Long Dry land Poems
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UnleashedI got up this morning in a good mood
searching for solitude in the distant skies
And watching the clouds rolling by
I stopped and listened to the sounds around me
While contemplating my sacred destiny
Barking dogs and...
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Categories:
dry land, appreciation, confidence, future, happy, loneliness, love, places,
Form:
Narrative
Catonita Strikes - Part One: a Freezer Mice AdventureContinued from FREEZER MICE
The cat had travelled straight from hell, a hell beyond the stars
The cat that theories claim once levied genocide on Mars
She now seeks vengeance on descendants of the primal shrew
Whoever knew that...
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Categories:
dry land, adventure,
Form:
Narrative
Day Seven Then Back To HeavenAnd on the seventh day, God descended from the brilliant abyss called heaven. He wanted to rest, but He had to view what He had created so He could memorize His good works.
...
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Categories:
dry land, creation, god,
Form:
Verse
Church Bulletin For TodayVenite
Come let us sing to the Lord;*
let us shout for joy to the Rock of our salvation.
Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving*
and raise a loud shout to him with psalms.
For the Lord is...
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Categories:
dry land, analogy,
Form:
I do not know?
The Day the World DiedThe day the world died!
Have you ever wondered why tribes and peoples from ancient times, until now have a day to remember and honor the dead?
There are popular festivals the world over, where...
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Categories:
dry land, bible, death, earth, god, halloween, history, remember,
Form:
Didactic
SilenceSilence,
We define it as the complete absence of sound but this definition fails to capture the profundity of the subject.
As humans, our earliest existence is shrouded in obscurity and silence.
Sperm penetrates ovum and...
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Categories:
dry land, religious, silence,
Form:
Free verse
It Started with a Blank CanvasPlaced second in:
It Started With a Blank Canvas Poetry Contest:
Sponsored by Silent One
...
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Categories:
dry land, art, creation, extended metaphor, god, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
Son of Amittai - 2 of 2(continued from 'Son of Amattai - 1 of 2')
in the belly of the fish
Then Jonah prayed unto the Lord, his God,
Deep from the belly of leviathan.
“I cried out to you, Lord, in my distress,
For I...
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Categories:
dry land, bible, fish,
Form:
Tail-rhyme
Dante's Hell Translation Canto Xxxiv Part2(continues after part1)
When he agreed, his neck I held and climb;
And he waited for proper time and place,
And when the wings were open at the prime,
He clutched the hairy ribs with strong embrace;
From fleece to...
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Categories:
dry land, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
The Neighbor's WifeHe's been struggling with depression,
She said, so then have I.
It's our bad news
that competing depressions
breed more contagiously
than our cooperation feeds happiness.
Yet our good news grows:
Depression and positive impression
are equally contagious passions
pastimes
eruptions into changing flowstreams of...
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Categories:
dry land, anti bullying, caregiving, destiny, integrity, mental illness,
Form:
Political Verse
Threat From DoomThe drunk gods of vengeance mischievously donate their magic
filthy rags of wickedness, dropping down to curse humanity
darkness rules, day is banned for light to stay poisoned.
The ground peels from the earth to dissipate into the...
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Categories:
dry land, earth, earth day, horror,
Form:
Free verse
The Land of the Midnight SunI went cruising to Norway with my wife across the North Sea
We travelled the route the Vikings took but with added luxury
Our first port of call was Stavanger, it was nice to be on dry...
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Categories:
dry land, boat, friend, holiday, sea, wife,
Form:
Narrative
Alligator CharmShe maneuvers gracefully without fins or flippers
creating no ripples in deep blue waters
sneaking calmly upon jittery preys
and disguise herself in the middle of the day
A sudden thrust from beneath the fog
she buries herself under a...
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Categories:
dry land, love, wisdom,
Form:
Didactic
SullyAt New Yorks laGuardia airport passengers stood in line
Waiting to board U.S.airways, flight one five four nine
Chesley Sullenberger was the captain and Jeff Skiles the co pilot
They were bound for North Carolina to the city...
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Categories:
dry land, america, boat, courage, flying, people, river,
Form:
Rhyme
Creation According To GenesisAmong the theories of origins, the Genesis account stands as chief,
Logical, coherent, and concise, among its peers it stands in stark relief,
Its poetic style, elegant literary structure, and distinctive motif,
Contribute to an account that for...
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Categories:
dry land, christian, creation, day, light, moon, religious, sky,
Form:
Rhyme
W a L KThe Word WALK has a long history, going back to the beginning of time.
Even though I WALK THROUGH the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil;
For You are with me;
Your rod and...
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Categories:
dry land, america, baptism, beautiful, character, confidence, courage, jesus,
Form:
Pastoral
Through the ValleyThey have been hiking for a lifetime landing upon harsh rocks and dry land,
ragged and torn battered and bruised they are not coming to amuse.
Last night I watched the moon as it...
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Categories:
dry land, dream,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
The Gift of 'Not' Knowing - Now With CommentsThe Gift of ‘Not’ Knowing
I have toyed with the thought of free-will as a curse
(Hell reserved for bad choices, but Grace earned a joke?)
Is there madness or peace for those gifted by God
(or by dust...
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Categories:
dry land, blessing, love, poetry, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
The Swoon Hypothesis - Part 1“The Swoon Hypothesis” - Part 1
“Come, take my hand”, you say, “I will show you a story”.
So, I place my hand in yours, we walk barefoot cool, in scorching sand.
Strange I think, no footprints,...
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Categories:
dry land, imagery, jesus, love,
Form:
Free verse
My Guardian AngelJonah guardian angel
Great prophet
of Israel
In God's path
You ran away from the Lord
On a passage
From a seaport
Of Joppa
God commands everything
On a ship
heading away
Everything in his...
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Categories:
dry land, angel,
Form:
Free verse
The End of the Flying Dutchman, Part IYou’ve heard of the Flying Dutchman,
the ghost-ship that travels the seas,
there’s countless legends about it,
a great deal of variety.
Some say it’s just cursed to wander,
a result of some ancient sin,
a crew long dead yet still...
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Categories:
dry land, confusion, history, myth, ocean, sea, surreal, water,
Form:
Narrative
Early Poems XviiEarly Poems XVII
Morning
by Michael R. Burch
It was morning
and the bright dew drenched the grasses
like tears the trembling lashes of my lover;
another day had come.
And everywhere the flowers
were turning to the sun,
just as the night before
I...
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Categories:
dry land, 8th grade, day, flower, morning, sun, sunshine,
Form:
Rhyme
Odyssey From Africa 9c10aCHAPTER 9c
Swift a sand shark spiraled nearer
Baring teeth it eyed them coldly
Han spun full about and kicked it
In the center of its body
But at this the sand shark merely
Shrugged and moved off several...
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Categories:
dry land, adventure, africa, history, mythology, nature, science, voyage,
Form:
Narrative
IndianapolisThe date is twenty six July,nineteen hundred forty five
soon, only three hundred seventeen would be alive
Eleven hundred ninety six of you assigned
eight hundred seventy nine lives denied,
Two torpedoes, that found their mark
at twelve fourteen...
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Categories:
dry land, dedication, war, men, men,
Form:
Epitaph
A Fish and the Ten Percent's Brain MysteryI had deep thoughts on man.
Is he God’s masterpiece or a fiasco?
I determined, man is God’s failed handiwork.
The reason being, although God gave man a specially designed brain
that is way superior from all other...
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Categories:
dry land, allegory, fish, jesus, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse