Long Earning Poems
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Where Art Thou Anonymous Benefactor To Offer Me Succor
Where art thou anonymous benefactor...to offer me succor?
Ah... methinks legal tender
could be a boon to help me bolster
mein kampf with necessary material equipage,
which prospect to acquire essential
commodities sabotaged
at the altar of...
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Categories:
earning, 8th grade, absence, anger, angst, boy, confusion,
Form:
Free verse
Solo Performance
It had been a hellish week.
On Monday
my lonely and tired AfricanAmerican husband
told me, as gently as possible,
that what I had hoped was a temporary separation
is to be extended into perpetuity.
This separation had been scheduled to...
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Categories:
earning, age, earth, family, health, integrity, nature, spiritual,
Form:
Political Verse
Education As If All Deaths Matter
Political Science of EarthTribe Education
Really? That’s my topic?
Didn’t Paulo Freire already do this one?
Oh, I see..neurosystemic therapy learning
and restorative justice mentoring,
including healthy pedagogical development
of ecologically cooperative systems
doing the best we can
to avoid retributive...
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Categories:
earning, culture, earth, education, health, integrity, political,
Form:
Political Verse
Chaucer Translation: Rejection
Rejection
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:
earning, beauty, french, heart, innocence, nature, pride, women,
Form:
Roundel
Medieval Poems V
Medieval 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:
earning, earth, england, love, middle school, poems, poets,
Form:
Rhyme
Miklos Radnoti Translations of Holocaust Poems
Postcard 1
by Miklós Radnóti
written August 30, 1944
translated by Michael R. Burch
Out of Bulgaria, the great wild roar of the artillery thunders,
resounds on the mountain ridges, rebounds, then ebbs into silence
while here men, beasts, wagons...
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Categories:
earning, death, grave, holocaust, horror, humanity, memorial, world
Form:
Free verse
I Survived '75
KEY - W: Will/Me - F: Friend - M: Mom
Thanksgiving week of '75, as a concurrent student earning multi-degrees from two campuses, and one off. I lived above the Uni, uphill, panicview Hilo Town and...
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Categories:
earning, 9th grade, angel, boy, friendship, happiness, natural
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Translation of Canto Xvi Hell By Dante
Already I reached the place where heard the sound
Of falling water in the circle next
Suchlike the rumble done by hives around,
When three spirits together changed their treks,
Running, out of an horde just passing there
Under...
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Categories:
earning, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
Translations of the Oldest Rhyming Poems In the English Language
Translations 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:
earning, england, poems, poetry, poets, words, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Cash
I feel much like trash
When I’m not earning cash
Can’t you see I’m working hard, Lord?
According to Your will, according to Your accord
I feel like I’m worthless
When I’m unable to clean up my mess
Can’t you see...
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Categories:
earning, angst, deep, fear, heartbroken, loneliness, longing, sorrow,
Form:
Lyric
Au Revoir Oh Perilous Freedom
Au revoir oh perilous freedom...
Since pledging my troth
to the missus July 25th, 1996
after the comma error
punctuated mein kampf with disequilibrium.
Ever since the notions
of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness
coalesced within the mindscape
attributed to one
or more...
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Categories:
earning, age, america, anger, anxiety, bereavement, best friend,
Form:
Free verse
Inception: Crying a River - Collab With Mikey Part 0
You’re like a backpack, jam-packed with memories of High School’s fun times and hard times…I know I had weaknesses back then; in addition, I had strengths that I still lack
You carry everyone’s weight including my...
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Categories:
earning, betrayal, blessing, dark, depression, desire, emotions,
Form:
Free verse
ROBERT SHERRIFF Leonardo's Art
ROBERT SHERRIFF 08/07/1954 - AUSTRALIAN - POET -AUTHOR - SINGER - ACTOR - AMERICAN HISTORIAN – PHOTOGRAPHER
Leonardo's Art
Leonardo da Vinci, a visionary of his time, was often likened to a grandmaster wielding a baton, orchestrating...
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Categories:
earning, age, art, heart, women,
Form:
Spoken Word
New Day
No way! It's a new day.
Now I can sit and write poetry all freaking day.
Time to get serious.
Each new day is the most important day in this life.
A life is a blessing.
A...
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Categories:
earning, appreciation, beautiful, beauty, change, deep, life,
Form:
Didactic
Turning the maxim familiarity breeds contempt on it's head
Turning the maxim familiarity breeds contempt on it's head...
not just in time for Valentine's Day
but the remaining days of our lives
as the world turns
on all our children
the young and restless
now grown to womanhood
After being married
for...
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Categories:
earning, absence, adventure, anger, anniversary, anxiety, appreciation, blessing,
Form:
Free verse
A trunkful of recyclables patiently awaits,
A trunkful of recyclables patiently awaits,
(and cries out long day's journey into night,
no...not for Eugene O'Neill),
but rather being distributed
in their respective bins at Wegmans
Under the Elms
Dressed up in our Sunday finery,
(which attire frankly looks no...
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Categories:
earning, adventure, america, anger, appreciation, car, environment, husband,
Form:
Free verse
Ego
Jaded by a few
If only you knew...
What it feels like...
To be neglected like a rusty, old bike...
I'd hike a thousand mountains
I'd cry a thousand fountains
Just to see you flourish
That is my only wish
My...
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Categories:
earning, angst, desire, emotions, endurance, hurt, longing, passion,
Form:
Rhyme
When I Was Born In '45
When I Was Born in '45
By Franklin Price
08/08/202
When I was born in '45, was another time and place
Merritt Island, I called home, we had not gone to space
Segregation was the way, we lived back in...
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Categories:
earning, america, discrimination,
Form:
Couplet
Easter as interpreted by one
Easter as interpreted by one...
rebated, rebelled, rebirthed, rebooted,
and rebuked courtesy
one ill shod Unitarian atheist,
who means NOT to affect
any sacrilegious fallout
nor offend devoutly religious
man, woman, or child,
when the most important
Christian holiday notated,...
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Categories:
earning, adventure, bible, celebration, christian, easter, family, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Inevitable Death Defines Life
Inevitable death defines afterlife
I mull mortality
thru lens crafted occipital orbs
regarding a better future
experience sing a space oddity –
whar incessant yaks
exuding a big hurt
emanate as cosmic atomic
bipedal hominids replete roof lee wax
during a...
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Categories:
earning, absence, allah, angel, anxiety, atheist, bereavement, death,
Form:
Rhyme
The Holly Grove
Once Upon a long ago time, when the earth was full of abundant life;
and humans, who now have dominion, were but a distant star in the night…
Everything in this magical Kingdom had a spark of...
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Categories:
earning, christian, community, creation, earth, fairy, fantasy,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Trumpeting and mythologizing deranged deplorable basket case as demigod
Trumpeting and mythologizing deranged deplorable basket case as demigod
Any idea regarding who unnamed individual earned such lofty title? I offer a clue, that averred person unknown to many others within the webbed, wide world, and...
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Categories:
earning, 11th grade, 12th grade, 3rd grade, absence,
Form:
Free verse
Ink Roached Infestation Didst Derive Within Mice Elf
Ink roached infestation didst derive within mice elf
Minor emendations to following
just posted verse
oversight to correct dissatisfaction,
yours truly I do curse
ah... methinks if hands of time
can be made to go in reverse
a more exemplary version
to...
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Categories:
earning, absence, adventure, age, birth, creation, family, history,
Form:
Rhyme
Ah the glory of a restful sleep
Ah... the glory of a restful sleep
Nothing beats the refreshing
blissful peaceful easy feeling
resulting from shut-eye after
feeling zonked out staying up
late after a hard day's night
binge reading or slaving o'er
crafting an umpteenth brilliant
masterpiece a comment from
modest...
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Categories:
earning, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, america,
Form:
Free verse
Waking up early steals your sleep, but sleeping too long steals your peace
Waking up early steals your sleep, but sleeping too long steals your peace,
Like a morning thief leaving shadows in place of unfulfilled dreams,
Movement makes you feel pain in your muscles, but stillness weakens you,
Like a...
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Categories:
earning, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse