Long Flicked Poems
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Poems About Flowers
Lady’s Favor
by Michael R. Burch
May
spring
fling
her riotous petals
devil-
may-care
into the air,
ignoring the lethal
nettles
and may
May
cry gleeful-
ly Hooray!
as the abundance
settles,
till a sudden June
swoon
leave us out of tune,
torn,
when the last rose is left
inconsolably bereft,
rudely shorn
of every device but her thorn.
The...
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Categories:
flicked, flower, june, rose, roses are red, spring,
Form:
Rhyme
Where Art Thou Anonymous Benefactor To Offer Me Succor
Where art thou anonymous benefactor...to offer me succor?
Ah... methinks legal tender
could be a boon to help me bolster
mein kampf with necessary material equipage,
which prospect to acquire essential
commodities sabotaged
at the altar of...
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Categories:
flicked, 8th grade, absence, anger, angst, boy, confusion,
Form:
Free verse
Love Poems Iii
LOVE POEMS III by Michael R. Burch
These are love poems by Michael R. Burch about passion, desire, lust, sex, dating, relationships, devotion and marriage.
Violets
by Michael R. Burch
Once, only once,
when the wind flicked your skirt
to...
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Categories:
flicked, desire, devotion, love, lust, marriage, passion, relationship,
Form:
Rhyme
Ancient Haiku
These are translations of some of the oldest Japanese waka, which evolved into tanka, renga and haiku.
While you decline to cry,
high on the mountainside
a single stalk of plumegrass wilts.
—O no Yasumaro (circa 711), translation...
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Categories:
flicked, culture, imagery, inspiration, international, metaphor, nature, poetry,
Form:
Haiku
The Badly Drawn Goat
The pencil now resting the image was 'testing' for the creature before him, (his badly-drawn drawin') had come out 'not right' somewhat twisted and tight.
The picture in question, it burst with suggestion, for lines that...
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Categories:
flicked, animal, creation, funny,
Form:
Rhyme
This World of Dew
THIS WORLD OF DEW
This world?
Moonlit dew
flicked from a crane's bill.
—Eihei Dogen Kigen, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Seventy-one?
How long
can a dewdrop last?
—Eihei Dogen Kigen, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Dewdrops beading grass-blades
die before...
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Categories:
flicked, age, art, autumn, bereavement, death, life, time,
Form:
Haiku
No God of Mine - 2021 Edit
[This poem 'No God Of Mine' was seemingly confounding readers as
to its meaning. Ordinarily, if I felt a poem wasn't cutting it, I'd delete
it, but on this occasion, I've been asked to explain it... so here goes.]
By...
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Categories:
flicked, evil, horror,
Form:
Rhyme
Catonita Strikes - Part One: a Freezer Mice Adventure
Continued 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:
flicked, adventure,
Form:
Narrative
Colin the Caped Cabbie
Colin is a cabby with a proper taxi cab
He drives for all the passengers an Uber didn’t grab
Which means he has a lot of time to kill most every day
And lots of evil folk to...
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Categories:
flicked, hero, humorous,
Form:
Narrative
More Iffy Coronavirus Haiku
yet another iffy coronavirus haiku #1
by michael r. burch
plagued by the Plague
i plague the goldfish
with my verse
yet another iffy coronavirus haiku #2
by michael r. burch
sunflowers
hang their heads
embarrassed by their coronas
I wrote this poem after having...
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Categories:
flicked, america, death, eulogy, health, humanity, natural disasters,
Form:
Haiku
Rum N Raisin 4 - Homer Lone
Rum was feeling playful so he went to find a mouse
He looked in every nook and cranny right throughout the house
But all the mice were sound asleep for it was dark outside
And then Rum saw...
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Categories:
flicked, animal, cat,
Form:
Narrative
Impossible Mission To Sleep On Opposite Side of Marital Bed
Impossible mission to sleep on opposite side of marital bed...
Oddly enough even
when frolicking in the autumn mist
with seasoned super tramping
cheaply tricked out goo goo dolls
some resembling Indigo Girls,
one foo fighting beastie boy
unable to...
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Categories:
flicked, adventure, anxiety, appreciation, betrayal, black african american,
Form:
Rhyme
Liatra
Pasha Acremodios grew greedy,
discontented with the domain he dominated,
so he turned covetous eyes toward Farabia,
sending his soldiers to seize this ripened plum
Spoiling for a fight and fighting for spoils,
his army swept across Farabia
like a bloody...
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Categories:
flicked, dance, death, desire,
Form:
Free verse
No God of Mine
Cement, sand and gravel, blood, body and soul
Eternity bred from hell's darkest hole
Combine gruesome aggregates, hydrate the mix
Mould them and dry them, then stack up the bricks.
Thought in advance and precision laboured
Set automatic, eternity savoured
No...
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Categories:
flicked, halloween, horror,
Form:
Rhyme
Swing Sets and Jungle Gyms
(or swing sets and monkey bars)
A pitch perfect spring day
such as today April 8th, 2022
within quaint hamlet
of Schwenksville, Pennsylvania
in close proximity within mind's eye
to Lake Wobegon, Minnesota
finds me reminiscing...
When, scads of light years ago
(half...
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Categories:
flicked, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th
Form:
Free verse
Moomy, Smoke and a Pancake
Sweet mother, Virginia Slim wedged between your fingers,
that last light willed to die at the rig
of a darkened room.
You—half-goddess, half-ghost, pinioned in some still-life setting
of tumbled smoke and silver hair. ...
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Categories:
flicked, appreciation, introspection, mother son,
Form:
Free verse
ah, wassailing!
We’re in NYC - at last - on Christmas vacation, and it feels like a pardon.
It’s amazing what can happen in just a few wild and change-filled hours. One minute, seemingly, you’re in a picture...
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Categories:
flicked, christmas, holiday, humor, new york,
Form:
Free verse
Me To Myself
(myself to myself on myself for myself)
When you hear the clamor of the birds loud
shrieking shockingly it shouldn’t frighten
you they simply don’t realize the magnitude
of the head of sand that gets washed away
onto your shoulders...
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Categories:
flicked, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
April Fools' Occurs First Day of Fourth Month
April fools' occurs first day of fourth month
Ordinarily all manner
of tomfoolery doth abound,
celebrated for countless centuries
by different cultures,
though exact origins remain
shrouded in mystery,
nevertheless quasi holiday of sorts
begat courtesy primitive precursor...
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Categories:
flicked, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, april,
Form:
Rhyme
My Crumpled Thoughts
(CRUMPLED THOUGHTS POETRY CONTEST)
When you hear the clamor of the birds loud
shrieking shockingly it shouldn’t frighten
you they simply don’t realize the magnitude
of the head of sand that gets washed away
onto your shoulders and violates sanctity.
Did...
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Categories:
flicked, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
Eihei Dogen Kigen translations by Michael R Burch
This world?
Moonlit dew
flicked from a crane’s bill.
—Eihei Dogen Kigen translation by Michael R. Burch
Seventy-one?
How long
can a dewdrop last?
—Eihei Dogen Kigen translation of his jisei (death poem) by Michael R. Burch
Dewdrops beading grass-blades
die before dawn;
may an...
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Categories:
flicked, flower, moon, nature, spring, water, wind, world,
Form:
Tanka
Wasted Generation
On my third year high
I decided withdrew inside a room,
I locked myself,
an insistent knocked,
it was a friend,
what happen to yah man,
what, I said impatiently,
he went inside and sat,
we have party tonight,
I just inquired where are...
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Categories:
flicked, addiction, anger, child, community, growing up, lost,
Form:
Bio
Polish Your Bomb
Polish Your Bomb
Oh how mighty and special they are!
Hail thee to our lovely bombs!
Hark to the power of the bomb
Our own bombs that we love and desire
Situated in our homes to keep us safe
Located in...
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Categories:
flicked, humor, military, silly,
Form:
Verse
Desperately Wonderfully Ill
Was never sure whether or not to laugh, smile or cry when
auntie came to tea, a matriarch she, wearing white gloves
plus purple cardigan - seven buttons tidy, top one below chin,
and a black beret perched precariously...
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Categories:
flicked, appreciation, books, love, passion, poetry,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Serene Evening
Have you ever wished to be able to capture a moment?
Not by the aid of photography
But by capturing and saving it in the memory that never gets full
For when you want to relive it you...
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Categories:
flicked, moon, night, stars,
Form:
Free verse