Long Flinty Poems
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Inevitable Death Defines Afterlife - Deux
Inevitable death defines afterlife - deux
Flinty stones figuratively rolling inside
whooping out that primal
binaural beat of your drum
ma mind haphazardly
ricocheting axon to neuron
inducing inxs of chaos
wreaking entropy beheld
by beauty and the beast
enveloping...
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Categories:
flinty, absence, allah, angel, atheist, creation, death, eulogy,
Form:
Rhyme
Unreachable
She was having a certain level of difficulty discerning the exact moment it had started. She knew it started somewhere…everything else did. Maybe it had been during the summer that she could not smile. Not...
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Categories:
flinty, creation, depression, emotions, loneliness, muse, solitude, sorrow,
Form:
Prose
stones
stones
by michael r. burch
i.
far below me lies a village
with its houses hewn from stone
and though Everyman who lives there
bravely claims he’s not alone,
i can tell him, yes u are!
for u cannot touch the stars
no matter...
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Categories:
flinty, fire, heart, house, mountains, night, sky, stars,
Form:
Rhyme
Odysseus and the Siren
"Odysseus and The Siren"
There he is
like Odysseus
bound to the mast of his ship
cursive words dispatched
through aether to
the somnolent nodding
in their stock
he avoids full brace
the Siren’s enchantment
a song that sings
his...
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Categories:
flinty, for her, for him, freedom, imagery, muse,
Form:
Romanticism
The Forbidden Tear In the Dark
DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVE EMOTIONAL ISSUES
I was born in a land far, far away called... home.
Not yet still-born.
A place of iced mountain mazes,
that were once warm, like an oasis of...
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Categories:
flinty, dark,
Form:
Free verse
Presidential Inauguration 2017 - Poetic Screed - Part3
pioneer esprit de corps front tier brisk.
* * * * * * ...
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Categories:
flinty, betrayal, dark, heartbroken, house, january, me, people,
Form:
I do not know?
Edison's Hammer
(William Hammer, Thomas Alva Edison's assistant,
has reached the end of his tolerance. His boss is
planning to electrocute an elephant for a publicity
stunt.)
If he goes through with this, the dam has burst.
I'm done with him....
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Categories:
flinty,
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
The Old Aqueduct
It juts out by the river road,
traffic passes it each morn,
what’s left of the old aqueduct,
something stately, yet still forlorn.
The rock, with no mortar, was set
so fine it would make Incas proud,
precise enough to still...
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Categories:
flinty, appreciation, history, imagery, in memoriam, lost, memory,
Form:
Rhyme
I Cant Wait For Death
I Can't Wait For Death
And finally take one last breath
where hands of Seth
Thomas no longer clock
freed at last from cataclysmic aftershock
reverberating thru every baited cell
after quaking mine flinty bedrock
well nigh since birth zapping bloodstock,
an existence...
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Categories:
flinty, allusion, dark, family, farewell, goodbye, innocence, leaving,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
The Tops
up a steep and gritty track
reach the tops
wilderness reclaims a verge
of wintery snags
land juts and tilts
hauls out
lays treeless
clumps and hags
pitch up stricken soil
heap their marshy troughs
loud the heartbeat
nearer to feral thought
then any numb mouth or...
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Categories:
flinty, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Rejection
They didn't want Jesus Christ for their king,
being meek was an utterly detestable thing
They didn't want Him for their king,
what conquering tales could this man...
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Categories:
flinty, bible, christian,
Form:
Rhyme
What the Hell It Doesn'T Matter
What the Hell it doesn't matter
it's not like your being battered.
Your heart beats faster, your nerves on edge,
what the Hell is it doing to your head?
Your eyes deceive, you cannot believe,
if you should jump for...
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Categories:
flinty, emotions,
Form:
Free verse
The Mine of Wisdom
“There is a mine for silver
and a place where gold is refined.
...
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Categories:
flinty, age, beauty, bible, birth, christian, creation, inspiration,
Form:
Pastoral
Half Butt
We stagger on the slopes heading home
We had been bar friends and home could be anywhere in between
As long as little comfort settled in, home we were
This time, in the crack of dawn,
Rudely woken up...
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Categories:
flinty, animal, appreciation, community, friend, friendship, metaphor, society,
Form:
Free verse
The Brave Wear Black With Blue
sometimes I wish to cut myself open
just to see what is hidden inside
how lucky I am
even Jack the Ripper would bypass me
that's how lucky I am
but I wish to see
what am I made of
what's so...
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Categories:
flinty, cancer,
Form:
Free verse
An Ode To My Grandpa
More rocks than soil on those flinty hills
Where he tilled the grudging land.
He chopped the sprouts and manned the plow,
With cracked and callused hands.
No stranger to adversity,
Through hard and bitter years
He wet the dusty, stony...
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Categories:
flinty, father, life, on work and working, people,
Form:
I do not know?
Daddy's Girl
When the radio played
And you thought you could win me
with a handwritten note declaring your pain
in my absence and with hubris
of your youth, you told me of the softness of my mouth, you knew...
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Categories:
flinty, childhood, dad, daughter, father daughter, parents,
Form:
Free verse
In the Bed They Make
And when will the tides turn against confident indifference?!
When will humanity cease
To throw cats against curiosity’s silver coated dagger
Another played out song
Another dramatic lyric
Shifting embellished overtones
With deteriorating tact
They spit posthumous awakenings
As divinity laced smiles, wither...
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Categories:
flinty, life, psychological, slam,
Form:
Free verse
The Spirit and the Wind
They taught me at Sunday school
that the Spirit's wind; and cool.
On a night cool and windy,
my eyes were wide and flinty.
Through translucent window pane,
jiggled a confused weather vane,
shy which direction to face;
excitement set to...
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Categories:
flinty, faith, fun,
Form:
Rhyme
Spring Sounds
It's quiet now, too quiet for Spring:
Sere-brown matted grasses huddle close,
Clinging tightly to patches of congealed Earth,
Nature's chill bosom flinty and unyielding.
No wind yet whips up tremble in bush or tree--
Branches too-long barren of...
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Categories:
flinty, love, sound, spring, tree, wind,
Form:
Free verse
High Tide
High tide
May, warm sunlight, mild breeze and under
a parasol casts a cooling shade.
The hum of insect
A barking dog
White clouds on blue velvet
The peace is restless a sense of danger
the big powers have been banging...
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Categories:
flinty, absence, abuse, age, angel, today,
Form:
Blank verse
Mining Their Misery
Shattered are the dreams of the wanting, as they live in their broken homes
Bodies wracked with pain, spirits crushed as they live out those wasted lives
Accumulations of sorrow, all these and more, in the...
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Categories:
flinty, addiction, dark, imagery, society,
Form:
Free verse
In These Parts
the edge of town arrives quickly
you hang an inscrutable left
only to discover
one beat-up clapperboard hulk
hanging over tall corn
as if time and land-wrecked it
or
you drive to the end of
a suburban tract
and while waiting for the lights
a...
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Categories:
flinty, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Oh, Ruthless Nature
How I wish for that cold and flinty stare
the one that tells you 'I don't care'
to hold another, at arm's length
would seem to need so little strength
But, I am weak and've not the heart
it seems...
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Categories:
flinty, anxiety, imagery,
Form:
Couplet
Break-Up
The light in my life has slowly sputtered out
What began as a flinty spark of infatuation,
Flounders in ever-growing feelings of doubt.
First I thought about nothing but the sensations
The warming qualities of your tender embrace,
But now...
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Categories:
flinty, feelings, girlfriend, loss, love hurts,
Form:
Quatorzain