Long Means Poems
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The Amistad MutinyThe Amistad Mutiny
Slavery, a dirty word no matter how it’s pronounced:
Abducted and herded to the slave fortress of Lomboko1 for trade.
To be tossed in chains below deck on the Portuguese ship Tecora,2
Sailing the Atlantic Middle...
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Categories:
means, africa, america, history, racism, slavery, world,
Form:
Verse
Faded In Xoxo Oxox Fadin' OutA special dedication to Beyoncé's "Drunk in Love" song in her album "Beyoncé", which came out in 2013.
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I took a cat nap...yah put on your classic, clever-mini cap
drank that sorrow sap, my companion...
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Categories:
means, deep,
Form:
Lyric
Translation of Eric Mottram's Poem 33 In Interrogation Rooms 1980-82 By T Wignesan Translation of Eric Mottram’s Poem 33 in Interrogation Rooms by T. Wignesan
33. on a vu un homme courir/ de la scène de crime un homme est maintenant en train d’aider/ la police avec...
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Categories:
means, america, conflict, culture, , literature,
Form:
Free verse
Trump In MotionTRUMP SMELLS B.O.
TRUMP SMELLS B.O.
BUST UP THE BEAT TO INTRODUCE IT'S TEMPO
GOT ME PLACES TO GO
SILENCE IS GOLDEN GOT BLOOD THAT"S UNFOLDING
SITS IN HIS IVORY TOWER ENGAGED IN THE WALL WHILE HE SITS IN HIS...
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Categories:
means, anxiety, art, autumn,
Form:
Free verse
I Am My Father's SonThey were gambling in front of the house.
Manservants and pages bustled about
Serving Suitors who just curse and carouse.
Few mix wine with water. I heard one shout,
"Clean down the tables with wet sponges! Rouse
Yourselves! And when...
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Categories:
means, adventure, anger, anxiety, bullying, father, history, introspection,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
RumorsRumors
How we arrived at where we are
By Franklin Price
05/03/2020
By now you've heard the rumors
How Covid-19 came to Earth
How it did not come here naturally
How Wuhan, China gave it birth
Maybe aided by our government
To make...
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Categories:
means, america, health, hope, leadership, perspective, recovery from,
Form:
Rhyme
Poem Revised Memorial Day May 30th, 2022 At 1500 HoursPoem revised Memorial Day May 30th, 2022 at 1500 hours
Flagrante delict adulterous sordid behavior
automatically linkedin with Lothario;
an unscrupulous seducer of women,
based upon a character
in The Impertinent Curious Man,
a story within a...
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Categories:
means, absence, abuse, adventure, anger, black african american,
Form:
Rhyme
EpigramsEpigrams by Michael R. Burch
If brevity is the soul of wit
then brevity and levity
are the whole of it.
—Michael R. Burch
To write an epigram, cram.
If you lack wit, scram!
—Michael R. Burch
Conformists of a feather
flock together.
—Michael...
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Categories:
means, bible, metaphor, philosophy, poetry, wisdom, words, writing,
Form:
Epigram
Limericks Ii - Nature and AnimalsLimericks II - Nature Poems and Animal Poems
Dot Spotted
by Michael R. Burch
There once was a leopardess, Dot,
who indignantly answered: "I’ll not!
The gents are impressed
with the way that I’m dressed.
I wouldn’t change even one spot!"
Clyde Lied!
by...
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Categories:
means, animal, humor, humorous, light, nature, nonsense, silly,
Form:
Limerick
LimericksLimericks
by Michael R. Burch
Clyde Lied!
by Michael R. Burch
There once was a mockingbird, Clyde,
who bragged of his prowess, but lied.
To his new wife he sighed,
"When again, gentle bride?"
"Nevermore!" bright-eyed Raven replied.
The Platypus
by Michael R. Burch
The platypus,...
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Categories:
means, giggle, light, nonsense, parody, silly, smile, word
Form:
Limerick
Poems About DogsPoems about Dogs
This Dog
by Rabindranath Tagore
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
Each morning this dog,
who has become quite attached to me,
sits silently at my feet
until, gently caressing his head,
I acknowledge his company.
This simple recognition gives my...
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Categories:
means, animal, dog, friend, friendship, heart, joy, love,
Form:
Free verse
Limericks Vii - Naughty, Bawdy, Risque, AbsurdLimericks VII - Naughty, Bawdy, Risque, Absurd
There continue to be modern sequels of the famous "Nantucket" limericks, including this bawdy one of mine:
There was a lewd whore from Nantucket
who intended to pee in a bucket;
but...
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Categories:
means, humor, humorous, light, nonsense, satire, sexy, smile,
Form:
Limerick
Impossible Mission To Captcha Infinitesimal MomentImpossible mission to captcha infinitesimal moment
alternately titled: tick tock runneth amuck
seconds elapse imperceptibly
leaving me dumbstruck,
how quickly fleeting tempus fugit;
ofttimes imagined as time thief.
Hence following vignette: quiet as a mouse lurks the time thief...
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Categories:
means, 12th grade, analogy, butterfly, death, farewell, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Animal PoemsDot Spotted
by Michael R. Burch
There once was a leopardess, Dot,
who indignantly answered: "I’ll not!
The gents are impressed
with the way that I’m dressed.
I wouldn’t change even one spot."
Stage Craft-y
by Michael R. Burch
There once was a dromedary
who...
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Categories:
means, animal, cat, dog, friend, friendship, friendship love,
Form:
Limerick
Fahr An' IceFahr an' Ice
by Michael R. Burch
From what I know of death, I'll side with those
who'd like to have a say in how it goes:
just make mine cool, cool rocks (twice drowned in likker),
and real fahr...
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Categories:
means, death, drink, fun, humor, humorous, light,
Form:
Light Verse
Poems About Poems ViPoems about Poems VI
The Board
by Michael R. Burch
Accessible rhyme is never good.
The penalty is understood?
soft titters from dark board rooms where
the businessmen paste on their hair
and, Walter Mitties, woo the Muse
with reprimands of Dr. Seuss.
The...
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Categories:
means, extended metaphor, heaven, muse, passion, poems, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Adam, Eve, Lucifer, Eden and the FallPoems about Adam, Eve, Lucifer
Eden
by Michael R. Burch
Then earth was heaven too, a perfect garden.
Apples burgeoned and shone, unplucked on sagging boughs.
What, then, would the children eat?
Fruit indecently sweet,
redolent as incense, with a tempting aroma...
Outcasts
by...
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Categories:
means, bible, christian, creation, god, heaven, paradise, sin,
Form:
Free verse
The Book of Changes
"The Book of Changes"
Thoughts arrived before words,
1000s of years before
the crossing of curves
always seen to be
swimming upstream
against the current
thoughts … and feelings,
in the flow, always arrive
before words, they are cast
in the...
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Categories:
means, muse, mystery, spiritual, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
Malkavian ThreeHis glowing golden eyes glistened with a comprehension beyond the mortal condition
A well-toned, tall, and tanned man, who most, not all, would call handsome
A brightly bleached stalactite overbite gleaned between the mean features of an...
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Categories:
means, dark, psychological,
Form:
Bio
Poems About the Coronavirus IiPoems about the Coronavirus II
This World's Joy
(anonymous Middle English lyric, circa early 14th century AD)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Winter awakens all my care
as leafless trees grow bare.
For now my sighs are fraught
whenever it enters...
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Categories:
means, fear, loneliness, loss, natural disasters, scary, social,
Form:
Rhyme
BeckoningBeckoning
by Michael R. Burch
Yesterday the wind whispered my name
while the blazing locks
of her rampant mane
lay heavy on mine.
And yesterday
I saw the way
the wind caressed tall pines
in forests laced by glinting streams
and thick with...
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Categories:
means, anxiety, break up, change, confusion, sleep, time,
Form:
Verse
Medieval Poems IvMedieval Poems IV
IN LIBRARIOS
by Thomas Campion
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Booksellers laud authors for novel editions
as pimps praise their whores for exotic positions.
Brut (circa 1100 AD, written by Layamon, an excerpt)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R....
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Categories:
means, angel, mother, romance, romantic, rose, roses are
Form:
Rhyme
Albert Einstein PoemsALBERT EINSTEIN POEMS
These are "poems" I created from Albert Einstein quotes, changing a word here and there for the sake of meter and rhyme...
A question that sometimes drives me hazy:
am I or are the...
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Categories:
means, light, love, poems, poetry, science, time, universe,
Form:
Free verse
Early Poems IiiJuvenilia: Early Poems by Michael R. Burch
In the Whispering Night
by Michael R. Burch
In the whispering night, when the stars bend low
till the hills ignite to a shining flame,
when a shower of meteors streaks the sky
while...
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Categories:
means, poems, poetry, poets, teen, write, writing, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
ObservanceObservance
by Michael R. Burch
Here the hills are old and rolling
carefully in their old age;
on the horizon youthful mountains
bathe themselves in windblown fountains...
By dying leaves and falling raindrops,
I have traced time's starts and stops,
and I have...
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Categories:
means, loneliness, lonely, longing, loss, lost, seasons, time,
Form:
Sonnet