Long Obedient Poems
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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:
obedient, bereavement, death, death of a friend, depression,
Form:
Epitaph
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:
obedient, death, eulogy, funeral, grave, loss, memorial day,
Form:
Epigram
A Gardening ExposeWith these lines I’ll relate an intriguing tale of dubious accuracy
For I Hope to unveil sordid affairs of more than one conspiracy!
Be warned, that though you might be disturbed by the facts I relate?
They are...
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Categories:
obedient, garden, word play,
Form:
Rhyme
Artificial Iris
"Artificial Iris"
Orwell was lurking in the background, somewhere;
the dream was eerily familiar,
the words and their meanings, read in Syntax,
once read between pages of hardcopy in school
were aptly ignored -
however,
our Overlords were...
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Categories:
obedient, surreal,
Form:
Narrative
Last Trap of ZulaikhaZulaikha:
What a bird you are, o red-billed Bird,
you don’t eat reddish mangoes!
By eating which ash, will you exist then
in this bower of fate?
Yusuf:
That there is any fruit better than the name of God
and any...
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Categories:
obedient, dream,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
The ReunionThey came from as far a way as New York and Dallas Texas. The class of 1981 wasn't a large class, it was the very first class of a very very private school. Their school,...
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Categories:
obedient, allusion, death,
Form:
Prose
I Knew Anne Silently - My Ravenous Poe**Trigger Warning**
"I Knew Anne Silently - My Ravenous Poe"
I knew Anne.
you’d think
with a name like hers
she’d be able to find her way
out of unchartered waters.
it didn’t come as a suprise,
then, on...
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Categories:
obedient, dark, love, poets,
Form:
Narrative
Heart
"Heart"
Deep fissures formed
in the cracks of
the nowhere place
where time leeched
bleeding claret
through the green
veined blues
protean bit by bit
the flesh disappears
prematurely 6ft under
mulch for rebirth
the subcontinent
conscientious conscience
inward reaching
the divine central tableau...
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Categories:
obedient, muse,
Form:
Free verse
Peach Drenched And Tanterlizing Irasistable My receptive wide adoring eyes rested within the ambient light and bathed in The Shadoe and shade of the scene
Where before me a paragon of sublime refined beauty
So sensually seductively and arousingly delightful...
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Categories:
obedient, appreciation, desire, dream, fantasy, romantic love, sensual,
Form:
Romanticism
An Eternity IStood upright, between two roads,
On a thin metal rail,
A solitary, brown coloured bottle
Of beer, ...
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Categories:
obedient, betrayal,
Form:
Rhyme
Righteous LoyaltyEnvironment of elegance emerges and Solar System shimmers anew in our lives
We need and want to shine...waiting till the Kingdom of Glory arrives...arrives...
Burn negativity into the flames
I’m sick of your silly little games
Burn negativity into...
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Categories:
obedient, depression, hope, pain,
Form:
Rhyme
Random Excerpts - 2: Ice In My Eyes Smoke In Yours, a Novel
May 29, 1957: …have to think about getting a thesis director…know no professor yet in the department…someone suggested i get hold of Derek Fogg for an intro to the big guns in the philosophisches Seminar…can't...
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Categories:
obedient, growing up, international, student, universe, world war
Form:
Free verse
Waves of Emotions - Swim In Serenity's Safe and Sound SignificanceI'm smart when I'm in my shell of solitude
Waiting till you're gone
So I can wear this attitude of gratitude
Bug off, bad attitude
I don't mean to act so rude
I feel ashamed and nude
The day is finally...
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Categories:
obedient, angst,
Form:
Free verse
withthisrebellioninside#w/thisrebellioninside~
Seems you’re abiding by his side, side, side, my love
I tried to save you from giving in, but I had to save me
Appears I’ve been crucified, now I hide like a wingless dove
I’ve fought...
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Categories:
obedient, angst, hope, how i feel,
Form:
Lyric
The Color of LaughterI was in a love affair with art, which had lasted for most of my life,
As beauty graces bush tree and field, whenever hued blossoms are rife.
I started painting at a young age, and had...
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Categories:
obedient, art, color, fantasy, fun, imagery, life, nature,
Form:
Couplet
The Broken Valkyrie
"The Broken Valkyrie"
when
the artificial
sun
replaced
true Light,
revolution
was a forgotten
Valkyrie,
Liberty
had been
put to bed
broken whore
of Babylon
no longer holding
the torch for anyone;
women and men
grew to love
their servitude,
complacency
skewered...
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Categories:
obedient, dark, humanity, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
Indefinable LoveIndefinable Love...
Duty without love makes us hard and dictatorial.
With Love, we are softer, have a clearer, wider understanding. And: Accountable for what we do and who we are.
Education without love creates efficient, obedient but heartless...
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Categories:
obedient, blessing, courage, deep, humanity, inspirational, integrity, prayer,
Form:
Free verse
Golden OpportunityMyths of deductive distinctions,
like white could not come from black,
are disinformed
when severed from contrasting inductive integrity,
greyscale dualdark co-passions
within light's future shadows
of golden opportunity.
RightWing patriarchs oppositionally forget
we are LeftWing matriarchal-appositional reborn
within cooperative health...
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Categories:
obedient, earth, education, games, god, health, humor, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse
Wounded PassionsStarting this unSabbath day
unusually seduced by full-color compassion,
with some competing-for-time distractions
in more sadly usual role recessions,
raises weak-day wellness questions
with healthy answering co-passion,
responsive responses more resiliently weekend resonations
than pathological ego-manic fear emanations
about my immediate physical future...
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Categories:
obedient, earth, education, health, integrity, passion, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Our Environment TodayI was taught by my father to be obedient in the dense forest to save the individuals trees, stop destruction to plantation. I cannot be silent under the detriment from lumberjacks to global...
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Categories:
obedient, earth, farm, flower,
Form:
Free verse
AfterwardsAfterwards.
Didn’t we once used to smile and laugh?
I can see that we seemed to be happy
As I look at an old photograph.
But now our mouths
Seem almost paralysed
Or are tight and grim.
I vaguely recall a...
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Categories:
obedient, change, conflict, dark, destiny, fantasy, future, science
Form:
Rhyme
Human Vs SocietySometimes I feel so
Insignificant.
I have yet to understand why I’m here.
What’s my purpose?
Will I be forgotten easily when it’s time for me to go?
Or will I be remembered by many?
It’s difficult to pinpoint what makes...
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Categories:
obedient, corruption, deep,
Form:
Free verse
Strange Vampires
"Strange Vampires"
all those years
ago, when conspiracies
flourished around
did we or didn’t we go
to the moon, when we
were once human,
proved to be lies,
whichever way
the dark shadows
conveyed it.
the truth
came out much later,...
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Categories:
obedient, humanity, muse, science fiction,
Form:
Narrative
Her Son NathanielShe is searching for the son taken from her arms
simply because she was believed to be a child herself.
She was unable to stand up to her parents’ wishes -
those GOD fearing upright...
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Categories:
obedient, baby, cute, sad,
Form:
Narrative
Authenticity isn’t GMOPush the limits…try to find outlets and coping skills for yourself
Pull away from the urge to throw those childish, languishing fits
Explore and implore with me now
Feels drown away and fade somehow
Hooked to your melody
Haunted and...
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Categories:
obedient, angst, deep, fear,
Form:
Free verse