Long Knot Poems
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Potpourri of new verse - some could be better, some could be worse
I always wanted to be a medieval jester,
the one who sneaks up behind the queen
and makes her guess who caressed her.
I always wanted to be the Lord of Misrule,
King Lear's sad fool,
and the one who...
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Categories:
knot, angst, dark, i am, identity, psychological, self,
Form:
Rhyme
Mad Molly Shaw
This is the story of mad Molly Shaw
She might be mad now but she wasn’t before
she came home to find her man dead on the floor
She lay down her bible and let out a roar...
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Categories:
knot, western,
Form:
Rhyme
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:
knot, death, grief, introspection, march, mystery, remember,
Form:
Rhyme
Free Verse I
Lozenge
by Michael R. Burch
When I was closest to love, it did not seem
real at all, but a thing of such tenuous sweetness
it might dissolve in my mouth
like a lozenge of sugar.
When I held you in...
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Categories:
knot, forgiveness, heart, humanity, life, love, relationship, together,
Form:
Free verse
Mathgeek Passions
Healthy nutrition research
starts with wealth producing past searches,
individual through community co-investments
in good and fragrant meals,
or even harmonic and graceful music with dance performances.
Ingesting healthy passions
consumes PositivEnergy wealth
for future co-productive system projections.
My evidence for future...
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Categories:
knot, culture, health, humanity, humor, integrity, math, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
Veronica Franco Translations
Veronica Franco translations
Veronica Franco (1546-1591) was a Venetian courtesan who wrote literary-quality poetry and prose.
Capitolo 19: A Courtesan's Love Lyric (I)
by Veronica Franco
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
"I resolved to make a virtue of...
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Categories:
knot, desire, french, joy, love, lust, poetess, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
le livre bleu
“le livre bleu”
Terabytes.
lonely poets, writers,
musicians and artists play here,
they wear masks that cover
vermillion dripping smiles
over sharp little wolverine teeth,
they drown their sorrows in their muses -
contemporary little monsters – Still Life,
they call...
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Categories:
knot, muse,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
knot, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Perennial Problems
I suppose you might have missed out on Paul Feyerabend's,
and especially Thomas Kuhn's Problem of Incommensurabiity.
Oh, not at all.
I have not looked at science or culture
or language
or even your attempts at communication
quite the same since...
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Categories:
knot, culture, history, humor, philosophy, religion, science,
Form:
Political Verse
Dante's Hell Translation Canto X
Now is going on through a secret way
Between the martyrdoms and the ground wall,
My master, and I behind him to stay.
“Oh highest virtue, who me gently haul
In wicked rounds”, I started, “If you please,
Speak to...
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Categories:
knot, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
ALEXANDER THE GREAT
Alexander The Great was born in Macedonia in 356 BC, led to believe
From a boy by Olympias his mother, and to conceive
He was born of the gods, legend inferred he was the son of Zeus,
Ruler...
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Categories:
knot, horse,
Form:
Narrative
Jeremiah chapter thirty five k j v
The Lord is faithfull.!
Thesselonians ch 3 v 3-5
Jerimiah in the midst of the rebbelious people, had taken
Note of a sobdrly clad 'new group to his awareness' he made
Enquiry at the market stalls, and was told...
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Categories:
knot, appreciation, education, endurance,
Form:
Narrative
Half Measures
This is how it starts
the decline of who we are, the decline of something more
the start of wars
Installed in us is confidence
confidence, a blessing or a curse
Without confidence we stand degraded, disenchanted, alone
while with too...
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Categories:
knot, suicide, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
Chapter 75 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: Let the Game Begin
DJ and the Damian squad rushed
The house. "Dad we're gonna
Play CRUEL BALL!" Amadeus
Gave notice. Damian said, "Oh
Yeah." He put his hands on both
His sons shoulders and said.
"Fellows first of all it's...
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Categories:
knot, confidence,
Form:
Alliteration
Monofilamania
It is so hard to let go of love,
lovingly.
It sharks,
unpeels more gut more quickly
than reel or reeler ever lost
in all those years of lazy inches
in and out:
casting,
winding in and playing out,
hardly fishing, rarely catching
anything
from...
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Categories:
knot, allegory, passion, woman, memory, sea, fish, lust,
Form:
Free verse
Georg Cantor Chasing Infinity I Must
Georg Cantor. Chasing infinity. I must!
He was a very lonely man
Tortured by desire to understand
The world and the God’s mind
Like a fearless seasoned sailor
He embarked an elegant boat
Of extreme mental endeavor
With...
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Categories:
knot, anxiety, death, dedication, deep, depression, philosophy, sad,
Form:
Ballad
Divine Comedy Translation, Hell Canto Xi
On the extremity of a tall bank
Of big broken stones in round circle done
We reached up a more cruel clutter flank;
And there, for the horrible and strong stun
Of rotten stench which the deep...
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Categories:
knot, fantasy, universe,
Form:
Terza Rima
August 13th, 2025 twenty six plus years since awful series of unfortunate events
August 13th, 2025 – twenty six plus years since awful series of unfortunate events
The following poem posted about a half hour before the bewitching hour that spelled calamity (which though a freaky Friday the thirteenth)...
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Categories:
knot, abuse, adventure, anger, angst, animal, anniversary, august,
Form:
Free verse
Hello, Brain Fog
I’m afraid, but with hope in mind –
Help me out of my cell if you can be so kind
My mind has been in a brain fog lately…
But my writing skills haven’t faded frankly…
Well, I...
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Categories:
knot, angst, anxiety, deep, depression, hope,
Form:
Free verse
Life's Stories
His eyes are dark, but, there's still a spark.
There are canyons in his face.
His lungs are gone and it won't be long,
'Till his heart can't keep the pace.
He's lived three lives, had his share...
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Categories:
knot, journey, life,
Form:
Rhyme
The Captain
He sat all alone, drinking jim beam and coke
Looking out as the waves crashed ashore
He kept to himself, drinking jim beam and coke
As the storm winds would batter the door
He'd only come in when the...
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Categories:
knot, america, bereavement, child, dad, grief, loss, ocean,
Form:
Epic
MARRIAGE CHECK LIST
FIRST THINGS FIRST THEE ENGAGEMENT RING IT COULD BE EXTRAVAGANT OR SIMPLE DIAMONDS OR A CIGAR BAND A PROMISE COMMITING TO THIS UNION HE COULD KNEEL OR STAND DEPENDING ON HOW HEAVY THE RING THIS...
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Categories:
knot, allah,
Form:
Naat
Row Houses
Newfoundlanders can row, you should see some of'em go,
when they puts a punt on a pond.
But I don't like this mess, all this Race foolishness,
I'd never seen so much goings on.
If you wants to...
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Categories:
knot, courage, funny, hero, uplifting,
Form:
Ballad
For Spacious Time
I need some natural,
organic,
spacious kinda time.
Where is nature in this time,
my time,
our time?
Perhaps nature is to time
as solid forms are to flowing recreation,
as body solidarity is to mind creativity,
as Yang is to Yin,
as Full-Blown Climaxing...
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Categories:
knot, culture, love, music, race, sensual, society, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
Translation of Oothukkadu Venkata Subba Iyer's Poem Thaye Yashoda By T Wignesan
Translation of Oothukkadu Venkata Subba Iyer (circa 1700-1765)’s « THAYE YASHODA » by T. Wignesan
This devotional song and poem in Tamil (the principal Dravidian language which has spawned over twenty languages in the southern Indian...
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Categories:
knot, god, mother, religious, universe, , western,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue