Long Nearly Poems
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STALKING OF THE PUBLIC FIGURE BY THE CHICAGO OUTFIT EXTORTING POLK COUNTY VETERANS MY STALKERS BEGAN TORMENTING ME AFTER SEVERAL BREAK INS I CONTACTED SPECIAL AGENT PAULA BRAND ARLINGTON HEIGHTS FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION BECAUSE SHE INSTALLED WIRES ON MY UNBORN CHILD WHILE I WENT INTO HOSTAGE SITUATIONS...
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Categories:
nearly, allah,
Form:
Naat
FIDELITY BRAVERY INTEGRITY UNRESPONSIVEI GAVE AN OATH WEARING WIRES PREGNANT FOR THE FBI ARLINGTON HEIGHTS CHICAGO FIELD OFFICE TIMES WERE VERY HARD BACK THEN I WAS SO YOUNG WITH SMALL CHILDREN RETURNING FROM GERMANY MILITARY WIFE WHEN THE...
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Categories:
nearly, allah,
Form:
Naat
April's Babbling Foolishness(Created using the bAbBlE sentence generator, various text excerpts, and a minuscule bit of human editing.)
And she smells good without keeping all ...
Beef, sitting lonely on that lies floating on the tufted floor. "Surely,"...
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Categories:
nearly, art, computer, crazy, food, funny, horror, humor,
Form:
Prose
Echoes of a Shady PastAn icy chill descends on 13 Beaver Veil Cottage as sisters Ester and Ellie walk gingerly up the steps on this wet and windy night.
This once charming pied-a-terre was now in a final phase denouement.
The...
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Categories:
nearly, art, birth, character, courage, dark, imagery, imagination,
Form:
Prose
Echoes Of A Shady Past Part Twon icy chill descends on 13 Beaver Veil Cottage as sisters Ester and Ellie walk gingerly up the steps on this wet and windy night.
This once charming pied-a-terre was now in a final phase denouement.
The...
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Categories:
nearly, character, dark, death, emotions, gothic, imagery, imagination,
Form:
Prose
Summer Solstice 2025Summer Solstice 2025
Friday, June twentieth
at 10:42 Post Meridian
Eastern standard time
will find Earth's North Pole tilted
closest toward sun.
This demarcates
most daylight hours of the year
for people living
within the northern hemisphere.
Just shy of the supposed...
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Categories:
nearly, adventure, anniversary, appreciation, beauty, dedication, earth, summer,
Form:
Free verse
Poetically Pathetic CrowJust enough to make it just
I want this to be enough to make this
The last song ever, the last note ever
The last romantically, poetically sad excuse for an apology, epilogue
But I've already messed up the...
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Categories:
nearly, lonely, longing, loss, lost, lost love, love,
Form:
Free verse
An Uppercut I RememberDad hit me only once, an upper cut to the solar plexus. It nearly lifted me off my feet. I was 17 then and already fairly tall, 6’1.” He was 48 and of medium height,...
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Categories:
nearly, father son,
Form:
Blank verse
Two Lovers V - Convenience StoreShe looked at him concerned
"Oh my God, we forgot the buns!"
A barbeque happening
Guests arriving
Coals flaming
Food prepared
But nothing to put burgers on
For their housewarming
Hasty instructions and some cash
From his Lover and her roomies
Then he starts to...
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Categories:
nearly, first love, happy, relationship, romance, romantic love,
Form:
Free verse
Doggerel IDoggerel I or Nonsense Verse
A$$tronomical
by Michael R. Burch
Einstein, the frizzy-haired,
proved E equals MC squared.
Thus, all mass decreases
as activity ceases?
Not my mass, my a$$ declared!
Bible Libel
by Michael R. Burch
If God
is good,
half the Bible
is libel.
I came up...
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Categories:
nearly, dog, hilarious, humor, humorous, light, nonsense, nursery
Form:
Limerick
LimericksLimericks
by Michael R. Burch
Clyde Lied!
by Michael R. Burch
There once was a mockingbird, Clyde,
who bragged of his prowess, but lied.
To his new wife he sighed,
"When again, gentle bride?"
"Nevermore!" bright-eyed Raven replied.
The Platypus
by Michael R. Burch
The platypus,...
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Categories:
nearly, giggle, light, nonsense, parody, silly, smile, word
Form:
Limerick
Where Art Thou Anonymous Benefactor To Offer Me SuccorWhere art thou anonymous benefactor...to offer me succor?
Ah... methinks legal tender
could be a boon to help me bolster
mein kampf with necessary material equipage,
which prospect to acquire essential
commodities sabotaged
at the altar of...
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Categories:
nearly, 8th grade, absence, anger, angst, boy, confusion,
Form:
Free verse
THE LAST GOODBYEThis is for the Contest - 'Titanic - Fare Thee Well' Sponsored by Tom Woody.
...
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Categories:
nearly, death, inspirational, loss, love,
Form:
Narrative
Impossible Mission To Captcha Infinitesimal MomentImpossible mission to captcha infinitesimal moment
alternately titled: tick tock runneth amuck
seconds elapse imperceptibly
leaving me dumbstruck,
how quickly fleeting tempus fugit;
ofttimes imagined as time thief.
Hence following vignette: quiet as a mouse lurks the time thief...
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Categories:
nearly, 12th grade, analogy, butterfly, death, farewell, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Grand PrioritiesWhat fills your goals, son?
I told you!
Need to get my car rolling [life rolling, love rolling]
yesterday,
if not today...
If I may interrupt
to process mindful resilience
for a bit...
Let me ask again:
Noticing you are concerned about long-winded
and -winding
and...
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Categories:
nearly, black african american, earth, health, nature, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
My Most Popular Poems On the Internet IiMy most popular poems on the Internet (II)
A number of my poems and translations have gone viral, according to Google, and some have been copied onto hundreds to thousands of web pages. That’s a lot...
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Categories:
nearly, internet, poems, poetry, poets, social, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Limericks I - Relatives and RelativityLimericks I - Relatives and Relativity
The Cosmological Constant
by Michael R. Burch
Einstein, the frizzy-haired,
said E equals MC squared.
Thus all mass decreases
as activity ceases?
Not my mass, my a$$ declared!
A$$-tronomical
by Michael R. Burch
Relativity, the theorists’ creed,
says mass increases...
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Categories:
nearly, humor, humorous, light, nonsense, science, space, time,
Form:
Limerick
Solo PerformanceIt had been a hellish week.
On Monday
my lonely and tired AfricanAmerican husband
told me, as gently as possible,
that what I had hoped was a temporary separation
is to be extended into perpetuity.
This separation had been scheduled to...
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Categories:
nearly, age, earth, family, health, integrity, nature, spiritual,
Form:
Political Verse
Otomo No Sakanoue No Iratsume TranslationTo a Daughter More Precious than Gems
by Otomo no Sakanoue no Iratsume
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
Heaven's cold dew has fallen—
and thus another season arrives.
Oh, my child living so far away,
do you pine for me...
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Categories:
nearly, child, childhood, children, daughter, girl, mother, mother
Form:
Tanka
First They Came For the MuslimsFirst they came for the Muslims
after Martin Niemoller
First they came for the Muslims
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Muslim.
Then they came for the homosexuals
and I did not speak out
because I was...
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Categories:
nearly, culture, discrimination, faith, god, islamic, truth, usa,
Form:
Free verse
How Can I Not Love You - the Free Verse Style~ How Can I Not Love You? ~
( Free Verse )
~O~
Even before
I met you the way I do now
I always
knew about You, perhaps not
in the sense and...
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Categories:
nearly, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
Juvenilia: Early Poems XiJuvenilia: Early Poems XI
Myth
by Michael R. Burch
after the sprung rhythm of Dylan Thomas
Here the recalcitrant wind
sighs with grievance and remorse
over fields of wayward gorse
and thistle-throttled lanes.
And she is the myth of the scythed wheat
hewn and...
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Categories:
nearly, boy, poems, poetry, student, teen, teenage, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Ecotherapist ConventionsTruth is a feather
pushed off to the other side.
Truths are a body of feathers
within which our bodies reside.
OK, students of life’s healthiest purposes and meanings,
it’s time to regather, if you would be so kind.
Namaste.
[Silence]
[My...
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Categories:
nearly, beauty, culture, earth, health, humor, nature, truth,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Radiance, For Dylan ThomasRadiance
by Michael R. Burch
for Dylan Thomas
The poet delves earth’s detritus—hard toil—
for raw-edged nouns, barbed verbs, vowels’ lush bouquet;
each syllable his pen excretes—dense soil,
dark images impacted, rooted clay.
The poet sees the sea but feels its meaning—
the...
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Categories:
nearly, earth, light, love, poems, poetry, poets, words,
Form:
Sonnet
Energy's Dying WishSo, if I understand correctly,
you want to respond to inevitable energy descent
by upgrading incentives for cooperative communication,
positive information expansion,
research and regenerative design,
implementation,
and ecopolitical evaluation strategies?
Yes,
because we achieved current WinWin cooperative communication
and organic networking capacities
by virtue...
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Categories:
nearly, culture, deep, games, green, health, language, science,
Form:
Political Verse