Long Launch Poems
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Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis - part iSic semper evello mortem tyrannis, high bred poiet?s of mine
("Thus always I cause the death of tyrants.”)
the purported line Brutus uttered
after assassinating Julius Caesar.
Alternatively...
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Categories:
launch, 10th grade, adventure, allah, anger, appreciation, birth,
Form:
Free verse
Limericks I - Relatives and RelativityLimericks I - Relatives and Relativity
The Cosmological Constant
by Michael R. Burch
Einstein, the frizzy-haired,
said E equals MC squared.
Thus all mass decreases
as activity ceases?
Not my mass, my a$$ declared!
A$$-tronomical
by Michael R. Burch
Relativity, the theorists’ creed,
says mass increases...
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Categories:
launch, humor, humorous, light, nonsense, science, space, time,
Form:
Limerick
Ice Cream Gran 5 - Turbo, We Have a ProblemIt’s heading for our planet at ten thousand miles an hour
To stop it all the experts say we haven’t got the power
All the nukes in all the world won’t constitute a plan
So someone said, ‘All...
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Categories:
launch, grandmother, hero, space,
Form:
Rhyme
Limericks Vi - ReligionLimericks VI - Religion
Pell-Mell for Hell Mel
by Michael R. Burch
There once was a Baptist named Mel
who condemned all non-Christians to hell.
When he stood before God
he felt like a clod
to discover His Love couldn’t fail!
Why I...
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Categories:
launch, christian, humor, humorous, light, nonsense, religion, religious,
Form:
Limerick
No God of Mine - 2021 Edit[This poem 'No God Of Mine' was seemingly confounding readers as
to its meaning. Ordinarily, if I felt a poem wasn't cutting it, I'd delete
it, but on this occasion, I've been asked to explain it... so here goes.]
By...
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Categories:
launch, evil, horror,
Form:
Rhyme
Comedy of Impeaching ErrorsThe Republican congressmen,
and I do mean white privileged straight men,
came to their Democratic opposition
concerned about how depressing
December can be,
and all of winter,
come to think and feel
of dark discerning Advent,
So maybe we could stage
a comedic debate
about...
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Categories:
launch, caregiving, earth, health, humor, integrity, political, trust,
Form:
Political Verse
PrefaceGreetings to those who would willingly seek admission to theater of the absurd. Zoltan Goliath and Otis Trench are masters of the avant-garde genre silent musicals for the imaginary stage, an art form sui generis....
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Categories:
launch, allegory, literature,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Beware the Ides of March 2023Beware The Ides of March 2023
Ides simply referred to first new moon,
which usually fell between
the thirteenth and fifteenth day
of a given month.
The following events all occurred
fifteenth of March
across span of millenniums.
One:...
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Categories:
launch, abuse, age, anniversary, betrayal, conflict, crush, dark,
Form:
Rhyme
My Last Las Vegas CesMy Last Las Vegas C.E.S. (1)
(A Memorial Poem)
I long counted Steve Bristow a friend (1) and we'd fly off to lunch
some days (Steve would get 'hours in' he needed for license - small planes).
It was...
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Categories:
launch, adventure,
Form:
Rhyme
The Global Bankers and Me" Good evening gentlemen, at last we meet.
I am so honored to bask in the presence of your company.
Meeting all of you global bankers has always been my fantasy,
so seeing you all before me now...
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Categories:
launch, fantasy,
Form:
Rhyme
The Troll‘An interesting guy I think,’
People might say on meeting you for the first time,
Oh yes, I’ve come to know you too well.
Thank God for the Internet,
Although there are bodies in your wake,
And stench follows you...
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Categories:
launch, evil,
Form:
Blank verse
Limericks Iv - Donald TrumpLimericks IV - Donald Trump
The Hair Flap
by Michael R. Burch aka "The Loyal Opposition"
The hair flap was truly a scare:
Trump’s bald as a billiard back there!
The whole nation laughed
At the state of his graft;
Now the...
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Categories:
launch, america, humor, humorous, leadership, light, nonsense, political,
Form:
Limerick
Desperate Message To Kim Jong UnPardon any absent adulation, bequeathed capitulation, devoted dedication, indiscretion, blabbering peroration, improper salutation or any unintended vexation if this unknown earthling sent a nearly identical message. He over-looked a small number of errors and hoped...
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Categories:
launch, abuse, dark, emotions, evil, hate, war, world,
Form:
Free verse
Fall of BerlinFall Of Berlin
There on the wall hangs a mixture of paint on linen,
Leaving the impression of a city besieged, encased in ice;
Purposely frozen in horror to remind the living,
Of blood oozing from the rubble into...
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Categories:
launch, history, war, world war ii,
Form:
Verse
Crown of Sonnets - Part 2Yet there in the mist is the stories tusk
There full of the hidden secrets of men
The men and fairies who are full of lusk
They do hide them away here in the glen
Here they are hidden...
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Categories:
launch, adventure, imagination, words, write, writing,
Form:
Sonnet
Unquotable Quotes Writers - XxxviiiUnquotable quotes: Writers – XXXVIII
for Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoieski
who let not even hope sustain them and who used their...
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Categories:
launch, creation, england, imagination, inspiration, judgement, writing,
Form:
Epigram
Whatever Happened To Glasnost and PerestroikaWhatever Happened To Glasnost And Perestroika?
Hobbit those characters who lived
within the realm
of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
as far removed as
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
upon squelched cusp of progressivism,
now most likely
experience bitterness at the...
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Categories:
launch, absence, angel, atheist, beautiful, betrayal, blessing,
Form:
Rhyme
Spring also known as vernal equinox arrives March 20th, 2025Spring (also known as vernal) equinox arrives March 20th, 2025
at 5:01?AM in Northern Hemisphere
out of hibernation,
sans mancave, I will climb
eastern standard time,
when calendrical, celestial,
and chronological prime
airy factors mark
onset of temperate clime
mitt, also coincides with
'super worm...
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Categories:
launch, adventure, beautiful, bird, birth, inspirational, march, spring,
Form:
Free verse
No God of MineCement, sand and gravel, blood, body and soul
Eternity bred from hell's darkest hole
Combine gruesome aggregates, hydrate the mix
Mould them and dry them, then stack up the bricks.
Thought in advance and precision laboured
Set automatic, eternity savoured
No...
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Categories:
launch, halloween, horror,
Form:
Rhyme
Tying Up the Second ComingI was tying up her second shoe
when the second coming came.
The first had been the night before
when the bus demons dropped her off
to say they might be back
but weren't exactly sure when,
while I tied up...
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Categories:
launch, anti bullying, bullying, caregiving, humor, parents, patriotic,
Form:
Political Verse
You Know Who You AreI know that you probably know who you are...
Abusers who prey on women (or men) .
Your aberrance mostly extends to the weak,
Your generosity just serves other's pain
And, of course, their misery's your only gain.
Do...
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Categories:
launch, evil,
Form:
Rhyme
Booth Made Famous On April 15th MdccclxvBooth made famous on April 15th, MDCCCLXV...
Sic semper tyrannis ad mortem
("Thus always I bring death to tyrants").
Ever since early forerunners
of twenty first century
mankind (sprinted
across trackless expanse extant
upon planet Earth),
modern Homo Sapiens...
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Categories:
launch, animal, confusion, family, fear, hate, history, men,
Form:
Free verse
Sinai Campaign, 1967Sinai Campaign, 1967
“Operation Focus” sees Israeli jets streaking, 1
Attacking Arab fighter jets and air force bases, 2
Thus attaining dominance over Middle Eastern skies,
While IDF ground divisions launch into action. 3
Israeli tanks (Pattons, Shermans, and Centurions)
Blitzkrieg...
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Categories:
launch, education, history, jewish, war,
Form:
Verse
The Loss of the Lifeboat, the 'Solomon Browne'In the year ninteen eighty one on the nineteenth day of December
A day the town of Mousehole in Cornwall, will always remember
An R.N.L.I. Watson class wooden lifeboat, the 'Solomon Browne'
Launched from Penlee lifeboat station in...
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Categories:
launch, boat, death, people, rain, sad, sea, storm,
Form:
Narrative
Shattered, Scattered, TrashedHello again Conscious, my dear friend
hello again dear mirror, my wake up call
hello again myself, it's too early for this but it needs to be said
No one will understand my turmoil, decisions, incentives
my numbing drive...
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Categories:
launch, how i feel, hurt,
Form:
Bio