Long Minnow Poems

Southern Icarus
by Michael R. Burch

Windborne, lover of heights,
unspooled from the truck’s wildly lurching embrace,
you climb, skittish kite...

What do you know of the world’s despair,
gliding in vast solitariness there,
so that all that remains is to
fall?

Only a...

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Sonnets LII-LX

The Endeavors of Lips
by Michael R. Burch

How sweet the endeavors of lips: to speak
of the heights of those pleasures which left us weak
in love’s strangely lit beds, where the cold springs creak:
for there is...

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Poems about Flight, Flying, and Birds (I)



Flight
by Michael R. Burch

It is the nature of loveliness to vanish
as hummingbird wings, batting against nothingness
seek transcendence...



Southern Icarus
by Michael R. Burch

Windborne, lover of heights,
unspooled from the truck’s wildly lurching...

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Well, well, well!
The whole world knows by now, impossible dreams can come true,
In the game of professional soccer, it has just been proven at Leicester,
Starting the season with a laughable 5,000 to 1 odds of...

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One person, you think may equal one mind 
but in each personality, there is much more to find.
Homo sapiens and the animal kingdom are separated in ways, 
but are connected secretly, in each soul there...

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There’s an old river course with beginning and end,
now the river runs straight without this river bend,
where the water is still and the reeds do grow strong.
New life has taken over in a billabong.

The mat...

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2/23/21

From May to April
Faithful
Remaining grateful
And thankful
Hiking around with a dog named Hazel
Sometimes watching a movie or something on cable
Got to make the best of it, or else it would be shameful
Far too often people being...

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Well, here's another fishing tale
But not about the one that got away
It's a tale about me and friend of mine
Who got stranded on the lake one day

Now, a friend of mine, called me one day
And...

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29 Aug 2014 6:53 pm

Adult playland

Time stands still in
a magical land
come let me show
you, just take my
hand

No children can come
here its only for
the grown
A place to relax a
far away home

There are trees
filled with fruits
and nuts
and...

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The Kingfisher. 

                                ...

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A habitation hanging on a pole of love
circled by an orbit
of calm and tenderness.
Unto its walls;
purity and goodwill stick.

Floats on water and edged by the mountains
architectured by exotic plants.
Colour and beauty
mixed with the interplay of...

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A starving old man
Came upon a little pond
And though he wished for a lake
He was grateful for the opportunity he had stumbled upon

He sat himself down, on the browning grass
And fashioned a pole from stick...

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Every shogun nation wanna be 
in war visor control
Commandeer the missile steering wheel,
be the king of the road

Likewise, imperial power lust eyes
wanna be the top wing of the hive
Taste all the money honey they see...

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There came an invitation to a banquet:
"The Lady of the Manor bids thee cheer.
We’ve meat and drink sufficient for the twelvemonth
And summon thee for Pentecost this year.
We honor thee a seat on the pavilion
And ask...

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In her lifetime, a cow produces
Two hundred thousand glasses of milk
Wow, she must be a total wreck
After a hundred I surely would wilt

Your average domestic cat bombs along
At about thirty-one miles an hour
Especially if that...

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Renaissance Man

I've aspired in my life to be Renaissance Man,
be life's fool though world perp walks its way into sin.
As a poet, through physics, my music, a friend,
if I'm weak as a lover, I never...

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You consider yourself a good, loyal foot soldier,
always doing what the big boss tells you to do
You're good at taking orders,
you're even better at following through
If there's a job that needs to be done,
and it...

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In her lifetime, a cow produces
Two hundred thousand glasses of milk
Wow, they must be total wrecks
After a hundred they must start to wilt

Your average domestic cat bombs along
At about thirty-one miles an hour
Especially if old...

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Sell the kinetic death metal,
see the swivel profits 
zooming to the stratosphere
Bloody schoolyard body count
is the cost of doing armed ant-farm business
Collateral damage is the soulless audit estimation
Bottom feeders at the algae low end of...

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Why are the sea gulls shopping here,
if not for "White Stag, No Boundaries" or 
"Faded Glory?" Is there some other story? 
Coffee, tea, or you, or just practicing beach 
and gray-sky calls over concrete, carts
and...

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Dusk, the gentle side of sunshine,
settled soft upon the folded sails.
The fresh stars were twinkling
on the smooth river surface.

And the gentle sound of herons
passing, stepping silent in the reeds,
looking out across the sparkling
of light on...

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One is aware while one is asleep,
One is a ruler another a sheep.
One is so ruthless while one is so kind,
One is all-seeing while another is blind.
One is a guru while another a clown,
One wears...

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A woman stood on the rocks looking out to the sea.
She was once a famous Hollywood redhead beauty.
This actress starred in many movies her fans would see.
However, she now dwells in hopeless obscurity.

A boat Ginger...

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Why are the sea gulls shopping here, if not
for "White Stag, "No Boundaries." or "Faded Glory?"
Is there some other story?  Coffee, Tea or You,
or just practicing beach and gray-sky calls
over concrete, carts, and Handicapped...

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Mingling multiplying minnows marvel masterfully and jaded hooded jalapenos race to the scene. For a pretty fortress is unveiled to a mass highway injection. In a timed spring curve heap hats. In a basting tree...

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