Long Literally Poems
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Echoes of a Shady PastAn icy chill descends on 13 Beaver Veil Cottage as sisters Ester and Ellie walk gingerly up the steps on this wet and windy night.
This once charming pied-a-terre was now in a final phase denouement.
The...
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literally, art, birth, character, courage, dark, imagery, imagination,
Form:
Prose
Echoes Of A Shady Past Part Twon icy chill descends on 13 Beaver Veil Cottage as sisters Ester and Ellie walk gingerly up the steps on this wet and windy night.
This once charming pied-a-terre was now in a final phase denouement.
The...
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Categories:
literally, character, dark, death, emotions, gothic, imagery, imagination,
Form:
Prose
Hitchhiker From Another World 4“Come on, let's get introduced to my play mate in a palm.
Linda, these are Joshua’s true other selfs.”
Lelia emitting a peculiar chuckle.
A comic situation arose where I changed my voice for each of my...
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literally, art, beautiful, beauty, celebration, character, emotions, environment,
Form:
Prose
State of the Art IiiState of the Art (III)
These are my "ars poetica" poems: the ones about the art and craft of writing poetry in a modern world that doesn't always recognize the artists or their work.
Come Down
by...
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literally, art, muse, poems, poetry, poets, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Poems IvPoems about Poems IV
The Toast
by Michael R. Burch
For longings warmed by tepid suns
(brief lusts that animated clay),
for passions wilted at the bud
and skies grown desolate and gray,
for stars that fell from tinseled heights
and mountains bleak...
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literally, allegory, allusion, appreciation, art, poems, poetry, poets,
Form:
Rhyme
Red and Green ChristiansLet's start with a fundamental flaw of fundamentalist Christianity,
a literary flaw within literal non-interpretation of historical creation
and sacred development.
This is true of radical jihadist Muslims as well,
although we both know you think you're more special...
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literally, addiction, bible, hate, health, love, peace, philosophy,
Form:
Political Verse
Sufi Dream Poem-Theory: Cosmontological Uni-BallCosmology + Ontology = Cosmontology
NEW Cosmontological Principle: Be SO SO humble!
>>> SEE NOTE BELOW
A Sufi Dream-Poem--Our purposefully "proto-conscious" UNI-ballish recycling?
By: Moji Agha
Started on Oct. 26, 2020
You know?
Being a microtubular cosmontologically proto-conscious
goofy sufi...
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literally, creation, destiny, imagination, mystery, planet, science, stars,
Form:
Free verse
Watering TerrorI'm so confused,
raised to believe cooperative love overpowers competing fears
about scarcity of time,
and other resources,
and anger about past over- and under-valuing of myself
as a regenerative resource,
CoPresence Source,
raised to believe the Golden Rule
is most effectively...
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Categories:
literally, anger, destiny, fear, hate, love, power, violence,
Form:
Epic
Sonnets Xxv-XxxiiSonnets XXV-XXXII
Archaischer Torso Apollos (“Archaic Torso of Apollo”)
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
We cannot know the beheaded god
nor his eyes' forfeited visions. But still
the figure's trunk glows with the strange vitality
of a...
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literally, bereavement, body, cancer, change, death, depression, life,
Form:
Sonnet
Sonnets X-XviSonnets X-XVI
Archaischer Torso Apollos (“Archaic Torso of Apollo”)
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
We cannot know the beheaded god
nor his eyes' forfeited visions. But still
the figure's trunk glows with the strange vitality
of a...
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Categories:
literally, art, body, god, life, romantic, visionary, writing,
Form:
Sonnet
Rilke Translations IiCome, You
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
This was Rilke’s last poem, written ten days before his death. He died open-eyed in the arms of his doctor on December 29, 1926, in the...
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Categories:
literally, tribute,
Form:
Verse
The massive convoy of threatsBegins with Hyundai's my stalker fatal attraction
rushing in front of our disabled vehicle then rams break
hard causing us to panic my spouse and I both disabled
this has cause severe discrimination and victimization...
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literally, anxiety, depression, discrimination, health, husband, mental health,
Form:
Free verse
DEADLY GAME OF MRSAHow the Nation of Islam saved my granddaughter
from Catrina Bell queen pin gang leader it was a warm
day i was suffering from traumatic brain injury raising
five children including my granddaughter only four...
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literally, beautiful, daughter, granddaughter, grandmother, my child, writing,
Form:
Free verse
Harriet Harris, Nee Kuritsky Gave Up the GhostHarriet Harris, née Kuritsky gave up the ghost...
~ May fourth, 2005
wedded bliss nearly fifty years
half a century almost
me not most favorite grown offspring,
she (when alive) did boast,
about youngest sister and her family,
unlike me – severely...
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literally, absence, abuse, anger, appreciation, bereavement, cry, dance,
Form:
Free verse
No God of Mine - 2021 Edit[This poem 'No God Of Mine' was seemingly confounding readers as
to its meaning. Ordinarily, if I felt a poem wasn't cutting it, I'd delete
it, but on this occasion, I've been asked to explain it... so here goes.]
By...
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Categories:
literally, evil, horror,
Form:
Rhyme
Silent Cries and AgoraphobiaI remember feeling so empty the abuse had escalated after four hurricanes witnessing a murder horrific traumatic brain injury I was now uprooted leaving my beautiful home in Fort Myers Florida at the behest of...
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Categories:
literally, anxiety,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Jacqueline TrestrailOn this day 40 years ago in 1978 my mother, Jacqueline Anne Trestrail, left this world after a relatively short battle with cancer - she was 46. Jimmy Carter was President and Annie Hall won...
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literally, mother, tribute,
Form:
Prose
A Letter in Forewarning of Melancholia--Part I(Somewhere in late 18th-century Europe a friend, Laetitia, by way of a letter warns her beloved girlfriend, Euphoria--a young, gay and unsuspecting mistress--against the almost inevitable seductions of the infamous and maundering philanderer, Melancholia.).
Dear Euphoria,
...
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literally, depression, friend, metaphor, philosophy, psychological, uplifting, wisdom,
Form:
Prose
MESSY MANDIESad place when Lucifer sits behind a desk allowing severe repeat violent offenders to give false statements falsified documents in order to frame innocent persons from behind bars after over 20 convictions queen pin drug...
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Categories:
literally, anti bullying, corruption, evil, innocence,
Form:
Free verse
Your SanityStuck in place…
Free in space…
you’re insane
I’m as sweet as sugar cane…
Whatever happened to your unique personality?
Whatever happened to your sanity?
Has it transformed to insanity?
I like the way you make me feel
Oh, you don’t...
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literally, anger, angst, appreciation, beauty, change, emotions, encouraging,
Form:
Rhyme
I PromiseI promise…I promise I won’t desert you
This hardship you’re facing at the moment is temporary
Tonight…tonight, I will show you love so true
By wiping your tears of sorrow and showing you tomorrow happily
I wake up to...
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Categories:
literally, deep, depression, desire, emotions, encouraging, hope, inspiration,
Form:
Free verse
Why I Don'T Trust Psychics - 3rd ThirdNOTE: This is the final THIRD of a funny 3-part poem. You'll find the 1st and 2nd parts on my homepage, of course. I hope you'll take the time to read the whole thing, it's...
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Categories:
literally, funny, humor, , western,
Form:
Narrative
A Rhyme Into My Active Prescription Medication Addiction, and the Start of My RecoveryTRIGGER WARNING this piece features active addiction, the struggles etc
I Can't stop screaming, sobbing the pain in my stomach is excruciating,
Eventually Im assigned a bed to be left in whaling, waiting,
Finally a nurse...
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Categories:
literally, addiction, child, cry, emotions, evil, growing up,
Form:
Free verse
I Dodged a BulletHalf a dozen girls, at least, were on my list of ‘maybes’, as I was on the prowl to find a date for junior prom,
When I was coaxed to think about a girl who lived...
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Categories:
literally, high school,
Form:
Narrative
Chapter 121 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: the Family's Grand Gathering and Family RumorsDate: June 2048
The grills were set everything was
In place. CJ informed "More
than 350 family members
Are expected to be here within
The hour." Damian said, "with 300 plus
Relatives expected today it...
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Categories:
literally, birth, confidence, deep, devotion, granddaughter, loss,
Form:
Alliteration