Long Conundrum Poems
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Poems About the Coronavirus IPoems about the Coronavirus I
yet another iffy coronavirus haiku #1
by michael r. burch
plagued by the Plague
i plague the goldfish
with my verse
yet another iffy coronavirus haiku #2
by michael r. burch
sunflowers
hang their heads
embarrassed by their coronas
I wrote...
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Categories:
conundrum, absence, anxiety, bereavement, caregiving, death, depression, fear,
Form:
Haiku
EpitaphsEpitaph for a Palestinian Child
by Michael R. Burch
I lived as best I could, and then I died.
Be careful where you step: the grave is wide.
Autumn Conundrum
by Michael R. Burch
It's not that every leaf must finally...
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Categories:
conundrum, bereavement, death, death of a friend, depression,
Form:
Epitaph
Epigrams VEpigrams
Autumn Conundrum
by Michael R. Burch
It’s not that every leaf must finally fall,
it’s just that we can never catch them all.
Piercing the Shell
by Michael R. Burch
If we strip away all the accouterments of war,
perhaps we'll discover...
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Categories:
conundrum, giggle, humor, humorous, irony, literature, word play,
Form:
Epigram
SnapshotsSnapshots
by Michael R. Burch
Here I scrawl extravagant rainbows.
And there you go, skipping your way to school.
And here we are, drifting apart
like untethered balloons.
Here I am, creating "art,"
chanting in shadows,
pale as the crinoline moon,
ignoring your face.
There...
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Categories:
conundrum, divorce,
Form:
Free verse
Epitaph For a Palestinian ChildEpitaph for a Palestinian Child
by Michael R. Burch
I lived as best I could, and then I died.
Be careful where you step: the grave is wide.
This poem has also been titled "Epitaph for a Child of...
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Categories:
conundrum, absence, bereavement, conflict, death, discrimination, eulogy, funeral,
Form:
Epitaph
Poems About Fathers and Grandfathers IiiPoems about Fathers and Grandfathers III
Success
by Michael R. Burch
for Jeremy
We need our children to keep us humble
between toast and marmalade;
there is no time for a ticker-tape parade
before bed, no award, no bright statuette
to be delivered...
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Categories:
conundrum, family, father, father daughter, father son, fathers
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About the Coronavirus IiPoems about the Coronavirus II
This World's Joy
(anonymous Middle English lyric, circa early 14th century AD)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Winter awakens all my care
as leafless trees grow bare.
For now my sighs are fraught
whenever it enters...
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Categories:
conundrum, fear, loneliness, loss, natural disasters, scary, social,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Laughter, Giggles and SmilesHere and Hereafter
by Michael R. Burch
Life’s saving graces are love, pleasure, laughter ...
wisdom, it seems, is for the Hereafter.
Laughter’s Cry
by Michael R. Burch
Because life is a mystery, we laugh
and do not know the half.
Because death...
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Categories:
conundrum, cheer up, children, family, giggle, joy, smile,
Form:
Rhyme
ObservanceObservance
by Michael R. Burch
Here the hills are old and rolling
carefully in their old age;
on the horizon youthful mountains
bathe themselves in windblown fountains...
By dying leaves and falling raindrops,
I have traced time's starts and stops,
and I have...
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Categories:
conundrum, loneliness, lonely, longing, loss, lost, seasons, time,
Form:
Sonnet
CleansingsCleansings
by Michael R. Burch
Walk here among the walking specters. Learn
inhuman patience. Flesh can only cleave
to bone this tightly if their hearts believe
that God is good, and never mind the Urn.
A lentil and a bean might...
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Categories:
conundrum, holocaust, prison, race, racism, violence, world war
Form:
Verse
Chapter 70 --Damian Delilah Mallory: the Polly ConundrumMolly and Dolly were in their
New getaway room on the top
Floor listening to music.
While Damian spent time with
The kids in the backyard. He
Wanted to install a pool for the
Youngest children, then switch...
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Categories:
conundrum, best friend, feelings, grandson, inspirational,
Form:
Alliteration
My Most Popular Poems On the Internet IMy most popular poems on the Internet (I)
A number of my poems and translations have gone viral, according to Google, and some have been copied onto hundreds to thousands of web pages. That’s a lot...
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Categories:
conundrum, internet, poems, poetry, poets, social, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Christian Evangelical-Charismatic RepublicansI grew up with rural Michigan white red-neck evangelical root systems.
These did not always feed my multicultural self/other liberation of the GLBTQ subclimatic root system
for regeneratively healthy instincts,
yet I learned to survive within this fundamentalist-alien-straight...
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Categories:
conundrum, beauty, christian, gender, health, political, rights, trust,
Form:
Political Verse
Prose PoemsProse Poems
Something
by Michael R. Burch
Something inescapable is lost?lost like a pale vapor curling up into shafts of moonlight, vanishing in a gust of wind toward an expanse of stars immeasurable and void. Something uncapturable is...
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Categories:
conundrum, animal, child, childhood, children, magic, rose, science,
Form:
Prose
World War Ii Poems and Holocaust Poems - IWorld War II Poems and Holocaust Poems (I)
These are poems about World War II and the Holocaust, which is also called the Shoah in Hebrew.
Epitaph for a Child of the Holocaust
by Michael R. Burch
I...
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Categories:
conundrum, evil, holocaust, racism, truth, war, world, world
Form:
Rhyme
'continental Drift' - the Metaphor'Continental Drift' - The Metaphor
In the seventies (1), few people dreamed ‘it’ was true,
guessed by scientists first when rough coastlines compared (2)
matched like parts of a puzzle (a jigsaw), found place
that joined ‘drop-offs’ waves hid...
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Categories:
conundrum, faith, science,
Form:
Rhyme
Is There An Exclusive All-In-One Principle‘ In general, quantum mechanics does not predict a single definite result for an observation. Instead, it predicts a number of different possible outcomes and tells us how likely each of these is. ‘
...
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Categories:
conundrum, philosophy, death, art, dark, art, dark, death,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
More Iffy Coronavirus Haikuyet another iffy coronavirus haiku #1
by michael r. burch
plagued by the Plague
i plague the goldfish
with my verse
yet another iffy coronavirus haiku #2
by michael r. burch
sunflowers
hang their heads
embarrassed by their coronas
I wrote this poem after having...
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Categories:
conundrum, america, death, eulogy, health, humanity, natural disasters,
Form:
Haiku
Chapter 38 -- Damian Delilah Mallory and Polly: the Master Plan IiOne year Passed Damian Junior
Was 15 months old. Damian
Graduated from West Virginia
University institute of Technology
With honors and an
Associate of Applied Science
Degree. His whole family
Attended the graduation and
Congratulated him with...
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Categories:
conundrum, allusion, appreciation, business, emotions, father son, graduate,
Form:
Alliteration
Chapter 8 -- Damian Hakim: the Youthful VacationSeptember 2017 continues:
Damian was preparing to leave his
Girlfriend's house. Damian said,
His farewell. Then left the Giovanni
Premises. Meanwhile the Hakim
Family uncles included, concocted a
Crucial crucible plan to get a grip
On the Damian conundrum....
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Categories:
conundrum, business, confidence, devotion,
Form:
Alliteration
Chapter 131 -- Damian Delilah Mallory Holly: Gifts To the PeopleDate: September 2049
Early morning pleasant weather
Time. Holly woke thinking she would
Visit her mother today. She felt ill
Lately she's been feeling this
Uneasiness. She couldn't, she didn't
Want to think about...
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Categories:
conundrum, birth, child, confidence, dance, emotions,
Form:
Alliteration
Recollections of a Reckless YouthWarning: Mature themes, though at the time.
Recollections of a...
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Categories:
conundrum, life,
Form:
I do not know?
Sometimes: a Random Poem, Part ISometimes I think I should have started this prose
With a disclaimer of sorts
To my readers, many of those
Who may think me out of my gourd
Sometimes I think this disclaimer should be
Short and sweet, honest and...
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Categories:
conundrum, allegory, allusion, analogy, fun, mental illness, metaphor,
Form:
Rhyme
Our Environment TodayI was taught by my father to be obedient in the dense forest to save the individuals trees, stop destruction to plantation. I cannot be silent under the detriment from lumberjacks to global...
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Categories:
conundrum, earth, farm, flower,
Form:
Free verse
Know That I Am ThereIt's the best I can do to explain myself
is standing in between it all, so I can view both sides.
Who are you to say that a summer days more beautiful
than the dead of night?
You profess...
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Categories:
conundrum, faith, growth, how i feel, philosophy, universe,
Form:
Rhyme