Long Grab Poems
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Potpourri of silly poems
In most of my verse, my simple aim
is just sorta to enter tame.
Then, once inside ~
go completely hog wild ~
showing no reserve,
showing absolutely no shame.
"What do you think of my pup?",
I asked a cop as...
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Categories:
grab, giggle, poetry, silly, writing,
Form:
Light Verse
Come Jesus Come and Rescue all of us
Many have seen, with their own eyes,
Large signs of Christians crosses
Right in the middle of the cloudy skies.
Giving us our blessed assurance while
Giving unto all of tear drops of purest
Joy in all of our eyes.
Many...
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Categories:
grab, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Prose
Bunch of limericks and other funny tricks II
I hate it when a girl rolls her eyes,
because that means she's on to my lies.
And then it's harder to get her
to let me under her sweater,
and then on to the ultimate prize.
I never once...
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Categories:
grab, funny, giggle, howl, humor, humorous, writing,
Form:
Limerick
Echoes of a Shady Past
An icy chill descends on 13 Beaver Veil Cottage as sisters Ester and Ellie walk gingerly up the steps on this wet and windy night.
This once charming pied-a-terre was now in a final phase denouement.
The...
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Categories:
grab, art, birth, character, courage, dark, imagery, imagination,
Form:
Prose
Echoes Of A Shady Past Part Two
n icy chill descends on 13 Beaver Veil Cottage as sisters Ester and Ellie walk gingerly up the steps on this wet and windy night.
This once charming pied-a-terre was now in a final phase denouement.
The...
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Categories:
grab, character, dark, death, emotions, gothic, imagery, imagination,
Form:
Prose
Mad Molly Shaw
This is the story of mad Molly Shaw
She might be mad now but she wasn’t before
she came home to find her man dead on the floor
She lay down her bible and let out a roar...
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Categories:
grab, western,
Form:
Rhyme
The Tea Party
"Go on forth young graduates,
And show us who you are
You're now our future leaders
We know you will go far"
And so commencement ended
Pictures done and people changed
Now, off to private parties
All orderly pre-arranged
But four young girls...
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Categories:
grab, america, future, graduate, graduation, life, sad, society,
Form:
Epic
Limericks Iii - Grab Bag
Limericks III - Grab Bag
Being a peace activist, I once wrote a limerick in an attempt to stop needless wars:
Of Tetley’s and V-2's
(or "Why Not to Bomb the Brits")
by Michael R. Burch
The English are very...
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Categories:
grab, humor, humorous, light, nonsense, silly, war, writing,
Form:
Limerick
The Storm Is In the Calm
The angles are in the storm
Just before the break of dawn
Sending a message to everyone
Telling them to remain calm
The angels are singing out loud
They want to break the treacherous cloud
and relinquish that awful...
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Categories:
grab, abuse, america, angel, anger, betrayal, community, england,
Form:
Narrative
Juvenilia: Early Poems X
Juvenilia: Early Poems X
These are early poems written in my teens and twenties.
Regret
by Michael R. Burch
Regret,
a bitter
ache to bear...
once starlight
languished
in your hair...
a shining there
as brief
as rare.
Regret,
a pain
I chose to bear...
unleash
the torrent
of your hair...
and show me
once...
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Categories:
grab, age, child, children, dream, teen, time, war,
Form:
Rhyme
Nemesis, Confrontation and the Rejoined Battle, Now Completed
Nemesis, Confrontation And The Rejoined Battle,
Now Completed
(Nemesis) - Part One
O'lord of blight dare thee to now abide
Leaving thy abode to earthen realm ride
As punisher with dark universal might
As grief bearer, humanity to smite!
Dar'est thee enter,...
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Categories:
grab, art, creation, faith, humanity, light, meaningful, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
Native American Translations
Native American Translations
Cherokee Travelers' Blessing I
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
I will extract the thorns from your feet.
For yet a little while, we will walk life's sunlit paths together.
I will love you like my own...
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Categories:
grab, america, earth, native american, nature, prayer,
Form:
Free verse
Charles D'Orleans: a Medieval Marvel
Charles d'Orleans: a Medieval Marvel
Spring
by Charles d’Orleans (c. 1394-1465)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Young lovers,
greeting the spring
fling themselves downhill,
making cobblestones ring
with their wild leaps and arcs,
like ecstatic sparks
struck from coal.
What is their brazen goal?
They grab...
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Categories:
grab, art, autumn, french, prison, spring, summer, winter,
Form:
Roundel
Medieval Poems
Medieval Poems
How Long the Night
anonymous Middle English lyric, circa early 13th century AD
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
It is pleasant, indeed, while the summer lasts
with the mild pheasants' song ...
but now I feel the northern...
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Categories:
grab, allegory, bible, christian, england, london, nostalgia, poetry,
Form:
Verse
Charles D'Orleans Translations
Spring
by Charles d'Orleans (c.1394-1465)
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
Young lovers,
greeting the spring
fling themselves downhill,
making cobblestones ring
with their wild leaps and arcs,
like ecstatic sparks
struck from coal.
What is their brazen goal?
They grab at whatever passes,
so we can...
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Categories:
grab, bereavement, depression, desire, heartbreak, heaven, romance,
Form:
Roundel
A Vain Word
A Vain Word
by Michael R. Burch
Oleanders at dawn preen extravagant whorls
as I read in leaves’ Sanskrit brief moments remaining
till sunset implodes, till the moon strands grey pearls
under moss-stubbled oaks, full of whispers, complaining
to the darkening...
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Categories:
grab, autumn, beauty, extended metaphor, grief, heartbreak, moon,
Form:
Sonnet
Prescribing Rebirth To Dt2
DT2 came to me, unwillingly and clandestinely,
only because he was referred by his mother,
who was concerned that he was growing up and out
to become an ego-terrorist,
and she had heard of my feminist work as ecotherapist--
so...
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Categories:
grab, birth, body, culture, health, humor, mental illness,
Form:
Political Verse
Oasis
Oasis
by Michael R. Burch
for Beth
I want tears to form again
in the shriveled glands of these eyes
dried all these long years
by too much heated knowing.
I want tears to course down
these parched cheeks,...
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Categories:
grab, marriage,
Form:
Verse
Oft In My Thought: Charles D'Orleans Translation
Oft in My Thought
by Charles D'Orleans
translation by Michael R. Burch
So often in my busy mind I sought,
Around the advent of the fledgling year,
For something pretty that I really ought
To give my lady dear;
But that sweet...
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Categories:
grab, blessing, christian, faith, god, heartbreak, heaven, lost
Form:
Roundel
Skin of Terror
Skin of Terror
- Daniel Henry Rodgers
(The stage lights come up slowly on Michael's face, which is crisscrossed with wrinkles from his fuming anxiety. He peers out into the gloominess at the wheel and tightly clutches...
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Categories:
grab, horror, mental health, mental illness, psychological,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
144 - Shedeur Sanders
Let’s talk about it.
The projected disrespected was selected! Yes selected, not by man, but by God.
144, yes, that’s the number it took for Shedeur Sanders to be drafted.
Let’s talk about these NFL owners from the...
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Categories:
grab, america, betrayal, confidence, evil, football, god, race,
Form:
Narrative
I Survived '75
KEY - W: Will/Me - F: Friend - M: Mom
Thanksgiving week of '75, as a concurrent student earning multi-degrees from two campuses, and one off. I lived above the Uni, uphill, panicview Hilo Town and...
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Categories:
grab, 9th grade, angel, boy, friendship, happiness, natural
Form:
Dramatic Verse
The Little Blue Fairy
There was a little wind fairy who lived in a meadow near a small town, her name was Estella. Estella had beautiful blue hair like the sky, so her friends called her the little blue...
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Categories:
grab, blue, fairy,
Form:
Free verse
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 79
Lumi smiled and reached out to grab his shoulder. They passed over the ridge where, as Joulupukki had said, a small hamlet clung to the side of the mountain about equal distance to the...
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Categories:
grab, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Hurt People Hurt People
Flirt with Whitney
Flirt with fear
Life is good
But I rather be anywhere but here
Body aches from pushing out tears
Driving on the road of life
Eyes is watery
So I can't steer
And I'm getting dizzy
Stomach very...
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Categories:
grab, deep, depression, feelings, longing, meaningful,
Form:
Free verse