Long Delving Poems
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Radiance, For Dylan ThomasRadiance
by Michael R. Burch
for Dylan Thomas
The poet delves earth’s detritus—hard toil—
for raw-edged nouns, barbed verbs, vowels’ lush bouquet;
each syllable his pen excretes—dense soil,
dark images impacted, rooted clay.
The poet sees the sea but feels its meaning—
the...
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Categories:
delving, earth, light, love, poems, poetry, poets, words,
Form:
Sonnet
The Great Lakes Acronym Spells HomesThe Great Lakes acronym spells homes
I chose titled topic by a fanciful whim,
nevertheless still consider my knowledge
of aforementioned material slim.
Housing multivarious biomes
register ecological syndromes
whereby constituents of NOAA
Great Lakes Environmental
Research Laboratory writ tomes.
Pellucid...
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Categories:
delving, adventure, america, appreciation, beautiful, boat, creation, earth,
Form:
Rhyme
Apt Name Limericks Collaboration -Nb Some Poems Will Be BawdyCOME ON SOUPER'S LETS HAVE SOME FUN AND MAKE FOLK SMILE DURING SUCH DIFFICULT TIMES FOR US ALL. THERE ARE LOTS MORE APT NAMES - PLEASE SOUP MAIL POEMS AND I WILL ADD THEM...
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Categories:
delving, giggle, jobs,
Form:
Limerick
My Pentagram Poppet Pt 1You're so far away from me and I suck trying to go slow when I know
I wanna snatch you up, bail you out, and take us to our new home
It's hard when I'm alone in...
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Categories:
delving, girlfriend, magic, women,
Form:
Rhyme
Ten Interpretations of John 1-1"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."
Take your pick! Or better still, self realise your own insight.
Interpretation of the agnostic:
Original thought is energy created...
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Categories:
delving, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
Proposition For the Old Pagan GodsSpring flowers you grow & bloom, watered and snuggled within our bed
I knew that my skull was filled with cogs that spun together in my head
I knew early on I made a series of promises...
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Categories:
delving, girlfriend, women,
Form:
Quatrain
The Raven, Sequel - Part 1Part 1 - A raven alone, ravaging around in the darkness.....
i.
Ultimately aware, suspense is such, though truly I am sensing,
something dark diverting mind withdrawn, the silence muttered,
since melancholy holds suspicion where to probe now...
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Categories:
delving, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 5th grade, 6th
Form:
Rhyme
Horizon Winkling Cosmoswobbling
earth
Phoebus
slipover
&
...
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Categories:
delving, analogy, autumn, creation, inspirational, meaningful,
Form:
Other
Ultimate Metaphysical BaseWritten: November 04, 2023, For Jaymee Thomas Contest
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Reflecting on this rip-roaring round adventure,
Gazing into the depths of...
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Categories:
delving, analogy, appreciation, creation, metaphor,
Form:
Rhyme
Beautiful Firetail FinchLooking through the three-eighth gauge, at zebra's, stars and plumhead.
Listening to the expert in the trade and take in what he said.
I went home and scanned through pages of books and magazine,
perusing photographs of aviary...
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Categories:
delving, bird, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
Radical RavagedSacrifice made when selecting abode
Unit not ideal, but affordable close to City
With a three year old daughter, I worried
About noise transference below and above
Three level town house style was unique
Huge unit fronted four smaller...
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Categories:
delving, angst, animal, bird, character, conflict, garden, horror,
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
Forgive Your EnemiesVicar Tynan sat amongst his roses in a Friday morning sun,
that shone in beams through willow branch and leaves,
where it’s time to think of Sunday and what sermon must be done,
when he heard squabbling coming...
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Categories:
delving, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Three Turtle SongsTurtle by the Door
The bears and wolves are few;
one threadbare widow mourning,
two grays as consumptive as smoke.
The large dwindle,
their bodies grow more awkward,
more at odds.
The heavier beasts sway
like drunks in the scant woods.
Under a pelting...
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Categories:
delving, poetry,
Form:
Blank verse
Time MachineIf there was a time machine I'd go back in time
With all the great technologies to reprogram my mind
Id prepare for the worst and plans to make a stand
And go to college and learn...
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Categories:
delving, adventure, analogy, deep, extended metaphor, growth, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
Where Did They GoSo many faces moved through the desks in my classroom
sitting uncomfortably at first
...
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Categories:
delving, angst, anxiety, teacher, drug,
Form:
Free verse
Silver Lining Sought Amidst Coronavirus Covid 19 OnslaughtSilver lining sought amidst coronavirus COVID-19 onslaught
Two hundred and forty six plus months
into twenty first century celeb
and anonymous folks alike
gripped courtesy pestilence re: deb
buckle fishtailed, looped, roughed up...
wreaks/wrought havoc across world wide web.
As a secular...
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Categories:
delving, 12th grade, april, blessing, caregiving, daughter, father,
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
The Voice of the OppressedThe grandeur of my life are elusive
Mine ain't melioration; it's oppression
My free life is cramped by chains of servitude
And shout out loud I mustn't
Because even the power of my tongue is tied
Blank in me...
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Categories:
delving, bullying, corruption, discrimination, political, poverty,
Form:
Political Verse
Ballad of Dreams Two: Insidious Darkness Part Onestarted May 2013, completed 08.06.2013 (miss placed memory stick I had it saved on... oops)
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A wasteland of empty space, void of light
A fearsome nowhere, a darkness not even night
Can this really be the realm...
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Categories:
delving, adventure, allegory, dark, dream, fantasy, fear,
Form:
Ballad
Reading As An Oasis Amidst Turbulent Emotional TravailsMetaphorical troubled waters deluge
pitched me to and fro,
analogous to ghosts
that haunted Ebenezer Scrooge,
yours truly violently tossed
impossible mission to experience refuge
except when deeply engrossed
between bound pages
thick and juicy tome one garden variety
generic bookworm doth ravish
escape courtesy...
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Categories:
delving, adventure, allusion, destiny, drink, metaphor, mythology, september,
Form:
Free verse
Spirit Revelations(For Lady Janet Douglas; the “Gray Lady” of Glamis, Castle and my ancestor)
Lost in the corridors of my imagination I dreamed…
I saw myself as my own ancestor;
as if I’d lived for over four-hundred years.
Things...
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Categories:
delving, poetry, tribute, woman,
Form:
Prose
Mortality Forces Me To Confront the InevitableMortality forces me to confront the inevitable...
Though feeling one among the basket
of deplorables, yours truly, albeit groggy
from unsettling frightful dreams also rather
shy to summon courage amidst adversity took
deep breaths (envisioning egotism inflating
confidence, whereat, I never...
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Categories:
delving, 12th grade, absence, children, death, farewell, father,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
ConsumedDescending,
I manipulate and manoeuvre for the updraft
Spluttering,
I spiral down, then briefly up again, to glimpse a glowing sky
Flapping,
I fall forever faster, flat-eagled
Plunging,
...
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Categories:
delving, journey,
Form:
Prose Poetry
40 Winkswhat happens in sleep,
stays in sleep, no?
you hope.
you do your best to
forget the places that
you’ve been & the
people with whom you
have done despicable
things.
you tiptoe through the
tulips, boundless & naked
sniffing, snorting,...
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Categories:
delving, life
Form:
Free verse
All Unlucky Things Come In 4Lately i have been studiously going
over and delving into John Lennon's
back catalogue of work
And what I learned and took from it
from it is this
It seems as if he really suffered for his
art what came...
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Categories:
delving, irony,
Form:
Free verse
Alphabest CoupeAble ability answers all aptitude as attempts at accurate acquisition allows
achievement
Blending bold beauty beside bare body by being basic brain based believers
Circling constant cool casual caring comfort can combine complete class
character control
Developing...
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Categories:
delving, imagination, perspective,
Form:
I do not know?