Long In any case Poems
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The Amistad MutinyThe Amistad Mutiny
Slavery, a dirty word no matter how it’s pronounced:
Abducted and herded to the slave fortress of Lomboko1 for trade.
To be tossed in chains below deck on the Portuguese ship Tecora,2
Sailing the Atlantic Middle...
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Categories:
in any case, africa, america, history, racism, slavery, world,
Form:
Verse
More Pickles Than OneFor ten months now I’ve brooded over coming second place
in the pickle section deeming, it no less than a disgrace.
It was written plain and simple, so there can be no excuse,
that the pickles in this...
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Categories:
in any case, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Where Is Your MindWhere Is Your Mind?
Where is your mind?
Is it way out there in the clouds of smoking cigarettes and cigars?
Is it way out there in the clouds of smoking marijuana?
Where is your mind?
Is it way out...
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Categories:
in any case, adventure, allegory, analogy, desire, growth, passion, perspective,
Form:
Lyric
I Am My Father's SonThey were gambling in front of the house.
Manservants and pages bustled about
Serving Suitors who just curse and carouse.
Few mix wine with water. I heard one shout,
"Clean down the tables with wet sponges! Rouse
Yourselves! And when...
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Categories:
in any case, adventure, anger, anxiety, bullying, father, history, introspection,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Pencils In SeptemberI smell like pencils in September.
After they’ve been brought to that…to the machine hanging on the closet wall where our coats, our boots, our bags, and nonsense lived.
You stared me in the eyes, since the...
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Categories:
in any case, 3rd grade, america, betrayal, child, child abuse,
Form:
Free verse
Letters For People Part 4Dear people,
(Am i?) Mad it’s a conformist state?
A status that perpetuates people to pair, to compare, to prepare,
to perfect, before performance, …?
-sure hard to try...
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Categories:
in any case, america, angst, business, confusion, feelings, poverty,
Form:
Epic
Sappho TranslationsSappho fragment #155
translation by Michael R. Burch
A short revealing frock?
It's just my luck
your lips were made to mock!
*
Sappho fragment #156
translation by Michael R. Burch
She keeps her scents
in a dressing-case.
And her sense?
In some undiscoverable...
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Categories:
in any case, girl, girlfriend, love, lust, sensual, woman, women,
Form:
Epigram
The Only Northern Northern StarAs winter hazes of January spraying
While I was meditating on how
To write this riveting poem which
Seemed to be for someone who
I never cast in my sight.
Despite her name is not an odd in me
But I...
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Categories:
in any case, africa,
Form:
Ode
The First Valentine Poem, Circa 1415The First Valentine Poem
Charles d’Orleans (1394-1465) has been credited with writing the first Valentine poem for his wife in 1415. Charles wrote the first Valentine poem in the first year of his captivity while being...
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Categories:
in any case, heart, love, passion, romance, romantic, romantic love,
Form:
Rhyme
Short Stuff: EpigramsEpigrams by Michael R. Burch
Negligibles
by Michael R. Burch
Show me your most intimate items of apparel:
begin with the hem of your quicksilver slip ...
Negotiables
by Michael R. Burch
Love should be more than the sum of its...
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Categories:
in any case, body, clothes, death, eulogy, introspection, love, obituary,
Form:
Epigram
Love Poems IiiLOVE POEMS III by Michael R. Burch
These are love poems by Michael R. Burch about passion, desire, lust, sex, dating, relationships, devotion and marriage.
Violets
by Michael R. Burch
Once, only once,
when the wind flicked your skirt
to...
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Categories:
in any case, desire, devotion, love, lust, marriage, passion, relationship,
Form:
Rhyme
State of the Art IiiState of the Art (III)
These are my "ars poetica" poems: the ones about the art and craft of writing poetry in a modern world that doesn't always recognize the artists or their work.
Come Down
by...
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Categories:
in any case, art, muse, poems, poetry, poets, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Poems ViPoems about Poems VI
The Board
by Michael R. Burch
Accessible rhyme is never good.
The penalty is understood?
soft titters from dark board rooms where
the businessmen paste on their hair
and, Walter Mitties, woo the Muse
with reprimands of Dr. Seuss.
The...
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Categories:
in any case, extended metaphor, heaven, muse, passion, poems, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
My Most Popular Poems On the Internet IiMy most popular poems on the Internet (II)
A number of my poems and translations have gone viral, according to Google, and some have been copied onto hundreds to thousands of web pages. That’s a lot...
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Categories:
in any case, internet, poems, poetry, poets, social, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
The Battle Hymn of Covid19I cannot let this obsession with Coronavirus (COVID19) go
It is apparent, from the number of deaths projected, to be in the hundreds of thousands, that many Americans still are not heeding the warnings. I hope...
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Categories:
in any case, america, death, health, inspiration,
Form:
Rhyme
RipR.I.P.
by Michael R. Burch
When I am lain to rest
and my soul is no longer intact,
but dissolving, like a sunset
diminishing to the west...
and when at last
before His throne my past
is put to test
and the demons...
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Categories:
in any case, death, dream, funeral, grave, judgement, sleep, sunset,
Form:
Verse
Employment TraumaMy protagonist today,
a Gay Black Religious Mature Male,
not quite ready for silver-grey Obama temples
Is off this morning
to a new full-time job,
8 to 5,
Monday through Friday.
He has been out of his calming,
regular custodial collared routine,
for over...
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Categories:
in any case, betrayal, caregiving, culture, health, prejudice, religion, work,
Form:
Political Verse
Poems About Poems IvPoems 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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Categories:
in any case, allegory, allusion, appreciation, art, poems, poetry, poets,
Form:
Rhyme
The Strange Case of Ft
"The Strange Case of F.T."
They say the dead don’t talk
the stories I have calculated
to deliver a saving grace
confessional shared amongst
my equal peers, or so I deem
you somewhat sometimes seem,
less than me, you...
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Categories:
in any case, dark, horror, poets,
Form:
Narrative
Two Wrongs Worth a RightToday, our first “All About Me” History class begins
when we comprehend every day and night
co-arises with “All About We”
full-octave
Zero-centric
bicamerally encultured
and regenetically reiterated
in and through,
by and for,
before and after,
each moment of Earth Tribe’s timeless surfing times.
If...
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Categories:
in any case, culture, earth, humor, integrity, philosophy, political, universe,
Form:
Narrative
Bipartisan DissonanceWhen oppositional cognitive dissonance
deflects focus from compassion,
I've learned to go back to when I deflected focus from her.
She sends me passive-aggressive messages,
bread crumbs leading back in time
to where she began to feel alone,
marginalized,
siloed,
anxious,
neglected.
If...
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Categories:
in any case, conflict, math, parents, political, race, religion, sin,
Form:
Narrative
Ecotherapist ConventionsTruth is a feather
pushed off to the other side.
Truths are a body of feathers
within which our bodies reside.
OK, students of life’s healthiest purposes and meanings,
it’s time to regather, if you would be so kind.
Namaste.
[Silence]
[My...
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Categories:
in any case, beauty, culture, earth, health, humor, nature, truth,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Millie's Christmas WishMillie's Christmas Wish
Winter Vacation was coming
The kids were all set
They were thinking of Christmas
And the gifts they would get
But, Millie sat waiting
Thinking of nothing but snow
Watching the class clock
That was moving so slow
They did arts...
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Categories:
in any case, 5th grade, adventure, america, childhood, christmas,
Form:
Epic
Limericks Vi - ReligionLimericks VI - Religion
Pell-Mell for Hell Mel
by Michael R. Burch
There once was a Baptist named Mel
who condemned all non-Christians to hell.
When he stood before God
he felt like a clod
to discover His Love couldn’t fail!
Why I...
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Categories:
in any case, christian, humor, humorous, light, nonsense, religion, religious,
Form:
Limerick
Answers Without QuestionsWhy do questions hope to end with answers
while answers seem to never end
without yet more questions?
As a case in point...
How are the Case Studies of economic and political history
different than Einstein's Thought Experiments?
Wait a...
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Categories:
in any case, feelings, health, humor, integrity, language, relationship, science,
Form:
Political Verse