Long Jars Poems
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CurrentsCurrents
by Michael R. Burch
How can I write and not be true
to the rhythm that wells within?
How can the ocean not be blue,
not buck with the clapboard slap of tide,
the clockwork shock of wave on rock,
the...
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Categories:
jars, assonance, extended metaphor, language, metaphor, music, poetry,
Form:
Verse
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:
jars, angel, child, childhood, children, family, time, world,
Form:
Free verse
Nottingham Girl At The Goose Fair Prt 1Every year In Robin Hood Country Nottingham
There in October, they hold. What is known, as the Goose Fair. It's huge. and goes back centuries, straining the Middle Ages, perhaps even longer.
My pals and I back...
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Categories:
jars, history, longing,
Form:
Free verse
Dante's Divine Comedy First Canto TranslationPremise
The great poem by the italian poet Dante is the DIVINA COMMEDIA
I have tried to translate in english verses of INFERNO (HELL).
It was a very difficult task.
I expect criticism.
When just the midway of my...
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Categories:
jars, dream, poems,
Form:
Terza Rima
4th Generation Soda Jerk -- Both Audio and TextThis is one excited kid and one PROUD father...
I took my son to the lumberyard last Tuesday afternoon. The day itself, though toasty, was the best in quite some time.
And when we’d finished shopping -...
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Categories:
jars, father son, relationship, youth,
Form:
Narrative
Words From the Heart - a Collaboration With Frederic ParkerThese words of love I give to you, my dear
to have comfort in the stillness of time
and meld two souls to keep love's wishes near
when the length of the years and age will climb
I will...
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Categories:
jars, beauty, emotions, love, passion, romantic, sensual, soulmate,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
ProofWe are the days that we’ve become.
moments dripping gifted from
the lounging clocks in rolling melted sightings,
given by the gifted madness of a soulmate’s fightings.
Our lives wrapped up in phrases coined
in books like,...
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Categories:
jars, allegory, america, computer, crazy, extended metaphor, irony,
Form:
Rhyme
Sun ThiefOnce upon a time, there lived a boy called Simon.
He was an ordinary boy who did what ordinary nine year old
boys do: collecting bugs and putting them in jars,
speaking to imaginary friends, riding a bike...
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Categories:
jars, conflict, fantasy, imagery, mystery, myth, power,
Form:
Narrative
Vacation In New OrleansWalking down the alley behind the buildings on Royal street the Mandevilla and Jasmine vines line the sidewalk calming my stressed nerves. The sweet fragrance of the flowers intoxicating my senses. My luggage...
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Categories:
jars, dark, evil, scary,
Form:
Haibun
Words From the Heart With Collaboration From Susan AshleyThese words of love I give to you, my dear
to have comfort in the stillness of time
and meld two souls to keep love's wishes near
when the length of the years and age will climb
I will...
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Categories:
jars, love, romance,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
- the Demons Shrill Cry of Dread and Horror -The Demon’s Shrill Cry of Dread and Horror
This tale of “The Demon’s Shrill Cry of Dread and Horror”
lives on in the mountain village of Gpeth Tor in the outlying
region of the “Dark Forbidden Forest”...
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Categories:
jars, dark, dream, evil, fantasy, god, metaphor, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
The Demon's Shrill Cry of Dread and HorrorThe Demon’s Shrill Cry of Dread and Horror
This tale of “The Demon’s Shrill Cry of Dread and Horror”
lives on in the mountain village of Gpeth Tor in the outlying
region of the “Dark Forbidden Forest”...
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Categories:
jars, dark, dream, evil, fantasy, god, metaphor, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
The Demon's Shrill Cry of Dread and HorrorThis tale of “The Demon’s Shrill Cry of Dread and Horror”
lives on in the mountain village of Gpeth Tor in the outlying
region of the “Dark Forbidden Forest” known for evil, death,
and lost souls. This...
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Categories:
jars, dark, dream, evil, fantasy, god, metaphor, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
New Year's ResolutionsJim Daley and Joe McCarthy had something in common. They died at 80 going to the bathroom in the middle of the night. Walt O'Brien, their protege, found this out when he called the homes...
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Categories:
jars, new year,
Form:
Prose
The Grime Reaper
The Grim Reaper, stirs from another well earned day of heavenly sleep
From within the bowels of this cavernous earth, from his cave so deep
His cloak and scythe, been cast to one side in an unceremonious...
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Categories:
jars, humorous, inspirational, write,
Form:
Narrative
A Flirtation With Love - Parts 1, 2, and 3 FinisA Flirtation With Love (Parts 1, 2, & 3 finis)
#1 Sue's Legacy (Has A Home In My Heart)
Sure, each touch that enjoins us to life has Love's sparks,
one less photon (warms retina), dies but informs
that...
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Categories:
jars, love,
Form:
Rhyme
CladestineTHE CHIMNEY
The once fine air, refreshens with dust
Between the village horizon and crest
Since the sailing of a death chemical chimney.
Young green plants seedlings growing on slope
Are left to sip these carcinogenic dusts, sapling
And entwined...
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Categories:
jars, corruption, death of a friend, depression, emotions,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Of Lies Told That Once Destroyed Innocent Girls' Liveshttps://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/the-convergence-of-the-twain/
The Convergence of the Twain
...
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Categories:
jars, appreciation, art, betrayal, dark, evil, prejudice, tribute,
Form:
Rhyme
Honoring You In Living ColorKitchen counters alive; the vivid colors of red, green, purple and yellow glass jars. Your garden flourished.
.
Pickled beets mingle boiled eggs; a pretty periwinkle purple.
.
Yellow and purple tinted fingers; dandelions and elderberries distilling; musty aroma...
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Categories:
jars, mom, mother, mother daughter, tribute,
Form:
Free verse
Revenge Kisses and Afternoon ShamsHave I failed you as a man?
Our only communication was what washed up on shore
But there's so much space between the ocean floor and the sand
One cascades and the other crystalizes
But you...
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Categories:
jars, emotions, extended metaphor, fear, imagery, irony,
Form:
Free verse
Keep Me Good CompanyKeep Me Good Company…
TODAY MY MATE SAVES MY DAY...
From spiraling into unconstructive decay,
Plugging my volcano of negative gossip & hearsay,
Planting productive advice to direct my way,
Removes pokey cacti from under my feet,...
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Categories:
jars, best friend, destiny, environment, faith, friendship, inspirational,
Form:
Narrative
SolsticeI want more solstice evening silhouettes.
And nights of rhapsody filled with rental stars.
To explore blurred mornings when the sun rises.
With transitions dripping through the trees.
I want to know how the seasons change.
Who makes time a...
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Categories:
jars, imagination, relationship, romance, seasons, sun, sunset, winter,
Form:
Romanticism
The Will To Survive
"The Will to Survive"
It was a peaceful time
back then in the dreams
that were once
our prepossessing future.
sands of time
dragged under our bare feet
while the crystal clean warm ocean
of life that once was,...
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Categories:
jars, muse, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
Peanut OilI went to bed late this morning with a sweet tender feeling
My head resting in your bosom listening to the soul of the mighty woman
My mind traveled the entire universe observing everything that is...
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Categories:
jars, appreciation, blessing, community, desire, emotions, humanity, strength,
Form:
Narrative
no heroes - WWI -
heroes?
there are none here, now ... ever ...
don’t feign to look, for your eyes will
beg their smiles,...
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Categories:
jars, appreciation, introspection, life, soldier, war, world war
Form:
Free verse