Long Hurtling Poems
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Ice Cream Gran 5 - Turbo, We Have a Problem
It’s heading for our planet at ten thousand miles an hour
To stop it all the experts say we haven’t got the power
All the nukes in all the world won’t constitute a plan
So someone said, ‘All...
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hurtling, grandmother, hero, space,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Poems Iv
Poems about Poems IV
The Toast
by Michael R. Burch
For longings warmed by tepid suns
(brief lusts that animated clay),
for passions wilted at the bud
and skies grown desolate and gray,
for stars that fell from tinseled heights
and mountains bleak...
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hurtling, allegory, allusion, appreciation, art, poems, poetry, poets,
Form:
Rhyme
New Year Poems I
New Year Poetry
Auld Lange Syne
by Robert Burns
translation by Michael R. Burch
Should old acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind?
Should old acquaintance be forgot,
And days for which we pine?
For times we shared, my darling,
Days passed,...
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hurtling, birth, celebration, change, firework, january, new year,
Form:
Rhyme
Is There An Exclusive All-In-One Principle
‘ In general, quantum mechanics does not predict a single definite result for an observation. Instead, it predicts a number of different possible outcomes and tells us how likely each of these is. ‘
...
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Categories:
hurtling, philosophy, death, art, dark, art, dark, death,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Interview With the Most Beautiful Suicide
Interview with The Most Beautiful Suicide -Evelyn Francis McHale - May 1, 1947
So Evelyn, yours is one of the most famous of suicides, since you chose to jump from the Empire State Building in 1947,...
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Categories:
hurtling, suicide,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
She Hasn'T Killed Me Yet
She Hasn't Killed me yet
58.
...
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Categories:
hurtling, blessing, humanity, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Jay Pallen a Wonderful Sister and Friend
On a silver moonlit pillow’s blissful patch I dreamt nirvana
verses for my sister Jay and our magic mutual bond, that
gem-enhanced treasure chest, that life support as ironclad rampart
for our twin psyche sparkle,...
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hurtling, angel, beautiful, best friend, blessing, dedication, deep,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Recollections From the Golden Cree Iii
Brackish-gurgling days that
Unobtrusively slid along
Past tussock grass and curled up
Balls of Fern...
Glued tightly onto structured vanes
Of outstretched frond.
Venerable Mosses reciting epic tales,
Measured throughout Metronomical
Strains,
Chanting methodically in harmonious
Downturn -
Wherein contained:
Foreboding dialects delivered...
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Categories:
hurtling, growing up, , western,
Form:
Rhyme
The Lonely Angler
He was there in the beginning
and through the eternal ending.
He'd scattered his seed 'cross numerous worlds.
They flourished.
They perished.
Flora, fauna, innumerable forms,
aeons of evolutionary warfare.
Extermination of the unfit
without the mercy of design.
Quadrillions of cadavers
paving a road...
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Categories:
hurtling, endurance, fishing, humanity, loneliness, philosophy, spiritual, universe,
Form:
Free verse
The Village On the Water V
Showering white light illuminates
Bright-Moon Bay;
In the overlooking Moon-Inviting Pavilion,
Li Bai had raised his twinkling, rich amber
Coloured wineglass
To invite the same reticent Moon. ...
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Categories:
hurtling, appreciation, beauty, places,
Form:
Free verse
Hitchhiker From Another World Part 3
Just as well I was driving at a moderate speed.
Having resumed control I spied Lelia sticking her tongue out at those reckless varmints.
She stopped the minute I noticed.
Odd.
“Children …….sometimes you have to act like a...
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hurtling, art, august, beautiful, beauty, character, creation, deep,
Form:
Prose
Bill and Ted's Excellent Conversation - A Message for 2024
*To fully appreciate this a person would have to be at least somewhat familiar with the movie: Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
"Dude, here's a heads up - ENTROPY BITES!" said Bill as he limped up...
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Categories:
hurtling, hope, love,
Form:
Narrative
N'Iron
strife riven island corner, rough hewn by rival visitation
vexed, looking in, looking out, on the edge of places to go
thrang in thrall of other realms, banners furling, batons flung
across...
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Categories:
hurtling, community, culture, destiny, history, hope, humanity, places,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Zen Death Haiku Xi
ZEN DEATH HAIKU XI
These are my modern English translations of Japanese Zen Death Haiku.
Above the garden
the camellia tree blossoms
whitely...
—Uejima Onitsura, loose translation by Michael R. Burch
Moonlit hailstones:
the night hawks return.
—Uejima Onitsura, loose translation...
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Categories:
hurtling, age, analogy, angst, animal, anxiety, august, autumn,
Form:
Haiku
Himalayan Trip-Trap-2
Himalayan Trip-Trap
They poured in, before the deluge
To surpass the natives in numbers
folks in their cribs -through-hearse stages,
trusting like kids, a burnished sky, blue-white,
a cocktail of the wrong...
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Categories:
hurtling, natural disasters, nature,
Form:
Free verse
A Man and the Moon Free Verse Version
Sebastian
Writer of romance
Oh how the women swoon
Opening wide to their lovers
Children named in his honor
Strong men beg for but a few of his words
They wish to be carried to bliss in their lovers arms
The...
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Categories:
hurtling, fantasy, night, dark, dark, moon, night, ocean,
Form:
Free verse
Desire, a hurtling horse on hire
Man, seldom a straightforward animal,
Long lost in the deserts of weariness,
Wants to flee from a life of denial,
Wallows no less still in piles of warm ash,
And feeling hurt, he nurses hidden strife,...
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Categories:
hurtling, desire, dream, world,
Form:
Ode
Tribute To the Rain
Tribute to the Rains
And then it finally came
What was very much sought
And what was most needed
As people even prayed for
Eventually, the rains did arrive
Coming as it did in a flurry
Consuming with it all...
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Categories:
hurtling, appreciation, blessing, celebration, environment, happiness, inspirational, rain,
Form:
Sonnet
Quail Not At Death's Door If You Wrought No Wilful Harm
Quail not at Death’s door if you wrought no wilful harm
Quail not at Death’s door if you wrought no wilful harm
Should turning back in vengeance be the Dead Man’s qualm
Though even as the end nears...
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Categories:
hurtling, death, planet,
Form:
Elegy
Souperstarstruck
It is a dazzling display of brilliance, this conglomeration of constellations from different skies above as many different seas. I look at them, and feel the spark within my being. So, like a...
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Categories:
hurtling, life, poetry, thank you,
Form:
Haibun
The Trials of Meretrix Canto Iii
Diminishing virtues stripped away
From the flesh
By the fierce brined rods that freely
Course thy hot crimson blood;
Dry cracked lips attempting to
Fashion broken words of compliance
That so must needs to be spoken...
But...Ohhh, Meretrix...
My foolish and...
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Categories:
hurtling, philosophy,
Form:
Rhyme
The Angel and the Spear
Deep breath
Then a shallow one
What's that now?
Another shallow one?
And another
OK, there is a deep one now
And now a shallow
And there is no rhythm to it
There is no fixed interval
The breathing is like a ship in...
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Categories:
hurtling, fantasy, love, passion, me, heart, heart, me,
Form:
Free verse
Four
Alan Shepard, astronaut, took golf balls to the moon
He whacked them only when he knew that he’d be leaving soon
‘One flew two hundred yards,’ he said, ‘and as I recollect
one came down in a crater,...
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Categories:
hurtling, golf, space,
Form:
Rhyme
Out From the Heavens
OUT FROM THE HEAVENS
Came this dazzling beautiful Gem, hurtling towards me
tail aglow, streaking across the darkened sky,
bearing an energy that lit up all I could ever want to see.
Her radiance so pure, this I...
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Categories:
hurtling, love, dance, beautiful, beautiful, dance, universe,
Form:
Rhyme
Fantastic Four
A team of adventurers? A group of friends?
They are a family and that will never change.
Hurtling through space on a mission on the Marvel I spaceship, Reed his buddy Ben along with Reed’s girlfriend Sue...
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Categories:
hurtling, hero,
Form:
Narrative