Long Jousts Poems

Poems for Poets VIII


Fireflies
thinking to illuminate the darkness?
Poets!
—Michael R. Burch


BeMused
by Michael R. Burch

You will find in her hair
a fragrance more severe
than camphor.

You will find in her dress
no hint of a sweet
distractedness.

You will find in her...

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‘ Legendary … ' ( Part  2 (of) 4 ) 


And Now … may Troubadour … Spin A Tale, So Precisely
Aye … May Bard, Weave Thee Well, into This Tapestry …

… of Starry Skies,...

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Poems for Poets VII



Sweenies (or Swine-ies) Among the Nightingales
by Michael R. Burch

(for the Corseted Ones and the Erratics)

Open yourself to words, and if they come,
be glad the stone-tongued apes are stricken dumb
by anything like music;...

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THIS WAS WRITTEN FOR THE FIRST BURNING BUSH
A DEMONIC DEMOCRACY

“We interrupt regularly scheduled programming to present the President”……
And yet he just keeps talking
No verbiage can he espouse that I would ever care to hear
While all...

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A DEMONIC DEMOCRACY

“We interrupt regularly scheduled programming to present the President”……
And yet he just keeps talking
No verbiage can he espouse that I would ever care to hear
While all I see is smoke and a lot...

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A DEMONIC DEMOCRACY

“We interrupt regularly scheduled programming to present the President”……
And yet he just keeps talking
No verbiage can he espouse that I would ever care to hear
While all I see is smoke and a lot...

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The signs 
Signs of the times echoing like thunder roaring
Like a lion pain and devastation cries blowing in the
Wind players taking a knee to close to home 
Violated striped fear broke need to be spoken...

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Rice fields look the same except
for this one; this one who knew me
before i was born… and lying on her
fertile belly, she tosses the mist
of evening’s bamboo for raindrops to
moisten the flesh of gentle cattle.

Through...

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A soft rain rippled across the apartment window distorting the rainbow of lights emanating from the Four Cafes.  That’s what the locals call them, The Four Café’s.  Each had a flavor all their...

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Wishing for a woman or friend
To your corner room, alone, but then 
Creating sins not yet penned:
Infallible rules of fallible men.

For whereas Love seems so bubbly
And see through feelings easily crumbling 
Blanket you with insecurity...

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Anna is a charming Mom,
I met her at my gym.
A madam of sorts, quiet and calm,
Level headed, articulate, fit & trim.

Between sets we talk, of life’s little sagas,
Comparing civic cares and concerns.
Verbal jousts before noon,...

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In the tower of terror there is no safety zone
There are no rules that keep you from harm
What you see is not what you get
You experience a series of twists and turns that bedazzle you.
Jousts...

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My trace guilts and rears me,  
Thoroughbred from Spain, 
My trip jousts my banality, 
Until I cannot complain. 

Standing tall in the shadow, 
Which suggests that posture, 
For to relax in full glow, 
In...

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This is not a time for us
Facing these weeks of hospital walls
My knight now jousts an invisible foe
Shorn of hair, yet still he wears
Tubes of pain as proud as armor
With blood too pale, future too...

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H azily, as nightfall glides ,I unlock the front-gate
O verwrought from drills of a riddled job, 
M y toes stumble on scented violet buds 
E nhancing  gripped thoughts to drip-drop away.

S omehow, Mom’s roast...

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O Lady, let us not tarry
Be thou the rose to spread nights’ glee.
Away from jousts, your pearls shalt shine,
Spring’s boughs hath me in love, entwined!

Knight’s offer then, I giveth fine life
Through long winter, the heart...

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Inside an inkwell, lives a fairy tale
A classic, filled with love and misery
Where," Once upon a time" has long set sail
And "happy ever after's" yet to be

It's plot, a knight, once schooled in chivalry
His quest...

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Like the Beatles' tune, 'silly love songs',
some poets like to write silly word songs,
poems so clever in rhyme or line--
ABBABCDDCDABBA, QRST--wow!
Six lines here, three and a half there, 
and every ninth word must rhyme!

All this...

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I want to live in a castle
Where only the strong survive
With turrets and towers and
Jousts by the hour
And a six foot mote outside.

Oh, I want to live in a castle
On a cliff above the sea
And...

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When Kelloggs' jousts
with Post,
It's easy to find the host,
Just look for that Ruby Red Smile,
From her lawnchair seat, 
for quite a while,
Poppin' pocorn in,
With a fox's sly winning grin,

She dodges the poor fool's splash,
And is...

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She battles fatigue
by road climbing and painting
bolder palettes splash
on flamed wigs, on glossed canvas…
with punk, outracing mad cells

Monster tissues grow
yet lust for life soothes barbed pain
caroling to stars
and praying 'neath hopeful moon...
“I bless unforgiving C....

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Gilded pols with verbal jousts disarm
With statistical ballasts constituents charm
On opponents deceptive feints, sound the alarm
Scout for votes in city, dale, and farm

Broker deals that bolster their position
Deceptive adds initiate their political inquisition
Bribe voters of...

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