Long Monk Poems
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Long In the Tooth Male Doth Recount Reflect ReimagineLong in the tooth male doth recount, reflect, reimagine...
his woebegone damn dental daze today May 5th, 2021
No particular rhyme nor reason
garden variety indentured flunky (me)
revisits his salmagundi salad days,
when oral blight smote
left...
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Categories:
monk, 2nd grade, absence, age, body, cinco de
Form:
Rhyme
The Dancing: the Return ThereofPrelude
After banishing my foe off to hell
The Lord took pity on my soul
And returned it to my undead shell
Again, I was alive and whole
But the consequences of a second chance
Meant that I would have...
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Categories:
monk, allusion, analogy, angst, anxiety, dance, dark, metaphor,
Form:
Rhyme
Ill Fated AddressAN ILL-FATED ADDRESS
Being on holiday in Athens was truly the best 21st present
my parents could have given me, stayed with my granddad,
felt great, I traveled on my own, no more an adolescent.
Sad that I...
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Categories:
monk, birthday,
Form:
Free verse
New Year's Eve 2022New Year's Eve 2022
Yours truly riddled with social anxiety,
hence (billy me) he will idle away
December 31st, 2022
sequestered (with the missus)
hunkered down in his mancave
while madding crowd
entertains reckons partition of time
into...
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Categories:
monk, adventure, celebration, dance, december, holiday, january, new
Form:
Free verse
Matsuo Basho New Haiku TranslationsMatsuo Basho New Haiku Translations
Air ballet:
twin butterflies, twice white,
meet, match & mate
—Matsuo Basho, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Denied transformation
into a butterfly,
autumn worsens for the worm
—Matsuo Basho, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Dusk-gliding...
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Categories:
monk, animal, death, earth, life, nature, philosophy, world,
Form:
Haiku
Soul Stance River - 25Christ!
A warparty of 60 Shoshone warriors has just stampeded into the meadow
faces painted red and white for blood and death, all sorts of strange designs,
bows and arrows ready to fly on us, skull breaking cudgels...
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Categories:
monk, adventure,
Form:
Epic
Incomplete Metamorphosis of Distilled AdolescentIncomplete metamorphosis of distilled adolescent...
therefore he characterizes himself as an anomaly...any idea why?
Mortified, petrified, stultified, et cetera sheltered,
and mortally wounded prepubescent,
I consider myself
analogously buttressed, cocooned,
garrisoned (for bing keeler),
hardened, insulated,
where cell baited jumping frog
o'...
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Categories:
monk, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 7th
Form:
Rhyme
Mongolophobia and the Eastern HordeNeither a fable,
Nor a tale,
This is a fact,
A story to tell,
To everyone, female and male.
To generations, younger and frail.
About a threat, a monster from the East,
That struck the world like a beast,
Attacked Europe...
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Categories:
monk, christian, conflict, culture, fear, history, violence, war,
Form:
Rhyme
New Year's Eve 2021New Year's Eve 2021
December thirty first
two thousand twenty one countdown
will transparently and seamlessly stream into
simultaneously linkedin January first
two thousand and twenty two,
whereby the Ball a geodesic sphere,
12 feet in diameter,
and weighing 11,875 pounds.
The aforementioned Ball...
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Categories:
monk, adventure, culture, dance, humanity, inspiration, new years
Form:
Free verse
Happy Birthday O Banga Konya(DEDICATED THIS WRITINGS TO THE BIRTHDAY OF SHEIKH HASINA, HONORABLE PRIME MINISTER OF BANGLADESH)
Today is propitious day of Bangladesh
Happy Birthday to You O Great Leader Of Bangla
Sheikh Hasina (Prime Minister of Bangladesh)
In the heart of...
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Categories:
monk, birthday,
Form:
Free verse
Stranger Than Fiction Part 3Again Brother Paul said that “I didn’t owe them anything, but to do someone a good turn one day.”I shook his hand and thanked him for everything that he had done, He said “God be...
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Categories:
monk, death, religious, world war ii,
Form:
Prose
Stranger Than Fiction Part 2I told him who I was and explained my predicament and asked would it be possible to use their phone to get help, he said” unfortunately we do not have a telephone.”Strange I thought,...
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Categories:
monk, death, religious, world war ii,
Form:
Prose
Stranger Than Fiction Part 1My name is Tom Cunningham, I’m retired now but thirty six years ago I had a very strange experience that I have never mentioned to anyone until now.
It was November the seventh, nineteen eighty six,...
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Categories:
monk, religious, scary, world war ii,
Form:
Prose
Translation: Ech Day Me Cometh Tydinges ThreEch day me cometh tydinges thre
"Each Day Three Tidings Come to Me"
(anonymous Middle English poem, circa the 13th century AD)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Each day I’m plagued by three doles,
These gargantuan weights on my...
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Categories:
monk, angst, anxiety, death, depression, england, fear, sorrow,
Form:
Couplet
Well Worth Waiting In Part 2 - CollaborationEric’s revitalised me and my home
Over his body my fingers would roam
He’s great at fixing and gluing
Expert at banging and screwing
I’m so happy that I sparkle like chrome
All my friends are pretty jealous of...
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Categories:
monk, boyfriend, humorous, jealousy,
Form:
Limerick
Sufi Monk CredentialingThis self-explanatory English poem of mine was originally drafted Monday (evening) August 5, 2013, while I was still in Independence, Missouri. I revised it a bit in November and December of 2014, while “traveling” in...
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Categories:
monk, community, courage, fairy, freedom, funny, islamic, political,
Form:
Pastoral
Higher PowersI was noticing that those in the Unitarian Universalist Association,
with which I am more or less anonymously affiliated
in some far too abstract way for personal comfort,
believe in three prime sources for their (our) truth search,
rather...
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Categories:
monk, creation, destiny, health, humanity, humor, religion, truth,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The Shattering Silence of Falling Leaves
"The Shattering Silence of Falling Leaves"
In Theta waves
tumbling to
The Land of Dark Dreams
Trees will capture and save
the falling Princess and Queen
An Bee Cailleach
invisibilia simulacra viro
An Bee Cailleach scries heroes
incarnate falling in
The...
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Categories:
monk, dark, daughter, fantasy, journey, light, love, mother,
Form:
Free verse
The Secret Lives of Chimney Pots IiiMarching out of the cloaked shires
Of landowners, stockbrokers,
Hereditary Peers, and ruddy faced
Squires:
A vast multitude of many varied
Tribes.
Amassing in the great cities, where,
Inhabiting shadowy chambers,
Behind nodding sighs and hushed
Whispers,
The Masonic...
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Categories:
monk, philosophy,
Form:
Rhyme
Cherry Tree Music Co-OpCherry Tree Music Co-op
alternately titled instant infatuation:
a moment of spontaneous spunk
instantaneously transformed
ordinarily shy guy into a quidnunc
courtesy powder milk biscuits
inside his mouth
bitesize morsels did plunk
wafted courtesy pheromones
found him punchdrunk
reclusive tendencies bubbled...
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Categories:
monk, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure,
Form:
Rhyme
On the Cindered Shoulders of Confused Men
“Fire burning in a hill
The lines are rocky rough
Red angels wait to pick remains
The cindered shoulder
Of confused men”
(Peter Murphy)
"On the Cindered Shoulders of Confused Men"
Close your eyes it was all just a bad...
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Categories:
monk, betrayal, dark, destiny, fate, mirror, trust, truth,
Form:
Free verse
The Twelve Days of Christmas, Hawaiian Style"Just live a little, Hawaiian style!" Quote by Hawaiian Style Band.
On the first day of Christmas, my tutu gave to me,
-- (and...) a-*Ne-ne-Goose-un-der-a-gua-va-tree.
(guava fruits are the best part of their diet--trust me)
On the second day...
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Categories:
monk, animal, bird, care, environment, fish, happiness, together,
Form:
Lyric
Lines Written In Albany
On white lines on valiant wheels
I head north leaving behind the City of Sails
with its humourless streets,
its casino steel and glass Sky...
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Categories:
monk, how i feel, places,
Form:
Free verse
50 Words For Poe: Azrael
“50 Words for Poe: Azrael”
What alchemy to lure Azrael
who hidden until now
keeps his vigil
in the still sound of
the shattering silence
of falling leaves
under the elms in the
hollows of
Hanging Hill
with the...
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Categories:
monk, dark, gothic, imagery, mystery, psychological, romance, word
Form:
Free verse
Zen Death Haiku XiiZEN DEATH HAIKU XII
These are my modern English translations of Japanese Zen Death Haiku.
Both victor and vanquished are dewdrops:
flashes of light
briefly illuminating the void.
—Ouchi Yoaka, loose translation/interpretation of his jisei (death poem) by Michael...
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Categories:
monk, age, analogy, angst, animal, anxiety, august, autumn,
Form:
Haiku