Long Escapes Poems
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Seductive Responsibilities
I am exhausted by bad government excuses to avoid responsibility
and I am, today, sick with excuses to avoid my own responsibility,
well within the bounds of my self-governing authority:
"I'm just a mortal human. I make mistakes.
I...
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Categories:
escapes, culture, health, humanity, humor, political, race, stress,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Dragon Stew
On an early morning just before school
My tummy is churning my head hurts too
My feet are cold my forehead is hot
I have a runny nose and a tongue with blue dots
“Mom come quick!” I helplessly...
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Categories:
escapes, 4th grade, 5th grade, adventure, anxiety, bible,
Form:
Rhyme
Fully Employed Now
Humanity keeps looking forward, toward the coming of a birth,
and we’re all deemed as equals on our first day on this earth,
but as the years go quickly by our lives become our own;
we’re seen as...
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Categories:
escapes, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Haiku 1
The Original Sin: Rhyming Haiku!
Haiku
should never rhyme:
it’s a crime!
-Michael R. Burch
The herons stand,
sentry-like, at attention ...
rigid observers of some unknown command.
-Michael R. Burch
Late
fall;
all
the golden leaves turn black underfoot:
soot
-Michael R. Burch
Dry leaf...
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Categories:
escapes, family, heart, love, mother son, nature, seasons,
Form:
Haiku
Poems About Poems I
Poems about Poems (I)
What the Poet Sees
by Michael R. Burch
What the poet sees,
he sees as a swimmer
~~~underwater~~~
watching the shoreline blur
sees through his breath’s weightless bubbles...
Both worlds grow obscure.
Muse/Goddess
by Michael R. Burch
“What will you conceive in...
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Categories:
escapes, creation, god, muse, poems, poetry, poets, words,
Form:
Rhyme
No Mark
No Mark
by Michael R. Burch
A wave implodes,
impaled upon
impassive rocks...
this evening
the thunder of the sea
is a wild music filling my ear...
you are leaving
and the ungrieving
winds demur...
telling me
that nothing returns
as it was before...
here where you have...
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Categories:
escapes, break up, change, divorce, extended metaphor, farewell,
Form:
Verse
The State of the Art
The State of the Art (I)
by Michael R. Burch
Has rhyme lost all its reason
and rhythm, renascence?
Are sonnets out of season
and poems but poor pretense?
Are poets lacking fire,
their words too trite and forced?
What happened to desire?
Has...
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Categories:
escapes, art, muse, poems, poetry, poets, romantic, writing,
Form:
Verse
Sonnets Xvii-Xxiv
Sonnets XVII-XXIV
Discrimination
by Michael R. Burch
The meter I had sought to find, perplexed,
was ripped from books of "verse" that read like prose.
I found it in sheet music, in long rows
of hologramic CDs, in sad wrecks
of long-forgotten...
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Categories:
escapes, books, poems, poetry, poets, voice, write, writing,
Form:
Sonnet
White Noise and the Motherload of Dark Matter
"White Noise and the Mother Load of Dark Matter"
underneath the static
what exists
is never seen nor heard
for what it truly is
the eyes and mind
retaliate in the deciphering
the invisible return
each night and...
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Categories:
escapes, dark, muse,
Form:
Narrative
Two Lovers Xi - Carefully Chosen Words
He is looking at her a bit sanctimoniously
He is about to mansplain again
"Am I spooking you?" he asks grinning
"I'm not trying to propose, Cutie.
God no. Could you imagine?
I just think it's possible, you know?
I'm just...
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Categories:
escapes, discrimination, lost love, love, relationship, romance, romantic
Form:
Free verse
Chernobyl
Chernobyl.
A nuclear disaster, in the Russian town Chernobyl,
An odor-less killer, the invisible force.
As the radiation escapes, from the crumbling reactor,
We must cool it down, before it blows.
Evacuate Pripyat, the employee’s town,
The town of 35000; first...
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Categories:
escapes, cry, death, sun, world,
Form:
I do not know?
The Good Girl
The Good Girl
Penny has always been a good girl, now she is a good wife. She lives in a good neighborhood, drives a nice car, has two perfect children. Her husband is a doctor and...
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Categories:
escapes, passion, sensual, sexy,
Form:
Prose
Rum N Raisin 9 - France Or Bust
Raisin gave the globe a tap to make it slowly spin
“Rum,” she said, “it’s quite a big wide world we’re living in.”
Rum looked up from lapping milk and wiped some from his face,
“Use your nose...
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Categories:
escapes, adventure, animal, cat,
Form:
Narrative
The Cold Doorknobs
The Cold Doorknobs
I.
I am sure there will be that profound moment in time
when the dog out back will stop its incessant yapping,
Its unrelenting impulse to belch out its interminable wails,
alas, to inform its...
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Categories:
escapes, death,
Form:
Free verse
Translation of David Broza's Ay Amor Que Seria De Mi, Lyrics By E N Glass
Translation of David Broza's " ! Ay Amor ! Que seria de mi ! " by T. Wignesan
( I'm not certain if this' s the original title of the lyrics composed by Eitan Nahmias GLASS....
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Categories:
escapes, anxiety, break up, heartbreak, sad love, song,
Form:
Elegiac Lyric
Portrait of a Hanging
With the opening of my fortress cell,
solemn-faced men come locust invading in
Their mouths smile not, and eyes neither grin
as ceremonial words pursed lips expel
A deer thought escapes ... my life nears its end!
And I feel...
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Categories:
escapes, dark, death, horror, imagery, spiritual,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Watching Upcoming Toilet Bowl Lvii Highlight of February 12th, 2023
Watching upcoming toilet bowl lvii highlight of February 12th, 2023
Above title attests
how mine mundane mein kampf
insync as a veritable clogged drain oh:
flush with adventure overflowing excrement
er... rather excitement.
Apt aforementioned accurate personal description
believe me not,...
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Categories:
escapes, 12th grade, abuse, adventure, anger, anxiety, bereavement,
Form:
Rhyme
The Returning
"The Returning"
Inside us all
a strange forest
where light and dark
are fed to us by
curious creatures,
their unexpected gods
in thoughts and deeds
joy and fear
hate and love
belief and disbelief
inwards
our dreams
turn to
The...
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Categories:
escapes, muse, mystery, philosophy,
Form:
Narrative
Watching Upcoming Toilet Bowl Lvi Highlight of February 13th, 2022
Watching upcoming toilet bowl lvi highlight of February 13th, 2022
Above title attests how mine mundane mein kampf
insync as a veritable clogged drain oh:
flush with adventure overflowing excrement
er... rather excitement.
Apt aforementioned accurate personal description
believe me not,...
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Categories:
escapes, adventure, cool, devotion, farewell, happiness, heaven, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Spirit of Christmastide
Spirit of Christmastide
Beneath the mantel's alabaster gleam
Where verdigris flames pirouette
in cerulean ballet's beam...
We gather close—a familial love—
In hallowed halls where chimes of
crystal laughter...
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Categories:
escapes, christmas, december, joy, love, nostalgia, winter,
Form:
Narrative
Words We Cannot Escape
“Words We Cannot Escape”
Words we can no longer speak
we tap dance over keys
bruised blackly numb
Winter palette in hand
Autumn now gone
across white-washed notes fixated on stark enclosed walls
the scent of old Lavender...
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Categories:
escapes, muse,
Form:
Free verse
Genius of Dawn's Rising
In the blinded moments,
Before the mist rises over the tumbling surf…
Blueness tempting awake my dreams,
A heartbeat from the flaming blaze,
Sunshine pouring through the clusters of
Feathery clouds, like the breath of peace
Aroused from the falling...
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Categories:
escapes, appreciation, beautiful, blessing, imagery, nature, ocean, sea,
Form:
Free verse
Glory To God
The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God...
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Categories:
escapes, fate,
Form:
Free verse
The Purple Man
Dr. Zebediah Killgrave, male, human species, 5'11', normal weight.
born in Rejeka, Croatia, charismatic, a physician turned international spy.
On a mission to infiltrate a chemical factory, he is doused with an unknown
chemical (pheromones) that...
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Categories:
escapes, fantasy,
Form:
Narrative
The Cry of Dolores
A popular priest in 1810, Spanish rule he spoke against
those who had overthrown the Spanish Viceroy José de Iturrigaray
A speech calling upon the people to protect in angst
Their King Ferdinand VII was held captive El...
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Categories:
escapes, cinco de mayo, cry, culture, history, holiday,
Form:
Rhyme