Long Cotton Poems
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Short Stuff: Epigrams
Epigrams by Michael R. Burch
Negligibles
by Michael R. Burch
Show me your most intimate items of apparel:
begin with the hem of your quicksilver slip ...
Negotiables
by Michael R. Burch
Love should be more than the sum of its...
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Categories:
cotton, body, clothes, death, eulogy, introspection, love, obituary,
Form:
Epigram
Rejection Slips 2
Rejection Slips 2
The Shape of Mourning
by Michael R. Burch
The shape of mourning
is an oiled creel
shining with unuse,
the bolt of cold steel
on a locker
shielding memory,
the monthly penance
of flowers,
the annual wake,
the face in the...
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Categories:
cotton, beauty, death, desire, life, longing, love, nature,
Form:
Free verse
Free Verse Ii
Nucleotidings
by Michael R. Burch
“We will walk taller!” said Gupta,
sorta abrupta,
hand-in-hand with his mom,
eyeing the A-bomb.
“Who needs a mahatma
in the aftermath of NAFTA?
Now, that was a disaster,”
cried glib Punjab.
“After Y2k,
time will spin out of control anyway,”
flamed...
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Categories:
cotton, angel, child, childhood, children, family, time, world,
Form:
Free verse
Adam and Eve - Part One
Year One -
Tell me Eve,
does this Garden have everything we need,
do you think the walls are too tall,
are the gatekeepers reasonable, tolerable, right about it all,
what did Lilith know, where did she go
far past the...
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Categories:
cotton, art, creation, love,
Form:
Epic
Free Verse Iii
Salve
by Michael R. Burch
for the victims and survivors of 9-11
The world is unsalvageable ...
but as we lie here
in bed
stricken to the heart by love
despite war’s
flickering images,
sometimes we still touch,
laughing, amazed,
that our flesh
does not despair
of love
as...
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Categories:
cotton, body, desire, kiss, love, together, war, world,
Form:
Free verse
A Night On a Wharf
A Night On A Wharf
The couple decide to walk. The boardwalk still lit at this late hour guides them. They walk hand in hand,..whispering softly with small talk...solemn.,. lonely , yet together. The walk is...
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Categories:
cotton, blessing,
Form:
Carpe Diem
U Arson murder of 9 totally redacted to fit the necessary needs of the Bureau
Special Agent Alan King arrived in his Buick dragging my husband to Foss park for his failed lie detector test where I wore wires pregnant for the FBI my husband was scared to death after...
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Categories:
cotton, allah,
Form:
Nazm
Mary Ma Gargano Boys
Mary Gargano the key player in covering the drug monies and drugs that ran from Milwaukee pitstop in Chicago Antioch Danville Marietta Georgia straight to palm beach blvd. Ciro Gargano his business partner Hayes stopping...
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Categories:
cotton, allah,
Form:
Manqabat
Engaging the Family Laundry
Perhaps infertile
incomplete
unwashed memories
of elder v younger,
Goliath v David,
crusades v communion
critical, yet part of chronic, events
speak extended family disengagement truth
to powerful dirty laundry engagement failures.
That disclaimer said,
I have two incomplete conversations
in mind and heart
and what I...
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Categories:
cotton, culture, destiny, games, health, integrity, peace, religion,
Form:
Political Verse
Devils Rhapsody in Blue
Hypocrites sucking off the silicone tit
of the antichrist spirit.
Man infestation from the pit of
deliriot.
In hallowed halls of discord, whispers echo,
the chorus of the damned proletariat,
a venom, seeping...
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Categories:
cotton, art,
Form:
Rhyme
My Eyes the Painting Photograph In the Sky- -
"I am a painter and my eyes are the paint brushes I had if I look up with my open eye I see the Horizon I see the clouds to be continued
Oh shutter as I...
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Categories:
cotton, allusion, analogy, appreciation,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Magdalen Christmas Eve Mass 1984
Busy time very frustrating watching my
husband and ciro gargano go over the
blue prints over and over again during
the 1984 elections for lake county Daniel
Furlan Bobby Thompson Ernest Fisher Ciro
was looking...
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Categories:
cotton, allah,
Form:
Epulaeryu
Mattson, a Place Unforgotten
In these United States of America, there is a little town not very far off the beaten path. Neither gold nor silver has ever been mined in or near this town of fertile delta soil....
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Categories:
cotton, home,
Form:
Narrative
Another Cruel Link In Their Chain
Another Cruel Link in their Chain
1. Beginnings
Her babe was her joy, such a beautiful boy,
and he suckled her breast till the end.
The slaver sought cash, bestowed mammy a thrash,
sold her...
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Categories:
cotton, body, life, men,
Form:
Ballad
June 12th 2017 Transition Revisited and Revised Today 4 2 2021
June 12th 2017 TRANSITION revisited and revised today 4/2/2021
While scrolling over outdated docs
(i.e. namely OpenOffice documents)
derrière seated upon hard backed chair,
yours truly came upon following poem
to share with anonymous readers,
whereby slight modifications
got made to...
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Categories:
cotton, adventure, angel, anxiety, blessing, conflict, husband, july,
Form:
Rhyme
Legend of the Red October Run
Dedicated to the 2000 National College Football Champions, the Oklahoma Sooners
--------------------------------------------------------------
Over fifty years, boy and man, I’ve been a Sooners fan
Watched and reveled in their glories, every one;
But there’s no more glorious “Sooner Magic”...
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Categories:
cotton, adventure, autumn, desire, football, games, heart, history,
Form:
Rhyme
Story About Santa Contest
Sponsor: Carol Eastman
Long before Christmas had become a jolly folklore,
I met a grandfatherly man...
He was clean shaven, tiny and crabby,
And always wore a floppy black suit, his name was Mr. Atnas.
See, I was at such...
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Categories:
cotton, christmas, joy, nature,
Form:
Free verse
Jim Crow's Demise
Hello. I was born after the Civil War and met my fate after much civil unrest. You may have never encountered me, but some things you might already know. My name is Jim Crow, and...
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Categories:
cotton, race,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Escape of the Bluesman's Song
Within the frame a sepia scene
a dusty porch a rickety chair
the fabric of your dusky face creased
with ceaseless sunbaked woes
your old pair of getaway feet gives
a different walk of...
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Categories:
cotton, africa, america, grief, racism, slavery, song, sorrow,
Form:
Free verse
Desert Rose
I was driving to Utah, because I had gotten a promotion;
And chose the scenic route, so as to put things in motion.
I had been traveling from Los Angeles, to Salt Lake City;
And the scenery along...
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Categories:
cotton, beauty, faith, fantasy, inspiration, lost, purple, rose,
Form:
Couplet
RESPECT YOURSELF JAMAICAN WOMAN
MY GOD I FEEL SO SORRY FOR YOU I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU HAD AN AFFAIR WITH MY ABUSIVE EX HUSBAND 23 YEARS AGO NOW YOU ARE SWINGING WITH MY NEIGHBOR JIMBO AND HIS WIFE RESPECT...
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Categories:
cotton, allah,
Form:
Naat
A Heart Made Hatchet -2
Hannah, I haven't seen or heard you cry
not in the gray of winter day
or in the cold silence of our prisoner nights,
the others can hardly keep up with you on the marches
your face is changeless...
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Categories:
cotton, america,
Form:
Epic
Throw the Blame On Me
Giving in to the silence one last time,
Everyone needs encouragement once in a while
Some need it everyday
For God’s sake, hear me out during this time of suffering
You're different from everyone else
It's not your fault x2
It's...
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Categories:
cotton, anger, angst, beauty, confusion, deep, freedom, heart,
Form:
Free verse
geneva
During finals week, I’d spent days on various reports and papers, scribbling in the margins of notes and books, checking facts, revising flashcards and prepping with friends. I’ve an unshakable faith in plodding persistence.
We were...
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Categories:
cotton, boyfriend, humor, love, school, student, travel,
Form:
Free verse
Lux Vitae Love Stories of the Fey: In the Clouds
Lux Vitae Love Stories of The Fey:
“In the Clouds”
“What are you looking at Mum?”
“They come in the clouds you know”, she said to her daughter
“Every night, the same time, the numbers seem to grow,...
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Categories:
cotton, adventure, fairy, fantasy, journey, mystery, mythology, science
Form:
Free verse