Long Lap up Poems

A special dedication to Beyoncé's "Drunk in Love" song in her album "Beyoncé", which came out in 2013.
 
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I took a cat nap...yah put on your classic, clever-mini cap 
drank that sorrow sap, my companion...

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As promised to Sara Baker... here is the Night Before Christmas, 
Cajun style ~ by James Rice
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Villanelle: Remembering Not to Call
by Michael R. Burch

(a villanelle permitting mourning, for my mother, Christine Ena Burch)

The hardest thing of all,
after telling her everything,
is remembering not to call.

Now the phone hanging on the wall
will never...

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12,hours a day because the job is confusing 
all of that overtime and you’re still not improving 
it’s clear this job is one you shouldn’t be doing 
they put you in charge your leadership is...

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The crowd pushed me away, but I'll stay positive through it all
Lap up my emotions, animals of sympathy, for I'm your trough 
Trying not to lose hope in violent tranquility (peaceful and chaotic circumstances)...endure through...

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Plagiarists can play your eyes all they want 
lap up attention praise prize all day long
and I too can play as I like tongue in cheek
write a lightning strike lighting up plight

They can do as...

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Family gathers for Thanksgiving dinner

  As you step into grandma's home
You smell the savory aromas

   Turkey is stuffed and cooking in the oven
Glazed ham garnished with pineapple and cherries
We’re getting very anxious...

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Wanderlust Wolf

Icicles overwhelmed the running beast
It could not escape from nature or bitter winter
Morbid frost formed about its coat of fur
Fierce storms held a grip down to the soul, rolled wet
Ran in the face of...

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The streets are shadowy and solemn,
shook only by the drunken alley cries
of men in dance and celebration
of a Saturday night spent well
at Madame’s.

I sink into the fire escape,
as I always do after dinner
to gaze at...

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The thrill of the hunt was captured


he looked at the many deer in the park
his eyes were on whitetails
a doe and her fawns, 
fawns born only a few weeks ago
all with white spots on their...

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Who you calling a soupy sap? Soupy. 
I like slurping soup when it turns into sloup 
‘Cause I been staying up way too long 
Sippin’ soup into the wee hours of night, 
Sometines, I even...

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Enough of the winds
Swirling with urgency
I demand that it ceases at once
Succumb to whims
Bow to demands
I wish nothingness to commence
I lap up the gilded chaos
Flowing into my brain
Close the eyes
Embrace the surprise
Allow this minstrel chorus
To...

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When you look ahead O man, what do you see? What do you do?
Do you want me to tell you the way I see it, when I look at you?
You see one vulnerable, who’s days...

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The Ruba’iyat of Créteil Lake – Part Eight

At her feet gather daily plumage dark white to brown leather
Pigeons geese crows sparrows larks and wild ducks in sunset colour
And the resident owners of the waters by...

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time cloaked         fierce wrath
I gave up the past or the wind
            wipe the chill off my...

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Easy Pieces

here's a game it's free to start 
just for you   
no rules to remember

advancing tiers of notoriety
will shoot  you to moon with
collecting the easy pieces

tokenish collateral 
of implied worth will pay
dividends...

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It's in the gloaming
in lingering twilight
that beside me the disquiet sidles 
clouds idle, the violet of a bruised eyelid
and shape of fingers broken
and long healed
permanently wrong.
Inside me the violence is silent
but wants me pried open
wants...

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A Tea Party for Friends
I’m having a tea party for some friends
To celebrate friendship that never ends
There's three cats, one dog and my teddy bear
He’s the one who’s sat on his tiny chair.

Mommy provided her...

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Lap up those fallen to the floor food crumbs,
you greedy dog
You love to set the table for three,
knowing there will be just one guest  —  you only
Home alone   ...  ...

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Black Dog and the Baby

She was a little Baby;
Who loved her Mother’s voice.
She knew nothing of Roe vs Wade
And nothing of Pro-choice.

Black dog you are evil,
Get away from here,
You lap up the Blood of babies
While...

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She is brighter than dawn
by Michael R. Burch

for Beth

There’s a light about her
like the moon through a mist:
a starry candescence
with which she is blessed

and my heart to her light
like the tide now is pulled ...
she...

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God winked at me and smiled a snail

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My first Christmas with Lucie, 
I had some qualms, you know.
No idea what to expect
when I put up light show.

Would she climb the Christmas tree,
and bring it crashing down?
Would carefully wrapped presents
be strewn there all...

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I just want to

Walk within her words of innocence 
hand in paw a steady vigilance
As she goes about her path of life
till her soul is a force not a myth
and one the world won’t contend...

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