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MATTIE STEPHANEK SEVEN YEAR OLD DISABLED POET
THE BEAUTY OF BEING
A POET ANY DISABLED
SEVEN CAN REACH MANY
READERS BEING A POET
ISN'T TAUGHT IN A UNIVERSITY
IT COMES FROM THE SOUL
THE HEART AND SOUL OF
THE SMALLEST HUMAN
BEINGS...
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Categories:
plagued, allah,
Form:
Naat
I feel in fuhrer rated and envious
I feel in führer rated and envious...
entrapped within webbed wide world
weft as a rump pulled stilts skein
at warp speed exhibiting
my heroic trumpian wiles
cuz he (johnny come lately) a then
exemplary hedonist, narcissist,
and polygamist dons
comical,...
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Categories:
plagued, adventure, america, analogy, anxiety, conflict, crush, god,
Form:
Free verse
Poetically Pathetic Crow
Just enough to make it just
I want this to be enough to make this
The last song ever, the last note ever
The last romantically, poetically sad excuse for an apology, epilogue
But I've already messed up the...
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Categories:
plagued, lonely, longing, loss, lost, lost love, love,
Form:
Free verse
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:
plagued, 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:
plagued, absence, anxiety, bereavement, caregiving, death, depression, fear,
Form:
Haiku
Instruction
Instruction
by Michael R. Burch
Toss this poem aside
to the filigreed and the wild tide
of sunset.
Strike my name,
and still it is all the same.
The onset
of night is in the despairing skies;
each hut shuts its bright bewildered eyes.
The...
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Categories:
plagued, extended metaphor, fantasy, happiness, hope, hyperbole, i
Form:
Pastoral
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:
plagued, fear, loneliness, loss, natural disasters, scary, social,
Form:
Rhyme
Medieval Poems Ii
Medieval Poems
Wulf and Eadwacer
(Old English circa 990 AD)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
My people pursue him like crippled prey.
They'll rip him apart if he approaches their pack.
We are so different!
Wulf's on one island; I'm on...
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Categories:
plagued, angel, england, love, middle school, poetry, song,
Form:
Rhyme
You Never Listened
You Never Listened
by Michael R. Burch
You never listened,
though each night the rain
wove its patterns again
and trembled and glistened...
You were not watching,
though each night the stars
shone, brightening the tears
in her eyes palely fetching...
You...
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Categories:
plagued, baby, birth, children, extended metaphor, feelings, soulmate,
Form:
Sonnet
The Breakfast Program and Me Targeted by Donald Trump face
It was 1968 we'd gathered again in the school auditorium my tiny hands sweating only five years old while my name was called in all of this cold
civil rights riots plagued my little...
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Categories:
plagued, allah,
Form:
Quatorzain
No Recanting
May we be 'so graced' as to relinquish any faith, ...
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Categories:
plagued, christian, forgiveness, god, political, pride,
Form:
Verse
Social Privy
justice
What does this vastly misunderstood word mean to you?
Too what ends?
May we seek?
Who(m) may guide us?
Endless deliberation (spiss spiss spiss)
Debated and glorified by us all
Beloved; instilled among (a) core...
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Categories:
plagued, absence, abuse, addiction, adventure, allusion, analogy, anxiety,
Form:
Free verse
The First Thanksgiving, September 3, 1578
The First Thanksgiving (Sept. 3, 1578)
The shortest distance to Cathay 1
(Land of riches: silks, teas and spices)
Lay to the north to the South Sea. 2
Didn’t Barlow tell the King, 3
Was reserved for England.
The routes ‘round...
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Categories:
plagued, education, history, holiday, thanksgiving, thanksgiving day, voyage,
Form:
Verse
My Hell
I fall down
deeper and deeper
into oblivion
nothing
only darkness.
the sounds of evil
dripping into my ears
slithering farther
and sliding down into me
filling me with echoes.
terror courses through
my veins
into each cell
turning them against
me
they are no longer mine
they follow another
a stronger...
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Categories:
plagued, betrayal, death, evil, fear, horror, pain, suicide,
Form:
Free verse
On the Need To Avoid Being Envious: Canto Xvii, K161, K162 of the Thiruk-Kural
On the need to avoid being envious: Canto XVII, K161, K162 of the THIRUK-KURAL, Translation with Commentary
[ ENVY, of course, knows no racial nor ethnic boundaries, but I wouldn't be wrong, I dare say, ...
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Categories:
plagued, evil, hate, jealousy, racism, tamil,
Form:
Couplet
Nothing Happen Before the Time
I could see the sun rising in the East
Pulling up something that is very deep
I could see the sun rising in the East
Hanging over the first beach
I left the house at six am
Before the sound...
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Categories:
plagued, adventure, blessing, courage, encouraging, endurance, freedom, happiness,
Form:
Narrative
My Pentagram Poppet Pt 2
Almost a month now and the emotions honeymoon-surfaced fast
Plagued by the invasive thoughts of which one of us will prove to last
Anxiously waiting to see if our Jenga game will wobble, fall and crash
We're each...
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Categories:
plagued, girlfriend, women,
Form:
Rhyme
Aching Souls
I once had a treasured mid-western friend who ...
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Categories:
plagued, christian, community, confusion, family, grief,
Form:
Free verse
The Drummer
1
The drummer beats slowly, the drummer beats loud
as he beats of humanity wrapped in a shroud.
Well he beats of the rape and the killing of war
and the mind mangling sorrow we blithely ignore
and...
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Categories:
plagued, freedom, history, humanity, peace, society, strength, war,
Form:
Rhyme
More Iffy Coronavirus Haiku
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 this poem after having...
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Categories:
plagued, america, death, eulogy, health, humanity, natural disasters,
Form:
Haiku
Part of Me: A Fallen Child
Part of my soul severed by their ruthless oppression, demoralization and exploitation of a frightened and abandoned child.
Part of me drowning in detrimental sorrow as a 10 yr. old coerced by the evilness on the...
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Categories:
plagued, abuse, anti bullying, child abuse, childhood, for
Form:
Free verse
Mine psyche riddled with dybbuk
Mine psyche riddled with dybbuk
Thru emerging adulthood awareness awoke
within noggin of average baby boomer bloke
catastrophization toward risk taking I evoke
positive growth experiences throughout vast
number of orbitz around sun never kickstarted,
nor linkedin with potential livingsocial folk,
thus...
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Categories:
plagued, abuse, analogy, angst, anxiety, boy, fate, grave,
Form:
Rhyme
My Dear Sweet Lost Child Daughter of My Wasted Youth a Confession
My Dear, Sweet, lost Child ?
Daughter of my wasted youth !
A confession
I am truly sorry Gail, for all that I was
- that selfish, inconsiderate, thoughtless man -
I am truly sorry Gail, for all...
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Categories:
plagued, daughter, planet,
Form:
Free verse
I Got Friggin Heebie Jeebies
I got friggin heebie jeebies
Cuz buzzards circle o'er me
eyeing these lovely bones prithee
id est Roy L. T. Canard, Si
hence impossible mission
to be lovey dove vee.
Vague remembrances of dream
which recurred with frequency
transfixed by...
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Categories:
plagued, angst, anxiety, betrayal, community, environment, faith, how
Form:
Rhyme
Mine Psyche Riddled With Dybbuk
Mine psyche riddled with dybbuk
Thru emerging adulthood awareness awoke
within noggin of average baby boomer bloke
catastrophization toward risk taking I evoke
positive growth experiences throughout vast
number of orbitz around sun never kickstarted,
nor linkedin with potential livingsocial folk,
thus...
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Categories:
plagued, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form:
Rhyme