Long Overhead Poems
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Bunch of limericks and other funny tricks I
"Okay, tell me, who's gonna be next?"
said the writer of the too-long text.
"No, please, not me," said the lean noun.
"Cut that fat verb there, two lines down."
And they all watched with their faces vexed.
The women...
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Categories:
overhead, crazy, funny, giggle, howl, humor, silly,
Form:
Limerick
Be of Good, Compassionate Courage
Dandelions…
They flutter, now I see
Fiery lions…
They're dancing with me
Sunlight…
Come out and shine down
Moonlight…
Shun out my darkened frown
I am the infinitesimal stars in the tranquil, terrestrial night
I am the scars minutes before the sunlit dawn...
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Categories:
overhead, confidence, courage, encouraging, endurance, hope, muse, passion,
Form:
Free verse
Echoes of a Shady Past
An 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:
overhead, art, birth, character, courage, dark, imagery, imagination,
Form:
Prose
Echoes Of A Shady Past Part Two
n 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:
overhead, character, dark, death, emotions, gothic, imagery, imagination,
Form:
Prose
Haiku 1
The Original Sin: Rhyming Haiku!
Haiku
should never rhyme:
it’s a crime!
-Michael R. Burch
The herons stand,
sentry-like, at attention ...
rigid observers of some unknown command.
-Michael R. Burch
Late
fall;
all
the golden leaves turn black underfoot:
soot
-Michael R. Burch
Dry leaf...
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Categories:
overhead, family, heart, love, mother son, nature, seasons,
Form:
Haiku
Poems About the Coronavirus I
Poems about the Coronavirus I
yet another iffy coronavirus haiku #1
by michael r. burch
plagued by the Plague
i plague the goldfish
with my verse
yet another iffy coronavirus haiku #2
by michael r. burch
sunflowers
hang their heads
embarrassed by their coronas
I wrote...
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Categories:
overhead, absence, anxiety, bereavement, caregiving, death, depression, fear,
Form:
Haiku
Poems About the Coronavirus Ii
Poems about the Coronavirus II
This World's Joy
(anonymous Middle English lyric, circa early 14th century AD)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Winter awakens all my care
as leafless trees grow bare.
For now my sighs are fraught
whenever it enters...
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Categories:
overhead, fear, loneliness, loss, natural disasters, scary, social,
Form:
Rhyme
Medieval Poems Iv
Medieval Poems IV
IN LIBRARIOS
by Thomas Campion
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Booksellers laud authors for novel editions
as pimps praise their whores for exotic positions.
Brut (circa 1100 AD, written by Layamon, an excerpt)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R....
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Categories:
overhead, angel, mother, romance, romantic, rose, roses are
Form:
Rhyme
Auschwitz Rose
Auschwitz Rose
by Michael R. Burch
There is a Rose at Auschwitz, in the briar,
a rose like Sharon’s, lovely as her name.
The world forgot her, and is not the same.
I still love her and extend this sacred...
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Categories:
overhead, holocaust, horror, tribute, truth, violence, war, world
Form:
Sonnet
Enough
Enough!
by Michael R. Burch
It’s not that I don’t want to die;
I shall be glad to go.
Enough of diabetes pie,
and eating sickly crow!
Enough of win and place and show.
Enough of endless woe!
Enough of suffering and vice!
I’ve...
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Categories:
overhead, body, cancer, death, health, irony, mental illness,
Form:
Light Verse
Poems About Things That Break Ii
Poems about Things that Break II
These are poems about things that break and/or shatter.
Water and Gold
by Michael R. Burch
You came to me as rain breaks on the desert
when every flower...
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Categories:
overhead, break up, depression, divorce, emotions, farewell, goodbye,
Form:
Rhyme
Oncle Albert - Part 1
Here he stands, Edwardian vogue, sometimes with his spats,
sometimes with his brogues below his dungarees. With rounded collar points and tie, and jacket donned below this flying suit, his waste is tied with simple...
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Categories:
overhead, flying, history,
Form:
Narrative
World War Ii Poems and Holocaust Poems - Iv - Primo Levi
World War II Poems and Holocaust Poems - IV - Primo Levi
Shema
by Primo Levi
translation by Michael R. Burch
You who live secure
in your comfortable houses,
who return each evening to find
warm food,
welcoming faces...
consider whether this...
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Categories:
overhead, evil, holocaust, race, racism, war, world, world
Form:
Free verse
Sunday Morning Joggers
Goodness, I nearly lost my balance on the spiral seashells and broken sea stone chipping matrix.
My quaint obsession with marine life and that skyline paradox blossoming so tantalisingly, might be a source of some...
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Categories:
overhead, age, art, birth, devotion, feelings, heart, irony,
Form:
Prose
Mario William Vitale Latest Writings
The language and images of Mario Vitale's poetry are so closely bound to the natural cycles of seasons, of generations, of the body's functioning, that is surprising to realize how many of his poems deal...
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Categories:
overhead, art,
Form:
Free verse
Terror Bugs: Part 5 - A Freezer Mice Adventure
[Continued from ‘Terror Bugs: Part 4 - A Freezer Mice Adventure’]
__________
A water cannon screeched around the corner on two wheels
Four and twenty Terror Bugs were nipping at its heels
Their acid blistered paint work but it...
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Categories:
overhead, adventure,
Form:
Narrative
Spineless In the Running
Was this a bold endeavour or worst-case high risk plot?
In one sense I was caught between two poles apart concerns.
One must never underestimate indeed trivialise a devilish
difficult decision.
A decision that may...
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Categories:
overhead, age, august, beautiful, care, city, creation, fate,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The Philistine Troops Gathered Up For War
The Philistine troops gathered up for war,
Between Azekah and Socoh amassed.
Israel encamped near in Elah vale
And drew a line against the number vast.
There Saul, upon one mountain, made a stand,
To face the other tribe across...
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Categories:
overhead, bible,
Form:
Rhyme
A Poem of Ruth
The tears well up, and scarce could she not moan
When father, brother, husband, all have died.
She now has no possessions, neither home,
But travels to a distant, unknown land:
Once so secure, yet now compelled to roam;
Once...
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Categories:
overhead, bible, devotion, faith, journey,
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
recognizin’ you, realizing somethin’ more
Deliberately recognizing the sun against the moonbeams
I see your eyes gleam and your happiness screams
Into my eager ears over the years and I’m tension-whelmed with the tears I shed
Hanging at the last thread, giving in...
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Categories:
overhead, angst, emotions, endurance,
Form:
Free verse
Understand Where I Stood
Good boy gone bad enters the stage with a spotlight overhead, despite being misunderstood in my ghetto neighborhood
The lonely applause celebrates in my cracked, corrupted, and crazed cranium
I exaggerate too much and so too much,...
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Categories:
overhead, anger, angst, anxiety, conflict, courage, dedication, deep,
Form:
Free verse
Likeness Ssenekil: Part 1
*Image of Many Meanings by KWC.
Likeness ssenekiL: Part 1
(HOMONYMS: Homophones & Homographs)
He'll heal his heel.
They sow so they sew.
His aide aid with an ade.
You saw a ewe eat a yew.
I ate on the ait eight...
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Categories:
overhead, word play,
Form:
I do not know?
In the Islands Far, Far Away
Mission Control, this is Flight Z924693744, do you read?
We're having some technical trouble. How should we proceed?
We have spotted a planet, that appears to be suitable to abort;
But, to return to earth, we will need...
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Categories:
overhead, adventure, fantasy, friendship love, planet, space, stars,
Form:
Couplet
Gingham Prison: Beyond the Yellow Brick Road
(A call for the lights to dim as a single spotlight illuminates the legend Judy Garland, who is center stage. She wears a faded housecoat as her beautiful, brandy brown eyes hold a lifetime of...
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Categories:
overhead, addiction, anxiety, depression, loneliness, lonely, psychological, woman,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
The Legacy of Ain'T Barbie
The Legacy of Ain't Barbie
By Franklin Price
03/23/2022
“Ain't Barbie” was her handle, Barbara Price her married name
She was my wife, for most my life, this is how she played the game
Her roots were from the North...
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Categories:
overhead, blessing, inspiration, jesus, life, love,
Form:
Couplet