Long Drinks Poems
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The BartenderTwenty two years had passed by
She blinked, and a lifetime had passed
She started this job as a lark
She never thought it would last
Two husbands and rehab were part of this bar
The husbands...her clients all...
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Categories:
drinks, america, community, family, heart, society, strength, wisdom,
Form:
Rhyme
Tawfiq Zayyad Translation: Here We Shall RemainHere We Shall Remain
by Tawfiq Zayyad
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Like twenty impossibilities
in Lydda, Ramla and Galilee ...
here we shall remain.
Like brick walls braced against your chests;
lodged in your throats
like shards of glass
or prickly cactus...
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Categories:
drinks, arabic, poems, poverty, prison, race, racism, song,
Form:
Free verse
Chapter 99 -- Damian Delilah Mallory Dj Damali Nyaf and Rico: the Celebration-- Mass InvitationsDate: April 2045
An excellent April afternoon blooming.
Damali is now 19 years old this
Day. Damali was thinking of his future
Stretched out at his study desk.
He had been enrolled for a year...
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Categories:
drinks, granddaughter,
Form:
Alliteration
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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Categories:
drinks, 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:
drinks, earth, england, love, middle school, poems, poets,
Form:
Rhyme
Before the Day EndsI saw a girl at the museum. I had to take her number
It was like my heart woke up from a long slumber
She was admiring a Picasso painting.
I knew nothing about art so I...
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Categories:
drinks, longing, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Wonderland VIII: Conclusion
it feels good to escape
with authors and poets
and dream up new places
with tales that are spun.
but sometimes what's real
and sometimes what isn't
encroach on each other
and read just as one.
such are the worlds
of rhyme but no...
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Categories:
drinks, 10th grade, emotions, literature, world,
Form:
Narrative
Strangers In PeoriaI met a proper woman in a proper pub on a Monday in Peoria. It was noon, time for lunch, and we were sitting stool to stool over very large burgers at a long mahogany...
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Categories:
drinks, break up,
Form:
Prose
Bartender Tales Ii: ChangesKerris spoke to Damian the junior
Bartender on the phone. "Yeah, it's
8 o'clock now. I'll be there at 9 to
Open. Meet me there at that time."
He smiled happily thinking...
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Categories:
drinks, beautiful, blue, engagement, friend, friendship, heart, life,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Wall StreetSet upon the new world stage within the burning fires of hell. Silently posed factions of the elite, suppress the true inherit of Mother Earth. The meek children bending over for millennium, taken spankings of...
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Categories:
drinks, political, slam, social, war, war, world, lost,
Form:
Epic
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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Categories:
drinks, england, poems, poetry, poets, words, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
I am Faithful to your WifeYeah, I am, very faithful.
My question begins with, why do men cheat?
Now I know women cheat too, but right now, I’m talking about the men. So like I said, “Why do men cheat?”
First and...
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Categories:
drinks, growth, heartbroken, love hurts, marriage, men, people,
Form:
Narrative
Last Call
We sat at the end of the bar in a seedy place on Seventh street. Nursing our drinks, we both had a bit too much that night. My...
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Categories:
drinks, passion, sad,
Form:
Prose
Liturgy for the Damned of ProgressMy wounded heart drinks deep from the rotting gut of misery,
Humanity vomits its relics onto the oozing tiles of the real.
I see kids chewing syringes like candy canes,
Their innocence smashed, face down on the concrete...
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Categories:
drinks, america, change, christian, community,
Form:
Rhyme
Spring Festival
Symbols cry in dry ice theater -
the expanse of aesthetic visa-
drawn-
from the romance of the silvery eye -
as it golden advances the lid of covenance
in dynamic enzyme.
Open faced type interpreted-
interpreter-embossed embol-
in...
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Categories:
drinks, beautiful, god, love,
Form:
Epic
Mad About Towns
When we set out on a road trip
We didn’t stick to the old script
And were gladly amazed
And rarely unfazed
Hitting strange towns though some were skipped
We started from Thatsnot, OK
Which was more or less ok
But then...
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Categories:
drinks, humorous, travel, word play,
Form:
Limerick
gildedThis happened last Fall, during Thanksgiving break.
Lisa and I were at the MET (The Metropolitan Museum of Art), with her family, at an exhibit of Art Deco sculpture. Lisa and I came out of a...
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Categories:
drinks, art, dad, daughter, fashion, fun, humor, vacation,
Form:
Free verse
Within the Brightest NightWITHIN THE BRIGHTEST NIGHT (Part 01)
”Life?”
"Are you thinking what I think?" she said, nonchalantly.
”Is this not the place for it, Young Light?”
"My young light." said I.
"Let's go in, then, Young Light." She had other...
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Categories:
drinks, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
The Verdict. NOW
Well, GI Jack is welcome back, he left his...
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Categories:
drinks, society, war,
Form:
Ballad
Malkavian the SecondThe constant assault of the silence on his senses is intense
Hands clenched in fist he wished for noise and bliss
Buddy stopped talking and drinking he begins pacing as he’s thinking
Tired from walking he...
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Categories:
drinks, dark, drug,
Form:
Alliteration
Once Upon A Time In Milton Creek The ConclusionIt was still quite dark in Milton Creek, and it had just gone four
When Tom arrived at the sheriff's office, and knocked on his door
The Sheriff quickly opened up and beckoned Tom, to come inside
They...
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Categories:
drinks, america, death, western,
Form:
Narrative
Hilda's Family ReunionPaddy didn't want to go to his wife's family reunion. He told her that in the same nice way he had told her in years past so as to avoid other reunions over the many...
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Categories:
drinks, family, marriage,
Form:
Prose
Drunk Tank ShankI once spent a week in the drunk tank
couldn't handle the spirits that I drank
the cuisine wasn't half bad
we even had a few laughs
but I had to guard my butt with a shank
……………………………………………………………………….
It used to...
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Categories:
drinks, drink, joy, tribute,
Form:
Limerick
Ground Level Entry
"Ground Level Entry"
“She fits the bill”,
they say it
insouciantly
visions of being
carried in the beak
of a bilious pelican
where it builds
its rudimentary nest,
it uses sticks and debris
no stones, yet,
from irreverence
thrown at it
no higher...
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Categories:
drinks, muse,
Form:
Narrative
The Job - Part 2On the plane I meditated or at least I tried to. Most of the time I get a seat to myself. These days it’s just a ****ing Greyhound in the sky. I...
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Categories:
drinks, death, desire, first love,
Form:
Narrative