Long Lichen Poems
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The Payload
"The Payload"
The payload
came crashing down
like rain expelled
from the fat belly
of a ruinous pregnant cloud
bilious with buxom promise
it came crashing down
like school fish released
from the tight confines
of a course rope...
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Categories:
lichen, fantasy, muse, mystery, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
Poems About Poems VPoems about Poems V
Distances
by Michael R. Burch
There is a small cleanness about her,
as though she has always just been washed,
and there is a dull obedience to convention
in her accommodating slenderness
as she feints at her salad.
She...
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Categories:
lichen, metaphor, poems, poetry, poets, words, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
The JourneyI
It all began so many years ago,
his journey down the narrow winding path,
and where it was to lead just fate could know
as it would take him through life’s aftermath.
The journey long and hard that he...
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Categories:
lichen, destiny, journey, life,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Please Help Yarn Hexed Door NeighborPlease help yarn hexed door neighbor...
Yours truly pinned down by invisible
vestiges of coronavirus and
getting attacked from angry plague
of buttons, plus huge spools of yarn
grossly mistook me for human sock
to seal and line...
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Categories:
lichen, abuse, anger, bullying, character, december, humorous, husband,
Form:
Rhyme
Covid Walkthermometer reads zero, a chilly breeze blows
apple cores thrown, the blackbirds feed
my multi-layered partner dons her wooly hat
impatiently, she waits for me
securing covid masks amidst my overcoat
...
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Categories:
lichen, anxiety, feelings, humanity, journey, life,
Form:
Verse
Tardigrades Aka Water Bears Or Moss PigletsTardigrades aka Water Bears, Moss Piglets
Before T-Rex appeared and the Dodo bird disappeared,
Leading to modern-day scientific knowledge increasement,
Creatures of infinitesimal size called ‘Tardigrades’ endure,
Were and are living and thriving, just about anywhere on earth.
From mountain...
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Categories:
lichen, animal, education, nature,
Form:
Verse
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 6~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Northward! He frowned into the storm
The wind ever stirring, the snow swirling 'round
Ahead lay destiny, a lone dying form
He felt a stirring, as if homeward bound
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Trudging carefully through the heavy snow he watched as Sprinteren...
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Categories:
lichen, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Letter To a Soldier - a TrilogyLETTER TO A SOLDIER
A Trilogy
I. SONGS OF LOVE
Love walked with me
In the crisp fall air
In a shower of gold and red.
Love showed me the print
Of a doe’s foot
And where she made her bed.
Love sat...
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Categories:
lichen, absence, america, death, emotions, hero, longing, war,
Form:
Ballad
Sonnets V-IxSonnets V-IX
Afterglow
by Michael R. Burch
The night is full of stars. Which still exist?
Before time ends, perhaps one day we’ll know.
For now I hold your fingers to my lips
and feel their pulse... warm, palpable and slow...
once...
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Categories:
lichen, love, moon, night, star, time, universe, world,
Form:
Sonnet
The TurningThe year has finally yawned and turned
Upon a half-revealed shoulder.
A vibrancy, intrinsic to a reemerging
Enforcement of the strengthening light,
In its deliberate and unconcerned ...
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Categories:
lichen, celebration,
Form:
Rhyme
My Ebbing Physical Prowess and StrengthMy ebbing physical prowess and strength
noticeably decreases in one direction.
I take lock, stock and barrel
to revisit good ole days of yore
quite conscious undeclared state of war
prevails within body electric of troubadour
now seated at his...
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Categories:
lichen, 12th grade, adventure, age, angst, atheist, confusion,
Form:
Rhyme
Creative Cerebral Craftiness CoaxesCreative cerebral craftiness coaxes...
Childhood campy chimera curtain call
subsequently hinting (based on accuweather)
the approach of blizzard squall
so burrow under quilted cover y'all
until warm temperatures arrive when springtime
ushers social media platforms
buzzfeeding earthlinked instant karma
jump/kickstarting linkedin...
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Categories:
lichen, 12th grade, adventure, age, baptism, business, creation,
Form:
Rhyme
A Meadow For AutumnA meadow for Autumn
Forest, I lay me down to rest
upon bed of moss.
Eternal sleep immediately overtakes me
lichen kenning myself
as Rip Van Winkle
except being repurposed
as oldest living species.
With an estimated...
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Categories:
lichen, animal, appreciation, autumn, creation, dark, environment, heaven,
Form:
Free verse
A Vanilla DoveCypress trees like evergreen steeples
rise above rows of gravestone woes,
their shadows lie side by side like railroad ties
across writhing paths banded like snakes;
the gravel birth cords sinuous
sensing the ground seeking the...
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Categories:
lichen, bird, death, grief, hope, life, sorrow, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
Mother Goose Would Find Her Tail Feathers RuffledMother Goose would find her tail feathers ruffled
Hey diddle diddle
the cat and the fiddle
when off to see
a crooked man and woman,
whilst cowards jumped
over moo ving little
pair of mismatched muggles,
who both walked...
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Categories:
lichen, abuse, allusion, anger, animal, baby, bird, fun,
Form:
Rhyme
The Secret Lives of Chimney Pots IiiMarching out of the cloaked shires
Of landowners, stockbrokers,
Hereditary Peers, and ruddy faced
Squires:
A vast multitude of many varied
Tribes.
Amassing in the great cities, where,
Inhabiting shadowy chambers,
Behind nodding sighs and hushed
Whispers,
The Masonic...
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Categories:
lichen, philosophy,
Form:
Rhyme
The Truth of Dearest Love Sworn, I Ask God How(1.)
The Truth Of Dearest Love Sworn, I Ask God How
Over the grit-stained shoulders of ancient marble
Rests a million vagaries of humanity's million sins
Just as earth's flocks of beautiful songbirds warble
So goes the evils engaged in...
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Categories:
lichen, art, life, love, magic, passion, romance, romantic
Form:
Sonnet
Nonpartisan Sham Bull***** NONPARTISAN SHAM (BULL SH*T)...
SPECIAL NEWS BULLETIN updated *****
Innocuous, yet unhealthy threat looms across
(air/radio) telecommunications devices
where smart electronic devices enthrall
and decree they co-opt role bing boss
linkedin with plenti networks that criss cross
even primitive computers utilizing...
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Categories:
lichen, america, confusion, endurance, freedom, future, history, january,
Form:
Rhyme
Recollections From the Golden Cree II know of a river of more than average
Sorts...
Meandering, when not dallying to maunder,
Between many differing contours
And unruly contorts;
Where a privileged youth once
Happily sought -
Pursuing about his passions
In the traditional methods
By which...
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Categories:
lichen, growing up,
Form:
Rhyme
Forbidden
"Forbidden"
the knowledge
acquired
from the story
I’ve lived
is forbidden
to be written
I listen to
their voices
carried in the
rustling leaves
the whispering
of ghosts behind me
hushing me
I haunt them
the rain transports
me as if it is music
I...
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Categories:
lichen, dark, fantasy, journey, light,
Form:
Narrative
My Ebbing Physical Prowess and StrengthI take stock and revisit good ole days of yore
quite conscious undeclared state of war
prevails within body electric of troubadour
now seated at his Macbook Pro
today February 20, 2021.
Since January thirteenth of this year
(two thousand and...
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Categories:
lichen, 12th grade, confusion, courage, death, depression, desire,
Form:
Rhyme
Worship of Thankfulness1. My sins may be an alarmist
hitting me hard with heavy fist
Your glory, I want to be near
my soul to you, I feel no pier
a flowerless life like lichen
you stop my spirit from itching
thank you...
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Categories:
lichen, bible, christian, god, relationship, religion, spiritual, spoken
Form:
Lyric
Pointed ArtPointed Art
Michael R. Burch
The point of art is that
there is no point.
A grinning, quick-dissolving cat
from Cheshire
must have told you that.
The point of art is this—
the hiss
of Cupid’s bright bolt, should it miss,
is bliss
compared to Truth’s...
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Categories:
lichen, art, death, life, nature, poetry, poets, time,
Form:
Verse
Benediction To My Father, and Apology For DisallowingA Healthy Relationship Betwixt Yourself And Only Heir
A hint of helping this wholesome Harris son
cane across thru the air
Hence this poetic expression
of gratitude Matthew Scott wants to blare
And communicate my genuine
appreciation crystal...
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Categories:
lichen, anger, courage, dad, desire, encouraging, howl, tribute,
Form:
Elegy
Odyssey From Africa 12dOdyssey from Africa, Chapter 12 (d) The fireflower (cont.)
Dominated by one hilltop
Round in form, it’s summit hidden
In the whiteness of a cloud base
There they saw their destination
Now they climbed by steepening gradient
Through a...
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Categories:
lichen, adventure, africa, animal, history, mythology, nature, voyage,
Form:
Narrative