Long Gums Poems
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Cymbric ValeI believed that I was rural … that I lived in country style,
where the city was close handy … that big distance was a mile.
Trains and buses ferried daily; a freeway ran close by …
comforts...
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Categories:
gums, holiday,
Form:
Rhyme
Self ReflectionsSELF REFLECTIONS
These are poems about mirrors, images, self-image, reflections, impressions and self-reflection.
Self Reflection
by Michael R. Burch
for anyone struggling with self-image
She has a comely form
and a smile that brightens her dorm ...
but she's grossly...
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Categories:
gums, identity, image, imagery, metaphor, mirror, self, symbolism,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Poems ViPoems about Poems VI
The Board
by Michael R. Burch
Accessible rhyme is never good.
The penalty is understood?
soft titters from dark board rooms where
the businessmen paste on their hair
and, Walter Mitties, woo the Muse
with reprimands of Dr. Seuss.
The...
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Categories:
gums, extended metaphor, heaven, muse, passion, poems, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
EnoughEnough!
by Michael R. Burch
It’s not that I don’t want to die;
I shall be glad to go.
Enough of diabetes pie,
and eating sickly crow!
Enough of win and place and show.
Enough of endless woe!
Enough of suffering and vice!
I’ve...
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Categories:
gums, body, cancer, death, health, irony, mental illness,
Form:
Light Verse
The Plagueas the PROPHETS of profits, WE lead and WE’re fair
while WE’re living the life of the poor BILLIONAIRE
– silver yachts, pearly castles, cash (plenty to spare) –
with the world on OUR backs... ah! the burdens...
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Categories:
gums, society,
Form:
Quatrain
Unquotable Quotes: Janitor, Gardienne, Portero, Sereno, Hausgast -Xxxi Part OneUnquotable quotes: The Janitor, Gardienne, Landlady, Housekeeper, Portero, the Sereno and the Hausgast – XXXI Part One
Be they so named or not in these here parts, visions of shrieking furies with Gorgon heads and...
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Categories:
gums, care, city, horror, rights, urban,
Form:
Quatrain
Bluddy Toothpaste{verse 1}
Stream of blood drips unto the sink…it’s in a puddle of muddled, bittersweet blood – whisper hope in my ears
My heart pumps…in fear of losing you…uoy…u…
Teeth ache, gums bleed on…I blink…never good enough...
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Categories:
gums, anger, angst, anxiety, break up, deep, depression,
Form:
Lyric
Aroma PoetryMother nature oh! Rose of roses!
Mother of all flowers' and smell,
Ylang Ylang! You don't know what it causes!
An aphrodisiac turns you on like hell!
Sandalwood with its masculine warmth poses,
Rosemary clears the head, you can tell,
Peppermint...
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Categories:
gums, beauty, flower, rose, uplifting,
Form:
Rhyme
Unquotable Quotes: Poets - XxxviUnquotable quotes: Poets, Poetasters and Platos – XXXVI
For James McAuley – in remembrance of a memorable week in Cardiff 1965
The greatest poet ever is NOT Homer, Lao Tse, Ovid,...
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Categories:
gums, creation, poetry, poets, word play, words, writing,
Form:
Epigram
Barking Up the Wrong Tree
“Barking Up the Wrong Tree”
ghost gums
shed their bark
the min-min
makes good use of it
papyrus, soft enough to
imprint and write
thoughts, like the
ripening welts of
green ants
small bites sting
subcutaneous and
meridional,
terra...
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Categories:
gums, morning, muse, nature, night,
Form:
Free verse
The Wound That Never HealsScience can’t save you, neither can religion,
at least Popper and Niebuhr, philosophers and poets,
are entertainers, which is why actors and athletes
are paid so much. Thanks for the summaries.
I was teaching Shakespeare’s 92nd ridiculous sonnet
to my...
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Categories:
gums, christian, husband, mother, music, night, prayer, snow,
Form:
Verse
Adieu Dental Floss and Toothbrush(21st century pearly white prosthetics,
restored jaw bar wah key)
Aye noel hunger bristle,
and when false teeth soak at night
in tandem with stubby facial gristle
har reckon noah kisses
...
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Categories:
gums, 11th grade, 12th grade, farewell, grief, hyperbole,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Get Outside YourselfI know I need to get outside myself.
The more I complain, and focus on my sore gums, tender knee, and achy shoulder, the more griping I do, the more I suffer.
Ouch! Ouch! Ouch! The pain...
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Categories:
gums, pain,
Form:
Free verse
Spoiled RottenThere was once a widow who had nothing but her beloved twin babies, Rosemary, and Ethan. The Widow loved her twins more than the Earth loved the Sun, and vowed to give them anything they...
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Categories:
gums, abuse, allusion, baby, caregiving, child abuse, horror,
Form:
Free verse
Stimulation: Rage-Guilt That OverflowsI was in the dumps; but as of right this instant, I'm flabbergasted by my brother's random actions and my weird interactions to be exact...great - messages have stimulated my phone...
Zzzzzzz the buzz was coming...
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Categories:
gums, anger, angst, anxiety, deep, depression, desire, how
Form:
Free verse
The Money-Sucking Trap - Both Audio and Text - W-Illustration“Well, now,” said the dentist, as he crushed my lower lip,
“The X-rays show you have a lot of tartar, and decay.
The gums look bad, and we can use a crown to hide that chip.
I think...
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Categories:
gums, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
The Dryad's Scream - 22 Mar 2016I heard the dreadful Dryad's scream
As axe bit into woody flesh
The sap oozed out as scented cream
My veins stood out in rictal mesh
My wits all scrambled left me quick
My hands and face were full a-sweat
My...
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Categories:
gums, dream, gothic, horror, imagination, magic, mystery,
Form:
Rhyme
Under the Apple TreeThe little stall stands behind the black dilapidated wall whose bricks have been showing years of stained motion welled up inside the folly of man. The destiny of the wall speaks to the nature of...
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Categories:
gums, betrayal, community, confidence, corruption, england, environment, future,
Form:
Narrative
Apple of My Eye Darling Daughter Numero Deux Gifted MeApple of my eye darling daughter numero deux gifted me...
Twenty four years ago –
February 4th, 2023,
whose existence begat
by this dada and da mama aye
revel in your bursting at figurative
seams viz maturation, and know...
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Categories:
gums, adventure, age, america, beautiful, birthday, celebration, confidence,
Form:
Rhyme
Me To Myself(myself to myself on myself for myself)
When you hear the clamor of the birds loud
shrieking shockingly it shouldn’t frighten
you they simply don’t realize the magnitude
of the head of sand that gets washed away
onto your shoulders...
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Categories:
gums, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
The bane of a cold sore inside my mouthThe bane of a cold sore inside my mouth
Sent my smooching life south,
whereby I felt like poor Georgie Porgie,
pudding and pie,
who kissed the girls and made them cry.
The medical term for cold sores,
Herpes Labialis, refers
to...
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Categories:
gums, analogy, anger, anxiety, bird, caregiving, endurance, health,
Form:
Rhyme
My Crumpled Thoughts(CRUMPLED THOUGHTS POETRY CONTEST)
When you hear the clamor of the birds loud
shrieking shockingly it shouldn’t frighten
you they simply don’t realize the magnitude
of the head of sand that gets washed away
onto your shoulders and violates sanctity.
Did...
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Categories:
gums, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
Press ReleaseA listing of the fires
and all the survivors
will be provided
Names of the dead
are written on broken cobblestones
at the bottom of the river
The sheet music
is in the morgue - reconstruction
of...
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Categories:
gums, crazy, humor, political, satire,
Form:
Verse
Dissolution
"Dissolution"
I go to sleep a lot now,
to escape reality.
It is as if I am no longer here,
but there in the other worlds.
Some dreams are so real.
Once was a life
where as...
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Categories:
gums, dream,
Form:
Free verse
Love Like a ManI never loved you.
I loved, when we
sang songs at the
tired nights.
I loved, when you
smile to the flower,
I loved when you
look alike a rose.
Also I loved the
stars.
They stopped onto
your eyes on
September nights.
I never loved you;
I loved...
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Categories:
gums, love, universe,
Form:
ABC