Long Decoys Poems

Sonnets LXXI-LXXX

Because You Came to Me
by Michael R. Burch

Because you came to me with sweet compassion
and kissed my furrowed brow and smoothed my hair,
I do not love you after any fashion,
but wildly, in despair.

Because you...

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Tonight I grow tired of keeping the secrets that were spark within my visions.  I 
must tell someone of what I saw and how the end came to be.  From the 
beginning we...

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(special thanks to a friend who shared this tribute to Solomon Mahlangu)



Solomon Mahlangu: My Blood will Nourish the Tree that will Bear the Fruits of Freedom:



Solomon Mahlangu was trained as an MK soldier with a...

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Legend Of The Black Dove   (Part 10B)

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WARNING, this may not be to your taste about hunting paedophiles and keeping kids safe,,

we are hunters from around the world,
looking out for our boys and girls,
keeping them safe when there on line,
trying to protect...

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Radioactive fields where golden grain once grew,
magnificent churches, razed right down to the pew,
Kulak farmers starved out, four million of them dead,
free though and expression only lived in your head,
lives destroyed by camps, that archipelago,
how...

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Primitive stirrings tinge my sleep.
Dawn’s grey mist welcomes my awakening coherence.
I traverse ice bound fields of summer’s past glory,
in search of winged game from the north.
I search for tundra dwellers that flee winter’s bleak death.
I...

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You’ve got to listen close now girls and boys
Just between you and me, I have a tale
It's all about money and human decoys
Fast cars, decadence, and leaders for sale

You see, about thirty years ago today
Fifty...

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Overhearing conspiracies
playing hide and go seek
and the shining had gangreen
disguised as just a tape
Falling forever
through the rabbit hole

Tag you're it
now activate your subconscious
The first dance
speaks for me
with a curse to break a curse

The black widow...

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Epileptic and unloved

He was my perfect ,Yes my heart beat
Two years together ,Being each other's Comfort
Embellished in rings, Rings of true commitment
That's what I thought , Atleast with all my logic
Only to realise after a...

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Here I am hiding my eyes once again.
From a world that runs deep with sin.
To many restless eyes and countless empty souls.
This trust less life when one gets caught up they all start to roll.
This...

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Guardian of the galaxy 
Dominions and Principalities 
Light and darkness
Stars shine bright 
In the Heavens as light
Came from a glory that can't be comprehended in this reality
Archangel 
The stars that's spangled striped over me from...

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MY BROTHER; THE MESSIAH

By these dunghills, they stood  
By these morn Mecca, we paid homage
Daily to the papyri gong beaters.
Singing   a litany of   collapses and failings

Of  a  revolutionary...

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He told her not to move,
Though fear showed in her eyes
She dare not disobey.
So the lonely figure 
Stood and waited,
While tears fell

Time stretched,
Her pitiful cries 
Grew louder,
 Until they carried     
To...

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Sandy Blight

D’Lise he was about ole Dirran town,
Back in the early forties,
When Sandy Blight could make you frown,
Interfere with your naughties, …….bad-sex?
When running eyes came shortly,
Yer Eyes were plastered tight..

Fine sandy dust as red as...

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Waterfowler’s Delight

Clouded marshes masking what may come.
Suzy's boisterous invitation over yonder grass 
Dark shadowed spreads set to entice some.
As the glow of the East begins to amass.

Newly anointed awaiting the first blessing.
Old dogs hoping the...

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Everyone wants a wish right now...
All lil' Ms.  wants is a diss.
Ya'll know I'm new at this,
Im here, it's now, 
I'm leaving without your crown!

Ms. Destroyer,
I wish you the best.
This knight never naps.
As a...

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911 Carousel
by Michael R. Burch

“And what rough beast ... slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?”—W. B. Yeats

They laugh and do not comprehend, nor ask
which way the wind is blowing, no, nor why
the reeling azure fixture...

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The Valley of Loss

My dear, we've run out of words, I see
Calm is the garden except your tree
A cherry blossom dying in my mind
Now barren of pink in Spring's glee

How can our moons bled into...

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It is fear that I’m now after
Awaiting in silence... awaiting its unnatural embrace
Too afraid perhaps to finally bother
This one excitement for a triggering chase

Why are there so much in life to fear?
Alike all thoughts and...

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Favoured poems allow me to feel blessed, letting me rejoice
Announcing soul’s gratefulness midst apathetic noise 
Vouching expression anchored upon faith’s poise
Optimizing reflective times, despite doubt ploys
Resonating human nature's bests and decoys 
Expressing earnestness of heart’s...

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A man from Brazil
          wanted handle me a cannon
          to solve confusion with a shot
  ...

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We left the camp all hot and hungry.
We were on a mission.
Through cracked lips I softly asked
“Are we huntin’ or are we fishin’?”
Orders said, “Cast the bait!
Use any lures we can employ!
Get your barrels loaded...

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His thoughts a noose round the neck
That betrays progress into better ray,
Prisoner self-chained to surreal wreck
Of diamond burdens beyond their say.  

His pulses another swift drift away 
From lanes of wit and clear sense;
Obstinate...

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Short shorts skirts and spike heeled shoes

In the Red light District of your town

On the darkened street corners

There's pleasures of the flesh to be found.


Blondes, brunettes and redheads

Working girls they are.

They earn their living selling...

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