Long Narrowing Poems
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EpigramsEpigrams by Michael R. Burch
If brevity is the soul of wit
then brevity and levity
are the whole of it.
—Michael R. Burch
To write an epigram, cram.
If you lack wit, scram!
—Michael R. Burch
Conformists of a feather
flock together.
—Michael...
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Categories:
narrowing, bible, metaphor, philosophy, poetry, wisdom, words, writing,
Form:
Epigram
Song From Beyond the Stars: New Adventure[ ... story with context, a plausible universe with top and bottom
a coat of cosmos covering
over a subterranean protoverse of potential fields
a quantum cellar creating
the very big...
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Categories:
narrowing, adventure, destiny, future, imagination, journey, planet, science
Form:
Verse
Starlight and MoonlightThese are poems about starlight and moonlight, moons and stars, dreams and visions, illuminations and intimations …
Will There Be Starlight
by Michael R. Burch
Will there be starlight
tonight
while she gathers
damask
and lilac
and sweet-scented heathers?
And will she find...
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Categories:
narrowing, dark, dream, love, moon, night, star, stars,
Form:
Rhyme
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 105The next event to be held for Joulupukki was the coronation, which followed closely behind his parent's burial. He was very wary of what he would say at this event. Virtually every elf on...
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Categories:
narrowing, christmas, fairy,
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Epic
Let's Be KinderIn his essay "Let's Be Reasonable"
Rev. Todd Eklof [The Gadfly Papers]
reduces reasonable to logical;
This is a common left-brain dominant error,
confusion between deductive premises
and coldly reductive conclusions
calculated assuming cause v effect linear formulas
more than feedback...
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Categories:
narrowing, health, humanity, integrity, math, political, power, relationship,
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Political Verse
Zeitgeistcompeting cousins, interbreeding homo-sapiens
hominins humming mostly human song
altruistic generalisers, ever close to dying ways
opportunistic, never staying long
self-aware, inquisitive, enlarging brains, empathising
real representative intelligence
modelling...
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Categories:
narrowing, destiny, earth, hope, humanity, philosophy, power,
Form:
Verse
Out of the Way*Image of Hikers Warning by Pixabay.
Out Of The Way
As a self-proclaimed ruler of my person, I am mindful of the internal convictions, external constitutions as Lord overseer of my spotless realm,
Upon my own free will,...
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Categories:
narrowing, death, perspective,
Form:
Narrative
Postmillennial VirusWhat remains
when gratitude for learning
totally evaporates?
I don't know...
Totalitarian senility, maybe?
I guess I don't understand
the source of your question, dear.
Do you feel less grateful for learning
than in more formative years?
No, I don't
but I sense younger...
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Categories:
narrowing, art, earth, education, environment, health, money, science,
Form:
Political Verse
An Eternity IiAnd I begin my own steep climb into
The Chalkland Downs ...
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Categories:
narrowing, betrayal, , memorial,
Form:
Rhyme
The Village On the Water IvThump-thump of stiffening fish contorting
In the bilge beneath the gunwale;
Lidless, bulging, reddened eyes, swivelling upwards,
Protruding horribly from the straining sockets,
Express stupefied amazement at inconceivable
...
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Categories:
narrowing, appreciation, culture, dedication,
Form:
Free verse
Regressive ProgressIn Shaker Heights, Ohio,
founding fathers co-invested in:
Change doesn't happen
without planning
This, despite
unstraight
unwhite
unmale volatile experiences
feeling sometimes victimized
and sometimes blessed
by unexpected weather transitions,
despite feeling like vulnerable chameleons
on a highly complex day,
despite feeble farming
in narrowing spaces
between floods and famine,
Despite...
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Categories:
narrowing, fear, health, integrity, love, passion, peace, power,
Form:
Political Verse
Epigrams IvSex Hex
by Michael R. Burch
Love’s full of cute paradoxes
(and highly acute poxes).
Love
by Michael R. Burch
Love is either wholly folly,
or fully holy.
Nun Fun Undone
by Michael R. Burch
Abbesses'
recesses
are not for excesses!
Here and Hereafter
by Michael R. Burch
Life’s saving...
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Categories:
narrowing, bible, christian, death, funeral, god, grave, religion,
Form:
Epigram
The NarrowingGlowing days that were once red-cheeked and ripe with promise,
Are narrowing like tall candles in a church window,
Tapering from the golden stand and the sturdy base,
To the glorious flame and the ever fading light.
The final...
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Categories:
narrowing, 10th grade,
Form:
Free verse
The NarrowingGlowing days that were once red-cheeked and ripe with promise,
Are narrowing like tall candles in a church window,
Tapering from the golden stand and the sturdy base,
To the glorious flame and the ever fading light.
The final...
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Categories:
narrowing, 10th grade,
Form:
ABC
Resonant RailsThe direct sensing of information may sometimes be deceptive and illusory due to such factors as coincidence, congruence, or the time-and-angle distortions of perspective. For instance, the parallel railroad tracks seem (mistakenly) to converge at...
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Categories:
narrowing, heart, nature, perspective, psychological, science, time, universe,
Form:
Free verse
Green Spanish Eyes - Part 2Continued from Part 1
Ah Consuela! I’m watching the vertigo veiling her green Spanish eyes,
while the drumbeat pounds, droning, the rhythm sounds, moaning,
of jungles Jamaican entwined
in the valleys concealing the vineyards revealing
the vaults in...
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Categories:
narrowing, green, lost love,
Form:
Rhyme
Our God Has Changed My Name From Roxanne To RachelOur Most High and Most Holy GOD has thereby changed my Persian name of
Roxanne to a Hebrew name of Rachel. Rachel was the favorite wife of Jacob,
and was of course, his first choice. ...
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Categories:
narrowing, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Narrative
My BloodWhen my first Grandchild was born I loved
him from word go.I arranged my work schedule so that I could keep him when his mother returned
to work.I would arrive about a quarter to eight to his...
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Categories:
narrowing, family, love,
Form:
Free verse
The NarrowingGlowing days that were once red-cheeked and ripe with promise,
Are narrowing like tall candles in a church window,
Tapering from the golden stand and the sturdy base,
To the glorious flame and the ever fading light.
The final...
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Categories:
narrowing, 10th grade,
Form:
Ballad
God Answers Aunt Kate-RepostFor the last few days
her depression had weighed
heavy, a thick woolen shroud,
...
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Categories:
narrowing, adventure, depression, funny, hope, inspirationalold, depression, life,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
The Askance Chapter 4 Part 2bIn a sudden, I felt immerse with a power beyond my understanding
Awash with a newfound strength I might hope in rendering
In the meantime, shadows from the piled skeletons around were coming to life
And from the...
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Categories:
narrowing, imagination,
Form:
Rhyme
InsurrectionInsurrection
by Michael R. Burch
She has become as the night—listening
for rumors of dawn—while the dew, glistening,
reminds me of her, and the wind, whistling,
lashes my cheeks with its soft chastening.
She has become as the lights—flickering
in the distance—till...
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Categories:
narrowing, allegory, analogy, aubade, break up, desire, extended
Form:
Quatrain
The NarrowingGlowing days that were once red-cheeked and ripe with promise,
Are narrowing like tall candles in a church window,
Tapering from the golden stand and the sturdy base,
To the glorious flame and the ever fading light.
The final...
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Categories:
narrowing, 10th grade,
Form:
ABC
Twenty-SixTwenty-six came fast... Possibilities
close in by the hundreds, as if they were marching
to the sound of a choke-hold.
Pressure's a good thing
when it has us make something
beautiful, or something hot.
Stardom, creation, art,
invention, love, whatever...
Those are...
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Categories:
narrowing, age, time,
Form:
Rhyme
Future PonderanceI recall my having saved something: A special sized box … a uniquely colored rubber band … an old, old hat … or a million sundry other things, thinking that sometime in the future...
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Categories:
narrowing, introspection, remember,
Form:
Narrative