Long Fugitive Poems
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Free Verse ILozenge
by Michael R. Burch
When I was closest to love, it did not seem
real at all, but a thing of such tenuous sweetness
it might dissolve in my mouth
like a lozenge of sugar.
When I held you in...
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Categories:
fugitive, forgiveness, heart, humanity, life, love, relationship, together,
Form:
Free verse
Operation Money JumpThanksgiving, 1971,
a parachute pilgrim approaches Northwest Flight 305
as Dan Cooper, anonymous businessman, anarchist airborne,
black suit, black sunglasses, a black tie
and a black briefcase broaching black motives,
Portland to Seattle, prison or criminal pantheon,
before...
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Categories:
fugitive, america, history, mystery,
Form:
Epic
VagabondGenesis 4:12 (KJV) “When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.”
Yesterday spreads its wings…
Across the timeless expanse of...
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Categories:
fugitive, christian, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
Bertolt Brecht Holocaust Poem: the PartingDer Abschied (“The Parting”)
by Bertolt Brecht
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
We embrace;
my fingers trace
rich cloth
while yours encounter only moth-
eaten fabric.
A quick hug:
you were invited to the gay soiree
while the minions of the "law" relentlessly pursue...
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Categories:
fugitive, friendship, holocaust, leaving, war, weather, world, world
Form:
Free verse
Another Chapter From Milton Creek-The Arrest of the Dingo KidSheriff Koplin was talking with Tom on how it had been a quiet week
Not one crime had been reported for the town of Milton Creek
Then a US Marshal knocked on the door and then came...
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Categories:
fugitive, america, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Sleepless In Whereis Part 2 Continued from Part 1
The forgery of Multitudes between the Silhouettes
(and discarded cigarettes,
neath the haunted parapets)
mock my lonely echoed steps
– mock my lonely echoed steps...
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Categories:
fugitive, fantasy, lonely, me,
Form:
Rhyme
The Goddess of LoveThe Goddess of Love
The exuberant fire that burns within my soul,
In that first embrace of a lovers smile;
Shall forever be held, in equality to the power of love.
Her servant shall forever wish for her luminous,...
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Categories:
fugitive, beauty, destiny, god, love, smile, trust, truth,
Form:
I do not know?
Some Limericks...She’s out there chasing a cricket
Through bush, through shrub & through thicket
Together they hop
Fugitive, cop
But when she gets it, she just wants to lick it!
A cat whose vet took his eye
Just cannot quite understand...
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Categories:
fugitive, animals, funny, holiday, husband, life, on writing
Form:
Limerick
Summer Came SoftlyI was a zealous environmental scientist, preserving green on our blue planet;
To benefit all animals, plants and people, under sunset skies of pomegranate.
I strived hard to reverse pollution, found in vast seas and in azure,...
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Categories:
fugitive, color, fantasy, green, imagery, nature, nice, summer,
Form:
Couplet
A Tribute To Merle Haggard 1937-2016The first thing I remember hearing
Was a car radio with a country song playing
A man singing while my mom was steering
A song about heartache and pain
That’s the day the good boy in me...
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Categories:
fugitive, appreciation, career, death, dedication, hero, memory, satire,
Form:
Rhyme
Reporting Live Across the WorldReporting live on the soup, with Americas MOST. WANTED. POETS.
Standing here with our host John,
With an exclusive update on criminal poets, captured and on the run.
Switching over to you John,. "Thank you P.D.,...
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Categories:
fugitive, dedication, friendship, funny, sweet, lost, lost, poetry,
Form:
Narrative
Would You Be Left BehindOh, would you be left behind, if the Rapture of the Bride of Christ
were to be raptured (caught up and taken away)? Would you be
left behind to face the seven year tribulation period? The...
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Categories:
fugitive, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
The Great Catching Away part six"Ronnie, honey,"Do you really believe that's it all about the numbers as far as our
God is concerned?" Asked her concerned husband, Bob.
"Yes, Bobby, sweetie pie, I really do and boy oh boy Tommy, you...
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Categories:
fugitive, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Prose
Zenith University
Zenith University
I am a proud graduate
of Zenith University,
where the quality stays on
until the little dot
shrinks and goes away.
I attended that fine institution
with Tom and Jerry,
Heckl, Jeckl, Mickey, Minnie,
Da?y, Donald, Daisy,
Huey, Dewey, Louie,
Speedy, Wile E., Gumby, Pokey,
Yogi, Boo Boo, Dino, Chucko,
Hobo Kelley, Lassie, Bozo,
Betty, Barney, Bam Bam Rubble,
Wilma, Pebbles, Fred,
Casper, Felix, Sheri? John,
Gentle Ben, and Mr. Ed.
Astro, Elroy,
Judy, George, and Jane--
Eddie Haskell, Wally Cleaver,
Mom and Dad and Little Beaver.
Favorite Martian--Flying Nun,
James Arness--smoking gun,
Spanky and Alfalfa,
Larry, Moe, and Curly.
Tests consisted
of posted patterns.
To see those,
you had to get up early
like Jack LaLanne and Buns of Steel,
Captain Kangaroo.
Mid-morning classes included
Monte Hall (quite a deal),
Bob the Barker (not the builder).
Allen Ludden passed the words, ...
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Categories:
fugitive, appreciation, celebrity, education, fun, school, student,
Form:
Rhyme
Skinny PrayersThe sirens are gone now
...
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Categories:
fugitive, addiction, anxiety, beauty, depression, faith, hope, poetess,
Form:
Free verse
What's Wrong With the 1619 ProjectWhat nations would really benefit by a further split and a racial divide between black people and white people? Our national enemies, who are concentrating in increasing it, and causing a race war in the...
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Categories:
fugitive, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
My Self-Published Book On Hate, Written In 3 ChaptersChapter 2, The 1492.
That’s where they like to begin. They skip over the terrorists activities of theft, plunder, and genocides. When we naively thought freedom was free, We paid our lives for it during...
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Categories:
fugitive, america, bereavement, black african american, history, prejudice,
Form:
Free verse
Silver StarSILVER STAR
I have long since lost Hope,
because my paths are so endlessly long and aimless,
as if sculpted out of my restless spirit
in the long nights of reverie.
You know, Lord... I used to have my Hope.
It...
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Categories:
fugitive, hope, christmas, death, words, me, tree, star,
Form:
Free verse
Living On SomedayIf raindrops rise in leu of fall
would you seek the meaning overall?
Would spectacles endow with a clarity of fog
would you follow tangled lines of a rearward call?
Inevitable advance to stepping backwards
and dreams which mock to...
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Categories:
fugitive, confusion, desire, dream, hope, love, prayer, rain,
Form:
Rhyme
A FugitiveA Fugitive
Bus Stop Overland Park, Kansas 7:35 PM
A furrowed brow and furtive eyes
that refuse to engage another,
striding quickly through the crowd
and putting people between him
and the police car.
He is hardly the drifter or...
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Categories:
fugitive, destiny, identity, tribute,
Form:
Narrative
Mortality Forces Me To Confront the InevitableMortality forces me to confront the inevitable...
Though feeling one among the basket
of deplorables, yours truly, albeit groggy
from unsettling frightful dreams also rather
shy to summon courage amidst adversity took
deep breaths (envisioning egotism inflating
confidence, whereat, I never...
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Categories:
fugitive, 12th grade, absence, children, death, farewell, father,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Handle With Loving Care, For Fragile ContestBorn with a complex like a tormented fugitive in a constant flight from a life of acceptance, his Life is filled with questions and complexities. There is no room
for blame. In a secret place,...
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Categories:
fugitive, care, christian, hurt, love, nice,
Form:
Couplet
My Lotterymy lottery
gentlemen need loaves bread
others wishes to be civilized
i myself wishe ur deployed
...
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Categories:
fugitive, beauty,
Form:
Cowboy Poetry
Son of the Morning Star, Or Custer At the Little BighornHistorically accurate, narrative poem
25 June, 1876 - Valley of the Little Bighorn
Nothing stirs this June night, not a summer’s breeze or a breath of life. All is eerily quiet, and on yonder hillside, shroud...
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Categories:
fugitive, native american, war,
Form:
Narrative
A Face Like Thunder POTDI was a planetary climatologist, who studied climate variability and change,
Like sweet variability of stunning, green tulips, in lavish garden rearranged.
Studying the said effects on the biosphere, absorbed so many daily hours,
Like industrious days of...
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Categories:
fugitive, fantasy, flower, imagery, nature, rain, weather,
Form:
Couplet