Long Coos Poems
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SPECIAL AGENT PAULA BRAND AND MY AMERICAN POETRY2003 TAMPA FLORIDA I CRIED OUT TO THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION ARLINGTON HEIGHTS ILLINOIS JAMAICAN THIEVES BROKE INTO MY HOME RIPPING PAGES IN JOURNAL ARSON MURDER DYNAMITE CIRO GARGANO MY EX ABUSIVE HUSBANDS TORCHED...
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Categories:
coos, allah,
Form:
Naat
Poems About MothersPoems about Mothers
Mother's Smile
by Michael R. Burch
There never was a fonder smile
than mother's smile, no softer touch
than mother's touch. So sleep awhile
and know she loves you more than "much."
So more than "much, " much more...
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Categories:
coos, child, children, love, mother, mother daughter, mother
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About IcarusSouthern Icarus
by Michael R. Burch
Windborne, lover of heights,
unspooled from the truck’s wildly lurching embrace,
you climb, skittish kite...
What do you know of the world’s despair,
gliding in vast solitariness there,
so that all that remains is to
fall?
Only a...
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Categories:
coos, analogy, angel, bird, butterfly, extended metaphor, flying,
Form:
Rhyme
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:
coos, absence, bereavement, conflict, death, discrimination, eulogy, funeral,
Form:
Epitaph
First They Came For the MuslimsFirst they came for the Muslims
after Martin Niemoller
First they came for the Muslims
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Muslim.
Then they came for the homosexuals
and I did not speak out
because I was...
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Categories:
coos, culture, discrimination, faith, god, islamic, truth, usa,
Form:
Free verse
Sonnets Xlii-LiSonnets XLII-LI
Distances
by Michael R. Burch
Moonbeams on water?
the reflected light
of a halcyon star
now drowning in night...
So your memories are.
Footprints on beaches
now flooding with water;
the small, broken ribcage
of some primitive slaughter...
So near, yet so far.
A Surfeit of...
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Categories:
coos, bereavement, death, death of a friend, funeral,
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:
coos, holocaust, prison, race, racism, violence, world war
Form:
Verse
Poems About Things That Break IiiPoems about Things that Break III
These are poems about things that break and/or shatter: a bubble, glass, a mirror, a twig or tree limb, a thunderstorm, cities and towers in times of war, old...
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Categories:
coos, break up, farewell, pain, relationship, society, solitude,
Form:
Rhyme
Such Tenderness, For the Mothers of GazaSuch Tenderness
by Michael R. Burch
for the mothers of Gaza
There was, in your touch, such tenderness—as
only the dove on her mildest day has,
when she shelters downed fledglings beneath a warm wing
and coos to them softly, unable...
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Categories:
coos, angel, arabic, baby, caregiving,
Form:
Sonnet
Two Lovers Xi - Carefully Chosen WordsHe is looking at her a bit sanctimoniously
He is about to mansplain again
"Am I spooking you?" he asks grinning
"I'm not trying to propose, Cutie.
God no. Could you imagine?
I just think it's possible, you know?
I'm just...
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Categories:
coos, discrimination, lost love, love, relationship, romance, romantic
Form:
Free verse
Poems About Poets ViiPoems about Poets VII
Gallant Knight
by Michael R. Burch
for Alfred Dorn and Anita Dorn
Till you rest with your beautiful Anita,
rouse yourself, Poet; rouse and write.
The world is not ready for your departure,
Gallant Knight.
Teach us to sing...
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Categories:
coos, christian, dance, poems, poetry, poets, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Dead Man TalesDead Man Tales
shards of glass pearl the emperor's rise,
his arms embracing upon our sins and lies,
do not deceive yourself , my friend.
in the twilight of our beings our corruption merges and blends.
there is no...
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Categories:
coos, conflict, corruption, emotions, freedom, sad, sin,
Form:
Classicism
Two Lovers Iii - First Valentine's DayShe took some care making her choice
A Valentine's Day card
It is a silly little thing
"It shouldn't be this hard"
But she still feels indecision
Selecting the right one
To set the proper tone for them
"With just a touch...
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Categories:
coos, happy, lost love, love, relationship, romantic love,
Form:
Rhyme
Lockheed, the Purple Dragon
Lockheed, is a fictional Marvel Comic character. An alien dragon. He is the
size of a large cat with purple skin, yellow eyes, sharp claws and teeth, curved
horns on his head and wings so...
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Categories:
coos, fantasy,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Birth of the Word WitchWhat say you naive with all your poultice,
foolish fervor to your reverie!?”
“Mark me damned...
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Categories:
coos, dark, death, evil, gothic, horror, scary,
Form:
Free verse
A Vanilla DoveCypress trees like evergreen steeples
rise above rows of gravestone woes,
their shadows lie side by side like railroad ties
across writhing paths banded like snakes;
gravel birth cords sinuous
sensing the ground seeking the sun
crossroads...
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Categories:
coos, bird, death, grief, hope, life, sorrow, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
BeautyWhite Dove coos the light through the bedroom window
leaving puddles of glimmering pools on the darkened floor
as the evening wanes and night takes control.
The door slowly opens and you shuffle your weary body
through the moonlit...
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Categories:
coos, beautiful, beauty, love,
Form:
Free verse
Poems About Poets XPoems for Poets X
Poems about Poets X
Sinking
by Michael R. Burch
for Virginia Woolf
Weigh me down with stones ...
fill all the pockets of my gown ...
I’m going down,
...
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Categories:
coos, poems, poetry, poets,
Form:
Rhyme
When Hell Freezes Over
“When Hell Freezes Over”
He said, “One last kiss for my soul?”
as he lay supine life spilling onto his Last Sunset Road.
The sun had set long long ago.
She lent down, whispered in his ear
Cherry Ripe Red...
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Categories:
coos, dark, imagery, muse, mystery, psychological, sensual, word
Form:
Romanticism
Animating Innate VibranceAs the mediterranean torrents
thawed away this wildflower of Medusa ~
once roaring in merciless thunders,
now, I'm found swaying,
midst lemongrass fields ~
conversing with freshwater naiads
for, every weed is a storyteller
...
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Categories:
coos, deep, emotions, meaningful, mental health, metaphor, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
Patriarch, Roller CoasterRoller coaster by ian munywe
Shuffling of many a feet in the street, sighing reluctantly in this awful road.
As we draw closer to alien things, what we saw before not in sync,
Far so far we have...
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Categories:
coos, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
Dawn Forever RisingDawn Forever Rising
It starts
Street lights fade
their tiny soft-winged tenants flee
checkerboard facades change
last night's illumined squares now dark
become but yesterday's portals
some polished
some weather streaked
all reaching to reflect first breath
Steam ascends from the city's vacuum
gratings rattle with...
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Categories:
coos, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
The Toy CollectorToy collector:
He holds the bear gently in his old wrinkled hands as he gazes into its kind beaded eyes. The toy collector sees love lined in its double stitches and his childhood in the busted...
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Categories:
coos, childhood, dedication, family, children, friendship, imagination, life,
Form:
Ballad
I Am,,,I Am...
Calvin L. Genereux
I am an infant...
The world around me is full of joys,
Bigger ones like me make funny sounds
And faces to amuse me.
Every moment is an adventure,
I learn colours an words but
Only one thing...
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Categories:
coos, happiness, life, love, mother, teenbaby, me, world,
Form:
Free verse
The Humble AbodeMama says this is where
I was born on a stormy night
the benignant horn was where
she'd paused to breathe and reside
...
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Categories:
coos, home,
Form:
Free verse