Long Brown Poems
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Pencils In SeptemberI smell like pencils in September.
After they’ve been brought to that…to the machine hanging on the closet wall where our coats, our boots, our bags, and nonsense lived.
You stared me in the eyes, since the...
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Categories:
brown, 3rd grade, america, betrayal, child, child abuse,
Form:
Free verse
FlintFlint
Within its brilliance gleaming
Cool black in lacquered polished silver chrome
Cranked up pistons bleached in summer’s heat
Hot steam rising as gears thundering
Beyond the crystal liquid city lights
Highways built across the land
In hearts felt pride American...
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Categories:
brown,
Form:
Abecedarian
An Bee Cailleach
“Éagmais croí a dhíscaoileadh ar gach eagla.
Faoi dhíon taobh istigh de na blianta seo.
Fanacht i bhfianaise, a dhíscaoileadh ar gach eagla.
Ós rud é go ndearnadh tú a chaitheamh.
Briseadh an tost seo”
"An Bee Cailleach"
She lives to...
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Categories:
brown, fantasy, imagery, joy, life, love, magic, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
Self ReflectionsSELF REFLECTIONS
These are poems about mirrors, images, self-image, reflections, impressions and self-reflection.
Self Reflection
by Michael R. Burch
for anyone struggling with self-image
She has a comely form
and a smile that brightens her dorm ...
but she's grossly...
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Categories:
brown, identity, image, imagery, metaphor, mirror, self, symbolism,
Form:
Rhyme
Matsuo Basho Haiku TranslationsThe first soft snow:
leaves of the awed jonquil
bow low
—Matsuo Basho translation by Michael R. Burch
Come, investigate loneliness!
a solitary leaf
clings to the Kiri tree
—Matsuo Basho translation by Michael R. Burch
The cheerful-chirping cricket
contends gray...
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Categories:
brown, animal, butterfly, death, earth, life, nature, seasons,
Form:
Haiku
ErinErin, for a girl who embodies Ireland
by Michael R. Burch
All that’s left of Ireland is her hair—
bright carrot—and her milkmaid-pallid skin,
her brilliant air of cavalier despair,
her train of children—some conceived in sin,
the others to avoid...
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Categories:
brown, ireland,
Form:
Sonnet
Limericks I - Relatives and RelativityLimericks I - Relatives and Relativity
The Cosmological Constant
by Michael R. Burch
Einstein, the frizzy-haired,
said E equals MC squared.
Thus all mass decreases
as activity ceases?
Not my mass, my a$$ declared!
A$$-tronomical
by Michael R. Burch
Relativity, the theorists’ creed,
says mass increases...
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Categories:
brown, humor, humorous, light, nonsense, science, space, time,
Form:
Limerick
Employment TraumaMy protagonist today,
a Gay Black Religious Mature Male,
not quite ready for silver-grey Obama temples
Is off this morning
to a new full-time job,
8 to 5,
Monday through Friday.
He has been out of his calming,
regular custodial collared routine,
for over...
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Categories:
brown, betrayal, caregiving, culture, health, prejudice, religion, work,
Form:
Political Verse
Solo PerformanceIt had been a hellish week.
On Monday
my lonely and tired AfricanAmerican husband
told me, as gently as possible,
that what I had hoped was a temporary separation
is to be extended into perpetuity.
This separation had been scheduled to...
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Categories:
brown, age, earth, family, health, integrity, nature, spiritual,
Form:
Political Verse
In the WildIN THE WILD
Early morning, we go for a drive,
An awesome feeling as we arrive,
At our camp gate which, opens
At 6 o’clock,
Now we are in the African bush
Which, will unlock,
Moments that we have missed...
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Categories:
brown, adventure, africa,
Form:
Rhyme
As Time Walked ByThese are early poems of mine, written as a high school student in the 10th grade.
as Time walked by
by Michael R. Burch
yesterday i dreamed of us again,
when
the air, like honey,
trickled through cushioning grasses,
softly flowing,...
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Categories:
brown, 10th grade, boy, child, childhood, first love,
Form:
Free verse
Chapter 100 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: Big Barbecue Celebration of Life Mass Invitations ContinuesWhile family Mingled with one
Another and strangers the party flowed
Smoothly. Music was enjoyed.
Everybody indulged. With a little
Champagne some wine and juice.
The bar also served smoothies.
Adults mingled. Delilah Mallory
Mother Daughtry and Amaliah...
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Categories:
brown, 4th grade, birth, child, confidence,
Form:
Alliteration
Chapter 107 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: Family Festive Fountain Market JamboreeDate: January 2046
8:45 am in the Damian Domaine
Some are sleeping some are peeping
What are we eating? Said Molly to
Dolly. "What ever we can?" She replied
While still sleepy eyed checking
Supplies. So...
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Categories:
brown, child, chocolate, confidence, family, father son,
Form:
Alliteration
Limericks Vi - ReligionLimericks VI - Religion
Pell-Mell for Hell Mel
by Michael R. Burch
There once was a Baptist named Mel
who condemned all non-Christians to hell.
When he stood before God
he felt like a clod
to discover His Love couldn’t fail!
Why I...
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Categories:
brown, christian, humor, humorous, light, nonsense, religion, religious,
Form:
Limerick
Chapter 126 -- Damian Delilah Mallory Holly: Holly's Orientation and InvitationDate: July 2049
Early morning combinations
Personal hygiene conversations
And kisses in most of the Hakim
Households. Damian was negotiating
For properties in Virginia namely
Virginia Beach. He wanted the
Prosperous realty. He spoke...
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Categories:
brown, allusion, birth, devotion,
Form:
Prose
To Be a Friend PleaserI heavily recall two times when I had made you cry,
Both of which bewildered and moved me
My response was that of disbelief, and regret
And never, upon recalling,
Have I felt more of the need to...
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Categories:
brown, change, character, confusion, devotion, friendship, growing up,
Form:
Narrative
In the Wild Re PostIN THE WILD
( Re Post)
Early one morning, we begin our drive,
An awesome feeling as we arrive,
At our camp gate which, opens
At six o’clock,
Now we are in the African bush
Which, will unlock,
Moments that...
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Categories:
brown, animal,
Form:
Free verse
The JourneyOnce upon a weedy lawn
At Cedar Oaks Retirement Home
There sat my mother, weak and old
On an afghan knit to block the cold.
It was summer, but in mom's grey eyes
Was winter, when all around us dies.
I...
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Categories:
brown, appreciation, child, daughter, devotion, family, forgiveness, mom,
Form:
Rhyme
Riding Time's Political FlowWe might do well
to worry less
about including the grizzly bear population
in our DNA/RNA cooperatively encultured Golden Rule,
after all,
we already would kill and eat them,
if hungry enough,
as they would like to treat us.
We could do well
to...
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Categories:
brown, beauty, culture, nature, philosophy, political, psychological, science,
Form:
Prose Poetry
God As Brown As An EggIf God is EggWhite
then Tao is His embryonic EarthYolk.
Why would you say such a confusing and silly thing?
What is the difference between a Paradise Tree of Life and Death
and a Great Chain of Being?
Is this...
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Categories:
brown, earth, god, health, history, motivation, power, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
Early Poems IJuvenilia: Early Poems by Michael R. Burch
Smoke
by Michael R. Burch
The hazy, smoke-filled skies of summer I remember well;
farewell was on my mind, and the thoughts that I can't tell
rang bells within (the din was in)...
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Categories:
brown, kid, poetry, poets, teen, write, writing, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
Caregiving Stories ContinuedWounded Sacred Dementia
My last foster care-provider
and -receiver story
is also a sad story
of my last special needs adoption
of bipolar born,
and oppositionally reared,
alcoholism.
My BiPolar Wounded Child
turned an auspicious five
on the day I first saw her,
and promptly rejected...
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Categories:
brown, caregiving, health, humor, love, parents,
Form:
Political Verse
Sunday Morning JoggersGoodness, I nearly lost my balance on the spiral seashells and broken sea stone chipping matrix.
My quaint obsession with marine life and that skyline paradox blossoming so tantalisingly, might be a source of some...
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Categories:
brown, age, art, birth, devotion, feelings, heart, irony,
Form:
Prose
Jean Lapresle: the Solitary Oak On Mount Kremlin Bicetre A French ‘Indianist’ Doctor: A Tribute to a Die-hard Humanist
...
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Categories:
brown, celebrity, endurance, french, loss, solitude, tribute,
Form:
Elegy
The Witch At InvernessPlease take this time to steer your thoughts
To a wretched land of lochs and glens.
Where a village was tasked and the people fraught
At the woe and sadness life could send.
With the Dragons gone and the...
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Categories:
brown, adventure, children, magic,
Form:
Rhyme