Long Keepsake Poems
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Poem Revised Memorial Day May 30th, 2022 At 1500 Hours
Poem revised Memorial Day May 30th, 2022 at 1500 hours
Flagrante delict adulterous sordid behavior
automatically linkedin with Lothario;
an unscrupulous seducer of women,
based upon a character
in The Impertinent Curious Man,
a story within a...
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Categories:
keepsake, absence, abuse, adventure, anger, black african american,
Form:
Rhyme
Rejection Slips 2
Rejection Slips 2
The Shape of Mourning
by Michael R. Burch
The shape of mourning
is an oiled creel
shining with unuse,
the bolt of cold steel
on a locker
shielding memory,
the monthly penance
of flowers,
the annual wake,
the face in the...
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Categories:
keepsake, beauty, death, desire, life, longing, love, nature,
Form:
Free verse
Salvation of a Formalist, An Ode To Entropy
Salvation of a Formalist, an Ode to Entropy
by Michael R. Burch
Entropy?
God's universal decree
That I get to be
Disorderly?
Suddenly
My erstwhile boxed-in verse is free?
Wheeeeee!
Eternal Currents
by Michael R. Burch
How can I write and not be true
to the rhythm...
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Categories:
keepsake, humor, humorous, light, nonsense, satire, write, writing,
Form:
Light Verse
The Skeletons and Songs of Samsara - 2
In the heart where your naivety resides
you wonder what haunts the sun
and why pain enjoys your childhood eyes,
when you see warm blood run
then you know that death can color
and like you, death loves a dramatic...
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Categories:
keepsake, birth, death, life,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
I'Ve Got To Go
I’m on my way, I’ve got to go
(the reasons why you’ll never know),
whisked away in winter’s winds, your sleeping sighs remind me.
And I’ll ramble where I please,
sometimes slipping to my knees,
phantom memories a’ chasing close...
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Categories:
keepsake, cute, farewell,
Form:
Rhyme
Never Out of Season - a Short Story
I was wiping the dust off an old snow globe in the upstairs attic, when a mop of honey-blonde hair suddenly appeared through the wooden flooring.
"I thought I'd find you...
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Categories:
keepsake, august, bereavement, blue, christmas, december, farewell, grief,
Form:
Narrative
By George burn hing hard, I Shaw tried to be a stinking playwright
By George (burn hing* hard), I Shaw tried to be a stinking playwright
offers his unsolicited tidbits
as scene courtesy
the following virtually
staged philosophical insight.
Arch back like
a professional ballet dancer
to stand out from...
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Categories:
keepsake, adventure, appreciation, art, encouraging, fun, inspirational, new
Form:
Free verse
Excerpt From Fake Encomium Given Years Ago
Excerpt from “fake” encomium given years ago...
at Lake Wobegone High School (my alma mater),
and recently discovered ridiculous rough draft
amidst plethora of junk emails
while practice reading some lines
regarding Midsummer Night's Dream
upcoming performance.
Arch...
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Categories:
keepsake, 11th grade, 12th grade, age, america, angel,
Form:
Free verse
By George Burning Hard, I Shaw Tried To Playwright
By George (burning hard), I Shaw tried to playwright
offers his unsolicited tidbits
as scene courtesy
the following virtually
staged philosophical insight.
Arch back like
a professional ballet dancer
to stand out from other pedestrian applicants
seeking...
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Categories:
keepsake, adventure, age, angel, appreciation, beauty, celebration, character,
Form:
Free verse
Sexually explicit meme more real day
Sexually explicit meme more real day
originally written May 31st, 202_
humorously, posthumously,
and tempestuously expressing woes
from the top of my talking head
to gnarly nails of
(this little piggy fame) toes
in sore need and want
of...
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Categories:
keepsake, 11th grade, adventure, america, celebration, humorous, may,
Form:
Free verse
Crackled
_ _ _ _While walking one day in crisp autumn air,
On the edge of the sidewalk, I saw it so clearly_ _ _ _
...
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Categories:
keepsake, nature,
Form:
Free verse
Memorial Day May 29th, 2023
silently wailing analogy to Moby Dick
regarding how yesterdays
prurient laced introductions
to rhyme in retrospect embarrassingly blows.
Herewith to enliven anecdote ever further,
I inject humorous tidbit
just gimme moment to unload and reach
into psychological metaphorical knapsack
particularly...
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Categories:
keepsake, absence, america, angel, anger, beautiful, bridal shower,
Form:
Free verse
What Matters
When they ask: the answer is, I want to be cremated
Smoke the man from yesterday that occasionally crumbles into tomorrow
Let the wind carry the residue of inspiration until it ashes back to God
Then spread...
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Categories:
keepsake, anxiety, art, jesus, joy, love, poetry, religion,
Form:
Rhyme
Symposium
"Symposium"
where do you go
when you try to
dream your place
in my life
gone now
from your
quicksand shores
once I rolled over
placed my mouth
against your throat
what used to be
as if you
could transfer
some...
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Categories:
keepsake, love, muse,
Form:
Free verse
Black Iraqi Woman
Black Iraqi Woman
Written by Faleeha Hassan
Translated from the Arabic by William Hutchins
Shortly before my father died, he whispered to me longingly: “Daughter, treasure this, because it authenticates your heritage to our kinsfolk!” When I accepted...
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Categories:
keepsake, me,
Form:
I do not know?
A Heavenly Christmas List
*Image of Until We Meet Again by MVid.
A Heavenly Christmas List
An endearing Christmas list too precious to reserve
as a blessed season occasions its heartfelt deserve;
My older brother was the firstborn,
he was well-skilled, seemingly self-born,
a cunning...
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Categories:
keepsake, appreciation, christmas, family, heaven, imagery, missing, remember,
Form:
List
Not Quite Write
As a writer of fiction novels, I positively basked in my work,
Story ideas lived in my head, as blue stars at twilight lurk.
Yes, I was a successful writer, and had many zealous readers,
As vee shaped...
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Categories:
keepsake, character, fantasy, imagination, magic, nature, writing,
Form:
Couplet
Lijiang In Yunnan, China
SPRINGTIME MEMORIES
Mountain sentinels
By ancient town;
Clear waters cascade
Cobblestone streets
Winding pavements;
Trade offerings buzz
Fertile plains
Crystal clear waters;
Shady trees guard
Treasure-hunting stroll...
Through Lijiang Old Town;
Curiosity detours
So many things to see
Pleasant fare tempting;
Buying spree bargains
Artisans at work
Township flings open trade;
Silver metal...
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Categories:
keepsake, adventure,
Form:
Haiku
When In a Jam I Try To Preserve Meditative Trance
When in a jam, I try to preserve meditative trance
Synonymous with light hypnotic mode
inhaling and exhaling diffusing anger
lest mine noggin would explode
rhythmic breaths flowed
sustained me red nose (think Rudolph) glowed.
Holistic approach to derive peace of...
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Categories:
keepsake, addiction, beautiful, blessing, daughter, father daughter, inspiration,
Form:
Free verse
Not So Friendly Discussions
Alfredo always abhorred angry approaches
After an amigo accosted after an argument
And, afterward, Alfredo abstained arguing,
Because blackening bruises betrayed blather
Berniccio blindly behaved better, bravely
Becoming brotherly before blasting bullies!
Carefully commandeering calmer Carlos,
Claiming cool comradeship courageously
Communicated clever candid...
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Categories:
keepsake, friendship, humorous,
Form:
Abecedarian
Plum Blossom Haiku Ii
Are you the butterfly
while in my dreams
I flit after Soshi?
—Basho, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
It's not at all anxious to bloom,
the plum tree at my gate.
—Kobayashi Issa, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
The red...
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Categories:
keepsake, animal, butterfly, flower, innocence, love, nature, spring,
Form:
Haiku
Written In the Sky
Do you hear them?
Woodland creature amidst the thicket, drawn, oblivious to indifference beneath
heavenly luminescence.
And I, baring admiration in acknowledgement, plea to the awakening of your
fellow ear as companion.
Fields breathe life of their expulsion.
Shall...
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Categories:
keepsake, devotion, family, life, love, nature, passion, seasons,
Form:
I do not know?
Sliders of Wasted Skin and the Global Hit For Wasting Air
that's how they do it you know
come into your community
into your loving arms
find a small part of your city to overtake
put up their businesses
take away yours
offers of early retirement
subtle ways of letting you know your...
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Categories:
keepsake, life, losschildren, happy, children, happy, life, society,
Form:
Free verse
Love Letters
A Family home stands empty
dust has gathered where once the surfaces gleamed
silence, no voices and laughter
now greet as in times now gone.
The day has arrived, dreaded, put off for so long
Parents passed within...
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Categories:
keepsake, bereavement, cry, devotion, goodbye,
Form:
Free verse
I Cherish Every Precious Lock of My Hair As a Keepsake
I cherish every precious lock of my hair as a keepsake
Twas partly on account
of yours truly being incarnation of Samson;
spouse and I wed
please fate, don't say alopecia didst tread;
though atheist to higher power
yours truly pled
heart...
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Categories:
keepsake, 6th grade, 7th grade, 8th grade, age,
Form:
Rhyme