Long Odds on Poems
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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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odds on, 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:
odds on, character, dark, death, emotions, gothic, imagery, imagination,
Form:
Prose
I Am My Father's SonThey were gambling in front of the house.
Manservants and pages bustled about
Serving Suitors who just curse and carouse.
Few mix wine with water. I heard one shout,
"Clean down the tables with wet sponges! Rouse
Yourselves! And when...
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Categories:
odds on, adventure, anger, anxiety, bullying, father, history, introspection,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Various Heresies 7Pagans Protest the Intolerance of Christianity
by Michael R. Burch
“We have a common sky.” — Quintus Aurelius Symmachus
We had a common sky
before the Christians came.
We thought there might be gods
but did not know their names.
The common...
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Categories:
odds on, angel, atheist, bible, christian, faith, god, jesus,
Form:
Rhyme
VillanellesVillanelles
The villanelle is a poetic form based on repetition, with a double refrain.
Villanelle: The Divide
by Michael R. Burch
The sea was not salt the first tide...
was man born to sorrow that first day,
with the...
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odds on, moon, repetition, romance, romantic, romantic love, sea,
Form:
Villanelle
Prescribing Rebirth To Dt2DT2 came to me, unwillingly and clandestinely,
only because he was referred by his mother,
who was concerned that he was growing up and out
to become an ego-terrorist,
and she had heard of my feminist work as ecotherapist--
so...
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Categories:
odds on, birth, body, culture, health, humor, mental illness,
Form:
Political Verse
Heat LighteningHeat Lightening
by Michael R. Burch
Each night beneath the elms, we never knew
which lights beyond dark hills might stall, advance,
then lurch into strange headbeams tilted up
like searchlights seeking contact in the distance . . .
Quiescent unions...
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Categories:
odds on, car, crush, desire, love, lust, sexy, teen
Form:
Sonnet
Lucifer Gets the Gig“We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.”
Anatole France
"I heard you wanted to see me Boss?", Lucifer asked.
"I can always see you Lucifer", replied God. "No, I...
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Categories:
odds on, heaven, satire, universe,
Form:
Prose
Various Heresies 6Various Heresies 6
Altared Spots
by Michael R. Burch
The mother leopard buries her cub,
then cries three nights for his bones to rise
clad in new flesh, to celebrate the sunrise.
Good mother leopard, pensive thought
and fiercest love’s wild insurrection
yield...
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Categories:
odds on, atheist, bible, christian, faith, god, jesus, prayer,
Form:
Rhyme
How I Got Richer and What I Did NextHow I Got Richer and What I Did Next
I struck a sly deal with some Wall Street investors.
I shorted 'em stocks that didn't exist!
But they got me back (those post-empty-nesters)
by making fake deals I couldn't...
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Categories:
odds on, allegory, funny, heaven, humor, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Driving Alone Through the Sand Hills of NebraskaMy love is light (a fairy kiss?)
Like the pressure of...
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Categories:
odds on, lost love,
Form:
Blank verse
The Angry Black WomanShe stood with her back turned to me
Leaning slightly towards where the light tapered off into darkness
Her faced buried deep inside her cupped hands
Her own shadow towered over her seemingly at odds with her...
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Categories:
odds on, africa, anger, beauty, betrayal, black african american,
Form:
I do not know?
My Corporate Life and How It All EndedI met with some bankers in fine textured suits.
I struck a deal quick. (I had such a knack.)
I offered rare cacti and tropical fruits –
a cure-all for things that ail your back.
I served 'em...
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Categories:
odds on, business, humor, humorous, money, political, satire,
Form:
Couplet
Ol' Babe - Both Audio and Text Versions - W-IllustrationHey…did I ever tell you ‘bout the greatest baseball game,
Or should I say…the one that gave “Ol' Babe” his famous name?
Like several other great ones, there were many hits that day,
And if it hadn't...
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Categories:
odds on, baseball,
Form:
Verse
TeatalkDo you share my concern that your happiness and healthy life are too ephemeral,
short-lived?
No! Why? Do you know something I should know?
Not likely.
Just wondering,
awed by your capacity,
your relentlessly positive energy for life,
despite the odds of...
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Categories:
odds on, culture, earth, health, history, love, political,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Phoenix I feel so damn trapped in rage
Like a rainbow lion in a cage
I feel so much pain in my brain
And it's driving me quite insane
Numb my solace shame
Get me feeling more...
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Categories:
odds on, 11th grade, 3rd grade, 6th grade, 7th
Form:
Free verse
Poems About Eros and CupidPOEMS ABOUT EROS AND CUPID
These are translations of ancient Greek poems about Eros. Eros was the Greek counterpart of the Roman god Cupid. While today we tend to think of Cupid as an angelic cherub...
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Categories:
odds on, cute love, desire, god, heart, love, lust,
Form:
Epigram
Amberina BallerinaA born lioness my untamed heart? ha!
a mouse, this pulsing token ruled by unruly wants
at times given, traded or stolen - sometimes
thrown down on a dare to be won or lost
till it became...
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Categories:
odds on, destiny, emotions, inspiration, introspection, memory, metaphor, nostalgia,
Form:
Free verse
On Fam'Ly Traditions - 2nd ThirdOn Fam’ly Traditions - 2nd third -
“Might as well grab us some food an' some beer...some ice...and some bundles o' wood, an' prob'ly some charcoal....there ain't nothin' better than walleye from right off a...
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Categories:
odds on, family, together,
Form:
Narrative
You Don'T Know MeEveryone has the freedom of choice
Everyone has an expressiveness to save their own voice
Who are you who am I to judge this choice
You don't know me
You don't know me
I may have ...
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Categories:
odds on, america, baptism, celebration, christian, community, forgiveness, god,
Form:
Free verse
Big Change of Plans -- Text Version - Also Posted As An AudioFYI: I'll be posting a bunch of my AUDIO files over the next few months, most from my 4 new AUDIO-CDs, along with many more text files from my several books of verse. (Only...
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Categories:
odds on, marriage,
Form:
Rhyme
The Bate's Motel Does Exist - 1st HalfHere's the scoop, friends...like a bunch of my pieces now posted - and coming soon - this is, as indicated, the 1st HALF of this fairly lengthy poem. The 2nd half had to be posted...
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Categories:
odds on, humor,
Form:
Narrative
A Friendly GoodbyePoem 1: A Boy And His Painted Piano
he used lively greens
tender blues,
touches of plain mauve
and rainbow trout splatters
to paint music
on the gas fumes
that inhabited the clean air
that once use to live there.
he made...
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Categories:
odds on, beauty,
Form:
Free verse
Kaleidoscope
"Kaleidoscope"
They say another
wrote the story, not I.
that I, mere I,
having little experience, shy
and far removed from
such an alien world,
would not possess the knowledge
of such terrible and ruthless, lusty
characters of strong will;...
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Categories:
odds on, muse, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
Health Predicts SafetyIn some primordial
wandering birth-canal way,
I imagine we all experience traumatic excommunication
An internal climate PanDemonic
cerebral yet narrowly competitive
win/lose health today or safety tomorrow survivalist
life or death revivalist
EcoFeminist MotherYang Warriors for GreenPeace Experience
or DeGenerative LoseLose...
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Categories:
odds on, education, health, history, integrity, light, peace, planet,
Form:
Political Verse