Long Cornelius Poems
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Less Heroic Couplets: Dark Cloud, Silver Lining, Dupes
from “Love in the Time of the Coronavirus”
by Michael R. Burch
Every corona has a silver lining:
I’m too far away to hear your whining,
and despite...
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Categories:
cornelius, allegory, america, analogy, parody, surreal, technology, world,
Form:
Rhyme
Don'T Stop Prayingyou've been praying to the Lord God you have an emergency
and you hope that He will respond to your prayers immediately
but hold on, you've got it twisted, you need to comprehend
that God answer prayers, BUT...
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Categories:
cornelius, devotion, faith, hope, inspirational, life, upliftinggod, prayer,
Form:
Didactic
CATULLUS TRANSLATIONSCATULLUS TRANSLATIONS
Catullus LXXXV: 'Odi et Amo'
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
1.
I hate. I love.
You ask, 'Why not refrain?'
I wish I could explain.
I can't, but feel the pain.
2.
I hate. I love.
Why? Heavens above!
I wish I could...
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Categories:
cornelius, books, boy, god, hate, heaven, love, pain,
Form:
Rhyme
Holy SheetApologies, that title line
Is not intended to cause harm.
Exactly what Saint Peter saw,
This, heaven's vision, was no charm.
A sheet descending from the sky,
By its four corners, lifted high,
And slowly, then did it descend.
It was laid...
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Categories:
cornelius, christian,
Form:
Rhyme
The Potato Chip Revolutionspawned in the summer of 1853
these sliced succulent deep fried wonders
resulted from the demands of a complaining customer
whose bullshit led our man, a one,
mr. george crum
to do his best to satisfy the putz...
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Categories:
cornelius, life
Form:
Free verse
Gone FishingIt was one of them nights with nothing to do
We sat round the log fire in the inn like you do
Telling ghost stories and massive white lies
Old Harry snuffed his pipe out, light shone in...
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Categories:
cornelius, boat,
Form:
Ode
Grand Central DepotCommodore Cornelius Vanderbilt
raised you as a monument
to his empire, and why shouldn’t he.
From humble beginnings his art was
monopoly. He understood the art in craft,
it seems, for grand indeed you are. You
never...
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Categories:
cornelius, america, history,
Form:
Free verse
Gods' EarsThe Lord is always there
listening to our every prayer
he is for us every single day
and hears every word that we say
he listens when we are happy
he listens when we are sad too
whatever the situation he...
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Categories:
cornelius, faith, hope, peace, uplifting, prayer, prayer,
Form:
Rhyme
Normandy BeachesI was in-processing my Army unit in Germany when the fortieth anniversary of D-Day happened; but, alas, I couldn't leave. I wanted so much to be there to meet the old surviving veterans, to...
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Categories:
cornelius, beach, remember, soldier, vacation, war,
Form:
Narrative
Yolanda of Romei stood over looking
the general view
of the bath of caracalla
evading sudatorium seduction
the church of st. cesarea
in palatio captured my thoughts
rather quickly i entered
sarcphagus of lucius scipio barbatus
dazed i was...
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Categories:
cornelius, devotion,
Form:
Classicism
MisfitsWe desperately need your help...we have no light in the dark.
We are to young for voice...sometimes all bite and no bark.
We get pushed aside...and usually forgotten.
We just need a chance...we're not all rotten.
We come from...
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Categories:
cornelius, children,
Form:
Rhyme
It's Howdy Doody TimeIt’s Howdy Doody Time!
It’s Howdy Doody Time!
If you know this rhyme so nifty,
Your childhood was probably in a fifty.
Remember the advertisers promoting color TV?
This was when we all had black and white, you and me.
Howdy...
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Categories:
cornelius, memory,
Form:
Rhyme
Emily Dickinson: Drove He Knew HasteEmily Dickinson: Drove He Knew Haste
It was like a day like no other,
a day like so many before this,
college bell rang like a high school bell,
a bell like so many that bother.
Cornelius a friend, Bethany,
his...
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Categories:
cornelius, anxiety, character, meaningful, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Faerie Love MakingA dream remnant floated in the air
A spellbinding way to entice new lovers
A myriad of emotions flooded Cornelius as he
Caressed his true love faerie, Flora
Eternally grateful to find her, he sat back
Admiring her neck, the...
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Categories:
cornelius, fairy, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
March In RomeRoman dignity, what has happened to it all?
This month of March has been something to appall.
I cannot believe our esteemed senators
could possibly become murderous conspirators.
The body of our beloved Gaius Julius
lies bloodied and mutilated before...
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Categories:
cornelius, historybody,
Form:
Rhyme
A Christmas TaleHere's a tale I'd like to tell
About some characters we know so well
Forgetting them is hard to do
We think of them the whole year through
The misfit toys are not forgotten
On that cold and lonely island
Hermie's...
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Categories:
cornelius, character, child, christmas, holiday,
Form:
Rhyme
The Smoke Will Clear In Septemberthe smoke will clear in september.
by les cornelius
there’s a little white crack
in the orange glowing glass
hanging above our heads.
it’s the plane piloted by him
he’s driving it off
the edge of the earth
to sometime ...
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Categories:
cornelius, hope, life, seasons,
Form:
I do not know?
My SonCornelius is my son, a fine up standing boy,
And when he was born, oh what a bundle of joy,
He loves his music and plays the guitar,
And i pray to god he really does...
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Categories:
cornelius, sonhope, me,
Form:
Rhyme