Long Bursting Poems
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Sunday Evening SpreeI see people moving, but going nowhere
I see people moving with their hands thrown in the air
I see people moving but they have nothing to share
Bags and pans, old kettle, and old man
The scavenger, the...
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Categories:
bursting, betrayal, community, cute love, education, encouraging, faith,
Form:
Narrative
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:
bursting,
Form:
Abecedarian
Poems About Fathers and Grandfathers IiiPoems about Fathers and Grandfathers III
Success
by Michael R. Burch
for Jeremy
We need our children to keep us humble
between toast and marmalade;
there is no time for a ticker-tape parade
before bed, no award, no bright statuette
to be delivered...
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Categories:
bursting, family, father, father daughter, father son, fathers
Form:
Rhyme
Visit To AntietamAlone I arrive, walking from Frederick
over the gaps, across gentle hills
out onto a knoll
overlooking this burnished landscape.
Before me I see countless writhing rows
of indiscernible shapes gathered
in terrible rituals mid fire and smoke
darkening the sun.
From distant...
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Categories:
bursting, america, conflict, history, together, war,
Form:
Ode
Poems About Children IvPoems about Children IV
Salat Days
by Michael R. Burch
Dedicated to the memory of my grandfather, Paul Ray Burch, Sr.
I remember how my grandfather used to pick poke salat ...
though first, usually, he’d stretch back in the...
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Categories:
bursting, child, childhood, children, dad, father son, grandfather,
Form:
Rhyme
History's Greatest Miracle PlayHistory’s Greatest Miracle Play
Let me tell you a story - Prologue
Actors gather to play their parts
To set the stage – backdrops and props –
In history’s greatest miracle play
Called to speak their lines
On redemption’s stage
In a...
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Categories:
bursting, jesus,
Form:
Narrative
Categories:
bursting, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Of Winks and Wings - Part 2"Oh, indeed she was, young man ... I mean Greg. It IS Greg, if I recall correctly?"
"Yes. Or you can call me True Friend if you like." I turned to...
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Categories:
bursting, autumn, life, lost love, nature, soulmate,
Form:
Free verse
Reunited -- Both Audio and Text - W-IllustrationMany of us have a favorite possession from when we were young, and this
93-year old gentleman is no exception.
...
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Categories:
bursting, childhood, relationship,
Form:
Narrative
IronbarHe just appeared to me, like wispily curling
Chimney smoke,
One grim and early morning in the very midst of
Decembers briefest days, on the highest slope,
Toiling through my daily round; where, slowly
Driving up...
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Categories:
bursting, nature, universe,
Form:
Rhyme
Adopting YuaThe dust had all but settled from the sultry morning air when Sergeant Kessler tapped me on the arm to wake me up.
“Gonna be a hot one,” he announced, “a chance o’ rain...and could get...
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Categories:
bursting, child, daughter, inspirational, inspirational love, uplifting,
Form:
Narrative
TozzathPellucid pachyderms wade across
the purpling River Manjees
and Tozzath watches from the bank,
the seat of his maroon pantaloons soaked with mud,
his nostrils flaring with the fragrance of ombadalias,
whose lacey petals flutter
like the wings of long-dead...
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Categories:
bursting, death, fantasy, girl, magic, word play,
Form:
Free verse
The Legend of Justin Case - Both Audio and TextJustin Case - the weirdest guy in the all of Buxton county - did a lot o’ crazy things that most would never try,
And even weirder - just before he’d do the things he did...
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Categories:
bursting, hilarious,
Form:
Narrative
The Bate's Motel Does Exist - 2nd HalfHere's the deal, folks...
This is, as indicated, the 2nd HALF of this fairly lengthy poem. Due to Poetry Soup's file-size limitations, this piece had to be posted in 2 parts.
...
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Categories:
bursting, humor,
Form:
Narrative
Raid Versus WoeRaid versus woe
Black flag(s) show up
on social media platforms
when potential homicidal maniac(s)
communicate(s) intent to strike
with ambush and ready
read - able, eager, and willing
to embark upon murderous rampage.
Prospective killer armed to the teeth
usually a young bucking...
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Categories:
bursting, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 1st
Form:
Rhyme
The Word- Heroic Crown of SonnetsTHE LAW
Yet sacrifice would cover for Love's sake
before that time, the Law was sent to guide
sin offerings appeased man's guilty state
but could not change his rebel heart inside.
The WORD was written down on Torah scrolls
with...
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Categories:
bursting, bible, christian, life, light,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
You'll Be Coming Home With Us‘Round 5:15. on April 9th in 1967...wakened by a nearly imperceptible appeal...
My and Sarah’s eyes would open simultaneously, wondering if the whimpering down the hallway might be real.
Hearing them repeatedly, though faint and far between,...
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Categories:
bursting, inspirational,
Form:
Rhyme
Terror Bugs: Part 4 - A Freezer Mice Adventure[Continued from ‘Terror Bugs: Part 3 - A Freezer Mice Adventure’]
__________
The Terror Bugs pursued them through the skies toward the river
Cody flew just fast enough but still he felt a shiver
“Any slower and we’ll stall...
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Categories:
bursting, adventure,
Form:
Narrative
Heart
"Heart"
Deep fissures formed
in the cracks of
the nowhere place
where time leeched
bleeding claret
through the green
veined blues
protean bit by bit
the flesh disappears
prematurely 6ft under
mulch for rebirth
the subcontinent
conscientious conscience
inward reaching
the divine central tableau...
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Categories:
bursting, muse,
Form:
Free verse
War Is a War CrimeOnce wars were fought with sticks and stones
to flog the flesh and batter bones
and conquer lands, defending thrones -
though gods provoke, not one atones.
The multitude (by hordes beset
with battle-ax or bayonet)
braved blades, dyed red...
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Categories:
bursting, war, world,
Form:
Quatrain
Font Din BlackFont Din Black
so u real???
Warning! The following choppy, batty,
dopey: elegy = flaky, goofy, history: iffy,
jumpy, kooky: loopy, matty, nappy, nippy,
sketchy material prone to find the reader
dazed and bewildered, yet comfortably...
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Categories:
bursting, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, addiction,
Form:
Free verse
Taken By the WindI was out one day walking, along the glad sounding shore,
Gathering pretty seashells, and watching the seagulls soar.
To the left were lofty mountains, touching the azure skies,
To the right, sparkling ocean, and ahead the butterflies!
In...
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Categories:
bursting, beach, fantasy, mountains, nature, sea, weather, wind,
Form:
Couplet
SplatSplat
Explosions do not always signify combustion but often combustion arrives after many years of layering the layers and tightly packing. Thus meaning that a fried piece of fat could slip and burst out of the...
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Categories:
bursting, africa, animal,
Form:
I do not know?
When It Struck 12It will be wintertime very soon
Here comes the evening moon
Gradually, we'll be shining like the sun
Eventually, you and I will be made as one
Tick Tock Tick Tock
The clock is taunting me...
Tock tick tock tick
The time...
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Categories:
bursting, angst, confusion, emotions, time, winter, word play,
Form:
Free verse
Harvest InfernoTake me to the tombstone
let me touch the gray stone that stands
where life could not
I will put my face to that touchstone of deaf thunder,
What happened to your breath baby brother,
what happened in...
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Categories:
bursting, birthday, creation,
Form:
Epic