Long Chargers Poems

Sappho fragment #155
translation by Michael R. Burch 

A short revealing frock?
It's just my luck
your lips were made to mock!

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Sappho fragment #156
translation by Michael R. Burch 

She keeps her scents
in a dressing-case.
And her sense?
In some undiscoverable...

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Alone 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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Password Paranoia

Hey, how did you do that?
Do what?
Open that can?
I used the can opener.
I KNOW, but where did you put in the password?
What password?
The CAN OPENER password!
I stare at my 4-year-old grandchild, who is scowling...

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-Thinking of Iraq Ware Veterans on Veterans Day-

The day after the terrorists attacked our country, I joined the military and was deployed to Iraq. I fought in the desert far away from my sweet home...

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Sappho fragment #2
translation by Michael R. Burch

How can I compete with that damned man
who fancies himself one of the gods,
impressing you with his "eloquence" ...
when just the thought of sitting in your radiant presence,
of hearing...

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In Life’s old garden nations lived who all its fruits enjoyed,
While others longed in vain, while some the winter blasts destroyed;
Its trees are legion; some decay, While others flush with bloom,
And thousands still their birth...

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Abasiama
what are you?
An Angel?
A goddess?
what have you done to me?

What Is It?
Can I express  the feeling?
The puff feeling from wraps of Marijuana.
The feeling of cold bath on a sunny day.
I am a victim over...

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Dear Michael*,

Your name is derived from the heavens, and worn by God's trusted                      ...

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Call me silly
But I enjoy being on a beach with a good book
Minus the worry about chargers or glares on my screen
It's just me and my handsome hero, his beautiful love 
In that far away...

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The Black Hills wept for Thee

East of the Black Hills of South Dakota, 
On the Pine Ridge Reservation,
Live a proud tribe of Oglala Lakota, 
Part of the Great Sioux Nation.

On saddled chargers rode half the...

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He stands atop the ancient towers, both grey and cold as skies 
Which howl about and bow the trees, and blow his longish hair— 
His countenance stern, he stares below to where his army lies;...

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The Walk

Roans, chestnuts, blacks and greys
Stand the line in perfect swathes
Tunic buttons and brasses glisten
Brave men sit and for orders listen

The finest horse out on parade
Six hundred men, the Light Brigade
Speedy chargers of sword and...

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CHepH 111: MarYlin Mist saga 
CHepH 111: MarYlin Mist saga 
 
 
Chapter NINE: Still Stranded on Mars 
 

The Ground Car quit and the life support came on. MarYlin smiled 
At STOKKER glad that...

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Books to the library
photos to family.
Paint cans and lumber
from renovations years ago.
Most of the furniture
including the piano.
Fastest way to do this
is rent a dumpster.

On the internet
nothing’s permanent.
I like that.
Photosynthesis, evaporation
as if your spirit disappears
when the...

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Once upon a time of mobile 
chargers,
Lives a small frighten 
kittyhawk,
Sacred and lost in the jungle 
of Xs!
Trapped for months and 
hours,

One day she broke her chain,
And flew days until she reach 
a place,
A tree...

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A flush of adrenaline
A river running high
To fight against a carnal harmony
No dam can be erected
Was it the builder's creation?
Or a flaw to be ignored?
Butterflies abandon
Surge over sinew
A course, not yet to dry

Pleasure or pain
Cycles...

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Stephanus Marcus Book 1
Canto 3
Verses 4 and 5

" Archbishop marries James and me in own
cathedral celebrating Day of Saints.
With whitish robe and amethystine stone,
pent hopes will be released of tied restraints.
Then my heart, free of...

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No one could hold a candle to you now,
There were two minds and two hearts,
And we together with one sacred vow,
Somehow the secret of night imparts
No one could hold a candle to you now.

Time stopped...

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To catch a cabinet is to firstly attach a handle to a hook. Then it is possible to stand on a high street swooshing around with the line. Creaky cranky cabinets called. Cannot one single...

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This load is too heavy
To carry alone
I’ll never be ready 
For you to come home

I try and try harder
Even, I, see no effort
In a world of lost chargers
And abundance of ports

These walls are wild demons
They...

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Ran to Oxford to receive a-
super education, Yale yelled at me
"why don't you come learn this side"
Oh Harvard knowing that it's so hard
To have it and be everywhere at-
the same time,  royal minded: Princeton,...

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Many ages the old tower had stood
yet once it had been the very centre
of activity to all who enter
for centuries now  the weather withstood

Witness to many battles all hard fought
many feasts and weddings held...

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Plucky 
Unlucky 
Carry on regardless 
What is a sadist 
Without his Chargers 
Tripping and falling over for the amusement of other's 
Fodder for Bird's to drop on
While the bellyaching say
That is supposed to be lucky
But...

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Making wishes on Dandelions in the moon light.
Knights on white chargers, oh what a sight. 
Two good looking princes having a fight. 
Swords drawn and fencing under starlight.

A ballet performed for the man in the...

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Super Bowl Sunday is finally here
same excitement as Staubach and Griese
drinkers have an excuse to drink more beer
today’s Super Bowl not sure if I’ll see

the Super Bowl is much more than a game
those commercials bring...

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