on a sunny day of watching
penguin’s colonies bathing on the beaches near Cape Town
A splendid display of harmony of sun ocean and tourist attraction
warm sand...
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Categories:
blasts, evil,
Form:
Free verse
Sun Setting Over the Dark Green Fringe of a Shivering LakeSun setting over the dark green fringe of a shivering lake on the last day of winter
An old man still unbent sits on a deserted wooden bench
with the load of his cares...
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Categories:
blasts, bird, loneliness, song, spring, winter,
Form:
Free verse
Diary Notes: Lament At DawnDiary Notes: Lament at Dawn
…at the...
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Categories:
blasts, french, holiday, introspection, paradise, paris, vacation,
Form:
Free verse
Some Men Die To SurviveSome men die to survive
the Hard endures
the Soft succumbs stews in juices reproduces exults
disappears
the heartless breaks cracks crumbles
drags
the Ephemeral down the ravines of the also-ran rivers
...
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Categories:
blasts, death, destiny, god, history, religion, spoken word,
Form:
Free verse
Wishing For 1984Wishing for 1984
'War is Peace Freedom
is Slavery Ignorance
is Strength Big Brother…'
is waiting for Godot who came quickly and travelled from Pyongyang to glorious
theoretical impossibility, but wait everything goes and now we are on to...
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Categories:
blasts, dedication,
Form:
Haibun
China Tour Thoughts 2China Tour Diary Moment #2
--------------------------------
AZURE MOUNTAIN GORGE
Mile after mile we take the China roads;
Highways beckon now as our tour meanders;
Vistas speak beauty as coach bears our load;
Silence fills endow as wind blows plunder.
Springtime in China...
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Categories:
blasts, appreciation,
Form:
Rhyme
Why I Want To Go To HeavenAs I child, I wanted to go to heaven because I was terrified of hell. As I grew a little older and found out more about what heaven will be like, I wanted to go...
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Categories:
blasts, heaven,
Form:
Prose
Requiem For An Unknown Tigress Cubstill the climbing green lianoid lass
her tender tendrils torn
massive metal lying like a cutlass
in her lap forlorn
...
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Categories:
blasts, childhood, daughter, mother, war, green,
Form:
Free verse
Are We To Believe Lies Dark World Has ToldAre We To Believe Lies Dark World Has Told
When I hope for goodness to always win,
Ride my old horse well before break of dawn,
While nature gifts its beauty of a fawn
Am I to be chastised...
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Categories:
blasts, creation, life, perspective, poetry, religious, word play,
Form:
Sonnet
A Trite Nihilistic OccasionA Trite Nihilistic Occasion
This doodling Yankee
(boot noah dandy)
doth newt lack chutzpah,
tries to finagle Fitbit
fitting figurative footwear,
that ideally Fitzhugh
like custom made glove snugly,
terrifically, unequivocally matching,
thence...
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Categories:
blasts, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, absence,
Form:
Free verse
A Trite Nihilistic Occasion - Part OneThis doodling Yankee (boot noah dandy)
doth newt lack chutzpah,
tries to finagle Fitbit fitting figurative footwear,
that ideally Fitzhugh
like custom made glove snugly,
terrifically, unequivocally matching,
thence handily solving Finger hut issue,
when...
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Categories:
blasts, deep, earth, fantasy, goodbye, holocaust, humanity,
Form:
I do not know?
Johnny Blaze Ghost Rider
Let me tell you a story ...
Johnny Blaze, a stunt motorcyclist, who, to save the life of his sick father,
a stunt rider also, gives his soul to the devil. But, the devil lies because...
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Categories:
blasts, fantasy,
Form:
Prose
SkydiveThe excitement starts
The second I wake up
I have the biggest smile ever
Today I am jumping
Today I will fly
My stomach has butterflies
A tea and I’m ready to go
To the skydiving hanger
To my chariot with wings
The tiny...
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Categories:
blasts, adventure, courage, crazy, inspirational, joy, paradise, sky,
Form:
Free verse
Homeless PoetryHOMELESS POETRY
These are poems about the homeless and poems for the homeless.
Epitaph for a Homeless Child
by Michael R. Burch
I lived as best I could, and then I died.
Be careful where you step: the grave is...
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Categories:
blasts, america, child, childhood, children, home, mom, mother,
Form:
Rhyme
Hiroshima Poems 2Hiroshima Poems 2
I lived as best I could, and then I died.
Be careful where you step: the grave is wide.
-Michael R. Burch, "Epitaph for a Child of Hiroshima"
The intense heat and light of the Hiroshima...
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Categories:
blasts, bereavement, conflict, eulogy, horror, power, war, world
Form:
Verse