Long Clutching Poems
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Emo LoveWith this needle and thread I stitch the wounds Avril left
but with this blade I angrily carve a new
rough, short, jagged adjacent from the bone in my wrist
for a reflection of our relationship
and an outlet...
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Categories:
clutching, anxiety, beauty, emo, i love you, jealousy,
Form:
Narrative
Sonnets Lxi-LxxSonnets LXI-LXX
Erin
by Michael R. Burch
All that’s left of Ireland is her hair?
bright carrot?and her milkmaid-pallid skin,
her brilliant air of cavalier despair,
her train of children?some conceived in sin,
the others to avoid it. For nowhere
is evidence of...
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Categories:
clutching, heart, night, spiritual, wife, words, write, writing,
Form:
Sonnet
Poems About Butterflies and BeesPoems about Butterflies and Bees
Flight
by Michael R. Burch
It is the nature of loveliness to vanish
as butterfly wings, batting against nothingness
seek transcendence...
Album
by Michael R. Burch
I caress them—trapped in brittle cellophane—
and I see how young they were,...
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Categories:
clutching, animal, butterfly, flying, insect, sky, wind,
Form:
Rhyme
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:
clutching, anxiety, break up, change, confusion, sleep, time,
Form:
Verse
CleansingsCleansings
by Michael R. Burch
Walk here among the walking specters. Learn
inhuman patience. Flesh can only cleave
to bone this tightly if their hearts believe
that God is good, and never mind the Urn.
A lentil and a bean might...
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Categories:
clutching, holocaust, prison, race, racism, violence, world war
Form:
Verse
World War Ii Poems and Holocaust Poems - IWorld War II Poems and Holocaust Poems (I)
These are poems about World War II and the Holocaust, which is also called the Shoah in Hebrew.
Epitaph for a Child of the Holocaust
by Michael R. Burch
I...
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Categories:
clutching, evil, holocaust, racism, truth, war, world, world
Form:
Rhyme
Tail Spin, RevisedThis page shows my writing process and is part of Poetrysoup's first workshop. The workshop's intent is to reveal how revision strengthens a poem. Constructive feedback can be a gift. Should any journal...
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Categories:
clutching, courage, fear, love hurts,
Form:
Free verse
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:
clutching, death, fantasy, girl, magic, word play,
Form:
Free verse
Magic Bagpipes and the Five Jelly TykesA Bagpipe am I,
My drones point to the sky!
I am magic they say, since the wizard ‘spelled’ on me that day.
He gave me the gift of immortal time,
I could travel through centuries,
T’was a gift.
It was...
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Categories:
clutching, 5th grade, children, fantasy, imagination, magic,
Form:
Rhyme
Once Upon a Christmas 1954 - Part One - a Short Story From My MemoirEach year as Christmas rolls around, as I buckle under the pressure and stress of shopping for gifts for people that already have everything, I find myself remembering that Christmas of 1954.
Dad had joined...
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Categories:
clutching, christmas, nostalgia,
Form:
Narrative
Quest of the Heart: Chapter FourGrey Bane and the Dark Lord
Perched on a stalagmite jutting up from the floor
Hugo was staring at length across the cave
My eyes accustomed to the glow followed his gaze
Frozen in ice was my Love whom...
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Categories:
clutching, adventure, for her, journey, lost love, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Legacy of HiphopAnd that is why... this platform is here for answers they can't deny...
It's a truth within a complexity that is standing high...
Let us follow the roots and explore the depths of its grand design...
Cause every...
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Categories:
clutching, deep,
Form:
I do not know?
Justice In the Quest For LoveI saw how martyrs longed for love, and so began the play of my flitting heart
A strange girl had I become, with airs of fickle dream,
My heart an embodiment of wonder to all that dared...
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Categories:
clutching, beauty, birth, change, inspiration, life, light, love,
Form:
Narrative
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:
clutching, adventure, for her, journey, lost love, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 44“I apologize for any offense I have given to your wife,” DynDoeth.
DynDoeth just smiled. Joulupukki, after listening quietly since the meal began, spoke up.
“Seileach, Ceridfen has a wicked sense...
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Categories:
clutching, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Diary Notes: Another Day Sets In ParisDIARY NOTES : Mad-House Maths
March 30th., 2018 - Another day sets in Paris
The home-bound Octogenarian trundles from the Mall's town centre
Back laden with the day's shopping
His hands numb from clutching load-packed plastic bags during the...
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Categories:
clutching, abuse, french, inspirational, judgement, life, violence,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
A Welcome Intrusion - 1st HalfThis is, as indicated, the 1st HALF of this fairly lengthy poem. The 2nd half had to be posted separately due to Poetry Soup's file-size limitations. No other way I could manage to make it...
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Categories:
clutching, father son,
Form:
Narrative
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:
clutching, 2nd grade, 4th grade, 5th grade, 7th
Form:
Free verse
Escape From HorrorWhen I first awoke in this hospital, they tell me I had stared straight ahead and never uttered a word. I was in shock for a while, but now Dr. Albright, the therapist assigned to...
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Categories:
clutching, horror,
Form:
Narrative
Someone To Love-Part 1Book in hand, I strode the path
in awesome Autumn splendor.
The warmth of the sun caressing my cheek,
while the cool breeze gently tickled
goose bumps across my warm skin.
All around me the crepe paper litter
piled brilliance...
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Categories:
clutching, loss, love, love hurts,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The Male Menopause - Please Feel Free To Join In the CollaborationTed’s libido has now gone astray
He refused a quick roll in the hay
So what could be the cause -
It’s the male menopause
He’s been grumpy and snappy all day!
His...
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Categories:
clutching, age, body, humorous, men,
Form:
Limerick
Living with AgoraphobiaCoping with Agoraphobia well you are basically pent up
in your home for me it finally took it's toil my therapist
came to my home because I was basically limited spending
hours in a room...
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Categories:
clutching, america, angel, anxiety, appreciation, freedom, me, poetess,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Consciousness correctionClutching the moment
Before yesterday became yesterday,
The promise,
Before he pledged his love to me,
The colors,
Before autumn waltzed away,
Swaying in shadows of soft snowfall,
Breathing white, plunging into the thought,
A blizzard erasing the gentle flames,
Sheltered by...
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Categories:
clutching, appreciation, god, heaven, hope, joy, life, light,
Form:
Free verse
Booth Made Famous On April 15th MdccclxvBooth made famous on April 15th, MDCCCLXV...
Sic semper tyrannis ad mortem
("Thus always I bring death to tyrants").
Ever since early forerunners
of twenty first century
mankind (sprinted
across trackless expanse extant
upon planet Earth),
modern Homo Sapiens...
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Categories:
clutching, animal, confusion, family, fear, hate, history, men,
Form:
Free verse
Goodbye To HomeSand in my lungs and in every nook and cranny possible, nothing out here not even a simple bush or tree. Everything is dead and dry as a bone. My own skin holds no life,...
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Categories:
clutching, art, me, woman, old, me, old,
Form:
Epic