Long Delays Poems
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Echoes of a Shady PastAn icy chill descends on 13 Beaver Veil Cottage as sisters Ester and Ellie walk gingerly up the steps on this wet and windy night.
This once charming pied-a-terre was now in a final phase denouement.
The...
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delays, art, birth, character, courage, dark, imagery, imagination,
Form:
Prose
Echoes Of A Shady Past Part Twon icy chill descends on 13 Beaver Veil Cottage as sisters Ester and Ellie walk gingerly up the steps on this wet and windy night.
This once charming pied-a-terre was now in a final phase denouement.
The...
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Categories:
delays, character, dark, death, emotions, gothic, imagery, imagination,
Form:
Prose
FlintFlint
Within its brilliance gleaming
Cool black in lacquered polished silver chrome
Cranked up pistons bleached in summer’s heat
Hot steam rising as gears thundering
Beyond the crystal liquid city lights
Highways built across the land
In hearts felt pride American...
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delays,
Form:
Abecedarian
Psychologically still thirteenPsychologically still thirteen
Ordinarily meaning pre Internet days
familiarization with me would entail
bringing the avid listener
into my private mancave hideaways
less a physical place than a juncture in relationship,
(whereby one or the other of us)...
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delays, 7th grade, age, angst, birth, blue, family,
Form:
Rhyme
Medieval Poems IvMedieval Poems IV
IN LIBRARIOS
by Thomas Campion
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Booksellers laud authors for novel editions
as pimps praise their whores for exotic positions.
Brut (circa 1100 AD, written by Layamon, an excerpt)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R....
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Categories:
delays, angel, mother, romance, romantic, rose, roses are
Form:
Rhyme
World War Ii Poems and Holocaust Poems - Vi - Chaim Nachman Bialik, Erich FriedWorld War II Poems and Holocaust Poems - VI - Chaim Nachman Bialik, Erich Fried
After My Death
by Chaim Nachman Bialik
translation by Michael R. Burch
Say this when you eulogize me:
Here was a man—now, poof, he's...
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Categories:
delays, holocaust, race, racism, truth, war, world, world
Form:
Free verse
Chaucer Translation: RejectionRejection
a roundel by Geoffrey Chaucer
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Your beauty from your heart has so erased
Pity, that it's useless to complain;
For Pride now holds your mercy by a chain.
I'm guiltless, yet my sentence has...
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delays, beauty, french, heart, innocence, nature, pride, women,
Form:
Roundel
Medieval Poems VMedieval 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:
delays, earth, england, love, middle school, poems, poets,
Form:
Rhyme
Translations of the Oldest Rhyming Poems In the English LanguageTranslations of the Oldest English Rhyming Poems
The Rhymed Poem aka The Rhyming Poem aka The Riming Poem
Old English/Anglo-Saxon poem from the Exeter Book, circa 990 AD
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
(excerpt)
He who granted me life...
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delays, england, poems, poetry, poets, words, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Gingerbread Cottage FrightAt the edge of a wood, in days of summertime,
Lived Hansel and Gretel, once upon a time;
Whose dear father, a poor woodcutter,
Could no longer earn their bread and butter.
Late one night, a conversation overheard--
As from...
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Categories:
delays, children, family, fantasy, happy,
Form:
Rhyme
Enduring Spinning: Agriculture, Culture and WarYou can feel it spinning
...
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Categories:
delays, culture, environment, farm, future, history, peace, water,
Form:
Verse
Bipartisan ImagesThere remains,
among cherished riff-raff,
old trope
tropical wet and warm
reproducing images,
Sadly resilient
and madly resonant,
About organic holes
and tumescent poles,
full-flowering
young
green feminists
of feckless zero-empty wombs,
glacier valley lows
merely reflecting
volcanic mountain peaks
1's and 0's
blushing co-binaries
of upright monotheistic YangPower
never
ever yielding to...
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Categories:
delays, games, health, integrity, light, power,
Form:
Political Verse
Knowledge Is a Genie Once Let Out of the Bottle It Cant Be Put Back1
Profound insight climbing the mountain
The higher you go the more beautiful view
Opens up wide spread in front of you
You see the world under your feet
Overwhelmingly liberating experience
Shocking overpowering, and scary
You play walking on...
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Categories:
delays, allusion, deep, humanity, philosophy, symbolism, visionary, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
The Car Show - Both Audio and TextWe always spent the day before a show in preparation,
There always seemed so much to do to get the car in shape,
But all the work was worth it, (or at least we thought it was),
We’ve...
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Categories:
delays, car, hilarious, humor, humorous,
Form:
Narrative
Car Number SixteenThis train is coming down the main
This train is rocking my brain
This train is the overcrowded train
This train is washing in the rain
This train is the messy train
This train is filled with pain
This train...
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Categories:
delays, confidence, desire, endurance, forgiveness, freedom, growth, happiness,
Form:
Narrative
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:
delays, death, perspective,
Form:
Narrative
When In Love's Immense Depths, You Are Truly CherishedWhen In Love's Immense Depths, You Are Truly Cherished
Mystical web spun memories of our sweet nights,
love began under stars and brightest of moonlights.
Hold onto that image, its joyous dreaming dreams;
fiery echoes, night trysts and...
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Categories:
delays, art, beautiful, longing, love, passion, romantic, sensual,
Form:
Romanticism
We, the generation of '50We, the generation of '50,
Time-travelers with stardust in our hair, with memories planted in pockets,
Rooted in decades embraced by change, souls adorned with the dawn of the post-war world.
We spun on the carousel of the...
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Categories:
delays, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
Fast ForwardI was going to be late to work again, as it was one of those days,
When one small mishap after another, made for way too many delays.
Lateness had become a genuine problem, to a person...
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Categories:
delays, fantasy, growth, imagery, nature, time, work,
Form:
Couplet
2nd Part Canzon Form ExampleA big thanks to Bob Newman for the fine Volecentral resource.
My example
Impatient Pleas (Cazone)
Come lie with me you pretty, pretty thing,
and let us stop our toying with our...
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Categories:
delays, poetry,
Form:
Canzone
Drawing My Own ConclusionsI'd been caught up in the middle, of one of those awful days,
When nothing seems to go right, with glitches and delays.
I was having a rough day at work, and the boss was now irate;
And...
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Categories:
delays, adventure, fantasy, humor, imagery, life, magic, nature,
Form:
Couplet
The Opaquest NarrativeIn Michigan, the weather can change for the worst in October.
This particular Halloween came a blizzaring.
The lights went out and in a dark, dark room, candles were lit; therein, the opaquest narrative was captured.
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With the...
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Categories:
delays, crazy, dark, deep, fear, grave, halloween, horror,
Form:
Narrative
Opening Day With a Little DelayOpening Day with a Little Delay
Take me out to the ball game
Of balls and strikes - bloopers and perfect games;
Basket catches, ERA’S, country hardball;
Foul balls, the pick off, intentional walk, the...
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Categories:
delays, baseball, celebration, sports,
Form:
Free verse
Four Into Eight - the Silva GrailFour of eight decades rest in the past
So fortunate but how long can this last
I’ve romanced, loved and married
Living a life ever so harried
Raising a family, I’ve worked hard
A successful career achieved without fear
I’ve traveled...
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Categories:
delays, desire, emotions, passion, sexy, wisdom, woman,
Form:
Narrative
The TrapThinking back on my life; My regrets, my past.
I realize how early, I didn't have a chance
My legacy from the beginning... 'I am disgrace'
Mom with "the wood guy", determined my place
Nobody cared, the selfishness taught
Unnoticed...
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Categories:
delays, abuse, growing up, journey, life, moving on,
Form:
Rhyme