Long Peal Poems
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Marina Tsvetaeva TranslationsI Know The Truth
by Marina Tsvetaeva
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
I know the truth?abandon lesser truths!
There's no need for anyone living to struggle!
See? Evening falls, night quickly descends!
So why the useless disputes?generals, poets, lovers?
The wind...
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Categories:
peal, love, poems, poetess, poetry, poets, truth, women,
Form:
Free verse
EnoughEnough!
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:
peal, body, cancer, death, health, irony, mental illness,
Form:
Light Verse
World War Ii Poems and Holocaust Poems - Iv - Primo LeviWorld 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:
peal, evil, holocaust, race, racism, war, world, world
Form:
Free verse
Spineless In the RunningWas 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:
peal, age, august, beautiful, care, city, creation, fate,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Tyranny Counts the Ballots“Never forget
everything Hitler did
in Germany was legal.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
drop by drop lady liberty bleeds
red on white and blue
common sense vexatious
verboten spins askew
“We can and we must
write in the...
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Categories:
peal, political,
Form:
Rhyme
Vexation At Self Regarding Avoidable AltercationVexation at self - regarding avoidable altercation...
Today May 12th, 2021
at Royersford (Pennsylvania) LIDL,
when spouse stepped into checkout line
(minus her horse drawn grocery cart -
pushed courtesy yours truly).
While passively standing stock still
I (think Stonewall Jackson)
let scenario...
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Categories:
peal, absence, adventure, anger, angst, betrayal, conflict, emotions,
Form:
Free verse
Keep Me Good CompanyKeep Me Good Company…
TODAY MY MATE SAVES MY DAY...
From spiraling into unconstructive decay,
Plugging my volcano of negative gossip & hearsay,
Planting productive advice to direct my way,
Removes pokey cacti from under my feet,...
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Categories:
peal, best friend, destiny, environment, faith, friendship, inspirational,
Form:
Narrative
We Are All NamelessWe are all Nameless
What else is there to do
but to tell you who I am,
but most of all,
what I wish to find.
I am not the cavalier of the sun,
but the caveat of phantasm.
I do...
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Categories:
peal, introspection, world, light, light,
Form:
Free verse
Bygone Days
Bygone Days
Written: By Tom Wright
4/3/2007
Remember the slogan
“Haskell is moving, are you pushing?
The railroad depot stands no more
In the spot it occupied for so long.
Instead in it’s space, a Homeland store,
But in my memory it...
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Categories:
peal, age, eulogy, time,
Form:
Lyric
Hallelujah - From the Mouth of Babes - With Silent OneThe Guardian
Melodic lullabies echo
As heart strings strum secret chords
As transcendental images appear
Stargazers are lost for words
Kaleidoscopic Illuminations
Paint the sky in optimistic light
Hope descends in serene silence
Floating through shadows of the night
Dancing spirits move to dulcet...
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Categories:
peal, anti bullying, courage, hope, inspirational,
Form:
Rhyme
Sleepless In Whereis Part 2 Continued from Part 1
The forgery of Multitudes between the Silhouettes
(and discarded cigarettes,
neath the haunted parapets)
mock my lonely echoed steps
– mock my lonely echoed steps...
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Categories:
peal, fantasy, lonely, me,
Form:
Rhyme
One Way Ships - Part 2Continued from Part 1
Hungary hounds harangue the highlands,
howl at skies and desert islands…
Below, unfettered carbon crows conceal the parting path she chose
Lighthouse lamps and lanterns lolling…
Mute abandoned fleets are calling…
The shallow shadowed portholes vaunt dim...
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Categories:
peal, lost love,
Form:
Rhyme
The Book of Revelation's 144,000 Sealed From the 12 Tribes of Israel Part ThreeThe Lamb and the 144,000 chapter fourteen
Than I looked, and there before me was the Lamb, standing on Mount Zion,
and with him 144,000 who had his name and his Father's name written on
their foreheads. ...
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Categories:
peal, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Narrative
Weredog, Part IIt was probably three weeks ago
when I sent my dog outside,
he had all of his business to do,
then he’d come in for the night.
I busied myself cooking dinner,
it was late, already dark,
Ripper would have time...
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Categories:
peal, animal, dog, fun, happy, humorous, parody, surreal,
Form:
Narrative
The First Christmas PresentA spider spun a silver web
in a mound of golden straw,
Then he hid himself inside the stack,
away from the wind so raw.
He yelled down to the sheep below
Who were trying...
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Categories:
peal, funny, holiday, christmas, baby, night, dream, winter,
Form:
Light Verse
Ideally Primed To Write...Ideally Primed To Write...
Fallow wing on figurative
awk kill lees heal
of: "My on call (Uncle)
Muse Never Sleeps"-
which hoop fully
...
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Categories:
peal, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, addiction,
Form:
Elegiac Lyric
The Jig Is UpWhen Irish eyes are smiling,
And the gymnast smile extends to curve her petal-red lips,
That's when she'll let her waves fall down with the grace of
a faerie.
If in a wheat field the sheathes would glow...
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Categories:
peal, lost love, love, passionme, me, sun,
Form:
Free verse
Some Words Scribbled On Scrapp and Yes Yet Another Mind TrapSo I’m caught red handed in another lie
I thought you believed me on everything
But it’s clear that you just found safety in routine
And I’ve caught on to your shameful smiles
And all your “I’ll be...
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Categories:
peal, song-baby, sweet, baby, me, sweet,
Form:
I do not know?
Natural Soporific NarcoticNatural soporific narcotic
Recurrent suicidal thoughts
vaingloriously wend along winding road
within windmills of my mind
(o'er a death cab for cutie weeknd)
yakking, yanking, and yawking zeal
becalming this crash test dummy rolling
stone temple pilot inxs
of maroon 5 plus...
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Categories:
peal, addiction, adventure, age, analogy, best friend, destiny,
Form:
Free verse
The Hungry Stones XAs I was set to go out on my horse
One eve, despite pleads to stay from my course,
Prone I was to take my hat from the rack,
A whirlwind crested from the dusty...
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Categories:
peal, allusion, bangla, fantasy, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
The Lord of the LineA lonely beam of yellow-white light,
carving a curve in the ink of the night,
upon the snow-burdened branches of pine,
standing still guard to the lord of the line.
The icy wind howls in the silence serene,
tempting the...
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Categories:
peal, dark, life, light, loneliness,
Form:
Free verse
Thee Apple Hove Bing An HerbivoreThee Apple Hove Bing an Herbivore...?
(hint – app peal)
Sans maintaining a strict carb on diet
(for Peat Sake) iz like really coal
man, cuz carnivores consume meat,
which...
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Categories:
peal, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th grade, atheist,
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
AfterglowAfterglow
by Michael R. Burch
for Beth
The night is full of stars. Which still exist?
Before time ends, perhaps one day we’ll know.
For now I hold your fingers to my lips
and feel their pulse ... warm,...
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Categories:
peal, dark, desire, extended metaphor, for her, good
Form:
Sonnet
Natural Soporific Narcoticrecurrent suicidal thoughts vain
gloriously wend
(o'er a death cab for cutie weeknd)
yanking zeal
becalming this crash test dummy rolling
...
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Categories:
peal, 11th grade, 12th grade, conflict, nature, obituary,
Form:
I do not know?
Another Year of GraceWith John Wayne snarling at me
from the television screen,
I quickly glance at my watch;
five minutes to the end
of a year’s journey through
what the Psalmist would describe
as the Valley of Death,
and what Dante would...
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Categories:
peal, philosophy, religious,
Form:
Free verse