Long Leer Poems
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Self ReflectionsSELF 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 3Various 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 FallPoems 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 IiThese 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 IiPoems 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 SongWithin 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
Roughly President Trump--Ever so ornamental
...
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Categories:
leer, anxiety, perspective, political, visionary,
Form:
Shape
A Ride In Dylan's VoiceWoke 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 ReflectionOngepatshket 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 1Part 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 MeansDaylight 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 2022Argh 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 2021Argh 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 LineCourtesy 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
Growing Up Too Soongrowing 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 ManorHighlights 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 HouseA 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, 2022Daylight 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
Auntagony's InfatuationAntagonism'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
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
Poems About Pool SharksPOEMS ABOUT POOL SHARKS
Shark
by Michael R. Burch
They are all unknowable,
these rough pale men—
haunting dim pool rooms like shadows,
propped up on bar stools like scarecrows,
nodding and sagging in the fraying light...
I am not of them,
as I...
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Categories:
leer, poems, poetry, poets, sports,
Form:
Rhyme
The Ballad of Arthur and MandyA tribute to the late, great Victoria Wood x
Arthur and Mandy sat one night
When he gave her a dreadful fright
Ripped off his jumper revealed his string vest
Showing snippets of his hairy chest
He looked at her...
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Categories:
leer, funny,
Form:
Rhyme
The Trials of Meretrix Canto IWhen your befuddled mind
Forsakes upon the ragged edge
Of swirling darkness;
Where eternal night awaits
To sate upon purest innocence
Besides an open grave!
When the gravity of your perils
Be foully whispered within
Dismayed
And abject earshot;
Where salvation for despairing souls
Be so...
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Categories:
leer, philosophy,
Form:
Rhyme
Slice of Cake
Ever been treated like you’re a slice of cake?
By the kind of sleazy men that slither like a snake?
They’re not the type to give, they’re the kind that always take.
To all the women, listen,...
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Categories:
leer, courage, desire, for her, for him, funny,
Form:
Free verse
The Wanderer Part 1I remember a day I smiled at her
And she smiled back
That was miles away
down the road
We parted there
And I came back
to find her long gone
No trace, no note, no sign
I wondered if she
had hesitated before...
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Categories:
leer, allegory, lost love, love, passion, sad, travel,
Form:
Ballad