Long Hounds Poems
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Open Oceans
"Open Oceans"
Kneeling on pearls
wisdom preys
praying
preying
hungry hearts
count the days
wasting away
in all that preying
for prayers
to be answered
children become
strangers
reading
strange words
finding
themselves puzzled
genuflecting to a deity
they do not know, nor wish to
fumbling
mouths closed,
swallowed hole
in the...
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Categories:
hounds, journey, love, mother daughter,
Form:
Epic
Forever
“Forever”
When The Terrors came,
The Uncontrollable Ones,
she closed her eyes
and listened for the notes
her mother had planted
amongst the deep blues,
beds of Forget-Me-Nots,
she followed the
labyrinthine trail
and through a gate unhinged,
it would seem destroyed, thrown aside,
she...
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Categories:
hounds, dark, halloween, light, love, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
Peace In the Nowhere
"Peace in the Nowhere"
Ghosts remain in this place
they read their words
marked each day on walls
like prayers, it gives them
peace in the nowhere
someplace relevant to go
Ghosts commune in this place
disowned long ago or walked
off the...
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Categories:
hounds, muse, poems, poets,
Form:
Narrative
Medieval Poems Ii
Medieval Poems
Wulf and Eadwacer
(Old English circa 990 AD)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
My people pursue him like crippled prey.
They'll rip him apart if he approaches their pack.
We are so different!
Wulf's on one island; I'm on...
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Categories:
hounds, angel, england, love, middle school, poetry, song,
Form:
Rhyme
Auschwitz Rose
Auschwitz Rose
by Michael R. Burch
There is a Rose at Auschwitz, in the briar,
a rose like Sharon’s, lovely as her name.
The world forgot her, and is not the same.
I still love her and extend this sacred...
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Categories:
hounds, holocaust, horror, tribute, truth, violence, war, world
Form:
Sonnet
I Have Labored Sore Translation
I 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:
hounds, christian, death, earth, heaven, sorrow, sorry, soulmate,
Form:
Rhyme
Athenian Epitaphs Ii
Athenian Epitaphs II
These are ancient Greek epitaphs for lost family and friends, including dogs and other animals ...
Now his voice is prisoned in the silent pathways of the night:
his owner's faithful Maltese...
but will...
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Categories:
hounds, animal, best friend, death of a friend,
Form:
Epitaph
Where Do We Come In
Where 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:
hounds, caregiving, character, humanity, leadership, people, rights, sports,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
And Still I Drive - Part One
Stars fall under failing skies...stars fall...stars fall...
And sadly...i start to drive.
Through the unremarkable village with its tall
Georgian Bay window panes, lightless,
devoid of visages; outwardly staring back at my
Abject countenance with detached contempt and...
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Categories:
hounds, heartbreak, places,
Form:
Rhyme
Agenda
"Again... I apologize but threefold times ...
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Categories:
hounds, america,
Form:
Political Verse
Mystical Song of Trees
PRELUDE.
When the sky and world are dark no sounds are heard in the woods. Perhaps the scrabbling of night creatures on the hunt fo food. But no sound of woodpeckers ra ta tatting, bird song...
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Categories:
hounds, animal, conflict, desire, environment, fairy, grief,
Form:
Free verse
Monsters In My Head
"Monsters in My Head"
the small gods
inside of us
worry too much
they speak in tongues
that never know the
depth of what is real or not
for tongues
they never think
they just have a taste for blood
trading gossip...
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Categories:
hounds, dark, i am, light, war,
Form:
Narrative
Attitude with latitude
Attitude with latitude
originally written January 19th, 2019
and tension defines the dynamic
Valiant prince sip pulled effort
rebuffed, snubbed, thumbed
courtesy eldest daughter
uncontested vainglorious woke
mine genuine apology,
viz sincerely yours truly
psyche asper paternal overture
toward aforementioned offspring
smitten with opprobrium
figuratively smacked upside...
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Categories:
hounds, abuse, anger, anxiety, betrayal, family, father daughter,
Form:
Free verse
The External World of The Internal
“The External World of the Internal”
when the Internal
finally woke up,
it was like all the words
in that book, flew at It
like flaming arrows,
an external barage, a tale,
of trading 10 for 50,
a...
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Categories:
hounds, humanity, muse, satire,
Form:
Narrative
I Wait With Bated Breath For C Cure T Clarence
I wait with bated breath for... C. Cure T. Clarence
The following crafted
approximately midway
into the administration
of forty fifth president,
whose crass, gutsy, lewd,
repulsive yawping finds
him squarely poised to
nab the nomination as
Republican front runner
come the...
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Categories:
hounds, america, anxiety, appreciation, character, confidence, fate, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Covid Walk
thermometer reads zero, a chilly breeze blows
apple cores thrown, the blackbirds feed
my multi-layered partner dons her wooly hat
impatiently, she waits for me
securing covid masks amidst my overcoat
...
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Categories:
hounds, anxiety, feelings, humanity, journey, life,
Form:
Verse
Redneck Santa
T'were the night after Christmas, 'n' the house was all dark.
Not much money for 'lectric in the ol' trailer park.
Ma waitin' tables at the club on the base,
jist me and my sisters alone in the...
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Categories:
hounds, christmas, parody,
Form:
Rhyme
My Heart Will Go On - POTD
POTD 30th August 2018
The gently swaying branches of the old oak should elicit calmness
And yet a sense of foreboding permeates the midnight air
Wild imaginings? Or did shadows flit across the leaf strewn path?
No...
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Categories:
hounds, grief, heartbreak, lost, romance,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Poe's Untimely Demise
*Note
I had to bring this one back, though I've been posting mostly new writes here that PS hasn't seen before. This poem has been edited many times over the years. I consider it to...
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Categories:
hounds, horror,
Form:
Rhyme
Solitaire Solitude
Solitaire / Solitude
Solitude will be my recognition, my fame !
Solitude is my time to claim !
Solitary is my adopted name !
Solitaire is the name of my game,
to play away these hours of mine
until there is...
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Categories:
hounds, passion,
Form:
Rhyme
Lost: For the Children of the Holocaust
Lost
for the children of the Holocaust and the Nakba
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...
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Categories:
hounds, child, children, death, holocaust, loss, lost, sorrow,
Form:
Free verse
The Queens Conjurer
All things that glow and move,
all things that change and pass,
I gather their delight
as in a burning-glass;
Judith Wright
The Queen's Conjurer
1.
'Given to magic and uncanny arts'
'Art mathematical' to make strange works
Genius of movement artificial
Mechanical scarab...
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Categories:
hounds, betrayal, dark, mystery, wisdom,
Form:
Epic
Shame full travesty regarding fourth of July celebration
Sham(e) full travesty regarding fourth of July celebration
American independence day
linkedin severance from English crown
Continental Congress representatives
parlayed courtesy thirteen original colonies
yielding Declaration of Independence
immediately rendered null and void
established vassalage courtesy British rule.
Fast forward two hundred and...
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Categories:
hounds, adventure, america, betrayal, birth, endurance, independence day,
Form:
Free verse
Books and Covers
"Books and Covers"
"Books and Covers"
"Covers and Books"
"Stories and Lovers"
"Lovers and Stories"
"Some Time It Took"
"Spinning Wheels Spinning"
"Needles Pricking Thumbs"
"Agatha and Daphne"
"Danvers is Rebecca's Mum"
"Casting Fishing Hooks and Aspersions"
"Bewitching Hour"
"Drinking Potions of Lovespell's Nasturtiums"
"Lost Love Woods"
"Hidden...
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Categories:
hounds, mystery, psychological, purple, truth, write, writing,
Form:
Free verse
Human Sack Gruff Ice Agonizingly Glommed
Human Sack Gruff Ice Agonizingly Glommed...
Murderously Skewered, And Torturously Zapped
Directv linkedin to accentuate
piddly money crisis, tis zen uneasy fate,
I imagine dragons gyrate
ting, and licking chops, faux masticate
ting, no matter I didst pre
...
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Categories:
hounds, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th grade, discrimination,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue