Long Contrary Poems
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Be of Good, Compassionate Courage
Dandelions…
They flutter, now I see
Fiery lions…
They're dancing with me
Sunlight…
Come out and shine down
Moonlight…
Shun out my darkened frown
I am the infinitesimal stars in the tranquil, terrestrial night
I am the scars minutes before the sunlit dawn...
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Categories:
contrary, confidence, courage, encouraging, endurance, hope, muse, passion,
Form:
Free verse
Poems About Poems Vi
Poems about Poems VI
The Board
by Michael R. Burch
Accessible rhyme is never good.
The penalty is understood?
soft titters from dark board rooms where
the businessmen paste on their hair
and, Walter Mitties, woo the Muse
with reprimands of Dr. Seuss.
The...
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Categories:
contrary, extended metaphor, heaven, muse, passion, poems, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Poems I
Poems about Poems (I)
What the Poet Sees
by Michael R. Burch
What the poet sees,
he sees as a swimmer
~~~underwater~~~
watching the shoreline blur
sees through his breath’s weightless bubbles...
Both worlds grow obscure.
Muse/Goddess
by Michael R. Burch
“What will you conceive in...
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Categories:
contrary, creation, god, muse, poems, poetry, poets, words,
Form:
Rhyme
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:
contrary, break up, change, divorce, extended metaphor, farewell,
Form:
Verse
The State of the Art
The State of the Art (I)
by Michael R. Burch
Has rhyme lost all its reason
and rhythm, renascence?
Are sonnets out of season
and poems but poor pretense?
Are poets lacking fire,
their words too trite and forced?
What happened to desire?
Has...
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Categories:
contrary, art, muse, poems, poetry, poets, romantic, writing,
Form:
Verse
Chapter 64 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: the Family Seventeen- Vacation Xiv
Damian Stood with the front
Door opened and said, "Family!
We will be leaving in fifteen
Minutes. Do whatever you have
To before we hit the road. Use
The bathroom whatever!
Come on!! HAKIM!! About 7
minutes...
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Categories:
contrary, bridal shower, business, chanukah, child, devotion, father
Form:
Alliteration
Sonnets Xvii-Xxiv
Sonnets XVII-XXIV
Discrimination
by Michael R. Burch
The meter I had sought to find, perplexed,
was ripped from books of "verse" that read like prose.
I found it in sheet music, in long rows
of hologramic CDs, in sad wrecks
of long-forgotten...
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Categories:
contrary, books, poems, poetry, poets, voice, write, writing,
Form:
Sonnet
Visit To Antietam
Alone I arrive, walking from Frederick
over the gaps, across gentle hills
out onto a knoll
overlooking this burnished landscape.
Before me I see countless writhing rows
of indiscernible shapes gathered
in terrible rituals mid fire and smoke
darkening the sun.
From distant...
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Categories:
contrary, america, conflict, history, together, war,
Form:
Ode
Contract Against Greatness
In Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged"
she paints a nationalistically wealthy saint
where also lives a monochromatically utilitarian narcissist,
sucking on attachment to fame and power
for bought and sold ZeroSum accounting Souls.
If the perfectly powerful pure patriarchal patriot
were your...
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Categories:
contrary, culture, health, integrity, mental illness, peace, philosophy,
Form:
Political Verse
Adieu - Part 2
The tears flowed and I still smiled,
My body and spirit and mind,
Were still in that state of residual bliss,
Soaking in your sweet smile,
And savoring the moonlit skin before me,
But my soul was being torn asunder,
And...
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Categories:
contrary, heartbreak, love, passion, true love,
Form:
Free verse
Still wrestling with impasse to contentment
Still wrestling with impasse to contentment
Dispense sing with fidelity blithely agog
just me and mine dark shadow
slinking along outer limits of
the edge of night doth blog
passivity, the path
of least resistance ohm my dog,
shocking...
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Categories:
contrary, abuse, adventure, beauty, body, christmas, desire, father
Form:
Rhyme
Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis - part ii
Highlight of Goofus and Gallant
bred within the survival instinct
of hungry hordes of prey,
when Earth in the balance
against an uncomfortable truth
smug smurf like scavengers.
Punishment meted...
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Categories:
contrary, absence, adventure, africa, america, angel, anniversary, appreciation,
Form:
Free verse
Translation of Eric Mottram's 28th Legal: Letter Jan 2, 1966 By T Wignesan
Eric Mottram on the American literary and cultural scene during 1965-66 while he was the recipient of the American Learned Societies’ award for a year. (begun in the last post and to be continued)
January 2,...
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Categories:
contrary, america, art, creation, culture, music, poetry, writing,
Form:
Free verse
Misguided Meditations
I am sorry
about my judgmental,
sadly disdainful,
tone
in earlier messages.
Even worse,
I remain embarrassed
for spreading it out
for key staff
and leaders
to well-positioned see
and hear
and feel,
touched by wounded toxicity.
My training
and experience
includes victimized by homophobia
and healing through community mediation.
Within this...
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Categories:
contrary, anxiety, appreciation, health, humor, motivation, peace, power,
Form:
Political Verse
A Chance Conversation At Osmers Hill 1999 Part 1
On a typical English day late June Joe travelled the above country road, his buisness was in the construction field, and this day he was estimating work as per customer enqiriy, this being the case...
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Categories:
contrary, appreciation,
Form:
Narrative
My Reproductive Rights Attorney
An attorney friend of mine once said,
We have two opposing views
of the hows and whys of law and time and natural evolution,
including natural law,
and including U.S. Constitutional Law.
One assumes both natural and spiritual nondual legal...
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Categories:
contrary, appreciation, corruption, earth, games, health, hero, history,
Form:
Political Verse
Retire V Retread
What I have for you today is not so much about re-treading an outdated fuel-based system--
little bit like reshuffling the chairs to fix the decay
of a segregating Country Club.
No, this is addressed to economic...
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Categories:
contrary, earth, giving, nature, philosophy, poverty, religion, science,
Form:
Free verse
Inside the Great Halls of Us
“Inside the Great Halls of Us”
Inside
The Great Halls of Us,
there resides a ghost
IT hides in plain sight,
waiting quietly, alone,
in our dark
there, IT holds ITs light,
to draw us further in,
we nervously laugh IT...
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Categories:
contrary, i am, science fiction, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
Anticipation of Reality
So cramped ...
Strain to move,
Flex and budge in tiny increments ...
That's the limit.
Constantly testing, trying,
Pushing, pressing ...
Constrict, exert, constrict, struggle,
Spin slowly, push ...
That's it. That's all.
Nothing more.
But it helps ... relief,
A body sigh ...
But only...
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Categories:
contrary, birth, mystery,
Form:
Free verse
Ghost Hunter
I don't see you.
I've been searching my whole life,
But still, I don't see you.
When I was a wee lad
I looked for you ...
My mother's smile,
My father's toil,
My brother's refuge,
My sister's amity ...
I didn't see you.
Thanksgiving,...
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Categories:
contrary, philosophy, religion, self,
Form:
Free verse
Wrestling With Impasse To Contentment
Wrestling with impasse to contentment
Dispense sing with fidelity blithely agog
just me and mine dark shadow
slinking along the edge of night doth blog
passivity, the path of least resistance ohm my dog,
shocking voltage surges an emphatic...
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Categories:
contrary, abuse, adventure, age, anger, betrayal, black african
Form:
Rhyme
Where To Wander
Feel more than free to take a quick tour into my mind's eye
Then, you'll find that you're on my mind and I don't know why
Dare to wonder Where to wander
Dare to wonder What I...
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Categories:
contrary, deep, drug,
Form:
Free verse
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 22
The great Sabbath day descended, though not in my heart and mind
On this new day,
I imagined rays of God’s light shining generously upon the mountains,
Pools of living waters gurgling, and winds gently rustling trees
Wishing for...
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Categories:
contrary, beauty, bible, confusion, courage, love, lust, wisdom,
Form:
Epic
FICTIONAL BIO:
FICTIONAL BIO:
The missus asked me
(hitherto known as her bozo)
just mere moments ago
to craft humorous poem to glow
nsync with the shiny nose of Rudolph
keeping syncopated metrical flow
thus methought to crow
about being equally as foolish
streaking naked outside...
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Categories:
contrary, adventure, allegory, courage, cute, hair, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Absorbing Grace
To begin each morning here with now
includes who we bicamerally are,
who we have Elder RightBrain been,
where and when our DNA-scripts
came from RNA-AnimaMundi divine whispers,
and who and when and where and why
we would most clearly appreciate...
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Categories:
contrary, caregiving, dream, earth, education, integrity, love, math,
Form:
Political Verse