Long Inconsequential 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:
inconsequential, africa, america, history, racism, slavery, world,
Form:
Verse
Summer
“SUMMER”
Where
has Summer
gone?
The world
has lost
Summer
Sweet
little
dream
missing
all those other
beautiful
small dreams
seen as toys
small and
inconsequential
casually tossed aside,
disposable play,
things
pure shining lights
smiling eyes once so bright,
switched off,
'neath...
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Categories:
inconsequential, abuse, child abuse,
Form:
Epic
Free Verse IiNucleotidings
by Michael R. Burch
“We will walk taller!” said Gupta,
sorta abrupta,
hand-in-hand with his mom,
eyeing the A-bomb.
“Who needs a mahatma
in the aftermath of NAFTA?
Now, that was a disaster,”
cried glib Punjab.
“After Y2k,
time will spin out of control anyway,”
flamed...
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Categories:
inconsequential, angel, child, childhood, children, family, time, world,
Form:
Free verse
Sonnet Lxxxi-LxxxixSonnet LXXXI-LXXXIX
Day, and Night
by Michael R. Burch
The moon exposes pockmarked scars of craters;
her visage, veiled by willows, palely looms.
And we who rise each day to grind a living,
dream each scented night of such perfumes
as drew...
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Categories:
inconsequential, dream, earth, flower, moon, music, night, stars,
Form:
Sonnet
Rejection Slips 1Rejection Slips
With over 5,700 publications if I count poems that have gone viral, I suppose I shouldn’t complain … but I do have some poems that have never been accepted for publication. Here are a...
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Categories:
inconsequential, day, love, memory, night, rose, seasons, winter,
Form:
Rhyme
Something Old Something NewIn a matter of months, we would experience the greatest economic ...
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Categories:
inconsequential, change, travel,
Form:
Free verse
Farmer Fred Talks Politics Vol IiLet me explain the numbers I see
The first chart illustrates the five states that flipped
Notice how close the totals are
So, when folks dismiss the evidence of fraud
As being inconsequential I think this demonstrates they’re mental...
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Categories:
inconsequential, political,
Form:
Narrative
Making TeaIt's styles of a nameless brand pristine day
an exclusive star-sheathed shadow after
overwhelming luminous glare fainted
a somewhat true-to-life footpath in
a back of structured quaintness
Encountering myself at a passionate spring
oozing its life gliding o'er its rocky...
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Categories:
inconsequential, allusion, analogy, blessing, celebration, dad, daughter, mother,
Form:
Concrete
As I Watch Myself Unfold Without LoveHe/I/they/all/we/none knowing sit/sats he/she thoughts he/she witnessed he/she held a behold as to what the hell a corporeal ring of things once unbeknowinest to him/her was about,: thought provoking, yet undeterminate in any reason with...
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Categories:
inconsequential, age, appreciation, grief, remember, sad love, visionary,
Form:
Free verse
My Avatar SonI have a son,
in whom I am well pleased,
with more than his share of heart
and mindbody intelligence,
to comprehend vastness of Earth's evolving history
and future demise,
to comprehend full emptiness of universes within
and without
co-arising nondual lonely/solitude
double-binary universes
de/re-generative,
Enough...
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Categories:
inconsequential, father son, happiness, health, identity, integrity, political,
Form:
Political Verse
The Conditions of LivingThe Conditions of Living
Stark organisations of my observations
Respond to beauty with pure elation
Instead of chronic devastation
Process the abject consternation
From contrived over-saturation
And acute mass manipulation
That should be in legal confiscation
Truth found...
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Categories:
inconsequential, 12th grade,
Form:
Rhyme
Trump's Now the PresidentTrump's Now the President
(how he got there)
By Franklin Price
1/30/2019
Trump is now the President
Not the cause but the effect
Of Republicans and Democrats
Refusing to connect
He's not from either party
Though Republicans have the claim
I think he...
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Categories:
inconsequential, america, anxiety, political,
Form:
Rhyme
BubblesIs there room to care for the penultimate?
Can't decide if the space can satisfy two collard greens.
One oblivious cabbage... one who has desperately tried to expand the space, to save the others, who...
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Categories:
inconsequential, change,
Form:
Sestina
Harbinger of Time
Written: March 4th 2024
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Whilst waiting patience is a probity,
swifter straddling startled savvy scare
strong for people enduring anguish
trope for enthusiastic...
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Categories:
inconsequential, analogy, time,
Form:
Free verse
My Mother's Death In Iii PartsPart I: My mother’s Voice.
“There’s something not quite right.”
My mother’s doctor said.
The murmur in your heart.
I think we’ll make a start,
to take a look, and book a bed...
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Categories:
inconsequential, cry, death, death of a friend, loss,
Form:
Narrative
The Stone UnturnedThere are three little words on tiny stones strewn along the floor
of a never-ending stream which runs through a misty moor.
A marvelous moor of uncertainty where mysteriously all are led
to cross a flowing water all...
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Categories:
inconsequential, love, metaphor, , extended metaphor,
Form:
Rhyme
That was then, this is now"Play the audio is in accord with the dramatic monologue," ... by the Poet
...
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Categories:
inconsequential, father son, forgiveness, longing, loss, missing you,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
My Unflamenco Loins In Xexual Abeyance In Fm UnfilfilledHad I, been I, would I have been born in the all time of all of things positive Spanish, esp the Flamenco fragrance of all things love, life and flourish casting all pertinent fate to...
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Categories:
inconsequential, beautiful, confidence, emotions, lonely, love, passion, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
Checkmate
Pawn
You've been a peon, lowly pawn your whole life
Never amounted to much,
nothing much ever went right
Grew up dirt piss poor,
never knew the reason why
you were put on this earth for
So you start cyber chasing every...
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Categories:
inconsequential, allegory, allusion, life, metaphor, truth,
Form:
Alliteration
Story of the Lopsided BoyBorn into a world with only one hand to hold
Delivered by eyes impassive to his existence
cold fingers brought no warmth to his welcome
While no strength held him high.
The yearning in his eyes hollowed with...
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Categories:
inconsequential, boy, fate, sorrow,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Hey God If U Only Knew Me, Take My Advice God DammitThere's an inner/outter counter blank element that defines our earthly countenance transparent transpire to an irrelevant parlor non native nill given gotten gave, positioned ill latently counterintuitive never minded gotten gained heretofore-d hahaha-d wtf-dis thisd?...
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Categories:
inconsequential, analogy, change, emotions, how i feel, life,
Form:
Free verse
My SonI have a son
with more than his share of heart
and mindbody intelligence,
to comprehend vastness of Earth’s evolving history
and future demise,
to comprehend full emptiness of universes within
and without
co-arising nondual universes,
enough intelligence to become haunted
by our deep...
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Categories:
inconsequential, destiny, humanity, humor, jobs, money, philosophy, political,
Form:
Prose Poetry
MasqueradeA colourful array of falsehoods
Intricately designed disguises
Fools, fortunes, phantoms
Masks clinging on their faces
Lives hidden away by an illusory veils
Veils that cannot be removed
Cannot be seen
Secrets tucked away in their eyes
Each a pair of...
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Categories:
inconsequential, extended metaphor, freedom, imagery, imagination, insect, judgement,
Form:
Free verse
I Was ThinkingToday, I'm thinking about a man name Zack.
When he was young, Zack thought a lot about 'tomorrow'.
He tried hard to put 'today' behind him and forget about it.
'Yesterday' seemed inconsequential and of no interest to...
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Categories:
inconsequential, friendship, remember,
Form:
Narrative
Early Poems XivEarly Poems XIV
Am I
by Michael R. Burch
Am I inconsequential;
do I matter not at all?
Am I just a snowflake,
to sparkle, then to fall?
Am I only chaff?
Of what use am I?
Am I just a feeble flame,
to flicker,...
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Categories:
inconsequential, 10th grade, age, analogy, class, graduate, high
Form:
Rhyme