Long Fewer Poems
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Come Down, For Harold BloomCome Down
by Michael R. Burch
for Harold Bloom
Come down, O, come down
from your high mountain tower.
How coldly the wind blows,
how late this chill hour ...
and I cannot wait
for a meteor shower
to show you the time
must be...
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Categories:
fewer, books, culture, discrimination, education, extended metaphor, literature,
Form:
Sonnet
What Good Are Our TearsWhat Good Are Our Tears?
by Michael R. Burch
What good are our tears?
They will not spare the dying their anguish.
What good is our concern
to a child sick of living, waiting to perish?
What good, the warm benevolence...
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Categories:
fewer, child, child abuse, children, death, poverty, sick,
Form:
Free verse
Moby Dick: Retribution, Be It Man Or BeastMoby Dick, a novel by Herman Melville, published in London in October 1851 as The Whale and a month later in New York City as Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. It is dedicated to Nathaniel Hawthorne....
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Categories:
fewer, angst, character, conflict, muse,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Something Old Something NewIn a matter of months, we would experience the greatest economic ...
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Categories:
fewer, change, travel,
Form:
Free verse
February 29th, 2024February 29th, 2024
Alternately titled: 111th leap year since 1582
the year Pope Gregory XIII world leader
(i.e. essentially paterfamilias among
Roman Catholic flock)
timely maneuvered around calendrical rock
and hard space implementing
viable system tracking years ad hoc
out of sync and...
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Categories:
fewer, 12th grade, age, birth, celebration, fate, february,
Form:
Rhyme
Shame On Me -- In Both Audio and TextEvery day, ‘round 8 am, I climb up from the subway and pass a guy - a blind guy - who is there to beg for change.
But one day, as I paused to watch...
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Categories:
fewer, heartbreak,
Form:
Narrative
The QuestionTrue love is unquestionable.
What is true love?
To me; it is more feeling based rather than definitively worded.
Emotional attached, formed mentalities that are equally paired with an immaculate physical connection.
Collected bi-gender, shared love—
She’s...
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Categories:
fewer, conflict, confusion, fun, true love,
Form:
Free verse
This Is DangerThis is dangerous
said pirates to their vampire allies
about losing past regeneration fees
and bloodline contributions.
I'm being treated unfairly,
said pathological hurt
to self-redeeming anger,
loss of sacred winning patience.
I've lost something precious,
said virginal grief
and sacred matriarchal refugees
of WiseElder
wombed through...
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Categories:
fewer, culture, education, green, health, integrity, peace, religion,
Form:
Political Verse
The Sooner RecruitFifty years, boy and man, I’ve been a Sooners fan;
And watched thousands of recruits try to make my Sooners Team.
Often, I’ve enviously wondered what it must be like
To be a touted Sooners recruit, living out...
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Categories:
fewer, celebrity, character, childhood, courage, dedication, desire, dream,
Form:
Rhyme
Reflection On An Aging NomadI finally finished retiring four years ago,
a process that started in my mid-fifties
due to late adopting kids with special needs,
including needs for me to be home
to personally walk them on,
harness them in,
and wheel them back...
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Categories:
fewer, age, health, integrity, relationship, religion, retirement, river,
Form:
Political Verse
The JourneyI
It all began so many years ago,
his journey down the narrow winding path,
and where it was to lead just fate could know
as it would take him through life’s aftermath.
The journey long and hard that he...
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Categories:
fewer, destiny, journey, life,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Enduring Spinning: Agriculture, Culture and WarYou can feel it spinning
...
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Categories:
fewer, culture, environment, farm, future, history, peace, water,
Form:
Verse
Week 2 - Stages By Herman Hesse - a Second Translation RevisedAs ev’ry flower wilts and ev’ry youngster 11
Must age, so manifests each stage of living, 11
All wisdom blossoms too and ev’ry virtue 11
Enjoys its time, and cannot last forever. 11
At ev’ry call of life, the heart of man should, 11
(Without...
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Categories:
fewer, journey, life, poetry, writing,
Form:
Verse
Covid Walkthermometer reads zero, a chilly breeze blows
apple cores thrown, the blackbirds feed
my multi-layered partner dons her wooly hat
impatiently, she waits for me
securing covid masks amidst my overcoat
...
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Categories:
fewer, anxiety, feelings, humanity, journey, life,
Form:
Verse
Great Shakespearean StageIt has been said
by Shakespearean wit
All the world's a stage.
And so it is, I actively and fluidly suppose,
One Great Transitioning Stage
of diverse seasons
and eons of becoming cooperatively larger
and, especially under climates of crisis,
competitively smaller, too...
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Categories:
fewer, destiny, dream, green, health, integrity, peace, spiritual,
Form:
Political Verse
Wandering A Higher TrailWeaving Work I
...
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Categories:
fewer, dream, fate, life, metaphor, muse, philosophy, time,
Form:
Free verse
Yuliya's Father's Cottage Part 1The ride to the country is uneventful
Except that I feel a little like
A man riding inside a cannon ball.
Yuliya's father Igor drives
I'm also up front (the honored guest) ...
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Categories:
fewer, love, integrity, , memorial,
Form:
Blank verse
Healthy Aside BenefitsSocial distancing,
including global apartheid,
brings us to Zoom
into each Other, virtually,
More virtuously win/win
or uncivilly win/lose?
For remote educational,
advocacy,
organizing and planning
social communication
reading
and exercise
and meditation
prayer
and therapeutic circles,
Religious
and secular humanitarian
win/win physical
mental
economic
political health systems
for ecological/theological
democratic wealthcare receiving
and co-giving
remote green-therapeutic
non-violent communication
Services
Delivered with...
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Categories:
fewer, earth, health, light, mother, power, wisdom, women,
Form:
Political Verse
King Solomon and JonathonSaid King Solomon to Jonathon,
speculatively,
"Think of helium
as saturating the eggwhite understory
of this immense Earth-atmosphere
egg-incubator sack of hydrogen-saturated
wet air breathing in heat and light co-informing
to breathe out teleological
and permaculturally multisystemic
meaning and purpose
for further co-operative becoming."
Warmly
and...
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Categories:
fewer, beauty, destiny, earth, race, rights, science, wisdom,
Form:
Narrative
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 51“Are you ready, DynDoeth,” the half elf asked?
“As ready as I can be,” was his response. “It is in your hands now.”
They walked across the vestibule and started to enter...
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Categories:
fewer, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Understanding the BibleQuotes:
1. "Doubt is not the absence of faith - certainty is!" Karen Armstrong
therefore
2. "It is impossible to be a true Christian and not have doubts!" Brian Johnston
3. “For by grace you have...
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Categories:
fewer, bible, blessing, love,
Form:
Quatrain
My Democratic Party TownIn my New England town
our local Democratic Party runs everything.
Some would argue these local celebrities
and self-promoting treasures
to posterity
rather over-run everything,
and surely we could find some truth
in this way of seeing,
but we are learning a spirit...
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Categories:
fewer, community, earth, education, health, humor, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse
Ides In IvyOh, these trees, arms reaching as they
did then, but even wiser ... perhaps I as
well have learned another thing-or-two
...
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Categories:
fewer, education, imagery, memory, nostalgia,
Form:
Narrative
Plague Journal At the Ides of March 2020, AbandonedThe sound of a piano playing a dirge lies in the air. It was the day before general quarantine measures were implemented by the Austrian government. That same night, for the first time in recent...
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Categories:
fewer, angst, death, depression, international, political,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Four Into Eight - the Silva GrailFour of eight decades rest in the past
So fortunate but how long can this last
I’ve romanced, loved and married
Living a life ever so harried
Raising a family, I’ve worked hard
A successful career achieved without fear
I’ve traveled...
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Categories:
fewer, desire, emotions, passion, sexy, wisdom, woman,
Form:
Narrative