Long Lathers Poems

SELF REFLECTIONS

These are poems about mirrors, images, self-image, reflections, impressions and self-reflection. 

Self Reflection
by Michael R. Burch 

for anyone struggling with self-image

She has a comely form
and a smile that brightens her dorm ...
but she's grossly...

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Poems about Poems VI

The Board
by Michael R. Burch

Accessible rhyme is never good.
The penalty is understood?
soft titters from dark board rooms where
the businessmen paste on their hair
and, Walter Mitties, woo the Muse
with reprimands of Dr. Seuss.

The...

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Enough!
by Michael R. Burch

It’s not that I don’t want to die;
I shall be glad to go.
Enough of diabetes pie,
and eating sickly crow!
Enough of win and place and show.
Enough of endless woe!

Enough of suffering and vice!
I’ve...

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Severe surge regarding thou shalt not kill violations

Fifth commandment breached regularly
epidemic of gun violence in America
bullets fly, scream and tear into flesh
senseless rampant mass killings
rip across fabric of society
buzzfeeding, jump/kickstarting, 
paradigm of mortality.

Since January first
two...

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Pity Clarity
by Michael R. Burch

Pity Clarity,
and, if you should find her,
release her from the tangled webs
of dusty verse that bind her.

And as for Brevity,
once the soul of wit—
she feels the gravity
of ironic chains and massive...

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Your aura is contageous. Your sexy curvaceous body is outrageous.
Sweeter than nut-rageous.
So yummy are your creamy white thighs and up along the curve of your hips.
Your dreamy eyes to your delicious lips.
So edible, so damn...

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Shoot! Nothing like killing spree to bookend August 2019!

The latest homicide,
where gunman(men) slew
dirty deed done dirt cheap
half dozen innocent people drew
minimal horrific gasps, now a new
month (September two 
thousand nineteen)

where goldenrods yellow
with morning dew
encompassing human...

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Liquid Heaven

A feast for my womanly inner beast!       
I tease, I please, you have me on my knees
I wring my hands, you oint my head
With your fingers locked in...

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With speedy, gutsy ease
          her Irish father rolls up the front room rug
          Gaelic music lathers the...

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Enough of golden daffodils, romance and paths not taken
Let's lend poetic airing to a subject quite forsaken.
An opportunity's emerged to give a little plug
To that much lambasted creature called the common garden slug.
Though snails have...

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a sweaty mugginess 
                 falls to the scent of showered skin
        ...

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I hail from the green land
Really green for sumptuous serenades
But too many grey lepers lay on the succulent carpet
And the milk of my land mills through rotten breasts
The windfall of power brings pesty prongs to...

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My mind is starving, but nothing to feed it

It's empty and is crying out to be full

The worst kind of hunger eats me alive

I don't know where it started though I know where its ending

It's...

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Supine she lies upon the sand

beads of perspiration finely dot

curvaceous golden brown form

carefree tresses spring, fly away hair

coconut oil lathers coquettish peaks

bared free, flesh innocent

she turns, languish sun kissed rays

fingers brush sand that lingers

covetously to...

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I was alone, watching the sunset
  seated on a line of rocks, not wet
Holding two small pieces of rock 
  and a pentel pen with me
I wrote a mark on the said rocks
...

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Though my eyes are open
I am still sleeping through dreams so vile
They leave me weeping,
And forced alone upon suffering in silence
Battling matter of dying and vicious violence,
And though to most the silence soothes 
To me...

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Time comes in waves,
People, in places.
Words come out of their shells
as true colours always change them.
God is given to glory,
to glory- destination lands in two:
In the right hand of a creature that has breached its...

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Love is an all encompassing emotion
Love matters can cause quite a commotion
Jump into the bed with oils, after bath - lotion
Put the lover's leap into the heated motion

Love will grow my avacado seed on the...

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Why I matter
 
When glass shatters, 
I bleed.
 
When the ladder needs a leader,
I lead.
 
When dishes need cleaning,
I rarely make them clatter.
 
When you're down on your knees
crying, I'll put my arm around you
and...

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Waking to a promising morn,
refreshed from healthy brand new sleep,
you will realize all kept, old scorn
that you have yet to cleanly sweep.

You will sip pain in your coffee,
spy it all day sharing your seat.
When allowed,...

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Tis The Season

Tis the time of this fond season
Season to be filled with love
Love has borne a beautiful Child
Child created from above

Above you hear the church bells ring 
Ring in loud the yuletide songs
Songs of...

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