Long Hawks Poems
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Poems About Flight, Flying and Birds IiPoems about Flight, Flying, and Birds
Flying
by Michael R. Burch
I shall rise
and try the bloody wings of thought
ten thousand times
before I fly...
and then I'll sleep
and waste ten thousand nights
before I dream;
but when at last...
I soar the...
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Categories:
hawks, animal, bird, flying, nature,
Form:
Free verse
Poems About IcarusSouthern Icarus
by Michael R. Burch
Windborne, lover of heights,
unspooled from the truck’s wildly lurching embrace,
you climb, skittish kite...
What do you know of the world’s despair,
gliding in vast solitariness there,
so that all that remains is to
fall?
Only a...
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Categories:
hawks, analogy, angel, bird, butterfly, extended metaphor, flying,
Form:
Rhyme
I Have Labored Sore TranslationI Have Labored Sore
anonymous medieval lyric (circa the fifteenth century)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
I have labored sore / and suffered death,
so now I rest / and catch my breath.
But I shall come /...
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Categories:
hawks, christian, death, earth, heaven, sorrow, sorry, soulmate,
Form:
Rhyme
Prose PoemsProse Poems
Something
by Michael R. Burch
Something inescapable is lost?lost like a pale vapor curling up into shafts of moonlight, vanishing in a gust of wind toward an expanse of stars immeasurable and void. Something uncapturable is...
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Categories:
hawks, animal, child, childhood, children, magic, rose, science,
Form:
Prose
The Little Blue FairyThere 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:
hawks, blue, fairy,
Form:
Free verse
Out For a SpinI take a four-fold spin
through Bill Plotkin's wheel
of bilateral identities,
iconic developmental faces,
ironic personalities.
FIRST comes Eastern-born
dawn of human infancy,
Innocent Sage infants
so WiseElder
in our LeftBrain emergent
wrinkling unfolding
sacred RightBrain ways.
Searching for care giving eyes
to be sure we...
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Categories:
hawks, gender, health, humor, integrity, nature, peace, wisdom,
Form:
Political Verse
Comedy of Impeaching ErrorsThe Republican congressmen,
and I do mean white privileged straight men,
came to their Democratic opposition
concerned about how depressing
December can be,
and all of winter,
come to think and feel
of dark discerning Advent,
So maybe we could stage
a comedic debate
about...
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Categories:
hawks, caregiving, earth, health, humor, integrity, political, trust,
Form:
Political Verse
CashI feel much like trash
When I’m not earning cash
Can’t you see I’m working hard, Lord?
According to Your will, according to Your accord
I feel like I’m worthless
When I’m unable to clean up my mess
Can’t you see...
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Categories:
hawks, angst, deep, fear, heartbroken, loneliness, longing, sorrow,
Form:
Lyric
Once Upon a ReservationBack in the height
of our pre-millennial military-industrial
post-revolutionary days
of competing excess...
No, love,
Stick with
Once upon our Sacred Times...
Once upon a time
here in the US of Northern Americas
we used a Reservation Model
to dispose of hopelessly disabled aboriginals,
too RightBrain...
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Categories:
hawks, destiny, education, environment, green, health, humor, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Categories:
hawks, world,
Form:
Rhyme
LiatraPasha Acremodios grew greedy,
discontented with the domain he dominated,
so he turned covetous eyes toward Farabia,
sending his soldiers to seize this ripened plum
Spoiling for a fight and fighting for spoils,
his army swept across Farabia
like a bloody...
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Categories:
hawks, dance, death, desire,
Form:
Free verse
Wiseelder TurkeysMy parenting totem
was the Hawk
of bicamerally perfect egocentric vision
usually greeted by a loud Yang squawk
and vigorous walk
in the other wrong direction.
My WiseElder totem
is the Turkey,
CoMessiah of CoRedemptive Dying
as notnot loving EarthTribe's future lives.
At eight,
my totem...
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Categories:
hawks, age, earth, health, humor, mythology, native american,
Form:
Political 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:
hawks, philosophy,
Form:
Rhyme
My Red-Tailed HawkHe was mighty as could be venturing down by the sea,
revered as the king soaring over his golden throne-
He was respected yet felt neglected and could never see,
all the beauty he held and sadly felt...
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Categories:
hawks, beauty, bird, depression, suicide,
Form:
Rhyme
Wisdom To SurviveWhen will we gain the wisdom to survive
this disturbing
degenerate
NegativEnergy
adolescent denialism
of fascist climate-bullying tendencies
toward shrieking violence
at silent displaced victims,
creating rivers of homeless
multi-degenerating non-thriving refugees?
Where are the all growed up
nurturing regenerate adults
in our capital cities?
On...
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Categories:
hawks, anxiety, caregiving, grandparents, health, integrity, peace, youth,
Form:
Political Verse
Northern Territory BoresThere is a large cattle property in the Northern Territory of Australia
where the bores are named after Famous cricketers and that prompted
this piece.
...
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Categories:
hawks, sports, tribute,
Form:
Rhyme
The Dilettante Diaries: Avian Notes On the Sensate Slip Stream : the Silent War In 3 Acts: Pt2
“I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.”
The Dilettante Diaries: Avian Notes on the Sensate Slip Stream : The Silent War in 3 Acts
(Part 2)
What beats...
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Categories:
hawks, bible, bird, evil, god, light, love, war,
Form:
Free verse
Unlike Thee AthenianThose rarer men I once fondly
knew... ...
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Categories:
hawks, philosophy,
Form:
Rhyme
Soul Stance River - 3Night one on the new river, the campfire is spirited
and the future appears hospitable,
everyone has their rations, everybody is resting their pride
for on an expedition epic to each man and for a republic as well
souls...
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Categories:
hawks, adventure,
Form:
Epic
The Circus Is In TownCome join the unraveling circus
quite soon to be passing our way,
with the clowns in a clamor to twerk us -
line up as they lead us astray!
Arriving, the elephant trumpets
agendas of aberrant acts
while the donkeys drool,...
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Categories:
hawks, humor,
Form:
Quatrain
The Shattering Silence of Falling Leaves
"The Shattering Silence of Falling Leaves"
In Theta waves
tumbling to
The Land of Dark Dreams
Trees will capture and save
the falling Princess and Queen
An Bee Cailleach
invisibilia simulacra viro
An Bee Cailleach scries heroes
incarnate falling in
The...
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Categories:
hawks, dark, daughter, fantasy, journey, light, love, mother,
Form:
Free verse
The Tumid River of Acheron , the Journey, Final RevisionThe Tumid River of Acheron (the journey)
Part One- Final revision
Darkly, the tumid rushing waters flow
where any man most wisely fears to go.
Liquid blackness singing in epic pain
torture, misery and cries of the insane!
Echoes...
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Categories:
hawks, art, creation, dark, death, grief, mythology, religion,
Form:
Rhyme
Netflix, HuluNeftlix, Hulu, autumn elaeagnus
thorns, small hairy buds, twigs hyper-lenticelled
fruits supposedly edible, leaves elongated, oblong
xerophytic but found in wetland
introduced species, some say invasive
Xbox is invasive
Hulu is the best source of foreign films
and foreign films represent reality...
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Categories:
hawks, dream, fear, february, people, romantic, time, winter,
Form:
Verse
Antipoem 4 Santo and JohnnyAntiPoem 4
“Santo and Johnny”
(Poet’s instruction- Play “Sleepwalk” twice by Santo and Johnny while reading)
Santo and Johnny play Sleepwalk on Fender steel and bass
Just oozing out their mellow electric dream sound as the
Santa Monica Pier exudes...
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Categories:
hawks, memory,
Form:
Free verse
The Tumid River of Acheron -The Journey Part One-RevisedThe Tumid River of Acheron (the journey) Part One-Revised
Darkly, the tumid rushing waters flow
where any man most wisely fears to go.
Liquid blackness singing in epic pain
torture, misery and cries of insane!
Echoes of Eperius...
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Categories:
hawks, creation, dance, dark, death, journey, mythology, river,
Form:
Rhyme