Long Piqued Poems
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Free Verse Iii
Salve
by Michael R. Burch
for the victims and survivors of 9-11
The world is unsalvageable ...
but as we lie here
in bed
stricken to the heart by love
despite war’s
flickering images,
sometimes we still touch,
laughing, amazed,
that our flesh
does not despair
of love
as...
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Categories:
piqued, body, desire, kiss, love, together, war, world,
Form:
Free verse
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:
piqued, bible,
Form:
Rhyme
A Visit To Quiet Town
While returning home from my job, in bustling New York City,
The blaring horns of traffic, and the noise were getting to me.
With loud yelling on the sidewalks, and cawing crows up above,
And my poor aching...
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Categories:
piqued, fantasy, imagery, people, places, silence, travel, vacation,
Form:
Couplet
Precedent setting the stage for kerning and tracking piqued my interest
Precedent setting the stage for kerning and tracking piqued my interest
Just before logging off for the day,
and ready to boogie out of the joint
an email landed squarely in my inbox
cordially inviting me
into the management...
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Categories:
piqued, adventure, appreciation, business, fashion, humorous, nature, writing,
Form:
Free verse
She Believes In Lavender Moons
Introduction: one of the nice aspects of having an oeuvre as a poet is the ability to see where you have changed over the years. this is such a poem where i can see the...
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Categories:
piqued, faith, growth, myth,
Form:
Free verse
Pariah heap - savagely subjecting myself to humiliation
Pariah heap - savagely subjecting myself to humiliation
Outward slovenly appearance bespeaks volumes
wordsworth their weight in gold
(exhumed from the pith
of these lovely bones -
beclothed with mottled skin)
presages afterlife of hellish horror
(think Dante's inferno),
nevertheless a respite from...
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Categories:
piqued, 12th grade, absence, age, anger, anxiety, bereavement,
Form:
Free verse
What's in a Star Sign
I'm often asked what sign I am
Leading me to answer best I can
That while I know that signs exist
I try my best to cheerfully desist.
But there again if truth be told
My interest piqued this subject...
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Categories:
piqued, character, creation, fate, future, growth, happiness, hope,
Form:
Rhyme
Aspiration towards elusive apotheosis of enlightenment
Aspiration towards elusive apotheosis of enlightenment...
analogous to where
the fountainhead of knowledge
gushes forth unstoppable
as a result after Atlas shrugged
his head and shoulders
loosing bits of esoteric material
(and hairs - i.e. fluff
as the spouse would say
caught up in...
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Categories:
piqued, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, addiction,
Form:
Free verse
Unsolved Criminal Mystery Modest Prevarication
Unsolved criminal mystery...modest prevarication
Found yours truly
a grateful dead head
convenient scapegoat dejure
Norristown police officers
fingerprinted me for
casual postal employment
linked to vicious brutal crime
someone else who shared
identical name and fingerprints as mine
the latter of corpse far...
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Categories:
piqued, absence, abuse, anger, april, bereavement, bullying, cry,
Form:
Free verse
Bond Dragon Bond Adventure
Bond, Dragon Bond, found his interest most piqued on one spring day.
He did suspect, that the St. Louis Arch, is a weather-controlling array.
Storms simply dissolve and disappear when coming the St. Louis way.
Is it magic...
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Categories:
piqued, adventure, fantasy, fun, funny, humor, humorous, imagination,
Form:
Light Verse
Erotic Poems I
Erotic Poems I
Marketing 101
by Michael R. Burch
Building her brand, she disrobes,
naked, except for her earlobes.
Erotic Errata
by Michael R. Burch
I didn’t mean to love you; if I did,
it came unbid-
en, and should’ve remained hid-
den!
Mini-Ode to...
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Categories:
piqued, body, clothes, desire, love, lust, sensual, sexy,
Form:
Rhyme
Sapiosexual
I am sexually attracted to intelligence.
Intimate conversations springing from an
eloquent mind, undressing my conscience
and making love to my thoughts.
Giving me cerebral stimulating orgasms from
live interchange of mind blowing discussions,
direct transmissions tickling my wordsmith
senses in a...
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Categories:
piqued, poetess, sexy, woman,
Form:
Free verse
The Cost of Revenge, Part I
My blood ran cold
when my grandpa told
the story you’re about to hear
of moral laws
broke by great grandpa,
that would bring all involved to tears.
It was one day
in seventy-eight,
I was a young buck of eighteen,
I felt in...
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Categories:
piqued, anger, betrayal, dark, family, lust, relationship, sin,
Form:
Epic
He Died With A Smile, Part I
Dalton lived in the north Texas plain,
working a ranch he owned for five years,
a small spread, but it brought some money in,
some solace after all of the past tears.
His wife had died giving birth to...
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Categories:
piqued, abuse, anger, children, dark, death, evil, sad,
Form:
Cowboy Poetry
Call for Corn Awe
I wanted to make something drawn from bosom
You & I gemini'd,
From the wells extract'd virginity untouch'd
by compounds—
Forgot to send it out, forgot...
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Categories:
piqued, addiction, allah, anti bullying, bereavement, betrayal, black
Form:
Free verse
Calcivore, Part I
I.
Zack stared out on the Indian Ocean
through which the adventure cruise made its way,
they were near the famed Andaman Islands,
and would probably reach them the next day.
He’d paid extra cash to come out this way,
to...
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Categories:
piqued, adventure, animal, dark, death, horror, military, scary,
Form:
Narrative
Pain and Solitude
Distance flung miles away,
You turn behind and run away,
Saying no words of goodbye ,
You have taken all my hearts,
I'm heartless and breathless
Here, I'm all alone and broken,
Longing for your return to the palace of...
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Categories:
piqued, absence, anxiety, betrayal, for her, girlfriend, heart,
Form:
Free verse
Whispers in the Attic
In a house perched high on the edge of a hill, Where shadows waltz with the whispers of will, A tale unfolds of eerie delight, As the darkness encroaches, consuming the light.
Once lived a girl,...
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Categories:
piqued, halloween, horror,
Form:
Rhyme
A Mandrake's Gesture: Vol I.
There upon the blasphemous
grassy knoll, a maiden,
her lovers' temptations
of the past.
Amidst a silky
silhouette, a dainty stroll
flaunting a crimson masquerade.
"Your invitations of subtle romance,
be they adventurous, unfulfilled,
shall we not exchange vespers?"
The...
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Categories:
piqued, loss, lost love, love, mystery, sad,
Form:
Epic
My Chair Was In the Path of Totality
my chair was in the path of totality
a thin ribbon about seventy miles wide
moving West to East
it does this because of at the equator
Moon's shadow moves eastward
at a greater velocity than Earth's
rotational velocity causing...
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Categories:
piqued, humanity, myth, psychological, science,
Form:
Free verse
Telepathic Confusion
Telepathic Confusion
It was a tense and passionate gaze.
It locked me in a captivating trance, drawing me in with its irresistible energy.
How could I feel the energy from over here?
Despite my initial hesitance, I found...
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Categories:
piqued, conflict, confusion, love,
Form:
Free verse
Errata I
Erotic Errata
by Michael R. Burch
I didn’t mean to love you; if I did,
it came unbid-
en, and should’ve remained hid-
den!
***
Less Heroic Couplets: Marketing 101
by Michael R. Burch
Building her brand, she disrobes,
naked, except for her earlobes.
***
Negligibles
by Michael...
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Categories:
piqued, crush, desire, funny love, giggle, hilarious, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Cold Feet
Enervated and energized after cold shower
the perfect tonic to gin body though o'clock
wee hours August thirty one two thousand
nineteen - natural buzz to stave off relished
sleep, thus refueled with zest able to chop
chop thru printed...
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Categories:
piqued, 11th grade, 12th grade, courage, fate, grief,
Form:
Free verse
Possums On the Run - Part 2
"Possums on the Run - Part 2"
No ice cream,
cupboard’s bare
ultra Fahrenheit sun,
hang out the clothes
do the dinner run,
setting table,
setting sun,
Can of Irish Stew, mashed potatoes,
Baked Beans, toast -
no Sunday...
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Categories:
piqued, childhood, father daughter, journey, life, little sister,
Form:
Free verse
Cart Blanche Aldi Time - Part Iii
glancing at thee beautiful doll female human,
an aggregate of positivity arose. That four
tut hood toward slender youthful looking chica
figuratively took my breath away. She galore
re: us...
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Categories:
piqued, angel, angst, beautiful, beauty, devotion, encouraging, hello,
Form:
Free verse