Long Outlived Poems
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World War Ii Poems and Holocaust Poems - Vi - Chaim Nachman Bialik, Erich Fried
World War II Poems and Holocaust Poems - VI - Chaim Nachman Bialik, Erich Fried
After My Death
by Chaim Nachman Bialik
translation by Michael R. Burch
Say this when you eulogize me:
Here was a man—now, poof, he's...
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Categories:
outlived, holocaust, race, racism, truth, war, world, world
Form:
Free verse
World War Ii Poems and Holocaust Poems Ii - Bertolt Brecht
World War II Poems and Holocaust Poems II - Bertolt Brecht
The Burning of the Books
by Bertolt Brecht
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
When the Regime
commanded the unlawful books to be burned,
teams of dull oxen hauled...
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Categories:
outlived, books, holocaust, race, racism, war, world, world
Form:
Free verse
Inferiority Complex As a Kid, Adolescent and Emerging Adult
Inferiority complex as a kid, adolescent and emerging adult
Yours truly (an amazingly,
gracefully, and markedly modest
passively aging baby boomer -
formerly introverted long haired
pencil necked geek),
prattling wordsmith doth behold
nostalgic memories regarding father
(Boyce Brandon Harris)
long ago lapsed decades
during...
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Categories:
outlived, 11th grade, 12th grade, 1st grade, 2nd
Form:
Rhyme
Splinters
A crown that is broken cannot be fixed
It has to be replaced
Changed
Because a crown that is broken
Cannot be turned into joy
So why exactly
Do you make me sad
You broke my heart...
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Categories:
outlived, absence, angst, anxiety, betrayal, growing up, humanity,
Form:
Free verse
Rouging of the Lamb B
My sweet mother of pearl struck a ruby eyed reef.
Then quickly sank into the deep, just shy of the cay of life.
Don't remember much about her,
Daddy never had much to say... about the...
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Categories:
outlived, childhood, pain,
Form:
Narrative
Long Ago, Memories of a Cold Winter Night Conversation
Long Ago, Memories Of A Cold Winter Night Conversation
(Narrative/Rhyme)
Hebridean isles, once sang to me in a dream,
She her beautiful hair silky, so very long
There rests magnificent treasure few ever find
A good poet would use it...
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Categories:
outlived, art, best friend, imagination, lonely, solitude, winter,
Form:
Narrative
Summer Thanksgiving
Two bails of straw, an ornament,
...
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Categories:
outlived, fun, garden,
Form:
Rhyme
Forgive Your Enemies
Vicar Tynan sat amongst his roses in a Friday morning sun,
that shone in beams through willow branch and leaves,
where it’s time to think of Sunday and what sermon must be done,
when he heard squabbling coming...
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Categories:
outlived, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
AI POEMS
AI POEMS
These are poems about AI (Art-ificial Intelligence) and poems about science.
The AI Poets
by Michael R. Burch
The computer-poets stand hushed
except for the faint hum
of their efficient fans,
waiting for inspiration.
It is years now
since they were first...
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Categories:
outlived, class, confusion, education, farm, school, science, science
Form:
Rhyme
Souls are Worth What You'd Sell for
My first enemy was one I should have loved
He claimed that he loved me but I suppose not enough
He carved the gaps in all my memories
And deprived me of what made me
A child at twelve...
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Categories:
outlived, abuse, death of a friend, father daughter,
Form:
Free verse
S O W E T O
Some place somewhere,in nowhere
Oh! come dearly wind,come to the place and everywhere
Were it not bad of you to bend and bypass us in your haste
Eternal it would be-had love been bethrothe'
To the valley,slummed with valour...
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Categories:
outlived, africa,
Form:
Classicism
Poems about Science 2: Computers
POEMS ABOUT SCIENCE: COMPUTERS
The AI Poets
by Michael R. Burch
The computer-poets stand hushed
except for the faint hum
of their efficient fans,
waiting for inspiration.
It is years now
since they were first ground
out of refurbished silicon
into rack-mounted encoders of sound.
They...
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Categories:
outlived, computer, earth, environment, science, technology,
Form:
Rhyme
The Valley of the Shadow of Death Psalm 23:5
"Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil for Thou art with me..."Psalm 23:5***
Last night on July 14, 2021 a beloved man of God, Ed White...
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Categories:
outlived, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Thiruk-Kural On Not Offending the Great: Canto 90, K895 and K897
THIRUK-KURAL on not offending the Great*: Periyaaraip Pilaiyaamai - Canto 90 K895 and K897
[* The "Great" here are indifferently the King or other learned and wise people whom the King ought to respect and fear....
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Categories:
outlived, leadership, political, power, tamil, , western,
Form:
Epigram
My Growth!
I had to say good bye to my beloved kitty, Sydney. Syd-Syd as I called her, loved
to be held. Her favorite spot was on my shoulder, as if I were burping a...
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Categories:
outlived, loss, pets, sad, me, husband, husband, me,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Where Is the Pharaoh's Toys
I have seen the formation
Of ancient lands
I have seen the creation
Of ancient hands
Pyramids
That soar to the sky
Here amid
Temples majestic and high
I have seen
Wonderful things
Tombs and scenes
Of ancient kings
I have seen huge blocks of stone
Cut by...
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Categories:
outlived, adventure, africa, age, analogy, magic, memory, metaphor,
Form:
Rhyme
The Saga of Kelley and Luvey
A Story from My Heart
Kelly was a Red...
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Categories:
outlived, beautiful, cat, daughter, happiness, memory,
Form:
Narrative
Should I Be Blamed
(autobiographical)
I was barely eight before mother died
When Gerald was happy and not as reduced
When he was the loved son
The child with a loving home.
From aunt to aunt I learned to live
Out of the anger of...
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Categories:
outlived, child, grief, inspirational, lonely, loss, child, life,
Form:
Didactic
The Trail Boss Turns 60
The Camp Cooky’s singin again outa tune,
about turnin 60 today around noon
"What good is there in it?" I hear him say,
and it got me to thinkin . . . seein it...
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Categories:
outlived, age,
Form:
Cowboy Poetry
The Matriarch
THE MATRIARCH
(In Memory of Eva Vescovi Dixon 1910-2010)
by Tina (Vescovi) Lasley
She was a Sister, Mother, Aunt and Friend
Someone on whom you could always depend
She was Counselor, Advisor, and Mentor to...
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Categories:
outlived, dedication, devotion, family, friend, family, age, time,
Form:
Rhyme
The Thiruk-Kural On Not Offending the Great: Canto 90, K899 and K900
THIRUK-KURAL on not offending the Great*: Periyaaraip Pilaiyaamai - Canto 90, K899 and K900
[* The "Great" here are indifferently the King or other learned and wise people whom the King ought to respect and fear....
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Categories:
outlived, political, power, tamil, , western,
Form:
Epigram
An Infamous Legend
AN INFAMOUS LEGEND
King Henry XIII was indeed quite a boy,
He had no clue how to spell the word coy,
He was consumed by a quest that
A wife bear,
And give birth to a male heir,
He...
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Categories:
outlived, funny, history,
Form:
Rhyme
I Am a Puzzle
I am a puzzle
made of pieces.
One for the girl who woke my heart,
one for the girl who broke it,
one for the man who shook it,
one for the man who took it
(when it wasn’t his to...
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Categories:
outlived, absence, life, metaphor,
Form:
Free verse
If It Takes Forever
I can’t die, though I want to
I don’t cry, though I try to
I may not have a choice to live
Though required me more to give
A little pain inside my chest
Sometimes death nothing less
And living freely...
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Categories:
outlived, allegory, blessing, death, fate,
Form:
Rhyme
An Awful Harvest 2
The road that has been improved and widened would’ve yielded many unexploded munitions. I’m curious how many were found and wonder how many thousands still hide unfound. Sections of the trees/grass by the road are...
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Categories:
outlived, adventure, military, nature,
Form:
Verse