Long Penalty Poems

State of the Art (IV)

These are my "ars poetica" poems about the art and craft of writing poetry. 



Hearthside
by Michael R. Burch

“When you are old and grey and full of sleep...”  — W. ...

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Poems about Poems VI

The Board
by Michael R. Burch

Accessible rhyme is never good.
The penalty is understood?
soft titters from dark board rooms where
the businessmen paste on their hair
and, Walter Mitties, woo the Muse
with reprimands of Dr. Seuss.

The...

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Cosmology + Ontology = Cosmontology 

NEW Cosmontological Principle: Be SO SO humble! 

>>> SEE NOTE BELOW 

A Sufi Dream-Poem--Our purposefully "proto-conscious" UNI-ballish recycling?

By: Moji Agha
Started on Oct. 26, 2020

You know?
Being a microtubular cosmontologically proto-conscious
goofy sufi...

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Doggerel II: Doggerel about Doggerel, or, More Nonsense Verse

The Board
by Michael R. Burch

Accessible rhyme is never good.
The penalty is understood:
soft titters from dark board rooms where
the businessmen paste on their hair
and, Walter Mitties, woo the...

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~ We Need  A  Savior  ~ 
( Prose Poem  ) 
 

~O~


Sometimes when we think so much about tomorrow we get so concerned n stressed about it. In minutes or in...

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~  SEEK  THE  LORD  ~
 (  Star  Of  David   )



~O~
 

God
For sure
Knows  sees  all
Wants best  for  you
He  sure loves  us...

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The Titanic played its music
                              ...

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~ He's  With   You  ~
 (Trinet)



~O~


  Today   and
 Everyday  want
 To wish you  a  great   day
 With lots of Love and  Blessings
...

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~ God  Is  True  ~
(The  Nonet )


~O~


 My  Holy Bible  is  super nice
 Surely  tells me that  God Is  True
 Fills my soul with Love...

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Though still within our infancy, 
we strive to thrive, but woefully 
we flash and flaunt our 'primacy',
display our trophies pridefully.
 
Our terra firma ecstasy
destroys survival's harmony,
lays waste to life on land and sea.
Mankind, thy name...

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The Game of Hockey 

By Government decree, lacrosse
Is Canada’s national sport,
But in the hearts and minds of Canadians,
Hockey rules supreme.
Hockey is a winter sport enjoyed by Canadians since 1875,
When the game was first played, on...

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Recluse by dint of circumstance

Proud anonymous troglodytes 
forerunners of mine
confronted threats less horrific
than forty fifth commander in chief
of United States of America.

He/him (matted hair, ratty, scrawny, 
and tetchy ugly villain)   
scurried into dark...

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He didn’t really meet Sally as such, more she met him. He was walking down the High street when she tapped him on the shoulder. I’m in a real hurry, but your brother Tom says...

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Forever is only a moment lost without champion the cause Anderson mister burnette blossom barachatta Barbara Streisand globally Hussein ghost minnows shady lane candles blue stay real vanderbuilts vaults of favored few points topless blunt...

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~I  Pray  And  Hope ~
 ( Pruntiform )



 I PRAY  AND  HOPE  YOU  COME  BACK  SOON

 PRAY  with all my heart and soul that You...

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~ Possessions Are Just Things ~
 (Free Style ) 


 So many times when we buy new things, 
 This exciting feeling over takes us in, but it doesn't really last long, 
 I don't...

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~ Keep  The  Faith ~ 
(Free Style )


Sometimes we all have to try or do something new 
But we're so afraid to fail if once we only  try
That's  when we all...

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THREE WAYS of Swiping the World Cup

"It is sweet and fitting/glorious to lay your life down for your country » - from a poem by HORACE

(See my story selected to represent France in the 2006...

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~ God  Uplifts  My  Spirit ~
 ( Pruntiform / Whitney )



 -GOD UPLIFTS MY SPIRIT - SHOWS ME THE WAY -
 UPLIFTS  my broken heart and soul everyday 
 MY prayers...

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Incomplete metamorphosis of distilled adolescent...

therefore he characterizes himself as an anomaly...any idea why?

Mortified, petrified, stultified, et cetera sheltered, 
and mortally wounded prepubescent,

I consider myself
analogously buttressed, cocooned,
garrisoned (for bing keeler), 
hardened, insulated,
where cell baited jumping frog
o'...

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~ Hear His Call ~
 (Pruntiform )



 HEAR  HIS  MESSAGE,  JUST  HEED  ALL 

 HIS  loving message of love He sends to all the earth

 MESSAGE  of salvation...

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~ His  Love  Is  Divine ~
 ( The Bell )



 Lord
 Can really save
 His love is  divine
 With Lord nothing to fear
 Life can be so hard
 But with ...

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~ Prayers   For   All ~
( Minuet )



Prayers  for  all  in this wide world
World  needs  prayers
Prayers, Love,  God
God can save all

The lost and confused today
Today ...

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~Prayers   For  All~
( Minuet )


Prayers  for  all  in this wide world
World  needs  prayers
Prayers, Love,  God
God can save all

The lost and confused today
Today  in  life
Life...

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~ So Strong Through God ~
 ( Linked )


 So strong Through God
 S
 God gives me strength
 O
 Strength every day
 S
 Day to face, cope
 T
 Cope with  just  all
 R
...

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