Long Expanded Poems
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What are some signs of the times Q and A
Q Is it Saudi Arabia and France that are spearheading the 'two state solution'
between Palestine and Israel 'in yet another failed land for peace negotiation'?
A Yes
Q...
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expanded, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Prose
Scientific Cultures of Health
Political Science is the compare and contrast study
of governing authority powers
with concomitant economic responsibilities,
and...um...opportunities,
speaking perhaps too candidly.
Why not other powers?
Compassions
that can be governed only bipartisanly,
and would like to become
health care co-invested?
Political scientists worry if...
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expanded, beauty, earth, health, love, political, psychological, science,
Form:
Political Verse
Rilke Translations Ii
Come, You
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
This was Rilke’s last poem, written ten days before his death. He died open-eyed in the arms of his doctor on December 29, 1926, in the...
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Categories:
expanded, tribute,
Form:
Verse
Paul and Sarah - Part Two
Conditions were harsh out in Kansas,
For the children and Sarah and Paul.
Neighbors and friends packed up and were gone;
Headed west they could hear fortune's call.
Never sure year to year of the harvest,
So their talents were...
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Categories:
expanded, adventure, america, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Archaic Torso of Apollo: Rilke Translation
Archaic Torso of Apollo
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
We cannot know the beheaded god
nor his eyes' forfeited visions. But still
the figure's trunk glows with the strange vitality
of a lamp lit from within,...
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Categories:
expanded, art, body, god, life, light, poetry, writing,
Form:
Sonnet
Rainer Maria Rilke Translation: the Panther
The Panther
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
His weary vision's so overwhelmed by iron bars,
his exhausted eyes see only blank Oblivion.
His world is not our world. It has no stars.
No light. Ten thousand...
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expanded, allegory, analogy, animal, cat, extended metaphor, freedom,
Form:
Sonnet
Terror Bugs: Part 5 - A Freezer Mice Adventure
[Continued from ‘Terror Bugs: Part 4 - A Freezer Mice Adventure’]
__________
A water cannon screeched around the corner on two wheels
Four and twenty Terror Bugs were nipping at its heels
Their acid blistered paint work but it...
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Categories:
expanded, adventure,
Form:
Narrative
Happy Fourth of July, Or Happy Independence Day
Happy Fourth Of July, Or Happy Independence Day
On this day we celebrate and commemorate the birth of our nation, The United States of America's Independence from Great Britain's monarchical hold and liberty's triumph
Congress voting in...
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expanded, america, birthday, celebration, firework, food, freedom, fun,
Form:
List
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 71
The preparations were almost complete when Lumi reappeared down stairs. He seemed preoccupied and burnished an all encompassing smile across his face.
“Lumi... Lumi,” Joulupukki had to repeat himself to...
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Categories:
expanded, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Rosalia - the Evil Black Witch of the Harz, Part Two
Rosalia - The Evil Black Witch of the Harz, Part Two
Rosalia’s Instruments of Evil and Debauchery
Rosalia needed certain tools or instruments of evil and debauchery to successfully pursue her nefandous plans of bringing the people...
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expanded, allegory, evil, halloween, horror, magic, mythology, scary,
Form:
Narrative
Juozas Miltinis Learning Years In Paris
It was September
Of one thousand
Nine hundred seven
The end of summer
With apples lying thickly
Under the apple trees
And the smell of Autumn
Covering the grass
Filled with ripe yellow
And orange squash
He was born in a little
Wooden house...
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Categories:
expanded, art, destiny, french, history,
Form:
Bio
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 14
Despite his impatience to show me his hell,
He waited for me in my rest,
Lying upon the ground, I awoke in prayer,
Thanking God above and asking Him for guidance
“My heart is Yours, always,
From the moment...
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Categories:
expanded, adventure, anxiety, conflict, courage, dark, holocaust, horror,
Form:
Epic
Catonita Strikes - Part Two: a Freezer Mice Adventure
Continued from
‘CATONITA STRIKES - PART ONE’
A Freezer Mice adventure
When no-one was around they did the finger-clicking thing
And grew to human size in time for what the day might bring
Their guns were charged and ready and...
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Categories:
expanded, adventure,
Form:
Narrative
Rainer Maria Rilke: First Elegy Translation
This is my translation of the first of Rilke’s Duino Elegies. Rilke began the first Duino Elegy in 1912, as a guest of Princess Marie von Thurn und Taxis, at Duino Castle, near Trieste on...
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expanded, angel, beauty, desire, metaphor, universe, visionary, voice,
Form:
Free verse
Aching Souls
I once had a treasured mid-western friend who ...
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expanded, christian, community, confusion, family, grief,
Form:
Free verse
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 67
The half elf watched as Lumi spoke with Chroí; then, in the center of the circle the soil began to move and from it appeared the Garden Elf. He said nothing, he never spoke....
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Categories:
expanded, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
The Perspective of Alabaster Scrooge
THE PERSPECTIVE OF ALABASTER SCROOGE
In modern English people time, when the world was full of eminent joy, there lived a man of prestige who was totally the opposite of anyone who strives to form the...
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Categories:
expanded, culture, humanity, i am, identity, image, mentor,
Form:
Imagism
Prisoner of the Matrix Loaded
Prisoner of the Matrix loaded
Prisoner of the matrix loaded
Cattle within the herd
cages within the slaughter
Profiteers prey upon the wounded
Branded comodified beings consumed
In consumption
Led to the plunder of themselves
Within the plotted grids of bondaged earth
Still between...
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Categories:
expanded, america, analogy, philosophy,
Form:
ABC
Trump Against Conservatives
What are some differences
between post-millennial Trumpism
and pre-millennial Republicanism?
I know...I know!
Republicans used to be fiscal conservatives
but now support a one trillion dollar deficit
per unaffordable health and safety care year,
Expanded deficit spending
despite taking more from not...
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Categories:
expanded, abuse, bullying, caregiving, corruption, education, health, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse
Goose Eggs
Ginny didn’t know if it was a large pond or a small lake in the middle of the beautiful park where she had been hired right after high school to help with maintenance of the...
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Categories:
expanded, abortion,
Form:
Prose
Love of Our Life
LOVE Of Our Life
Life’s journey swim links 2 defined moments - birth & death.
To survive its stretch we swim different strokes,
Delivered inner strength combats heavy tides & puncture pokes,
Hidden forces compatibly energize different folks,
Fortifying for...
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Categories:
expanded, desire, emotions, god, love, perspective, relationship, wisdom,
Form:
Tail-rhyme
From Blank Screen To Logorrhea I Write With Confused Adumbrations
From blank screen to logorrhea, I write with confused adumbrations
Methinks hmm, perhaps
I admittedly self plagiarize and quite aware
aforementioned amalgamated, conglomerated,
fabricated, jerry rigged, and organized
eye gripping titled
poem already aired a year plus ago,
though revisiting...
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Categories:
expanded, absence, adventure, business, endurance, fish, grief, imagery,
Form:
Rhyme
THE PEPPERMA'S POSITION ON ABORTION
I OPENED A DOOR IN THE UNIVERSE
ONLY TO FIND MYSELF
FLOATING IN A SPHERE.
A FAINT REDISH COLORED LIGHT
PIERCED THE SPHERE.
IN A WAY , ALLOWING TO ME
TO PARTIALLY NAVIGATE
MY WAY AROUND.
THE...
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expanded, abortion, birth, creation, freedom, life, love, perspective,
Form:
Free verse
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 25
I was restless all the night,
The demoness softly singing a haunting tune
The Holy Spirit sifted in swirls around me,
And she touched with her claws its essence with strange wonder
I awoke to his songs strong and...
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Categories:
expanded, courage, gothic, heart, light, lost, love, truth,
Form:
Epic
Small Gifts: Contributing To Other's Happiness
For each gift that you make to a man’s spirit,
Servant gift, not the kind that dishonor brings,
There’s a peace that comes soft. (Can your ears hear it?)
And the heart of the man soon forgets its...
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Categories:
expanded, giving, memory,
Form:
Rhyme