Long Fri Poems

The Pain of Love
by Michael R. Burch 
 
for T. M.
 
The pain of love is this:
the parting after the kiss;
 
the train steaming from the station
whistling abnegation;
 
each interstate’s bleak white bar
that vanishes under...

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"The Children of Gaza" Lyrics: II

These lyrics were written by Michael R. Burch and were adapted in places to the music by Michael R. Burch with input from composer Eduard de Boer.

World premiere, April 22,2017,...

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Monday, 5-1
Housekeeping:  I checked in early today for a long, business-related stay.  Now, I wish to relay that I brought two blue, hypoallergenic towels of my own, from my home.  Please remove...

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Môn, day I see as red,
Not much Fun but Hay get out of bed
Better Run I'd Say full speed ahead
Suppose to be sun today or so they said

Warns you to stop when your in a...

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EXERPTS   FROM   HITLER’S   DIARY   1941

"I never travel without my diary, one should always have something sensational to read . .
 . " Oscar Wilde, 1891 

Tues ...

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what
A multitude of dishes is just not a sanctuary of fishes. Ok? Did you hear the trinkling of the water omitting from the tap? Gaps are small and small is smell and smell is stagnantly...

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My heart races touching your deep Spirit's kiss, 
The softness of your voice soothes my abyss.
My tear's curb crumbles greening my shrink cry.
My soul torn apart wondering to know why.

Wrong thoughts, so cruel wait the...

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Kanye On Steroids

Date: Fri, Nov 6 2015 at 9:22 PM

god flow on "Steroids"
Fly like I'm "Elroy"
Want my soul dark an "Void"
Voices in my head you might think I was "Paranoid"
But they want to "Killjoy"
Time to...

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Pus On My Soul

someone is trying there best to kill me
and make it look naturally natural
what a unconscionable thing to say
what an unconscionable thing to write

so i have put it in a poetically way
will it...

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With her ragged breath.
She said she missed the sun.
As she knew they would come.
She heard the screams from far away.
Knowing the goblins had their way.
Straw-colored hair hung to her shoulders.
Her bright green eyes blended with...

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broken are the times 

i want to be...

 

to be happy, joyous  

and not broken... 

 

never broken are the chains 

that bind me...

 

what if my story

was told with floriography

 

could i pull...

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John Lennon, tragically shot dead 1980, 8th of December 
If you were a fan of his I`m sure you would REMEMBER 
Was Mark Chapman playing MIND GAMES, is that why? 
Or perhaps plain and simply...

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massacres appear vainglorious for the victor...what about those who
suffer the loss...who have their brains removed as a whole...who cried out
with no one listening as the distortions were so grindingly an affront
pilgrims and others coming to...

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I want, what is to be 
I want, what should happen 
I need and want all that is around me 
but i am starved 
I am the hungry  
I am in slaved 
now with...

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Not So Private Prays

not so private prays
are left to the fragile 
usage of unlawful bugs 
that settle in the community of citizens 
who believe they are fighting to keep 
there bodies and minds clean
from the...

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BY MATTHEW MCQUEENEY


THE NAME GAME...ALSO I HAVE A PAGE OF ALL THE METAPHORS, SECRETS, NAMES...ETC. WHICH ARE ALL BASED ON MY 20 YEARS OR SO OF DRUG EXPERIENCE...MEANT TO SCARE AS WELL AS GIVE HOPE...

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today i found out that
the sun has lost 60 pounds
in a year
today i found out that
the winn would not give
the sun medication to heal the sun's wounds
just some stomach antacids
today i wanted to kill the...

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September morn flutters its bright wings
Radiant colors of love and joy it all brings
Never just a dream
Drizzles fuse with summer air in delight
Rainbow looms are strewn in vast site
They perfectly prim

September smiles brandish vibrantly on...

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(For Her Birthday last January 8, 2014)

N-ice and loving poet friend’s birthday is finally here,
E-ntering  another year of  her life, I loudly cheer!
T-his simple poem of mine may bring sweetest thoughts and prayer,
T-hat...

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Mother Earth decided
To have a yard sale
From the sands on her beach
With all of its sea shells
Including all the forest green
And mountain tops as well
Even all the in-betweens
Along with everything else

Selling all her waters
The entire...

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Truths Spoken

Date: Fri, Dec 18 2015 at 8:40 PM

Meditating in Solomons Temple
Studying To Attract Wisdom
Studied Hieroglyphics In Egypt's Pyramids
I'm A Realist Not A Conspiracist
Dont believe any Theories That Exist
I just cry for no reason
Cause I...

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my dammed, lovely name spilled in blood 
what dose that 
truly mean 

will my murder be solved 
will my life have some meaning
who will cry for me
who could careless 

will my body decay 
into history...

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 the sun still shimmies up every morn
meanders down at days end

the moon fills the nights in various stages

morning streets are bombarded by struts slow and fast

cars sigh their usual obnoxious yells 

sleep eludes me
tormented...

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I like it. And thanks for that information about Haiku's

On Fri, Mar 18, 2022, 8:08 AM james horn  wrote:

like nightly compline (5)
which to me is always fine (7)
glad that it is mine (5)

This is...

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Oh "darn" where did that cat get to? 

Did you ever have that feeling? 
That you keep seeing something. 
Just like out of your vision of sight.
 
That cat will sleep anywhere. 
He makes me...

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