Long Deftly Poems
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The Witch At Inverness
Please take this time to steer your thoughts
To a wretched land of lochs and glens.
Where a village was tasked and the people fraught
At the woe and sadness life could send.
With the Dragons gone and the...
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Categories:
deftly, adventure, children, magic,
Form:
Rhyme
Visitor - Part 2 - a Collaboration With July Morning
The Story so far continued from 'Visitor'…
An attractive extra-terrestrial female researcher sent to a remote island to observe earth and beam back her findings is struggling with unfamiliar, alien romantic emotions. Even though she is...
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Categories:
deftly, adventure, romance, science fiction, sensual,
Form:
Narrative
Friday May 13th 2022
Friday 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:
deftly, atheist, dark, destiny, gothic, history, husband, may,
Form:
Free verse
Lost libido as rez erected cockamamie Shtrungool haint no prickly fallacy
Lost libido as rez erected cockamamie Shtrungool haint no prickly fallacy
The following pastiche
poetically pricked prick,
whereby fantasy courtesy Eros
(????) cow licked
country bumpin videlicet hick
bullied who consider me
on account of a dinky dick.
Me primate...
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Categories:
deftly, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form:
Free verse
Kate and Isobel
*There are only two damsels in this tale; all variations were simply for ease of writing.
Once Kate and Isabella went
To see the pretty fields of Gwent
And traipse through forest shade
They packed a picnic lunch for...
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Categories:
deftly, character, friend, girl, hero, history,
Form:
Tail-rhyme
My Love, My Hope, My Goddess
My Love, my Hope, my Goddess there can be no words formed by mortal lips sufficient to proclaim the glory which lived in me the season your love bloomed so completely within my life. My...
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Categories:
deftly, heartbreak, loneliness, lost love, love, muse, pain,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Oh Mondseer: the muck cob brie muenster saga
Oh Mondseer: the muck cob brie muenster saga...,
crafted when Wallace and Gromit
returned from their trip to the moon,
which I can prov-olone huck curd
(within Trump con feta ration) –
as cheesy poem...
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Categories:
deftly, adventure, age, animal, blue, character, dog, humorous,
Form:
Free verse
Oh Mondseer the Muck Cob Brie Muenster Saga
Oh Mondseer: the muck cob brie muenster saga...,
which I can prov-olone huck curd
(within Trump con feta ration) – as cheesy poem!
Yea of course writing ideas unstoppably
burst asunder at the most inconvenient
opportunities such as...
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Categories:
deftly, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure, age, allegory,
Form:
Free verse
Smoke
Smoke
by Michael R. Burch
The hazy, smoke-filled skies of summer I remember well;
farewell was on my mind, and the thoughts that I can't tell
rang bells within (the din was in) my mind, and I can't say
if...
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Categories:
deftly, boy, boyfriend, first love, for teens, teen,
Form:
Verse
Trifolium Pollinated Courtesy Bombus
Trifolium pollinated courtesy bombus
Before landscapers mow swaths
across undulating waves of clover
(the father/daughter team
usually cut grass every Tuesday)
bumblebees alight from one to another flower.
Meanwhile, I lie splayed
mid morning June 28th, 2022
with stomach upon natural carpeting
quietly basking...
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Categories:
deftly, 12th grade, appreciation, beautiful, color, creation, flower,
Form:
Rhyme
Summer Haze
Summer Haze
by Michael R. Burch
The hazy, smoke-filled skies of summer I remember well;
farewell was on my mind, and the thoughts that I can't tell
rang bells within (the din was in) my mind, and I can't...
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Categories:
deftly, farewell, first love, goodbye, sky, summer, teenage,
Form:
Couplet
A Well-Known Stranger
'Twas a sound I thought alarming, most assuredly disarming;
Up I rose from peaceful slumber to discern what it might be.
While my candle flickered, wavered; whilst my heartbeat halted, quavered,
At my window I was favoured by...
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Categories:
deftly, absence, assonance, feelings, miss you, ocean,
Form:
Rhyme
A starry eyed burst of creativity
A (starry eyed) burst of creativity...
at approximately
a painfully early o'clock in the morning
give or take an o'clock
found yours truly (me) amassing
line after line of a poem
crazily coalescing courtesy
an extraordinary unfamiliar phenomena
while living social within alien...
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Categories:
deftly, abuse, america, analogy, anger, animal, bullying, humorous,
Form:
Free verse
As an easy pushover and soft touch lamenting my demise
As an easy pushover and soft touch lamenting my demise
Vultures swooped overhead
and preyed on my vulnerabilities
forcing me to carrion camping
as fine young cannibals
sharpened their knives
and licked their lips
while eyeing me as their naked lunch
bound and...
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Categories:
deftly, 12th grade, 1st grade, anger, fate, humorous,
Form:
Free verse
Ghosts of Christmas Past
Ghosts of Christmas Past
I do not fear the ghosts
of my Christmas past.
My yearly visit with each one
is a gift
a present
for this one day
I drive out to Lantzville Beach
and bring my dog along
My mother loved dogs...
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Categories:
deftly, christmas, nostalgia,
Form:
Free verse
To Which Image Should we Cling
Written: April 18, 2024 For Unseeking Seeker Contest
Line of inquiry:
“We have been here a thousand times before
Memory erased, each time we begin anew
Of hands held tenderly, we’ve lost the score
Each embrace virgin like fresh morning...
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Categories:
deftly, analogy, emotions, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Malevolent Maverick Mailer-Daemon
Malevolent maverick mailer-daemon...
wrought maximum monetary mayhem
within mein kampf
Incomprehensible inhumane
inquisitorial imp incarnate injudiciously,
ineffably, indescribably inflicted
inxs inexorable insidious injury.
Snake charmer also known
in the underworld as Harvey Specter
subliminally slithered,
and deftly insinuated himself
into body electric of yours truly
forever remotely...
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Categories:
deftly, abuse, america, analogy, anger, anxiety, betrayal, confusion,
Form:
Rhyme
Tea Is Served
Gathered in the shade of her quaint little garden,
where a trellis was woven with rose climbing vines,
something enchanting, had been deftly designed,
on an ordinary...
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Categories:
deftly, autumn, death, friendship, happiness, love,
Form:
Narrative
Beauty
White Dove coos the light through the bedroom window
leaving puddles of glimmering pools on the darkened floor
as the evening wanes and night takes control.
The door slowly opens and you shuffle your weary body
through the moonlit...
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Categories:
deftly, beautiful, beauty, love,
Form:
Free verse
October 7th, 2023 Upon Third Anniversary of Mine Papa's Passing
October 7th, 2023 upon third anniversary of mine papa's passing...
Death no longer jars, nixes,
and rattles mine sense and sensibilities
without pride nor prejudice
no matter (even with marginal persuasion)
wit and wisdom of Jane Austen ill...
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Categories:
deftly, adventure, age, america, anniversary, april, dad, death,
Form:
Rhyme
Happy shiny tummy courtesy I REM ember in place of stipend
Happy shiny tummy courtesy...I REM ember in place of stipend
An appetizer, essentially an
out of this world guacamole
quasi Neptune salad,
regarding self taught cook
earning prized counterpart
five Michelin stars,
when the missus artfully, carefully,
cannily, decorously, deftly,
and happily prepared
earlier today...
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Categories:
deftly, adventure, age, angel, appreciation, blessing,
Form:
Free verse
October 7th, 2022 Upon Second Anniversary of Mine Papa's Passing
October 7th, 2022 upon second anniversary of mine papa's passing...
Death no longer jars, nixes,
and rattles mine sense and sensibilities
without pride or prejudice
no matter (even with marginal persuasion)
wit and wisdom of Jane Austen ill...
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Categories:
deftly, absence, adventure, celebration, death, father, father son,
Form:
Rhyme
Impoverished courtesy scam artists Harvey Specter
Impoverished courtesy scam artists Harvey Specter
Entrapment videre licet fiendish
gnarly hustling scheme erector -
sent me to the poor house, where alms
not forthcoming to ease financial affliction,
where yours truly money matters still stymies
ways and means to relocate
to...
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Categories:
deftly, absence, abuse, anger, angst, anniversary, betrayal, computer,
Form:
Free verse
Yes, I Pier Irma Donned To Crush Mar a Lago Estate
To Crush Mar a Lago Estate, and lower the Economic debt ceiling...
Now that DACA docked amidst
marshy tidal outskirts of Poker flats
(readied to be sunk) off shore
(beach combing divers – ectoplasmic flotsam
glorying...
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Categories:
deftly, america, anger, anxiety, crush, discrimination, future, horror,
Form:
I do not know?
Portal - part 1
Today, this black oak forest will become my grave.
A crow caws in the distance and I swear it is calling my name. I have never believed in omens or curses but perhaps there are...
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Categories:
deftly, fantasy, suicide,
Form:
Haibun