Long Contained Poems
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Grand Priorities
What fills your goals, son?
I told you!
Need to get my car rolling [life rolling, love rolling]
yesterday,
if not today...
If I may interrupt
to process mindful resilience
for a bit...
Let me ask again:
Noticing you are concerned about long-winded
and -winding
and...
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Categories:
contained, black african american, earth, health, nature, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Pandemic-Climate Recovery Teams
In Colchester, CT,
and possibly in your town too,
we have a LongTerm ReCoVery Committee
looking at 20/20 prevision
for post-pandemic climate health revisions
for wealthy local and global EarthJustice.
So, what have I noticed
that might be economically
and ecologically win/win useful?
In...
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Categories:
contained, community, earth, health, integrity, peace, political, power,
Form:
Political Verse
Learning To Recreate Health
From Edward de Bono's Lateral Thinking: Creativity Step by [NonHierarchical] Step
Summary
The emphasis in education has always been on logical sequential thinking which is
by [deductively analytical academic] tradition
the only proper [true, good] use of...
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Categories:
contained, creation, culture, health, humor, nature, power, psychological,
Form:
Prose Poetry
No Mark
No Mark
by Michael R. Burch
A wave implodes,
impaled upon
impassive rocks...
this evening
the thunder of the sea
is a wild music filling my ear...
you are leaving
and the ungrieving
winds demur...
telling me
that nothing returns
as it was before...
here where you have...
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Categories:
contained, break up, change, divorce, extended metaphor, farewell,
Form:
Verse
Modern Sonnets I
MODERN 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:
contained, art, freedom, romantic, romantic love, song, write,
Form:
Sonnet
Factoidman and Shallowman - Part 2
[Now ShallowMan is quite content
receiving FactoidMan’s consent
to quibble and express dissent
as long as keeping covenant
with fingers crossed and belfry bent
when viewing Facts in sealed cement:]
SM
“The Facts you give me circumvent
those ‘truths’ your chuckles supplement;
although they...
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Categories:
contained, society, truth, universe,
Form:
Rhyme
My Spirit Animal
The soul of the earth is wrapped up inside
And the spirit of God is walking beside me
The universe rests upon my shoulder
And I can feel its power moving all over
embracing the soul of man
And causing...
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Categories:
contained, 8th grade, blessing, character, encouraging, environment, faith,
Form:
Narrative
U Arson murder of 9 totally redacted to fit the necessary needs of the Bureau
Special Agent Alan King arrived in his Buick dragging my husband to Foss park for his failed lie detector test where I wore wires pregnant for the FBI my husband was scared to death after...
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Categories:
contained, allah,
Form:
Nazm
Victim 9 checker cab company arson not ruled out Ciro Gargano my abusive ex husband
You still frighten me Ciro Gargano the way you control city officials after committing arson murders of 8 fire chief gene kalinowski was great in calling in that favour even though you and my abusive...
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Categories:
contained, allah,
Form:
Masnavi
Growing Up, La - Part 2
- - Chapter 2: Adult Responsibility (With Some Breaks) - -
By ten years old, no weekends off,
Or Saturday cartoons,
Although I did have cash to spend,
I felt my...
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Categories:
contained, life, , cute,
Form:
Rhyme
Happy Fourth of July, Or Happy Independence Day
Happy Fourth Of July, Or Happy Independence Day
On this day we celebrate and commemorate the birth of our nation, The United States of America's Independence from Great Britain's monarchical hold and liberty's triumph
Congress voting in...
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Categories:
contained, america, birthday, celebration, firework, food, freedom, fun,
Form:
List
Love Poems Ii
LOVE POEMS II
These are love poems by Michael R. Burch: original poems and translations about passion, desire, lust, sex, dating and marriage. On an amusing note, my steamy Baudelaire translations have become popular with the...
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Categories:
contained, desire, love, lust, marriage, passion, romance, sexy,
Form:
Rhyme
Ironbar
He just appeared to me, like wispily curling
Chimney smoke,
One grim and early morning in the very midst of
Decembers briefest days, on the highest slope,
Toiling through my daily round; where, slowly
Driving up...
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Categories:
contained, nature, universe,
Form:
Rhyme
In His Light - the Mirrored Hourglass Style
~ In His Light~
( Mirrored Hourglass )
LOVE TRUST LORD PURSUE HIS WAY
Lord won't leave you alone
His mercy will show
When with Lord stay
IN HIS LIGHT
You'll walk
You'll walk
IN HIS LIGHT
When with Lord stay
His mercy will...
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Categories:
contained, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
Maya 2
Continued from Maya 1
At length, when the womens' screams had ceased
and the sound of the thunder had stopped,
he gathered his courage and withdrew himself
from his hiding place beneath the corn.
He left the hut and prostrated...
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Categories:
contained, allegory, conflict, courage, religion,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 31
They had only been practicing for a few days but DynDoeth was not surprised when he was made aware that elves were on their way to escort him to Rian. He had his spies...
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Categories:
contained, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Light On the Devil's Chord - the Challenge
My 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:
contained, adventure, change, cool, imagination, music, sick, strength,
Form:
Narrative
Time, Friend Or Foe
"Time is the thief you cannot banish." ...
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Categories:
contained, life, time,
Form:
Rhyme
Rufus and Bill
Now the sun and the sand were treacherously hot
and not a place for Man or a Beast.
As you must be audaciously quick to find a good spot
or...
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Categories:
contained, funny, humor, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 72
Each of the new deer adjusted quickly to the pace of the ones they had been paired with, and the sleigh tracked smooth and true. The effects of the extra four deer were easily...
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Categories:
contained, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Magdalen Christmas Eve Mass 1984
Busy time very frustrating watching my
husband and ciro gargano go over the
blue prints over and over again during
the 1984 elections for lake county Daniel
Furlan Bobby Thompson Ernest Fisher Ciro
was looking...
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Categories:
contained, allah,
Form:
Epulaeryu
The Giant of Lisbellaw
Stood I there, that last day,
On an iron bridge...
An aqueduct by design,
Where, looking dreamily out over
The Ernes Lower Lough,
My compressed shadow
Momentarily paused -
To contently recline:
Amidst coy Junes radiant beams
of sweet benign!
All was stilled,...
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Categories:
contained, philosophy,
Form:
Rhyme
Love Has a Southern Flavor
Love 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:
contained, desire, longing, love, romance, romantic, romantic love,
Form:
Sonnet
Malkavian the Second
The constant assault of the silence on his senses is intense
Hands clenched in fist he wished for noise and bliss
Buddy stopped talking and drinking he begins pacing as he’s thinking
Tired from walking he...
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Categories:
contained, dark, drug,
Form:
Alliteration
Concrete Hearts, the Deep End Keys and the Miniaturist's Poetry of Sleep
“Concrete Hearts, the Deep End Keys and the Miniaturist's Poetry of Sleep”
Following the Babel paths,
where footprints progress
like rough-hewn braille,
temptation shows itself well deep
to be turned and touched,
substantially labyrinth
The Open
is lead
further in, and...
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Categories:
contained, muse,
Form:
Narrative