Long Failing Poems
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I Can'T Just Change Overnight Part 1(Inspired by my sister, Laura Breidenthal’s poem called “The Dream in His Eyes” and also, inspired by Disturbed’s song “Forsaken”. Special thanks to my sister for such an awesome poem and the writer that wrote...
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Categories:
failing, angst, dark, deep, depression, desire, loneliness, words,
Form:
Free verse
Healthy Caring SystemsToo many times sadly
too seldom gladly
I must learn to trust
Earth's future more
Both Father Sun's timeless
rounds of enlightenment
and Mother Earth's
codependent rhythms
regenerating rich
empowering
soulful soil
and surfing seas
And this trusting more
impels healing trauma's lessons,
surviving hale and...
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Categories:
failing, culture, earth, earth day, health, integrity, passion,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Pablo Neruda Translation: Every Day You PlayEvery Day You Play
by Pablo Neruda
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
Every day you play with Infinity’s rays.
Exquisite visitor, you arrive with the flowers and the water.
You are vastly more than this immaculate head I clasp...
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Categories:
failing, aubade, beauty, dog, for her, fruit, happiness,
Form:
Free verse
Arthurian PoemsAt Tintagel
by Michael R. Burch
That night,
at Tintagel,
there was darkness such as man had never seen...
darkness and treachery,
and the unholy thundering of the sea...
In his arms,
who is to say how much she...
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Categories:
failing, england, romance, romantic, true love, violence, visionary,
Form:
Verse
Ecotherapist ConventionsTruth is a feather
pushed off to the other side.
Truths are a body of feathers
within which our bodies reside.
OK, students of life’s healthiest purposes and meanings,
it’s time to regather, if you would be so kind.
Namaste.
[Silence]
[My...
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Categories:
failing, beauty, culture, earth, health, humor, nature, truth,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Sonnets Lii-LxSonnets LII-LX
The Endeavors of Lips
by Michael R. Burch
How sweet the endeavors of lips: to speak
of the heights of those pleasures which left us weak
in love’s strangely lit beds, where the cold springs creak:
for there is...
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Categories:
failing, dream, flower, hair, longing, love, pain, sensual,
Form:
Sonnet
Stranger Than Fiction*warning* disturbing lines have been detected - you have been warned, readers. Okay, enjoy this somewhat deep and astounding poem from me that took days to write...>:)
I bet you anything that I'm the laziest guy...
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Categories:
failing, deep, universe,
Form:
Free verse
Conservative Healthy SpiralsGenetic, so therefore regenetic, conservatism
of DNA and this fractal function's Elder RNA-rooted ecosystemic
political psychologies,
ecologies of empowerment,
and not so much;
History,
and notnot historic enculturation
of Business As Usual LeftBrain ReIterative Dominance
of deduction-reduction-redaction,
yet still dipolar-dialectical ecosystemic health
(0)-sum-core-centric ecopolitical...
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Categories:
failing, blessing, culture, earth, games, health, political, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
Heres Why My CV Needs WorkNAME: Phil Latio.
QUALIFICATIONS: LLB (Law) PhD (Medicine) & FSC (Federation Starfleet
...
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Categories:
failing, humorous,
Form:
List
Social NondarwinistsWe need to talk.
Is this one of those times
where you need to talk
and I must pretend to listen
while you rant?
Well, yes,
if you could extend this favor.
Your topic?
Social Darwinism.
Isn't that the birthplace of unfettered Capitalism
and Fascism
and...
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Categories:
failing, environment, gospel, health, humor, psychological, social,
Form:
Political Verse
Just Be Thankful - the Linked Style~ Just Be Thankful ~
( Linked )
~O~
Just be thankful
J
Thankful for all
U
All that you have
S
Have in your Life
T
Life that God gives
...
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Categories:
failing, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
Jean Lapresle: the Solitary Oak On Mount Kremlin Bicetre A French ‘Indianist’ Doctor: A Tribute to a Die-hard Humanist
...
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Categories:
failing, celebrity, endurance, french, loss, solitude, tribute,
Form:
Elegy
The Beetlejuice Past Your Eyes
"The Beetlejuice Past Your Eyes"
“Well, where would you suggest I commence? Should we begin with the concept of pasteurize?”
This said to the earnest listener, who views the protagonist with a bon vivant confused expression. To...
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Categories:
failing, dark, light, muse,
Form:
Narrative
And Still I Drive - Part OneStars fall under failing skies...stars fall...stars fall...
And sadly...i start to drive.
Through the unremarkable village with its tall
Georgian Bay window panes, lightless,
devoid of visages; outwardly staring back at my
Abject countenance with detached contempt and...
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Categories:
failing, heartbreak, places,
Form:
Rhyme
Tail Spin, RevisedThis page shows my writing process and is part of Poetrysoup's first workshop. The workshop's intent is to reveal how revision strengthens a poem. Constructive feedback can be a gift. Should any journal...
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Categories:
failing, courage, fear, love hurts,
Form:
Free verse
Please Consider Those Who - Not By Choice - Are Living Alone - 3rd ThirdHere's the deal, folks...
This is, as indicated, the 3rd THIRD of this fairly lengthy poem. Due to Poetry Soup's file-size limitations, this piece had to be posted in 3 parts.
...
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Categories:
failing, love, relationship,
Form:
Narrative
Classified Part ThreeThe 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:
failing, science fiction,
Form:
Prose
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 6Upon this date he spoke no more of the preceding moments,
Tearing and hurling insult upon insult
In several directions, his tongue whipped and scorched me,
And he waited relentlessly to see the spark in my eyes...
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Categories:
failing, adventure, character, gothic, heart, love, philosophy, power,
Form:
Free verse
Selected Lyrics From the Imaginary Invalid After graduating from UF, in the early '80s I wrote the book, lyrics and score for a musical adaptation of Moliere's farce Le Malade Imaginaire ("The Imaginary Invalid") and have decided to post five...
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Categories:
failing, funny, humorous, parody, satire,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Catonita Strikes - Part Two: a Freezer Mice AdventureContinued 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:
failing, adventure,
Form:
Narrative
Catonita Strikes - Part One: a Freezer Mice AdventureContinued from FREEZER MICE
The cat had travelled straight from hell, a hell beyond the stars
The cat that theories claim once levied genocide on Mars
She now seeks vengeance on descendants of the primal shrew
Whoever knew that...
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Categories:
failing, adventure,
Form:
Narrative
The Call of the Grimoire
"The Call of the Grimoire"
when Exalibur was retrieved
from the rock, then foolishly
and irretrievably lost
in that dreadful battle most worthless
the imps encouraged
the once good Poesie folk
to jeer and throw pebbles
the...
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Categories:
failing, i am, light, magic, muse,
Form:
Narrative
The Rhine Salmon Complaint Translation of Etiemble S Complainte D Un Saumon Du Rhin By T WignesanThe Rhine Salmon Complaint, Translation of Etiemble’s Complainte d’un salmon du Rhin
For Yvon Belaval
(A lilting musical poem of varying line length in quatrains with a refrain and much internal
rhyming; end-rhyme scheme: alternate rhymes in...
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Categories:
failing, nature,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Last Rose For a Rebel - Part 1SHE was my wife, once ...
long ago, so very long ago ...
we met on the showboat, up-river,
almost fifty years back now ...
I was a young officer for the Confederacy,
working for the Yanks after The Turn,
supplying...
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Categories:
failing, history, sad love, soulmate, true love,
Form:
Free verse
Son, You Need A Haircut: 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline"A dressed day has disrobed into the depth of a drawer's nightstand."
(Oh, how positively awesome that what can be sorted out in such an explanatory pattern that a difference would maketh a day.)
The muskiness...
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Categories:
failing, anger, angst, anxiety, conflict, confusion, jealousy,
Form:
Prose