Long Erstwhile Poems
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SnapshotsSnapshots
by Michael R. Burch
Here I scrawl extravagant rainbows.
And there you go, skipping your way to school.
And here we are, drifting apart
like untethered balloons.
Here I am, creating "art,"
chanting in shadows,
pale as the crinoline moon,
ignoring your face.
There...
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Categories:
erstwhile, divorce,
Form:
Free verse
Salvation of a Formalist, An Ode To EntropySalvation of a Formalist, an Ode to Entropy
by Michael R. Burch
Entropy?
God's universal decree
That I get to be
Disorderly?
Suddenly
My erstwhile boxed-in verse is free?
Wheeeeee!
Eternal Currents
by Michael R. Burch
How can I write and not be true
to the rhythm...
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Categories:
erstwhile, humor, humorous, light, nonsense, satire, write, writing,
Form:
Light Verse
Sonnets Lxi-LxxSonnets LXI-LXX
Erin
by Michael R. Burch
All that’s left of Ireland is her hair?
bright carrot?and her milkmaid-pallid skin,
her brilliant air of cavalier despair,
her train of children?some conceived in sin,
the others to avoid it. For nowhere
is evidence of...
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Categories:
erstwhile, heart, night, spiritual, wife, words, write, writing,
Form:
Sonnet
The Badly Drawn GoatThe pencil now resting the image was 'testing' for the creature before him, (his badly-drawn drawin') had come out 'not right' somewhat twisted and tight.
The picture in question, it burst with suggestion, for lines that...
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Categories:
erstwhile, animal, creation, funny,
Form:
Rhyme
Halloween Poems IiCompleting the Pattern
by Michael R. Burch
Walk with me now, among the transfixed dead
who kept life’s compact and who thus endure
harsh sentence here?among pink-petaled beds
and manicured green lawns. The sky’s azure,
pale blue once like their eyes,...
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Categories:
erstwhile, dark, gothic, halloween, horror, magic, scary, surreal,
Form:
Rhyme
Inxs of Poison From Iron Maiden Scorpion Mamma and Ac Dc Charged Aries PapaInxs of poison from iron maiden scorpion mamma and ac/dc charged aries papa
Although gainfully unemployed
(fate now finds me receiving
social security disability –
for approximately
the last baker's dozen years -
the yeast divine intercession...
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Categories:
erstwhile, 12th grade, abuse, anger, anxiety, atheist, bullying,
Form:
Free verse
Coma Conversation: I Am In Your ComputerC:
I journeyed long upon the way, e-mailed through your router
hello "Henry", good to greet, I am in your computer
I am between him and her, so I am gender neuter
...
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Categories:
erstwhile, computer, creation, hello, imagination, philosophy, science, universe,
Form:
Narrative
Give Peace a Chance Part 1Like the twelfth
juror in the play
I must say I am not
convinced
For I know a recipe
for trouble
I have seen the
double standards
And I do not approve
this for Kenya
I will never approve
it, and neither
Would you, dear
friend of...
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Categories:
erstwhile, peace,
Form:
Free verse
Inviting HillsO to tune in to good times of childhood—
To re-live gone-by years, not just to brood,
To lighten dust-laden baggage’s dead tare,
To unburden mind of deadwood afloat,
To fast-forward to dusky days of old,
To turn...
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Categories:
erstwhile, childhood,
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
Do the Dead See With Their Own EyesDo the Dead see with their own eyes
for Thadchayani, my poetry-loving doctor sister : 28/08/1929 – 26/10/2014
...
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Categories:
erstwhile, bereavement, brother, death, sister,
Form:
Elegy
Cybersurfing Netizen FloundersCybersurfing netizen flounders...
analogous to a fish out of water
Ever since being a little gull hubble buoy,
I bobbed (while donning square pants)
like spongy flotsam and jetsam at sea.
Now as one decrepit
humble lumpenproletariat neopoet,
I experienced existence
with pronounced...
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Categories:
erstwhile, 12th grade, adventure, age, angst, animal, anxiety,
Form:
Rhyme
Terror Bugs: Part 1 - A Freezer Mice AdventureIn case you don’t remember them they came from outer space
They were to be the first beginnings of the human race
But when they crashed they came down in a stark and frigid place
Antarctic ice interred...
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Categories:
erstwhile, adventure,
Form:
Narrative
The Warlord Wars No More -1Clemency is a quality that I never understood
until after I crucified the Cilician pirates on Pergamus,
amusing isn't it, that I see mercy where brutality stood,
Death has a heartbeat for all of us,
there's no greater mystery...
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Categories:
erstwhile, history,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Worry Knot Chokes Out the Living DaylightsWorry knot chokes out the living daylights
I know from personal experience
the foolhardiness of
courting, flirting, honeymooning...
worse case scenario,
particularly when just a wee lad,
yours truly internalized
unfamiliar bodily aches and pains
as a death sentence,
slept with one eye opened
against...
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Categories:
erstwhile, 11th grade, 12th grade, abuse, angst, anxiety,
Form:
Free verse
In a Stolen MomentIn a Stolen Moment
by Michael R. Burch
In a stolen moment,
when the clock’s hands complete their inevitable course
and sleep is the night’s dark spell,
I call it a curse,
seeking the force,
the font of candescent words, the electric...
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Categories:
erstwhile, night, poetry, sleep, time, words, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Limericks IXLimericks IX
Scratch-n-Sniff
by Michael R. Burch
The world’s first antinatalist limerick?
Life comes with a terrible catch:
It’s like starting a fire with a match.
Though the flames may delight
In the dark of the night,
In the end what remains from...
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Categories:
erstwhile, fire, giggle, humor, humorous, life, light, nonsense,
Form:
Limerick
Dabble DactylsI have invented a nonce nonsense form: the "dabble dactyl." A dabble dactyl starts out like a double dactyl, but forgets the rules and changes horses midstream. Anyone who prefers order to chaos should give...
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Categories:
erstwhile, giggle, hilarious, humor, humorous, joy, light, nonsense,
Form:
Double Dactyl
Poems About Poets IvPoems about Poets IV
The Princess and the Pauper
by Michael R. Burch
for June Kraeft
Here was a woman bright, intent on life,
who did not flinch from Death, but caught his eye
and drew him, powerless, into her spell
of...
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Categories:
erstwhile, inspiration, muse, poems, poetry, poets, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Double StandardsWhen one makes viable peace
Between erstwhile colonial whites
And erstwhile colonized blacks
To the advantage of the whites
We urge for a Nobel Peace Prize
Such was the case in South Africa.
‘It is all for...
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Categories:
erstwhile, conflict, peace, political,
Form:
Free verse
Slavery and Reparations All DoneSLAVERY AND REPARATIONS
I am a descendant of slaves - from India!
Anyone who demands REPARATIONS shake & quake at my words
Competition? So, we have competing tales of bondage?
The Jewish people's perhaps the longest & cruelest,
With smaller...
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Categories:
erstwhile, africa, america, analogy, black african american, education,
Form:
Bio
Trump Poems and Epigrams VTrump poems and epigrams V
The prez should be above the law, he sez,
even though he’s no longer prez.
—Michael R. Burch
Mercedes Benz
by Michael R. Burch
I'd like to do a song of great social and political import....
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Categories:
erstwhile, america, political, presidents day, today, usa,
Form:
Epigram
The Final Brace of the Poetries I Meant As One To Post, But By This Could NotIt is generally thought of to be one of the myriad,
Guiding, governing, binding principles and precepts of all
Mature civilized countries that what horrors that they unleashed in
Vilest, bloodiest, convulsive conflictual combative martial
Confrontation, on their fellow...
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Categories:
erstwhile, adventure, allegory, anniversary, arabic, august, beautiful, beauty,
Form:
I do not know?
Pursuing Happiness Since a Child Aged 8Staring into a sky so perfect blue
The wispy white clouds
highlighted now stand further out
And I am suddenly stood transfixed
And I can feel the sun warming
comfortably at my back
As I am dressed inappropriately in...
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Categories:
erstwhile, beauty, care,
Form:
Free verse
Turtle and the Wintu MaidenA beautiful Wintu girl reached puberty. Her sisters were sent to find
maple bark to make her an apron.
It so happened that Turtle, the mischievous son of the mighty ‘Sky
Turtle’ stopped at the...
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Categories:
erstwhile, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
The Great Fish Maui SnaredWith canoe and hook of a jawbone
below a great fish Maui snared,
and his brothers half-crazed behaving
leapt and gouged in frenzy craving.
From Palliser Bay to Cape Reinga
(departing place of the...
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Categories:
erstwhile, home,
Form:
Rhyme