Long Humid Poems
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Halloween PoemsIt's Halloween!
Michael R. Burch
If evening falls
on graveyard walls
far softer than a sigh;
if shadows fly
moon-sickled skies,
while children toss their heads
uneasy in their beds,
beware the witch's eye!
If goblins loom
within the gloom
till playful pups grow terse;
if birds give...
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Categories:
humid, children, grave, halloween, horror, myth, silly, surreal,
Form:
Rhyme
Fahr An' IceFahr an' Ice
by Michael R. Burch
From what I know of death, I'll side with those
who'd like to have a say in how it goes:
just make mine cool, cool rocks (twice drowned in likker),
and real fahr...
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Categories:
humid, death, drink, fun, humor, humorous, light,
Form:
Light Verse
It's HalloweenIt's Halloween!
Michael R. Burch
If evening falls
on graveyard walls
far softer than a sigh;
if shadows fly
moon-sickled skies,
while children toss their heads
uneasy in their beds,
beware the witch's eye!
If goblins loom
within the gloom
till playful pups grow terse;
if birds give...
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Categories:
humid, cat, children, evil, grave, halloween, horror, moon,
Form:
Verse
BergfriedI. The Settlement
Hickory bark bluffs
at the blend of two
...
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Categories:
humid, adventure, allusion, metaphor, myth, native american, remember,
Form:
Narrative
One DayOne day not so long ago
I walked
Never alone
For the world
Is always my home
It was a late
Spring snow
Yet I felt
Invisible red roses
Offering sweetest perfume
To my nose and soul
There’s such warmth
In snow-filled winter
No bitterness
No...
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Categories:
humid, humanity,
Form:
Free verse
Pale Though Her Eyes: Vampire PoemVampire Poetry
Pale Though Her Eyes
by Michael R. Burch
Pale though her eyes,
her lips are scarlet
from drinking of blood,
this child, this harlot
born of the night
and her heart, of darkness,
evil incarnate
to dance so reckless,
dreaming of...
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Categories:
humid, dark, death, desire, evil, gothic, grave, horror,
Form:
Verse
Heroic Crown of Sonnets - Part Two
(continued from A Year Of Months (January-June)
https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/heroic_crown_of_sonnets_-_part_one_772928
A Year Of Months (July-December)
8. July
July now follows summer's song of June;
with sun ablaze, her days are humid, warm.
Great time to languish in the afternoon,
and later, watch an evening...
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Categories:
humid, earth, seasons, thanksgiving day,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Vampires Are Such Fragile CreaturesVampires
by Michael R. Burch
Vampires are such fragile creatures;
we fear the dark, but the light destroys them...
sunlight, or a stake, or a cross—such common things.
Still, late at night, when the bat-like vampire sings,
we heed his voice.
Centuries...
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Categories:
humid, dark, death, gothic, halloween, horror, lust, night,
Form:
Verse
2 Versions of 4 SeasonsThese 2 different versions are separated by nine years
Part 1
MUST BE SPRING
Small speckles of wild grass
Looking like tiny green drops
That had fallen to the earth
Were the very first sign
Waving in the...
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Categories:
humid, lost love, seasons, time,
Form:
Prose
Glory To Thermodynamics In GeneralGlory to thermodynamics in general...
and generation of heat in particular
cuz yours truly
spoiled with trappings
of Western Civilization.
How ideal I imagine
to dwell in a self sufficient domicile,
where thrum of the central heater...
automatically activated
upon...
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Categories:
humid, adventure, appreciation, april, community, courage, desire, light,
Form:
Rhyme
Escape of the Bluesman's SongWithin the frame a sepia scene
a dusty porch a rickety chair
the fabric of your dusky face creased
with ceaseless sunbaked woes
your old pair of getaway feet gives
a different walk of...
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Categories:
humid, africa, america, grief, racism, slavery, song, sorrow,
Form:
Free verse
Scent of Paddy FlowerScent Of Paddy Flower
...
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Categories:
humid, art, childhood, hope, journey, life, philosophy, water,
Form:
Epic
The Mask of LabradoriteThrice the night—the day!—both fell to sleepless slumber,
But now in Spring, though yet again: The third was three in number.
I sense a wince remind itself,
Of what it means to be,
Instead to beg for booked...
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Categories:
humid, corruption, imagination, judgement, life, mystery, myth, psychological,
Form:
Rhyme
Flagan the Dragon Part 3The Tale of the Duck
The morning was crisp and in need of assist
from the sun to warm up the day.
The Dragon needed some food to lighten his mood
so...
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Categories:
humid, funny, humor, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
My Winter's WishesIn the May-time of my life
time bloomed each day a prickly boll –
but I, like the softest cotton within such a sharp seed
swaddled in the purity of security
for what seemed like eternity...
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Categories:
humid, age, god, hope, introspection, life, lost, winter,
Form:
Free verse
Glory To Thermodynamicsand spoils of Western Civilization.
Thrum of the central heater...
manually activated upon advent of twilight
(since yours truly not resident within "smart home"),
nevertheless warm cockles and muscles
appreciate basking, and luxuriating,
within climate controlled environment,
whether bone chilling deep freeze...
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Categories:
humid, adventure, earth, green, heaven, inspiration, journey, light,
Form:
Free verse
Clearly, You'Re RudeYou’re so insane and crazy when you talk to yourself
Feeling hazy in humid summer, overheating myself
I feel like you keep talking my ears off till they bleed
I need you to back off…leave me alone…take...
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Categories:
humid, anger, angst, conflict, hurt,
Form:
Free verse
Today August 29th 2021 Sluggishness Dogs Yours TrulyToday August 29th, 2021 sluggishness dogs yours truly
Forecasting to thunderous applause
fast as greased lightning draws
upon futuristic atmospheric gewgaws
hot air emanates out these slackened jaws
spluttering courtesy indentured maws
armed with four footed tall paws
gesticulations resembling horizontal seesaws....
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Categories:
humid, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, absence,
Form:
Rhyme
April To Thrill MeAPRIL TO THRILL ME
My Birth-Month April appears in mirth.
...
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Categories:
humid, appreciation, april,
Form:
Free verse
I Cannot Single Handedly Rightly So Manageprimary idiopathic palmar/
palmoplantar hyperhidrosis
despite taking Glycopyrrolate
2 MG Tablet three times daily.
Aforementioned physiological malady
the bane worse than death
unwanted and unwonted figurative
(metaphorical) beast of burden
linkedin with matrix constituting mine
corporeal essence genetically
gifted to yours truly,
invariably, objectionably,...
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Categories:
humid, 11th grade, 12th grade, anger, angst, anxiety,
Form:
Rhyme
Rites and RelicsA midnight shriek or sudden bang
Disrupts the thread of tales,
Entangled in unconscious mind
With sounds of lashing flails.
Wherefrom it comes, whither it goes?
I threw my eyes up there,
The eerie void soon called me up
To trudge down...
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Categories:
humid, bereavement,
Form:
Ballad
I Cannot Single Handedly Rightly So ManageI cannot single handedly – rightly so - manage...
primary idiopathic palmar/
palmoplantar hyperhidrosis
despite taking Glycopyrrolate
2 MG Tablet three times daily.
Aforementioned physiological malady
unwanted and unwonted figurative
(metaphorical) beast of burden
linkedin with matrix constituting mine
corporeal essence...
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Categories:
humid, 11th grade, 12th grade, allegory, anxiety, body,
Form:
Free verse
When We Were EightWhen you were eight years old
waking to another perfect day's dawn
what potential did you
with your autonomic empathy,
integrity of left-deductive
with elder-right-tempered languages,
discover?
Who were you
as you stepped into morning's warm spring sun,
how were you one of "us"
and...
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Categories:
humid, adventure, age, culture, home, love, paradise, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
My Nolan Ryan StoryGROWING UP ACROSS THE STREET FROM
TIGER STADIUM HAS ITS ADVANTAGE
AND DISADVANTAGES.
BEING A YOUNGSTER
HOT HUMID MUGGY SUMMER NIGHT.
DETROIT MICHIGAN.
JULY NINETEEN HUNDRED AND 73
WOULD TURN OUT TO BE A VERY
COLD
NIGHT.
IN THE MOST UNTHINKABLE WAY.
RUNNING AROUND...
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Categories:
humid, baseball, memory,
Form:
Free verse
Follow Me, Translation of Pierre Emmanuel's Suis-Moi By T WignesanFollow me, Translation of Piere Emmanuel’s Suis-moi by T. Wignesan
Everything begins on a morning like just another but
which becomes its own following day.
The next day of...
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Categories:
humid, allegory,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue