Long Fearsome Poems
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The Messenger
"The Messenger"
Love is rich with
venom and honey.
there was a female ...
snake,
it watched
with green-eyed
avarice, covetting
a dove’s nest
the dove,
was white as snow,
not young, getting on,
tiny flecks of grey
the dove
alone,...
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Categories:
fearsome, dark, journey, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
Epigrams
Epigrams by Michael R. Burch
If brevity is the soul of wit
then brevity and levity
are the whole of it.
—Michael R. Burch
To write an epigram, cram.
If you lack wit, scram!
—Michael R. Burch
Conformists of a feather
flock together.
—Michael...
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Categories:
fearsome, bible, metaphor, philosophy, poetry, wisdom, words, writing,
Form:
Epigram
Doggerel I
Doggerel I or Nonsense Verse
A$$tronomical
by Michael R. Burch
Einstein, the frizzy-haired,
proved E equals MC squared.
Thus, all mass decreases
as activity ceases?
Not my mass, my a$$ declared!
Bible Libel
by Michael R. Burch
If God
is good,
half the Bible
is libel.
I came up...
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Categories:
fearsome, dog, hilarious, humor, humorous, light, nonsense, nursery
Form:
Limerick
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:
fearsome, animal, humor, humorous, light, nature, nonsense, silly,
Form:
Limerick
The emotional, mental and spiritual fallout courtesy Colt Gray
The emotional, mental and spiritual fallout courtesy Colt Gray
Apalachee High School,
located in Winder, Georgia
witnessed an active shooter,
whereby the alleged lone gunman
(actually just a teenager of fourteen years)
killed four people and injured nine more
the latter hospitalized with...
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Categories:
fearsome, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 8th
Form:
Free verse
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."
Stage Craft-y
by Michael R. Burch
There once was a dromedary
who...
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Categories:
fearsome, animal, cat, dog, friend, friendship, friendship love,
Form:
Limerick
Poems About Flight, Flying and Birds Ii
Poems about Flight, Flying, and Birds
Flying
by Michael R. Burch
I shall rise
and try the bloody wings of thought
ten thousand times
before I fly...
and then I'll sleep
and waste ten thousand nights
before I dream;
but when at last...
I soar the...
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Categories:
fearsome, animal, bird, flying, nature,
Form:
Free verse
Enheduanna Translations
Enheduanna is the first writer we know by name. She created the first poetry anthology and hymnal, circa 2250 BC, in ancient Sumer. She was the daughter of King Saragon the Great.
Lament to the...
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Categories:
fearsome, god, moon, poems, poetess, poetry, religion, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
Arthurian Poems
At 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:
fearsome, england, romance, romantic, true love, violence, visionary,
Form:
Verse
The Plural Sky and the Temptation of Its Mirrored Eyes
I melt into the plural sky
its rippling tableaus of tomorrow
underneath open light waves
see-saws the labyrinth
like Delphi tendrils crossing channels
all the changing faces played
automatic, embedded in misty consort
with Hyde-Lees and Yeats
love-crushed oracles
ghostwriting...
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Categories:
fearsome, i am, muse,
Form:
Free verse
Custody of 2020 Eyes
Monks and nuns,
ascetics and miscellaneous humble proletariat folks,
were taught custody of the eyes,
to show respect for those older
and/or wiser
and/or more supremely royal,
and/or in other positions of merited or inherited authority,
to avoid appearing too curious
too available
too...
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Categories:
fearsome, games, gender, health, poverty, psychological, racism, slavery,
Form:
Political 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:
fearsome, child, childhood, children, dad, father son, grandfather,
Form:
Rhyme
Ironbar
He just appeared to me, like wispily curling
Chimney smoke,
One grim and early morning in the very midst of
Decembers briefest days, on the highest slope,
Toiling through my daily round; where, slowly
Driving up...
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Categories:
fearsome, nature, universe,
Form:
Rhyme
The Poo Poo Bird
They pursued it with vigor, they pursued it with crass
They hunted with valor and hope
They proceeded with a dose of good Knightly sass
They chased it with tackle and rope
Now King Arthur declared in a boisterous...
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Categories:
fearsome, abortion, adventure, funny, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Maya 2
Continued from Maya 1
At length, when the womens' screams had ceased
and the sound of the thunder had stopped,
he gathered his courage and withdrew himself
from his hiding place beneath the corn.
He left the hut and prostrated...
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Categories:
fearsome, allegory, conflict, courage, religion,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Lament To the Spirit of War
Lament to the Spirit of War
by Enheduanna (circa 2285-2250 BCE)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
You hack down everything you see, War God!
Rising on fearsome wings
you rush to destroy the land:
raging like thunderstorms,
howling like hurricanes,
screaming like...
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Categories:
fearsome, allegory, analogy, conflict, death, soldier, storm, war,
Form:
Free verse
'Forward Brave Souls' Victims of Ambition's Merciless Will
“Up men to your posts! Don’t forget today that you are from old Virginia.”
– General George Pickett
Beneath Gettysburg's sun a merciless blaze
Stood Pickett with his face etched with war's haunting gaze.
A mind torn asunder...
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Categories:
fearsome, death, history, slavery, violence, war,
Form:
Ballad
Earth Day Voices
Voices of creation speak Type A and Type B,
and polyglot dialects through Z,
somehow under what lies in shadow
from B through Z
Anyway, Type A conscious I am alive
in this indoor moment
awake but not directly sun-absorbing...
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Categories:
fearsome, culture, earth, earth day, health, language, light,
Form:
Political Verse
The Lily Maid of Astolat
The knight of knights, Sir Lancelot,
From far away in Camelot,
Went by a way that he knew not
And thus, by chance, spied Astolat
With sunset's gleam upon her tow'rs:
T'was there he met the maid Elaine,
With hair as...
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Categories:
fearsome, devotion, farewell, first love, heartbroken, history,
Form:
Rhyme
The Troll At Speckle Bridge
There was a time throughout this land
when all was well and kind.
Where Wood Sprites, Fairies and Pixie dust
were not that hard to find.
But times have...
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Categories:
fearsome, adventure, lost love,
Form:
Rhyme
Celena, Brave Celena- Part 2
Their rending cries, when all is still, reecho in the moonlight;
They lie about in fitful slumber on the ground at noonlight,
Their virgin hair spread in the dust; for nothing really matters:
Who then will see their...
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Categories:
fearsome, assonance, bible, courage, daughter, farewell,
Form:
Narrative
Categories:
fearsome, world,
Form:
Rhyme
Severe Surge Regarding Thou Shalt Not Kill Violations
Severe surge regarding thou shalt not kill violations
Fifth commandment breached regularly
epidemic of gun violence in America
bullets fly, scream and tear into flesh
senseless rampant mass killings
rip across fabric of society
buzzfeeding, jump/kickstarting,
paradigm of mortality.
Since January first
two...
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Categories:
fearsome, 12th grade, 1st grade, age, america, anger,
Form:
Rhyme
Prophecy: Listen
Listen
by Immanuel A. Michael (an alias of Michael R. Burch)
1.
Listen to me now
and heed my voice;
I am a madman, alone,
screaming in the wilderness,
but listen now.
Listen to me now, and if I say
that black is black
and...
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Categories:
fearsome, america, god, judgement, rose, usa, visionary, voice,
Form:
Verse
The Cowboy
The Cowboy
A hundred thousand miles
were written on his face
He'd earned near every wrinkle
Did this cowboy known as "Jace"
He'd ridden cross the country
From Death Valley up to Maine
In weather full of sunshine
To the roughest hurricane
He owned...
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Categories:
fearsome, america,
Form:
Epic