Long Corpus Poems
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Poems of Recanted BachelorhoodPoems of Recanted Bachelorhood
bachelorhoodwinked
by Michael R. Burch
u
are
charming
& disarming,
but mostly ALARMING
since my resolve
dissolved!
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Disconcerted
by Michael R. Burch
Beth, my sweet,
fresh as a daisy,
when I’m with you
my heart beats like crazy
& my future gets hazy ...
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What Goes Around, Comes
by...
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Categories:
corpus, desire, engagement, first love, girl, love, marriage,
Form:
Verse
Frequency
“Frequency”
we are separated
from the others
by a thin membrane
electromagnetic
we are receptors
unignited ununited
only tuned into our own
frequency
existing to be lit
the fuses touching
reaching delicately
that which we do
and do not see,
believe
answers embedded
in tablets read...
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Categories:
corpus, future, humanity, muse,
Form:
Narrative
You Never ListenedYou Never Listened
by Michael R. Burch
You never listened,
though each night the rain
wove its patterns again
and trembled and glistened...
You were not watching,
though each night the stars
shone, brightening the tears
in her eyes palely fetching...
You...
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Categories:
corpus, baby, birth, children, extended metaphor, feelings, soulmate,
Form:
Sonnet
Bharathidasan's Pulikku Nay Enta Mulai, Translated By T Wignesan
Bharathidasan’s “Pulikku nay enta muulai” (To the Tiger, the Dog knows no safe dwelling!) translated by T. Wignesan
Bharathidasan (1891-1964) was a self-proclaimed disciple of the eminent Brahmin poet: Cuppiramania Bharathiyar (cf. two poems of...
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Categories:
corpus, anti bullying, patriotic, political, racism, , literature,
Form:
Sonnet
Dante's Divine Comedy Translation Canto IxThat color vileness painted on my face
When coming back my duke to me I saw
His new squeezing inside much more took place.
He heedful stopped as man hearing to draw;
Because his eye could not reach...
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Categories:
corpus, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
Neigh say being corralled and cult shodNeigh say being corralled & cult shod
"Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis"
translation = thus always I
bring death to tyrants.”
Above the fray of twittering,
squabbling, and madding crowds,
an arrogantly belligerent creature deified,
yet vilified...
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Categories:
corpus, 12th grade, age, allusion, america, fate, history,
Form:
Free verse
Friday May 13th 2022Friday May 13th, 2022
An excerpt taken from a lengthy tome,
written courtesy a favorite poet of mine.
Paraskevidekatriaphobia struck within a blink,
I swear yours truly never took a drink,
nevertheless he witnessed
and falsely accused of being a...
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Categories:
corpus, atheist, dark, destiny, gothic, history, husband, may,
Form:
Free verse
Translation of Oothukkadu Venkata Subba Iyer's Poem Thaye Yashoda By T WignesanTranslation of Oothukkadu Venkata Subba Iyer (circa 1700-1765)’s « THAYE YASHODA » by T. Wignesan
This devotional song and poem in Tamil (the principal Dravidian language which has spawned over twenty languages in the southern Indian...
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Categories:
corpus, god, mother, religious, universe, , western,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
The Crime Is Snowed Over, Translation of Pierre Emmanuel S Il Neige Sur Le CrimeThe crime is snowed over, Translation of Pierre Emmanuel’s Il neige sur le crime
Are we buried under snow holding our silence
in what immense Cimmerian (collision) of terror ?
The mouth kept open in the shriek...
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Categories:
corpus, absence, devotion, war, , literature,
Form:
Free verse
The Anatomy of a Kural: Maxim 245 of the Thirukkural By ThiruvalluvarThe Anatomy of a Kural: Maxim Number 245 (taken at random) of the Thirukkural, the Tamil Classic on Ethics by Thiruvalluvar
allal arulaalvaarkku illai valivalangum
mallalmaa naalam kari (K245)
“The teeming earth's vast realm, round which the...
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Categories:
corpus, education, metaphor, philosophy, poetry, tamil,
Form:
Couplet
Adolescent infatuations never consummatedAdolescent infatuations...never consummated
Greetings reader from a cross between an aging seventy inch long (ringing ding dong) haired pencil necked geek and a Norwegian bachelor farmer wannabe; meaning yours truly actually a virtually married Pennsylvania man,...
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Categories:
corpus, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th grade, 9th
Form:
Free verse
The Curse of Black BeardDown deep beneath fathoms icy keep, where deadmen’s
Scream in utter silences aquatic hell, amongst the devils
Graveyard of wreckage's carnage, there exists a ghostly harbor
Of phantom ships!
Anchored are the souls of the undead, and vessels craft...
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Categories:
corpus, adventure, boat, evil, fantasy, imagery, imagination, mystery,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
corpus, appreciation, career, celebrity, image, vanity, writing,
Form:
Free verse
The Black DahliaA phantom beauty sheathed within a gown of utter darkness,
Stalks the lonely avenues of Los Angeles, seeking in vengeances
Revenge for her murder to bring him unto justice’s final damnation!
On the corner of thirty-Ninth Street she...
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Categories:
corpus, america, grief, halloween, holiday, imagination, violence, visionary,
Form:
Free verse
Antinatalist PoemsAntinatalist Poems
Habeas Corpus
by Michael R. Burch
I have the results of your DNA analysis.
If you want to have children, this may induce paralysis.
I wish I had good news, but how can I lie?
Any offspring you...
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Categories:
corpus, baby, birth, child, child abuse, childhood, children,
Form:
Rhyme
Pied PiperessAs Medusa walks in, shuts the door,
caresses precision hand down the mahogany-
and shows one what for.
Senses in starbursts-cloudburst
flavor crystals accenting- your bloom
of predicate corpus, cat claws in my brain,
comes metamorphosis-
Led mushrooming depth of...
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Categories:
corpus, beautiful,
Form:
Rhyme
Crying FireHaving hemorrhaged hope from a gaping gash,
That I've let bleed from between my eyes,
My heart has held that it shan't cease to clash,
With my head 'til I command what its corpus cries.
Water has woken my...
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Categories:
corpus, blue, cry, fire, purple, red, water,
Form:
Rhyme
ME AND COUNTRY'S LEGENDSME AND COUNTRY’S LEGENDS OF FOREVER
Do I wake to you or the cosmos?
Do I wake to singing birds chirping as if there’s a fire?
or a chorus of you Ain’t Nothing But A Hound Dog
sung by...
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Categories:
corpus, america, music, western,
Form:
Free verse
From Wren's They CameThe Head Line News read, Houston under Martial Law,
Stay indoors, do not panic, and do not go out, under any
Cause!
I’m not sure from wrens’ they came, at first it was just
The rain, not the regular...
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Categories:
corpus, fantasy, gothic, halloween, holiday, horror, imagery, international,
Form:
Free verse
Voluntary Unconditional Surrender WokeVoluntary unconditional surrender woke...,
Viz hitting yours truly,
when yokel egghead doth jinx
whereby ye cannot comprehend figurative
wimpy vainglory, unequivocally, tectonically,
smoldering resentments I stoke,
he doth bare his soul no joke,
no matter insight doth severely challenge
cyber surfing passersby, who...
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Categories:
corpus, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form:
Free verse
Lacrimal Horizon , Laskrizon Pt 1of 2Above ,
sitting atop a crested hill
solitary , but nary lonely
Agemo is what he answer's too
but question is alway's on his mind
His twin , Ahpla , calls him a dreamer
Agemo has grown to expect this
considering...
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Categories:
corpus, adventure, imagination, mystery, brother, time, brother, time,
Form:
Epic
An Average SchlepperThis fool doth not consider himself wise,
writing paltry poetry difficult
to read and/or actualize
methinks perusers of great literature
snub nose how I miserably advertise,
laughable attempt to aerobicise
fifty plus shades of gray matter
lobbying showy words agonize
zing effort perhaps...
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Categories:
corpus, absence, anti bullying, atheist, character, death, grave,
Form:
Free verse
Anamorphosis
"anamorphosis"
your eyes
like mundi’s orb
crystal Orion belted
mysterious black opals
Blue globed
opallios light veined,
a Star calls us
Home
some are blind, disinterested;
other windows once jaded
are jewels, like emeralds and
sapphire skies, topaz earthed
Becoming
portals to worlds of others,
wide and...
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Categories:
corpus, humanity, i am, love,
Form:
Free verse
Strikingly Crafty Logomaniac PresentsStrikingly crafty logomaniac presents...
what else... his trademark blatherskite!
While sprawled comfortably
numb upon davenport
Iowa daily dose of poetic mishmash,
thus yours truly couches, kneads, sports...
his imponderable matted
swiftly styled balderdash
noah intent to kindle
potential ark enemy, nor abash
please pardon your
garden...
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Categories:
corpus, 11th grade, 12th grade, beauty, creation, humorous,
Form:
Elegiac Lyric
Catarrh and Catharsis... stalactites hung like dystopian snot from a statue
her brain was frozen and formed ice in her mind
a lacuna without inlet or outlet arrested in time
mind’s skates tied up in bundles of snowflakes
gloves off...
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Categories:
corpus, depression,
Form:
Free verse