Long Flinch Poems
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An Uppercut I RememberDad hit me only once, an upper cut to the solar plexus. It nearly lifted me off my feet. I was 17 then and already fairly tall, 6’1.” He was 48 and of medium height,...
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Categories:
flinch, father son,
Form:
Blank verse
Animal PoemsDot 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."
Stage Craft-y
by Michael R. Burch
There once was a dromedary
who...
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Categories:
flinch, animal, cat, dog, friend, friendship, friendship love,
Form:
Limerick
Sonnets Lxi-LxxSonnets LXI-LXX
Erin
by Michael R. Burch
All that’s left of Ireland is her hair?
bright carrot?and her milkmaid-pallid skin,
her brilliant air of cavalier despair,
her train of children?some conceived in sin,
the others to avoid it. For nowhere
is evidence of...
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Categories:
flinch, heart, night, spiritual, wife, words, write, writing,
Form:
Sonnet
EnoughEnough!
by Michael R. Burch
It’s not that I don’t want to die;
I shall be glad to go.
Enough of diabetes pie,
and eating sickly crow!
Enough of win and place and show.
Enough of endless woe!
Enough of suffering and vice!
I’ve...
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Categories:
flinch, body, cancer, death, health, irony, mental illness,
Form:
Light Verse
Dog Daze I: Poems About DogsDog Daze
by Michael R. Burch
Sweet Oz is a soulful snuggler;
he really is one of the best.
Sometimes in bed
he snuggles my head,
though he mostly just plops on my chest.
I think Oz was made to love
from the...
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Categories:
flinch, dog, family, friend, friendship, friendship love, love,
Form:
Verse
World War Ii Poems and Holocaust Poems - Iv - Primo LeviWorld War II Poems and Holocaust Poems - IV - Primo Levi
Shema
by Primo Levi
translation by Michael R. Burch
You who live secure
in your comfortable houses,
who return each evening to find
warm food,
welcoming faces...
consider whether this...
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Categories:
flinch, evil, holocaust, race, racism, war, world, world
Form:
Free verse
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:
flinch, evil, horror,
Form:
Rhyme
Hurt People Hurt PeopleFlirt with Whitney
Flirt with fear
Life is good
But I rather be anywhere but here
Body aches from pushing out tears
Driving on the road of life
Eyes is watery
So I can't steer
And I'm getting dizzy
Stomach very...
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Categories:
flinch, deep, depression, feelings, longing, meaningful,
Form:
Free verse
Ol' Babe - Both Audio and Text Versions - W-IllustrationHey…did I ever tell you ‘bout the greatest baseball game,
Or should I say…the one that gave “Ol' Babe” his famous name?
Like several other great ones, there were many hits that day,
And if it hadn't...
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Categories:
flinch, baseball,
Form:
Verse
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:
flinch, heartbreak,
Form:
Narrative
The Lay of the Best Man - Part 3Ask your friend, neighbour or even a stranger newly-met
Have they ever been damaged by a ‘trust’ ….now turned ‘regret’?
Most men, if not all, have fashioned their character on personal experience
Yet these damned hypocrites are themselves...
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Categories:
flinch, abuse, corruption, earth, i am, life, men,
Form:
Lay
No God of MineCement, 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:
flinch, halloween, horror,
Form:
Rhyme
Sometimes People ShareSometimes pandemic people share
pieces of our unspeakable personal story
That no health care worker,
sex therapist player,
or green resonant systems organizer
wants to hear,
much less smell,
or touch,
or deeply feel...
I flinch, sometimes.
Wince.
Maybe flirt with longer-term
dissociation,
to protect myself
from suicide
to protect...
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Categories:
flinch, abuse, god, health, muse, passion, political, power,
Form:
Political Verse
For One Pass of Your Breathyou write your words and they make me cry
you write those word and you know i die
but i've died so often now
i held you in my arms while you smelled my hair
i saw that pretty...
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Categories:
flinch, lost love, love, love hurts,
Form:
Free verse
Gory GamesGory video games are playing on the television screen…everyone watches excitedly without a flinch of fear…where’s peace when I need it? Where’s love when I want it? Where’s their sanity? Is it replaced with vanity...
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Categories:
flinch, change, confusion, cool, crazy, deep, emotions,
Form:
Free verse
This Woman His Wife 3five decades of experience and vast global knowledge
he met and lay with all kind of ladies.
Intellectuals
Blondie
Women that sparks extreme desire
Some whose names he couldn't pronounce
Even those with no clue as to why God make a...
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Categories:
flinch, love, marriage,
Form:
ABC
Memory of BonesThe table is old and worn
nicks and scratches
its red plastic tablecloth left over from a forgotten Christmas
its holiday pattern worn and forlorn
many a Thanksgiving dinner was hosted
the plump turkey as dry as yesterday
many wars...
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Categories:
flinch, allegory, analogy, angst, anxiety, art, childhood, christmas,
Form:
Free verse
Chapter 53 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: the Family Seventeen Iv10:30 at night everything was
peaceful in the Damian Hakim
household. Children were
Safely in there dreams. But the
Seven were wide eyed and
Would soon begin to let the
Parents know they were needed.
The racket began. Damian...
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Categories:
flinch, best friend, confidence, corruption, creation, youth,
Form:
Alliteration
A Whole New WordEach English-speaker knows that funner means more fun than fun,
and weirder means more weird than weird. And yet nary a one
of "proper" dictionaries has neologism words -
the editors must...
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Categories:
flinch, word play, words,
Form:
Verse
Green Eggs, Spam and GritsGreen eggs, Spam and grits
Sam and Pam had their fill,
Then made their way to Main Street
Down WhoDat’s Whatsup Hill.
Waived "Hi!" to their neighbors
To show them that they cared.
All smiled except two who
Just stood there and...
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Categories:
flinch, bullying, cat, courage, fantasy, friendship, humor, poetry,
Form:
Light Verse
The Battle of Britain IIA pulsing motive met them in the sky
to paint his birds before they flew your way,
then talons reared, determined to deny
the devil’s flying wolves a win this day.
Your heaven’s filled relentlessly with fire
as deficit engulfed...
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Categories:
flinch, world war ii,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
It Happen To Me-OneA new day rises above my Comfort Zone!
Now understanding had graced my fate to say to myself inside my bleeding heart moans in pain at what others thought of me before my birth came...
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Categories:
flinch, adventure, anxiety, appreciation, childhood, confidence, cry, home,
Form:
Narrative
Narrow MarginPlaced Second in:
This or That, Vol. 23 Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Edward Ibeh
...
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Categories:
flinch, feelings, god, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
Translate From SpeechLet's dwell a tiny bit on that skill most hanker after,
of mastering a language that especially enthrals,
infused with magic rhythm so fervent,
pulsing music lilt, anthem-rich samba,
think for one ecstatic heady moment,
if...
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Categories:
flinch, age, anxiety, art, courage, language, literature, spoken
Form:
Free verse
Heaven Made
Make room for the light – twinkling in his eyes,
Music on fire, silencing the whisper of shadows,
Restoring the wonder, the grace, the feelings, so brilliant
Alive as the rising sun, who blends hope with expectation,
Grace with...
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Categories:
flinch, appreciation, faith, heaven, hope, inspirational, inspirational love,
Form:
Free verse