Long Bred Poems
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Below the Horizon - Shallow ShameAgony be to society's demise
Labels are for fools, not for the wise
Play the familiar tune of in-unison serenity
Fatality won't come any time soon, thankfully...
Homeless people were on the news not to long ago...I weep...
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Categories:
bred, cute, deep, depression, desire,
Form:
Free verse
Urbane History LessonsI have a hardbound copy of
"The City of Hartford 1784-1984"
although most of this coffee table story
of unfortunate events
takes place between 1850 and 1950s,
before and after the UnCivil War,
and,
like the U.S. Catholic Church
and many MainLine Protestant...
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Categories:
bred, caregiving, city, health, integrity, meaningful, universe,
Form:
Political Verse
No God of Mine - 2021 Edit[This poem 'No God Of Mine' was seemingly confounding readers as
to its meaning. Ordinarily, if I felt a poem wasn't cutting it, I'd delete
it, but on this occasion, I've been asked to explain it... so here goes.]
By...
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Categories:
bred, evil, horror,
Form:
Rhyme
The Plagueas the PROPHETS of profits, WE lead and WE’re fair
while WE’re living the life of the poor BILLIONAIRE
– silver yachts, pearly castles, cash (plenty to spare) –
with the world on OUR backs... ah! the burdens...
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Categories:
bred, society,
Form:
Quatrain
DelightAt once she paid a visit. In her colorful dress, so revealing and appealingly suited to her slendern torso. I to gaze the door way, mine heart pounded viciously, a death knock. I was...
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Categories:
bred, appreciation,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Such Tenderness, For the Mothers of GazaSuch Tenderness
by Michael R. Burch
for the mothers of Gaza
There was, in your touch, such tenderness—as
only the dove on her mildest day has,
when she shelters downed fledglings beneath a warm wing
and coos to them softly, unable...
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Categories:
bred, angel, arabic, baby, caregiving,
Form:
Sonnet
Being AmericanI live in America, as in the United States of America, and that used to mean something. At least to me it did. And it’s not so much in how I was raised but in...
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Categories:
bred, america, class, how i feel, introspection, patriotic,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Mother of the AgeStately stood Princess Amber in all her finery,
Emerald tunic over a crimson gown,
With gems inlaid in her rustling gown,
Her arms bangled in intricate gold slowly rose,
Her slender fingers rested on her heaving bosom,
Listening to unstopping...
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Categories:
bred, anger, beautiful, emotions, forgiveness, imagery, jealousy,
Form:
Epic
How Huxley Sees the World
"How Huxley Sees the World"
He composes his world -
dream extractions
simulated from
the surreal reality of man
colour cognitive from the dead moments
we phantomise to life in sleep
electric light colour bursts forth
from a perspective unique
a hare...
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Categories:
bred, art, future, humanity,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
bred, betrayal, god, racism, religion,
Form:
Free verse
Increase In Head SizeIncrease In Head Size
impossible mission to encapsulate notion
flitting hither and yon, to and fro
within cranium attached to mine body,
whereby irrefutable proof prevails
predicated when yours truly
scrutinizes other people visibly aware,
I a modest married male
blessed,...
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Categories:
bred, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, absence,
Form:
Free verse
A Mom, Three Girls, Two Cigarettes, and a SparrowPart I.
Harvest time was winding down,
I was taking lunch in town,
After spending six long hours plowing stubble.
Washing up I met a man,
Guessed he was a harvest hand,
His combine crew, he said,...
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Categories:
bred, faith, loss, , cute,
Form:
Rhyme
Deal With ItI don’t know how to feel
And I don’t know how
And I don’t know how to deal
With this shame somehow
I don’t know how to feel
And I don’t know how
And I don’t know how to deal
With this...
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Categories:
bred, angst, deep, depression, emotions, encouraging, endurance, hope,
Form:
Lyric
Rum n Raisin 14 Pt 2 - The Flight Before Christmas Pt 2Soon, the sun was lying low, a bright full moon was now on show
Santa switched on Walnut’s glow… “Ho Ho Ho and away we go.”
Walnut played along and led the team of reindeer and their...
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Categories:
bred, cat, christmas, dog,
Form:
Narrative
Mahmoud Darwish English TranslationsMahmoud Darwish English Translations of Arabic Poems
Palestine
by Mahmoud Darwish
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
This land gives us
all that makes life worthwhile:
April's blushing advances,
the aroma of bread warming at dawn,
a woman haranguing men,
the poetry of Aeschylus,
love's...
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Categories:
bred, allah, arabic, judgement, race, racism, rights, visionary,
Form:
Free verse
Enduring Spinning: Agriculture, Culture and WarYou can feel it spinning
...
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Categories:
bred, culture, environment, farm, future, history, peace, water,
Form:
Verse
Unscrupulous ManYou crawled out of her innocent womb
Kicking , begging and screaming
But it is too late for you to be redeemed
You were born evil and corrupted
and you have a very dirty...
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Categories:
bred, betrayal, conflict, courage, creation, earth, encouraging, women,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
The Devastation of the BrokenSudden movement of my heart, a shattered piece of art,
Broke me apart from the start…rolling in the inner death-cart
Heartrate going sky high — I won’t lie nor can I deny that life cuts deep...
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Categories:
bred, angst, betrayal, conflict, deep, depression, endurance, hope,
Form:
Lyric
Upon approaching advent of an early spring 2024Upon approaching advent of an early spring 2024
(alternately titled GENESIS RESPLENDENT)
No matter the calendrical/official onset of vernal equinox takes places Tuesday, Mar 19, 2024 and transpires until Thursday, Jun 20, 2024, an intimation sensed...
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Categories:
bred, 12th grade, animal, appreciation, beauty, daffodils, earth,
Form:
Rhyme
Spouse Cannot Forget Mine Suppressed Flatulence Upon Our First DateSpouse cannot forget mine suppressed flatulence upon our first date
While yours truly sat here
at the desk housing MacBook Pro,
pondering his next idée fixe apropos
for gamut of anonymous readers,
he unexpectedly, noisily and effectually
exploded out rear...
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Categories:
bred, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th
Form:
Rhyme
Fork Git About Spooner Hiz HamFork git about spooner hiz ham
And join (singing the words
in the next paragraph) whether alone
in a traffic jam
basting, cooking, then eating a lamb
prepared by thee missus
a superb culinary madam.
“A Ram Sam Sam” Lyrics
A ram...
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Categories:
bred, 1st grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, adventure,
Form:
Rhyme
Money MuseMoney
and Manna
both root back to Maneh
of deep and weighty Babylonian coinage.
Maneh transcends spiritual/natural divides
to nurture nutrition's co-present values,
dew-fall grace from Earth's diamond curious treasures
tribal communions inspired with physical bread
And yet also
more deductive
reductive Win/Lose seductive...
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Categories:
bred, bible, blessing, integrity, money,
Form:
Political Verse
My Heart Will Go On - POTDPOTD 30th August 2018
The gently swaying branches of the old oak should elicit calmness
And yet a sense of foreboding permeates the midnight air
Wild imaginings? Or did shadows flit across the leaf strewn path?
No...
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Categories:
bred, grief, heartbreak, lost, romance,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
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:
bred, peace, people, political, society,
Form:
Rhyme
Botched and Bungled Interpersonal Opportunities ViewedBotched and bungled interpersonal opportunities viewed...
tonight October 25th, 2022
terrifically summarily requoting
poetic outdated iteration,
I share the following lines
echoing in the valley
of love and delight.
courtesy 20/20 hindsight
October twenty fifth
two thousand and twenty two
admirable,...
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Categories:
bred, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, anger,
Form:
Rhyme