Long Dorn Poems

Poems about Poems (II)

Kin
by Michael R. Burch

for Richard Moore

1.
Shrill gulls,
how like my thoughts
you, struggling, rise
to distant bliss?
the weightless blue of skies
that are not blue
in any atmosphere,
but closest here...

2.
You seek an air
so clear,
so rarified
the effort leaves...

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Poems about Poets VII

Gallant Knight
by Michael R. Burch

for Alfred Dorn and Anita Dorn

Till you rest with your beautiful Anita,
rouse yourself, Poet; rouse and write.
The world is not ready for your departure,
Gallant Knight.

Teach us to sing...

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Into Young Womanhood

this glorious role, sans
     helping beget and nurture thine first born
three day shy of Christmas 1996,
     fills thy being
     with joie...

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many a december twenty forth gone by, 
whence wisp of carolers ghosts hauntingly adorn
remembrance of sum...
er things passed along tummy 
from ma late ma alm 

compunction eruption viz:
fruition, gumption interruption 
sans redemption how became re:...

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You see all of these protesters out
chanting and screeching on the TV,
convinced that we’ll solve all our problems
Ii we just get rid of the police.
They claim that they’re targeting people
merely of the color of their...

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The poor man’s name was David Dorn,
he was murdered by rioters,
trying to defend his friend’s business,
but the reaction quite disturbed.
The media wouldn’t say his name,
all mention of it soon was dropped,
since Dorn was a good...

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Now I was born in the last century
Dorn into a world of diversity
And I've grown into this sinful sphere
Full of disappointments, savagery and fear
Now my parents are long gone dead
Just me and my brother of...

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Little patriot's rhetos

If we don't see through,
Through the eyes of our fathers
And if we don't write
Write the stories of our mothers
Can we ever be better 
Better than bustards

And if we hate those
Those Who fly with,...

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TRACES...

A faint footstep left behind since my birth
And a thousand years later, I found so clear
A burning vision from the flames of wailing hearts
A drum-beat, a bull-horn sound, a clap
A music of realities dorn, this...

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Wonderland

O'er the hills lush and green,
Around the squishy marsh,
A ship stopped at the dock,
Her name was Wonderland. 

Over the seas she sailed,
With me as the captain,
And the sailors were all young men
But their strength never...

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Know very well why you are shedding tears;
but what you gain except remembering
that dreaded sorrowful event of past.
Makes you physically weak as I've fears
it'll affect your life, think surrendering
to HIM, HE will heal your woe,...

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When twist-and-turns, like narrow mount-roads, I face,
When deaths of kith, like winds in fall, bring disgrace;  
When my cries, like waves of oceans, surge endless,
I laugh, serving the orphan and the friendless...!

Wealth gone, poverty...

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Poetry Day #2: Alfred Dorn Sonnet
Dive

The moon is high as she watches the night,
The gentle crashing waves of the ocean.
A light midnight breeze passes through her hair. 
Closing her eyes as she smiles in the...

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I FEEL NATURE
**************
I feel nature, it's part of my being.
A cock blackbird soloist, what a joy.
The tiny Jeny wren throughout the day.
Nature's turned it's volume up, ears ringing!
Bidding me to hip-hop but I am coy.
My...

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In darkness beams a shaft of tender light,
A dream foretold within a gypsy’s tent,
While she sat gazing on an open hand,
The gift of gods revealed in second sight,
And had she seen my heart was left...

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