Long Contention Poems
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Various Heresies 3Various Heresies 3
Breakings
by Michael R. Burch
I did it out of pity.
I did it out of love.
I did it not to break the heart of a tender, wounded dove.
But gods without compassion
ordained: Frail things must break!
Now...
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Categories:
contention, america, bible, christian, god, jesus, religion, usa,
Form:
Verse
Chapter 73 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: the Historical Hakims' Hit the Road10 o'clock am the morning
Quest: A country side bike ride.
Molly woke Dolly and Damian.
Woke Everyone on that July
Morning of 2038. They had a Bicycle
Expedition to tend to plus a newly
Minted swimming pool...
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Categories:
contention, cancer, missing you, nonsense, rude, scary, visionary,
Form:
Alliteration
Megan's Quest Part 4of7The Company was set and all were prepared
for a journey that was true cause for alarm.
But their spirits were high and as much as they dared
still hoped...
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Categories:
contention, adventure, courage, loss,
Form:
Rhyme
Chapter 17-- Molly and Dolly and Polly: DamianFirst week of March 2025
Last week of March
Melancholy Molly and her sister
Dolly stopped by for a chat with
Eat some pizza Polly
(nick name due to her Appetite for...
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Categories:
contention, character, confidence, growth, house, identity, imagery, romance,
Form:
Prose
Chapter 152-- DAMIAN DELILAH MALLORY HOLANNYA: Honeymoon soon GROOM?Next day 2051
Molly Holly were on their honeymoon
With Damian and privately disagreeing at their
Table, about who was who and was
Unknown to them and Dolly broke
The Contention, "Maybe we should
Introduce duce ourselves."...
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Categories:
contention, absence, allusion, birth,
Form:
Prose
Niitthaar Perumai, the Fundamental Role of the Ascetic, Canto 3 of the Thirukkural By ThiruvalluvarNiithaar Perumai, the Fundamental Role of Ascetics, Canto 26 of the Thirukkural, the Tamil Classical Treatise on Ethics, Translation and Commentary by T. Wignesan
[Given the scarcity of information (mostly conflicting even then) on the...
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Categories:
contention, education, humanity, life, philosophy, retirement, tamil,
Form:
Epigram
Unscrupulous ManYou crawled out of her innocent womb
Kicking , begging and screaming
But it is too late for you to be redeemed
You were born evil and corrupted
and you have a very dirty...
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Categories:
contention, betrayal, conflict, courage, creation, earth, encouraging, women,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
The Soul Errand and Other PoemsThe Soul Errand
To Sir Walter Raleigh Tomb.
Since my soul shall though go
Upon a thankless arrent too
I fear not to touch the best so
The truth shall be my warrant through
I went since I need must...
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Categories:
contention, africa, beautiful, beauty, child, death of a
Form:
Ballad
Gloriously Luxuriating In Eternal SleepGloriously luxuriating in eternal sleep
Forlorn; bereft of golden
(slippered) opportunities I weep;
Three score and four years
replete with mailer daemons,
hence mindset adrip
with self denouncing expletive filled bleep
unwritten expressed recriminations
wielded upon figurative head of wimpy blip;
decades elapsed at...
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Categories:
contention, age, angel, anger, angst, anxiety, autumn, death,
Form:
Rhyme
Gaia and Fr Time: True Informating ScandalGaia’s love first embraces Earth’s tribes
who then embrace Her back
through Gaia’s co-redeemer enculturation gift,
pay-it-forward grace of permacultured history,
karma of EarthTribe’s economy,
mutually-parasitic subsidiarity
embracing universally regenerate Host
in political-through-personal empowering solidarity
of EarthTribe's Eco-Passionate Universal Rights.
She paid the health...
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Categories:
contention, allegory, culture, earth, earth day, love, peace,
Form:
Narrative
Stuff I WonderWhat does it feel like to wake up into your skin?
Your day?
What do you feel first most days?
Is it in any way influenced by gratitude,
or totally given over to worry,
anxious
or, worse, anticipating
shortness of healthy...
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Categories:
contention, dream, earth, health, identity, integrity, nature, religion,
Form:
Free verse
Practicing Positive PsychologyToday we hear Positive Psychology is hot.
To not agree is to be both negative,
and a snot;
too cognitively dissonant
arrogant
and dino-snore-a-lot.
When your loved one tells you,
for the thousandth time,
"You never listen to me"
you have been invited to...
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Categories:
contention, appreciation, integrity, longing, love, perspective, psychological, relationship,
Form:
Free verse
Frozen Into DivorceThe end to our sixteen years love affair
he didn't even try to hold on to my love
did I ever mean anything after that single wedding day
was this just your easiest way to be free of...
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Categories:
contention, child, death, destiny, divorce, emotions, heartbreak, truth,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
K375 and K376 of Canto Xxxviii of the Thirukkural With CommentaryK375 and K376 of Canto XXXVIII of the THIRUKKURAL Translated with Commentary
(Biographical details of an author, especially of someone having thrived in a land given to scant regard for documenting history in a systematic manner...
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Categories:
contention, fate, life, nature, people,
Form:
Couplet
Contenting Tree of LifeFutility of Contention
absorbs into Utility of Contentment.
To preserve wholeness, mutually accommodate;
yielding preserves whole.
To become straight, you must begin bent;
bent potentiates straight.
To become filled, its best to begin...
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Categories:
contention, beauty, creation, culture, health, integrity, nature, philosophy,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Loving DefiancePunishing for revenge,
could this occur to natural systems
without capacity to imagine alternative futures?
Punishing others for their defiant behavior,
actions and words stronger than merely ignorant
bolder than merely angry with each other, and ourselves,
but how much more
to...
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Categories:
contention, anger, fear, love, nature, peace, political, psychological,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Reverse CreationTaoist Principle of Reversion
grows metasystemic decomposition
degeneration
reverse creation
organic time and memory moving backward toward rebirth
of a Paradise Pleasing Planet.
Reversion anticipates the Yin-reverse action
of indigenously wise integrity.
Decompressing reimagination of effective/causal Time
within organizing space and sacred...
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Categories:
contention, culture, nature, philosophy,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Inspection Took Place February 17th, 2023Inspection took place February 17th, 2023...
At 1330 hours (indicated
courtesy notification slipped under door
less than twenty four hours)
hence foretold ill fate
by property (crooks and quade) management
the head honcho zaftig, wanker,
(who replaced the warden)
and Rich (BOLD FACE...
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Categories:
contention, adventure, america, anger, anniversary, anxiety, crush, fate,
Form:
Free verse
Reflections In a PuddleI see me,
seeing me..
In the surface of a reflection...
I see the past, the present
And a future not yet mentioned.
Who am I on the opposite side
Of that reflection?
This man that lives and breathes
With all these...
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Categories:
contention, beauty, deep, life, remember,
Form:
I do not know?
Lovers In the SkyLook at them walking in boots underneath a humongous hot balloon and a big umbrella position in the East sucking up the dreadful heat. They held onto each other just like significant lovers waving to...
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Categories:
contention, business, change, community, education, endurance, future, international,
Form:
Narrative
In the Manse Market For a Preowned Spa HouseIn the manse market for a preowned spa house
Mine feeble efforts pale in comparison
to a kid scaling El Capitan
of Yosemite National Park,
nevertheless me, a dry witted husband
self emasculated milquetoast
of late ofttimes yawps imprecations
against fickle finger...
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Categories:
contention, absence, allegory, angel, appreciation, autumn, black african
Form:
Free verse
Bane of DyscheziaBane of dyschezia
Constipation spoilt rare visit
with eldest daughter
(yesterday - November twenty sixth
two thousand twenty two)
currently housed near
Rittenhouse Square, Pennsylvania.
Less than twelve hours
after a cocktail comprising
handful of prunes,
four psyllium husk capsules,
plus three dulcolax.
Myself and missis
privy to...
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Categories:
contention, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure, angst, birth,
Form:
Rhyme
Halloween NightHalloween Night
Remember the dead on ‘Allhallowtide’ and do not forget the living
not just for an evening and not for one night as Halloween is for all
time’s sake for souls and places old and...
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Categories:
contention, humanity,
Form:
Free verse
A Most Thoughtful Balladeer, Endeared: Mr Tony Bennet Tribute"YES! THERE ARE MANY SINGERS WITH GREAT VOICES...
JUST THEIR MERE SOUND, ALONE, TELLS US THAT THEY CAN HOLD A NOTE AND CONFIDENTLY "CARRY A TUNE!"
BUT...
WHAT ABOUT A SINGER, WHOM WHEN THEY ENTER A ROOM, OPEN...
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Categories:
contention, appreciation, dedication, feelings, how i feel, in
Form:
Free verse
I Heard Something On the WirelessI heard something on the wireless
As i went about my day,
Some new strain of virus
In some province far away.
I didn’t pay much attention
As it seemed a distant threat.
Well that was my contention
So I didn’t break...
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Categories:
contention, change, endurance, humanity, loneliness, missing you, recovery
Form:
Rhyme