Long Brayed Poems

Will you make the cut?
Or settle for a shortcut?
Coaches' scuttlebutt

Execute the steal 
Professing rather than real
The truth to conceal

Blessing progeny
Highlights God's sovereignty
Not autonomy

Man's wisdom swaggers
'Til adversity staggers
Making Sandbaggers

Men try to judge Him
When self-righteousness rules them
Worthless...

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CORINNA

I come to sing of heroes' and heroines' courageous deeds.—Corinna translation by Michael R. Burch

Mount Helicon, father of fair offspring, friend of the wayfarer, beloved of the Muses!—Corinna translation by Michael R. Burch

Terpsichora calls me...

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I met a smart aleck who was a god of lust
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Gregor the slowest
Felt nothing but fear
To prove he was worthy
He must kill a deer
A great giant bat
Was chasing him far
He ran and he ran
Towards that tiny North star

The deer weighed a lot
Tied to his small...

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IV.
Their faces looked shocked when they saw the flames,
looking at each other for someone to blame,
then Sol cleared his throat, and they look to him,
their leader stepped out, his eyes cold and dim.

“I didn’t expect...

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They claim that you were ‘outdated,’
old-fashioned and ‘not with the times,’
because you hesitated to
give up traditions of your kind.
They claimed new was always better,
that you weren’t on history’s side.
You noticed their way rarely worked,
“Reactionary!” they...

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Continued from Part 2

Beyond the suburbs, farmers’ fields (where donkeys often brayed)
inhale gray gusts of barren dust where living seed once laid
and in the haze a scarecrow sways, impaled upon a spade.

Green trees gone dark...

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When you mounted that lame horse, 
I should have said something,
Oh, I forgot I did say something and then....
The horse boo-whooed, nickered and brayed to you ..
Until things became confused, setting you up to be...

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Skagway, Alaska in the late 1890s was sure a rowdy place alright!
It was seethin' with humanity a-raisin' hell all through the day and night!
'Twas the gateway to Chilkoot Pass beyond which lay Klondike gold!
Why! ...

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HOMOPHONE RHYME STYLE TRIAL 

In shining armor I am here, YES, your hero knight
Rushing to your rescue anon, day or night

With my mighty steed, Henry, I’ll come crash down the gate
Watch it when you mount...

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We are the victims of sour love;
Love that never return love,
Love that brings more hatred,
Love that tells us our heart troubles
Rather than the future of our tomorrow.


We are victims of false religions;
Religions that seek for...

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In days of old, when nights grew cold,
men told a dreadful tale
of  Trapper Jim—how they buried him
on a night the wolves did wail.

It seems at the time, Jim was checking his line,
and stopped to...

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Bees are busy buzzing,
Working happily
Rabbits are still nuzzling
Together 'neath a tree

Brook is babbling blissfully.
As it weaves along its way
The Sun is arising
To welcome this new day

A cock is crowing loudly,
It echoes around the farm
A fox...

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The Donkey of Destiny

The party was set, the guests were invited,
The adults were happy, the kids all excited.
All going to plan; the hosts were delighted,
Then the Donkey of Destiny brayed – he-haw!
The Donkey of Destiny...

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The advice of a faithful friend
May save you from torturing end
But this did not happen to the donkey
Who ignored this perfect key

He lived with a farmer in a village
Lean, weak and very old in age
The...

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"...Dominus orationem meam suscepit."


Burning his little jelly bottom raw,
He blisters in his liquid greenish poop.
He has no means to summon us at all 
To drain the acid swamp of split pea soup.
Except to scream, a...

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Shadow to shadow, shade to shade
In youth the Eden where you played
was left bereft, destroyed, decayed,
by trusts malignant masquerade

Shadow to shadow, shade to shade
No grass survives your fallow glade,
when opportunist needs invade
and bleed the lives...

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Shadow to shadow, shade to shade
In youth the Eden where I played
was left bereft, destroyed, decayed,
by trusts malignant masquerade

Shadow to shadow, shade to shade
Sweet grass dies in my fallow glade
as opportunist needs invade
and bleed the...

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Strong Coffee Ate A Silver Spoon

Strong coffee ate a silver spoon
Blind feline lapped up the spilled milk
Sweet relief cannot come too soon
I slept on sheets of finest silk
Gone such dreams with vanishing moon

Dry toast from...

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In the land of Timbuktoo
Two people lived there, one was you

The population went up to three
When a monkey fell from a tree

The monkey made an awful clatter
His family came down to see what was the...

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Once upon a donkey’s back,
as I rode I heard a quack.
Donkey worriedly shook his head.
“It’s a duck!” he brayed with dread.

I was surprised and could not speak.
Why would docile Donkey shriek?
Duck was not a fearsome...

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The old black man came riding up
On a wagon pulled by a mule
In the wagon he had a plough
And some other old rusty tools
As best I recall it was late in the fall
Of nineteen sixty...

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A barn on a hill.
Beside was a wheat mill.
Corn grew in tall stalks.
"Ding, Dong!" said the clocks.
Early morning sunshine.
Finally 'twas feeding time! 
Grass was the main course.
Hay for the horse.
I fed seed to the hens....

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Change vomited dark entrails 
Of the bald vulture on my clan;

We were buried,
One after the other,
In the belly of the village stream, 
And pulled out
Almost immediately 
To choruses that had no place 
When waist dance...

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The journey seem to be foretold
And my arrant voice swooned 
By the satire that echoed down
Down, to the plaintive essence of nascence
And they thought my eyes were deserted,
My heart was insensate,
My ires were wretched
And when...

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