Long Leer Poems
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Self Reflections
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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Categories:
leer, identity, image, imagery, metaphor, mirror, self, symbolism,
Form:
Rhyme
Various Heresies 3
Various Heresies 3
Breakings
by Michael R. Burch
I did it out of pity.
I did it out of love.
I did it not to break the heart of a tender, wounded dove.
But gods without compassion
ordained: Frail things must break!
Now...
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Categories:
leer, america, bible, christian, god, jesus, religion, usa,
Form:
Verse
Poems About Adam, Eve, Lucifer, Eden and the Fall
Poems about Adam, Eve, Lucifer
Eden
by Michael R. Burch
Then earth was heaven too, a perfect garden.
Apples burgeoned and shone, unplucked on sagging boughs.
What, then, would the children eat?
Fruit indecently sweet,
redolent as incense, with a tempting aroma...
Outcasts
by...
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Categories:
leer, bible, christian, creation, god, heaven, paradise, sin,
Form:
Free verse
Apocalyptic Poems Ii
These are prophetic poems and apocalyptic poems ...
Beast 666
by Michael R. Burch
“... what rough beast ... slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?”?W. B. Yeats
Brutality is a cross
wooden, blood-stained,
gas hissing, sibilant,
lungs gilled, deveined,
red flecks on a...
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Categories:
leer, earth, earth day, environment, future, visionary, weather,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Things That Break Ii
Poems about Things that Break II
These are poems about things that break and/or shatter.
Water and Gold
by Michael R. Burch
You came to me as rain breaks on the desert
when every flower...
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Categories:
leer, break up, depression, divorce, emotions, farewell, goodbye,
Form:
Rhyme
Escape of the Bluesman's Song
Within the frame a sepia scene
a dusty porch a rickety chair
the fabric of your dusky face creased
with ceaseless sunbaked woes
your old pair of getaway feet gives
a different walk of...
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Categories:
leer, africa, america, grief, racism, slavery, song, sorrow,
Form:
Free verse
Shayna Punim You came a long way baby
Shayna Punim - You came a long way baby!
Though negligible communication
now transpires between us
twenty seven years ago
come February fourth,
two thousand and twenty five,
our lives (affecting yours truly
and that of mother, plus Eden
a caring older sister)
irrevocably...
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Categories:
leer, adventure, age, anniversary, beautiful, birthday, gender, hello,
Form:
Free verse
Harvest Moon O're Withered Fields
...the village shivers a hive of restless souls
skin pricklin' with anticipation
as costumed runners fixin' to gather — hearts a-thrummin'
...
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Categories:
leer, autumn, culture, halloween, humanity, october, romance,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Roughly President Trump--
Ever so ornamental
...
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Categories:
leer, anxiety, perspective, political, visionary,
Form:
Shape
A Ride In Dylan's Voice
Woke up this morning
on the wrong side of the tracks.
Left out leaving for all the right reasons
and all the wrong facts.
Caught a ride with a traveling preacher
in a beat up van.
Said he...
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Categories:
leer, journey, religion,
Form:
I do not know?
Ongepatshket Torqued Skewed Reflection
Ongepatshket torqued skewed reflection
drawn courtesy lots of byte size chalk.
When e'er I summon fat chance
to empower me self with courage
and steal a passing glance
in the mirror then instantaneously
hairline fractures appear
than 'afore long
snap,...
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Categories:
leer, 12th grade, adventure, america, celebration, confidence, february,
Form:
Rhyme
The Raven, Sequel - Part 1
Part 1 - A raven alone, ravaging around in the darkness.....
i.
Ultimately aware, suspense is such, though truly I am sensing,
something dark diverting mind withdrawn, the silence muttered,
since melancholy holds suspicion where to probe now...
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Categories:
leer, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 5th grade, 6th
Form:
Rhyme
Daylight Savings Time Ends November 5th 2023 Means
Daylight Savings Time Ends – November 5th 2023 means...
discombobulated, harried, and lobotomized
state of body, mind, and spirit triage.
Onset of dark shadows signalling edge of night
occurs earlier as the world turns
beckoning, hinting, robbing passage...
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Categories:
leer, autumn, business, confusion, dark, father, light, november,
Form:
Rhyme
Argh Daylight Savings Time March 13th 2022
Argh Daylight Savings Time – March 13th, 2022
Once again, yours truly
dishes out his regular dose
of literary gobbledygook
even Count Dracula
would not even bat an eye
nor give me his evil curse,
butta I avoid tempting him
courtesy fanged...
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Categories:
leer, america, change, confusion, history, light, march, morning,
Form:
Rhyme
Argh Daylight Savings Time March 14th 2021
Argh Daylight Savings Time – March 14th, 2021
Once again, yours truly
dishes out his regular dose
of literary gobbledygook
even Count Dracula
would not even bat an eye
nor give me his evil,
(albeit harmless) look
regarding feeble effort I undertook.
Don't forget...
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Categories:
leer, adventure, confusion, evil, good night, hello, husband,
Form:
Rhyme
Courtesy Severely Receding Hair Line
Courtesy severely receding hair line...,
yours truly enveloped within morose mood
I (Samson incarnate)
frankly experience zapped strength,
hence sulk and pine for salad days of youth
when abundant golden locks adorned me noggin.
Now in doddering dotage scant wisps...
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Categories:
leer, absence, anger, crush, cry, fate, heartbroken, husband,
Form:
Rhyme
Steampunk
In the copper-clad cradle of time
where gears whir fugues to forgotten dreams.....
the fog—a somnolent specter—drifts.....
veiling the calculus of progress
a manuscript etched by steam and soot.
Hark The hiss of pistons proclaims
a triumph—or perhaps a dirge—
for we...
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Categories:
leer, literature, mythology, technology, time, visionary,
Form:
Narrative
Growing Up Too Soon
growing up too soon
you said: is there anything more excruciating than lagging behind
being passed by
a hasbeen
still knocking on portals
twitching toes twirling thumbs
in fidgety drawn-curtained waiting rooms
and...
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Categories:
leer, age, growing up, lonely, longing, psychological, women,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Highlights From Highland Manor
Highlights from Highland Manor
Courtesy Goofus and Gallant
who began their broadly-drawn
moral plays in the 1950s,
initially depicted as identical twins,
but later on, editors for Highlights
indicated the two were brothers,
but not twins, and...
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Categories:
leer, adventure, age, animal, celebration, environment, green, july,
Form:
Rhyme
Don'T Mess With My House
A child, crippled by a tragic accident
Learned how to excel in sorrow
Never listening to words
That would encumber his bright tomorrow
Who cares if he's a paralytic
It has nothing to do with his mind
A ray of...
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Categories:
leer, people,
Form:
Rhyme
Daylight Savings Time March 13th, 2022
Daylight Savings Time – March 13th, 2022
A long time graduate courtesy
Hard Knocks alum,
once again yours truly
posts reasonable rhyme
about shortest day of the year.
Two o'clock Ante Meridiem
nostri Jesu Christi
hour...
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Categories:
leer, allusion, color, dream, flying, fun, god, imagery,
Form:
Rhyme
Argh the bane of daylight savings time November 3rd 2024
Argh... the bane of daylight savings time – November 3rd 2024
Hour hands clock back
sixty minutes of Autumn
round about same of month
every year, what a bummer,
an inconvenient truth
diverged from this chum
purposelessly manipulating
hold over yesteryear doth drum
sensation...
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Categories:
leer, adventure, america, autumn, confusion, light, november,
Form:
Rhyme
Auntagony's Infatuation
Antagonism's stand up protagonist,
Her dark comedy
impatient inside AuntAgony declares
left out right in face of
a bi-culturally sublime
ProWithiGistic voice within,
if S/He only vulnerably dared
to risk her starkly impatient tissue issues:
I did not choose
to lose
deep dark masculinity
To no...
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Categories:
leer, earth, health, humor, love, math, nature, spiritual,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
KRAMPUS CHRISTMAS
KRAMPUS CHRISTMAS
All hope is lost for children
If their festive spirit dies,
The Christmas magic disappears
As they look through older eyes.
No more milk and cookies
Or a sign for Santa`s sleigh,
Or carrots for the reindeer
To eat...
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Categories:
leer, christmas, dark, evil, mystery, myth, poems,
Form:
Rhyme
Howling At the Moon
Black market product truckload ...
illegal cargo of tax-free merchandise,
and plenty boxed liquor of trouble
Leather clad tattooed dirty violet blonde
riding shotgun,
with a Rambo knife hugging her thigh
In the cab backseat
sit two mountain men beastie boys
strapped...
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Categories:
leer, allusion, dark, death, violence,
Form:
Ode