Long Introspection Poems
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I Am My Father's Son
They 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:
adventure, anger, anxiety, bullying, father, history, introspection,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
The Hotel Caretaker
How unparticular the day had particularly been,
On March the third of two-thousand and eighteen,
For the caretaker at an historic Adirondack Inn,
Had lacked company, and therefore, dopamine.
‘Twas Sunday when all the guests had fled,
From either...
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Categories:
death, grief, introspection, march, mystery, remember,
Form:
Rhyme
Short Stuff: Epigrams
Epigrams 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:
body, clothes, death, eulogy, introspection, love, obituary,
Form:
Epigram
Impossible Mission To Captcha Infinitesimal Moment
Impossible mission to captcha infinitesimal moment
alternately titled: tick tock runneth amuck
seconds elapse imperceptibly
leaving me dumbstruck,
how quickly fleeting tempus fugit;
ofttimes imagined as time thief.
Hence following vignette: quiet as a mouse lurks the time thief...
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Categories:
introspection, 12th grade, analogy, butterfly, death, farewell, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Poems V
Poems about Poems V
Distances
by Michael R. Burch
There is a small cleanness about her,
as though she has always just been washed,
and there is a dull obedience to convention
in her accommodating slenderness
as she feints at her salad.
She...
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Categories:
introspection, metaphor, poems, poetry, poets, words, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
The Girl With No Last Name
She was always so insecure, as far back as I can remember she never realized her true worth, she let people use her, and never cared about getting hurt
If everyone else was happy and smiling,...
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Categories:
feelings, girl, heartbroken, introspection, loneliness, poetry, sad,
Form:
Rhyme
Resonating Rightbrain Politics
Says Csikszentmihalyi,
"Social scientists
(Abraham Maslow, Lawrence Kohlberg, Jane Loevinger, [Ken Wilber, Edward Podvoll, Julian Jaynes, Jack Kornfield, Richard Dawkins, Clare Graves, Carl Jung] and James Fowler)
describe a dialectical motion
between [Yang-ego-form] differentiation
and [Yin-eco-logical function] integration,
between turning attention...
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Categories:
introspection, beauty, environment, health, political, psychological, religion, trust,
Form:
Political Verse
The Ash Can
The Ash Can ©
I got the call on Sunday night. I was traveling on business. When I looked at the caller ID
I wondered why my husband’s boss would be calling me....
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Categories:
bereavement, introspection, lost love, suicide,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Brave New World
(based on Aldous Huxley's book "Brave New World")
Human hatchery
Clink clink clink clink...
Test tubes prattling past
along the chrome plated production line.
Glistening under fake fluorescence
humming in harmony
with the magnetic motors
of conveyors, centrifuges and camshafts.
Biological blobs of gamete...
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Categories:
confusion, depression, heartbreak, humanity, introspection, political, science
Form:
Free verse
A Long Loud Sigh
genius?
sometimes you are in its minimal spotted light...sometimes!
other times you just know you've been touched and you freeze,
moved but frozen...like a stranger it moves in, does its work and leaves.
...maybe it's been a while since...
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Categories:
introspection, drug,
Form:
Free verse
Amberina Ballerina
A born lioness my untamed heart? ha!
a mouse, this pulsing token ruled by unruly wants
at times given, traded or stolen - sometimes
thrown down on a dare to be won or lost
till it became...
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Categories:
destiny, emotions, inspiration, introspection, memory, metaphor, nostalgia,
Form:
Free verse
Starlight and Moonlight
These are poems about starlight and moonlight, moons and stars, dreams and visions, illuminations and intimations …
Will There Be Starlight
by Michael R. Burch
Will there be starlight
tonight
while she gathers
damask
and lilac
and sweet-scented heathers?
And will she find...
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Categories:
introspection, dark, dream, love, moon, night, star, stars,
Form:
Rhyme
Being American
I live in America, as in the United States of America, and that used to mean something. At least to me it did. And it’s not so much in how I was raised but in...
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Categories:
america, class, how i feel, introspection, patriotic,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Know Yourself
For years before the narrow windows of my senses
...
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Categories:
god, introspection, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
The Crow Ghost of Haunting Footsteps
Break my neck; snap it in two, snap it in half
don't give me that incredulous, frightened look as I ask
don't hesitate in front of me, please just do me this favor
so I gain a halo,...
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Categories:
i love you, i miss you, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
Translation of Eric Mottram's Time Sight Unseen, Part 1 By T Wignesan
Translation of Eric Mottram’s TIME SIGHT UNSEEN, Part One by T. Wignesan
"Instead of an item in a school of rhetoric, the poem could have variety of articulations, continuity and discontinuity, sentence and parataxis, and an...
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Categories:
imagery, introspection, literature, philosophy, writing,
Form:
Free verse
Part 2 You Have To Whistle
Neither Tray or I take any guff from adults, especially adults in authority; it’s a result of having had the belt when you are young, thus learning you cannot trust your care-givers or anyone else.
In...
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Categories:
child abuse, giving, i love you, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
Farmer Fred Talks Politics Vol I
Farmer Fred was out in his field making inspection
When I snuck up on him without detection
I stated my greetings with great voice inflection
Which caused Fred to jump in the opposite direction
Then he smiled and made...
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Categories:
introspection, political,
Form:
Narrative
Meet On the Upper Floor
What would the rich do without the poor?
If there was no poor to clean the floor
What would the rich do without the poor?
If there was no one to guard the door
What would the rich do...
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Categories:
introspection, beauty, change, emotions, friendship love, independence day,
Form:
Narrative
Hot and Cold Comes the Night
LIST POETRY - A FUTURISTIC INTERPRETATION
You
must know
I cried yesterday
and I think I broke the world
so I braided some words into twine
planted some sweet and sour coated seeds
I grew free standing expressions and then...
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Categories:
depression, heart, introspection, love, romance, romantic,
Form:
Free verse
Motivational Truthfulness
Spark to light the fire. It’s my life mission to gain the knowledge of what makes people laugh and intrigued by my experiences in my never ending and changing life. I want people to know...
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Categories:
destiny, introspection,
Form:
ABC
Aspie
1—Milieu
Unique construction of body and mind
My niche in human pack not quickly found
Raw young heart of a curious design
The empty mirrors for my soul abound
Subjectively a bit odd to myself
A jangled, disconnected kind of...
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Categories:
emotions, growing up, introspection, people, senses, society,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Legacy of Penang
Back in 1962 when I was just a lad
my dad gave me a holiday
the best I ever had.
A holiday of every dream
that one lifetime could hold
so listen while this wondrous time
to you I now...
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Categories:
culture, father, food, friendship, introspection, paradise, travel,
Form:
Rhyme
Is It All In Vain?
Is It All In Vain?
Experimental scientific observations inside a laboratory
Consequential specific consecrations that combine to form a sacred story
Monumental consternations that speak beyond the allegory
Environmental commiserations as the situations become horrifically gory...
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Categories:
introspection, life,
Form:
Rhyme
How Can I Not Love You
~How Can I Not Love You?~
(Free Verse)
Even before
I met you the way I do now
I always
knew about You, perhaps not
in the sense and the
right way that I...
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Categories:
christian, introspection, jesus, love,
Form:
Free verse