Long Courses Poems
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Fully Employed Now
Humanity keeps looking forward, toward the coming of a birth,
and we’re all deemed as equals on our first day on this earth,
but as the years go quickly by our lives become our own;
we’re seen as...
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Categories:
courses, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Medieval Poems V
Medieval Poem V
A Proverb from Winfred's Time
anonymous Old English poem, circa 757-786
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
1.
The procrastinator puts off purpose,
never initiates anything marvelous,
never succeeds, and dies alone.
2.
The late-deed-doer delays glory-striving,
never indulges daring dreams,
never succeeds,...
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Categories:
courses, earth, england, love, middle school, poems, poets,
Form:
Rhyme
Winter Awakens My Care
Winter Awakens My Care
anonymous Middle English poem, circa 1300
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 my thought:
regarding this world's joy,
how everything...
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Categories:
courses, angst, england, joy, sorrow, tree, weather, winter,
Form:
Couplet
DONALD PELLEGREN AND I AS STENRAP RUMOR FOR STEM CELL TO TREAT HIS LEUKEMIA
THIS WAS BASICALLY ORCHESTRATED BY CIRO GARGANO IDEA MAKING DONALD PELLEGREN BELIEVE HE AND I WERE PARENTS AFTER A BREIF ENCOUNTER WITH HITMAN PELLEGREN HE BECAME OBSESSED WITH FATHERING A CHILD WITH ME HE RANTED...
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Categories:
courses, allah,
Form:
Lento
April 9th, 2024 would be ninety fifth birthday poem for dearly departed papa
April 9th, 2024 would be ninety fifth birthday poem for dearly departed papa
The following words crafted soon after the soul of me daddy set adrift into the empyrean realm joining the rank and file of...
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Categories:
courses, absence, age, anniversary, april, bereavement, death, father,
Form:
Rhyme
Translation of Eric Mottram's Twentythird Legal By T Wignesan
Translation of Eric Mottram’s Twentythird Legal by T. Wignesan
Le vingt-troisième légal
pendant la guerre le peuple devient obéissent de nouveau
plein du respect (et) de la confiance les enfants naïfs dans la foi
la gouvernance nécessaire ...
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Categories:
courses, america, anti bullying, anxiety, military, war,
Form:
Free verse
The Outlander
I am an Outlander
Who lives on a high hill
Overlooking a man-made lake
That once was a rapidly rushing river
Along whose banks the Ozarks Bluff Dwellers and the Osage and then Delaware
Hunted, fished, and created shelter
For their...
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Categories:
courses, change, childhood, community, history, home, journey, remember,
Form:
Ballad
Travel Light
* This poem was written for a contest originally, but was used by Professor Anne-Marie Thornton of Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey, to teach her WAR POETRY class in the spring semester of 2017. My...
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Categories:
courses, child, children, loss, war,
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Dramatic Verse
travel light
Her small angelic face ...
Once a place where broad smiles bloomed like butterflies on marigolds,
is streaked with the furrows that countless tears have etched into the
layers of dust and dirt and explosive residue that now...
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Categories:
courses, child, conflict, courage, war,
Form:
Free verse
My Hell
I fall down
deeper and deeper
into oblivion
nothing
only darkness.
the sounds of evil
dripping into my ears
slithering farther
and sliding down into me
filling me with echoes.
terror courses through
my veins
into each cell
turning them against
me
they are no longer mine
they follow another
a stronger...
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Categories:
courses, betrayal, death, evil, fear, horror, pain, suicide,
Form:
Free verse
Packed Up Pachyderm
You know when I think about it now and what I have to do,
a lot of you folk out there would have a bit of envy too;
you see I'm a 'lacky' for a vet, well...
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Categories:
courses, humorous,
Form:
Epic
Evolution
Evolution Not God
It is the case that there is no God,
He does not exist, he is not the one,
He is not there, he’s not everyone’s invisible puppet,
It is not personal, he is not the Son.
Evolution...
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Categories:
courses, animal, beautiful, change, cool, destiny, nature, universe,
Form:
Rhyme
A Mom, Three Girls, Two Cigarettes, and a Sparrow
Part I.
Harvest time was winding down,
I was taking lunch in town,
After spending six long hours plowing stubble.
Washing up I met a man,
Guessed he was a harvest hand,
His combine crew, he said,...
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Categories:
courses, faith, loss, , cute,
Form:
Rhyme
The Rhyming Poem - Part I
The Rhymed Poem aka The Rhyming Poem and The Riming Poem
Old English Poem (i.e., Anglo-Saxon Poem) from the Exeter Book, ca. 990 AD
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
He who granted me life created this sun
and...
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Categories:
courses, england, literature, poems, poetry, poets, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
The Rhyming Poem - Part Ii
The Rhymed Poem aka The Rhyming Poem and The Riming Poem - Part II
anonymous Old English Poem from the Exeter Book, circa 990 AD
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
He who granted me life created this...
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courses, england, literature, poems, poetry, poets, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Celebarating the Adventure of Advent: a Collaboration With Kai Michael Neumann
Universal elegy grieves and yet embraces shifts of paradigm
New beginnings consciousness initiates comprehends and thus proceeds from
Illusion’s delusion collusions misconceptions in the irritating
Vortex whirlpool immanent void of false containment
Enlightenment modern postmodern retro visionary futuristic aspirations
Resound...
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Categories:
courses, adventure, community, universe,
Form:
Sestina
The History of a Wasted Mind
“The History of a Wasted Mind”
What goes through the mind of a recidivist
Fist full of hate and hurt marking time
Fist full of history, got down with the dirt
The History of a Wasted Child
The History...
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Categories:
courses, abuse, child abuse, war,
Form:
Free verse
Cyberstalking Nightmare
Back in two thousand plus some years more of five,
When computers I'd just met, didn't yet with jive;
When a computer was just a box of technology,
A box of fascination and luring like a giant mystery,
I...
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Categories:
courses, abuse, bullying, courage, evil, internet, jealousy, technology,
Form:
Rhyme
Old and New Halloween Poems
No Halloween Candy
I can't get no Halloween candy.
I can't get no Halloween candy.
But I try, and I try, and I try, and I try.
I can't get no. I can't get no.
Well I'm walking door...
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Categories:
courses, fear, halloween,
Form:
Rhyme
April 9th, 2023 Birthday Poem For Dearly Departed Papa
April 9th, 2023 birthday poem for dearly departed papa
Borne aloft into the netherland
the body bearing thee soul
of Boyce Brandon Harris
birth name given to my late father
buoyed aloft united with spirit
of mine late...
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Categories:
courses, age, anger, anniversary, appreciation, april, bereavement, birthday,
Form:
Free verse
travel light
* I’m honored to say that this piece was used for a “War Poetry” class by Ann Marie Thornton at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey. Many thanks to her and the students for their questions...
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Categories:
courses, analogy, child, war,
Form:
Epic
April 9th, 2025 birthday poem for dearly departed papa
April 9th, 2025 birthday poem for dearly departed papa
Elysian fields long since embraced dada's soul
which rocketed into aerospace
(courtesy General Electric satellite)
just a tad shy of
fifty four plus months ago,
nevertheless melancholia
still plucks mine heart strings.
Mine...
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Categories:
courses, absence, abuse, adventure, anger, appreciation, bereavement, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
Tea and Poetry In the Ides of March - Part One
Beneath a misty veil of ‘Euphoria’ by Calvin Klein, she dares to dream of acceptance in a world of wanna-be Literary Giants who are members of an elite writer’s group, as she drives along a...
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Categories:
courses, satire,
Form:
Free verse
Unquotable Quotes Writers - Xxxviii
Unquotable quotes: Writers – XXXVIII
for Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoieski
who let not even hope sustain them and who used their...
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Categories:
courses, creation, england, imagination, inspiration, judgement, writing,
Form:
Epigram
Out of the Way
*Image of Hikers Warning by Pixabay.
Out Of The Way
As a self-proclaimed ruler of my person, I am mindful of the internal convictions, external constitutions as Lord overseer of my spotless realm,
Upon my own free will,...
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Categories:
courses, death, perspective,
Form:
Narrative