Long Not long Poems
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That Long Evening
When you came to me...
Not that you wanted me. Oh, no! It was I who wanted you,
Your comfort... your caring... your
... compassion, your compassion...
Your body, beautiful and young, perhaps that as well at...
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Categories:
not long, feelings, lost, thank you,
Form:
Free verse
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:
not long, child, childhood, family, father, father son, mother,
Form:
Rhyme
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:
not long, boy, child, childhood, children, daughter, family, son,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Fathers and Grandfathers IiiPoems about Fathers and Grandfathers III
Success
by Michael R. Burch
for Jeremy
We need our children to keep us humble
between toast and marmalade;
there is no time for a ticker-tape parade
before bed, no award, no bright statuette
to be delivered...
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Categories:
not long, family, father, father daughter, father son, fathers
Form:
Rhyme
Peace PrayerThese are peace poems, prayer poems, hymns and lullabies I have written for family, friends and the world over the years ...
Peace Prayer
by Michael R. Burch
for Jim Dunlap
Be calm.
Be still.
Be silent, content.
Be one with the...
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Categories:
not long, beauty, blessing, love, nature, peace, prayer, time,
Form:
Free verse
Chapter 71-- Damian Delilah Mallory and Polly: Cascades the Triple DateA good time was had by all at
Mother Daughtry's. The next
Day Damian was in his usual
Mood with Molly in her cozy
But large room. He layed on her
Bed she layed on top of him.
"Hmm,"...
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Categories:
not long, confidence, emotions,
Form:
Alliteration
Chapter 85 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: the Young SolomonsDamian Stood in the morning sun.
The sun felt good on his face.
Delilah was still sleeping. He
Kissed her face and caressed
Her belly until she awoke.
Hey my Mrs. Me. Come on babe.
We will be leaving today...
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Categories:
not long, adventure, birth, business, father son, women,
Form:
Alliteration
Sonnets Lii-LxSonnets LII-LX
The Endeavors of Lips
by Michael R. Burch
How sweet the endeavors of lips: to speak
of the heights of those pleasures which left us weak
in love’s strangely lit beds, where the cold springs creak:
for there is...
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Categories:
not long, dream, flower, hair, longing, love, pain, sensual,
Form:
Sonnet
A Vain WordA Vain Word
by Michael R. Burch
Oleanders at dawn preen extravagant whorls
as I read in leaves’ Sanskrit brief moments remaining
till sunset implodes, till the moon strands grey pearls
under moss-stubbled oaks, full of whispers, complaining
to the darkening...
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Categories:
not long, autumn, beauty, extended metaphor, grief, heartbreak, moon,
Form:
Sonnet
Apocalyptic Poems IThese are prophetic poems and apocalyptic poems ...
The Vision of the Overseer’s Right Hand
by Michael R. Burch
“Dust to dust ...”
I stumbled, aghast,
into a valley of dust and bone
where all men become,
at last, the same color...
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Categories:
not long, earth, earth day, environment, future, humanity, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 84“Look,” Lumi shouted over the wind, and pointing off to their right. Jutting above the clouds was the peak of a large mountain. He shifted the team in that direction. As the...
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Categories:
not long, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Final LullabyFinal Lullaby
by Michael R. Burch
for my mother, Christine Ena Burch
Sleep peacefully—for now your suffering’s over.
Sleep peacefully—immune to all distress,
like pebbles unaware of raging waves.
Sleep peacefully—like fields of fragrant clover
unmoved by any motion of the wind.
Sleep...
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Categories:
not long, death, eulogy, funeral, Lullaby, mother, mother son,
Form:
Lyric
Canto Xx Hell TranslationOf new pains new verses must be composed
To give matter for the canto twenty
Of the canticle first, treating sunk posed.
I just was inclined with desires many
To thoroughly look at the open deep,
Which was moisten...
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Categories:
not long, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
Moderna Commedia, Second Canto, Part 2Quelle vicende vissi fino in fondo.
Quando mi riappropriai della mia vita
Se questo è un uomo chiesi a tutto il mondo.”
Those events I lived through and through.
When I again impropriated of my life
If this is a...
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Categories:
not long, dream,
Form:
Terza Rima
The Bailout Ballad - the Layman's LamentOne day not long past our economy faltered
And wouldn’t improve if our course were unaltered.
'Cause we buy stuff at Wal-Mart (where things are dirt cheap)
'Cause they buy from China (treats workers like sheep
(So farmers left...
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Categories:
not long, business, humor, humorous, money, political, satire,
Form:
Couplet
Truth As I See ItHow could this possibly be a anything fake
For that would be true if you were Rod
Or Todd
Or Harry
Or drake ...
But no, you seem to arrive at just the right pace
Perhaps anyone...
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Categories:
not long, cute love,
Form:
Prose Poetry
I Was So LostI Was So Lost
I had been raised in church but a religious church.
They did acknowledge there was a God but
His Son was pictured as dead upon a cross. This
was the picture that I carried...
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Categories:
not long, appreciation, baptism, truth,
Form:
Narrative
Someone To Love-Part 3...cont
As is the case with all of life's special moments
this one had to end when she again became weak.
We strolled the beach one last time
our toes curled in the sand
as the sun warmed our backs
and...
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Categories:
not long, loss, love, love hurts,
Form:
Prose Poetry
TerminalA couple of months ago, my wife received news that there was an ...
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Categories:
not long, faith, family, grief, prayer, sick,
Form:
Verse
The Highways and the BywaysThe Highways and the Byways
By Franklin Price
10/27/2107
(Inspired by Nancy McIntyre Stepp)
The highways and the byways
Of this life in which we've grown
Bring back many memories
Of places we have known
The Interstates most boring
They bypass most...
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Categories:
not long, adventure, happiness, travel,
Form:
Rhyme
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 97“Morning beautiful lady,” Joulupukki greeted her.
“Beautiful? Maybe a couple hundred years ago,” she replied as Joulupukki stood and kissed her on top of the head.
...
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Categories:
not long, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
A Trick My Father Learned In PrisonI’m not saying my father hated the English, God forbid. If he were still alive, he’d hate to hear me say that. He’d correct me right away and say he didn’t hate the English. Truth...
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Categories:
not long, ireland, prison, war, , western,
Form:
Prose
Angels of MercyAngles of Mercy
By
Kevin L Fairbrother
There is not to many of us that can say that the owe their existence on this earth to a Native in a Foreign country, in my case I can say...
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Categories:
not long, angel, father, memory, men,
Form:
Narrative
The Miracle of Marshside LeaIn Marshside Lea, there stood a tree, old in trunk and bough
'Twas long ago, this tale, although, it may still stand there now
And in its shade, the young sheep played as often did young lambs
Whilst...
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Categories:
not long, allegory, angel, animal, crazy, fantasy, farm, tree,
Form:
Rhyme
Of Fawn and FairyInside this forest
so bright and mild
a fairy lived
her name, Wonder Child
For all the forest
knew of this girl
to which they knew
she would change the world
A fawn she crept
upon one day
it sensed no danger
no need...
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Categories:
not long, animals, mother, beautiful, beautiful, fairy, love, morning,
Form:
Rhyme