Long Glossy Poems
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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:
glossy, bereavement, death, death of a friend, depression,
Form:
Epitaph
You Never ListenedYou Never Listened
by Michael R. Burch
You never listened,
though each night the rain
wove its patterns again
and trembled and glistened...
You were not watching,
though each night the stars
shone, brightening the tears
in her eyes palely fetching...
You...
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Categories:
glossy, baby, birth, children, extended metaphor, feelings, soulmate,
Form:
Sonnet
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:
glossy, allegory, betrayal, fate, imagery, love, lust, sensual,
Form:
Free verse
Where Do We Come InWhere do we come in
in medias res not knowing nor caring when
doesn’t everybody pine being number one we leave behind our lives in pages pictures or else make for images of what...
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Categories:
glossy, caregiving, character, humanity, leadership, people, rights, sports,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
StevenHe has the biggest heart.
He enjoys doing things for other people
Just because it’s the right thing to do, and
Knowing he made someone happy makes him happy too.
He’ll do whatever he can to satisfy
Everyone around him.
But...
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Categories:
glossy, addiction, anxiety, drug,
Form:
Free verse
Spineless In the RunningWas this a bold endeavour or worst-case high risk plot?
In one sense I was caught between two poles apart concerns.
One must never underestimate indeed trivialise a devilish
difficult decision.
A decision that may...
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Categories:
glossy, age, august, beautiful, care, city, creation, fate,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Journey Companions: the Friend Sonnets Part IiHEROES
Near somber guards, units of children heap
dead leaves, naive to any else fallen.
Friend, you chuckle, but your posture speaks
of duty on this day of contradictions.
Firefighters bow heads in silent paean,
while polished trucks stand...
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Categories:
glossy, friend, hero, places, poetry, integrity, , memorial,
Form:
Sonnet
Populist PoliticsWhen I was sixteen
I wanted Robert Kennedy's life,
although I didn't know about his time squandered
in staffing McCarthyism's
Make America as Grotesque as Possible campaign,
Which would have given me pause
in that comparatively naive age
of green longing for...
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Categories:
glossy, bullying, earth, environment, health, integrity, love, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Just a Tree - a RequiemSomeone who knows
Said You were an old ancient Tree,
But at the time, it didn’t really matter,
Or seem important to me.
I knew You only for a very short time
and just a little…
You see.
Your transparent...
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Categories:
glossy, conflict, earth, heartbroken, humanity, murder, natural disasters,
Form:
Free verse
The Last Gallon of Gas On Earth - At AuctionGiven the astronomical amount of gasoline consumed world-wide every single day…could this scenario not be all that far off?
...
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Categories:
glossy, cry,
Form:
Narrative
The Whiskey Bottle WishThe Whiskey Bottle Wish
One late summer night outside a saloon in the mid-west, an intoxicated Dusty Rogers, stumbles out of the Bar nearly taking one of the revolving doors with him. As he flutters...
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Categories:
glossy, bible, drink, judgement,
Form:
Narrative
The Long Way HomeIt was late in the balmy springtime, and I was attending a lecture,
On a topic of great interest, which was the history of architecture.
As a great lover of beauty, I admired structural geometric designs,
Like the...
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Categories:
glossy, fantasy, home, magic, people, school, spring, time,
Form:
Couplet
Boob Jobs and Bomb JobsBoob jobs and bomb jobs
Sisters in arms those tits and those weapons of massive
destruction sex and death go together in dynamics
thermodynamics psychodynamics fused on the playground
of this life of this poem on which...
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Categories:
glossy, conflict, perspective,
Form:
Free verse
Bounteous Mass Media MechanizationsBounteous mass media mechanizations...
generate fixation spurring sexual exploitation
evidenced courtesy adulation
particularly regarding young females,
whose seductive poses
linkedin selling (hard) wares
versus advertising males sporting, harkening,
approximating Adonis with remarkable beauty.
Western civilization commercialization,
commodification, communication
methodologies adrip with deification,...
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Categories:
glossy, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 8th
Form:
Free verse
Unquotable Quotes: Li 51 - Tongue-Teasing EpigramsUNQUOTABLE QUOTES: LI - Tongue-Teasers
If you want to give someone a « taste of his own medicine", you must first obtain sufficient quantities of the same medicine in the market, and if it’s out-of-stock -...
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Categories:
glossy, corruption, judgement, planet, poetry, science, word play,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
The City and the State of Play TodayTHE CITY AND THE STATE OF PLAY TODAY
No one worries about morals today
They follow the rules they create
So to them all is ok
Those on the outside looking in
Are the only ones feeling queasy...
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Categories:
glossy, business, community, corruption, international, london, money, political,
Form:
Free verse
King of Kings: 1-901 A plume of dirt and grime envelops sky;
The hellish slug of gas does creep along.
It casts an orb three hundred stories high
Over the Sun and ends his morning song.
The birds and trees now stand a...
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Categories:
glossy, metaphor, , western,
Form:
Epic
Consciousness correctionClutching the moment
Before yesterday became yesterday,
The promise,
Before he pledged his love to me,
The colors,
Before autumn waltzed away,
Swaying in shadows of soft snowfall,
Breathing white, plunging into the thought,
A blizzard erasing the gentle flames,
Sheltered by...
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Categories:
glossy, appreciation, god, heaven, hope, joy, life, light,
Form:
Free verse
The Secret Lives of Chimney Pots VSpawned from the loins that
Perpetuated the loyal serfs mongrel
Seed:-
These peoples of a conditioned and
"Resigned-To-it-all" breed.
Born into the enveloping tedium
Of interlocking days...Interwoven
With interlocking days -
Victims of stark circumstance
And vague promises unmade.
Gregariously living out their lives
When...
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Categories:
glossy, philosophy,
Form:
Rhyme
The Crime Is Snowed Over, Translation of Pierre Emmanuel S Il Neige Sur Le CrimeThe crime is snowed over, Translation of Pierre Emmanuel’s Il neige sur le crime
Are we buried under snow holding our silence
in what immense Cimmerian (collision) of terror ?
The mouth kept open in the shriek...
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Categories:
glossy, absence, devotion, war, , literature,
Form:
Free verse
A Most Irish Fairy Tale - Merry Christmas To AllIt is not just Santa Claus who we meet in cold December—
There is “Carolina,” and she’s the beauty of a winter picture perfect
With luscious long coal black curly hair far down on her...
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Categories:
glossy, beauty, children, christmas, love, snow,
Form:
Narrative
Ode To African ChildOh! African child, the temple
A redient beauty of nature
Thou are the cradle capital
Of humanity and creatures
The founder of patriarchal
Oh! African child,
The coy the toy of the wife
Beauty of nature and life
The belike of Bowie...
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Categories:
glossy, africa, baby, birth,
Form:
Rhyme
AutumnalAUTUMNAL
Clean clear cerulean sky calls Autumn after rainy season.
Curtains...
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Categories:
glossy, autumn,
Form:
Verse
Spring In ZingSPRING IN ZING
Season’s ...
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Categories:
glossy, beauty, spring,
Form:
Footle
A Tribute To My Dog"Who can bear to lose a tie
With a dog that is man’s best ally? .......by poet
"Here lies my dog, motionless in his kennel
unable to wag his tail as he always did.
yesterday when I saw him,...
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Categories:
glossy, angst, animal, death, dog,
Form:
Free verse