Long Marveled Poems
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More Pickles Than OneFor ten months now I’ve brooded over coming second place
in the pickle section deeming, it no less than a disgrace.
It was written plain and simple, so there can be no excuse,
that the pickles in this...
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Categories:
marveled, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Sonnets Lii-LxSonnets LII-LX
The Endeavors of Lips
by Michael R. Burch
How sweet the endeavors of lips: to speak
of the heights of those pleasures which left us weak
in love’s strangely lit beds, where the cold springs creak:
for there is...
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Categories:
marveled, dream, flower, hair, longing, love, pain, sensual,
Form:
Sonnet
Eternal RecurrenceETERNAL RECURRENCE*
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“I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before and
I hope to return a thousand times after.” GOETHE
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1.
Once upon a time,
The Lord...
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Categories:
marveled, future, life, , atheist,
Form:
Epic
Journey Companions: the Friend Sonnets Part IiHEROES
Near somber guards, units of children heap
dead leaves, naive to any else fallen.
Friend, you chuckle, but your posture speaks
of duty on this day of contradictions.
Firefighters bow heads in silent paean,
while polished trucks stand...
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Categories:
marveled, friend, hero, places, poetry, integrity, , memorial,
Form:
Sonnet
A Mirroring Saga of Being Not You(Apropos Of A School-Day Happenstance)
There she stood on the edge
of the cliff of loneliness—her
tiny eyes staring out into space.
As I cautiously approached her,
I softly asked if everything was ok.
She replied that everything was fine;
that...
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Categories:
marveled, allegory, girl, hyperbole, inspirational, loneliness, metaphor, middle
Form:
Prose Poetry
The Bulldozer and the BearThe Sun had risen to greet the day
and marveled at such a range of wondrous things.
Where below the warmth it brought to bare
was causing a Thrasher's heart...
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Categories:
marveled, funny, humor, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Rainbow GirlI was an irrepressible and happy young woman, and graceful ballet dancer,
Who lived for twirling on a world stage, as red berries are shrub laughter!
I had practiced for so many years, striving to become the...
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Categories:
marveled, beautiful, color, depression, fantasy, friendship love, girl,
Form:
Couplet
In the Upper Floor of the Scottish Rite Cathedral - Part 1The name of my sidekick was Benjamin, a fellow church member
An ornery, brown haired boy who had nothing in common with me
Save for his sudden sense of adventure and exploration
He asked me, “Laura? Have you...
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Categories:
marveled, adventure, courage, growth,
Form:
Narrative
Being HumanWhat is it that makes a feeling? Why are some words soothing? We have heard poets, in lyrical ways, describing the delights of stars or waterfalls or rainbows. They awaken in us the wonder of...
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Categories:
marveled, earth, heart, humanity, life, meaningful, people, society,
Form:
Free verse
The ForgivenTHE FORGIVEN
1. When it was the time to be the end
and everyone had gone into the ark to be counted
then they came two by two,
a girl ox and a boy ox
a girl elephant and a...
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Categories:
marveled, abuse, allah, assonance, forgiveness, god,
Form:
Alliteration
Unlimited ContentmentThe scarlet sky is bleeding with benevolence
Peace is overruled by vain, dreadful violence
Horrendous volcanoes erupt the moment you kiss me goodbye
gods of gold and gods of silver fill your eyes…that’s no lie
Upgrading unlimited contentment on...
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Categories:
marveled, words,
Form:
Rhyme
The Voice of My AncestorsEvery morning
When I glance into the mirror
I look deep inside
Deeper than my subtly-thinning hair
Deeper than my raven beard
Deeper than my mocha complexion
Laden with marks
Of life's wear and tear
And high cheek bones
I see multitudes
From across...
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Categories:
marveled, america, black african american, culture, world,
Form:
Prose
ah, wassailing!We’re in NYC - at last - on Christmas vacation, and it feels like a pardon.
It’s amazing what can happen in just a few wild and change-filled hours. One minute, seemingly, you’re in a picture...
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Categories:
marveled, christmas, holiday, humor, new york,
Form:
Free verse
bistroPeter (my bf) and I were in Paris, about three weeks ago (I was on Spring break, he was on vacation from work).
‘Headstart for Happiness,’ by ‘the Style Council,’ was playing low somewhere.
“This is the...
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Categories:
marveled, boyfriend, humor, paris, student, travel, vacation,
Form:
Free verse
A Few Choice Words From My DaughterBusy getting ready to go to a meeting
I was looking through my closet for something to wear
My 20 year old daughter, Shereen, was in my bedroom
Showing me her new clothes
I marveled at her
What a body
What...
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Categories:
marveled, mother daughter, woman, words,
Form:
Narrative
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 17“The Lord will show Me,
Has shown me, where your mind lies….”
I began to wonder if I was lost in that statement to him,
That fear and desire had blinded me to rush such an assertion
Upon...
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Categories:
marveled, anxiety, beauty, conflict, courage, growth, longing, love,
Form:
Epic
Where I GoI lie here watching all the glorious places pass by along my journey.
To be sure, my course was set many years ago making my passage measured only in terms of near or far.
At...
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Categories:
marveled, conflict, environment, sad, weather,
Form:
Narrative
History Repeats ItselfI was an accomplished librarian, who took pleasure from written words,
As opera singers find their pleasure, in the halls where music is heard.
I was well matched to such absorbing work, knowing it was worthwhile,
Like stars...
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Categories:
marveled, books, fantasy, history, imagery, life, magic, nature,
Form:
Couplet
Childhood“Childhood only exists”
“While its innocence lives”
“In time, it is stripped away”
“By what, our invidious reasoning gives” WIZDUMBs by JA 223 ...
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Categories:
marveled, betrayal, blessing, growing up, life,
Form:
Narrative
The Caves of Jupiter Part 1THE CAVES OF JUPITER
Part I.
In the days of the dark of Jupiter
the great King Daeth ruled both day and night,
for his was a mind set free...
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Categories:
marveled, adventure, fantasy, universe,
Form:
Free verse
Treasure of My HeartYamaha impressed me the first time I laid eyes on her glistening blond maple wood, her stylish body details, her long fretted mother-of-pearl inlay; lobed with golden keys. Her voice called to me the first...
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Categories:
marveled, analogy, desire, feelings, friendship, girlfriend, image, love,
Form:
Personification
The ReunionThe sixty-year reunion
of the class of '55
was quite a celebration
for the ones who had survived...
First came prissy Pomeroy-
then Milford, Meeks, and Moody
who like old crows, perched and cawed
at busty old Miss Trudy
While Trudy curled her...
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Categories:
marveled, age, character, growth, humor, humorous, people, perspective,
Form:
Rhyme
What Next Mystery Babylon
"What Next, Mystery Babylon?
The World
burns with a fever
tongues of Babylon
sing too late
they sing like
a river run dry
divining rods
searching for
the last drop
of truth
throats cut
and bleeding out
their legacy
the innocent...
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Categories:
marveled, evil, humanity, religion,
Form:
Free verse
A Summer RomanceI sat upon a wooden bench
to rest my weary limbs.
And marveled at a Thrasher's voice
who sang a pastoral hymn.
Where joggers passed in groups of two...
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Categories:
marveled, funny, humor, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Bigfoot the LegendI once spent the winter
Near the town willow creek.
It wasn't adventure
I attempted to seek.
The cabin elevation
Was 5000 foot.
My goal that winter
Was to finish writing my book.
The first winter snow
Had covered...
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Categories:
marveled, fun, humor, humorous, imagery, imagination, mystery, surreal,
Form:
Imagism