Long Metaphorical Poems
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Want To Play a GameYou’re sick, demented, and twisted and you want to judge me for my sins? What about yours? The ones that lie deep within
The ones that sculpted you into the person that you are, the ones...
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Categories:
metaphorical, death, fear, games, horror, sad love, scary,
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:
metaphorical, absence, abuse, adventure, anger, black african american,
Form:
Rhyme
Rilke Translations IiCome, You
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
This was Rilke’s last poem, written ten days before his death. He died open-eyed in the arms of his doctor on December 29, 1926, in the...
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Categories:
metaphorical, tribute,
Form:
Verse
Archaic Torso of Apollo: Rilke TranslationArchaic Torso of Apollo
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
We cannot know the beheaded god
nor his eyes' forfeited visions. But still
the figure's trunk glows with the strange vitality
of a lamp lit from within,...
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Categories:
metaphorical, art, body, god, life, light, poetry, writing,
Form:
Sonnet
Rainer Maria Rilke Translation: the PantherThe Panther
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
His weary vision's so overwhelmed by iron bars,
his exhausted eyes see only blank Oblivion.
His world is not our world. It has no stars.
No light. Ten thousand...
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Categories:
metaphorical, allegory, analogy, animal, cat, extended metaphor, freedom,
Form:
Sonnet
A Poem For My History TeacherI wanted to write
The best slavery poem ever written—
Perhaps win a Pulitzer or Faulkner.
I had every intention of conforming
To the standards
Of modern verse and composition,
Lyrics fluidly written,
Perfect...
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Categories:
metaphorical, assonance, forgiveness, history, holocaust, humanity, memorial, slavery,
Form:
Rhyme
Unidentified Extraterrestrials Willingly Abducted MeUnidentified extraterrestrial(s) willingly abducted me
As a divergence
from the apocalyptical, dialectical,
geomorphological, judgmatical,
metaphorical, philosophical...,
I share an out of this
(webbed wide) world,
light hearted anecdote
ye may find far fetched.
Believe me you,
an unspecified number of...
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Categories:
metaphorical, absence, adventure, august, blessing, confusion, courage, dream,
Form:
Free verse
Home Sweet Hell"That also has a steep drop off the far side of Home Sweet Hell" said my soulless guide as he pointed in the direction of the nearby screams.
I could see what resembled silhouettes or...
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Categories:
metaphorical, anxiety, death, future, life, scary,
Form:
Free verse
Saturday, September 23, 2023Saturday, September 23, 2023
Coincides with first day of fall
and Autumnal equinox for said year,
where colorful splash kindled like tinder.
After I riff flecked about thee August
Autumn Equinox 2023,
this seasonal polymath teached you
fall Equinox...
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Categories:
metaphorical, animal, appreciation, autumn, celebration, cool, environment, heaven,
Form:
Free verse
Rainer Maria Rilke: First Elegy TranslationThis is my translation of the first of Rilke’s Duino Elegies. Rilke began the first Duino Elegy in 1912, as a guest of Princess Marie von Thurn und Taxis, at Duino Castle, near Trieste on...
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Categories:
metaphorical, angel, beauty, desire, metaphor, universe, visionary, voice,
Form:
Free verse
Attitude with latitudeAttitude with latitude
originally written January 19th, 2019
and tension defines the dynamic
Valiant prince sip pulled effort
rebuffed, snubbed, thumbed
courtesy eldest daughter
uncontested vainglorious woke
mine genuine apology,
viz sincerely yours truly
psyche asper paternal overture
toward aforementioned offspring
smitten with opprobrium
figuratively smacked upside...
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Categories:
metaphorical, abuse, anger, anxiety, betrayal, family, father daughter,
Form:
Free verse
Celebarating the Adventure of Advent: a Collaboration With Kai Michael NeumannUniversal elegy grieves and yet embraces shifts of paradigm
New beginnings consciousness initiates comprehends and thus proceeds from
Illusion’s delusion collusions misconceptions in the irritating
Vortex whirlpool immanent void of false containment
Enlightenment modern postmodern retro visionary futuristic aspirations
Resound...
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Categories:
metaphorical, adventure, community, universe,
Form:
Sestina
Invisibly tortured courtesy existential nihilismInvisibly tortured courtesy existential nihilism
Psyche wracked with agony
impossible mission to extricate lovely bones
they wanna remain permanently abed.
I chiefly function to amass knowledge
courtesy assiduously, habitually,
and judiciously reading
an eclectic assortment of written material.
Yours truly woke
with ambition, disposition,
inclination,...
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Categories:
metaphorical, 6th grade, 7th grade, absence, age, angst,
Form:
Rhyme
Desperate Message To Kim Jong UnPardon any absent adulation, bequeathed capitulation, devoted dedication, indiscretion, blabbering peroration, improper salutation or any unintended vexation if this unknown earthling sent a nearly identical message. He over-looked a small number of errors and hoped...
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Categories:
metaphorical, abuse, dark, emotions, evil, hate, war, world,
Form:
Free verse
ChooseChoose unironically ripping off a film to be ironic
Choose now because then will never be enough
Choose puff puff puff puff puff pass because you’ll never have enough
Choose feeling guilty in the morning because it’s better...
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Categories:
metaphorical, addiction, anxiety, depression, drug, happiness, political, youth,
Form:
Free verse
The Postelection SurveyThis is not really a test.
More of a survey,
so there are no right or left answers.
Did you mean to say
Answers are both right and wrong?
Yes.
Isn't that what I said?
Not quite, but go ahead.
How would you...
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Categories:
metaphorical, health, humor,
Form:
Political Verse
Earth Day 2021 Thursday April 22POETIC PREFACE:
An inner conflict dust brew
within this scribe, who offers ye to chew
(like sweet treats metaphorically) thee do
tee incumbent, when Doomsday clock
counts down minutes few
according Al Gore rhythm
unstoppably ticking,
when life gets turned to global goo
tenderized...
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Categories:
metaphorical, appreciation, april, care, earth day, future, gender,
Form:
Rhyme
Botched and Bungled Interpersonal Opportunities ViewedBotched and bungled interpersonal opportunities viewed...
tonight October 25th, 2022
terrifically summarily requoting
poetic outdated iteration,
I share the following lines
echoing in the valley
of love and delight.
courtesy 20/20 hindsight
October twenty fifth
two thousand and twenty two
admirable,...
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Categories:
metaphorical, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, anger,
Form:
Rhyme
Watching Upcoming Toilet Bowl Lvii Highlight of February 12th, 2023Watching upcoming toilet bowl lvii highlight of February 12th, 2023
Above title attests
how mine mundane mein kampf
insync as a veritable clogged drain oh:
flush with adventure overflowing excrement
er... rather excitement.
Apt aforementioned accurate personal description
believe me not,...
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Categories:
metaphorical, 12th grade, abuse, adventure, anger, anxiety, bereavement,
Form:
Rhyme
Out In That SkyOut in that sky, no one sleeps, not even the stars.
We are at the 24-hour late-nite diner
and they’re serving up fruit
from the plants growing out of the floor.
We watch bodies fall to the ground outside
like...
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Categories:
metaphorical, hope, magic, psychological, stars, symbolism,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Watching Upcoming Toilet Bowl Lvi Highlight of February 13th, 2022Watching upcoming toilet bowl lvi highlight of February 13th, 2022
Above title attests how mine mundane mein kampf
insync as a veritable clogged drain oh:
flush with adventure overflowing excrement
er... rather excitement.
Apt aforementioned accurate personal description
believe me not,...
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Categories:
metaphorical, adventure, cool, devotion, farewell, happiness, heaven, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Spring Equinox Arrives March 20th, 2023 At 5:24 PmSpring equinox arrives March 20th, 2023 at 5:24 PM
Despite what outside temperature registers
(even absolute zero), the official arrival
of spring occurs, when thee eel hip tic
of coe phish hunt holy Mackerel
becomes tangential to barenaked ladies
barren...
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Categories:
metaphorical, 12th grade, appreciation, beautiful, butterfly, celebration, daffodils,
Form:
Free verse
Openness, Unfolded"Energy fields extend to infinity.
Consequently they are open--
not a little bit open,
not sometimes open,
but continuously open.
The long-established view of the universe as an entropic,
closed system is rapidly losing ground.
Proposals that living systems were open systems
led...
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Categories:
metaphorical, health, heart, humor, integrity, peace, political, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
World Without Words, Part Onesome wise men
of different bent, ilk,
orientation and time,
then our own,
prescribed four spice yellow smoothie milk
to fortify the virtues
considered natural and proper
by their standards and rules of the game:
swaddling was à la mode
cuddling...
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Categories:
metaphorical, philosophy, universe,
Form:
Free verse
Present Wedded Bliss Haint No TouchstonePresent wedded bliss haint no touchstone...
Circa ~ late spring/ early summer 1978
twas at behest of Harriet Harris,
thus due credit mother dearest
(she long since passed away)
who tried, to bribe, coax, exhort...
(protracted effort not all in vain),
cuz...
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Categories:
metaphorical, adventure, appreciation, celebration, dedication, devotion, husband, marriage,
Form:
Free verse