Long Collapsing Poems
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Poetically Pathetic CrowJust enough to make it just
I want this to be enough to make this
The last song ever, the last note ever
The last romantically, poetically sad excuse for an apology, epilogue
But I've already messed up the...
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Categories:
collapsing, lonely, longing, loss, lost, lost love, love,
Form:
Free verse
RumorsRumors
How we arrived at where we are
By Franklin Price
05/03/2020
By now you've heard the rumors
How Covid-19 came to Earth
How it did not come here naturally
How Wuhan, China gave it birth
Maybe aided by our government
To make...
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Categories:
collapsing, america, health, hope, leadership, perspective, recovery from,
Form:
Rhyme
RipR.I.P.
by Michael R. Burch
When I am lain to rest
and my soul is no longer intact,
but dissolving, like a sunset
diminishing to the west...
and when at last
before His throne my past
is put to test
and the demons...
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Categories:
collapsing, death, dream, funeral, grave, judgement, sleep, sunset,
Form:
Verse
For All That I RememberedFor All That I Remembered
by Michael R. Burch
For all that I remembered, I forgot
her name, her face, the reason that we loved ...
and yet I hold her close within my thought:
I feel the burnished weight...
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Categories:
collapsing, desire, dream, memory, remember, sad love, soulmate,
Form:
Sonnet
Enheduanna TranslationsEnheduanna is the first writer we know by name. She created the first poetry anthology and hymnal, circa 2250 BC, in ancient Sumer. She was the daughter of King Saragon the Great.
Lament to the...
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Categories:
collapsing, god, moon, poems, poetess, poetry, religion, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
Modern Sonnets IMODERN SONNETS I
I prefer the original definition of the sonnet as a “little song” of indeterminate form and length. These modern sonnets vary from more-or-less traditional to free verse.
Maker, Fakir, Curer
by Michael R. Burch
A poem...
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Categories:
collapsing, art, freedom, romantic, romantic love, song, write,
Form:
Sonnet
Sonnets Xxv-XxxiiSonnets XXV-XXXII
Archaischer Torso Apollos (“Archaic Torso of Apollo”)
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
We cannot know the beheaded god
nor his eyes' forfeited visions. But still
the figure's trunk glows with the strange vitality
of a...
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Categories:
collapsing, bereavement, body, cancer, change, death, depression, life,
Form:
Sonnet
Translation of the Windmills of Your Mind By T WignesanTranslation of Les Moulins de mon Cœur-THE WINDMILLS OF YOUR MIND by T. Wignesan
(For the orignal text in French by Eddy MARNAY : see here below. The English version by Marilyn and Alan BERGMAN differs...
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Categories:
collapsing, autumn, destiny, heartbroken, lost love, poetry, solitude,
Form:
Elegiac Lyric
Lament To the Spirit of WarLament to the Spirit of War
by Enheduanna (circa 2285-2250 BCE)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
You hack down everything you see, War God!
Rising on fearsome wings
you rush to destroy the land:
raging like thunderstorms,
howling like hurricanes,
screaming like...
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Categories:
collapsing, allegory, analogy, conflict, death, soldier, storm, war,
Form:
Free verse
ChernobylChernobyl.
A nuclear disaster, in the Russian town Chernobyl,
An odor-less killer, the invisible force.
As the radiation escapes, from the crumbling reactor,
We must cool it down, before it blows.
Evacuate Pripyat, the employee’s town,
The town of 35000; first...
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Categories:
collapsing, cry, death, sun, world,
Form:
I do not know?
A Poly-Amorous Man(One poet's vision of what being indwelled by Christ's heart might look like)
What makes me feel loved isn't easy to say,
And not because the heart of...
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Categories:
collapsing, love, integrity,
Form:
Rhyme
Stitches and Dreamst was half past five before sunrise,
when darkness faded into the misty Saturday's dawn,
just an hour after a bloody confrontation,
but a brave woman descended into a blood-bathed
street of Lustre,
with hungry cats...
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Categories:
collapsing, change,
Form:
Ballad
Dreams I Translation of Etiemble S Poem Reves I By T WignesanThe Deception of Free Verse: Dreams I, Translation of Etiemble’s L’imposture du vers libre by T. Wignesan
(From René Etiemble’s only poetry collection: le Coeur et la cendre: soixante ans de poésie (the heart and...
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Categories:
collapsing, creation,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
The Square Root of BeirutThe Square Root of Beiruit
Ten men bending while theyre pretending to be near the ending
A capitalist nightmare glares like rotten fruit
The squate root of Beiruit
No it isn’t fair, so they’ll start to loot
The soldiers are...
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Categories:
collapsing, introspection, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Rhythm and PoetryDamn where is my mind at, striving and finding the best way to adapt,
Collapsing the conditioning through written raps that never nap,
...
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Categories:
collapsing, destiny, dream, meaningful, psychological, rap, surreal, wisdom,
Form:
Rhyme
The Secret Lives of Chimney Pots VSpawned from the loins that
Perpetuated the loyal serfs mongrel
Seed:-
These peoples of a conditioned and
"Resigned-To-it-all" breed.
Born into the enveloping tedium
Of interlocking days...Interwoven
With interlocking days -
Victims of stark circumstance
And vague promises unmade.
Gregariously living out their lives
When...
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Categories:
collapsing, philosophy,
Form:
Rhyme
The Village On the Water ViBut we of the Three Tribes live undiscovered
In the reverberating stillness of the
Three Gorges...
And are therefore unknown to the warring mongol;
His impassioned lusts -- his...
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Categories:
collapsing, celebration, community, environment,
Form:
Free verse
Ashoremargins stimulate and juxtapose
edges greet with troubled, disturbing friction
faraway forces exert influence and combine relentlessly
how the Sun and Moon dance together about the planet Earth
their grasping hands...
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Categories:
collapsing, beach, environment, humanity, ocean,
Form:
Verse
Accumulating Anger: the Rivers of Dimensions Chapter 2When it comes to us, we want to break free from despondency
When it comes to me, I don't want you to be angry at me
So, I look up to the rivers of dimensions for my...
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Categories:
collapsing, anger, angst, conflict, emotions, encouraging, endurance, muse,
Form:
Rhyme
Hypothetical Lust CollabHypothetical Lust
...
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Categories:
collapsing, allegory, crazy, growth, lust, mystery, wisdom, words,
Form:
Epic
King of Kings: 91-17211 Contracted in this state our marriage made
And only far too late we recognize
That gladly with Reptilian Flesh we’ve laid
The veil torn away revealing eyes
Of yellow flame exposéd we surmise
Out from the darkened room these floating...
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Categories:
collapsing, metaphor,
Form:
Epic
The Amber Eye of TomorrowIt was just a silhouette but it reminds me why I left the spirit box closed
I felt as though the hand I was holding
Was yours and not my own
In my want to believe
But reality...
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Categories:
collapsing, crush, dream, feelings, growing up, nostalgia, perspective,
Form:
Free verse
The Senior LuncheonYouthGroup interviews WiseElder lunch crowd
Notes:
(1) What do you recommend for improving our long-term health prospects?
Question met with quiet,
not smug,
possibly embarrassed?
amusement.
Honey,
I'm eighty years old.
My goal is to continue gracefully accepting my future losses.
I'm not sure that...
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Categories:
collapsing, age, childhood, health, meaningful, youth,
Form:
Political Verse
ComfortThe feeling of comfort
Is one of the most incredible and humbling
Emotions that has ever flooded through my veins
And caressed every nerve in my body.
Having all of your troubles be lessened
And the ache of your troubled...
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Categories:
collapsing, angel, anxiety, , Lullaby,
Form:
Free verse
Lost the Plot To Find a WayDo not read if offended by human imagination
as this will appear heretical to religious people,
and perhaps nonsensical to everyone else
As far as I can perceive this universe began
the moment I was born...
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Categories:
collapsing, death, universe,
Form:
Free verse