Long Bourse Poems

Rejection Slips 3

Rejection Slip
by Michael R. Burch

Whenever my writing gets rejected,
I always wonder how the rejecter got elected.
Are we exchanging at the same Bourse?
(Excepting present company, of course!)

When editors reject my poems, did I slip...

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Rejection Slips

With over 5,700 publications if I count poems that have gone viral, I suppose I shouldn’t complain … but I do have some poems that have never been accepted for publication. Here are a...

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Moulin Rouge

The greens and pinks magnetize to my eye
Like flowers abloom, in a field espied;
That overwhelms creation’s invention
With beauty of grandiose dimension
Shifting to the wind’s orchestrated movements,
And winks my soul agape by the performance
To be...

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on Earth’s circumvallate
 he would be laid,
 lifeless upon the lap
 of his Mother
 and on that day would be named
 now and forevermore,
 God’s Gether… for in that day
 are all tears gathered
 look...

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Rejection Slips 4

Editor's Notes
by Michael R. Burch
 
Eat, drink and be merry
(tomorrow, be contrary).
 
( and complain
in bad refrain,
but please, not till I'm on the plane!)
 
Write no poem before its time
(in your case, this...

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Why do flowers have such color and charm,  
The sky is blue: the woolly clouds march past
Au revoir to the day.  To memories of unconquered
Problems and market struggles that avail us naught. 
We...

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The ammunition greased casings pepper skull and cross lovely bones, 
   lightening speedily deals mortal blow persons unaware,
   the final minutes/seconds of lives leased
shorn of existence, and akin to sheared sheep,...

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AN UGLY VISITOR, CORONA VIRUS

We have an ugly visitor;
Corona Virus is his name.
He's prowling like a predator
With an aim to devour or maim.

He disregards every convention.
Schools, airlines,... he shuts down;
Doctors are in his line of...

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pyaasa (thirsty) – for guru dutt

 

i’ll have none of it

the glittering vulgarity on crude display

puffed-up egos wrapped in vacuum-sealed packs

adorning the sterile aisles of shining malls with their endless racks

 

i’ll have none of...

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by Michaelw1two

 Thinking’s challenge is to weigh,
 all of one’s life substance;
 quandary thus, illogical fuss,
 which blinds the mind's acutance;
 adscititiously into thoughts bleed,
 vitiated indurate boastance;
 corrumpable sequella fortuity,
 each thought, is truth’s...

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Journey Journal Page
LOVE
By Leon Enriquez


Love owns my heart
Where hope finds start
As faith moves art


Love wears a face
So full of grace
In time and space

~~~~~~~~~


Love is the way
To live each day
In work and play


Love is a gift
That...

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The New York Exchange is located on Wall Street.
Here in Lower Manhattan, business people meet.
Between opening and closing bells in each day’s course,
millions of corporate shares are traded on this bourse.
As company equities change...

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Etch profound gaze upon these shores,
Zest feeds courage beyond mere chance;
Ask to know maze and grow some more,
Grow sound message to greet the dance.


Do with fond feel with focus grand,
Dream funds appeal as firm strokes...

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Wish I was a poet, and got well paid
for poems writ whilst wearing suede
and drinking lots ‘n' lots of claret, 
in a well-appointed Paris garret

My publisher would love me true, 
and pay my rent, when...

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Beneath the fabled, innocent and polished mind
In a tinderbox wrapped up by an askant beldam’s hand
Above an unmarked grave that is welcoming, rather kind
A pair of eyes noticed a hue in the dunes of white...

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We have the world all to ourselves, free of cost
We own everything on and above the earth,     
Abundant food and the water and milk to drink, 
And gold nuggets sprout from...

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Meet moments meek that frame fond poise,
Yield in clear trance the way love grows.
Joy journeys jest as wit greets choice,
Opt thus your chance to sync with flow;
Urge precious feel to show just how,
Reap what you...

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Sinister is the staircase -
the light switch out of reach.
How could my eye find way,
differ honor and breach?

Head dashed against the walls
and lurching I lost course.
Lead these stairs up or down?
Mind like an empty bourse.

Sweet...

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Words fail
To fund ease
In lapsed peace
That unveils


Joy bleeds
Quest of bourse
In lost cause
Where pain seeds


Faith dies
To harsh fear
That drowns cheer
In odd sigh


Hope drains
In lost way
Where dark days
Breed more pain


Once good
Now feels sick
In blown wick
Of dead mood


Vile...

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On the way
Play
Rewards day


Watch crisp thought
Plot
Affirm lot


Feel each feel
Will
Return thrill


Gain grand good
Food
Whim of mood


Fest meets jest
Best
In true quest


Find your gift
Lift
What you sift


Seize this day
Pay
What you say


What you find
Mind
Keep touch kind


Taste each bit
Wit
Ever fits


Make scent sense
Hence
Present...

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Ask for clear poise
Begin with choice
Charm works fond voice


Etch a kind face
Apply fine grace
See beyond space
Yield happy place


Achieve your prime
Believe sure rhymes
Conceive good times


End what you start
Align firm heart
Sense joy that arts
Yield to fond parts


Apt...

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Mind murky mire
Sense special sire
Free fleeting fire


Fresh funds fashion
Aim attraction
Mind moves mention


Why wrestle words write?
Clever charm cites
Busty blooms bite


See sunshine sway
Dance deer dear day
Prompt puzzle play


Mind moves magic
Thrill things tragic
Speak signs static


Be beyond bourse
Stay sexy...

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Set succinct seek
Meet moments meek


Juicy joy jumps
See succinct sums


Love lifts laughter
Stream sweet saunter


Bubbly beams breeze 
Sample sweet squeeze


Mind meeting mist
Glimpse gainful gist


Prize playful plot
Take timely thought


Hurl healing hurt
Dust dreamy dirt


See sensuous sway
Walk winding way


Breeze bouncing...

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Fate hurls a sway
Through night and day
To fling a play


Play forms in kind
A state of mind
In sanguine finds


Finds that we make
Can fashion stake
In norms we take


Take funds a cause
In poise and course
That bear a bourse


Bourse...

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Abrupt as pain
Hurls the wet rain
Now once again


Abrupt the feel
As broken thrills
Splash in wet will


Abrupt the course
Of unseen cause
In hurried bourse


Abrupt the rhymes
Beyond mere time
As echoes chime


Abrupt sad fate
That comes too late
To curse and hate


Abrupt...

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