Long Measures Poems
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Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis - part i
Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis, high bred poiet?s of mine
("Thus always I cause the death of tyrants.”)
the purported line Brutus uttered
after assassinating Julius Caesar.
Alternatively...
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Categories:
measures, 10th grade, adventure, allah, anger, appreciation, birth,
Form:
Free verse
Political Artistry
Brilliant writers
have recommended to younger students,
to only write if they cannot live without doing so.
Elder successful icons of artistic expression,
dance,
voice,
drama,
sculptors
have similarly advised apprentices,
do not do as I have done
unless you could do naught else.
But what...
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Categories:
measures, art, beauty, health, leadership, parents, truth, wisdom,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
The Reason I Write
“I thought about the former days, the years of long ago.” *
If you saw something beautiful in a people, a place, a thing;
If you heard about something captivating and fantastic;
If you felt something soothing...
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Categories:
measures, family,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Translation of 'The Story' By Kama Nasser
The Story
by Kamal Nasser
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
I will tell you a story ...
a story that lived in the dreams of my people,
a story that comes from the world of tents.
It is a story...
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Categories:
measures, arabic, betrayal, christian, conflict, courage, devotion, religion,
Form:
Free verse
recognizin’ you, realizing somethin’ more
Deliberately recognizing the sun against the moonbeams
I see your eyes gleam and your happiness screams
Into my eager ears over the years and I’m tension-whelmed with the tears I shed
Hanging at the last thread, giving in...
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Categories:
measures, angst, emotions, endurance,
Form:
Free verse
Silence reigns supreme in my reich
Silence reigns supreme in my reich
No don (except me)
doth trumpet within the aborted
barren reach of freedoms within expansive realm,
I annexed courtesy manifest destiny,
which peoples now inhabiting said jurisdiction
circumscribed by following coordinates -
Latitude: 40° 16' 22.20"...
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Categories:
measures, absence, abuse, addiction, anger, celebration, dark, hair,
Form:
Free verse
Let It Be Written 3
“I thought about the former days, the years of long ago.” Psalms 77:5 NIV
If you saw something beautiful in a people, a place, a thing;
If you heard about something captivating and fantastic;
If you felt something...
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Categories:
measures, family,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Selected Lyrics From the Imaginary Invalid
After graduating from UF, in the early '80s I wrote the book, lyrics and score for a musical adaptation of Moliere's farce Le Malade Imaginaire ("The Imaginary Invalid") and have decided to post five...
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Categories:
measures, funny, humorous, parody, satire,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
From Seed a Promise, Treasures To Flourish On Earth
Blog, On Poetic Contrast, Between Dark And Light
(My two poems composed -one of dark, one of Light.)
(from my new blog)
(1.)
The Horrid Night, The Terrible Nightmare
In a dance of serpents the long fangs drip
poison...
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Categories:
measures, art, creation, dark, deep, light, meaningful, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
The Great Lakes Acronym Spells Homes
The Great Lakes acronym spells homes
I chose titled topic by a fanciful whim,
nevertheless still consider my knowledge
of aforementioned material slim.
Housing multivarious biomes
register ecological syndromes
whereby constituents of NOAA
Great Lakes Environmental
Research Laboratory writ tomes.
Pellucid...
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Categories:
measures, adventure, america, appreciation, beautiful, boat, creation, earth,
Form:
Rhyme
Half Measures
This is how it starts
the decline of who we are, the decline of something more
the start of wars
Installed in us is confidence
confidence, a blessing or a curse
Without confidence we stand degraded, disenchanted, alone
while with too...
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Categories:
measures, suicide, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
Son, You Need A Haircut: 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline
"A dressed day has disrobed into the depth of a drawer's nightstand."
(Oh, how positively awesome that what can be sorted out in such an explanatory pattern that a difference would maketh a day.)
The muskiness...
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Categories:
measures, anger, angst, anxiety, conflict, confusion, jealousy,
Form:
Prose
Come post presidential election 2024
Come post presidential election 2024...
heil to the Wharton chief firebrand -
more worrisome than an ovarian cyst
every race, religion, nationality,
gender, creed, et cetera with impunity dissed
brigand able, eager, ready and willing
to punch contenders throwing...
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Categories:
measures, 11th grade, 12th grade, america, angst, anxiety,
Form:
Free verse
Bad ass beauty brought bedlam, and begat bastard child
Bad ass beauty brought bedlam, and begat bastard child...
courtesy booty call minus preemptive measures
while plugg naughty bits of tarnished knight
while he took tea and crumpets within mistress's boudoir
The following verses typed out some years...
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Categories:
measures, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure, blessing, gender,
Form:
Free verse
WeedPatch Therapy
What words do we choose to express our ultimate accomplishments,
achieving our healthiest goals,
measuring our most successful outcomes?
Why do these words,
and our feelings about these choices,
wave in and out of happiness and prosperity,
even...
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Categories:
measures, beauty, deep, earth, environment, health, peace, poverty,
Form:
Political Verse
remembering the time when i was LOST
Forever wondering when I won’t be left behind and upset
Pondering if you’ll ever save me from burying me alive
Wandering in the woods of my spiralling mindset of regret
Squandering my time time after time and I...
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Categories:
measures, angst, anxiety, conflict, courage, deep, emotions, endurance,
Form:
Lyric
Room 251 13 th March 2024
Senate legal and constitutinal affairs reference committie convened
March 2022 one Senator presiding and two witnessing'
The room echoes as the warriors enter.! Almost equivelent to
The booming endorsements of the preceeding years yet ghostly
Sounding echies now.....
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Categories:
measures, community, education, endurance,
Form:
Narrative
Boob Jobs and Bomb Jobs
Boob jobs and bomb jobs
Sisters in arms those tits and those weapons of massive
destruction sex and death go together in dynamics
thermodynamics psychodynamics fused on the playground
of this life of this poem on which...
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Categories:
measures, conflict, perspective,
Form:
Free verse
Walked All Over
You’re up close and personal
Hold up, I’m trying to stand tall
Lift me up before I fall
Tell me just for a minute
If you love me bit by bit
I’m just screaming aloud in this pit,
Tears falling out...
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Categories:
measures, cute love, deep, universe,
Form:
Rhyme
Stubbornness
Original poem below...after the definition, found on www.google.com:
"Full Definition of stubborn. 1a (1) : unreasonably or perversely unyielding : mulish (2) : justifiably unyielding : resoluteb : suggestive or typical of a strong stubborn...
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Categories:
measures, character, deep, desire, devotion, sensual, words,
Form:
Verse
The Beggar and Lil C
_____________________________________________________________
Another day,
...
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Categories:
measures, appreciation, mental illness,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Yours truly embarks on wild goose chase after elusive pot of gold
Yours truly embarks on wild goose chase after elusive pot of gold
alternately titled: incorrigible lottery dreamer
big plans to relocate self and spouse
to some tropical island paradise
by the dashboard light
(the above line credited
to musician named Meatloaf)
upon...
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Categories:
measures, adventure, angel, appreciation, blessing, drug, happy, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Cowboy Shooters On Motor Scooters
[Just a little note to help maintain the peace on Soup.
To cause no animosity among our friendly group
I myself am partial to some tasty asian...
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Categories:
measures, humorous, native american, western,
Form:
Rhyme
Money Muse
Money
and Manna
both root back to Maneh
of deep and weighty Babylonian coinage.
Maneh transcends spiritual/natural divides
to nurture nutrition's co-present values,
dew-fall grace from Earth's diamond curious treasures
tribal communions inspired with physical bread
And yet also
more deductive
reductive Win/Lose seductive...
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Categories:
measures, bible, blessing, integrity, money,
Form:
Political Verse
Mother Hen
I felt great calmness and perfect peace. I had the feelings of a poor man who has just come under the protection of the Royal Family, and has obtained an annual pension for life-the dreadful...
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Categories:
measures, animal, bird, blessing, devotion, love, mother, mothers
Form:
Free verse