Long Delayed Poems
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Justice Is Crying In the Street
Oh my soul what hails you?
Oh my soul what awaits you?
Oh my soul why are you in despair?
Oh my soul I have not deserted you
Oh my soul I have something to share
Oh my soul I...
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Categories:
delayed, anti bullying, conflict, courage, desire, discrimination, education,
Form:
Free verse
Sonnets Lxi-Lxx
Sonnets LXI-LXX
Erin
by Michael R. Burch
All that’s left of Ireland is her hair?
bright carrot?and her milkmaid-pallid skin,
her brilliant air of cavalier despair,
her train of children?some conceived in sin,
the others to avoid it. For nowhere
is evidence of...
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Categories:
delayed, heart, night, spiritual, wife, words, write, writing,
Form:
Sonnet
Poems About Butterflies and Bees
Poems about Butterflies and Bees
Flight
by Michael R. Burch
It is the nature of loveliness to vanish
as butterfly wings, batting against nothingness
seek transcendence...
Album
by Michael R. Burch
I caress them—trapped in brittle cellophane—
and I see how young they were,...
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Categories:
delayed, animal, butterfly, flying, insect, sky, wind,
Form:
Rhyme
Peace In the Nowhere
"Peace in the Nowhere"
Ghosts remain in this place
they read their words
marked each day on walls
like prayers, it gives them
peace in the nowhere
someplace relevant to go
Ghosts commune in this place
disowned long ago or walked
off the...
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Categories:
delayed, muse, poems, poets,
Form:
Narrative
Beckoning
Beckoning
by Michael R. Burch
Yesterday the wind whispered my name
while the blazing locks
of her rampant mane
lay heavy on mine.
And yesterday
I saw the way
the wind caressed tall pines
in forests laced by glinting streams
and thick with...
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Categories:
delayed, anxiety, break up, change, confusion, sleep, time,
Form:
Verse
My Inner Voice Told Me
A plethora of complex verbiage clogs and clutters solemn university tombs,
gem-encrusted sequestered vaults impervious on mountain peak percentage practical basis,
when express benevolence enjoins the ultimate in empirical assessment ...
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Categories:
delayed, care, character, dedication, deep, encouraging, feelings, growth,
Form:
Free verse
Saul Grills Marilyn At a Seedy New Orleans Jazz Dive
Saul’s twinkling eyes took it all in – the platinum hair framing a first-class face, the silvery sheath dress wrapped around a figure that was out of sight, but in plain view. She was definitely...
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Categories:
delayed, humor, murder, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
Earthfirst
America First
speaks a RightWing monocultural intention
currently championed by Trumpians
and Republican Aristocracy of Evangelism
Tea Partiers,
by xenophobic paranoids
and sociopathic pharisee fascists,
by economically blind
deaf
and angry
bigoted
terrified shouters;
just the opposite of dumb,
yet not cooperatively mindful either
of our global...
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Categories:
delayed, anger, community, fear, happiness, health, humor, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse
The Game of Hockey
The Game of Hockey
By Government decree, lacrosse
Is Canada’s national sport,
But in the hearts and minds of Canadians,
Hockey rules supreme.
Hockey is a winter sport enjoyed by Canadians since 1875,
When the game was first played, on...
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Categories:
delayed, hockey, sports,
Form:
Verse
Shame and Guilt Sabotaged Mine Healthy Growth
Shame and guilt sabotaged mine healthy growth...
and let yours truly not forget emasculation
that prickly emotional immobilization
whereby these lovely bones
subject courtesy senescence
upon cremation reduced to obliteration.
Inching closer to mortality
linkedin with concomitant
subtle deterioration of body...
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Categories:
delayed, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form:
Free verse
Deprived Of Your Love -When My Life Changed
Glib rhetoric concerned with striking independence may seem frivolous,
nuanced rational quite often a typical traumatic casualty,
the once interminable interdependent passionate zeal disintegrating in rapid spasms,
a longing sated and mutually embraced by two compatible persons...
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Categories:
delayed, break up, courage, cry, emotions, feelings, grief,
Form:
Free verse
Aspie
1—Milieu
Unique construction of body and mind
My niche in human pack not quickly found
Raw young heart of a curious design
The empty mirrors for my soul abound
Subjectively a bit odd to myself
A jangled, disconnected kind of...
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Categories:
delayed, emotions, growing up, introspection, people, senses, society,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
War Is a War Crime
Once wars were fought with sticks and stones
to flog the flesh and batter bones
and conquer lands, defending thrones -
though gods provoke, not one atones.
The multitude (by hordes beset
with battle-ax or bayonet)
braved blades, dyed red...
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Categories:
delayed, war, world,
Form:
Quatrain
chapter 152- DAMIAN DELILAH MALLORY HOLANNYA: Wedding Surprise
Date: April 4, 2051
Dolly had Molly and Holly delayed
In the dinning area while she secured
Any loose ends. They had most of
The assemblages in place. The aisle
The flowers? Delilah had questions
"Mommy...
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Categories:
delayed, allusion, black love,
Form:
Alliteration
Torn Apart
A piece of me has been torn apart
All of you have broken my heart
The tears are still coming and going
And I can still feel my heart burning
I know that this was coming
But I pretended and...
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Categories:
delayed, appreciation, boat, break up, loneliness, love, love
Form:
Narrative
Chalk Dust and Stardust
Amidst the chaos of chalk and dreams deferred,
We ask ourselves, where can we find the spark
In this labyrinth of rote and rigid words?
The burden we bear, a future stark
We've trudged through dusty classrooms, yearning
For wisdom...
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Categories:
delayed, education,
Form:
Free verse
Midnight To 3:33 Morning Kills
"Midnight to 3.33, Morning Kills"
He said,
“Go to where the poets go
Love rolls wet and sways
Intensity wraps itself inside out
and somersaults its legs backward
to open a way
Out
It’s kind of burning hot
like Summer burns
bare...
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Categories:
delayed, feelings, freedom, muse,
Form:
Free verse
2071 - Big Brother Watches From On High
2017 - year zero
They loaned to the poor, who cannot repay.
They stole from the old, who cannot recover.
They sold our future, for better or worse
and made our children pay.
They schooled arithmetic to be feared.
They tutored...
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Categories:
delayed, corruption, humanity, pain, parody, political, truth,
Form:
Free verse
Tying Up the Second Coming
I was tying up her second shoe
when the second coming came.
The first had been the night before
when the bus demons dropped her off
to say they might be back
but weren't exactly sure when,
while I tied up...
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Categories:
delayed, anti bullying, bullying, caregiving, humor, parents, patriotic,
Form:
Political Verse
Lost Time
When I was a little girl,
I spent so much time hoping for…
The day I turned 12, 13, 16 and 18.
I wanted to know what it would be like
To wake up and see that girl...
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Categories:
delayed, appreciation, dream, fantasy, journey, lost, memory, time,
Form:
Free verse
Of Treasures Sought, Diving For Forbidden Dark Pearls
Of Treasures Sought, Diving For Forbidden Dark Pearls
I shall weave you, dear reader, words true and sincere
tho' will not be as great as those woven by poetic peers
It's truth from a life long-lived, too fast...
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Categories:
delayed, beauty, dedication, emotions, life, lost love, passion,
Form:
Rhyme
Time Traveler - A Message for Humanity
(Day 1)
"O Wise Raven, Sage of the Skies, tell me what you have seen from your perch set on high."
"Mortal Man, I feel no compulsion to reveal to you that which I have witnessed with...
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Categories:
delayed, symbolism,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Pain
Ok...
These thoughts i have of you in my head.
I want them gone and dead.
In the past for you i bled.
I wanna take all our memories and shred.
This feeling is the one i dread.
Look at my...
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Categories:
delayed, betrayal, deep, hip hop, pain,
Form:
Rhyme
Gott, Oh Machtig, Trump Iz On the Warpath Again
Gott, oh mächtig, Trump iz on the warpath again!
Glad for birth write to express views
aware cunning linguists
will apply figurative screws
in an effort at blatant mud slinging ruse
exercised courtesy mail in ballots,
or...
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Categories:
delayed, age, america, anger, angst, anxiety, betrayal, bullying,
Form:
Free verse
My Parents Were Illegal Immigrants In the United States
In 1920, my father, 16, was a guest of the British government. He was a prisoner of their forces occupying Ireland at the time, a group called the Black and Tans.
One day he and seven...
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Categories:
delayed, america, immigration,
Form:
Prose