Long Eras Poems
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SeeSee
by Michael R. Burch
See how her hair has thinned: it doesn’t seem
like hair at all, but like the airy moult
of emus who outraced the wind and left
soft plumage in their wake. See how her eyes
are...
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Categories:
eras, age, goodbye, life, loss, time, women,
Form:
Sonnet
Poems About Things That Break IiPoems about Things that Break II
These are poems about things that break and/or shatter.
Water and Gold
by Michael R. Burch
You came to me as rain breaks on the desert
when every flower...
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Categories:
eras, break up, depression, divorce, emotions, farewell, goodbye,
Form:
Rhyme
Turkish Poetry Translations IiTurkish Poetry Translations II
Çanakkale Sehitlerine
"For the Çanakkale Martyrs"
by Mehmet Akif Ersoy
loose English translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Was there ever anything like the Bosphorus war??
The earth’s mightiest armies pressing Marmara,
Forcing entry between her mountain passes
To a...
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Categories:
eras, autumn, god, love, sea, time, war, world,
Form:
Free verse
What Daddy DemandsEarthMama Invites
Without RightDaddy Dominance,
Left EcoMama
and Her still innocent suppressed Children,
share no opposing WinLose
assuming
internalized voices,
just anxious and angry
and fearful feelings
about LoseLose
ZeroZone,
ego and Earth
matriarchal-line
extinguished.
Because all RightBrain feeling voices
and chemistries
are outside Sacred NatureSpirit
experientially
regeneratively
cooperative
Patriarchal/Matriarchal Voices
secular and sacred...
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Categories:
eras, bullying, caregiving, gender, health, integrity, love, violence,
Form:
Political Verse
Mr ContradictionBy definition, Mr. Contradiction asserts the contrary or deny the truth of something. He admittedly is hypocritical and controversial, and most often, he refuses to surrender. He fights until only death or doom defeats him....
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Categories:
eras, america, change, community, courage, discrimination, society,
Form:
Personification
Did You Ever NoticeDid you ever notice
our vampire legends
are almost always patriarchal,
sometimes even princely
and excruciatingly royalist,
elitist?
While witches plot and evil plan
in coven craven circles
more undershadow than legendary.
Wizards might be BullyVampire Princes
while witches may be victimized and therefore victimizing...
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Categories:
eras, courage, green, health, humor, tribute,
Form:
Political Verse
Populist PoliticsWhen I was sixteen
I wanted Robert Kennedy's life,
although I didn't know about his time squandered
in staffing McCarthyism's
Make America as Grotesque as Possible campaign,
Which would have given me pause
in that comparatively naive age
of green longing for...
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Categories:
eras, bullying, earth, environment, health, integrity, love, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
The Bible and Our Privileges"It is known that the Bible, in its hundreds of different translations, is the most widely distributed book in human history. The bible has been enormously influential, and not only among the religious communities that...
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Categories:
eras, bible, books, christian, creation, devotion, encouraging, inspiration,
Form:
Narrative
Mehmet Akif Ersoy TranslationsMehmet Akif Ersoy: Modern English Translations of Turkish Poems
Mehmet Âkif Ersoy (1873-1936) was a Turkish poet, author, writer, academic, member of parliament, and the composer of the Turkish National Anthem.
Snapshot
by Mehmet Akif Ersoy
loose English translation/interpretation...
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Categories:
eras, dark, death, earth, grave, life, war, world,
Form:
Ghazal
Powerful Polite ImaginationsImagine with me
that your local
political
economic community,
municipality,
bioregion
is a communication network
already at hand,
like a potentially benign kingdom
or mutually informed democracy,
Which is what some residents actively hope for
as a peaceful sacred communion
and others engage in active voting campaigns
and...
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Categories:
eras, earth, games, health, heart, humor, light, power,
Form:
Political Verse
1000707 and 1006006 Are Having a ChatA miniscule minotaur is a mini mayhem by the way. In a catacomb place ones feet in a small bowl then look in the mirror and sing to the shaft of light beaming down from...
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Categories:
eras, aubade, beauty,
Form:
I do not know?
Fall BreakIn New Haven, Lisa misses the sad, dark, city aesthetics of her hometown. Its crime podcast vibe, actinic crime-lighting and sirens in the distance, that lull her to sleep like lullabies. She has a disturbingly...
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Categories:
eras, food, friendship, fun, humor, new york, sister,
Form:
Free verse
Why Capitalism FailedI'm reading a publication of Yale Press,
a "centrist" polemic against the LeftBrain's libertarian excesses,
and against RightBrain's sinister shadow
of totalitarian uniformity
playing nihilistic lose/lose
on a global interpersonal
public sector stage three
of nationalistic climate annihilation,
Where RightBrain's win/win golden shadow
prefers...
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Categories:
eras, beauty, community, earth, health, integrity, nature, truth,
Form:
Political Verse
StarlongThis is the story of a real star
The name of the star is Starlong
In a far, far corner of the galaxy
Starlong lives, even today
Once upon a time
Starlong was the Mother
Of an entire solar system
Consisting of...
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Categories:
eras, inspirational,
Form:
Narrative
Ramble SixTalismanic mystical duties of an aardvark is best performed upon a desert landscape or in a dense jungle for it is merely in these two places that wild fauna can be located and ancient brands...
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Categories:
eras, conflict, confusion, , western,
Form:
I do not know?
Tao of Healthy Climate CareNursing and nurturing
can often be used synonymously.
To nurse a baby
is first to nurture a cherished infant.
They share a nutritional history
of healthcare giving
and receiving,
delivered best and most durably
when care works coincidentally both ways
in all Win-Win bilateral...
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Categories:
eras, caregiving, earth, health, integrity, mental illness, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
Collab Convos JtJazz man of the mill suffering atomic verse
Born of the waves, air-raids of sound
Moons to profile the edge of weather
And sun to light the way
Inside the cliffs and black holes beyond...
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Categories:
eras, august, autumn, blessing,
Form:
I do not know?
End of An EraThis Halocene Epic
of EcoZoic Earth
began with FirstMourning Adam
This Halocene broke out
when Eve yinned
and Adam yanged
verbality's first day
beyond non-verbals
with and for and sometimes against
each other.
And so this HumanGrowing Halocene Bubble
progresses up through
our current bimillennial cusp,
With...
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Categories:
eras, destiny, earth, health, humanity, humor, integrity, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Simple Synchronization XWeary weapons wearing writhing works wonderfully wreathed wigs...... Oh wow how magnificent the yellow radiance of a piece of straw. Leaning bending learning. Admire nit a wisdom curl if a pitch of ball. Throw away...
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Categories:
eras, baseball, bird,
Form:
I do not know?
Solitary Rituals of Mourning the Write Way RightSolitary rituals of mourning the write way, right?
Papa... bless his (your) heart and soul,
impossible mission your second born
sole male heir cingularly communicates,
viz his avocational crafted poem, since
written words, mine metier
write most pained words
with great difficulty,...
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Categories:
eras, 12th grade, absence, death, eulogy, father, memory,
Form:
Elegy
Random EightTalismanic mystical duties of an aardvark is best performed upon a desert landscape or in a dense jungle for it is merely in these two places that wild fauna can be located and ancient brands...
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Categories:
eras, fruit, , western,
Form:
I do not know?
Everybody Knows That Nobody KnowsEVERYBODY KNOWS THAT NOBODY KNOWS
The Paleolithic Era was a long time ago.
It consisted of a few years in a row.
That's pretty standard as eras go.
I don't know what happened,
but there's one thing I...
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Categories:
eras, fun, history, humor, parody,
Form:
Rhyme
Azoth
Written: March 05, 2024 For Edward Ebeh Contest
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Oh, Hermes, during historical eras of reign,
Greek...
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Categories:
eras, history, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
Black Eyes of AmericaI will stop reminiscing over the 1700s when the 2000s stop mirroring the same values
plantations upgraded to prisons, chains to handcuff, masters to head leaders and coaches
shall I keep going!
Segregation to isolation, shacks to the...
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Categories:
eras, 12th grade, black african american, black love,
Form:
Free verse
Wave of FantasyTake me away with a wave of fantasy
To an ocean of wonders so full of glee
A world where I’m empowered and free
Where no sorrows can bother me.
Traveling in time, to different places
To many eras, filled...
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Categories:
eras, poems,
Form:
Rhyme