Long Claw Poems
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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:
claw, identity, image, imagery, metaphor, mirror, self, symbolism,
Form:
Rhyme
Nemesis, Confrontation and the Rejoined Battle, Now CompletedNemesis, Confrontation And The Rejoined Battle,
Now Completed
(Nemesis) - Part One
O'lord of blight dare thee to now abide
Leaving thy abode to earthen realm ride
As punisher with dark universal might
As grief bearer, humanity to smite!
Dar'est thee enter,...
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Categories:
claw, art, creation, faith, humanity, light, meaningful, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
BeckoningBeckoning
by Michael R. Burch
Yesterday the wind whispered my name
while the blazing locks
of her rampant mane
lay heavy on mine.
And yesterday
I saw the way
the wind caressed tall pines
in forests laced by glinting streams
and thick with...
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Categories:
claw, anxiety, break up, change, confusion, sleep, time,
Form:
Verse
Apocalyptic Poems IiThese are prophetic poems and apocalyptic poems ...
Beast 666
by Michael R. Burch
“... what rough beast ... slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?”?W. B. Yeats
Brutality is a cross
wooden, blood-stained,
gas hissing, sibilant,
lungs gilled, deveined,
red flecks on a...
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Categories:
claw, earth, earth day, environment, future, visionary, weather,
Form:
Rhyme
Come Down, For Harold BloomCome Down
by Michael R. Burch
for Harold Bloom
Come down, O, come down
from your high mountain tower.
How coldly the wind blows,
how late this chill hour ...
and I cannot wait
for a meteor shower
to show you the time
must be...
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Categories:
claw, books, culture, discrimination, education, extended metaphor, literature,
Form:
Sonnet
What Good Are Our TearsWhat Good Are Our Tears?
by Michael R. Burch
What good are our tears?
They will not spare the dying their anguish.
What good is our concern
to a child sick of living, waiting to perish?
What good, the warm benevolence...
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Categories:
claw, child, child abuse, children, death, poverty, sick,
Form:
Free verse
This World of DewTHIS WORLD OF DEW
This world?
Moonlit dew
flicked from a crane's bill.
—Eihei Dogen Kigen, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Seventy-one?
How long
can a dewdrop last?
—Eihei Dogen Kigen, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Dewdrops beading grass-blades
die before...
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Categories:
claw, age, art, autumn, bereavement, death, life, time,
Form:
Haiku
Poems About RegretRegret
by Michael R. Burch
Regret,
a bitter
ache to bear . . .
once starlight
languished
in your hair . . .
a shining there
as brief
as rare.
Regret . . .
a pain
I chose to bear . . .
unleash
the torrent
of your hair . ....
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Categories:
claw, memory, pain, remember, sad, sorrow, sorry, sympathy,
Form:
Rhyme
Apocalyptic Poems IiiThese are prophetic poems and apocalyptic poems about the earth, climate change, global warming, extinction events, and mankind's role on an endangered world ...
Polish
by Michael R. Burch
Your fingers end in talons?
the ones you trim to...
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Categories:
claw, earth, earth day, environment, humanity, nature, tree,
Form:
Rhyme
Light On the Devil's Chord - the ChallengeMy hair bristled in the crisp breeze
Excitement spreading throughout my body
Even the sudden cold amused my fingertips,
Tingles spreading through my hands and up my arms
Soon I would be there too. . .
In the murky shadows...
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Categories:
claw, adventure, change, cool, imagination, music, sick, strength,
Form:
Narrative
Catonita Strikes - Part One: a Freezer Mice AdventureContinued from FREEZER MICE
The cat had travelled straight from hell, a hell beyond the stars
The cat that theories claim once levied genocide on Mars
She now seeks vengeance on descendants of the primal shrew
Whoever knew that...
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Categories:
claw, adventure,
Form:
Narrative
Love Has a Southern FlavorLove has a Southern flavor: honeydew,
ripe cantaloupe, the honeysuckle’s spout
we tilt to basking faces to breathe out
the ordinary, and inhale perfume ...
Love’s Dixieland-rambunctious: tangled vines,
wild clematis, the gold-brocaded leaves
that will not keep their order in...
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Categories:
claw, desire, longing, love, romance, romantic, romantic love,
Form:
Sonnet
Quest of the Heart: Chapter One, ContOf Ghosts and fiends in Twilight, Cont.
A thought flashed in my mind from the old tales told
The lore of the beast and I had felt his foul breath
I had seconds to act or be devoured...
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Categories:
claw, adventure, for her, journey, lost love, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Fluent In CryingI have to admit
The school where I work
Needs everyone to be
Able to speak Spanish.
Because the parents do.
We are an 82 percent
Spanish-speaking community.
I’ve taken Spanish 4 times.
And I have failed Spanish 4 times.
I have no idea...
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Categories:
claw, 2nd grade, 4th grade, 5th grade, 7th
Form:
Free verse
The RantGone now are the wondrous minds of old,
whose era treasured learning over gold,
And humble were the thoughts and words of these,
who, trothed to truth, would now be left displeased,
by hurried tempers bent on winning wars,
neglectful...
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Categories:
claw, people, philosophy, political, society, truth, universe, wisdom,
Form:
Didactic
Burning Truth Steps ForwardSomething that stuns me from revelations awakening
All good people of the world see you Isis
clearly diamond cut your scale tips heavy
with the wealth that's stolen from foreign lands
to build weapons of...
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Categories:
claw, abortion, addiction, allusion, betrayal, child abuse, creation,
Form:
Verse
Spy Breidenthal -Part 1-“Without you, now I see
How fragile the world can be
And I know you've gone away,
But in my heart you'll always stay” –Katie Melua
There is a peculiar feeling I remember experiencing when the news came
...
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Categories:
claw, animal, appreciation, cat, dedication, heartbroken, life, missing,
Form:
Narrative
The SpeechwriterNot too many decades out of college
I finally landed my first full-time job,
as a White House speech writer.
I know,
you would expect
I would not start at the top
and then claw
and grab
and snatch my way to the...
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Categories:
claw, earth, freedom, humor, integrity, patriotic, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Frozen Soul Within Her HeartFrozen Soul Within Her Heart-
She's Terrified to Feel
Her shadowed past still haunts her-
each night as every light-
fades back into the darkness,
as ghostly beings rise.
She gave her heart to someone,
and...
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Categories:
claw, emotions, heartbroken, missing,
Form:
Free verse
The Screaming Souls of a Soundless ForestI romanticize the single room without a jurisdiction
If only I could filter through a voice of logic over reaction
Would it impel my inner child to regress into an illusion?
My mind composes a structure but...
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Categories:
claw, absence, anger, angst, betrayal, birthday, conflict, longing,
Form:
Free verse
Canto Xxii Hell Translation Part 2(continued previous part 1)
The duke then: “Tell now: of others indeed
Some Latin among sinners do you know
Behind pitch?”. And he “I had to secede,
It’s not much, from one who near had to stow.
I...
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Categories:
claw, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
Perspective of An Invisible People"Perspective of an Invisible People"
Struggling for over four hundred years
Drowning in rivers of tears
Throughout the country's history
Accepting black people, still a mystery
Since the country's discovery, we've been abused
Standing with strength, will prevent us from...
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Categories:
claw, america, emotions, encouraging, endurance, faith, family, forgiveness,
Form:
Free verse
Confessions of a Baby SnatcherThis is my last confession; there will be no more.
I am impercipient and slow from last night's sleeping pill,
wincing away from the harshness of day.
Kitchen cold, the room tear-splintered,
sunlight striking a watery rainbow in my...
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Categories:
claw, baby, loss,
Form:
Free verse
Love Letters From Me To HerionDear Heroin,
My name is Pamela,
I'm writing to you Because I've heard of some stories of what you can do. I heard you can stop me from feeling insane, I heard you have...
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Categories:
claw, dark, pain,
Form:
ABC
Intermission Fool - Cafeteria MonitorCan I go to the bathroom? This place is full of jackasses. This place is full of jackasses jerking each other off. This place is full of ignorant, parochial, zit-sucking jackasses undeserving of their place...
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Categories:
claw, 10th grade, allegory, food, school,
Form:
Burlesque