Long Forbids Poems
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Heat Lightening
Heat Lightening
by Michael R. Burch
Each night beneath the elms, we never knew
which lights beyond dark hills might stall, advance,
then lurch into strange headbeams tilted up
like searchlights seeking contact in the distance . . .
Quiescent unions...
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Categories:
forbids, car, crush, desire, love, lust, sexy, teen
Form:
Sonnet
Dante's Divine Comedy First Canto Translation
Premise
The great poem by the italian poet Dante is the DIVINA COMMEDIA
I have tried to translate in english verses of INFERNO (HELL).
It was a very difficult task.
I expect criticism.
When just the midway of my...
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Categories:
forbids, dream, poems,
Form:
Terza Rima
Visitor Finale - a Collaboration With July Morning
The Story so far…
Makani (The Rising Wind), a beautiful extra-terrestrial researcher is sent to a remote island to observe earth. She finds Sam, a shipwrecked earthling near death owing to drowning. Sam (Ka ‘Lo -...
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Categories:
forbids, adventure, romance, science fiction, sensual,
Form:
Narrative
Turning the maxim familiarity breeds contempt on it's head
Turning the maxim familiarity breeds contempt on it's head...
not just in time for Valentine's Day
but the remaining days of our lives
as the world turns
on all our children
the young and restless
now grown to womanhood
After being married
for...
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Categories:
forbids, absence, adventure, anger, anniversary, anxiety, appreciation, blessing,
Form:
Free verse
The Secret Lives of Chimney Pots V
Spawned from the loins that
Perpetuated the loyal serfs mongrel
Seed:-
These peoples of a conditioned and
"Resigned-To-it-all" breed.
Born into the enveloping tedium
Of interlocking days...Interwoven
With interlocking days -
Victims of stark circumstance
And vague promises unmade.
Gregariously living out their lives
When...
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Categories:
forbids, philosophy,
Form:
Rhyme
body box - what i am now v2
if you saw me
the way i see myself
maybe you'd get it.
"count your calories,
read the nutrition panels,
diet,
exercise,"
i know.
believe me,
i know.
"it's for your health,"
turns into
a chase
after my...
after your
ideal weight for me.
but you say it's...
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Categories:
forbids, anti bullying, body, dark, death, life, slam,
Form:
Free verse
University of Life
From the school of Hard Knocks, Life's University;
A student of progressive learning, a grad to never be.
For this course of study, there is not an end,
Until my time is up with hope to Heaven, I'll...
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Categories:
forbids, education, life, school,
Form:
Rhyme
Dante's Divina Commedia Translation
The difficult translation of first Canto of Divina Commedia is here completed
In the part published before, Dante imagined to find himself in a dark forest where he met three beasts.
Now he is going to...
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Categories:
forbids, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
Sometimes I
Sometimes I...sometimes I wish I could combust
burst into flames, spontaneously erupt; magma
Sometimes I...
sometimes I just wish emptily, heavily
I was someone else, something better
but all the wishing I do
there's not a single one that will bother...
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Categories:
forbids, imagery, lost, sorrow, , 8th grade,
Form:
Free verse
Trump trumpets decree to target then deport
Trump trumpets decree to target then deport...
visa a vis militaristic plan
a boot 15-20 million people -
undocumented hard working Americans
(maybe some living here legally) forcibly,
and violently shipped out,
when victoriously, surreptitiously,
and purportedly illegally entering...
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Categories:
forbids, abuse, america, anger, angst, bullying, feelings, heartbreak,
Form:
Rhyme
A Heart Made Whole
Please don’t ever leave me – I know You are a promise
That I can hold to, a promise that will never leave,
A promise that is full of grace, filled with love that never fades
Arising in...
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Categories:
forbids, appreciation, christian, forgiveness, god, heaven, inspirational, jesus,
Form:
Free verse
Tainted Prayers
I have heard prayers of others that, not only could I not pray, but what I heard made me squirm. These are dear and good people, and I feel that their hearts are...
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Categories:
forbids, christian, prayer,
Form:
Prose
Fleeting Moment
A fleeting moment I possess
I tend to obsess
condense my sight to the obvious sightings
I'm beyond inferior to proposals and promise of wedding bells
unable to compete with the reigning smiles
and the incoming wave of tiny giants
opening...
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Categories:
forbids, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
AOC
"AOC"
AOC, AOC,sitting on limbs of a dead
green tree,
Shooting innocent cows so merrily!
They must go, this socialist screams!
Deaf to God's creatures painful moos
and cries,
As their carcasses pile up to the skies.
And their sanguine blood soaking God's
earth,...
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Categories:
forbids, america, inspiration,
Form:
Political Verse
Lilith
A dweller in waste places,
a void in foggy darkness,
the unseen shadow that trails us.
A doom that curses benign plants.
A tenacious panting wolf feeding
off the sorrows of the soil.
She's the...
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Categories:
forbids, anger, angst, evil, imagery, imagination, poems, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
THEY KNOW IT
I know their fears.
I know their cravings.
I know their reflexes.
I know their thoughts.
They know that I know who they are.
I am exactly like them, but with a dose of Pan-African melanin.
I’ve fully absorbed every mechanism...
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Categories:
forbids, 12th grade,
Form:
Free verse
The Complaint Part 4
For those who walk Your chosen way a world of dreams its glamour throws!
So be it then, so let us pass, let other nations hold the sway—
When we are gone, reproach us not that tawhid...
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Categories:
forbids, allah, faith,
Form:
Heroic Couplet
Dark Smile, Hazel Eyes
What if I wanted to break...what if I already have
The scattered pieces of my farce of a heart
have retracted, signed the lease of residency
returning by magnets to me, the magnets of sadness
when all I want...
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Categories:
forbids, sad love, universe,
Form:
Free verse
Should I Tellyou of What I Think In Or Out of the Eu
>First, we own no fishing fleet.
A fleet that’s ours, catching fish, for us to eat.
I hope that last line, does sound right.
As of our fishing fleet, I have no sight.
Digging coal from online (I said...
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Categories:
forbids, change, destiny, education, emotions, meaningful, words, writing,
Form:
I do not know?
How's That Again
How’s That Again?
Actual newspaper headlines taken from
http://www.alphadictionary.com/fun/headlines.html
Poem constructed by Elton Camp
A headline writer had the following to say:
“Child’s Death Ruins Couple’s Holiday”
The image produced we have to pardon:
“Child’s Stool Great for Use in Garden”
Of...
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Categories:
forbids, funnydeath, death,
Form:
Rhyme
Who Is This God You Serve?
You feed and live on lies and malice
Deception is the cloak you wear so elegantly
The crisp white robes, expensive suits or
The everyday clothes of the working class
Your hands... your blood-stained hands you wash
‘It is clean’...
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Categories:
forbids, dedication, people, religion, war, god, light, god,
Form:
Free verse
Vociferous Avarice: Wall Street Creed
The path was long and arduous
And night began to veer
O’er trees, and lanes and rusted gates
Its' shadows breeding fear
Unbridled Wind wisped ‘round
Tombstone crosses where
Hissing its’ frustration
Loudly in despair
It sought to nourish fears
The shadows did create
Searching...
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Categories:
forbids, america, betrayal, business, discrimination, money, political, symbolism,
Form:
Rhyme
Where Did My Heart Go
The days are running in front of my and the music is vibrating inside me, daylight is shining in my face and the some things are still out of place; my heart is nowhere to...
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Categories:
forbids, america, appreciation, blessing, future, heaven, hope, i
Form:
Narrative
Overly Particular Contest Judges
Not for the contest
No more do I despair
writing for contests with an off the wall theme
Those that want me to create a nightmare
from what was once a beautiful dream.
No more do I care
about Marvel...
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Categories:
forbids, conflict, how i feel,
Form:
Rhyme
FAITH IN GOD WHO FORBIDS US TO NEGLECT OUR INHERITANCE FROM HIM
April 20 Faith in God Bible Meditations Based on 1Kings 21-22
Key Verse – 1Kings 21:3 And Naboth said to Ahab, The LORD forbid it me, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers...
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Categories:
forbids, bible, blessing, christian, faith, god, jesus, spiritual,
Form:
Quatrain