Long Estrangement Poems
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Where Art Thou Anonymous Benefactor To Offer Me SuccorWhere 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:
estrangement, 8th grade, absence, anger, angst, boy, confusion,
Form:
Free verse
Red and Blue Estrangered FamiliesDear Siblings Three,
I was reading a story
in which some siblings became estranged
after their parents died,
while others moved toward greater solidarity.
This is a variation on a diaspora story.
But, here growing physical distance
is seen more as a...
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Categories:
estrangement, earth, faith, family, health, integrity, religion, usa,
Form:
Political Verse
MotherMOTHER
Mother is a very meaningful word.
Mother is a person that carries a lot of weight.
When I think of mother,
Mother Mary comes to my mind.
The understanding, courageous, protective Mother.
Understanding the responsibilities of a mother,
having the courage...
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Categories:
estrangement, mother,
Form:
Free verse
Harriet Harris Circa November 13th, 1935 - May 4th, 2005Harriet Harris circa November 13th, 1935 - ~ May 4th, 2005
untimely death sentence ordained
approximately six months prior
to mother dearest celebrating
her seventieth birthday,
though the last three years of her life
impacted courtesy hysterectomy
to remove...
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Categories:
estrangement, absence, age, anniversary, birthday, death, family, mother,
Form:
Rhyme
Emotional Fatigue Courtesy Exhaustive Vituperative HarangueEmotional fatigue courtesy exhaustive vituperative harangue...
Lobbed and unleashed upon the heads
of (yours truly and the missus)
so called selfish "monsters."
The evening of Wednesday April 19th
witnessed us (birth parents of our first born)
weathering blistering telephonic brickbats.
She (unnamed...
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Categories:
estrangement, 7th grade, abuse, angst, anniversary, anxiety, birth,
Form:
Free verse
Approbation Deeded Gratuitously Just BecauseApprobation Deeded Gratuitously Just Because...
(this endeavor more self directed to progeny,
whose psyche wounded, strafed, and nicked.)
Incumbent upon me own
purring impetus, a sincere
desire arose NOT to ask
...
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Categories:
estrangement, 11th grade, farewell, father, father daughter, giving,
Form:
Elegy
Harriet Harris nee Kuritsky circa November 13thHarriet Harris née Kuritsky circa November 13th,
1935 - ~ May 4th, 2005
(untimely death sentence ordained ~ early February 1935)
I trot out a poem acknowledging birthday
of dear ole mom, who succumbed,
lost lease on life
nearly...
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Categories:
estrangement, absence, age, america, anniversary, appreciation, bereavement, birthday,
Form:
Rhyme
Bane of DyscheziaBane of dyschezia
Constipation spoilt rare visit
with eldest daughter
(yesterday - November twenty sixth
two thousand twenty two)
currently housed near
Rittenhouse Square, Pennsylvania.
Less than twelve hours
after a cocktail comprising
handful of prunes,
four psyllium husk capsules,
plus three dulcolax.
Myself and missis
privy to...
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Categories:
estrangement, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure, angst, birth,
Form:
Rhyme
Bertolt Brecht Holocaust Poem: the PartingDer Abschied (“The Parting”)
by Bertolt Brecht
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
We embrace;
my fingers trace
rich cloth
while yours encounter only moth-
eaten fabric.
A quick hug:
you were invited to the gay soiree
while the minions of the "law" relentlessly pursue...
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Categories:
estrangement, friendship, holocaust, leaving, war, weather, world, world
Form:
Free verse
Where Art Thou Anonymous Benefactor To Offer Me SuccorWhere art thou anonymous benefactor...to offer me succor?
Castaway stranded on figurative
deserted island pitted with absolute
zero salvation, sole recourse
finds scant consolation with prayer
lifetime atheist draws futile faith
within himself grudgingly accepting
feeble accomplishments...
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Categories:
estrangement, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, anger,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Harriet Harris Circa November 13th 1935 May 4th 2005Harriet Harris circa November 13th, 1935 - ~ May 4th, 2005
(untimely death sentence ordained ~ early February 1935)
Test teasing prophylactics embarrassing
purchase never made at local drugstore
unsurprisingly, obviously, invariably...
birth control taboo subject, best to ignore
subsequently intercourse...
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Categories:
estrangement, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 8th
Form:
Elegy
Bertolt Brecht Holocaust Poem: the Burning of the BooksDie Bücherverbrennung ("The Burning of the Books")
by Bertolt Brecht
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
When the Regime
commanded the unlawful books to be burned,
teams of dull oxen hauled huge cartloads to the bonfires.
Then a banished writer, one...
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Categories:
estrangement, books, fire, holocaust, voice, world war ii,
Form:
Verse
Mine Mean Mien Hence Deserved Cross To BareMine Mean Mien, Hence Deserved Cross To Bare
Upon reflection of fatherhood,
onset of hands-on schooling
fraught with narcissism
a role I lept in unaware
with slim success
unknowingly portending how fatuous
frolics spelled ultimate doom
with theoretical strings attached,
when snagged,...
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Categories:
estrangement, addiction, age, appreciation, betrayal, celebration, daughter, family,
Form:
Free verse
Ever the Gracious Recipient of LargesseEver the gracious recipient of largesse!
Estrangement swiftly harries stylishly tailors
mine psyche courtesy family of origin, plus
eldest daughter, whose doth rage against this
human machine, albeit yours truly, beatle
browed, black crows, foo fighter (biological
daughter), a presumption aye...
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Categories:
estrangement, abuse, anger, childhood, conflict, dark, depression, father,
Form:
Free verse
Serious Sibling SubluxationSerious sibling subluxation...
rapprochement somewhat salvaged dislocation
Truth be told about following poem
mostly written quite some years ago,
and revisions made to recreate
and revise a more satisfactory literary product.
This trademark ungainly, unsightly,
and unwieldy title essentially
huzzah...
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Categories:
estrangement, absence, age, angel, appreciation, betrayal, childhood, relationship,
Form:
Rhyme
Letter Written In Fetters - 7Dear son,
I have no prologue, nor epilogue, only dialogue
...
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Categories:
estrangement, father, heart, longing, heart, love, i love
Form:
Free verse
Serious Sibling SubluxationSerious Sibling Subluxation...
Rapprochement Somewhat Salvaged Dislocation
This trademark ungainly, unsightly,
and unwieldy title essentially
huzzah mask queer aid,
and accentuates tendency
(mine) to administer
...
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Categories:
estrangement, 8th grade, deep, growing up, jewish, magic,
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
'no One's Betrayed Me Like You'"No One's Betrayed Me Like You!"
At first blush, one might feel this 'curse' meant to condemn
but I beg you, take courage and listen with Soul,
for it isn't said often (though million times thought),
but with love...
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Categories:
estrangement, life, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Tempus Fugit - Part OneLVI Elapsed October 17th's Bore Witness To A Girl Born With True Grit
Tuss ben big goo me newt to write
and how though trite
thine complex edifice immersed in spite
which doth nobody any good RIGHT
hence hie exerted...
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Categories:
estrangement, beautiful, celebration, courage, dedication, devotion, family, hurt,
Form:
Ode
WinstonIt’s too late to shatter the cold distance of silence with a ‘sorry’,
For I stand full of regrets ever since you became the elements,
Just one moment in time, that is all I need; that we...
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Categories:
estrangement, bereavement, blessing, memorial, , western,
Form:
Free verse
The Leftshare this burn, this cut,
this scrape, the scraps of
fight that’d been experienced
only yesterday, get it out,
scream it in this direction,
for to be left alone isn’t
really possible if you
demand it.
share these tales, your...
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Categories:
estrangement, life, places,
Form:
Free verse
Magnanimous Man My Papa HaMagnanimous Man My Papa – Ha!
Flagrant red hot poker rage
lacerated upon the head of this sole
male offspring, sans he who did
help to sire me, his vitriolic baggage
inflicted like graped shot,
and deployed barrage
also akin to inflicting...
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Categories:
estrangement, anger, dark, father, father son, hurt, parents,
Form:
Bio
Lest I See That She These Nativitic Remembrances Hath Sent To MeEre ever I send to her;
She whom I love;
Any of the apologies and explanations of most bittersweet love:
An accounting of those regrets and remorses that I have,
My fooleries and follies and fallacies, fair...
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Categories:
estrangement, absence, adventure, allegory, art, beautiful, beauty, betrayal,
Form:
I do not know?
The Fault LineThe Fault Line
My son sent me a message from the Grand Canyon and a boyo he is
...
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Categories:
estrangement, humanity, love, peace,
Form:
Free verse
Brotherly Bummer Plods Along His Staid Usual Humdrum Life Part Twodoes bound by marriage appeal, yet the
missus would be left high and dry, (or low
and wet if she dwelt closer to sea level), this
bleakness especially pronounced as role of
fatherhood no longer viable, enjoyable, applicable
aware how...
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Categories:
estrangement, absence, anger, anxiety, brother, father, hurt, introspection,
Form:
Free verse