Long Flighty Poems
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Restoration TownsI was skeptically listening
to a retiring social researcher,
and problem-solving imaginer,
from the American Enterprise Institute;
An Institute
I usually find more destitute
of bicameral consciousness than not,
and thereby with less healthy resonant imagination
than more pathological dissonance.
But, I found...
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Categories:
flighty, community, culture, earth, health, integrity, love, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Uyghur Poetry TranslationsWith my Uyghur poetry translations I am trying to build awareness of the plight of Uyghur poets who are being sent to Chinese "reeducation" concentration camps.
Elegy
by Perhat Tursun
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Asylum seekers, will...
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Categories:
flighty, allah, culture, discrimination, faith, islamic, race, racism,
Form:
Free verse
Perhat Turson: Elegy TranslationPerhat Tursun
Perhat Tursun (1969-) is one of the foremost living Uyghur language poets, if he is still alive. Born and raised in Atush, a city in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Tursun began writing poetry...
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Categories:
flighty, brother, eulogy, magic, prison, spiritual, violence, wine,
Form:
Free verse
The Bailout Ballad - the Layman's LamentOne day not long past our economy faltered
And wouldn’t improve if our course were unaltered.
'Cause we buy stuff at Wal-Mart (where things are dirt cheap)
'Cause they buy from China (treats workers like sheep
(So farmers left...
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Categories:
flighty, business, humor, humorous, money, political, satire,
Form:
Couplet
Kaleidoscope
"Kaleidoscope"
They say another
wrote the story, not I.
that I, mere I,
having little experience, shy
and far removed from
such an alien world,
would not possess the knowledge
of such terrible and ruthless, lusty
characters of strong will;...
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Categories:
flighty, muse, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
Out of the Way*Image of Hikers Warning by Pixabay.
Out Of The Way
As a self-proclaimed ruler of my person, I am mindful of the internal convictions, external constitutions as Lord overseer of my spotless realm,
Upon my own free will,...
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Categories:
flighty, death, perspective,
Form:
Narrative
The Apocrypha of Familiars
“The Apocrypha of Familiars”
Wings hover
light luminescent
revelling sprites dark pearls
Corvidae shades
of a family
highly functioning
dysfunctional plural
morphing unobserved
perceived non-unique
spiralling into shape
more black and grey
than white spills
from their eyes
light from their shining
hidden away
intelligence...
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Categories:
flighty, muse, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
WallowingSee, I've been wallowing in it for far too long
knee deep sunk in it even at times
eyes too marred by melancholy to see the way out
even as I gave in to the allure...
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Categories:
flighty, desire, family, fate, growth, how i feel,
Form:
I do not know?
Ballad of Molly JonesDavid Jones, the best rat catcher Shropshire has ever had
must take some criticism for young Molly turning bad.
Even though his daughter found rich co-incidentals,
no credit could be taken by rat catching Dad's credentials.
At nineteen she's...
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Categories:
flighty, history,
Form:
Lyric
The Kingfisher
"The Kingfisher"
Easters
fast escape us
like every
Christmas
comes and goes
like a Graduation
where the parent
is excluded
and the lost
prodigious progeny
eventually
makes their quest
for an elusive
Holy Grail
buried under shale
or burnt ashes
floating on air, where,
the breeze pushes...
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Categories:
flighty, easter, journey, life, love, truth,
Form:
Narrative
Inadequate
I try hard, to make you understand
So we can remain friends- hand in hand
But as time moves on it all fades away
And I'm left, the inadequate fool
Often I find I cannot repress these tears at...
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Categories:
flighty, allegory, angst, confusion, dark, depression, fear, pain,
Form:
Free verse
A Futuristic Christmas 2044My feet felt like frostbite had got them,
Even though I had my suede boots on,
I had just jovially returned from,
That successful Christmas shopping trip,
With no other reason to feel got at...
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Categories:
flighty, christmas, computer, friendship, future, home, november, technology,
Form:
Free verse
The WindowMelted candles atop a resigned dresser
Wilted roses lying atop a white cloud
The flickering of fires and shadows mesh well with your
Batting eyelashes your heavy words and your breathing in rhythm with
the cadences of muted car...
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Categories:
flighty, america, city, desire, emotions, heart, lust, political,
Form:
Free verse
My Own BookLife is a book. A book that is unlike any other.
You see... The pages are not written. They are lived.
We all have different stories.
Never knowing what is on the next page, we live the...
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Categories:
flighty, absence, betrayal, books, friendship, identity, inspirational, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
TrailblazerI was a classic 1957 Chevrolet Bel-Air, in mint condition, admiral and white.
My owner had other beautiful, classic cars, like stars sparkling into twilight.
My owner loved his old cars, saying 'they don't make them like...
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Categories:
flighty, appreciation, car, fantasy, nature, nostalgia, old, seasons,
Form:
Couplet
Flighty EntertainmentsWhy does flight feel more lightly entertaining,
yet less engaging,
than fighting?
Laissez-faire thoughts lighter
than ponderous confronting ruminations,
Why?
I would not expect a babbling infant
to understand why
WinWin cooperation deeply entertains
for learning health-enhancing cultures,
ego/eco-therapeutic religious experience,
bicamerally democratic government,
multicultural compassion-nurturing
Golden Rule...
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Categories:
flighty, earth, engagement, health, joy, peace, political, psychological,
Form:
Free verse
The RequestI. The Request
She spoke, "bring me the sunset in a cup
that overflows with it's red warmth eternal.
Rail against supposed fate. Love speak up,
you are not the last one standing. Colonel
of starry skies are you instead?...
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Categories:
flighty, hope, love, passionheart, heart, love, may, me,
Form:
I do not know?
Seventeen Hundred CreationsDragon has left the winter behind; but’s still wound up & flighty as a bat.
He’s in competition with a friend, to be more creative than Dear old Jack.
He wants to make Dragon concrete art, for...
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Categories:
flighty, fantasy, fun, funny, happiness, humor, humorous, imagination,
Form:
Light Verse
A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To the Art Museum A funny thing happened on the way to the Art Museum,
I saw a seagull fly above a man wearing a soldier’s beret.
He landed on the arena of the respected Roman Colosseum,
pooped all over...
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Categories:
flighty, humorous, soldier,
Form:
Rhyme
Mr Spider and Ms ButterflyMr. Spider is an ugly looking creature. He has a hairy face and arms. However, the hairs on the top of his head are somewhat thinner than those on his face, and scattered all over...
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Categories:
flighty, allegory, imagery, sad love,
Form:
Narrative
As Opium OpinedAS OPIUM OPINED
On the mantle of my memory over fantasy’s fireplace is the remembrance of that one most precious evening when snow consecrated and baptized our roof along with its promise of a childish sleigh...
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Categories:
flighty, angst, night, fire, fire, night, giggle,
Form:
Free verse
I Am My Mother's Daughteri am my mother's daughter
a little bit flighty
kind of a tomboy
feminine and ladylike
when you want to be
counting on my hand
the times i saw you in a dress
or put blush on your cheeks
and reddened your...
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Categories:
flighty, daughter, hope, life, love, mother, me, life,
Form:
I do not know?
An Inspiring Pile of ShoesI attended a large gathering and took some time
to observe the great assortment of shoes stacked on the racks
I saw new shoes, pricey shoes, and shoes not worth a dime
and shoes that seemed to have...
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Categories:
flighty, humor, inspirational, social,
Form:
Quatorzain
The Chipmunk KidA hot breeze blew the other day, as the Chipmunk Kid rode into Troll Lake Town.
He rode on the oldest, slowest steed, that I had ever seen, a Snail called Abilene.
He came a packing, with...
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Categories:
flighty, adventure, fantasy, funny, humorous, imagination, old, uplifting,
Form:
Light Verse
March Middleness
Post-January, February's clear
to shape into another winter month.
More times than not, with snow days we adhere.
Through days of February, we confront
a winter wonderland, a gift to see,
with hills and valleys swirled in white displays.
Ice skating,...
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Categories:
flighty, seasons, spring, winter,
Form:
Sonnet