Long Marigolds Poems
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Travel Light* This poem was written for a contest originally, but was used by Professor Anne-Marie Thornton of Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey, to teach her WAR POETRY class in the spring semester of 2017. My...
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Categories:
marigolds, child, children, loss, war,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
travel lightHer small angelic face ...
Once a place where broad smiles bloomed like butterflies on marigolds,
is streaked with the furrows that countless tears have etched into the
layers of dust and dirt and explosive residue that now...
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Categories:
marigolds, child, conflict, courage, war,
Form:
Free verse
Mother of the AgeStately stood Princess Amber in all her finery,
Emerald tunic over a crimson gown,
With gems inlaid in her rustling gown,
Her arms bangled in intricate gold slowly rose,
Her slender fingers rested on her heaving bosom,
Listening to unstopping...
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Categories:
marigolds, anger, beautiful, emotions, forgiveness, imagery, jealousy,
Form:
Epic
EurekaI belonged to a family of farmers, we had farmed for generations;
And we were true to our land, as blooms loyal to sweet sensations.
I knew the fierce satisfaction, only derived from working the land;
And sometimes...
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Categories:
marigolds, family, fantasy, farm, happiness, nature, rain, sunshine,
Form:
Couplet
Something Old, Something New" THE TALE Of A YELLlOW PONCHO" - Something OLD (posted in 2020)
...
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Categories:
marigolds, childhood, first love, love, memory,
Form:
Ballad
A Vanilla DoveCypress trees like evergreen steeples
rise above rows of gravestone woes,
their shadows lie side by side like railroad ties
across writhing paths banded like snakes;
the gravel birth cords sinuous
sensing the ground seeking the...
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Categories:
marigolds, bird, death, grief, hope, life, sorrow, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
Some Other Poet, White Iris
“Some Other Poet, White Iris”
When I look in the mirror what do I see?
I question existential questions and fiction,
my eyes are the eyes of another staring back at me,
perceived through the glassy tear film...
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Categories:
marigolds, muse,
Form:
Free verse
Jacket and TiesSummer is lingering on and autumn is secretly chiming in
wild marigolds are blooming everywhere
and the earth is soaking up my sordid tears
The full moon is watching over me and predicting my destiny
Bright...
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Categories:
marigolds, adventure, anxiety, betrayal, break up, butterfly, encouraging,
Form:
Narrative
The Saga of Mitchbogin and SillyahMitchboggin and Sillyah were best beasties for three years,
until Mitchboggin thought it would be okay, humorous even,
To make fun of orange-stomached elves,
much like some ignorants make fun of star-belly gomach-tangs.
Mitchboggin had grown up thinking this...
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Categories:
marigolds, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 7th
Form:
Free verse
The NarrowingGlowing days that were once red-cheeked and ripe with promise,
Are narrowing like tall candles in a church window,
Tapering from the golden stand and the sturdy base,
To the glorious flame and the ever fading light.
The final...
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Categories:
marigolds, 10th grade,
Form:
Free verse
The NarrowingGlowing days that were once red-cheeked and ripe with promise,
Are narrowing like tall candles in a church window,
Tapering from the golden stand and the sturdy base,
To the glorious flame and the ever fading light.
The final...
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Categories:
marigolds, 10th grade,
Form:
ABC
The Control TowerEverything has a specific time to make the universe divine; everything has a specific time to make the universe strong, everything has a specific time for business to birth and spread its wings over the...
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Categories:
marigolds, beautiful, business, courage, education, growth, immigration, leadership,
Form:
Narrative
Fragrant FamiliesI was a skillful, amiable nursery worker, cultivating blooms in a greenhouse,
Like feverish and fragrant blooms, often grown in redbird's green treehouse.
Hours were spent sowing seeds, adjusting conditions, and also and pruning,
As June full moon...
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Categories:
marigolds, beauty, dream, fantasy, flower, imagery, nature, work,
Form:
Couplet
Light Verse and Nonsense Verse ViiiWonderworks
by Michael R. Burch
History’s
mysteries
abound
& astound,
found
(profound)
the whole earth ’round,
even if mostly
underground.
The Procrastinator’s Creed
by Michael R. Burch
It’s always, “Tomorrow, I’ll do it.”
Work? I eschew it.
I never collect money I’ve loaned
and the rest of this poem’s been postponed.
WHEN...
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Categories:
marigolds, fun, funny, funny love, giggle, humor, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
The Poet's SestinaTHE POET’S SESTINA
The poet put the pen to his head and killed himself;
he shot the leftovers of an ideal in a second of no-thought.
His girlfriend found him rolled in a splash of ink
...
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Categories:
marigolds, writing,
Form:
Sestina
PerfectionTorn by the lies of the past
Of the future
Of the present
Shredded by the mocking faces
But I wanted to love
To be held with such care
But to dare
To fail once more
To open that door
The...
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Categories:
marigolds, beauty, bullying, confidence, deep, dream, god,
Form:
Free verse
Marigold MorningTwinkling stars were receding rapidly, as I had always known they would,
When rouge sun touched the eastern sky, to color a whole neighborhood.
The timid alabaster moon was in hiding, taking with him, his native luster,
As...
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Categories:
marigolds, appreciation, beautiful, fantasy, flower, morning, sun, yellow,
Form:
Couplet
Best Day of My LifeThe dainty white curtains were gently lifting and swinging when I reached her house in the country. I could smell marigolds and lilacs when I reached her front walk. The farm was beautiful, and I...
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Categories:
marigolds, fantasy, farm,
Form:
Lyric
Magical Faerie Water FallA magical feeling unknown anywhere else lingered at the faerie waterfall
This was the gentle resting place of all worn-out muses and elves, after all
A mystical silence filtered over each caregiver, lingering over each rose in...
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Categories:
marigolds, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th
Form:
Free verse
Light Verse and Nonsense Verse ViiLIGHT VERSE AND NONSENSE VERSE VII
Fair Elle was an eely lover
who squiggled beneath the covers ...
She was hard to pin down!
When I did it, she’d frown,
then wouldn’t do none of my druthers!
There once was a...
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Categories:
marigolds, fun, funny, giggle, hilarious, humor, humorous, nonsense,
Form:
Rhyme
A Warm Summers DayAfter many years I paid a rare visit to the woods from my long ago childhood days,
Things have changed since boyhood, the bees are silent, the landscape has changed,
Gone, honey-laden scented flowers of the old...
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Categories:
marigolds, nostalgia, old, summer, blue, life, old, summer,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Usa Memorial DayTo All Who Gave Their Lives
Far across the seas, they went, to keep this great land ….safe and free.
I was just a wee bit of a girl, decades ago.I was born the week of the...
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Categories:
marigolds, america, childhood, freedom, war,
Form:
Bio
Oh Captcha SquaresOh captcha squares, oh captcha squares
What are these objects in your frames?
Oh captcha squares, oh captcha squares
Why must they gotta be the same?
Cars and busses, traffic lights
Bicycles...
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Categories:
marigolds, funny, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
The Earth As It IsThese are the times
I sit and ponder at the beauty of it all,
amazed at the bounty of my blessings
Overburdened with foolish reminiscing
For the time has come for the present...
...life's never ending event
I admire the lovely...
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Categories:
marigolds, animal, appreciation, beauty, blessing, creation, garden, nature,
Form:
Free verse
SanctuaryPlaced Second in :
Sanctuary, Soft, Stir, Surreal Words Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Constance La France
"Remember, the entrance door to the sanctuary is inside you.” Rumi
...
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Categories:
marigolds, extended metaphor, god, muse, spiritual,
Form:
Verse