Long Michele Poems

Luther Vandross recorded a song
that says something like
"We had the best love around...
We were the talk of the town."

I can't think of the last time
a greatly famous and resilient love affair
was the talk of even...

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I've fallen flat on my face 
And I can't get up
I wanna leave this place 
But I gotta pick my face up 1st
Looking in the mirror has become the worst
Cause I gotta look at this...

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   Storms seductive desiring of dreams   
   Forms favoring moonlight of beams
    Craving hearts upon starlit nights
    Waving wands of unicorned flights
 ...

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Poetry Soup Hero's

Poets with golden ink and pens 
You make us move forward with your inspiration
With kind an honest, encouragement  and compliments 
Small act of caring all which has the potential to turn a...

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A query one respondent
     sent didst seem
tummy tubby sincere, possibly
     channeled by cyber sea men,
via bayou A true Britt, aye esteem,
sans abba ra ca dab invoked
 ...

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Shema ("Listen")
by Primo Levi
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

You who live secure
in your comfortable homes,
who return each evening to find
warm food and a hearty welcome ...

Consider: is this a "man"
who slogs through the mud,
who knows...

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Walk in the kitchen
No food in the fridge
If half of y'all would have experienced that
Y'all would have jumped off a bridge
So ice cream for dinner
My cavities are a winner
The game of life
I'm only a beginner
And...

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Memories of Monkey Bridge

on summer days 
when heat rippled over
the lawn and jewel-like gardens
momma would emerge 
from the front door, our only door, 
with a huge white wicker basket.
papa carried the blanket 
and cushions. ...

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We strolled hand in hand
along Naples cobbled streets
beneath nearly blown- off linen sheets
Hanging  from old  balconies.

Street musicians played their bagpipes
ciaramellas,mandarins
In this southern bustling city
where the crowd will never sleep.

Blessed by silent moments
in Duomo...

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That night, vibrant Effie Blake told me “You Don’t Have To Be A Star”
To see the beauty of this world or meet Troy Nelson, of the “Dead Star”
Ahh!!! My voice need to be heard, that...

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Ben Matlock-He Was The Best


				Ben Matlock
				Attorney at Law
				Atlanta, Georgia,
				That’s where he was, y’all,
				He was one of a kind,
				Answers he would find,
				A hit series on CBS,
				His show reruns on Hallmark
				And MeTV,
				He never lost a case,
				His colleagues...

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She crawls out of her skin, folding it on bath water
                        ...

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An Alien abroad.             Another pondering by Michele Angell

I see you have made more changes, wherever I seem to roam,
To this beautifully landscaped ...

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Every dawn, to dream 
the world is somehow re-created. 
The impossible, under the orange. 

With fighting rays protruding
out of the sun, (the heaped unbeatable).
(Foe of the night ash). 
Turning into, (all horizons) far 

Bear yourself...

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Broken Wings


Like a rock falling faster and faster
the force of gravity
reaches out it's arme
and only a second later
someopne lies upon the ground
skin ripped open bones broken
all the was
is now only shattered pieces
that must some how
be...

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Such a Glorious life we all had spent each day being so busily filled
Michele, how much you have meant completing what God has willed
From the time I was a little boy in having so many...

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Australian Rockers
Sydney boys
Man could they Rock
In Whole Lotta Rosie's Eyes
 
But one member 
Was the glint in her eye
The singer, Bon Scott
Rock n Roll ride
 
Their rhythm of love
Was the best he said
This titular woman
Rocked...

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I love it when you laugh and smile, 
   At the same time, in my
         delight I get sad. 
Because I wish I could be...

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When you’re 70.           A pondering by Michele Angell.

OK, so in June, I became  seventy, 
That’s a nice round figure to be,
I still have some...

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They are days and they are days
one's that are like just no other
everything just fits into your slot
just like friends look for one another

But they are other days so dull
a 24 hour period that's a...

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BEYOND ALL COMPREHENSION
By Roy Merritt
(A dated poem since Michele Bachmann is thankfully no longer in Congress)


I heard some news today
That promptly grabbed my attention
News beyond all belief
Beyond all comprehension

What might it be you say
What could...

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REMEMBERING  ??

9/8/20. (Witten for Michele Embry Madison
                 In memory of our dearestfriend Charlie Cooper)

There are tears
Sitting at the...

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The 1980's brings me back, like the song...I will survive 
The white line crossed my path so much...I'm lucky I'm alive 
A decade of some high times...thank god those years have passed 
I've partied like...

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Michele
I dreamed of you in heaven
Dancing in the sky
Surrounded by the Angels
With Jesus by your side

All of heaven now rejoicing
To meet the daughter of the King
Who now was in his presence
His praises--Forever to sing

His presence...

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Michele the auntie
I have to let you know
That I don't like you
Auntie you have an attitude problem
You won't let us know anything
What is your problem
Have you lost your mind
Michele the auntie
Are you upset that I...

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