Long Gale Poems
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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:
gale, 7th grade, age, angst, birth, blue, family,
Form:
Rhyme
Short Stuff: EpigramsEpigrams by Michael R. Burch
Negligibles
by Michael R. Burch
Show me your most intimate items of apparel:
begin with the hem of your quicksilver slip ...
Negotiables
by Michael R. Burch
Love should be more than the sum of its...
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Categories:
gale, body, clothes, death, eulogy, introspection, love, obituary,
Form:
Epigram
EpitaphsEpitaph for a Palestinian Child
by Michael R. Burch
I lived as best I could, and then I died.
Be careful where you step: the grave is wide.
Autumn Conundrum
by Michael R. Burch
It's not that every leaf must finally...
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Categories:
gale, bereavement, death, death of a friend, depression,
Form:
Epitaph
Athenian EpitaphsAthenian Epitaphs
Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be,
but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea.
—Michael R. Burch, after Plato
Does my soul abide in heaven, or hell?
Only the sea gulls
in their...
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Categories:
gale, death, eulogy, funeral, grave, loss, memorial day,
Form:
Epigram
Athenian Epitaphs IiAthenian Epitaphs II
These are ancient Greek epitaphs for lost family and friends, including dogs and other animals ...
Now his voice is prisoned in the silent pathways of the night:
his owner's faithful Maltese...
but will...
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Categories:
gale, animal, best friend, death of a friend,
Form:
Epitaph
A Walk On the BeachI went again today ... to that place, the allurement overwhelming ... the one
we called "ours" so tritely, "mine" before you, "mine" again now, (tho' others
have doubtless staked claimed - ages before and since). I...
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Categories:
gale, heartbreak, lost love, ocean, passion, solitude, soulmate,
Form:
Free verse
My Mind a Ship In DarknessMy mind a ship in darkness ...
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Categories:
gale, adventure, , Lullaby,
Form:
Free verse
Rain ShowersThe Earth dry and bare; waiting eagerly for the drops of care;
Caught in the hot, steaming summer’s snare;
The flowers and creepers decorating window sills; all look desolate and ill;
As the nature withers...
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Categories:
gale, nature, life, rain, summer, water, earth, green,
Form:
Free verse
Poe's Untimely Demise*Note
I had to bring this one back, though I've been posting mostly new writes here that PS hasn't seen before. This poem has been edited many times over the years. I consider it to...
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Categories:
gale, horror,
Form:
Rhyme
Sometimes: a Random Poem, Part ISometimes I think I should have started this prose
With a disclaimer of sorts
To my readers, many of those
Who may think me out of my gourd
Sometimes I think this disclaimer should be
Short and sweet, honest and...
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Categories:
gale, allegory, allusion, analogy, fun, mental illness, metaphor,
Form:
Rhyme
The Volunteer, a Poem Inspired By Hrh Prince George of Cambridge'We have a future king to make,'
Said the deep, resounding voice.
'But it is not a proper fit for everyone.
For a king must know first how to obey than to command,
And to abide rather than reign.'
'And...
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Categories:
gale, baby, baptism, birth, child, england, london, patriotic,
Form:
Free verse
And What To ChooseCoffee or tea?
Fragmented frogs frolicking fruitlessly freeing flavoursome fairy freckles,
But what of the speckled hound in the bin?
Well he growled,
He snarled,
The sole paw pilot pivoting,
How interesting was it to note though that the frogs although...
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Categories:
gale, bangla,
Form:
I do not know?
Spring Break V - Russians On Miami BeachI.
The Fish Crow is an outcast amongst the seagulls
Standing on the hot Miami sand
At the end
Of our rose-colored beach towel
Nodding and blabbing half-heartedly
Nuh-uh nuh-uh
To the lack of crumbs
From us
The stingy blue collar visitors
From freezing old...
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Categories:
gale, spring, vacation,
Form:
Free verse
Tell Her You Saw MeTell her you saw me ...
Tell her I was out on the bluff at the Cape
during a gale, much too close to the rocks.
Tell her the surf was tormenting the ledges,
its roar far too loud...
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Categories:
gale, allegory, heartbreak, lost love,
Form:
Free verse
Flight......Flight......
Enter into the mind of madness, as it sets itself free
This is the only way that I see..
Take a trip through the universe,, called the mind..
Set yourself free leave all behind. .
Thoughts are currents of...
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Categories:
gale, body, dream, emotions, endurance, environment, feelings,
Form:
Rhyme
Grit and Guts On the Gridiron - 2Pittsburgh, hammertown, Chuck Knoll and his boys
established the best Superbowl Era dynasty
with the "Steel Curtain" defense and the "Blonde Bomber" Bradshaw,
a defense disciplined on shrapnel and elite ego,
"Mean Joe Greene" and Jack Lambert, a compulsive...
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Categories:
gale, america, sports, war,
Form:
Epic
Black SwanI saw you …
high …
atop the promontory
spinning with manic madness
pirouettes et fouetté
lost in yourself -
in movement …
your upper back split, low
and, I swear -
feathers … peeking …
tucked under your shoulder blades
splayed and black as black
(obsidian...
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Categories:
gale, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
Invisible
"Invisible"
Trapped
within
4 Walls
A ghost
escapes
it's prison
through
unlocked door
beyond
freefall
a bird
now soars
The Ocean
calls the wild
Sargasso in
Me
Rochester’s
Mirage
ecstatic
Bacchae
Maenad
possessed
submerged
Blue-Green
(Ladylabyrinth/2020)
for my daughter,
Georgia
“Come Near Me” / Massive Attack – Ghost Poet
https://youtu.be/KY0TZQTwwbk
“There is...
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Categories:
gale, imagery, psychological, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
Cloud WeaversLittle child
Your tiny hands hold a little flower
Delicately, you start weaving a story about peace
In your gentleness, you understand how happiness works
It is the sanctuary of warm softness in the heart
Free of all clouds and...
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Categories:
gale, life, lost, love, spoken word, truth, vanity,
Form:
Free verse
Raven's CursePoet: Ken Jordan
Poem: A Raven's Curse
Edited by: Sparkle Jordan
written: February/2015
On a late January, (winters night), when once wake eyes now sleeping, dogs now howling, and cats now screaming -
...
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Categories:
gale, bird, children, conflict,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Approbation Deeded Gratuitously Just BecauseApprobation Deeded Gratuitously Just Because...
(this endeavor more self directed to progeny,
whose psyche wounded, strafed, and nicked.)
Incumbent upon me own
purring impetus, a sincere
desire arose NOT to ask
...
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Categories:
gale, 11th grade, farewell, father, father daughter, giving,
Form:
Elegy
Kite Flying SeasonSpring had sprung and the weather was wild, the winds were everywhere.
Yep, it was time to fly kites, but with Dragon involved, a time to be beware!
A great kite-erian was invited this year, from Japan,...
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Categories:
gale, adventure, fantasy, fun, funny, humor, humorous, imagination,
Form:
Light Verse
The Evil EyeThe darkness, now descending, floods the city as it dies
while shadows lurk in legions 'neath the looming Evil Eye.
Its frozen stare envelops all, it penetrates and pries,
denouncing loathed dissenters to the keepers in the sky....
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Categories:
gale, evil,
Form:
Rhyme
Barbarossa IIIA new command would counter their attack
to stay the storm that harkens at your door.
‘Twould be a feat that stunned the iron pack
for nothing dared defy the wolves before.
And though his pack could see...
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Categories:
gale, world war ii,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
War HorseBrumby.
A strong gale cuts its path across the snow laden mountain tops,
light and tough the timor, thoroughbred mix, leads his mob at a trot.
A day spend grazing the valley below they now ascend the range...
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Categories:
gale, horse, world war i,
Form:
Ballad