Long Infirm Poems
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Winter Awakens My CareWinter Awakens My Care
anonymous Middle English poem, circa 1300
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Winter awakens all my care
as leafless trees grow bare.
For now my sighs are fraught
whenever it enters my thought:
regarding this world's joy,
how everything...
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Categories:
infirm, angst, england, joy, sorrow, tree, weather, winter,
Form:
Couplet
The Rhyming Poem - Part IThe Rhymed Poem aka The Rhyming Poem and The Riming Poem
Old English Poem (i.e., Anglo-Saxon Poem) from the Exeter Book, ca. 990 AD
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
He who granted me life created this sun
and...
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Categories:
infirm, england, literature, poems, poetry, poets, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
The Rhyming Poem - Part IiThe Rhymed Poem aka The Rhyming Poem and The Riming Poem - Part II
anonymous Old English Poem from the Exeter Book, circa 990 AD
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
He who granted me life created this...
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Categories:
infirm, england, literature, poems, poetry, poets, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
The Secret Lives of Chimney Pots VSpawned from the loins that
Perpetuated the loyal serfs mongrel
Seed:-
These peoples of a conditioned and
"Resigned-To-it-all" breed.
Born into the enveloping tedium
Of interlocking days...Interwoven
With interlocking days -
Victims of stark circumstance
And vague promises unmade.
Gregariously living out their lives
When...
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Categories:
infirm, philosophy,
Form:
Rhyme
Sophistication of sinister online skulduggerySophistication of sinister online skulduggery...
lurks within the outer limits of cyberspace,
where dark shadows eclipse edge of night
indistinguishable from the twilight zone.
Within the Internet binary size weavers loom
shuttlecock whizzes (analogous to a bad mitten)
at speed of...
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Categories:
infirm, analogy, angst, anxiety, betrayal, emotions, history, june,
Form:
Free verse
If Ever I Had a Country : Lxiv and LxvIF EVER I HAD A COUNTRY : LXIV - LXV
NOTE (facts to bear in mind while reading) : Under the French Penal Code, harm done to the infirm, minors and seniors (i.e. over 65) is...
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Categories:
infirm, allegory, anti bullying, corruption, french, immigration, power,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Culling the HerdDroves who flash 'brand of God' all will die, Faith or not!
Faith's not blood we can paint on the gates of our homes,
wait for Passover's promise as servant's of God -
man's death falls, a cold...
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Categories:
infirm, faith,
Form:
Rhyme
Press ReleaseA listing of the fires
and all the survivors
will be provided
Names of the dead
are written on broken cobblestones
at the bottom of the river
The sheet music
is in the morgue - reconstruction
of...
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Categories:
infirm, crazy, humor, political, satire,
Form:
Verse
The Park -- Part OnePigeons flutter in the park
eating refuse from the grass.
Noon comes; the hours pass.
Leaves fall; the sky grows dark.
Silence reigns throughout the park.
A crumpled headline, forgotten toy --
and then, -- and then a far-off bark.
In the...
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Categories:
infirm, angst, caregiving, childhood, death, depression, introspection, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Get Off the Cross, We Need the WoodScarcely the Dropper-- a roach antennae Felt,
Some Maudling exterminator of nakedly inhuman hands.
Boiled renunciation falling sick With life itself,
For Libido has and Always Will Be…. the most Impersonal of instrument.
Stepping out and through a purple...
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Categories:
infirm, devotion, girlfriend-boyfriend, life, love, passion, life,
Form:
Burlesque
How I Think of HeavenI see riots all across my country on tv-
demonstrations against the death of a black man
at the hands of a merciless killer
as his partners looked on, doing nothing.
I see people losing control in riots...
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Categories:
infirm, heaven,
Form:
Free verse
Mary In Holy Quaran Chapter19 Part1Surah Maryam
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
Kaf. Ha. Ya. A'in. Sad. (1) A mention of the mercy of thy Lord unto His servant Zachariah. (2) When he cried unto his Lord a...
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Categories:
infirm, religion, religious, day, son, me, people, wife,
Form:
Verse
A Story About a Bird"THE BIRD CANNOT FLY"
No matter how hard he flaps his wings body won’t lift,
is it obesity or small wings?
He shouldn’t devour the food mother
fed him but do some exercise for flying,
worse yet,
he pecked...
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Categories:
infirm, age, bird, life, symbolism,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Living Law and Dead BeaconThe idea of a living constitution
has the same forensic indeterminacy
as a committed dream.
I am content to trust this dream to the end
to have it fill my cup of hope all day and night.
I am content...
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Categories:
infirm, rights,
Form:
Free verse
Our FatherThis is where my grief met Jeremiah's lamentations
OUR FATHER
As far as the east is from the west, that’s how far the Lord has removed our transgressions from us?
Why do I feel not far removed from...
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Categories:
infirm, bible, christian, deep, depression, pain,
Form:
Elegy
To Whom Or What Are You Bound: the Roadmap To Freedoma woman who had been crippled and infirm for eighteen years long
had a chance encounter with Jesus who healed and made her strong
that woman had been in bondage she was bound up in her life
now...
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Categories:
infirm, angst, devotion, faith, hope, inspirational, upliftinggod, woman,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Categories:
infirm, irony,
Form:
Free verse
A History of It In the FamilyI
Eyes aglaze in the morning rush,
suspended in thought, I stare
through the window of the car,
Adrift in this diffused glare
of the green traffic light,
I am too absorbed to go through.
I have scaled life's stair to...
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Categories:
infirm, depression,
Form:
Free verse
I Wish I Weren'T MeI wish I weren't me!
---------------------------
I sometimes wish that I weren't me!
I were who I've always wanted to be!
A loving angel of the seventh heaven!
Chosen from seraphs of all the seven!
For my devotion to all the...
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Categories:
infirm, angel, care, dedication, devotion, emotions, feelings, inspiration,
Form:
Free verse
Every Poem Is a SongThe structure, or plot, of a poem is, in my opinion, like the melody in music. It's what holds the words together and keeps us reading...
A present's not a gift until someone sends or brings...
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Categories:
infirm, poems, song,
Form:
Rhyme
Waiting For You To Die So That I Can Get a CatSitting, I am graceful
Still,
And ever paceful.
I am waiting.
Waiting for you to die.
I let loose a slow soft purr
-I am content at the thought -
As I sit and stare,
At your body ageing,
And failing
No longer...
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Categories:
infirm, bereavement, husband, loneliness, pets, sad love,
Form:
Narrative
The Angel called EvermoreAn inspired dream I dreamt
In the distance she stood
A visceral beauty from empires unknown
Floating on a cloud of illuminating luminosity
Emanating serenity of the Almighty and Divine
A glorious incandescent everlasting flame of Universal Hope
As she gazed...
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Categories:
infirm, angel,
Form:
Rhyme
Charleston MermanWe were vacationing in the state of
palm trees and seashore in September's
mild loveliness.
Me, a sexagenarian widow,
hobbled by arthritis in my knees.
As my family enjoyed the surf,
I sat contented on a creaking
wooden pier,
taking in the...
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Categories:
infirm, 7th grade, 8th grade, age, beach, memory,
Form:
Free verse
Jupiter Has FallenWe stay in this underground fortress
will it be our salvation or our tomb
Can we survive the pending onslaught
is this a heroic suicide
that history will forget
the vanquished are damned to be erased from the pages of...
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Categories:
infirm, science fiction,
Form:
Free verse
GodGod is not a building dedicated to one faith
that icon of a dead Christ that’s a myth that man makes…
Because men must define the unknown in stone a human façade or by words in...
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Categories:
infirm, allah, allegory, allusion, analogy, angel, art, beautiful,
Form:
Free verse