Long Morsels Poems
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Tawfiq Zayyad Translation: Here We Shall RemainHere We Shall Remain
by Tawfiq Zayyad
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Like twenty impossibilities
in Lydda, Ramla and Galilee ...
here we shall remain.
Like brick walls braced against your chests;
lodged in your throats
like shards of glass
or prickly cactus...
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Categories:
morsels, arabic, poems, poverty, prison, race, racism, song,
Form:
Free verse
Cocoon
"Cocoon"
They say...
a New World
traces over the old,
leaving the unaware,
erased, far behind
the old unaware,
left far behind,
crawls the walls
in its web of lies
spinning suspect
strings of silk
in the air
glistening diamond nets
slick and sticky...
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Categories:
morsels, muse,
Form:
Narrative
The Casualness of Casualties
In the intimate interlace of chance and fate, in the ultimate interplay of time and place, and with the consummate checkmate of my human dignity, all that is -- is over, in the stormy, swarming...
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Categories:
morsels, death, evil, family, fate, life, love, violence,
Form:
Haibun
Dream State Yields Deep Sleep PersonificationsDream state yields deep sleep personifications
Upon lying supine - eye shutter lids
into the land of Wynken, Blynken, and Nod,
where the sandman beckons and bids
dead to the webbed wide world,
yours truly immune to wakefulness
despite being...
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Categories:
morsels, 12th grade, 1st grade, adventure, animal, birthday,
Form:
Rhyme
Chapter 152-- same day--DAMIAN DELILAH MALLORY HOLANNYA: The reception and These Hawaiian Daze Date: April 2051
Wondrous water ways Hawaiian Daze
And Daze and Daze. The Hakim
Family wondered how long their
Stay would endure as their return
Home was inevitable. Now as the
Ceremony ended. Everybody
Remained in festive...
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Categories:
morsels, allusion, birth,
Form:
Alliteration
Joe Versus the RaccoonJOE VERSUS THE RACCOON
By Kate H. Stark
Each night ‘twas the same old proverbial shout.
“Hey Joe, will you please take the garbage bags out?”
Joe sighed, rolled his eyes as he walked toward the door....
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Categories:
morsels, animal, dedication, funny, giggle, humor, humorous, imagination,
Form:
Rhyme
The Moral Mortgage of Mice and MenThe moral mortgage of mice and men
Yours truly quite astute,
especially regarding cute
little field mice, also known
as meadow voles,
which imprecation one doth emote,
when aforementioned animal burrows inside
leaving pellet size poop in their wake
suddenly presenting...
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Categories:
morsels, adventure, animal, appreciation, august, bible, cat, creation,
Form:
Rhyme
The Finis Sing Touches ToucheThe finis sing touches touché
Knead dull brows knitted;
belief system I cogitate
gearing thee ordinary bipedal hominid
acquiesces to deck the halls
of the mountain (dew) king with boughs
of sister golden haired
sprinkling angel...
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Categories:
morsels, 12th grade, allusion, appreciation, blessing, creation, encouraging,
Form:
Rhyme
Understood
"Understood"
My feet stand solemn
grounded they're barefoot
sinking in the undertow,
feeling what’s real
my toes grip the past
while the slow words
wash it irrevocably away
the ego sashays
and hangs that Faust in the wardrobe
Locks it away
turns the...
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Categories:
morsels, journey, love,
Form:
Free verse
Human Sack Gruff Ice Agonizingly GlommedHuman Sack Gruff Ice Agonizingly Glommed...
Murderously Skewered, And Torturously Zapped
Directv linkedin to accentuate
piddly money crisis, tis zen uneasy fate,
I imagine dragons gyrate
ting, and licking chops, faux masticate
ting, no matter I didst pre
...
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Categories:
morsels, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th grade, discrimination,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
VagabondGenesis 4:12 (KJV) “When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.”
Yesterday spreads its wings…
Across the timeless expanse of...
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Categories:
morsels, christian, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
Ground To Pieces‘Fragments and crumbs of life, all the little pieces’
...
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Categories:
morsels, change,
Form:
Free verse
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:
morsels, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure,
Form:
Rhyme
Letter To Ajike the MaidenMany are the stars in the sky
You my love out shines them all.
Ajike, it's you that paints my heart's garden
It's your smile that gives life to it flowers.
Love flew on the wings of time
And it...
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Categories:
morsels, africa,
Form:
Free verse
On a Frosty MornLeaves glitter quietly, serene and slumbering,
Beneath the frost’s quick breath.
Amber, gold and mahogany – crisp as the voice of winter
Shadowed by trembling winds of December,
Hopeful and happy beneath the jewels of laughing songs,
Inspirations drifting softly...
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Categories:
morsels, appreciation, autumn, morning, nostalgia, november, summer, winter,
Form:
Free verse
Alms Za Try N To Reach Out As Legatee WannabeAlms Za Try'n To Reach Out As Legatee Wannabe
Yukon pots sib bully challah me Jude
dish hiss literary panhandler schlepping
along virtual figurative boulevard Asia
brogue kin bloke rattling tin cup aware
how quickly passersby dodge away as
if I...
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Categories:
morsels, dream, fate, happiness, hope, humanity, humorous, joy,
Form:
Narrative
Piranhas
"Piranhas"
Piranhas
thrashing tales
to the feeding frenzy
de rigueur
someone’s torn
they can smell the blood
pointing fingers in a mirror
writing with burley
on their star studded
glowing wall
craggy oysters
peppered salty
grey and green
furry mouthed
blunt, stunted minds
lacking wisdom
scattering envy
curling vitriol
like iron...
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Categories:
morsels, abuse, addiction, bullying,
Form:
Free verse
50 Words For Poe: Rasputin
"50 Words for Poe: Rasputin"
The Rat was buried in the Pet Cemetery
His name was Rasputin
She had been fond of him for some time
feeding him morsels
every now and again
tickling his whiskers occasionally -
until he decided...
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Categories:
morsels, dark, death of a friend, fantasy, fate,
Form:
Burlesque
LondonLondon
The tour of London begins
In the streets of my mind,
Through past and present
Intrinsically entwined,
Through people and places
It's heart we will...
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Categories:
morsels, london,
Form:
Rhyme
Welcome To Eden Picture Perfect Countryside Village SerenityThe waters trickling under the
crossing bridge grows ever dormant
And on the one and only discernable
route into this village languishing beneath
there is a old rickety swinging sign that says
" Welcome to Eden "
We trust you enjoy...
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Categories:
morsels, beautiful,
Form:
Free verse
Still Binge Reading Bertrand RussellStill binge reading Bertrand Russell...
9/8/2020
I plunge further into
erudite epistemological philosophication
courtesy said renown British polymath,
philosopher, logician, mathematician,
historian, writer, social critic,
political activist, and Nobel laureate.
Whew! His treatise
A History of Western Philosophy Quite profound
grist for intellectual mill
yours...
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Categories:
morsels, 12th grade, adventure, age, america, appreciation, growth,
Form:
Free verse
Truth, Tears and TemptationVenus’s light grew ever brighter as discovery marked its territory
On new faces—old ones brought to the light of sudden love-falls
I grew wary of the feelings surpassing my entire being
Wavelengths of caution holding their hands up...
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Categories:
morsels, allusion, beauty, cry, dark, deep, desire, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
Y2k Is Coming
Oh, For The Simpler Times
Y2K is coming
Written: by Tom Wright
2000
I eagerly watch,
as darkness gives way to dawn;
as preening birds
begin to stir.
I sip hot coffee,
stretch and yawn,
and lament that things
aren't as they were.
The...
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Categories:
morsels, chicago, life, technology,
Form:
Rhyme
America! With Respect To W.W. & A. G.This struggling accomplished path winds,
Spiral like stairs leading us to the point;
Average wingedhipsters today more like
Displaced thugs. With no sense.
At every corner, we're speaking rigorous
Reminders.
That we all eventually yawn.your wombs
America, I'm wore out, worrying about
This...
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Categories:
morsels, lost, lost,
Form:
Free verse
The Park -- Part OnePigeons flutter in the park
eating refuse from the grass.
Noon comes; the hours pass.
Leaves fall; the sky grows dark.
Silence reigns throughout the park.
A crumpled headline, forgotten toy --
and then, -- and then a far-off bark.
In the...
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Categories:
morsels, angst, caregiving, childhood, death, depression, introspection, life,
Form:
Rhyme