Long Inattentive Poems
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God's Return Ticket
God's Return Ticket
Did you ever wonder about the Almighty’s criteria or selection process for reincarnation of souls back on Earth? Just think some famous politician, movie star, sports figure,criminal, dictator, and so on could use...
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Categories:
inattentive, beauty, creation, earth, emotions, god, heaven, judgement,
Form:
Narrative
Your Sanity
Stuck in place…
Free in space…
you’re insane
I’m as sweet as sugar cane…
Whatever happened to your unique personality?
Whatever happened to your sanity?
Has it transformed to insanity?
I like the way you make me feel
Oh, you don’t...
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Categories:
inattentive, anger, angst, appreciation, beauty, change, emotions, encouraging,
Form:
Rhyme
What Remains Within - Remorse and Pain, of Course, Reduces To Rain
Deliver my shattered soul –
It has done more harm than good
I felt darkness take its toll
When I wore the abyss shirt with a hood…
Shadows dare to consume me
Darkness will disappear drastically
Crows get scared away...
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Categories:
inattentive, confidence, courage, emotions, encouraging, endurance, pain, passion,
Form:
Free verse
Takaha Shugyo Translation
These are modern English translations of haiku and tanka by Takaha Shugyo...
ochitsubaki ware naraba kyuryu e otsu
Oh, fallen camellias,
if I were you,
I'd leap into the torrent!
—Takaha Shugyo, loose translation by Michael R. Burch
dôkefuku nugazu tentômushi...
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Categories:
inattentive, death, life, nature, write, writing,
Form:
Tanka
Haiku Translations by Michael R Burch
Am I really this old,
so many ghosts
beckoning?
—Michael R. Burch
Sleepyheads!
I recite my haiku
to the inattentive lilies.
—Michael R. Burch
Stillness:
the sound of petals
drifting down softly together...
—Miura Chora, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
The sky tries to assume
your eyes’...
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Categories:
inattentive, death, god, grave, life, love, sky, world,
Form:
Haiku
Takaha Shugyo Haiku and Tanka Translations
These are my modern English translations of Takaha Shugyo haiku and tanka...
hatogata horarete ichiju haya mebuku
A single tree
with a heart carved into its trunk
blossoms prematurely
—Takaha Shugyo, loose translation by Michael R. Burch
dôkefuku nugazu tentômushi no...
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Categories:
inattentive, animal, beauty, heaven, nature, sea, simile, stars,
Form:
Haiku
Ready, Set, Please Don'T Go Because I'M Not
I’ve always been your little girl,
Even now that I’m an adult.
Yes, I know I’ll always be your baby,
And I grew up way too fast.
But there’s something I can’t stop from happening dad,
And in some ways...
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Categories:
inattentive, dad, death,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Villanelle: the Cricketers' Hakka: How's Zaat
Villanelle : The Cricketer’s Hakka : « How’s Zaat ! »
Balls thud into pads bats gloves or whisk past batsmen
At bowler’s end or square leg umpires stare stand
« How’s Zaat ! » yell players game’s...
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Categories:
inattentive, games, judgement, passion, pride, psychological, sports,
Form:
Villanelle
Haiku Translations III
These are original haiku by Michael R. Burch and his translations of haiku by the Japanese masters Matsuo Basho, Yosa Buson, Masaoka Shiki, and others.
Am I really this old,
so many ghosts
beckoning?
—Michael R. Burch
Sleepyheads!
I recite...
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Categories:
inattentive, blue, life, night, old, sky, write, writing,
Form:
Haiku
Being In the Mind of a Savage
Being in the mind of a savage.
All I know is how to act ferociously.
Manipulating the minds of the weak, fearful, and the victims.
Beating them into submissive.
Emasculating the strongest, just to see him break.
Dismiss him of...
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Categories:
inattentive, 5th grade, 6th grade, 9th grade, abuse,
Form:
Free verse
No One Really Cares Part2
NO ONE REALLY CARES
Part 2
With a scheme from a team of human traitors who are unclean,
Straight up extreme and using it in a deceitful way,
Holding KNOWLEDGE of natural law, but manipulated bringing us decay,
May...
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Categories:
inattentive, allegory, care, earth, light, meaningful, truth, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
Little Coffee House
Little Coffee House
It’s the coffee counter line-up
A conveyor belt of people
Ready for their little treat
A little piece of comfort
From their favorite beanery
I strum as I watch them
My guitar like an old friend
They...
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Categories:
inattentive, confusion, girl, people, places, urban,
Form:
Lyric
My green house project
In the mid 80's, I took a job as a receptionist for a wholesale floral company.
Encased in a glass claustrophobic space, I answered their busy phone lines
as I gazed at the warehouse walls of greenery...
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Categories:
inattentive, environment, flower, planet,
Form:
Narrative
A World On Fire
We live today in a world of great tumult
And of rising uncertainty and anxiety
Which pervade the world stage like a cancer
Despite soaring technological advances
Our environment and our home Earth
Are bearing an unimaginable burden
People are...
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Categories:
inattentive, allegory, change, earth, history, international, introspection, nature,
Form:
Narrative
Writing Under the Stain
in an
angst- saturated
...
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Categories:
inattentive, poetry, sad,
Form:
Free verse
In the mirror, one day, the stranger will stand and you will gaze long
In the mirror, one day, the stranger will stand and you will gaze long,
The shadow of what was, shall fade into the unknown to be.
You allowed others to be the carriers of self, and they...
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Categories:
inattentive, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
First-Person Personal
First-Person Personal
By Sy Roth
Here adrift wrapped in a coat of heebeejeebies
Fearful of using the first-person personal
Masking it instead by holograms of itself,
Playful non-entities cavorting among the semi-living.
Used to squirrel the words away like nuts now...
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Categories:
inattentive, 3rd grade, allegory, angst,
Form:
Free verse
Spirit and Stone and a Great Lake Nearby
SPIRIT AND STONE &
A GREAT LAKE NEARBY
Her father was
a difficult contradiction,
annoyingly similar to a certain
type of teacher, minister or priest,
to a certain type of imam, rabbi
or occasional poet, a confounding
combination of spirit and stone,
a faith...
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Categories:
inattentive, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
Gene, Gene, the Singing Machine
(in memoriam, Eugene Lawler, d. January 29, 2012, aged 83 years)
--- Note: "The singing machine" is a not so tongue-in-cheek reference to Gene and his penchant for singing whenever and wherever he wished, as...
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Categories:
inattentive, angst, anniversary, death, friendship, funeral, introspection, loss,
Form:
Free verse
Pictures of Ancestral Images
No colder winter's evening reawakens, in an abrupt
glance, this memory from others already faded
in the inattentive recollection of a son's mind;
even insignificant moments are worthy of thought.
A pubescent boy unlearned and precarious at giving advice,
but...
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Categories:
inattentive, child, emotions, innocence, memory, mother son, winter,
Form:
Rhyme
It's All Political
Here they come,
not one by one
but the majority out of reach
doubting reasons to impeach.
It's okay to have a bully president
tweeting nonsense, bias, wordings without precedent,
stroke his ego, praise his fool...
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Categories:
inattentive, america, angst, political,
Form:
Quatrain
Pairing Indeterminate
Where then the emotive happiness
with such procrastinated enchantment brings
desirous supposedly encountered
and romantic wanderings heady cadence
which pins the inattentive to the skins of longing
It is said to be lost in the surge
to swirl with giddy waltz
yes...
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Categories:
inattentive, heart, lonely, longing, love,
Form:
Free verse
I Hate the Player and the Game
I loathe you-
I especially hate your face-
But, I really hate that I miss
...
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Categories:
inattentive, angst, confusion, depression, devotion, girlfriend-boyfriend, lost love,
Form:
I do not know?
Sounds of Summer
The roar of the neighbor's tractor
as it pulls the cultivator,
the buzz of the helicopter
spraying the planted field,
familiar sounds of summer
near my little rural home.
A distant howling coyote
coveting my clucking hens,
the crowing of the rooster
proclaiming his...
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Categories:
inattentive, summer,
Form:
Free verse
I - Illusion
Images of incineration interrupt
Infernal imagery imposes in intricate intervals, illegible to those ill with ignorance
Inadequate ideologies imply impoverish ways, never to be incriminated no matter how idiotic
Inattentive to our imaginary inflation issues
Improvident to the...
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Categories:
inattentive, corruption, fire, future, image, imagination, leadership, political,
Form:
ABC