Long Depot Poems
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SnapshotsSnapshots
by Michael R. Burch
Here I scrawl extravagant rainbows.
And there you go, skipping your way to school.
And here we are, drifting apart
like untethered balloons.
Here I am, creating "art,"
chanting in shadows,
pale as the crinoline moon,
ignoring your face.
There...
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Categories:
depot, divorce,
Form:
Free verse
Sonnets Xlii-LiSonnets XLII-LI
Distances
by Michael R. Burch
Moonbeams on water?
the reflected light
of a halcyon star
now drowning in night...
So your memories are.
Footprints on beaches
now flooding with water;
the small, broken ribcage
of some primitive slaughter...
So near, yet so far.
A Surfeit of...
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Categories:
depot, bereavement, death, death of a friend, funeral,
Form:
Sonnet
Starlight and Moonlight IiStarlight and Moonlight II
These are poems about starlight and moonlight, moons and stars, dreams and visions, illuminations and intimations …
Deliver Us...
by Michael R. Burch
for my mother, Christine Ena Burch
The night is dark and scary—
under...
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Categories:
depot, dream, love, moon, night, sky, star, stars,
Form:
Rhyme
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Categories:
depot, change,
Form:
Free verse
Love Poems IvLOVE POEMS IV by Michael R. Burch
These are love poems by Michael R. Burch: original poems and translations about love, passion, desire, lust, sex, dating, romance, relationships and marriage.
She Was Very Strange, and Beautiful
by...
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Categories:
depot, desire, love, lust, marriage, passion, relationship, romance,
Form:
Rhyme
The HitchPt. I
The Lodger
Morning sneaked inside the flat and lit the dusty air
through holes in the torn curtains forming spotlights on the floor.
He woke from the discomfort of a night in his armchair
and sighed at all...
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Categories:
depot, adventure, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
The Nifty Town 2I walked pass the neighborhood restaurants and saw Americans
browsing on their laptops and having their Saturday evening meals
Some were having a serious chat over dinner
I could see angry faces filled with disappointments and resentments
There is...
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Categories:
depot, absence, abuse, america, anti bullying, break up,
Form:
Narrative
Incomplete Metamorphosis of Distilled AdolescentIncomplete metamorphosis of distilled adolescent...
therefore he characterizes himself as an anomaly...any idea why?
Mortified, petrified, stultified, et cetera sheltered,
and mortally wounded prepubescent,
I consider myself
analogously buttressed, cocooned,
garrisoned (for bing keeler),
hardened, insulated,
where cell baited jumping frog
o'...
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Categories:
depot, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 7th
Form:
Rhyme
Where Cardinals FlyWe crept down a meandering country road, gravel crackling underneath our tires. The countryside stretched before us like a great quilt of golden, brown, and green squares held together by the thick green stitching of...
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Categories:
depot, memory,
Form:
Haibun
Bygone Days
Bygone Days
Written: By Tom Wright
4/3/2007
Remember the slogan
“Haskell is moving, are you pushing?
The railroad depot stands no more
In the spot it occupied for so long.
Instead in it’s space, a Homeland store,
But in my memory it...
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Categories:
depot, age, eulogy, time,
Form:
Lyric
Mental Hell and Shell of Myself4/7/21
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(Chorus)
Hanging out at the continental shelf
I've been living in a mental hell
I'm now just a shell of myself
Realize the importance of dental health
People with nothing and others with exceptional wealth
I've become a professional at stealth
Realize...
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Categories:
depot, dark, deep, life, poetry, rap, sad, truth,
Form:
Rhyme
My First Steam Engine Train RideSunny, hot, humid, summer morning, taking my first train ride
I'm so excited and it's thrilling can't wait to go north where it's cool
to stay with my grandpa and grandma.
Ma and pa say I'm...
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Categories:
depot, imagination, summer, travel,
Form:
Free verse
Stops Along An American Dream - Part 2(Historical train-ride on the first Transcontinental Railroad in 1870 from Omaha to Ogden aboard the Union Pacific Railroad) © 2009 (Jim Sularz)
Wyoming winds blow like a hurricane,
the flimsy bridge sways to...
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Categories:
depot, america, history, travel,
Form:
Quatrain
John Stark's Glory, Part IBack in seventeen seventy-seven,
British general John Burgoyne faced hard times,
despite winning at Hubbardton, and Fort Anne,
supplies were getting very hard to find.
When word came that General Howe wouldn’t be
marching up the Hudson to meet his...
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Categories:
depot, america, conflict, freedom, hero, history, patriotic, war,
Form:
Epic
On a Lincoln Highway Greyhound DepotSitting on a rusted blue bench the sun blew down on me a cool
green and yellow as the afternoon tucked me into
bed, ...
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Categories:
depot, allusion, america, culture, death, freedom, travel,
Form:
Free verse
Gone Are the Days -Part IiiWhen the school reopened in June,
And we settled in our new desks and benches.
Gone are the days
When we queued up in book depot,
And got our new books and notes.
Gone are the days
When we wanted two...
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Categories:
depot, childhood, life, social, school, writing, school, writing,
Form:
Light Verse
Trolley BusesBACK STORY
Me and my dad used to work as a team on the Trolley Buses for Manchester Corporation, out of the Hyde Road Depot. Dad drove, and I was his offsider, collecting fares, and keeping...
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Categories:
depot, memory,
Form:
Rhyme
TerminalMy head spins as the noise from the crash echoes in my head. I sit up in some kind of terminal with strange trains bound left and right for places I don’t understand.
One is...
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Categories:
depot, adventure, allegory, allusion, angel, art, blue, conflict,
Form:
Free verse
The White PatchI lay my head down to sleep to the calm and peaceful sound of music flowing through the thick trees cruising from the subdivision below my dwelling.The rhythmic sounds of crickets and frogs composed a...
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Categories:
depot, angel, dream,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
My Red Bike and MeI learned on a relic...quite bent out of shape,
rusty and dented..... and not even quaint!..,
An rattle-trap, hand-me-down, that had seen better days
A ten year...
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Categories:
depot, childhood, fantasy, happinesstime, me, time,
Form:
Rhyme
The Wreck On Gastons HillI watched as the old train chugged heavily up the hill.
Puffing and puffing the smoke completely shadowing J. Gastons’ saw and
paper mill.
Then I saw what looked to be another train coming...
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Categories:
depot, imagination, me, old, me, old,
Form:
Narrative
Road To Lovejoy - Piano For the Self Taught - Part 2
"Road to Lovejoy - Piano for the Self Taught" (Part 2)
His name was
Flight Left-Tennant V.C.Burton,
or "Victor Charlie Bravo", when he
got pulled over by the cops, explaining
"a sherbert or two Lynette, but not on the rocks".
though...
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Categories:
depot, dad, daughter, father daughter, imagery, love, military,
Form:
Free verse
Thanksgiving gobbledygookThanksgiving gobbledygook
The following anecdote baste
upon overactive imagination of mine
in sync with being married
and monogamously living socially chaste
life as a scrupulous anchorite,
whose weather beaten corporeal flesh
plus sabotaged, riddled,
and tuckered psyche effaced
after becoming adequately stuffed,
this turkey (in...
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Categories:
depot, 12th grade, africa, age, america, animal, bird,
Form:
Free verse
I Hate Home Depot!I Hate Home Depot!
I hate Home Depot!
Just the sight of that
orange and white sign
makes my stomach turn.
However I know every
square inch of that store,
I’ve spent
thousands of hours there
as a paying customer.
I know what all is...
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Categories:
depot, angst, parodyhome, hate, home, me,
Form:
Free verse
Gone Are the Days.... Part- Igone r the days
when the school reopened in june
& v settled in our new desks & benches.
gone r the days
when v queued up in book depot
& got our new books & notes.
gone r the days
when...
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Categories:
depot, childhood, life, social, school, writing, school, writing,
Form:
Light Verse