Long Grates on Poems
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Yosa Buson TranslationsYosa Buson haiku translations
On the temple’s great bronze gong
a butterfly
snoozes.
?Yosa Buson, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Hard to describe:
this light sensation of being pinched
by a butterfly!
?Yosa Buson, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Not to worry...
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Categories:
grates on, age, animal, autumn, father, moon, mother, nature,
Form:
Haiku
And Still I Drive - Part TwoStars fall under failing skies...stars fall...stars fall...
But stars do not cry.
Into Ochs valley, through the Vale of White Horse...prancing
besides a Dragons Hill;
It was here that a Roundhead - did a Royalist Cavaliers blood in...
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Categories:
grates on, travel,
Form:
Rhyme
Yet More Than a BrotherMoods oscillate in cadences of peaks and valleys
Music to fractious emotions on greasy dance floors
Mistimed cues of flares smouldering relationships
Angst of redundancy seethes from within as lava
Anger is camouflaged with the cloak of reticence
Ardour suffocated...
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Categories:
grates on, allusion, analogy, appreciation, brother, character, feelings, friend,
Form:
Bio
The Secret Lives of Chimney Pots ViStrategically placed when raised
Upwards
By your masterful and well
Practiced hand.
To mingle with ever changing
Skylines
That frown down with arrogant
Scowls
Upon the indigenous populous of
This just and tolerant island.
To study and pontificate upon...
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Categories:
grates on, philosophy,
Form:
Rhyme
Yet, More Than a BrotherMoods oscillate in cadences of peaks and valleys
Music to fractious emotions on greasy dance floors
Mistimed cues of flares smouldering relationships
Angst of redundancy seethes from within as lava
Anger is camouflaged with the cloak of reticence
Ardour suffocated...
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Categories:
grates on, allusion, analogy, beauty, character, dedication, encouraging, life,
Form:
Alliteration
Yes, I Pier Irma Donned To Crush Mar a Lago EstateTo Crush Mar a Lago Estate, and lower the Economic debt ceiling...
Now that DACA docked amidst
marshy tidal outskirts of Poker flats
(readied to be sunk) off shore
(beach combing divers – ectoplasmic flotsam
glorying...
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Categories:
grates on, america, anger, anxiety, crush, discrimination, future, horror,
Form:
I do not know?
Theater of Utter Charm Part 24what do you need to be told
to make you capable of pragmatic liberation
which could be the foundation to a new
assessment of the inevitable
darkness is our measure but never our limit
its manic prism reflects everything all...
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Categories:
grates on, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
Murdered By My Own ShadowCold misty clouds rise above the grates
The streets only illumination, tossing shadows like pennies
Faded street lamps at each end
The cold is biting, as I roll the collar over my neck
I received a call earlier that...
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Categories:
grates on, dark, fantasy, murder, mystery,
Form:
Light Verse
Inspirational ButterfliesI’m freedom’s beckoning call light as air, an elemental being
Set adrift beyond the universal light beam, a speeding
Bullet shifting, suspended by my own spiritual uplifts
Bending in the stratosphere by raw forces
Gravitational pull.
A streaming particle of...
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Categories:
grates on, adventure, beauty, fantasy, imagery, inspirational, visionary,
Form:
Free verse
The Dream SweeperI’m freedom’s beckoning call light as air, an elemental being
Set adrift beyond the universal light beam, a speeding
Bullet shifting, suspended by my own spiritual uplifts
Bending in the stratosphere by raw forces
Gravitational pull.
A streaming particle of...
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Categories:
grates on, adventure, beauty, imagery, imagination, inspirational, visionary,
Form:
Free verse
The Ballad of a Shattered, Laminated, HomeI remember living in one room dingy and dire
with old lino on its rotting wooden floor.
I remember crystallised spit dangling from guard at the fire;
as mother cleaned, he'd only honk the more....
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Categories:
grates on, abuse, addiction, anti bullying, devotion, family, father,
Form:
Ballad
Broken Wings UnsheathedResurrections lone fallen spiritual being, kneeling within the darkness of mine
Own tormented soul, broken, fractured at fetters ivory appendages, a flightless
Angelic Dark winged angel standing alone, weeping in the nights blackened clouds of utter blindness,...
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Categories:
grates on, angel, beauty, fantasy, imagery, imagination, inspirational, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
The English LanguageOnly read this if you have a good understanding of the English language, because it is all about how word spellings differ but for no particular reason.
This write is quite right in that it highlights...
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Categories:
grates on, smart, words,
Form:
I do not know?
The Devil Is In the DetailsThe Devil’s watch has started and the time is consummate
A strange and tranquil calmness mocks our terrifying wait
There, just beyond our window moves like fearsome reprobates
A pair of tortuous demons meant all Hell to perpetrate
We...
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Categories:
grates on, grandchild,
Form:
Monorhyme
Herd of BearsI was driving outside of the Black Hills
and came upon a wildlife park there,
claiming it had all sorts of animals,
the park mascot was a mighty black bear.
It was one of those drive-through attractions,
I’d heard of...
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Categories:
grates on, animal, fear, life, light, nature, power, vacation,
Form:
Rhyme
Hurricane Eileen - the StormA dedication to Eileen Ghali
for her prolific production of
inspiring work
Willow Tree = Keyboard
And that’s your only clue
Hurricane Eileen - The Storm
As darkness drew nearer
Light falling to drearer
I knew, the night was a foul
The windows were...
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Categories:
grates on, dedication,
Form:
I do not know?
City JumpGaggles of ghetto girls mollycoddle, dandle cranky babies;
some cradled on arm and hip, some hustled along
on low-rolling rides. Granma’s noodle their talk
together with headshakes, busy body elbows akimbo.
Thin men lounge outside bodega’s, soft-soap,
play imaginary...
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Categories:
grates on, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Baltimore TalesBaltimore Tales
lazy fat cat meowing, begging for a meal,
mother baking cookies, grates an orange peel.
husband’s belly flopping, cold beer in his hand,
watching Jimmy Kimmel, singing with the band.
little Susie playing, with her pregnant worn...
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Categories:
grates on, crazy, mom, , cute,
Form:
Verse
Homeland SecurityI used to garden naturally,
but now I'm guard'in chemically.
I've traded in my life bucolic
for one much more diabolic.
I'd rather play in the dirt chem-free
where weeding is great therapy:
tending herbs and building beds,
watering and dead-ing heads.
I'd...
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Categories:
grates on, garden, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
FuturescapeSteam rises up from sidewalk grates
The sounds of the city is dense and cacophonous these days
As dark and shadows all that's seen
As the light has given way
And nature has just turned to dust
Made way for...
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Categories:
grates on, deep, future, poetry, technology,
Form:
Epic
Goodbye Grandmathe door grates open and I bite my lip so hard it bleeds
she can't see you cry, she can't
my palms sweat against the doorknob
attempting to hide my worried face,
I try to take in...
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Categories:
grates on, 7th grade,
Form:
Free verse
No Anchor For Rancor
Hatred spews from his heart
It’s in his eyes, in his breath, in his smirk
Feels like he could tear me apart
I’ve never met an angrier jerk!
Resentment silences every hope
She is the word bitter screaming out
Toward the...
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Categories:
grates on, appreciation, god, heart,
Form:
Rhyme
Moments of Life.The morning mists falling from Snapdragon eyes
Standing on high peaks viewing the verve of diversity
Starlit nights viewing the galactic milieu painted above
The promise once made now viewed after the rainstorm…
In these moments I see the...
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Categories:
grates on, imagination, introspection, life, philosophy, morning,
Form:
Free verse
GlassCorner coffee cafe
Looping the rhythm of my human family
My window view
A fishbowl in reverse
A woman in heels walking with a cane
A man with his sole possessions
Struggling across grates with his...
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Categories:
grates on, community,
Form:
Free verse
WifeyWifey (a duet)
If your love for me was as deep
as you always claim it is, then
you'd find me a lion's head.
To prove my love to you, sugar cane
for the feline I will gladly go...
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Categories:
grates on, abuse, anger, relationship, woman,
Form:
Dramatic Verse