Long Casually Poems
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Summer
“SUMMER”
Where
has Summer
gone?
The world
has lost
Summer
Sweet
little
dream
missing
all those other
beautiful
small dreams
seen as toys
small and
inconsequential
casually tossed aside,
disposable play,
things
pure shining lights
smiling eyes once so bright,
switched off,
'neath...
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Categories:
casually, abuse, child abuse,
Form:
Epic
Open Oceans
"Open Oceans"
Kneeling on pearls
wisdom preys
praying
preying
hungry hearts
count the days
wasting away
in all that preying
for prayers
to be answered
children become
strangers
reading
strange words
finding
themselves puzzled
genuflecting to a deity
they do not know, nor wish to
fumbling
mouths closed,
swallowed hole
in the...
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Categories:
casually, journey, love, mother daughter,
Form:
Epic
Poems About Poems VPoems about Poems V
Distances
by Michael R. Burch
There is a small cleanness about her,
as though she has always just been washed,
and there is a dull obedience to convention
in her accommodating slenderness
as she feints at her salad.
She...
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Categories:
casually, metaphor, poems, poetry, poets, words, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Yosa Buson TranslationsYosa Buson haiku translations
On the temple’s great bronze gong
a butterfly
snoozes.
?Yosa Buson, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Hard to describe:
this light sensation of being pinched
by a butterfly!
?Yosa Buson, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Not to worry...
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Categories:
casually, age, animal, autumn, father, moon, mother, nature,
Form:
Haiku
Still wrestling with impasse to contentmentStill wrestling with impasse to contentment
Dispense sing with fidelity blithely agog
just me and mine dark shadow
slinking along outer limits of
the edge of night doth blog
passivity, the path
of least resistance ohm my dog,
shocking...
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Categories:
casually, abuse, adventure, beauty, body, christmas, desire, father
Form:
Rhyme
Of Winks and Wings - Part 1I have a little story to tell you ... it's absolutely true, of course, at least as far as I'm concerned, but you can take it as you wish - as a tale, a fact,...
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Categories:
casually, autumn, life, lost love, nature, soulmate,
Form:
Free verse
Hymn To FarewellWhy does my multicultural applauding message,
my polycultural cheerleading,
sound so monocultural chant, rant,
a passionless litany of redundant verse?
Who would have it said of their voice
It remains both too rich
and yet wandering on far too long?
Even resonance
can...
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Categories:
casually, bullying, earth, education, health, humor, integrity, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
PrefaceGreetings to those who would willingly seek admission to theater of the absurd. Zoltan Goliath and Otis Trench are masters of the avant-garde genre silent musicals for the imaginary stage, an art form sui generis....
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Categories:
casually, allegory, literature,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Plane Crashes Fate Takes OverIt was Christmas Eve and I was at the airport,
Not a soul in sight, almost deserted, it was 10.00 pm,
Only two hours before Christmas day,
Perhaps if I got on a plane, I would see Santa...
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Categories:
casually, love,
Form:
Free verse
Wrestling With Impasse To ContentmentWrestling with impasse to contentment
Dispense sing with fidelity blithely agog
just me and mine dark shadow
slinking along the edge of night doth blog
passivity, the path of least resistance ohm my dog,
shocking voltage surges an emphatic...
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Categories:
casually, abuse, adventure, age, anger, betrayal, black african
Form:
Rhyme
Visit to Heaven
I dreamed I went to heaven,
...
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Categories:
casually, dream,
Form:
Rhyme
Starlight and MoonlightThese are poems about starlight and moonlight, moons and stars, dreams and visions, illuminations and intimations …
Will There Be Starlight
by Michael R. Burch
Will there be starlight
tonight
while she gathers
damask
and lilac
and sweet-scented heathers?
And will she find...
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Categories:
casually, dark, dream, love, moon, night, star, stars,
Form:
Rhyme
The Crow Ghost of Haunting FootstepsBreak my neck; snap it in two, snap it in half
don't give me that incredulous, frightened look as I ask
don't hesitate in front of me, please just do me this favor
so I gain a halo,...
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Categories:
casually, i love you, i miss you, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 56“This will come to an end now,” Rian demanded! Joulupukki nudged Dyndoeth and glanced at the crystals in each corner of the ceiling. He saw the elf begin to tense. He also noticed...
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Categories:
casually, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Gold Is Your SoulGold is your soul
The drive there will be boring.
The arrival so momentous!
The disappointing greeters;
The sights not quite as expected.
The smell at times will be rancid.
The art of it all will be lost.
They will say “Welcome...
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Categories:
casually, art, journey, music, paris, romance, solitude,
Form:
Bio
The Pages
"The Pages"
Missing all those years
like a page you could turn,
a book you could throw casually aside,
to be eternally forgotten in electric shady libraries;
at some point you turned around,
and remembered, what you long...
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Categories:
casually, i am, love,
Form:
Free verse
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 17
Erlenkönig pulled the chair out beside Aisling's and sat on the side of the table. A large, luxuriant and ornate chair headed the end of the table,
several places down from where he sat...
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Categories:
casually, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Lux Vitae Love Stories of the Fey: In the Clouds
Lux Vitae Love Stories of The Fey:
“In the Clouds”
“What are you looking at Mum?”
“They come in the clouds you know”, she said to her daughter
“Every night, the same time, the numbers seem to grow,...
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Categories:
casually, adventure, fairy, fantasy, journey, mystery, mythology, science
Form:
Free verse
The Bard of Ancient SmyrnaAfter enjoying a pleasant walk, I then spent an hour at a park,
And I relished the dulcet sounds, of cheery airborne skylarks.
The blooms were so lovely, all sultry in the fervid sunshine,
And the hummingbirds were...
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Categories:
casually, adventure, age, fantasy, history, imagery, poetry, time,
Form:
Couplet
Excerpt From Fake Encomium Given Years AgoExcerpt from “fake” encomium given years ago...
at Lake Wobegone High School (my alma mater),
and recently discovered ridiculous rough draft
amidst plethora of junk emails
while practice reading some lines
regarding Midsummer Night's Dream
upcoming performance.
Arch...
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Categories:
casually, 11th grade, 12th grade, age, america, angel,
Form:
Free verse
New Year's Eve 2022New Year's Eve 2022
Yours truly riddled with social anxiety,
hence (billy me) he will idle away
December 31st, 2022
sequestered (with the missus)
hunkered down in his mancave
while madding crowd
entertains reckons partition of time
into...
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Categories:
casually, adventure, celebration, dance, december, holiday, january, new
Form:
Free verse
By George Burning Hard, I Shaw Tried To PlaywrightBy George (burning hard), I Shaw tried to playwright
offers his unsolicited tidbits
as scene courtesy
the following virtually
staged philosophical insight.
Arch back like
a professional ballet dancer
to stand out from other pedestrian applicants
seeking...
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Categories:
casually, adventure, age, angel, appreciation, beauty, celebration, character,
Form:
Free verse
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 86“Have you noticed the pounding against the opening of the cavern,” Lumi asked him?
“I have,” Joulupukki responded. “Whatever it is seems to be trying to force their way in....
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Categories:
casually, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
The Lay of the Best Man - Part 2The Lay of The Best Man - Part Two
I will not understate my distaste, but I do not hate. I rate hate as being irate
Shall I underrate the spate of your hate as you devastate;...
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Categories:
casually, humanity, men,
Form:
Lay
Rassphrass and Leroy's Love StoryRassaphrass’s husband LeRoy went out for garlic bread on a Tuesday. She ate all the spaghetti and meatballs before he returned, to teach him a lesson, because he took too long. He brought...
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Categories:
casually, fun,
Form:
Narrative