Long Disadvantage Poems
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Malkavian ThreeHis glowing golden eyes glistened with a comprehension beyond the mortal condition
A well-toned, tall, and tanned man, who most, not all, would call handsome
A brightly bleached stalactite overbite gleaned between the mean features of an...
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Categories:
disadvantage, dark, psychological,
Form:
Bio
Sonnets Xxxiii-XliSonnets XXXIII-XLI
The Folly of Wisdom
by Michael R. Burch
She is wise in the way that children are wise,
looking at me with such knowing, grave eyes
I must bend down to her to understand.
But she only smiles, and...
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Categories:
disadvantage, child, childhood, children, death, life, time, world,
Form:
Sonnet
Dillen and the DmvTO: Department of Motor Vehicles Commissioner, Chief States Attorney
FROM: Dillen Dye’s Employer
8/16/16
RE: Some apparent non-compliance with the Americans With Disabilities Act; common courtesy, civil respect; freely accessible pursuit of health, happiness, and prosperity
I don’t...
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Categories:
disadvantage, culture, discrimination, health, political, race, perspective, integrity,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Modern Sonnets IiMODERN SONNETS II
I prefer the original definition of the sonnet as a “little song” of indeterminate form and length. These modern sonnets vary from more-or-less traditional to free verse.
In Praise of Meter
by Michael R. Burch
The...
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Categories:
disadvantage, art, romance, romantic, romantic love, song, write,
Form:
Sonnet
Soul Stance River - 25Christ!
A warparty of 60 Shoshone warriors has just stampeded into the meadow
faces painted red and white for blood and death, all sorts of strange designs,
bows and arrows ready to fly on us, skull breaking cudgels...
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Categories:
disadvantage, adventure,
Form:
Epic
Letters To the LadyTroop ships loading, crowded docks
Mums and sisters waving off
Go with keepsakes, golden locks
Some men hug while many doff
Eric, soldier single stands
Beryl, lonesome widow cares
Many kissing holding hands
Eric stands and Beryl dares
Bump the soldier, make excuse
Apologizing...
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Categories:
disadvantage, mother son, war, world war ii,
Form:
Rhyme
Small Powers EverywhereThis little light of mine
I'm gonna let it shine
Wide and longing
for committed dialogue
not surrounded
by elitist debate,
Win/lose games,
Zero-sum asinine assumptions
requiring ego-infested shadows
Resisting win/win opportunities
of healthy
democratic dialogue
Between constituencies,
residents sufficiently humble
to become students together
and unschooled
unprofessional parents
and not...
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Categories:
disadvantage, anger, beauty, fear, health, integrity, light, political,
Form:
Political Verse
How to attach a shower curtainHow to attach a shower curtain...
I revisit rather than write from scratch
a poem crafted May twenty third
two thousand and twenty
since the following words apropos
and amply serve a duplicate purpose
of aforementioned title,
when yours truly enlisted
(before...
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Categories:
disadvantage, abuse, angel, appreciation, business, fun, hero, husband,
Form:
Rhyme
I Ask Myself a Rhetorical Question RegardingI ask myself a rhetorical question regarding...
the durability, longevity, and tenacity of Homo sapiens,
after screaming headlines report one after another atrocity.
How did the human species manage to survive
with many means
of self destruction at their disposal?
Atomic...
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Categories:
disadvantage, africa, america, anger, april, black african american,
Form:
Free verse
RandomLet me give the facts straight
I didn't write this poem because I want to entertain you by my fascinating wordplays
I didn't write this poem to bring you to the deepest depth of my emotions
I didn't...
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Categories:
disadvantage, how i feel, i am,
Form:
Sapphic stanza
Wendell Berry's BoutiqueOrganic
zero-waste stream
permaculturally designed
and cooperatively owned
farms
are no more or less Democratic-Boutique ecopolitics
Than AgriBusiness
extractive anti-ecological
rather than restorative-ecosystemic therapy,
competitively owned
and Business as Usual capitalist-colonizing designed
multinational conglomerates of anthro-hubris greed,
are no more or less Totalitarian Universal Supremacist...
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Categories:
disadvantage, america, farm, health, humanity, humor, integrity, love,
Form:
Political Verse
How To Attach a Shower CurtainHow to attach a shower curtain...
Suffering permanent anatomical
disfigurement, nonetheless
maintaining marital bliss
at steep price despite more or less
musculoskeletal dislocation,
I eagerly, readily willingly confess.
Ideal for someone whose height
trends toward above average
unless you don't object tilting
head back in...
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Categories:
disadvantage, 12th grade, celebration, encouraging, fun, hilarious, husband,
Form:
Free verse
Lighting of PovertyThe dilemma of unfolded experience
Thief of the universal peace
Thunder storm that terrifies the universe
You are the creature that lives invisibly within
The tremendous bug that bugs the planet earth
Uncomfortable but certainly portable to carry
Possibly replaceable...
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Categories:
disadvantage, abuse, africa, character, earth, emotions, freedom, humanity,
Form:
Lyric
As a Resident of Schwenksville Boro For Five Plus YearsAs a resident of Schwenksville Boro for five plus years...
Intersection upon adventitious
encounter, when first seed of genocide planted
unsuspecting subsequent rapid usurpation
quickly eradicated rightful breed
of what coalesced into thee Americas.
I experience stir of echoes haunting
Perkiomen...
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Categories:
disadvantage, abuse, adventure, age, america, anger, betrayal, crush,
Form:
Free verse
Voting Without AggravationVoting without aggravation...
Otherwise known as
absentee ballot/ mail-in ballot
if ye read no further... please exercise
opportunity to cast ballot
obviously freedom to choose,
but take serious stock of human bondage
(desperately calling out
for their Maugham me)
regarding: economy, integrity, monetary, xyz...
Anyway,...
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Categories:
disadvantage, 12th grade, betrayal, freedom, humanity, miracle, motivation,
Form:
Political Verse
Drug ConsumptionMan I'm still standing & demanding though demand is drained
You can look in from outside see but not feel the pain
I’ve been through mad drills harsh anger & changed my face
quitting is Hell my friend...
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Categories:
disadvantage, drug,
Form:
Rhyme
Rantconsidering the inanity of writing a poem
without any idea of a subject
to write about has not deterred me
from blindly filling the first sentence with words of little or no...
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Categories:
disadvantage, life, natural disasters, work, me, write, me,
Form:
Bio
Making It Great In 2008 (Part 9): Roll Away the Stoneto make 2008 great you need to roll away that stone
that rock that has closed you off and left you feeling all alone
Jesus had been crucified and then placed in a tomb
and on the...
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Categories:
disadvantage, angst, confusion, introspection, life, son, god, god,
Form:
Epic
To Eat a Continent Is Not So StrangeWaves could wash away certain blue memories but they're too blue. Today I've sat in two places, my heart full of you and how in the night under a half man in the moon too...
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Categories:
disadvantage, blue, change, heart, moon, mystery, stars, wind,
Form:
Verse
Hopeless Nomadic Part 1Cracked beer bottles and detached baby rattles in slightly untidy, black plastic wrappers.
No garbage can nor box or bag is exempt from the burrower’s thorough ransack.
Rancid rubbish, rich with unwanted tidbits,
And the bounty -...
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Categories:
disadvantage, autumn, community, corruption, imagery, life, lonely, people,
Form:
Rhyme
What Price Safety ?how much is it worth to you to feel safe and secure?
how much would you spend? how much could you afford?
what is the monetary value that you would place on your life?
how much money would...
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Categories:
disadvantage, dedication, introspection, on work and working, passion,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Til It Is DoneGAINING AND MAINTAINING HER TRUST
...
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Categories:
disadvantage, love,
Form:
Classicism
The Modern CauseI don’t start off thinking it’s a priority to insult
so if you end up offended it’s probably your fault
opinions can be devisive
one will speak and another won’t like it
offensive views are...
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Categories:
disadvantage, america, england, perspective, political, society,
Form:
Rhyme
The White PrivilegeA cherished childhood spent cocooned in my inward-looking community,
Protected me from the indoctrination of a white-privileged history.
But when I stepped into a world where brown was under-represented
My identity…Was molested.
My speech, skin, hair and dress, seemed...
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Categories:
disadvantage, prejudice, racism,
Form:
Rhyme
Happy Day AfterI’ve written about the day before Christmas…then added Christmas Day into the mix…
So it only seems appropriate that I write about December 26.
So…happy day after Christmas…like Christmas it’s a day that can enchant and captivate…but...
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Categories:
disadvantage, christmas, humor,
Form:
Rhyme