Long Percolating Poems
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Brownian Motion Writ Large
Brownian motion writ large...
within small medium
as light brainstorm doth
hail forth the following poem.
Across the realm of gray matter
slowly percolating within tissue
composed of neuronal, glial
and endothelial cells, and although
there must be biological...
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Categories:
percolating, 11th grade, 12th grade, age, appreciation, business,
Form:
Free verse
Mine Slovenly Unkempt Appearance Spelled Embarrassment
Mine slovenly unkempt appearance spelled embarrassment
spurred by most recent therapy session
with Renee Cardone
whereby thematic thread
stitched how yours truly sewed
coping modus operandi,
viz avoiding emotionally volatile situations
courtesy mine trademark signature reactions
rather than be in compliance...
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Categories:
percolating, 12th grade, anger, betrayal, care, daughter, father,
Form:
Rhyme
Banned Book Club VII- 1984
Midtone grey surrounds what’s left of a man’s soul
Scenes of biblical abominations troll
Inky are the hellish horizons appalled
An okay is needed for anything at all
Manipulating truth determines your life
Erasing individuality is part of...
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Categories:
percolating, anxiety, books,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
The Battle of Britain I
As aspiration seeks to take its toll,
your mass flotilla salvaged sons of war.
‘Twas but a feat the angels will extol
though Satan’s army rallies at your door.
Your youthful fit have vowed to serve the Crown.
They muster...
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Categories:
percolating, world war ii,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
In a Stolen Moment
In a Stolen Moment
by Michael R. Burch
In a stolen moment,
when the clock’s hands complete their inevitable course
and sleep is the night’s dark spell,
I call it a curse,
seeking the force,
the font of candescent words, the electric...
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Categories:
percolating, night, poetry, sleep, time, words, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Defenses
These are poems about war and defenses.
Defenses
by Michael R. Burch
Beyond the silhouettes of trees
stark, naked and defenseless
there stand long rows of sentinels:
these pert white picket fences.
Now whom they guard and how they guard,
the good Lord...
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Categories:
percolating, conflict, evil, fear, prejudice, race, violence, war,
Form:
Quatrain
The Bachelor Spectacular
The Bachelor Spectacular
by Michael R. Burch
One heart? Tossed aside.
The other? A bride’s.
In all his great wisdom, the bachelor decides.
Eeenie, mean-ie, mine-y, mo’,
one gal must stay and one must go.
If she hollers? That’s the show!
No heart...
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Categories:
percolating, engagement, funny love, heartbreak, marriage, nonsense, relationship,
Form:
Verse
Grab Bag Poems
Grab Bag Poems and Epigrams
POEMS
Less Heroic Couplets: Dark Cloud, Silver Lining, Dupes
from “Love in the Time of the Coronavirus”
by Michael R. Burch
Every corona has a silver lining:
I’m too far away to hear your whining,
and despite...
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Categories:
percolating, allegory, america, analogy, parody, surreal, technology, world,
Form:
Rhyme
What The Roses Don't Say
What The Roses Don’t Say
by Michael R. Burch
Oblivious to love, the roses bloom
and never touch ... They gather calm and still
to watch the busy insects swarm their leaves ...
They sway, bemused ... till rain falls...
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Categories:
percolating, angst, fear, lost love, love, rose, roses
Form:
Sonnet
Disturbers of My Harmony
My harmony is the preserver of my banality, which, when shaken and stirred by the disturbers, pump up the mouth by Words, occasionally jargons. But having a very keen eye at my aloneness I safely...
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Categories:
percolating, art, beauty, inspiration, life, passion, wisdom,
Form:
I do not know?
Where Is Clark Street
I had very little in common with the strangers I met on Clark street. ...
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Categories:
percolating, addiction, america, care, chicago, drug, hope, love,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Night Walker
This poem is in a style called haibun which uses prose to tell a story, with haiku places
within to bring the story deeper. The haiku must stand on it's own as well as fit into...
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Categories:
percolating, death, lost love, love, sad, sympathy, timemorning,
Form:
Haiku
Mine Slovenly Unkempt Appearance Spells Embarrassment
No rhyme nor reason why
yours truly recalled how
me late mother
(earlier in her fitbit livingsocial years)
non verbally communicated disgust
(insync with audible sigh)
quite often ultimatums
blasting fulminating nauseating
scathing well nigh
she loosed loathing against
grungy looking son (guess who)
futilely escaped...
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Categories:
percolating, 11th grade, 12th grade, 7th grade, abuse,
Form:
Rhyme
Inferiority Complex
Although yours truly modest,
the only personal issue
I will lightly boast about
constitutes lingering
self worthlessness bred
if not prior to first grade,
than most...
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Categories:
percolating, age, conflict, destiny, fate, mental illness, nostalgia,
Form:
Bio
An Ode To My Banjo and My Little Country Home
There’s a load of dust and sweat pulling my ole tired mussels
down
These...
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Categories:
percolating, farm, house, memory, pain,
Form:
Rhyme
Transitory Seasons, a Haibun
Waking moments with the strong aroma of coffee percolating throughout the house, I arise.
Drifting through the morning mists, I find my way to the kitchen where the hearth-fire
embers, still warm from the night, glow orange...
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Categories:
percolating, death, depression, introspection, life, sky,
Form:
Haibun
Inferiority Complex Viz Mine Mien
Inferiority complex viz mine (mien)
Although yours truly modest,
the only personal issue
I will lightly boast about
constitutes lingering
self worthlessness bred
if not prior to first grade,
than most definitely incipient,
academic deadlines
loomed large with dread
and exacerbated by procrastination
quickly adopted as...
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Categories:
percolating, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Rhyme
Epigrams V
Epigrams V
Are mayflies missed by mountains? Do stars
applaud the glowworm’s stellar mimicry?
—Michael R. Burch
Teach me to love:
to fly beyond sterile Mars
to percolating Venus.
—Michael R. Burch
Byron
was not a shy one,
as peacocks run.
—Michael R. Burch
When I...
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Categories:
percolating, irony, jealousy, judgement, life, loss, mountains, nature,
Form:
Epigram
The Prime Directive Quiz ( P D Q ) Or Prolix Drama Queen Part Two
and Par-Policy: Dump Rotted Produce…
and Pitch-Pit-Grain- Pro-Ruse
It Was Due To Prior-Parent’s Vain-Disobey,
so They Diminished, That-Dare-Day…
The Delectable…
and Passed Up The Palatable –
Main… Held-Accountable
Course (so not hard !)
But They Failed...
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Categories:
percolating, allegory, dedication, devotion, faith, hope, inspirational, life,
Form:
Alliteration
Season S Dance
Spring awakens life from winter tomb
The flowers and trees begin to bloom
There is freshness where once was gloom
The dew is like honey, moon’s tears, or liquid sunshine of mists from vacuum
This is the year’s...
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Categories:
percolating, seasons,
Form:
Rhyme
Planting Seeds of Life - Growing Self Awareness
Planting seeds of life - growing self awareness...
(Subtitled: kudos beloved Amelie Beth)
Dilly gents gal lore spellbinding
metaphorically exhuming, ferreting, gleaning...
insightful handy dandy blues clues
unearthing treasure trove motherlode,
(and father lode) eye opening discover re:
visa vis our family...
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Categories:
percolating, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, dad,
Form:
Free verse
Sipping coffee
Written: December 31, 2023, For Unseeking Seeker Contest
_____________________________________
“God within me is the enjoyer of the aroma
As...
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Categories:
percolating, analogy, appreciation, character,
Form:
Free verse
Timeless Womb
Seed - scattered strewn or downtrodden.
Grain stuck on passive flytrap mucus.
Wild life biomes ripe with open sesame.
Frantic birth pangs stiffen their gestations as green leaf ferments bubble underneath.
Mother of all wombs, diva pulse...
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Categories:
percolating, art, birth, blessing, change, creation, dream, earth,
Form:
Imagism
Peco Boo Recalcitrant Kilowatt Hour Consumer
How ideal to luxuriate
supposed divine right frill
maximizing climate control
with matter of fact bravado
creature comfort pang to fulfill
consequent flagrant portent
to exercise freewill
beware controlled environment
pays hefty bill
cracking heat as
temperature gets chill
cumulative destructive
ecological footprints generated,
thus advisable to swallow
figuratively...
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Categories:
percolating, 10th grade, 12th grade, america, community, environment,
Form:
Political Verse
Empty Barrel
These days, you just gotta be so aware,
always on the alert ... busy looking around
Harm you might step into, so sniff the air ...
dog trouble’s out there laying snares down
Even when things appear harmless as...
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Categories:
percolating, allusion, perspective, violence, wisdom,
Form:
Quatrain