Long Lipped Poems
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Fully Employed NowHumanity keeps looking forward, toward the coming of a birth,
and we’re all deemed as equals on our first day on this earth,
but as the years go quickly by our lives become our own;
we’re seen as...
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Categories:
lipped, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Various Heresies 2Various Heresies 2
You
by Michael R. Burch
For thirty years You have not spoken to me;
I heard the dull hollow echo of silence
as though strange communion between us.
For thirty years You would not open to me;
You remained...
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Categories:
lipped, atheist, bible, christian, god, jesus, religion, religious,
Form:
Verse
Mirza Ghalib TranslationsNear Sainthood
by Mirza Ghalib
translation by Kanu V. Prajapati and Michael R. Burch
On the subject of mystic philosophy, Ghalib,
your words might have seemed deeply profound
and we might have pronounced you a saint...
if only we hadn't found
you...
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Categories:
lipped, soulmate, spiritual, tamil, truth, urdu, women, words,
Form:
Verse
Matty Mattel Doll Circa Mcmlxv(alternately titled: idolizing childhood's end
today April 25th, 2021
generates elusive warm treasured memories).
Akin to significance my eldest sister
felt toward her “Willies” –
(totally tubular fuzzy bendable contrivances
analogous to an outsize pipe cleaner)
until she became a tweener
my Matty...
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Categories:
lipped, 1st grade, age, best friend, childhood, dedication,
Form:
Rhyme
Stolen Illumination of the StarSTOLEN ILLUMINATION OF THE STAR
This journey has not been a fanciful adventure,
we're all settlers in these dynasty of neo-colonialism
united only by what divides us. Victims, yes
victims of civilized inducement,
terms of...
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Categories:
lipped, political,
Form:
Narrative
Ford's Theater April 15th 1865Ford's Theater, April 15th, 1865...
Petersen House, Washington, D.C.
I admit to own a passion
for the Civil War in general,
and the life and death of
the sixteenth president in particular
between a hard spot of whiskey
and draughts of arrack;
nonetheless...
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Categories:
lipped, absence, age, america, anniversary, april, bereavement, cry,
Form:
Rhyme
The Visit, Part Ii("The Visit", Part II)
How can she not know I'm standing so near?
Perhaps, she's expecting the same to reappear
Like before after her being to me kind and sweet,
Because of fear, I made a quick and hasty...
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Categories:
lipped, abuse, horse, love, trust,
Form:
Rhyme
The Returning
"The Returning"
Inside us all
a strange forest
where light and dark
are fed to us by
curious creatures,
their unexpected gods
in thoughts and deeds
joy and fear
hate and love
belief and disbelief
inwards
our dreams
turn to
The...
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Categories:
lipped, muse, mystery, philosophy,
Form:
Narrative
Strange Vampires
"Strange Vampires"
all those years
ago, when conspiracies
flourished around
did we or didn’t we go
to the moon, when we
were once human,
proved to be lies,
whichever way
the dark shadows
conveyed it.
the truth
came out much later,...
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Categories:
lipped, humanity, muse, science fiction,
Form:
Narrative
Intermission Fool - Cafeteria MonitorCan I go to the bathroom? This place is full of jackasses. This place is full of jackasses jerking each other off. This place is full of ignorant, parochial, zit-sucking jackasses undeserving of their place...
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Categories:
lipped, 10th grade, allegory, food, school,
Form:
Burlesque
August 13th 2021 Twenty Two Years SinceAugust 13th, 2021 – twenty two years since...
Wicked bad designed day poem originally crafted
then alternately titled for no particular rhyme nor reason:
courtesy Doctor Donald Dossey
who coined paraskevidekatriaphobia.
August thirteenth nineteen hundred and...
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Categories:
lipped, abuse, adventure, animal, confusion, fate, grave, grief,
Form:
Rhyme
Wicked Bad Designed Day(alternately titled: courtesy Doctor Donald Dossey
who coined paraskevidekatriaphobia
August thirteenth nineteen hundred and ninety nine
forever etched in annals of my personal infamy
as one still sending hair raising shivers down my spine
which following unpleasant...
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Categories:
lipped, abuse, adventure, angst, good friday, grave, mom,
Form:
Free verse
The Forest, Never To Return, Part 1March came in like a lion
And never let up, not really
The children, Markie and Stu, spent most of their day outside
Except, as usual, for a quick lunch and a quicker hug
In the country, the...
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Categories:
lipped, scary, words,
Form:
Free verse
The Antics of a Yoyo ThiefThe Antics Of A Yoyo Thief
Potential life of as juvenile delinquent
(ala bam mean future streetwise thug)
stopped dead in the tracks – manacles
the above two lines hopefully gives hint
nearly changing changing life of one boy
an undersized...
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Categories:
lipped, 5th grade, 6th grade, adventure, angel, anxiety,
Form:
Rhyme
Liar-To-Liar
One liar said to the other liar,
“That’s some shaky vanilla truth,
I heard you done cold call sold.
With these lying eyes, do I scream with glee ...
you left girl honesty
hanging altar jilted at that...
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Categories:
lipped, allegory, humorous, satire, truth,
Form:
Light Verse
Lorca Translations ILorca Translations I
Gacela of the Dark Death
by Federico Garcia Lorca
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
I want to sleep the dreamless sleep of apples
far from the bustle of cemeteries.
I want to sleep the dream-filled sleep of...
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Categories:
lipped, dark, death, heart, romance, romantic, romantic love,
Form:
Free verse
Paying the BillPaying The Bill
You may come to this some day
It may issue from nowhere
A moment un-strident
A loose flagging half remembrance
Something which neither carries
Nor contains
But a fickle shadow
Thin and as meaningless with an empty whimper
Not...
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Categories:
lipped, lost love, loveheart, heart, love, may, ,
Form:
Free verse
Spilt Milk
“Spilt Milk”
Warm milk
before bedtime
spilt before sleep
The salty tear
in a body of work
along the dark line kissed
steamed open
like an envelope
secrets laid bare
reveling in whispers
moist lipped, barely contained
lovers and their conspiracies
pulses felt
quills dipped...
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Categories:
lipped, dark, desire, dream,
Form:
Free verse
Can We Feel MusicCan We “Feel” Music?
By Carol Geyer
Can we “feel” music? Can the notes cool or warm us?
Soothing like green aloe balm, or warm as flaming Yule logs,
or as majestic as a fully leafed oak?
...
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Categories:
lipped, music,
Form:
Free verse
Sex and the BritishThey’re drawing the curtains in Dorking,
Lighting the candles and pouring the lotions.
Switching off TV’s and shelving resentments,
Checking on children asleep in the darkness,
Creeping up hallways like teenage lovers.
Stairs and hopes creaking...
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Categories:
lipped, love, psychological, sexy, social,
Form:
I do not know?
The Forest, Never To ReturnMarch came in like a lion
And never let up, not really
The children, Markie and Stu, spent most of their day outside
Except, usually, for a quick lunch and a hurried hug
In the country, the darkness...
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Categories:
lipped, anxiety, conflict, confusion, dark, fear, horror, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
The BleedingI flung my bloodied bathrobe onto a dusty mahogany bureau and roared: “Did we frighten
the scarecrows tonight, my love? Whose catch was it anyway? Yours or mine? We invited 10
guests to our dungeon this evening....
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Categories:
lipped, on writing and words
Form:
Prose Poetry
The Antics of a Yoyo ThiefNow scores of years
after botched minor theft penchant
courtesy security guard
analogous to inquisitorial trenchant
unforgettable verbal lashing
(suppressing me ululation to vent)
unwittingly arresting snitch behavior
plus potential life of crime.
Not a peep passed thru
pursed lip o'...
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Categories:
lipped, 5th grade, adventure, age, child, courage, education,
Form:
Rhyme
In Flickered Lamp Light Or Delusion of Lost Love1)
In flickered lamp light
I waited in a delusional fog for you to return
the firelight flickered encouragement to my wandered waltzing
playing out the melodies in ivory and ebony
but only the white notes rose to my...
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Categories:
lipped, break up, lost love,
Form:
Free verse
Poems Omega Minus - Parts Three To FiveIII
Kept out
kept out he was: muzzled and shut out
from mothering social approval
and the usual conning courtesies
Kept shut
Involuting in the hippo-lipped paranoïa
from the darling eyes of his...
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Categories:
lipped, inspirational, time, time,
Form:
Free verse