Long Manner Poems
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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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Categories:
manner, art, beautiful, beauty, celebration, character, emotions, environment,
Form:
Prose
Oak
"Oak"
The guardians
stood around and
shook their heads
great thoughts
quivering
from the ground, roots up,
as if to walk
confidently
with great armies
yet hesitation
was witnessed
in their waving gestures
perplexed
and touching
green crowns,
there they...
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Categories:
manner, dark, journey, light, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
The Only Northern Northern Star
As winter hazes of January spraying
While I was meditating on how
To write this riveting poem which
Seemed to be for someone who
I never cast in my sight.
Despite her name is not an odd in me
But I...
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Categories:
manner, africa,
Form:
Ode
The Strange Case of Ft
"The Strange Case of F.T."
They say the dead don’t talk
the stories I have calculated
to deliver a saving grace
confessional shared amongst
my equal peers, or so I deem
you somewhat sometimes seem,
less than me, you...
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Categories:
manner, dark, horror, poets,
Form:
Narrative
Learning To Recreate Health
From Edward de Bono's Lateral Thinking: Creativity Step by [NonHierarchical] Step
Summary
The emphasis in education has always been on logical sequential thinking which is
by [deductively analytical academic] tradition
the only proper [true, good] use of...
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Categories:
manner, creation, culture, health, humor, nature, power, psychological,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Charles D'Orleans: a Medieval Marvel
Charles d'Orleans: a Medieval Marvel
Spring
by Charles d’Orleans (c. 1394-1465)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Young lovers,
greeting the spring
fling themselves downhill,
making cobblestones ring
with their wild leaps and arcs,
like ecstatic sparks
struck from coal.
What is their brazen goal?
They grab...
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Categories:
manner, art, autumn, french, prison, spring, summer, winter,
Form:
Roundel
Medieval Poems
Medieval Poems
How Long the Night
anonymous Middle English lyric, circa early 13th century AD
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
It is pleasant, indeed, while the summer lasts
with the mild pheasants' song ...
but now I feel the northern...
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Categories:
manner, allegory, bible, christian, england, london, nostalgia, poetry,
Form:
Verse
Charles D'Orleans Translations
Spring
by Charles d'Orleans (c.1394-1465)
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
Young lovers,
greeting the spring
fling themselves downhill,
making cobblestones ring
with their wild leaps and arcs,
like ecstatic sparks
struck from coal.
What is their brazen goal?
They grab at whatever passes,
so we can...
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Categories:
manner, bereavement, depression, desire, heartbreak, heaven, romance,
Form:
Roundel
Disability, Illness and Fundamentalism
Disability, Illness and Fundamentalism
My brother died of Cystic Fibrosis,
When I was twelve and he fourteen,
It took away his ambitions,
To study at Oxford - the pipe organ’s steam.
I understand being born with...
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Categories:
manner, atheist, cancer, health, prayer, religion, rights, science,
Form:
Rhyme
My Heavenly Father - the Couplet Style
~ My Heavenly Father ~
( Unrhymed Couplet )
~O~
My sweet Heavenly Father, help me to serve You better in all this day
And with Your Holy Spirit guide me each day, as...
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Categories:
manner, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
The Journey
Once upon a weedy lawn
At Cedar Oaks Retirement Home
There sat my mother, weak and old
On an afghan knit to block the cold.
It was summer, but in mom's grey eyes
Was winter, when all around us dies.
I...
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Categories:
manner, appreciation, child, daughter, devotion, family, forgiveness, mom,
Form:
Rhyme
The Power of Gods Armor - the Hourglass Style
~ The Power Of God's Armor ~
( Hourglass )
Oh Lord! help me in daily walk
In your Holy name, let me talk
Thru life guide me so less I fall
Each day I want to hear...
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Categories:
manner, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
Rondels, Roundels and Rondeaux
Rondels, Roundels and Rondeaux
These are poetic forms similar to villanelles, with refrains (repeated lines) and sometimes double refrains.
Rondel: Merciles Beaute ("Merciless Beauty")
by Geoffrey Chaucer
loose translation/interpretation Michael R. Burch
Your eyes slay me suddenly;
their beauty I cannot...
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Categories:
manner, art, beauty, heart, repetition, romance, romantic, romantic
Form:
Roundel
Oasis
Oasis
by Michael R. Burch
for Beth
I want tears to form again
in the shriveled glands of these eyes
dried all these long years
by too much heated knowing.
I want tears to course down
these parched cheeks,...
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Categories:
manner, marriage,
Form:
Verse
Oft In My Thought: Charles D'Orleans Translation
Oft in My Thought
by Charles D'Orleans
translation by Michael R. Burch
So often in my busy mind I sought,
Around the advent of the fledgling year,
For something pretty that I really ought
To give my lady dear;
But that sweet...
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Categories:
manner, blessing, christian, faith, god, heartbreak, heaven, lost
Form:
Roundel
Sunday Morning Joggers
Goodness, I nearly lost my balance on the spiral seashells and broken sea stone chipping matrix.
My quaint obsession with marine life and that skyline paradox blossoming so tantalisingly, might be a source of some...
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Categories:
manner, age, art, birth, devotion, feelings, heart, irony,
Form:
Prose
Lifeboat the Sinking
As to the this and the that and the how and the why,
I pass no judgement on the tale at hand.
And leave it to scribes to much later decide
...
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Categories:
manner, adventure, allegory, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
The Power of Gods Armor - the Hourglass Style
~ The Power Of God's Armor ~
( The Hourglass / Prayer Style )
~O~
Oh Lord! help me in daily walk
In your Holy name, let me talk
Thru life guide...
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Categories:
manner, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
Stay Focus On the Lord - the Cross of Salvation Style
~ Stay Focus On The Lord ~
( Cross Of Salvation )
~O~
Stay focus till you
Reach your dreams goal
Just watch soul
And you'll be fine
Know with God's Love...
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Categories:
manner, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
The Beetlejuice Past Your Eyes
"The Beetlejuice Past Your Eyes"
“Well, where would you suggest I commence? Should we begin with the concept of pasteurize?”
This said to the earnest listener, who views the protagonist with a bon vivant confused expression. To...
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Categories:
manner, dark, light, muse,
Form:
Narrative
The Book - the Narrative Style
~The Book~
( Narrative / Short Story)
Shhh...Be quiet! please...or you'll wake up everyone...
Did you see what that young man did all this evening at the table while taking some of his notes?
Yes,...
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Categories:
manner, beautiful, books, fantasy, love,
Form:
Free verse
Unidentified Extraterrestrials Willingly Abducted Me
Unidentified extraterrestrial(s) willingly abducted me
As a divergence
from the apocalyptical, dialectical,
geomorphological, judgmatical,
metaphorical, philosophical...,
I share an out of this
(webbed wide) world,
light hearted anecdote
ye may find far fetched.
Believe me you,
an unspecified number of...
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Categories:
manner, absence, adventure, august, blessing, confusion, courage, dream,
Form:
Free verse
Rosalia - the Evil Black Witch of the Harz, Part Seven
Rosalia - The Evil Black Witch of the Harz, Part Seven
The Final Days: Rosalia’s Death and Destruction
In the wake of such evil, debauchery and depravity what can be said now in the case of...
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Categories:
manner, allegory, evil, halloween, horror, magic, mythology, scary,
Form:
Narrative
Straight To Hell - a Short Story
I was a seventeen year old senior in a coed, catholic high school. Our gym classes however were still all boys and all girls. My senior year we had gym every other day...
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Categories:
manner, life, day, school, teacher, me, old, class,
Form:
Narrative
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 14
Joulupukki awoke early the next morning and hurriedly dressed. His intention was to catch DynDoeth before the crowds started gathering in the eating hall. He had but one question for him that he...
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Categories:
manner, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic