Long Fuse Poems
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WonderlandWonderland
by Michael R. Burch
We stood, kids of the Lamb, to put to test
the beatific anthems of the blessed,
the sentence of the martyr, and the pen’s
sincere religion. Magnified, the lens
shot back absurd reflections of each...
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Categories:
fuse, allegory, allusion, analogy, crazy, fantasy, imagination, magic,
Form:
Sonnet
Healthy Politics As UnusualCreolization,
soars Dr. Jane Anna Gordon,
turns our co-empathic evolving democracy project
into a verbal,
active,
regenerative more,
degenerative less,
occasionally Elite-Pirates v NonElite-MultiCultural Prey revolution,
and even more unconsciously occasionally
Elite/NonElite Creolizing-SelfReGenerative
crave to grave multicultural experience.
What could all this Elite and NonElite...
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Categories:
fuse, beauty, body, community, culture, health, philosophy, power,
Form:
Political Verse
Poems About Fathers and Grandfathers IiPoems about Fathers and Grandfathers II
All Things Galore
by Michael R. Burch
for my grandfathers George Edwin Hurt Sr. and Paul Ray Burch, Sr.
Grandfather,
now in your gray presence
you are
somehow more near
and remind me that,
once, upon a star,
you...
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Categories:
fuse, family, father, father daughter, father son, fathers
Form:
Rhyme
The Badly Drawn GoatThe pencil now resting the image was 'testing' for the creature before him, (his badly-drawn drawin') had come out 'not right' somewhat twisted and tight.
The picture in question, it burst with suggestion, for lines that...
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Categories:
fuse, animal, creation, funny,
Form:
Rhyme
A Kept WomanDream-worker
delves deeply into my dream;
vibrations fondle anticipation
foreplay wakes wide-eyed
swells of liquid libido quake the rendezvous edge -
a primordial being in his prime
a masculine ego quest for affaire d’amour;
her night-loving body
c h a...
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Categories:
fuse, allegory, betrayal, fate, imagery, love, lust, sensual,
Form:
Free verse
MemorabiliaMy wife and I met more than a few of this type of “shifty wheeler-dealer” during our many years dealing in antiques and collectibles.
...
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Categories:
fuse, sports,
Form:
Narrative
Cooperative Evolutionary AnalysisI'm sure it was Rob Brezsny, again,
who first pointed out to me
that Western psychoanalysts give priority to pathologies within family relationships,
while Eastern analysts, more embedded in philosophies of interdependence,
begin with what nurturing health dynamics we...
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Categories:
fuse, community, culture, earth, environment, health, love, mental
Form:
Prose Poetry
The Tutor -- One of My Spicier Pieces - Academically Denounced - I'M SureA week before my senior year at Honeysuckle High School, with me our starting quarterback - who’d never failed a test -
The friend of mine who - ever since I’d barely passed the first one...
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Categories:
fuse, humor,
Form:
Verse
Beating the Odds -- Both Audio and Text - W-IllustrationThese two lived through a devastating hurricane -
The morning started out like any other standard day. The sky was partly cloudy and the breeze was soft and warm.
An empty little rain cloud drifted by...
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Categories:
fuse, storm,
Form:
Narrative
Desperate Message To Kim Jong UnPardon any absent adulation, bequeathed capitulation, devoted dedication, indiscretion, blabbering peroration, improper salutation or any unintended vexation if this unknown earthling sent a nearly identical message. He over-looked a small number of errors and hoped...
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Categories:
fuse, abuse, dark, emotions, evil, hate, war, world,
Form:
Free verse
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 4March 18-27
This time I woke,
He was staring readily,
Smiling, plotting steadily
I lifted my body and gently gazed at his grotesque beauty
He was always at his best in thought…
“You look ravishing…” He began.
“Mouth-parched, crusty-eyed, hair...
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Categories:
fuse, adventure, anger, angst, anxiety, appreciation, beauty, blessing,
Form:
Free verse
SisterA friend—
not a good one, but a close one;
one that I couldn’t let go
If I could see you now, I don’t know what I would say…
there were always things I didn’t know
but I loved you...
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Categories:
fuse, abuse, best friend, betrayal, poetry, relationship, sister,
Form:
I do not know?
Approved By the God of VerseWhat a gratifying experience this was...
While sitting at a readers’ desk in Bobby Booker’s Bookstore, waiting for the latest composition I’d composed
To reach the eyes of - Bob himself...the so-called - “God of Verse”...the man...
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Categories:
fuse, poetry, poets,
Form:
Narrative
Blew It Away Like the SandSo I have some things, that I just have to say,
but please do not take me in the wrong way,
I have this tiny little problem, inside me you see,
and its called trying to live with...
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Categories:
fuse, abuse, anti bullying, bullying, stress, trust, truth,
Form:
Light Verse
The Monochrome Echo Chamber
"The Monochrome Echo Chamber"
How many Roads
to "IT"
Black
as Black & White?
or Unicorns and Rainbows?
Unitarian 1 and only 1
Trinitarian 3 exist in 1
An answer
arrives
unheralded
Reversed in Time
Something
has lit the fuse
Something...
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Categories:
fuse, color, dark, humanity, i am, light, science,
Form:
Narrative
The In-Between
"The In-Between"
I ripped the pages of
that tired old story
from the heart, a body of work
buried the misdiagnosed slanders
then wiped their mouths
with the back of my spoon
the feed they found,
passed the disingenuous time;
some found...
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Categories:
fuse, imagery, life, muse, poets, psychological, symbolism, writing,
Form:
Free verse
Gitter Dunn - 1st Half In Text - Plus Full Audio VersionThis is the 1st Half - sorry, this is the only way to get my long pieces posted - 2nd HALF is posted
Times were hard when I was young, and - tryin’ to help...
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Categories:
fuse, dad, father, father son, inspirational, love,
Form:
Narrative
The Amber Eye of TomorrowIt was just a silhouette but it reminds me why I left the spirit box closed
I felt as though the hand I was holding
Was yours and not my own
In my want to believe
But reality...
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Categories:
fuse, crush, dream, feelings, growing up, nostalgia, perspective,
Form:
Free verse
Song Titles A Differant TakeWho wrote the book of love
Why do fools fall in love
You Can't Hurry Love
You can if you're making it
Does Blondie's Sunday
I Don't Know What Love Is
Ask someone who knows
Love Me Like A Hurrcane
And bow...
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Categories:
fuse, song,
Form:
Free verse
TenchThere is a water glint,
just shining through the copse beyond.
Autumn's sinking sun,
barred by spindle trees and the last
of summer's brindled reeds
and sedge and rush that fringe this stilling pond.
.
Damp leaves hide...
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Categories:
fuse, fishing,
Form:
Rhyme
ConfuencePlaced Second in :
Confidence, Clean Air, Clash of Civilisations Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Sotto Poet
“Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.” Confucius
...
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Categories:
fuse, extended metaphor, heart, love, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
Dust Had Gathereddust had gathered on her many memories in outlines and heaps
had sheltered her from full on attacks of pain and self lacerations
the broom with razors attached right next to the end of the stick
inside lay...
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Categories:
fuse, anxiety,
Form:
Free verse
Asian Epicurean QuestAsian Epicurean Quest
At the heart of China Town, Kuala Lumpur (capital of Malaysia) is Petaling Street.
Domain of hustlers, hucksters, cheap-jacks and diblers; purveyors of street food, rude t-shirts, and rubber sandles to put...
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Categories:
fuse, food,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Christmas Day Near MassacreWhen we were kids, kids we were without no pain or fears,
we’d do the ‘devilish’ of things to impress our peers.
The biggest dare or bravest feat would for the pack be tried.
Lord knows now when...
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Categories:
fuse, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
When I Was a Boy 1960sI saw one flag raised and another fall
I saw the great lie of justice and equity for all
I saw a crisis that stopped the world
I saw a wall to keep out the cold
I saw a...
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Categories:
fuse, childhood, history, world,
Form:
Couplet