Long Improbably Poems
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Riding Sixties Shotgun
I was in the shotgun seat
in 1960 Lansing Michigan
headed straight as a harddrive
through ghettoizing "Negra Section"
hunting down our commercial whitebread
heavenly ThriftyAcres
Wanna be a WalMart ImPlantation
but not Southern enough,
somehow,
to withstand straight-male competition
in fluent White Privileged...
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Categories:
improbably, beauty, community, culture, extended metaphor, health, romance,
Form:
Political Verse
Permanent Sanctuary School
I came to AllSouls
looking for permanent sanctuary.
Sanctuary,
not only from a Rumpian absence of
civility
and non-violent trust
and integrity
and compassion,
but also pro-actively for an orthodox health eco-school
for learning to secure these passioned gifts
through cooperative
pro-active
co-arising practice.
A permanently...
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Categories:
improbably, community, fear, health, integrity, love, peace, school,
Form:
Political Verse
Choosing Happiness
Tonight I heard a terminally cancered
yet not cancelled
singer songwriter say
"I can't wait for life to not be hard
before choosing to be happy."
She spoke well from her own experience
and I remain moved,
but also curiously confused
about...
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Categories:
improbably, fear, happiness, health, integrity, light, mental illness,
Form:
Political Verse
Fair Game
POEMS ABOUT POOL SHARKS
Fair Game
by Michael R. Burch
At the Tennessee State Fair,
the largest stuffed animals hang tilt-a-whirl over the pool tables
with mocking button eyes,
knowing the playing field is unlevel,
that the rails slant, ever so slightly,...
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Categories:
improbably, addiction, confidence, eulogy, fun, games, nostalgia, silly,
Form:
Free verse
Poems About Pool Sharks
POEMS ABOUT POOL SHARKS
Shark
by Michael R. Burch
They are all unknowable,
these rough pale men—
haunting dim pool rooms like shadows,
propped up on bar stools like scarecrows,
nodding and sagging in the fraying light...
I am not of them,
as I...
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Categories:
improbably, games, poems, poetry, poets, sports,
Form:
Rhyme
A Conflict in Nature
Up here, where the lone trees grow, the air is clear and the time is now.
Up here, where the lone trees grow, my emotions alternate between what I see and what I know.
The only easy...
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Categories:
improbably, world war ii,
Form:
Free verse
Her Wonderful Mother Nature
HER WONDERFUL MOTHER NATURE
Once upon her entering and exiting
Her comings and goings
Groceries, gym or mall
Mother Nature made the mirrors love her
All-knowing reflection,
No adjustments needed...
Please...not one correction
Causing confusion, she's unflawed
Everywhere, in...
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Categories:
improbably, romance,
Form:
Romanticism
Still I Am
I hate me
More than any of you could
Still i am
The man who stood
Gravity couldn't pull me down
Looking through space
From the outside in
Taking each pain with a widening grin
Improbably Probable
normally curious
but curiously abnormal
Sliding down elongated giraffes...
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Categories:
improbably, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Perfect Imperfect
Framed blemish.
Heavy as a tumor.
Solid as surrender.
Dig into epidermis.
Uproot the moment.
Unclean kernel.
Hard, cold reflection.
Show me pretty.
Clogged pores.
Yellow teeth.
Rheumy eyes.
Ugly is as ugly does.
Smile at the mirror.
Try to forget.
This is you.
Forever unlovely.
Look at what...
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Categories:
improbably, beautiful, beauty, body, hurt, mental illness, vanity,
Form:
Free verse
Suburban Nocturne
A vertical sliver pries into the doorway, a beam from the watchful eye in the hall
While amber stars in cages, captives in lampposts, shout prophecies beneath the moon
Obscured by trees
Their cries filter into the window
And...
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Categories:
improbably, hope, introspection, life, nature
Form:
Free verse
Climbing Trees
We went to climb trees
in the jungle gyms of green apple orchards,
bare legs dangled
toes dipped into shady pools of sky.
Secret girlfriends climbed barefooted
onto impossibly roomy branches,
their skirts improbably short,
in the swinging bowers.
Memory plays its tricks
perhaps...
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Categories:
improbably, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Stillbirth of a Sonnet
There have been moments in my life enjoyed
more for the forest than the fallen leaves.
White drops of ink that improbably bleed
right off their journal to rupture the void
no one had known existed ‘til destroyed
by the...
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Categories:
improbably, daughter, divorce, father daughter, poems, writing,
Form:
Sonnet
The Sun Will Shine On Your Face
Suspended improbably on shoulders
Hunched by years of glacial attrition
And threaded through a forest of boulders:
The path that holds the key to my mission
I speak allegorically, because
This tortured path has ne’er been seen before
And every rock...
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Categories:
improbably, friendship, hope, life, love
Form:
Sonnet