Long Lighting Poems
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Rejection Slips 3Rejection Slips 3
Rejection Slip
by Michael R. Burch
Whenever my writing gets rejected,
I always wonder how the rejecter got elected.
Are we exchanging at the same Bourse?
(Excepting present company, of course!)
When editors reject my poems, did I slip...
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Categories:
lighting, death, desire, family, heart, life, longing, love,
Form:
Rhyme
The Remaining - Prologue: Terra Firma and the Bitumen“The Remaining”
PROLOGUE: “Terra Firma and The Bitumen”
"The slow descent into Hell
Had led Her mind to escape to Heaven
Her firmament was Her Mind
Her body just a Shell"
Heaven for Her existed in The Dream
She called Her...
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Categories:
lighting, angel, daughter, god, heaven, imagery, jesus, mother,
Form:
Free verse
Juvenilia: Early Poems IvJuvenilia: Early Poems IV
I wrote this around age 17.
Bible Libel
by Michael R. Burch
If God
is good
half the Bible
is libel.
I read the Bible from cover to cover at age eleven, ten chapters per day, at the suggestion...
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Categories:
lighting, poems, poetry, poets, teen, write, writing, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
Once Upon a Halloween In the 50'sThe excitement mounted as we rummaged around in the attic looking through old steamer trunks for discarded clothes and props to make Halloween costumes. With an old suit and hat of Granddads, I became a...
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Categories:
lighting, nostalgia,
Form:
Prose
Home Sweet Hell"That also has a steep drop off the far side of Home Sweet Hell" said my soulless guide as he pointed in the direction of the nearby screams.
I could see what resembled silhouettes or...
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Categories:
lighting, anxiety, death, future, life, scary,
Form:
Free verse
Quest of the Heart: Chapter OneOf Ghosts and Fiends in Twilight
The sun sank low on the darkening horizon
Grey mist hung adrift over the land thickening
A cold, brisk autumn wind held and embraced me
With my horse’s pace and that of...
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Categories:
lighting, adventure, for her, journey, lost love, love,
Form:
Rhyme
The Bate's Motel Does Exist - 1st HalfHere's the scoop, friends...like a bunch of my pieces now posted - and coming soon - this is, as indicated, the 1st HALF of this fairly lengthy poem. The 2nd half had to be posted...
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Categories:
lighting, humor,
Form:
Narrative
Once Upon a ReservationBack in the height
of our pre-millennial military-industrial
post-revolutionary days
of competing excess...
No, love,
Stick with
Once upon our Sacred Times...
Once upon a time
here in the US of Northern Americas
we used a Reservation Model
to dispose of hopelessly disabled aboriginals,
too RightBrain...
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Categories:
lighting, destiny, education, environment, green, health, humor, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Within the Brightest NightWITHIN THE BRIGHTEST NIGHT (Part 01)
”Life?”
"Are you thinking what I think?" she said, nonchalantly.
”Is this not the place for it, Young Light?”
"My young light." said I.
"Let's go in, then, Young Light." She had other...
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Categories:
lighting, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Hold the PhoneHold the phone, hold the freakin’ phone. Lisa’s got a boyfriend!
I’ve never seen Lisa with a boyfriend. Lisa draws men like fireworks on a dark night, but I’ve never seen her keep one. I mean,...
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Categories:
lighting, boyfriend, fashion, humor, money, student,
Form:
Free verse
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:
lighting, destiny, journey, life,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
He Is Like Thunder and Lighting He Excited MeGod! We Behold that you are great and we know somehow your ways are pass finding out. anyhow!
Neither can the number of his years be searched out anytime he made small drops of...
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Categories:
lighting, appreciation, care, character, education, image, nature, rain,
Form:
Narrative
Thanks To the One and OnlyWords of a mother melting your spirit despite it being cold. Her loving you no matter what chasing that heart of gold.
"You don't need to...
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Categories:
lighting, appreciation, dedication, depression, growing up, mother, sad,
Form:
Rhyme
Rightbrain Victim QuestionsWhat if we live in and out
among and yet autonomously
with and sometimes against
LeftBrain dominant enculturation?
Colonization,
predation with ego-logical economic secular outcomes
too often predicting compromised long-term health
in exchange for conserving an evolutionary win/lose model
serving industriously degenerating corporate...
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Categories:
lighting, community, health, history, integrity, peace, philosophy, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
The Whore and the Sea Part 1The moon was neither full, nor was it not
She shone down radiant lighting the misty ole night
The waves lapped the shore
As a gentle breeze streaked my face
Alone by the sea, clouds, the moon and me
The...
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Categories:
lighting, allegory, angel, french, imagination, universe,
Form:
Free verse
The Missus Served Me High Test CoffeeThe missus served me high test coffee...
Ah... tis nothing more heavenly
(to one borne again devout atheist)
then a spring like January 18th, 2023
here at Highland Manor apartments
picturesque green covered landscape,
where intrepid dandelions
dare to defy...
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Categories:
lighting, angel, appreciation, atheist, blessing, dedication, drink, humorous,
Form:
Free verse
The Moon Also Rises - the MidwatchThe Moon Also Rises
The Midwatch
Harry Mayer
The X.O.’s in the shower
and the Captain’s in his bed.
The Chiefs’ are playin’ poker
as we’re steamin’ to the Med.
“I’ll take that bet and raise you”
is what the Bo’sun says
from the...
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Categories:
lighting, humor, military, sea,
Form:
ABC
Journey Through Time Part TwoAs time passed on by, they settled and married
producing a fine brood of children
yet growing more and more unsettled
until one day they headed off again
this time going to the far north
where the lands were bound...
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Categories:
lighting, adventure, journey,
Form:
Epic
Ramen Noodles:) now this is what Im talking bout .... nothin iz 2 uncommon when all you got 2 eat iz Ramen
noodles 4 all y'all poodles
seahorse sonar struggle with senses
far beyond the realm...
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Categories:
lighting, dad, mother, relationship, spring, spring, winter, senses,
Form:
Lyric
I See You Looking At Me- Collab With DmI see you looking at me
There is an old pang in my chest
there where your hands used to caress
where your lips loved to roam
there where you called your home
There is an old flutter now
What is...
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Categories:
lighting, absence, lost love, passion, relationship, remember,
Form:
Narrative
A Journey Through TimeTwo friends were travelling to the east seeking unexplored lands
eventually they reached some grim looking tall mountains
slowly they made their way up to the summit and stood there
Breathlessly they were amazed by the panoramic view...
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Categories:
lighting, adventure, drink, journey, magic,
Form:
Epic
I See You Looking At Me - Collab With EmI see you looking at me
There is an old pang in my chest
there where your hands used to caress
where your lips loved to roam
there were you called your home
There is an old flutter now
What...
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Categories:
lighting, forgiveness, joy, lost love, love,
Form:
Narrative
The Nifty Town 2I walked pass the neighborhood restaurants and saw Americans
browsing on their laptops and having their Saturday evening meals
Some were having a serious chat over dinner
I could see angry faces filled with disappointments and resentments
There is...
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Categories:
lighting, absence, abuse, america, anti bullying, break up,
Form:
Narrative
When I Was TenNow in my decline from a time back then
I remember the days in a life when I was ten,
when we lived in a shadow much greater
at the foot of the mount...
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Categories:
lighting, memory, youth,
Form:
Couplet
Please Michelle ObamaPlease Michelle Obama...
can you save American democracy?
I highly hugely grant
Barack Hussein belated kudos
what with his wizardesses
in tow wrought wonders
to one nation analogous
while an under dog
sweeping in like...
It's a Bird... It's...
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Categories:
lighting, 12th grade, america, appreciation, beautiful, freedom, health,
Form:
Free verse