Long Maw Poems
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Salvation of a Formalist, An Ode To EntropySalvation of a Formalist, an Ode to Entropy
by Michael R. Burch
Entropy?
God's universal decree
That I get to be
Disorderly?
Suddenly
My erstwhile boxed-in verse is free?
Wheeeeee!
Eternal Currents
by Michael R. Burch
How can I write and not be true
to the rhythm...
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Categories:
maw, humor, humorous, light, nonsense, satire, write, writing,
Form:
Light Verse
Sonnets Xlii-LiSonnets XLII-LI
Distances
by Michael R. Burch
Moonbeams on water?
the reflected light
of a halcyon star
now drowning in night...
So your memories are.
Footprints on beaches
now flooding with water;
the small, broken ribcage
of some primitive slaughter...
So near, yet so far.
A Surfeit of...
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Categories:
maw, bereavement, death, death of a friend, funeral,
Form:
Sonnet
A Day On the Farm
"You really wanna know? Cause I'll tell ya if you really wanna know. You'll be thinkin' I'm crazy before I'm done, but I'll tell ya... ifn' you really wanna know."
The day started like any other,...
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Categories:
maw, farm, myth,
Form:
Prose
IronbarHe just appeared to me, like wispily curling
Chimney smoke,
One grim and early morning in the very midst of
Decembers briefest days, on the highest slope,
Toiling through my daily round; where, slowly
Driving up...
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Categories:
maw, nature, universe,
Form:
Rhyme
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:
maw, child, children, loss, war,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
travel light -Her 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:
maw, child, conflict, courage, war,
Form:
Free verse
Poem For ChildrenThere is so many stories telling a child how to grow up, the difference between right and wrong. to follow the rules, to see in color, how to stand strong. But still, you are children,...
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Categories:
maw, child, fantasy, children, kids, inspirational, magic, princess,
Form:
Narrative
the ruby spires -there, among those Ruby Spires
stood I, a-gazing toward the mist
red...
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Categories:
maw, adventure, beauty, science fiction, space,
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
Green Hell
As I fall into the buzzing altar of heavy
metal shifting sand, maw, swirling sheets,
illness drools plus plus halcyon?
drawn too many wrinkles...
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Categories:
maw, art,
Form:
Rhyme
Anticipatory Anxiety Fosters Catastrophizationanticipatory anxiety fosters catastrophization...,
especially bombardment of online scare tactics
courtesy fiendish insidious loathsome sinister oafs
rubbing their hands at aggrieved party;
punch drunk cyber thieves ecstatic
acquiring by hook and/or crook
sought after precious, priceless, and proverbial data
after loosed ransomware...
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Categories:
maw, 12th grade, anger, computer, cry, evil, grave,
Form:
Rhyme
Ready, Aim, FireI’m mad as H E Double Hockey Sticks, flummoxed, and more than a little scared
Kids are being shot in their own back yards, makes me sick to my stomach
Mommas and daddies taken in handcuffs...
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Categories:
maw, angst,
Form:
Free verse
Flight of the Firefly
I walked a wooded path at night;
Down in the vale: a hint of light.
It shone as through an open door:
A faint, soft glow, and little more,
And sounds of bells, to my delight.
I crept up close...
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Categories:
maw, adventure, fantasy,
Form:
Quintilla
Chasing Dragons of Thoth
In the Abaddoned depths of Faith's cosmos,
a delusion of grandeur
and of wonder blunders in awe,
puts its hook securely in blasphemers jaw.
Curiousity opens Hell's salivating maw,...
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Categories:
maw, art,
Form:
Rhyme
England - Gleaming In the Distanceacross the Doggerland dogged people trudge
Neanderthals, Heidelbergers...Sapiens, the last ones standing
hairy mammoths, heavy life bearing down
the mighty maw of an ice wall crunches, enforcing southward retreat
remoulding the...
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Categories:
maw, conflict, destiny, england, history, humanity, immigration, perspective,
Form:
Narrative
Fear's Chains Chained HaikuFears Chains (Haiku)
First line 5 syllables
Second line 7 syllables
Third line 5 syllables
(7 syllables)
Caught within a snare
The paralyzing peepshow
Seduces you there
(Making itself intimate)
(undressing for your favor)
(Fairydust of lunacy)
Scrolls, parchments, bark, at the moon)
(Self fulfilling prophecy)
(Demons of...
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Categories:
maw, absence, anxiety, courage, emo, evil, gothic, halloween,
Form:
Haiku
PrivilegePrivilege
by Michael R. Burch
This poem is dedicated to Harvey Stanbrough, an ex-marine who has written eloquently about the horror and absurdity of war in "Lessons for a Barren Population."
No, I will never know
what you saw...
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Categories:
maw, courage, hero, patriotic, thank you, violence, war,
Form:
Verse
The Pierced NothingHer skin is textured fabric
and a lovely pair of…odd eyes of ink
black and sheen green.
Cherry cheeks, heavy-handed
for his amusement.
Lips sewn to silence
just the way he likes her.
Living only through him
though she’s not alive.
Criminals...
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Categories:
maw, abuse, dark, fear, gothic, love hurts, pain,
Form:
Free verse
Souls are Worth What You'd Sell forMy first enemy was one I should have loved
He claimed that he loved me but I suppose not enough
He carved the gaps in all my memories
And deprived me of what made me
A child at twelve...
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Categories:
maw, abuse, death of a friend, father daughter,
Form:
Free verse
Polar BearsSymphonic sirens serenade me from afar;
distinctive, delectable scents tickle and tantalise:
my senses awash with anticipation
as, finally, I lay eyes on my prey.
Slowly and surreptitiously,
I draw ever closer to my quarry.
Prancing and playing, oblivious to the...
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Categories:
maw, animal, environment, mother, mother son, nature, snow,
Form:
Free verse
The Hen HouseCooped within ancient bodies, this inhabitant
dwells amongst an elder net
of crabby, crotchety, curmudgeonly claque
of old folks, only a portion of population I met
which achey, flaky, kooky motley crue
disgruntlement fed as peevish...
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Categories:
maw, care, class, environment, farewell, grave, nostalgia, retirement,
Form:
Elegiac Lyric
Turtle and the Wintu MaidenA beautiful Wintu girl reached puberty. Her sisters were sent to find
maple bark to make her an apron.
It so happened that Turtle, the mischievous son of the mighty ‘Sky
Turtle’ stopped at the...
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Categories:
maw, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
The Hungry Stones VIII saw no one but felt a gentle nudge,
As I woke up, she uttered not a word,
But beckoned, gravity of time to judge,
To follow her— wordless like a mute bird,
I got...
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Categories:
maw, allusion, bangla, fantasy, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
End of Summer Countdown Before School YearEnd of summer countdown before school year...
countless decades graduating
contemptible cum laude
hence same time frame every
August since...the stone
temple pilot age, this beastie
boy flashes back to yahoos
whose rawhide (mine) they
miraculously never whipped!
Uneasy panic...
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Categories:
maw, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, education,
Form:
Epic
My Seven BlessingsGod bless little angels brought unto me,
Watch over them beneath heavens grace.
My first of seven blessings most precious gift,
Treasures hearts keepsakes.
Number one the oldest, my rocker baby,
Dancing away with musics sweet lullaby.
The lyrical light of...
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Categories:
maw, child, dark, dedication, children, future, grandmother, happiness,
Form:
Free verse
The Mirror of TimeI hold three magic rocks, in my hand. Rolling them over and over and over. Leaving this
reality behind, far behind I stepped into the magic mirror and there I was back in 1959. ...
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Categories:
maw, family, imagination, nostalgiaday, mom, school, dad, home,
Form:
Free verse