Long Looted Poems
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Rejection Slips 2
Rejection Slips 2
The Shape of Mourning
by Michael R. Burch
The shape of mourning
is an oiled creel
shining with unuse,
the bolt of cold steel
on a locker
shielding memory,
the monthly penance
of flowers,
the annual wake,
the face in the...
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Categories:
looted, beauty, death, desire, life, longing, love, nature,
Form:
Free verse
Rejection Slips 3
Rejection 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:
looted, death, desire, family, heart, life, longing, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Pen Errand
I know that even when others deceive me, you can't decieve me with your blossoming ink of truth.
Go tell them what has happened to our budget,
Tell them that our budget is missing in a broad...
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Categories:
looted, art, universe,
Form:
Epigram
Give Peace a Chance Part 1
Like the twelfth
juror in the play
I must say I am not
convinced
For I know a recipe
for trouble
I have seen the
double standards
And I do not approve
this for Kenya
I will never approve
it, and neither
Would you, dear
friend of...
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Categories:
looted, peace,
Form:
Free verse
Nigerian Independence Celebration
As October 1 approaches, HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY……………………
I have enormous tracts of land and vast volumes of water, but cannot feed myself.
So I spend $1 billion to import rice and another $2 billion on milk.
I produce...
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Categories:
looted, celebration, freedom,
Form:
Alliteration
Chaz Or Chaste
Midterms are over and I killed ‘em (Yes, even physics) - yeah me! I spent the last two weeks like prisoners do, marking off days until - freedom. Now the pressure’s off and I can...
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Categories:
looted, confusion, culture, friendship, humor, school, student, teen,
Form:
Free verse
Tonight
Why, after everything, do I feel lost tonight?
Like a ship that drifted out of calm waters and suddenly find itself adrift in an ocean of uncertainty
Why, after promises that have been sealed by kisses, do...
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Categories:
looted, emotions, feelings, heart, longing, love, memory, relationship,
Form:
Blank verse
I Was D'Politician
I was D'politician
I was once the hammer in this world,
I was the people preacher and also the politician,
I was in charge of life incarnation through teaching,
I was a man of the people who had stood...
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Categories:
looted, betrayal, irony,
Form:
Political Verse
Song Dedicated To Rape Victim of Delhi
A Song If this is My Country..
This Song is dedicated to the brutal Rape victim of Delhi and it’s a message for My Countrymen. The Original song is in Hindi on You Tube with Song...
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Categories:
looted, dedication, garden, inspirational, me, song, world,
Form:
Free verse
Unmade - FIRE AND ICE, part 2
Let this not be poetry.
Let this be a reckoning.
(Honest John.)
You are a groomer.
You are a predator in plain clothes.
You are a bastard carved from rot
Too old to claim innocence,
Too vile to fake remorse.
You lusted after...
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Categories:
looted, abuse, betrayal, corruption, dark, grief, violence,
Form:
Free verse
Musings At Giza, Egypt
Musings at Giza, Egypt
by Michael R. Burch
In deepening pools of shadows lies
the Sphinx, and men still fear his eyes.
Though centuries have passed, he waits.
Egyptians gather at the gates.
Great pyramids, the looted tombs
—how still and desolate...
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Categories:
looted, age, culture, history, mystery, old, time, travel,
Form:
Verse
His Life Mattered, Part I
It was back in summer, 2020,
when activists ran ‘round, burning cities,
convinced that they had to destroy their lives
since a thug with similar skin color died.
Amidst the BLM and Antifa
was a young woman known as Jacinta,
only...
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Categories:
looted, change, conflict, growth, people, political, race, racism,
Form:
Narrative
THEY KNOW IT
I know their fears.
I know their cravings.
I know their reflexes.
I know their thoughts.
They know that I know who they are.
I am exactly like them, but with a dose of Pan-African melanin.
I’ve fully absorbed every mechanism...
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Categories:
looted, 12th grade,
Form:
Free verse
Does the Gog and Magog war happen during the tribulation part seven Q and A
Q: Immediately after the Gog and Magog war what does the Sovereign LORD
instruct the townspeople of Israel to do pertaining to Gog? Ezekiel 39:9
A: "Then those...
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Categories:
looted, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Prose
The Atlantic Ocean An Unrelenting Mistress
The Atlantic ocean...,an unrelenting mistress
More'n ten thousand leagues under the sea
next to an octopus's garden in the shade.
OceanGate manufacturer
of the Titan Submersible,
which vessel that set out to reach
Titanic shipwreck with five passengers
officials believe the suffered
a...
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Categories:
looted, abuse, analogy, anger, anxiety, bereavement, bullying, corruption,
Form:
Rhyme
Back To Poetry
What is poetry, if not a form of artistry, looking for beauty, through the calamity?
Why do we waste rhymes and peoples time just for us to shine in the spotlight of our own iniquity?
We stand...
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Categories:
looted, inspiration, inspirational, passion, poems, poetess, poetry, poets,
Form:
Rhyme
Sample Price of Russians In Chechnya
More than 1,000 men, sometimes women
forced to clandestine detention centers.
Relatives mystified as to there whereabouts.
Some Russian troops bribed
with money, weapons or ammunition.
Returning gave rise to evidence
of rape to both women and men,
constant beatings rendering...
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Categories:
looted, death, history, life, loss, political, sad, warwar,
Form:
Free verse
Let Haiti Be Absolutely Free
Let Haiti be absolutely free
Haiti is the father of Freedom and Liberty
Haiti is the first nation to forever ban or abolish slavery
And the slave trade in the western hemisphere
And in the world
The first to practice...
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Categories:
looted, africa, america, black african american, discrimination, inspiration,
Form:
Rhyme
WHY EACH VOTE COUNTED
The parents whose 12-year-old son was just laid to rest
From spraying bullets exploding in his young body’s chest
The father whose daughter was tortured and raped
By monsters initiating in a criminal gang
She will never see her...
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Categories:
looted, hope, inspiration, patriotic,
Form:
Free verse
For Those Who Celebrate The 4th Of July
We need to remember our heritage and the reason we celebrate the 4th of July.
Have you ever wondered what happened to the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence? Their story. . .
...
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Categories:
looted, america, patriotic,
Form:
Free verse
Disorientation
You have raided my night again,
as the burst of a sudden storm,
sneaking into my loneliness,
at the most unexpected hour,
plunging me into swirls of pain
too deep for expression,
leaving me in utter disorientation.
I now drift aimless with...
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Categories:
looted, angst, death, depression, farewell,
Form:
Free verse
Halloween Eyes
Elegant in burnt orange afterglow,
sparkling starlight opens the show.
Neighbors and strangers appear all aroun’,
porch lights and car lights enlighten the town.
They arrive afoot and atop handlebars.
Tots wave from strollers like famed movie stars.
Mothers...
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Categories:
looted, candy, children, halloween, holiday, humorous, kid,
Form:
Rhyme
Still smarting from stupid scamming fraudsters
Still smarting from stupid scamming fraudsters...
five months ago to the day
Twas the cusp of tooth thousand
twenty three summer solstice,
when yours truly (a fool
and his money went separate ways)
mine cherished nest egg,
I would immediately miss
lesson immediately...
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Categories:
looted, abuse, age, anger, angst, baptism, betrayal, crush,
Form:
Rhyme
The Furnace of Afflictions
My fury and outrage remain unabated , it seethes like magma
and spreads itself throughout my being , it is barely contained
I shield it to keep the damage within , so it does not consume me
or...
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Categories:
looted, angst, depression, faith, fire, heart, introspection, life,
Form:
Free verse
Trespassers Will Be Prosecuted
'Knock, knock' on the door,
But, I won't let you in.
No, no.
The chamber of my heart is closed.
But 'knock, knock' you say.
Oh no!
I am stronger in this position than any other.
A huge 'liquidation' sign hung,
For months...
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Categories:
looted, funny, lost loveme, heart, heart, me, ,
Form:
Free verse