Long Inching Poems
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Various HeresiesIf God
is good
half the Bible
is libel.
-Michael R. Burch
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Willy Nilly
Michael R. Burch
Isn’t it silly, Willy Nilly?
You made the stallion,
you made the filly
and now they sleep
in the dark earth, stilly.
Isn’t it silly, Willy Nilly?
Isn’t it silly, Willy...
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Categories:
inching, atheist, christian, faith, god, heaven, religion, spiritual,
Form:
Verse
Why I Don'T Trust Psychics - 2nd ThirdNOTE: This is the 2nd THIRD of a funny 3-part piece. No other way to post it due to file size limitations. It's a really fun poem, and I hope you'll take the time...
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Categories:
inching, funny, humor,
Form:
Narrative
Chapter 80 --Damian Delilah Mallory: CongregationsDamian Stood in the Hugh room
Surveying the expansiveness of
The place. "Yeah, this will be a
Imperial family event in my house.
The judges will be here too.
There were two large tables
The capacity was almost
Immeasurable....
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Categories:
inching, abuse, confidence,
Form:
Alliteration
Shame and Guilt Sabotaged Mine Healthy GrowthShame and guilt sabotaged mine healthy growth...
and let yours truly not forget emasculation
that prickly emotional immobilization
whereby these lovely bones
subject courtesy senescence
upon cremation reduced to obliteration.
Inching closer to mortality
linkedin with concomitant
subtle deterioration of body...
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Categories:
inching, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form:
Free verse
Spouse Cannot Forget Mine Suppressed Flatulence Upon Our First DateSpouse cannot forget mine suppressed flatulence upon our first date
While yours truly sat here
at the desk housing MacBook Pro,
pondering his next idée fixe apropos
for gamut of anonymous readers,
he unexpectedly, noisily and effectually
exploded out rear...
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Categories:
inching, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th
Form:
Rhyme
A Light At the End of the Tunnel"What a fine day for a picnic," my friends all said,
In the dog days of summer, with the hot sun overhead.
We would all go for a swim, and then have a fine lunch,
And would return...
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Categories:
inching, adventure, dark, fantasy, friendship love, home, light,
Form:
Couplet
New NeighborsI am just finishing my morning meditation when I hear my doorbell ring. It actually sounds more like that buzzing sound you hear if you fry a fat fly on one of those electronic bug...
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Categories:
inching, depression, family, funny love, humor, husband, lonely,
Form:
Narrative
Wednesday September 2021 At 320 PmWednesday, September 2021 at 3:20 PM...
eastern standard time Autumn Equinox arrives
That seasonal occasion twill arise
when darkness and light doth bring
equilibrium between night and day
raking leaves will constitute exercise
espied and witnessed by observant earthling
namely me who...
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Categories:
inching, appreciation, autumn, celebration, destiny, environment, fate, inspiration,
Form:
Rhyme
Courtesy Severely Receding Hair LineCourtesy severely receding hair line...,
yours truly enveloped within morose mood
I (Samson incarnate)
frankly experience zapped strength,
hence sulk and pine for salad days of youth
when abundant golden locks adorned me noggin.
Now in doddering dotage scant wisps...
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Categories:
inching, absence, anger, crush, cry, fate, heartbroken, husband,
Form:
Rhyme
Highlights From Highland ManorHighlights from Highland Manor
Courtesy Goofus and Gallant
who began their broadly-drawn
moral plays in the 1950s,
initially depicted as identical twins,
but later on, editors for Highlights
indicated the two were brothers,
but not twins, and...
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Categories:
inching, adventure, age, animal, celebration, environment, green, july,
Form:
Rhyme
Weird Fake NewsWeird "fake" news
This pencil necked geek
did hair thru the long grapevine
actually following false tidbit
originated within imagination i.e. mine,
while stationed at Macbook Pro
laptop - time already inching close
to hour of rise and shine
yikes still no bloody...
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Categories:
inching, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, grave,
Form:
Free verse
I Am An Empty SoulI am an empty soul; I simply have no drive, it’s a wonder that I can survive
I am too depressed and I feel no rest; I always feel this pain deep in my chest
Life is...
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Categories:
inching, absence, angst, dark, sad,
Form:
Rhyme
Does the War Ever Really EndA moment stauls...
Somewhere in between
What shall always be...
Known as my lost and forever hour
Where I wake to sounds of thrashing rains
A clock sits staring, ticking and tocking
My own darkness illuminating lightning
Distant thunder following her...
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Categories:
inching, confusion, courage, dark, father, metaphor, pain, rain,
Form:
Verse
Epigrams IiiSpeechless at Auschwitz
by Ko Un
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
At Auschwitz
piles of glasses
mountains of shoes ...
returning, we stared out different windows.
Ko Un speaks for all of us, by not knowing what to say about the...
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Categories:
inching, humor, literature, philosophy, poems, satire, words, writing,
Form:
Epigram
Experiencing Emerging Adulthood Stage While Inching Toward Being An Old GeezerMe, an aging baby boomer
long haired pencil necked geek
burning, depleting, using... fossil fuels,
thus a global nonrenewable resource(s)
repentant consumer
admitting heavily trod carbon footprint
additionally deeply enmired
within very late adolescence,
hence I shriek
with utter dismay
starkly aware personal hygiene
suffers direct...
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Categories:
inching, anger, childhood, confusion, father daughter, health, mom,
Form:
Free verse
Save Our SoulsIt was three in the morning and I had to get dressed
The radio had crackled out, another SOS
The fire flickered slowly, it was to cold to gain heat
So I pulled on my old boots and...
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Categories:
inching, dedication, me, old, tree, fire, fire, me,
Form:
Verse
Perry and Empire‘Twas but a mist-enshrouded speckle
dark-painted on looming horizon.
Petty worker holds unwavering watch,
silently, stealthily keeps his eyes on.
Forward motion undeniable,
each passing minute size increasing.
Small heart stands alert and viable –
beating fast and tremulous; though, never...
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Categories:
inching, allegory, heart, imagery, relationship, symbolism, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
A Poetic CallDetermined to read and plant the seed fast
to emulate poets of the present and past.
I staked the library display Whitman, Kilmer, Frost, unnamed arrays
including Sandberg and St. Vincent Millay.
It...
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Categories:
inching, poetry, poets, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Booming NightBang! Bang!
A roaring sound erupted from downstairs awakening my sister and I,
Silence over filled the house.
My sister and I laid in our bed immobile,
I listened to her soft quivering breaths as the tranquility...
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Categories:
inching, cry, dark, daughter, deep, evil, fear, halloween,
Form:
Lay
The Consumers Mental SlaveryThe blood is dripping
Greed creeping
The towers tipping
The powerful sipping the sweet tea
Made from the blood and sweat of poverty
Exploitation
Rules the nation
Propaganda at every station
Look and see
There is no more you or me
Just...
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Categories:
inching, 10th grade, political,
Form:
Free verse
Red Riding HoodOne day, little Red Riding Hood’s mother told her to deliver a basket of food to her elder grandmother.
She told Red not to talk to any strangers and to stay on the path to...
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Categories:
inching, abuse, betrayal, child, childhood, corruption, death, innocence,
Form:
Alliteration
Shelton Washington StateCounty seat, of Mason County, Washington, highly rates
United States Westernmost city on Puget Sound e quates
above ground sans tectonic plates
Population 9,834 per 2010 census
end result from biological mates
maintains commission form of government
drafted...
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Categories:
inching, america, beautiful, blue, christmas, creation, environment, heaven,
Form:
Free verse
Rachab of JerichoDeliberately inching its way toward break of day,
The morning sun begins to emblazon the barley field.
Relaxing and watching the orb find its way,
The lady of the house waits for night to yield.
Like every morning, she...
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Categories:
inching, faith, happiness, history, inspirational, life, visionary, city,
Form:
Rhyme
I Took the DareThere were Indians just over the Brazos
With a buffalo herd in between
They weren’t trying to stay hidden
They wanted to be seen
The chief of these Comanche
Buffalo Hump by name
They say no one's looked him in...
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Categories:
inching, adventure, cowboy-western, native american, horse,
Form:
Ballad
Following the DewI spotted her this morning as the sun was inching into view…
upon a leaf in front of me…a single drop of dew.
It seems the more time you spend in nature…the more talking with nature you...
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Categories:
inching, nature,
Form:
Rhyme