Long Cane Poems
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The Amistad MutinyThe Amistad Mutiny
Slavery, a dirty word no matter how it’s pronounced:
Abducted and herded to the slave fortress of Lomboko1 for trade.
To be tossed in chains below deck on the Portuguese ship Tecora,2
Sailing the Atlantic Middle...
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Categories:
cane, africa, america, history, racism, slavery, world,
Form:
Verse
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION ARLINGTON HEIGHTS ILLINOISCRISIS SESSION FBI HUMAN RESOURCE DIVISION NON-REDACTED
FBI: HELLO WHAT IS YOUR EMERGENCY
AGENT BROWN: HELLO THIS IS AGANT BROWN AND THAT DARK PLACE IS RETURNING AGAIN I AM IN CRISIS AGAIN
FBI: OKAY WE ARE HERE...
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Categories:
cane, america, analogy, anxiety, mental illness, military, patriotic,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Prose PoemsProse Poems
Something
by Michael R. Burch
Something inescapable is lost?lost like a pale vapor curling up into shafts of moonlight, vanishing in a gust of wind toward an expanse of stars immeasurable and void. Something uncapturable is...
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Categories:
cane, animal, child, childhood, children, magic, rose, science,
Form:
Prose
Treasures That May Be Found In Destiny's New ShiftI.
Treasures That May Be Found In Destiny's New Shift
( Mille viri sententia agere nescit donec suscipit calamum scribere.)
For a brief spell, I hung my hammock in the shade
of the ancient tall oak tree, that God's...
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Categories:
cane, appreciation, art, blessing, care, dedication, poetry, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
The Dancing: the Last DanceWas it a cruel twist of fate?
Sneering, laughing chance?
Perhaps something I ate?
A bad bout of happenstance?
It wrenched and tore at my gut,
A sickening, sober, foreboding sign.
Wretched chance it was not,
This time was by insidious design.
The...
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Categories:
cane, allusion, analogy, angst, anxiety, dance, dark, metaphor,
Form:
Rhyme
Your SanityStuck in place…
Free in space…
you’re insane
I’m as sweet as sugar cane…
Whatever happened to your unique personality?
Whatever happened to your sanity?
Has it transformed to insanity?
I like the way you make me feel
Oh, you don’t...
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Categories:
cane, anger, angst, appreciation, beauty, change, emotions, encouraging,
Form:
Rhyme
Tiny Town Events - 2nd Half -- Text With IllustrationTHIS IS THE SECOND 1/2 of my "Tiny Town Events" piece, posted separately, (one half at a time), due to Poetry Soup's poem maximum-length requirement.
To enjoy the entire story, you'll need to first go to...
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Categories:
cane, love,
Form:
Narrative
For Onion Pt 2I miss the old days where only you had my key
I miss the old times - running wild and free
I miss the old house and your pool and banana tree
I miss the days when it...
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Categories:
cane, child,
Form:
Rhyme
Proxy WeddingSweat is dribbling down my face, I am feeling hot
I can still hear the cracking sound swirling around
And the night dancing to its own rhythm
The night suddenly fades in and the journey begin
That night...
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Categories:
cane, character, destiny, england, heaven, hope, love, romantic,
Form:
Narrative
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:
cane, angel, arabic, baby, caregiving,
Form:
Sonnet
Barefoot In the Bushfires of the Vanities
"Barefoot in the Bushfires of the Vanities"
Heat rises slowly to rapture flames licking and teasing
Blue Ghostgums to stretch and crack wide open
as Fire spreads molten sweet sap bleeding burgundy all over
amber gold wild bush...
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Categories:
cane, art, life, muse, psychological, sensual,
Form:
Free verse
June 12th 2017 Transition Revisited and Revised Today 4 2 2021June 12th 2017 TRANSITION revisited and revised today 4/2/2021
While scrolling over outdated docs
(i.e. namely OpenOffice documents)
derrière seated upon hard backed chair,
yours truly came upon following poem
to share with anonymous readers,
whereby slight modifications
got made to...
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Categories:
cane, adventure, angel, anxiety, blessing, conflict, husband, july,
Form:
Rhyme
Story About Santa ContestSponsor: Carol Eastman
Long before Christmas had become a jolly folklore,
I met a grandfatherly man...
He was clean shaven, tiny and crabby,
And always wore a floppy black suit, his name was Mr. Atnas.
See, I was at such...
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Categories:
cane, christmas, joy, nature,
Form:
Free verse
Drunk Tank ShankI once spent a week in the drunk tank
couldn't handle the spirits that I drank
the cuisine wasn't half bad
we even had a few laughs
but I had to guard my butt with a shank
……………………………………………………………………….
It used to...
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Categories:
cane, drink, joy, tribute,
Form:
Limerick
The Dancing: the Return ThereofPrelude
After banishing my foe off to hell
The Lord took pity on my soul
And returned it to my undead shell
Again, I was alive and whole
But the consequences of a second chance
Meant that I would have...
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Categories:
cane, allusion, analogy, angst, anxiety, dance, dark, metaphor,
Form:
Rhyme
The Odium of SodiumLike a Phoenix, I rise up from the ashes of my past
Your beautiful tune mended the Earth with exquisite mirth
Like a runner, I'm running forward to the finish line oh so fast
You're...
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Categories:
cane, betrayal, crazy, dark, deep, depression, desire, encouraging,
Form:
Verse
Pheonix: Bleeding Hearts and Blue Violets
"PHOENIX: Bleeding Hearts and Blue Violets”
Broken Hearts bleeding red
You lie in white sheets
Turning in the crisp clean pages muddy with
Black Dogs barking in your head
They run all night chasing your tail
You twist and turn...
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Categories:
cane, children, daughter, faith, family, imagery, love, mother,
Form:
Free verse
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:
cane, allah, arabic, judgement, race, racism, rights, visionary,
Form:
Free verse
Ten Years, Somewhere In Their Lost Neighbourhood
“Ten Years, Somewhere in their Lost Neighbourhood”
Of course,
he said, like a god,
there is no course,
one must simply go with the flow
the penumbra stands waivering its existence,
a kind of deactivation, fuzzy borderline hanging,
backing the art...
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Categories:
cane, muse,
Form:
Narrative
Barking Up the Wrong Tree
“Barking Up the Wrong Tree”
ghost gums
shed their bark
the min-min
makes good use of it
papyrus, soft enough to
imprint and write
thoughts, like the
ripening welts of
green ants
small bites sting
subcutaneous and
meridional,
terra...
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Categories:
cane, morning, muse, nature, night,
Form:
Free verse
Laughing Pines, Part TwoWill you, won’t you join the dance,
We like to dance here every night,
Moving slowly at the speed of light.
Won’t you give yourself half a chance,
Even two left feet are alright.
The Bipolar Coaster is an excellent...
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Categories:
cane, adventure, allusion, analogy, imagery, imagination, metaphor, travel,
Form:
Rhyme
Around MeI woke up this morning form a puss nap to face the miserable day screaming in my back, I turned around to see who it was but I did not see anyone and suddenly my...
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Categories:
cane, beauty, character, cheer up, chocolate, community, confidence,
Form:
Narrative
Aphrodisiac 18plusAphrodisiac (18+)
We got beaten by the rain on our way home
Looking so wet and feeling cold all home alone
She is not my bride and I'm not her groom
She is not my girlfriend and I'm...
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Categories:
cane, adventure, angel,
Form:
I do not know?
Please Michelle ObamaPlease Michelle Obama...
can you save American democracy?
I highly hugely grant
Barack Hussein belated kudos
what with his wizardesses
in tow wrought wonders
to one nation analogous
while an under dog
sweeping in like...
It's a Bird... It's...
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Categories:
cane, 12th grade, america, appreciation, beautiful, freedom, health,
Form:
Free verse
Saturday Night SmokeSaturday Night Smoke
It is Saturday night, and I have to put up a terrible fight,
It is Saturday night, and the people are walking around with much delight, the days are creeping up slowly...
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Categories:
cane, anxiety, appreciation, art, business, community, growth, hope,
Form:
Narrative