Long Fleet Poems
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Cymbric ValeI believed that I was rural … that I lived in country style,
where the city was close handy … that big distance was a mile.
Trains and buses ferried daily; a freeway ran close by …
comforts...
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Categories:
fleet, holiday,
Form:
Rhyme
Justice Is Crying In the StreetOh my soul what hails you?
Oh my soul what awaits you?
Oh my soul why are you in despair?
Oh my soul I have not deserted you
Oh my soul I have something to share
Oh my soul I...
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Categories:
fleet, anti bullying, conflict, courage, desire, discrimination, education,
Form:
Free verse
EpigramsEpigrams 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:
fleet, bible, metaphor, philosophy, poetry, wisdom, words, writing,
Form:
Epigram
Limericks Ii - Nature and AnimalsLimericks 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:
fleet, animal, humor, humorous, light, nature, nonsense, silly,
Form:
Limerick
Epigrams VEpigrams
Autumn Conundrum
by Michael R. Burch
It’s not that every leaf must finally fall,
it’s just that we can never catch them all.
Piercing the Shell
by Michael R. Burch
If we strip away all the accouterments of war,
perhaps we'll discover...
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Categories:
fleet, giggle, humor, humorous, irony, literature, word play,
Form:
Epigram
Athenian EpitaphsAthenian Epitaphs
Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be,
but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea.
—Michael R. Burch, after Plato
Does my soul abide in heaven, or hell?
Only the sea gulls
in their...
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Categories:
fleet, death, eulogy, funeral, grave, loss, memorial day,
Form:
Epigram
Smooth Big Cat
"Smooth Big Cat"
He was one of those guys you just knew would be a dud. "Be nice", she said to herself.
She met him on the upswing from the abyss of a dismally closed final chapter....
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Categories:
fleet, adventure, muse, mystery, romance,
Form:
Narrative
Echoes of the Angel's FallenInvocation to the Muse
From the gleaming skin of life’s underbelly,
sin unreconciled, formed from Nephilim seed,
fleet footed jokers mask pawns into flight;
To the epistle of the Most High.
For in the beginning, the true and only...
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Categories:
fleet, allegory, angel, christian,
Form:
Epic
The First Thanksgiving, September 3, 1578The First Thanksgiving (Sept. 3, 1578)
The shortest distance to Cathay 1
(Land of riches: silks, teas and spices)
Lay to the north to the South Sea. 2
Didn’t Barlow tell the King, 3
Was reserved for England.
The routes ‘round...
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Categories:
fleet, education, history, holiday, thanksgiving, thanksgiving day, voyage,
Form:
Verse
Long In the Tooth Male Doth Recount Reflect ReimagineLong in the tooth male doth recount, reflect, reimagine...
his woebegone damn dental daze today May 5th, 2021
No particular rhyme nor reason
garden variety indentured flunky (me)
revisits his salmagundi salad days,
when oral blight smote
left...
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Categories:
fleet, 2nd grade, absence, age, body, cinco de
Form:
Rhyme
A Former Great Nations Squandered Wealth ISwept up into piles; everywhere
Abouts; in collected heaps all
Around.
It is almost as if the drab
Streets were strewn...
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Categories:
fleet, philosophy, senses,
Form:
Rhyme
Zero HeroesEach Zen ZeroSoul
invites a sacredly unique understoried purpose,
enthymematic matriotic meaning
through nurturing Health-Wealth Consciousness.
ZenSoul identity
heroic voice
shadow sacred
yin-suppressed
among LeftBrain Dominant
adolescent RedStates,
monocultural extraction planners.
Red or Blue
and Green
between
depths of social Turquoise personality
for outdoor aquatic conversations,
ebbs and flows,
eggs and...
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Categories:
fleet, caregiving, earth, humor, integrity, nature, religion, spiritual,
Form:
Political Verse
Pirates Without ShipsBeware of pirates without a ship
like rebels without a transportive WinWin cooperative cause,
like ego-politicians without sacred ecological-economic portfolios.
One of the ways we communicate cooperative values
and choose not to communicate disvalues
is by how and where and...
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Categories:
fleet, addiction, anti bullying, courage, depression, green, health,
Form:
Political Verse
Translation of Eric Mottram's a Faithful Private - 7 -Excerpts From Notes On Poetics By T WignesanTranslation of Eric Mottram’s A Faithful Private 7 with excerpts from “Notes on Poetics” by T. Wignesan
(Note: With this post, I bring to a close EM’s pamphlet collection: Faithful Private, GENERA editions by Colin Simms,...
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Categories:
fleet, england, poetry, political, power,
Form:
Free verse
Favorite Recurring Nightmares Part 2 FinalNightmare 8. To Lose the Gift of Feeling Heard
Is each person not poet when he spills his heart?
Has your verse lost its edge if it’s true no one listens,
Or does God mean that no one...
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Categories:
fleet, anxiety, christian, fun, humor, life,
Form:
Quatrain
Thiru-Valluvar On Praising Ladies of Their Qualities: Canto 112 - Nalam Punainthu UraiththalThiru-Valluvar on Praising the Good Qualiities of Ladies: Canto 112 - Nalam Pinainththu Uraiththal
[The poet devotes the third part of his treatise, the Thiruk-Kural to INBATHTHUPPAAL, the amorous relationship between the sexes, i.e., cantos...
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Categories:
fleet, beauty, culture, relationship, tamil, true love, women,
Form:
Epigram
Lux Vitae Love Stories of the Fey: In the Clouds
Lux Vitae Love Stories of The Fey:
“In the Clouds”
“What are you looking at Mum?”
“They come in the clouds you know”, she said to her daughter
“Every night, the same time, the numbers seem to grow,...
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Categories:
fleet, adventure, fairy, fantasy, journey, mystery, mythology, science
Form:
Free verse
The CaptainHe sat all alone, drinking jim beam and coke
Looking out as the waves crashed ashore
He kept to himself, drinking jim beam and coke
As the storm winds would batter the door
He'd only come in when the...
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Categories:
fleet, america, bereavement, child, dad, grief, loss, ocean,
Form:
Epic
What Is the OrderI get up to the sound of drilling, banging and speeding cars with sleepy passengers shouting, “a who did a give the order,” and the fading response of another passenger “ a the woman with...
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Categories:
fleet, 8th grade, absence, america, beauty, butterfly, confidence,
Form:
Narrative
SurvivalLisa and I finally tested covid-free! When we saw our results, we began an impromptu dance that felt like levitation.
Although my covid case seemed much milder, Lisa’s been nothing but supportive. Why just yesterday morning,...
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Categories:
fleet, celebration, emotions, freedom, friendship, fun, humor, teen,
Form:
Free verse
The ChildA child lights our way in life...
The greatest gift there is to be.
They suppress our selfish inclinations...
They set our passions free.
They give sense to our mortality.
They put narcissism in its place.
With a child... you're a...
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Categories:
fleet, children, love, passion,
Form:
Rhyme
A More Than Fair Exchange - 1st HalfThis is the 1st half of a 2-part piece a tad too long for a single posting - a tale likely very close to factual -
An ivory-tinted fluffy billow drifted through the sunrise -...
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Categories:
fleet, fate, prayer,
Form:
Verse
The Mysterious Gift the Old Sailor Builtor The Mysterious Lost Love Quest
The old man dusted himself off and quickly started on his merry way
this his last port was where his desperate soul sought to forever stay
Decades of sailing ships...
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Categories:
fleet, journey, lost love, mystery, write,
Form:
Narrative
The Snowflake That Sank the TitanicThe Snowflake That Sank The Titanic
It all begins with a single snowflake
(Each one in itself is unique)
Brought about through evaporation,
And returned by the force of gravity
In the form of snow to the planet,
To rest on...
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Categories:
fleet, education, fate, history, remember, western, world,
Form:
Verse
ArizonaJapanese??
Here ... in Pearl Harbor?!? This must be a nightmare ...
It can't be real - I can't have seen that, yet here I am,
In my bunk cabin on the ship, with only a foot of...
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Categories:
fleet, adventure, remembrance day, violence, world war ii,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue