Long Gasp Poems
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Haiku 1
The Original Sin: Rhyming Haiku!
Haiku
should never rhyme:
it’s a crime!
-Michael R. Burch
The herons stand,
sentry-like, at attention ...
rigid observers of some unknown command.
-Michael R. Burch
Late
fall;
all
the golden leaves turn black underfoot:
soot
-Michael R. Burch
Dry leaf...
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Categories:
gasp, family, heart, love, mother son, nature, seasons,
Form:
Haiku
Halloween Poems
It's Halloween!
Michael R. Burch
If evening falls
on graveyard walls
far softer than a sigh;
if shadows fly
moon-sickled skies,
while children toss their heads
uneasy in their beds,
beware the witch's eye!
If goblins loom
within the gloom
till playful pups grow terse;
if birds give...
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Categories:
gasp, children, grave, halloween, horror, myth, silly, surreal,
Form:
Rhyme
It's Halloween
It's Halloween!
Michael R. Burch
If evening falls
on graveyard walls
far softer than a sigh;
if shadows fly
moon-sickled skies,
while children toss their heads
uneasy in their beds,
beware the witch's eye!
If goblins loom
within the gloom
till playful pups grow terse;
if birds give...
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Categories:
gasp, cat, children, evil, grave, halloween, horror, moon,
Form:
Verse
Pequot River Land Trust
Once,
or twice,
maybe thrice,
surely not
not fractal
A clan of crazy ecofeminists
conspired within an 88 unit residential castle
in their historically converted
sometimes hysterically clueless condo
colonial-red predative brick
badly bald aging building
With a sometimes soggy south walled school,
but...
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Categories:
gasp, blue, culture, environment, green, health, humor, math,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Salvation of a Formalist, An Ode To Entropy
Salvation of a Formalist, an Ode to Entropy
by Michael R. Burch
Entropy?
God's universal decree
That I get to be
Disorderly?
Suddenly
My erstwhile boxed-in verse is free?
Wheeeeee!
Eternal Currents
by Michael R. Burch
How can I write and not be true
to the rhythm...
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Categories:
gasp, humor, humorous, light, nonsense, satire, write, writing,
Form:
Light Verse
Whats Behind the Curtain
I used to dream of a dark hall. Dim. Empty with thick cheap navy curtains.
The breeze. It felt hot and old. It shivered in the curtains that lined the walls on both sides.
The breeze....
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Categories:
gasp, anxiety, dark, dream, imagery, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
Behind
I used to dream of a dark hall. Dim. Empty with thick cheap navy curtains.
The breeze. It felt hot and old. It shivered in the curtains that lined the walls on both sides.
The breeze....
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Categories:
gasp, anxiety, depression, emo, suicide,
Form:
Blank verse
Sonnets Xxxiii-Xli
Sonnets XXXIII-XLI
The Folly of Wisdom
by Michael R. Burch
She is wise in the way that children are wise,
looking at me with such knowing, grave eyes
I must bend down to her to understand.
But she only smiles, and...
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Categories:
gasp, child, childhood, children, death, life, time, world,
Form:
Sonnet
Various Heresies 4
Various Heresies 4
I, Lazarus
by Michael R. Burch
I, Lazarus, without a heart,
devoid of blood and spiritless,
lay in the darkness, meritless:
my corpse?a thing cold, dead, apart.
But then I thought I heard?a Voice,
a Voice that called me from...
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Categories:
gasp, america, bible, christian, faith, god, jesus, usa,
Form:
Verse
kiss -
your silken skin gleams opaline
bathed in Luna's soft wash of cornflower - like a
porcelain Madonna by Michelangelo
conjured to life by the magic
of moonlight
your eyes open just long enough to
affix mine, and affirm I'm in a...
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Categories:
gasp, kiss, passion, romance, romantic, sensual, sexy, soulmate,
Form:
Free verse
No God of Mine - 2021 Edit
[This poem 'No God Of Mine' was seemingly confounding readers as
to its meaning. Ordinarily, if I felt a poem wasn't cutting it, I'd delete
it, but on this occasion, I've been asked to explain it... so here goes.]
By...
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Categories:
gasp, evil, horror,
Form:
Rhyme
My Sweetest Gift, a Childhood Memory
My auntie came to visit when I was three, but nearly four.
I proudly and lovingly wore her name gifted to me, a sweet legacy.
I...
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Categories:
gasp, angel, childhood, love,
Form:
Free verse
one kiss
* This was the first poem I ever entered into a contest, and it won! (Thank you to poet/judge John Hamilton). It is about a very brief moment, and all that our minds can process...
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Categories:
gasp, analogy, kiss,
Form:
Free verse
Pale Though Her Eyes: Vampire Poem
Vampire Poetry
Pale Though Her Eyes
by Michael R. Burch
Pale though her eyes,
her lips are scarlet
from drinking of blood,
this child, this harlot
born of the night
and her heart, of darkness,
evil incarnate
to dance so reckless,
dreaming of...
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Categories:
gasp, dark, death, desire, evil, gothic, grave, horror,
Form:
Verse
Modern Sonnets Ii
MODERN SONNETS II
I prefer the original definition of the sonnet as a “little song” of indeterminate form and length. These modern sonnets vary from more-or-less traditional to free verse.
In Praise of Meter
by Michael R. Burch
The...
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Categories:
gasp, art, romance, romantic, romantic love, song, write,
Form:
Sonnet
Loves Trial 5
The Trial 5
Workers in the courtroom were making last minute sitting arrangement for Poetry Soup’s poets who have been following the case.
Their comments after reading the transcripts, were seen by Love. She...
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Categories:
gasp, heartbroken, hurt, judgement, love hurts,
Form:
Free verse
Vampires Are Such Fragile Creatures
Vampires
by Michael R. Burch
Vampires are such fragile creatures;
we fear the dark, but the light destroys them...
sunlight, or a stake, or a cross—such common things.
Still, late at night, when the bat-like vampire sings,
we heed his voice.
Centuries...
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Categories:
gasp, dark, death, gothic, halloween, horror, lust, night,
Form:
Verse
The Beast of the Cave
When I was young, and adventure routine,
With excitement and newness still unforeseen
I was eager to spread my wings to the world
And seek more adventures as those wings unfurled
Within my long travels I happened to meet
Two...
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Categories:
gasp, adventure, dark, death, evil, scary,
Form:
Rhyme
Last Call
We sat at the end of the bar in a seedy place on Seventh street. Nursing our drinks, we both had a bit too much that night. My...
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Categories:
gasp, passion, sad,
Form:
Prose
The Mirror
The Mirror
When I look in the mirror I don’t see me, I see who I used to be. A little lost girl that was so abused and so misused, so ashamed of who she...
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Categories:
gasp, change, child abuse, endurance, family, growing up,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
The-Hour-Glass
Please, save me!!
Solitude is speaking, oh so lonely...
We have plenty of gain
In our pockets, overflowing with light
You are like an airplane,
Landing safely from a fantastic flight
My beating heart can't take this anymore
The moment...
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Categories:
gasp, betrayal, deep, depression, desire, lost, passion, time,
Form:
Lyric
The Bailout Ballad - the Layman's Lament
One day not long past our economy faltered
And wouldn’t improve if our course were unaltered.
'Cause we buy stuff at Wal-Mart (where things are dirt cheap)
'Cause they buy from China (treats workers like sheep
(So farmers left...
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Categories:
gasp, business, humor, humorous, money, political, satire,
Form:
Couplet
Double Cross My Heart
Selena...Sarah the Sorceress
Russell...the Ghost of Never-land
This year has not been mine
Death laughs at me as he steals my grandfather from me
while I plead emptily for him to take me instead
yet I fail to realize I'm...
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Categories:
gasp, blue, deep, depression, how i feel, lonely,
Form:
Bio
Michael Joseph Jackson
Michael Joseph Jackson
Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and philanthropist. Dubbed the "King of Pop", he is regarded as one of the most significant cultural...
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Categories:
gasp, abuse, addiction, america, angel, anniversary, appreciation, beautiful,
Form:
Free verse
Chapter 151-- DAMIAN DELILAH MALLORY HOLANNYA: Pt 1 This Day This Family
Date: April 1, 2051
air planes departed in flight
1 hour and 15 minutes
Between them. The trip was 7 hours
And approximately 30 minutes in
Duration. The first plane touched down
On the...
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Categories:
gasp, africa, allusion, birth, child,
Form:
Alliteration