Long Futile Poems
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Poem Revised Memorial Day May 30th, 2022 At 1500 HoursPoem revised Memorial Day May 30th, 2022 at 1500 hours
Flagrante delict adulterous sordid behavior
automatically linkedin with Lothario;
an unscrupulous seducer of women,
based upon a character
in The Impertinent Curious Man,
a story within a...
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Categories:
futile, absence, abuse, adventure, anger, black african american,
Form:
Rhyme
A Day Under the SunBlue Hunter's Moon of the Festival of Lights.
And the day of Vengeance of our Holy One to comfort all those who mourn.
Isaiah 61:3-11
I Proclaim the acceptable Generation or Year and Day of Yehoshua also known...
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Categories:
futile, blue, earth day, faith, growth, moon, rainbow,
Form:
Prose
Psychologically still thirteenPsychologically still thirteen
Ordinarily meaning pre Internet days
familiarization with me would entail
bringing the avid listener
into my private mancave hideaways
less a physical place than a juncture in relationship,
(whereby one or the other of us)...
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Categories:
futile, 7th grade, age, angst, birth, blue, family,
Form:
Rhyme
Where Art Thou Anonymous Benefactor To Offer Me SuccorWhere art thou anonymous benefactor...to offer me succor?
Ah... methinks legal tender
could be a boon to help me bolster
mein kampf with necessary material equipage,
which prospect to acquire essential
commodities sabotaged
at the altar of...
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Categories:
futile, 8th grade, absence, anger, angst, boy, confusion,
Form:
Free verse
Halloween Poems Ivthe Horror
by Michael R. Burch
the Horror lurks inside our closets
the Horror hides beneath our beds
the Horror hisses ancient curses
the Horror whispers in our heads
the Horror tells us Death is coming
the Horror tells us there’s no...
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Categories:
futile, dark, death, evil, grave, halloween, horror, scary,
Form:
Rhyme
Apocalyptic Poems IiThese are prophetic poems and apocalyptic poems ...
Beast 666
by Michael R. Burch
“... what rough beast ... slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?”?W. B. Yeats
Brutality is a cross
wooden, blood-stained,
gas hissing, sibilant,
lungs gilled, deveined,
red flecks on a...
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Categories:
futile, earth, earth day, environment, future, visionary, weather,
Form:
Rhyme
Turkish Poetry Translations IiTurkish Poetry Translations II
Çanakkale Sehitlerine
"For the Çanakkale Martyrs"
by Mehmet Akif Ersoy
loose English translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Was there ever anything like the Bosphorus war??
The earth’s mightiest armies pressing Marmara,
Forcing entry between her mountain passes
To a...
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Categories:
futile, autumn, god, love, sea, time, war, world,
Form:
Free verse
Halloween Poems IiCompleting the Pattern
by Michael R. Burch
Walk with me now, among the transfixed dead
who kept life’s compact and who thus endure
harsh sentence here?among pink-petaled beds
and manicured green lawns. The sky’s azure,
pale blue once like their eyes,...
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Categories:
futile, dark, gothic, halloween, horror, magic, scary, surreal,
Form:
Rhyme
Canto Xxix Hell TranslationSo many people and the various sores
Intoxicated in such a way my eyes,
That wanted open to crying their doors.
But Virgil told : “What for you look this guise?
Why now your sight is so carefully brought
Down...
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Categories:
futile, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
God's Bag of SugarGod's bag of sugar
Burst all over the North
The sweet scent of the stars are pleasant to the eyes.
The limiltless strength of the belt of Orion
Three stars in one belt,
That only God can bind
Bring...
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Categories:
futile, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
The Mask of TourmalineTwice the night had fallen upon a sleepless slumber,
Yet again awoken by winter when the third was three in number.
I sense that a silence doth sneak ‘tween cracks of weathered wood,
Conniving with that which shadows...
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Categories:
futile, anxiety, horror, imagination, mystery, myth, night, psychological,
Form:
Couplet
Quest of the Heart: Chapter FourGrey Bane and the Dark Lord
Perched on a stalagmite jutting up from the floor
Hugo was staring at length across the cave
My eyes accustomed to the glow followed his gaze
Frozen in ice was my Love whom...
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Categories:
futile, adventure, for her, journey, lost love, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Chapter 87 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: the Solomon Brothers and SistersDate: March 2041
The weather was agreeable all
Seemed well in the Damian house
Hold early morning. The kids were
Heading out to school. Dolly and
Molly were helping the 3 year olds.
This will be their first day...
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Categories:
futile, adventure, angst, black love, confidence, conflict, courage,
Form:
Alliteration
The Mask of AlabasterOnce the night had fallen upon a sleepless slumber,
Whence the winter woke me when the third was three in number.
I sense that a wince doth lurk and wear which wicked gaze,
Of conniving shadows cast between...
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Categories:
futile, anxiety, confusion, deep, dream, education, fantasy, fear,
Form:
Couplet
In the silky night, dotted with mysteryIn the silky night, dotted with mystery,
Where the moon's thread weaves shadows on the paths,
The heart, a thin garment, a flash in the ether,
Listens as the time from the hourglass seeps away,
And its rhythm, a...
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Categories:
futile, philosophy,
Form:
Free verse
MonofilamaniaIt is so hard to let go of love,
lovingly.
It sharks,
unpeels more gut more quickly
than reel or reeler ever lost
in all those years of lazy inches
in and out:
casting,
winding in and playing out,
hardly fishing, rarely catching
anything
from...
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Categories:
futile, allegory, passion, woman, memory, sea, fish, lust,
Form:
Free verse
The Peasants TruckEverybody moved out of the country to get a taste of the shining city
Ripe banana, ripe plums, are perishing in Uncle Sam’s broiling sun
I cannot stand the scorching heat that is swelling up from the...
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Categories:
futile, angel, blessing, business, character, confidence, earth, friendship,
Form:
Narrative
Conceits
"Conceits"
Such conceits
as veils between
our windowed worlds
torn torrential incomplete
mayst thou watch and learn
the one I spawned,
strength beats weakness
carried soft and harsh
one direction or the other
strength and weakness
both carried soft and harsh
ego and...
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Categories:
futile, love, mother daughter,
Form:
Free verse
Terror Bugs: Part 4 - A Freezer Mice Adventure[Continued from ‘Terror Bugs: Part 3 - A Freezer Mice Adventure’]
__________
The Terror Bugs pursued them through the skies toward the river
Cody flew just fast enough but still he felt a shiver
“Any slower and we’ll stall...
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Categories:
futile, adventure,
Form:
Narrative
Letter To Taeljejohnuncomfortableness, and hesitation arose that you might reassess a possibility for friendship or.... whatever with me.
A disappointment set in place in the event that based on some facet of my being (inexplicable flaws within this...
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Categories:
futile, angel, beauty, devotion, friendship, history, introspection, life,
Form:
Narrative
A Heart Made Hatchet -2Hannah, I haven't seen or heard you cry
not in the gray of winter day
or in the cold silence of our prisoner nights,
the others can hardly keep up with you on the marches
your face is changeless...
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Categories:
futile, america,
Form:
Epic
Impossible Mission To Sleep On Opposite Side of Marital BedImpossible mission to sleep on opposite side of marital bed...
Oddly enough even
when frolicking in the autumn mist
with seasoned super tramping
cheaply tricked out goo goo dolls
some resembling Indigo Girls,
one foo fighting beastie boy
unable to...
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Categories:
futile, adventure, anxiety, appreciation, betrayal, black african american,
Form:
Rhyme
Original Mask of AlabasterA wince doth lurk wearing which wicked gaze,
Of conniving cast shadows ‘tween my windowpanes.
Gazing through the window’s diaphanous gelid glass,
I see a flushing fluorescent misty haze of frothy brass.
It floats aloft the frost of...
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Categories:
futile, addiction, allusion, confusion, dream, evil, horror, night,
Form:
Couplet
Temporary TravellersNA Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Ink Empress
Temporary Travellers
...
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Categories:
futile, faith, god, humanity, inspirational, men, spiritual,
Form:
Quatrain
Freed From My Shackles - Translation From TagoreThis is a poem (Original Title “Mukti” in Bengali, which means “Freedom”) by India's Nobel-laureate poet, Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941) - a poet, writer, playwright, composer, social reformer and painter. He was a man...
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Categories:
futile, freedom, women,
Form:
Free verse