Long Littered Poems
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The Power of My PenI have been trying to find the right words to pen this verse, but since I came to this country my words are suppressed and my voice is oppressed. The wind is blowing furiously, and...
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Categories:
littered, anti bullying, break up, community, corruption, discrimination,
Form:
Narrative
Justice Is Crying In the StreetOh my soul what hails you?
Oh my soul what awaits you?
Oh my soul why are you in despair?
Oh my soul I have not deserted you
Oh my soul I have something to share
Oh my soul I...
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Categories:
littered, anti bullying, conflict, courage, desire, discrimination, education,
Form:
Free verse
Early Poems IiiJuvenilia: Early Poems by Michael R. Burch
In the Whispering Night
by Michael R. Burch
In the whispering night, when the stars bend low
till the hills ignite to a shining flame,
when a shower of meteors streaks the sky
while...
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Categories:
littered, poems, poetry, poets, teen, write, writing, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
The Philistine Troops Gathered Up For WarThe Philistine troops gathered up for war,
Between Azekah and Socoh amassed.
Israel encamped near in Elah vale
And drew a line against the number vast.
There Saul, upon one mountain, made a stand,
To face the other tribe across...
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Categories:
littered, bible,
Form:
Rhyme
Quest of the Heart: Chapter TwoBrave Shadow Mane
Falling free at a tremendous velocity
Cursing my decision for acting in haste
Through clouds and frozen rain I could not see the ground
Losing consciousness, in my mouth blood I could taste
Now this was indeed...
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Categories:
littered, adventure, for her, journey, lost love, love,
Form:
Rhyme
All That Was SpartaOur lusty voice was in the tramp of narrow, winding,
Scree-littered, deep-rutted roads;
Ravens, uttering guttural croaks, slow-wheeling above
...
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Categories:
littered, myth,
Form:
Rhyme
The Worm Poem SequelShe was in love
Their expression of it
Was the perfection of it
The way they shared
What they had
Was beyond compare
Today is the next step
Towards their future
Today they bought a house
Overwhelmed
Overjoyed
Her...
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Categories:
littered, dark,
Form:
Epic
And Still I Drive - Part TwoStars fall under failing skies...stars fall...stars fall...
But stars do not cry.
Into Ochs valley, through the Vale of White Horse...prancing
besides a Dragons Hill;
It was here that a Roundhead - did a Royalist Cavaliers blood in...
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Categories:
littered, travel,
Form:
Rhyme
Yet More Than a BrotherMoods oscillate in cadences of peaks and valleys
Music to fractious emotions on greasy dance floors
Mistimed cues of flares smouldering relationships
Angst of redundancy seethes from within as lava
Anger is camouflaged with the cloak of reticence
Ardour suffocated...
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Categories:
littered, allusion, analogy, appreciation, brother, character, feelings, friend,
Form:
Bio
Burning MemoriesCrown of Sonnets
Yesterday's poems now pages turned brown
Lay scattered, torn on the floor of my years
Written long ago with words I wrote down
When the ink was used to quell the heart's fears
These words of my...
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Categories:
littered, lost love, memory, poems,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Buck N For GloryYour searching for something you can touch;
Looking for the same things to love, with no results;
and it's hard to believe;
Hard to receive;
Your shucking and jiving;
ducking and diving;
wondering and why ing. . . your trying to
Buck...
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Categories:
littered, analogy, appreciation, celebration, celebrity, character, farewell,
Form:
Ballad
The Hidden LaneThe sun burst out from underneath the clouds
Ploughing through the merry crowd
The impact of nature is closing in
sucking the joy from within
Trucks and cars littered the streets
Adding more pain to the...
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Categories:
littered, adventure, america, character, community, corruption, pain, sorrow,
Form:
Narrative
The Village On the Water ViBut we of the Three Tribes live undiscovered
In the reverberating stillness of the
Three Gorges...
And are therefore unknown to the warring mongol;
His impassioned lusts -- his...
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Categories:
littered, celebration, community, environment,
Form:
Free verse
The Belly of the RootI finished my work early this morning
and went outdoors to exercise
I jogged around the circle for a while
and observed a few things happening outside
A pickup truck parked on the edge...
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Categories:
littered, america, autumn, betrayal, character, corruption, deep, men,
Form:
Narrative
Glowing LightWhat happen I kept asking myself
What happen is still hanging over my head
What happen is rumbling in the river bed
I had an uncomfortable feeling in my chest
So I grabbed my bike and rode through...
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Categories:
littered, angel, autumn, beautiful, courage, environment, god, light,
Form:
Narrative
The IncumbentTHE INCUMBENT
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS
I am sick and tired of hearing the same old line
My elected representative says every things fine
He just does not represent the people I know
He’s been there forever its time for him...
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Categories:
littered, corruption, culture, introspection, irony, parody, political, power,
Form:
Rhyme
What Might Be SeenNatural predication
greets sacred promise
to restore peaceful justice.
Omnipresent predication
greets polypathic promise
for restoring love as grace-filling justice.
Omnipotently disintegrative powers
of HellFire prediction
too quickly settle for monoculturing retribution,
punishment
due to FallenNature's past spiritual sins
in absence of paid-forward
gift economies
for notnot co-arising
Sacred...
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Categories:
littered, culture, integrity, love, nature, peace, power, religion,
Form:
Political Verse
A Pool of BloodBlood spilling in the east running all the way to the west
Forming rivers of doubt in the north and South
An army of men converge along the river bank
With long guns strapped to their sides
And big...
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Categories:
littered, change, city, conflict, courage, extended metaphor, immigration,
Form:
Free verse
Vicissitudes and SuccorAre My Words So Foreign Or Obtuse
That You May Not, Within Them, See Truth?
That We Live Together Within,
While Without We Share, What May One Day,
Become A Common View;
A Mutual Love...
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Categories:
littered, community, culture, destiny, faith, humanity, perspective, philosophy,
Form:
Free verse
The Toilet Paper RevolutionDate June 2024
A large group picketed outside
Of the toilet paper factory.
People held picket
Signs marching in a circular line.
The Group chanted:
Revolters deserve better bottom
Paper on this caper! The group
Became bigger...
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Categories:
littered, anger, history,
Form:
Alliteration
Diary Notes: Lamentable Laissez-FaireDiary Notes: Lamentable laissez-faire
…the lêche cul is
back
...
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Categories:
littered, anti bullying, august, conflict, judgement, paris,
Form:
Free verse
ProseShane walked to the back of the bar and found the door opened to an alley littered with the garbage of the bar and the restaurant beside it, the one whose neon sign has two...
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Categories:
littered, brother, dark, money, woman,
Form:
Prose
The Golden TreeThey say that a tree is known by its fruit
But there are many trees whose fruits are unknown
Apple bearing pear and pear bearing apple
And a cherry blossom tree cannot bear sunflowers
"Keep out of trouble now"...
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Categories:
littered, adventure, autumn, beautiful, break up, business, creation,
Form:
Narrative
The Illogicality of CommonsenseBy Stanley Collymore
At first I wasn’t in the least interested in you.
But then, why should I be? You, after all,
are an unmarried and out-of-work mum
just turned 23 and, additionally and
quite evidently...
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Categories:
littered, love, life, life, mum,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Abandoned Rhymes: Crumpled PagesI heard taunting echoes and scurrilous snarls.
It was my conscience, and I listened as it spoke
in accusations, contemptible remarks aimed at me.
Shameful words delivered to break my fallen spirit.
In mocking voice of Shakespeare's Hamlet, I...
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Categories:
littered, depression, poetry,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue