Long Estimated Poems
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The Amistad Mutiny
The Amistad Mutiny
Slavery, a dirty word no matter how it’s pronounced:
Abducted and herded to the slave fortress of Lomboko1 for trade.
To be tossed in chains below deck on the Portuguese ship Tecora,2
Sailing the Atlantic Middle...
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Categories:
estimated, africa, america, history, racism, slavery, world,
Form:
Verse
Limericks Ii - Nature and Animals
Limericks II - Nature Poems and Animal Poems
Dot Spotted
by Michael R. Burch
There once was a leopardess, Dot,
who indignantly answered: "I’ll not!
The gents are impressed
with the way that I’m dressed.
I wouldn’t change even one spot!"
Clyde Lied!
by...
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Categories:
estimated, animal, humor, humorous, light, nature, nonsense, silly,
Form:
Limerick
Enola Gay
Enola Gay
There on the ‘North Field’ tarmac of Tinian Island, Marianas;
Taxis the sleek designed ‘Boeing B-29 Superfortress’ to ready for take-off. 1
Glistening, polished aluminum under the blaring floodlights filmed for posterity,
Maneuvers' the ‘Enola Gay’, chosen...
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Categories:
estimated, education, history, usa, war, world, world war
Form:
Verse
Poems About Fathers and Grandfathers Iii
Poems about Fathers and Grandfathers III
Success
by Michael R. Burch
for Jeremy
We need our children to keep us humble
between toast and marmalade;
there is no time for a ticker-tape parade
before bed, no award, no bright statuette
to be delivered...
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Categories:
estimated, family, father, father daughter, father son, fathers
Form:
Rhyme
World War Ii Poems and Holocaust Poems - Vi - Chaim Nachman Bialik, Erich Fried
World War II Poems and Holocaust Poems - VI - Chaim Nachman Bialik, Erich Fried
After My Death
by Chaim Nachman Bialik
translation by Michael R. Burch
Say this when you eulogize me:
Here was a man—now, poof, he's...
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Categories:
estimated, holocaust, race, racism, truth, war, world, world
Form:
Free verse
Poems About Children Iv
Poems about Children IV
Salat Days
by Michael R. Burch
Dedicated to the memory of my grandfather, Paul Ray Burch, Sr.
I remember how my grandfather used to pick poke salat ...
though first, usually, he’d stretch back in the...
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Categories:
estimated, child, childhood, children, dad, father son, grandfather,
Form:
Rhyme
Classified Part Three
The photograph that Tim had shown me a few hours earlier certainly did not do it justice.
From what I could see it was a large triangular shape on three legs which were all at a...
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Categories:
estimated, science fiction,
Form:
Prose
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 12
DynDoeth with serious face and determined stride entered the room and advanced directly toward Joulupukki. Standing to face the elf, Joulupukki, was intent on getting some answers, but before he could utter a sound...
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Categories:
estimated, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
A Stranger In the Soup Kitchen Spills the Beans
I have a friend, old and retired, who keeps busy helping the poor. Let's call him Ted because he wants to remain anonymous. Some of his ideas, he says, wouldn’t make many of his neighbors...
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Categories:
estimated, poverty,
Form:
Prose
Approximately Three Plus Days Elapsed
Approximately three plus days elapsed...
without yours truly experiencing urge to defecate
Neither bloating nor constipation
arose, but one nondescript anguished
logophile anticipated intestinal blockage,
hence prophesying worse case scenario
I (predicated in direction for an adult)
ingested three Dulcolax tablets
and subsequently...
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Categories:
estimated, adventure, america, anniversary, beautiful, courage, family, july,
Form:
Free verse
Matthew Scott Harris may be
Matthew Scott Harris may be...
cunctatious, flirtatious, and unostentatious,
plus being calm, cool and collected,
but he haint disputatious!
Though by far whether alive
or posthumously repurposed
into molecular bits or bytes
videlicet Malus domestica
courtesy Johnny Appleseed
whose real name John Chapman,
planted an...
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Categories:
estimated, adventure, age, appreciation, atheist, august, gender, humorous,
Form:
Free verse
A Meadow For Autumn
A meadow for Autumn
Forest, I lay me down to rest
upon bed of moss.
Eternal sleep immediately overtakes me
lichen kenning myself
as Rip Van Winkle
except being repurposed
as oldest living species.
With an estimated...
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Categories:
estimated, animal, appreciation, autumn, creation, dark, environment, heaven,
Form:
Free verse
Mighty Oak Tree, Its Acorns Fed Many
Mighty Oak Tree, Its Acorns Fed Many
(A Native American Food Source)
Hard-cast shell
flung down in Fall,
food for man and beast
nuggets of forested treasure,
Nature
sprinkles its bounty
majestic Oaks rain
fruited missiles to ground:
thy treasure feeds life itself
creatures...
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Categories:
estimated, creation, history, humanity, native american, nature, tree,
Form:
Verse
Yours truly like most every hominid linkedin
Yours truly like most every hominid linkedin...
to genus and species of Homo sapiens,
(who trod across oblate spheroid
since time immemorial
as well as other simians -
classed as naked apes -
and now I enclose a bit of esoteric...
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Categories:
estimated, 11th grade, 12th grade, africa, age, black
Form:
Free verse
Ne Soyons Pas Rancunier - Translation of Oodgeroo's Let Us Not Be Bitter By T Wignesan
Ne soyons pas rancunier – Translation of Oodgeroo Noonuccal’s “Let us not be bitter” by T. Wignesan
(Note : The fiery fearless rebel of Where we going (1964) and The Dawn is at Hand (1966) –...
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Categories:
estimated, change, forgiveness, future, heart, recovery from,
Form:
Free verse
Soul Stance River - 4
William Branton has just run into camp as if the earth is falling away from his heels,
he has spotted a large cluster of Indians to the south moving towards us on horseback,
an estimated 100...
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Categories:
estimated,
Form:
Epic
Victorian Poverty In London
Victorian Poverty In London.
.
Slumming it in adverse poverty
In Victorian London’s
Limehouse White Chapel and Bethnal Green
Dingy doss houses packed to the brim
Narrow dirty streets with cobbles
And loud cartwheel din
.
Large families sharing one room
Overcrowded...
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Categories:
estimated, community, conflict, poverty,
Form:
I do not know?
Children's Poem VI
Children's Poems VI
These are poems for children and poems about children and their mothers, fathers, grandmother, grandfathers and extended families.
Springtime Prayer
by Michael R. Burch
They'll have to grow like crazy,
the springtime baby geese,
if they're to...
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Categories:
estimated, baby, child, childhood, children, family, father, mother,
Form:
Rhyme
My Love Potion
Why did you come to see me?
Asked the witch,
In a nasal tone!
Are you yourself not made of magic?
I looked at her in silence,
Wondering if she could feel the pain
Dancing all over me
Running through my bloodstream
Pulsating...
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Categories:
estimated, longing, love, love hurts, romance, romantic,
Form:
Free verse
Texas Snow
Here comes the snow, oh how beautiful, white and fluffy are the flakes as they fall from the sky. Not used to seeing this twice within a month’s time frame, yet still amazed by its...
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Categories:
estimated, food, leadership, light, people, snow, storm, weather,
Form:
Narrative
Yellow Ribbon: In Memoriam
pause for a moment of silence
before continuing your day
to bless your lucky stars
that you were born within these
borders
which increase every day their campaign
to keep others out or to send those back
whom have established families...
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Categories:
estimated, lifeyellow, , In Memoriam, in memoriam,
Form:
Free verse
Acid Dawn
Let us rest our heads upon the pillow of denial, turn twilight in the last clear reflection of the silent moon. Where vile droppings fell the freshness of the morning sea, turn to graveyards, lest...
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Categories:
estimated, animals, death, health, introspection, life, nature, people,
Form:
Rhyme
Value of a Last Chance
" Value of A Last Chance ... "
(or Value of A Last Choice)
( Matt. 16: 26, 27 / Matt. 6: 12, 19-21, 24 / Prov. 3: 5, 6
1 Pet. 1: 7 / Rom. 12: 19...
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Categories:
estimated, future, life, spiritual,
Form:
Light Verse
White Parachutes
This past summer I had taken some time to begin reading a newly acquired book, and went to a nearby park to do so. Sometime thereafter I took a break from reading and noticed...
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Categories:
estimated, appreciation, nostalgia, remember,
Form:
Narrative
When Pigs Fly
When Pigs Fly
by Michael R. Burch
On the Trail of Tears,
my Cherokee brothers,
why hang your heads?
Why shame your mothers?
Laugh wildly instead!
We will soon be dead.
When we lie in our graves,
let the white-eyes take
the woodlands we loved
for...
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Categories:
estimated, discrimination, evil, march, murder, native american, racism,
Form:
Verse