Long Contraire Poems

                        Expectations high did not pan out,     ...

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No One
by Michael R. Burch

No One hears the bells tonight;
they tell him something isn’t right.
But No One is not one to rush;
he lies in grasses greenly lush
as far away a startled thrush
flees from horned owls...

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Claquée j’ai quitté mon lit douillé 
J’ai peur de sombrer dans ma tête souillée 
Dans mes rêves je suis toujours exilée 
Je n’ai jamais trouvé le sommeil espéré  
J’ai savouré le mal qui me...

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King Vlad Redux – Second Cold War

Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin’s grimy fingerprints on current history
are for him nothing to gloat about—au contraire I say emphatically:
His actions bespeak one who’s not an architect for peace—not at all,
rather...

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When I was only two bricks and a ticky high I wrote my first ever treatise

Three blind mice unbeknown to me highly philosophical not just to please

The Gods of poetry duty bound on their quest...

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Inspired by "Synth moments" 
instrumental.
Green tape instrumentals 
record by Evidence of Dilated 
Peoples.

Without this! All is... completely 
senseless,
Competing myself in search for 
enhancement,
Without this! Light dims behind 
the eclipse,
Without this! I don't even know 
what...

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Misery accompanied, haltered, tethered... tattered web

This health conscious lx year
roam'n, hoodwinking hoodlum doth wear
two pair bullet proof underwear,
(which confession rarely trumpeted),
plus yours truly admits unclear
why tibia long in the tooth fellow,

prevaricates with tongue in cheek...

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A Poem For The Erudite, it sure will be hot
Take the time out to listen, rubbish it's not
Straight from the life of a perspicacious young man
Try and comprehend it...I sure hope you can
There's a lot...

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How would you react when you knew you don't fit in. When who you are is looked down upon as a sin. I am an outcast i feel it seep through my veins. You forget...

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Since the bloody Battle of Hastings
When 'Arold got killed by French Bill
We've seen an endless invasion of French
And I've just about had my fill

Don't we have enough words of our own
In this wonderful language of...

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Aux lacs italiens

 
         Douce l'italie, ca n'est pas moi qui raillerai jamais tes
amants, méme quand la passion les emportant Bien au contraire,
les exces m'enchantent. Je me...

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I'm silently collecting my reflective thoughts
I write the words as I grasp for air
Breathing with rhythm as I write
Imagery sets in - beauty becomes me
My eyes are with radiance as I view sight
The hues on...

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Don’t pardon those demockratory quips,
them dishonest mistakes
Unless you love
walking thru a field of verbal cow chips

Beware! Aye lips very often halitosis snip

Here is a rue unpardonable exit tip:
Brown nose aroma
is blew gaslight, pig methane lit...

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I'm going to tell you about, the most lethal drug in the world, or so I think
It's one I swear, though it may seem contraire,  maybe makes your brain shrink
First let's decide what a...

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echo, love ...

au contraire ...
when I wanted to see you
I closed my eyes
when I longed for your whisper
I screamed at the moon
when I craved your taste
I starved myself like a madman
and shed my skin
when I...

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I offer you the Roundabout:
a little form sublime.
Tough? Au contraire!
But do beware:
you must be in your prime.

Don’t simply trust to whether I’m
correct; just take the dare.
It helps to score
some pithy fours
that add a certain flair.

Abandon...

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Spirited one who wields the bow and arrow 
Adventurer most extraordinaire, 
Generous to a fault, unlike the fabled pharoah, 
Independent, occasionally self-absorbed, even arrogant 
Trailblazer who will unhesitatingly say au contraire.  
This truth-seeker has...

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rUNNING FASTER FASTER FASTER THAN LIGHT
THAT TANGIBLE FEELING CREEPING UP BEHIND ME
I’M UNABLE TO THINK OF ANYTHING BUT THE FEAR
THE FEAR OF THE PAST
THE FEAR OF THE PRESENT
FEAR OF THE FUTURE
FEAR OF THINGS IN FRONT...

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C’est derrière moi
 

j’aurais pu 
être plus gentille
possiblement
j’aurais pu
réagir avec plus de délicatesse

j’aurais pu
possiblement
fléchir à tes caprices
être plus sympathique
j’aurais pu
j’aurais dû
peut-être              ...

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if i'm a judge
then don't 
judge me
i will sip
a bit of
this

one and then a bit
of that and then
all the others
six at hand
or should
i say

at mouth and tongue
soups alphabetically 
which have different 
degrees of tastes
after all...

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Some saw him as a gifted author
Others aware but didn't bear to bother
He only cared to be there  unlike his father
At first it was the worst he started to Pother
Even the air wasn't fair...

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I have to admit that I'm not quite sure
  Why I write poetry --Just what is the lure
But here's a stumbling stab at an explanation
  An attempt to plumb the fascination:

To capture a...

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The B.1 @ 32 _ and a ?

A cosmetic cosmopolitan army can jump over the gates at an amazing speed and cause a song to burst out of gilded goods. But not only is the...

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“It sucks being you”
I’ve been hearing it said
I just let those words
Rattle round in my head
“It sucks being me”?
Au contraire Mon Ami
There’s nobody else 
I’d rather be
“But you’ve cancer” they say
“and it is such a...

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Butterflies

Big and bright and school bus size
A cloud of yellow butterflies
With the wind did sink and rise
On the way home from school

A hundred if there was a pair
They’re not aggressive – au contraire
They seemed to...

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