Long Knell Poems
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Poems About Flight, Flying and Birds IiPoems about Flight, Flying, and Birds
Flying
by Michael R. Burch
I shall rise
and try the bloody wings of thought
ten thousand times
before I fly...
and then I'll sleep
and waste ten thousand nights
before I dream;
but when at last...
I soar the...
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Categories:
knell, animal, bird, flying, nature,
Form:
Free verse
Sonnets Xxxiii-XliSonnets XXXIII-XLI
The Folly of Wisdom
by Michael R. Burch
She is wise in the way that children are wise,
looking at me with such knowing, grave eyes
I must bend down to her to understand.
But she only smiles, and...
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Categories:
knell, child, childhood, children, death, life, time, world,
Form:
Sonnet
Poems About Laughter, Giggles and SmilesHere and Hereafter
by Michael R. Burch
Life’s saving graces are love, pleasure, laughter ...
wisdom, it seems, is for the Hereafter.
Laughter’s Cry
by Michael R. Burch
Because life is a mystery, we laugh
and do not know the half.
Because death...
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Categories:
knell, cheer up, children, family, giggle, joy, smile,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Fathers and Grandfathers IvPoems about Fathers and Grandfathers IV
Neglect
by Michael R. Burch
What good are your tears?
They will not spare the dying their anguish.
What good is your concern
to a child sick of living, waiting to perish?
What good, the warm...
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Categories:
knell, family, father, father daughter, father son, fathers
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Children VPoems about Children V
Pan
by Michael R. Burch
Among the shadows of the groaning elms,
amid the darkening oaks, we fled ourselves
Once there were paths that led to coracles
that clung to piers like loosening barnacles
where we cannot return,...
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Categories:
knell, autumn, baseball, child, childhood, children, dog, sports,
Form:
Rhyme
Self Destructive Wickedness Arrested, Convicted, and GaoledSelf destructive wickedness arrested, convicted, and gaoled...
with kidnapping little boy
ordered to suffer
life sentence without parole.
The deadly scourge of
one obsessive/compulsive disorder
nearly left me starving to death.
Anorexia nervosa absent bulimia
nadir of onset
diagnoses...
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Categories:
knell, 2nd grade, 6th grade, 7th grade, absence,
Form:
Free verse
The Tower RebuiltI shall resolve to leave this
Place now...
And steadfastly search out,
Nestling between ridge and bluff
Amidst the folds of a foreign
Land,
Several acres of unkempt ground
Fallow and rough;
Upon which stands...
Crumbled stone walls
With an exposed slate roof in
Some...
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Categories:
knell, hope,
Form:
Rhyme
Modern Sonnets IiMODERN SONNETS II
I prefer the original definition of the sonnet as a “little song” of indeterminate form and length. These modern sonnets vary from more-or-less traditional to free verse.
In Praise of Meter
by Michael R. Burch
The...
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Categories:
knell, art, romance, romantic, romantic love, song, write,
Form:
Sonnet
Bear Creek '98_ a symphonic, folk rock, blues song
1.
I'm an old man looking
For the lost, best parts of me.
I'm an old man looking
For the lost, best parts of me.
I'm looking in the places
Where the people say love...
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Categories:
knell, change, conflict,
Form:
Rhyme
The Casualness of Casualties
In the intimate interlace of chance and fate, in the ultimate interplay of time and place, and with the consummate checkmate of my human dignity, all that is -- is over, in the stormy, swarming...
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Categories:
knell, death, evil, family, fate, life, love, violence,
Form:
Haibun
Mine psyche riddled with dybbukMine psyche riddled with dybbuk
Thru emerging adulthood awareness awoke
within noggin of average baby boomer bloke
catastrophization toward risk taking I evoke
positive growth experiences throughout vast
number of orbitz around sun never kickstarted,
nor linkedin with potential livingsocial folk,
thus...
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Categories:
knell, abuse, analogy, angst, anxiety, boy, fate, grave,
Form:
Rhyme
Mine Psyche Riddled With DybbukMine psyche riddled with dybbuk
Thru emerging adulthood awareness awoke
within noggin of average baby boomer bloke
catastrophization toward risk taking I evoke
positive growth experiences throughout vast
number of orbitz around sun never kickstarted,
nor linkedin with potential livingsocial folk,
thus...
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Categories:
knell, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form:
Rhyme
Mine Psyche Riddled With Dybbuk Haint No JokeMine psyche riddled with dybbuk - haint no joke
Thru emerging adulthood awareness awoke
within noggin of average baby boomer bloke
catastrophization toward risk taking I evoke
positive growth experiences throughout vast
number of orbitz around sun never kickstarted
nor linkedin...
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Categories:
knell, abuse, body, dark, family, food, grave, horror,
Form:
Rhyme
Stricken With Turbulence At About Seventy Two InchesStricken with turbulence at about seventy two inches
Yours truly issuing a deafening rebel yell
bursting forth with such might
courtesy cooking under pressure
analogous to volcanic upswell,
forcing me quickly to flap vestigial wings
(at the speed of sound)
while simultaneously...
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Categories:
knell, 11th grade, 12th grade, 8th grade, adventure,
Form:
Rhyme
BurnBurn
by Michael R. Burch
for Trump
Sunbathe,
ozone baby,
till your parched skin cracks
in the white-hot flash
of radiation.
Incantation
from your pale parched lips
shall not avail;
you made this hell.
Now burn.
Keywords/Tags: burn, earth, environment, fire, future, nature, natural, planet, climate, pollution,...
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Categories:
knell, earth, environment, fire, future, natural disasters, nature,
Form:
Free verse
Goodbye and good riddance 2023Goodbye and good riddance 2023
Commencement writing this poem
began December 31st: 2:24 PM
ended December 31st: 03:53 PM.
The best geriatric effort I apply
twittering, ushering, and
albeit wheezing Auld Lang Syne
crocodile done deed tear
will yours truly cry
bidding,...
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Categories:
knell, anniversary, anxiety, celebration, conflict, crush, firework, new
Form:
Rhyme
Harriet Harris Circa November 13th, 1935 - May 4th, 2005Harriet Harris circa November 13th, 1935 - ~ May 4th, 2005
untimely death sentence ordained
approximately six months prior
to mother dearest celebrating
her seventieth birthday,
though the last three years of her life
impacted courtesy hysterectomy
to remove...
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Categories:
knell, absence, age, anniversary, birthday, death, family, mother,
Form:
Rhyme
Bygone Days
Bygone Days
Written: By Tom Wright
4/3/2007
Remember the slogan
“Haskell is moving, are you pushing?
The railroad depot stands no more
In the spot it occupied for so long.
Instead in it’s space, a Homeland store,
But in my memory it...
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Categories:
knell, age, eulogy, time,
Form:
Lyric
Debacle
* Bringing this gem back in the hope Becca Teagan sees it and returns. We wrote this together, a labor of love. The poem ends with a moral lesson that humanity still hasn't learned, sadly.
...
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Categories:
knell, confusion, evil, history,
Form:
Rhyme
Harriet Harris nee Kuritsky circa November 13thHarriet Harris née Kuritsky circa November 13th,
1935 - ~ May 4th, 2005
(untimely death sentence ordained ~ early February 1935)
I trot out a poem acknowledging birthday
of dear ole mom, who succumbed,
lost lease on life
nearly...
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Categories:
knell, absence, age, america, anniversary, appreciation, bereavement, birthday,
Form:
Rhyme
Inner SanctumPlaced Fist in:
Pick a Title, Vol 41 Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Edwrad Ibeh
...
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Categories:
knell, feelings, god, humanity, men,
Form:
Verse
The Father Day Gift From DragonFather’s Day was coming and Dragon was already, in full mode.
Hubby was his Hero, a true Papa, like in every story ever told.
Everyone was talking about what’s, to be, their Papa’s Day gifts.
Yep, TV salesmanship...
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Categories:
knell, fantasy, fathers day, fun, funny, humor, humorous,
Form:
Light Verse
The Loss of the Andrea GailThey that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters:
These see the works of the Lord and his wonders in the deep.
From the 107th psalm
It's been the hub of the...
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Categories:
knell, america, death, fishing, ocean, storm, weather, wind,
Form:
Narrative
Witch Craft Or the Spartan Queen(To the Spartan Queen)
Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra via
Mi inoltrai in una selva oscura
‘They drive horses down this hill’
She said,
‘They take them to drink down there, that pool, there’
She...
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Categories:
knell, feelings, women,
Form:
I do not know?
Open the Floodgates(Fictional, but based on the real experience of one of my close friends who lost her daughter in an accident)
As I sat on my desk,
Hurrying with my pent up work,
A scrap of paper, left...
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Categories:
knell, angst, child, death, emotions,
Form:
Free verse