Long Neighbor Poems
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Patsy Foley Was Roly-Poly In 1947It may have been the devil himself who prompted the kids in my schoolyard back in 1947 to chant "Patsy Foley's roly-poly from eating too much ravioli."
At first, no one could remember who started the...
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Categories:
neighbor, memory,
Form:
Prose
Poems About the Coronavirus IPoems about the Coronavirus I
yet another iffy coronavirus haiku #1
by michael r. burch
plagued by the Plague
i plague the goldfish
with my verse
yet another iffy coronavirus haiku #2
by michael r. burch
sunflowers
hang their heads
embarrassed by their coronas
I wrote...
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Categories:
neighbor, absence, anxiety, bereavement, caregiving, death, depression, fear,
Form:
Haiku
Family PoemsFamily Poems
Mother's Smile
by Michael R. Burch
There never was a fonder smile
than mother's smile, no softer touch
than mother's touch. So sleep awhile
and know she loves you more than "much."
So more than "much, " much more than...
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Categories:
neighbor, child, childhood, family, father, father son, mother,
Form:
Rhyme
EpitaphsEpitaph for a Palestinian Child
by Michael R. Burch
I lived as best I could, and then I died.
Be careful where you step: the grave is wide.
Autumn Conundrum
by Michael R. Burch
It's not that every leaf must finally...
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Categories:
neighbor, bereavement, death, death of a friend, depression,
Form:
Epitaph
Matsuo Basho Haiku TranslationsThe first soft snow:
leaves of the awed jonquil
bow low
—Matsuo Basho translation by Michael R. Burch
Come, investigate loneliness!
a solitary leaf
clings to the Kiri tree
—Matsuo Basho translation by Michael R. Burch
The cheerful-chirping cricket
contends gray...
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Categories:
neighbor, animal, butterfly, death, earth, life, nature, seasons,
Form:
Haiku
Matsuo Basho Haiku Translations IiDusk-gliding swallow,
please spare my small friends
flitting among the flowers!
—Matsuo Basho translation by Michael R. Burch
A bee emerging
from deep within the peony's hairy recesses
flies off, sated
—Matsuo Basho translation by Michael R. Burch
That dying cricket,...
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Categories:
neighbor, autumn, death, life, seasons, spring, summer, winter,
Form:
Haiku
Poems About ChildrenPoems about Children
The Desk
by Michael R. Burch
for Jeremy
There is a child I used to know
who sat, perhaps, at this same desk
where you sit now, and made a mess
of things sometimes.I wonder how
he learned at all...
He...
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Categories:
neighbor, boy, child, childhood, children, daughter, family, son,
Form:
Rhyme
Ancient HaikuThese are translations of some of the oldest Japanese waka, which evolved into tanka, renga and haiku.
While you decline to cry,
high on the mountainside
a single stalk of plumegrass wilts.
—O no Yasumaro (circa 711), translation...
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Categories:
neighbor, culture, imagery, inspiration, international, metaphor, nature, poetry,
Form:
Haiku
Haiku Translations of the Oriental MastersGrasses wilt:
the braking locomotive
grinds to a halt
—Yamaguchi Seishi, translation by Michael R. Burch
Oh, fallen camellias,
if I were you,
I'd leap into the torrent!
—Takaha Shugyo, translation by Michael R. Burch
The first soft snow:
leaves of the awed jonquil
bow...
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Categories:
neighbor, animal, beauty, imagery, nature, philosophy, world,
Form:
Haiku
Restoration TownsI was skeptically listening
to a retiring social researcher,
and problem-solving imaginer,
from the American Enterprise Institute;
An Institute
I usually find more destitute
of bicameral consciousness than not,
and thereby with less healthy resonant imagination
than more pathological dissonance.
But, I found...
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Categories:
neighbor, community, culture, earth, health, integrity, love, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Athenian EpitaphsAthenian Epitaphs
Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be,
but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea.
—Michael R. Burch, after Plato
Does my soul abide in heaven, or hell?
Only the sea gulls
in their...
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Categories:
neighbor, death, eulogy, funeral, grave, loss, memorial day,
Form:
Epigram
Athenian Epitaphs IiAthenian Epitaphs II
These are ancient Greek epitaphs for lost family and friends, including dogs and other animals ...
Now his voice is prisoned in the silent pathways of the night:
his owner's faithful Maltese...
but will...
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Categories:
neighbor, animal, best friend, death of a friend,
Form:
Epitaph
Poems About Fathers and Grandfathers IiPoems about Fathers and Grandfathers II
All Things Galore
by Michael R. Burch
for my grandfathers George Edwin Hurt Sr. and Paul Ray Burch, Sr.
Grandfather,
now in your gray presence
you are
somehow more near
and remind me that,
once, upon a star,
you...
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Categories:
neighbor, family, father, father daughter, father son, fathers
Form:
Rhyme
Old Pharaoh - 2 of 2For Pharaoh still exalts himself and thinks he’s in control,
But if he won’t release my folk, he’ll pay a heavy toll.
Tomorrow I will bring down hail like Egypt’s never seen,
On plants and trees and man...
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Categories:
neighbor, bible,
Form:
Ballad
FreedomThis is all done for Love of Another
The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you—they are full of the Spirit and life.
John 6:63 NIV
Sadly we fight against...
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Categories:
neighbor, fate,
Form:
Free verse
Remember WhenRemember when you were very young, ...
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Categories:
neighbor, fun, games, life, love, remember, today, youth,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
My Reproductive Rights AttorneyAn attorney friend of mine once said,
We have two opposing views
of the hows and whys of law and time and natural evolution,
including natural law,
and including U.S. Constitutional Law.
One assumes both natural and spiritual nondual legal...
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Categories:
neighbor, appreciation, corruption, earth, games, health, hero, history,
Form:
Political Verse
Today's Journey Through Covid-19As I woke up this morning I was thinking of what should I do through COVID-19 pandemic.
I said to myself, “I want to go for a walk.”
While walking along the street, people were passing with...
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Categories:
neighbor, africa, baptism, beautiful, christian, courage, poems, wisdom,
Form:
Narrative
Categories:
neighbor, car, kid, red, snow, vacation, weather, winter,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
A Parallel EarthIt was the weekend, and I was sleeping late that day,
Alone with the morning, while savoring marvels of May.
As I drowsed luxuriantly, at the outskirts of dreams,
I heard a strange sound, while soaking in gay...
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Categories:
neighbor, adventure, earth, fantasy, love, nature, peace, world,
Form:
Couplet
Dear NeighborsDear neighbors,
I realize we have not met,
other than the guy next door
but that doesn't really count
cause that was just to put up a fence between us,
and I have met Marvelously Mad Max,
behind me, on the...
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Categories:
neighbor, baptism, health, heart, humor, passion, religion, wisdom,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Being AmericanI live in America, as in the United States of America, and that used to mean something. At least to me it did. And it’s not so much in how I was raised but in...
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Categories:
neighbor, america, class, how i feel, introspection, patriotic,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
A World Without PityAfter wishing me a good morning, he said that it was all set,
It was time to raze the house, even though I wasn't in debt!
But they wanted to build a big highway, exactly in this...
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Categories:
neighbor, adventure, fantasy, home, lost, time, world,
Form:
Couplet
Categories:
neighbor, crazy, dream, humor, sister, tree,
Form:
Free verse
Principal ClownHe walks around with his nose pointing upward in the air
With calculating eyes that are so fearful, mouth moving from side to side and a tongue that keeps twisting around the things that are profound....
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Categories:
neighbor, break up, business, community, conflict, confusion, courage,
Form:
Narrative