Long Flapping Poems
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Poems About Things That Break IiPoems about Things that Break II
These are poems about things that break and/or shatter.
Water and Gold
by Michael R. Burch
You came to me as rain breaks on the desert
when every flower...
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Categories:
flapping, break up, depression, divorce, emotions, farewell, goodbye,
Form:
Rhyme
Some PoemsA Stolen Memory
A Mirthful Chorus
By Sy Roth
We surrounded him
Asked to let go.
She stared at the misshapen face,
Unshaven sandpapery skin
Eyelids a tabula rasa
Fluttery sere skin
And we could see the humor blossoming in his...
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Categories:
flapping, dream, loneliness,
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:
flapping, celebrity, endurance, french, loss, solitude, tribute,
Form:
Elegy
Nottingham Girl At The Goose Fair Prt 1Every year In Robin Hood Country Nottingham
There in October, they hold. What is known, as the Goose Fair. It's huge. and goes back centuries, straining the Middle Ages, perhaps even longer.
My pals and I back...
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Categories:
flapping, history, longing,
Form:
Free verse
Week 3 - Brian's Poet of Note - 'Richard Wilbur Part 1'Imitation! Creative Compliment, Lacking in Originality, or Plagiarism?
This week takes me back to college days. I was taking a graduate course (as a Physics major) in 'Modern Poets' at the University of...
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Categories:
flapping, love, poetry, poets, , Lullaby,
Form:
Free verse
Bookish Menagerie: A Time Traveler's LibraryToddlers' Exploration:
Cardboard drum and a thunderous beast
With playful roars in tiny fists and feasts.
Fleeting wings glide to dreams just out of reach
Soaring through tales of barnyard Waddles and Squeaks.
Moo! Quack! Giggles tumble and bump.
Flaps...
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Categories:
flapping, adventure, books, childhood, imagination, literature, mystery, teen,
Form:
Narrative
Literary Feud Among - Pt 2Step Forward McCarthy vs. Hellman
What is this The Digital Crucible of Truth?
On a stage of scrutiny,
titans c l a s h— ...
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Categories:
flapping, emotions, judgement, literature, poetry, poets, rude, writing,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Geese, Goslings and the BridgeGeese, Goslings and the Bridge
Sometimes, when you least expect it, Mother Nature makes a u-turn and draws you into the ridiculous. Such was the time recently as I was returning from a friend’s home...
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Categories:
flapping, bird, family,
Form:
Metrical Tale
The Mulberry Tree and Its Birds Part Two
A GIFT FOR EVERYONE
ESPECIALLY
FOR CHILDREN
The Mulberry Tree & its Birds
IMPORTANT NOTE:
Now watch a short Video film made by me (placed on my Music Channel on You Tube) based on this Poetic...
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Categories:
flapping, bird, tree,
Form:
Epitaph
PrologueWhether you have come to possess this compendium of doggerel confessions by chance or by choice, should you decide to venture beyond this page, I politely suggest you consider the contents to be nothing more...
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Categories:
flapping, allegory, literature,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
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:
flapping, anger, angst, anxiety, conflict, confusion, jealousy,
Form:
Prose
Ten Years, Somewhere In Their Lost Neighbourhood
“Ten Years, Somewhere in their Lost Neighbourhood”
Of course,
he said, like a god,
there is no course,
one must simply go with the flow
the penumbra stands waivering its existence,
a kind of deactivation, fuzzy borderline hanging,
backing the art...
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Categories:
flapping, muse,
Form:
Narrative
Number forty seven White House occupant against all oddsNumber forty seven - White House occupant against all odds...
regarding President elect
Donald John Trump.
As a cruel joke to self,
I imagined myself as a Republican
for that one glorious day
voting for the candidate
who clinched the nomination
as...
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Categories:
flapping, abuse, america, anger, anxiety, betrayal, depression, destiny,
Form:
Free verse
Secret Love - 2nd Place Contest WinIf you spill your secrets to the breeze,
Don't blame the wind for laying them to light.
Once said, words are disclosed, even to trees.
And claim peace in the leaves that rustle and fight.
Whispered tales of a...
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Categories:
flapping, analogy, appreciation, beauty, love,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
As a mortal man of threescore and five yearsAs a mortal man of threescore and five years...
I bore witness and/or assimilated, gleaned,
and nursed implacable thirst for knowledge
courtesy reading factual narratives,
historical fiction, or biography
that since the advent of Homo sapiens
avast number of civilizations
and their...
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Categories:
flapping, age, america, anger, angst, anxiety, humorous, me,
Form:
Free verse
Zeitgeistcompeting cousins, interbreeding homo-sapiens
hominins humming mostly human song
altruistic generalisers, ever close to dying ways
opportunistic, never staying long
self-aware, inquisitive, enlarging brains, empathising
real representative intelligence
modelling...
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Categories:
flapping, destiny, earth, hope, humanity, philosophy, power,
Form:
Verse
Categories:
flapping, conflict, dance, history, native american, visionary,
Form:
Free verse
Theatre of the Absurd - FusionGodot has arrived
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
Alive and well thanks!
...said the haiku poster
Crudely pasted to the fence
Who was too busy selling stolen goods
To notice he was a notice
Announcing a brand new play
A fusion of two classics
Waiting for...
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Categories:
flapping, funny, humor, humorous, nonsense, silly,
Form:
Free verse
Strange Ways, Here We Come
“Strange Ways, Here We Come”
the devil’s advocate
came waltzing
through my doors
“I had no choice”
the supercilious harbinger said,
“to intervene, to parlay away
something
not
mine
now
you're
doing time
not the criminal recidivist
nor usurping interloper
and their profound lies
every...
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Categories:
flapping, dark, death, grief, psychological,
Form:
Narrative
Seasonal Walks In the Parkbaseball, bird, change, childhood, games, holiday, lost,
“Seasonal Walks in the Park!”
A walk in the park after a springtime morning rainfall
Is to hear the droplets fall from bent branches overhead
That can shock and moisten one’s...
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Categories:
flapping, baseball, bird, change, childhood, games, holiday, lost,
Form:
Free verse
New NeighborsI am just finishing my morning meditation when I hear my doorbell ring. It actually sounds more like that buzzing sound you hear if you fry a fat fly on one of those electronic bug...
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Categories:
flapping, depression, family, funny love, humor, husband, lonely,
Form:
Narrative
Race the Finals Spoken WordI wish to
Relay
To all of my people the importance of sticking together as a
team
And that
Because we have run
through the preliminary trials as selfish individual, goal seekers
we have barely made it to the finals,...
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Categories:
flapping, africa, black african american, change, courage, freedom,
Form:
Rhyme
A Long, Long Time Ago On a Cold Winter's NightA long, long time ago on a cold winter's night
A long, long time ago on a cold winter’s night
Two hearts were broken the crest of the eve
This is the story of how it all happened
How...
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Categories:
flapping, fantasy, friendship,
Form:
Rhyme
Pandora's Temptation
For the third time Pandora stands before the box
Inlaid with jewels ivory and gold
In her hand is the key – she closely examines
Intrigued by its intricate patterns - so ancient- so old
Her Creator’s mandate she...
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Categories:
flapping, desire, hope, love,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 30A whirl, a gust, and a thunderous boom commenced,
Heartened by the latter soreness of silent night,
Shackled through the chill blows above,
A tempest, a storm,
Threshing the world,
Shaking the Prison of Plot,
The waters of the Holy Spirit...
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Categories:
flapping, art, destiny, endurance, gospel, inspiration, truth, wisdom,
Form:
Epic