Long Only to be met Poems
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Cymbric ValeI believed that I was rural … that I lived in country style,
where the city was close handy … that big distance was a mile.
Trains and buses ferried daily; a freeway ran close by …
comforts...
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Categories:
only to be met, holiday,
Form:
Rhyme
Hitchhiker From Another World 4“Come on, let's get introduced to my play mate in a palm.
Linda, these are Joshua’s true other selfs.”
Lelia emitting a peculiar chuckle.
A comic situation arose where I changed my voice for each of my...
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Categories:
only to be met, art, beautiful, beauty, celebration, character, emotions, environment,
Form:
Prose
Childhood Dreams Part 1When I was a child
Everything was magical
Full of mystery and the unknown
I read hundreds of books
The library my haven
My home
Hours upon hours
Night and day
I read and got lost in text
They supplied me with adventures
Secret journeys
Fun...
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Categories:
only to be met, childhood, cinderella, dream, fairy,
Form:
Free verse
The Power of My PenI have been trying to find the right words to pen this verse, but since I came to this country my words are suppressed and my voice is oppressed. The wind is blowing furiously, and...
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Categories:
only to be met, anti bullying, break up, community, corruption, discrimination,
Form:
Narrative
Liquor of Lament: My Glass Is Half FullVerse 6: I've given up love countless times
I needed to pay up for my heartbroken crimes
I already repented for my sins that made my high hopes paper-thin
Don't you feel that envy from deep within?...
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Categories:
only to be met, addiction, cute love, deep, depression, desire, hope,
Form:
Lyric
Below the Horizon - Shallow ShameAgony be to society's demise
Labels are for fools, not for the wise
Play the familiar tune of in-unison serenity
Fatality won't come any time soon, thankfully...
Homeless people were on the news not to long ago...I weep...
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Categories:
only to be met, cute, deep, depression, desire,
Form:
Free verse
The Messenger
"The Messenger"
Love is rich with
venom and honey.
there was a female ...
snake,
it watched
with green-eyed
avarice, covetting
a dove’s nest
the dove,
was white as snow,
not young, getting on,
tiny flecks of grey
the dove
alone,...
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Categories:
only to be met, dark, journey, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
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:
only to be met, first love, happy, relationship, romance, romantic love,
Form:
Free verse
Blue Shotgun Lantana
"As other spirits sail on music, mine, oh my love, swim on your perfume." Charles Baudelaire
"Sometimes you find an old bottle from which the soul returns."
Charles Baudelaire
"Smell is a Word. Perfume is Literature."
"There are...
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Categories:
only to be met, muse, mystery, sensual,
Form:
Free verse
Rum N Raisin 3 - the Cat Who Fell To EarthRaisin liked to make her bed upon a shelf up high
She said she likes the feeling that she’s almost in the sky
One day she fell and bonked her head and Rum could only stare
And wondered...
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Categories:
only to be met, cat, fantasy, nursery rhyme,
Form:
Narrative
WonderlandWonderland
by Michael R. Burch
We stood, kids of the Lamb, to put to test
the beatific anthems of the blessed,
the sentence of the martyr, and the pen’s
sincere religion. Magnified, the lens
shot back absurd reflections of each...
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Categories:
only to be met, allegory, allusion, analogy, crazy, fantasy, imagination, magic,
Form:
Sonnet
Rejection Slips 3Rejection Slips 3
Rejection Slip
by Michael R. Burch
Whenever my writing gets rejected,
I always wonder how the rejecter got elected.
Are we exchanging at the same Bourse?
(Excepting present company, of course!)
When editors reject my poems, did I slip...
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Categories:
only to be met, death, desire, family, heart, life, longing, love,
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:
only to be met, black african american, earth, health, nature, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Salvation of a Formalist, An Ode To EntropySalvation of a Formalist, an Ode to Entropy
by Michael R. Burch
Entropy?
God's universal decree
That I get to be
Disorderly?
Suddenly
My erstwhile boxed-in verse is free?
Wheeeeee!
Eternal Currents
by Michael R. Burch
How can I write and not be true
to the rhythm...
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Categories:
only to be met, humor, humorous, light, nonsense, satire, write, writing,
Form:
Light Verse
The BartenderTwenty two years had passed by
She blinked, and a lifetime had passed
She started this job as a lark
She never thought it would last
Two husbands and rehab were part of this bar
The husbands...her clients all...
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Categories:
only to be met, america, community, family, heart, society, strength, wisdom,
Form:
Rhyme
Sonnets Xxxiii-XliSonnets XXXIII-XLI
The Folly of Wisdom
by Michael R. Burch
She is wise in the way that children are wise,
looking at me with such knowing, grave eyes
I must bend down to her to understand.
But she only smiles, and...
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Categories:
only to be met, child, childhood, children, death, life, time, world,
Form:
Sonnet
Nemesis, Confrontation and the Rejoined Battle, Now CompletedNemesis, Confrontation And The Rejoined Battle,
Now Completed
(Nemesis) - Part One
O'lord of blight dare thee to now abide
Leaving thy abode to earthen realm ride
As punisher with dark universal might
As grief bearer, humanity to smite!
Dar'est thee enter,...
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Categories:
only to be met, art, creation, faith, humanity, light, meaningful, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
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:
only to be met, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
Let Me Give Her DiamondsLet Me Give Her Diamonds
by Michael R. Burch
Let me give her diamonds
for my heart's
sharp edges.
Let me give her roses
for my soul's
thorn.
Let me give her solace
for my words
of treason.
Let the flowering of love
outlast a winter
season.
Let me...
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Categories:
only to be met, valentines day,
Form:
Verse
Chapter 100 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: Big Barbecue Celebration of Life Mass Invitations ContinuesWhile family Mingled with one
Another and strangers the party flowed
Smoothly. Music was enjoyed.
Everybody indulged. With a little
Champagne some wine and juice.
The bar also served smoothies.
Adults mingled. Delilah Mallory
Mother Daughtry and Amaliah...
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Categories:
only to be met, 4th grade, birth, child, confidence,
Form:
Alliteration
Chapter 108 -- Damian Dj Delilah Mallory Damali Cj: the New Temple and Djs BirthdayDate: January 4 2046
Damali and DJ were active in the
Small house sprucing up for their
Day. "Hey happy birthday partner!"
Damali jostled DJ. In the main house
Now 11 morning time. Damian had
Plans...
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Categories:
only to be met, color, confidence, deep,
Form:
Alliteration
Chapter 99 -- Damian Delilah Mallory Dj Damali Nyaf and Rico: the Celebration-- Mass InvitationsDate: April 2045
An excellent April afternoon blooming.
Damali is now 19 years old this
Day. Damali was thinking of his future
Stretched out at his study desk.
He had been enrolled for a year...
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Categories:
only to be met, granddaughter,
Form:
Alliteration
GilgameshGILGAMESH . . .
Story has it you used your power to run amuck
Putting fear into the people, and brides in Unuk
So the people of Unuk pray to the sky God Anu
To sort out...
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Categories:
only to be met, adventure, best friend, brother, character, deep, emotions,
Form:
Epic
Millie's Christmas WishMillie's Christmas Wish
Winter Vacation was coming
The kids were all set
They were thinking of Christmas
And the gifts they would get
But, Millie sat waiting
Thinking of nothing but snow
Watching the class clock
That was moving so slow
They did arts...
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Categories:
only to be met, 5th grade, adventure, america, childhood, christmas,
Form:
Epic
Chapter 107 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: Family Festive Fountain Market JamboreeDate: January 2046
8:45 am in the Damian Domaine
Some are sleeping some are peeping
What are we eating? Said Molly to
Dolly. "What ever we can?" She replied
While still sleepy eyed checking
Supplies. So...
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Categories:
only to be met, child, chocolate, confidence, family, father son,
Form:
Alliteration