Long Player Poems
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Ice Cream Gran 5 - Turbo, We Have a ProblemIt’s heading for our planet at ten thousand miles an hour
To stop it all the experts say we haven’t got the power
All the nukes in all the world won’t constitute a plan
So someone said, ‘All...
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Categories:
player, grandmother, hero, space,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Children IvPoems about Children IV
Salat Days
by Michael R. Burch
Dedicated to the memory of my grandfather, Paul Ray Burch, Sr.
I remember how my grandfather used to pick poke salat ...
though first, usually, he’d stretch back in the...
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Categories:
player, child, childhood, children, dad, father son, grandfather,
Form:
Rhyme
At the Footbridge - Limerick CollaborationAt the footbridge Sue was meeting her beau
(He was married to a woman called Flo)
Sue soon found out his deception
She dismembered his erection
For his love life it was a massive blow
To the hospital fled poor...
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Categories:
player, betrayal, body, humorous,
Form:
Limerick
Games We PlayYang, dear.
Yes, my lovely Yin.
Why do you map Game Theory
onto EcoFeminist Political Theory?
It comes across as either just confusing
or, even worse,
vaguely sexist.
Really!
How sexist?
Well you seem to associate competitive ZeroSum WinLose
with strong aggressive patriarchal effectiveness
for defending...
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Categories:
player, birth, games, gender, health, history, humor,
Form:
Political Verse
Early Poems IJuvenilia: Early Poems by Michael R. Burch
Smoke
by Michael R. Burch
The hazy, smoke-filled skies of summer I remember well;
farewell was on my mind, and the thoughts that I can't tell
rang bells within (the din was in)...
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Categories:
player, kid, poetry, poets, teen, write, writing, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
Romeo and Juliet: the RemixThree voices required,
Professor,
and two students:
Yang as Fr. Time
YinYin as Sr. Gaia
In a college classroom with Win-Win Game Theory written on whiteboard.
Professor:
Today we are going to role play
a Win-Win enculturation game.
We will define enculturation...
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Categories:
player, absence, allegory, destiny, games, humor, love, myth,
Form:
Narrative
Lucifer Gets the Gig“We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.”
Anatole France
"I heard you wanted to see me Boss?", Lucifer asked.
"I can always see you Lucifer", replied God. "No, I...
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Categories:
player, heaven, satire, universe,
Form:
Prose
The Breakfast Program and MeIt 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:
player, america, beautiful, black african american, chicago, memory,
Form:
Free verse
Social Privyjustice
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:
player, absence, abuse, addiction, adventure, allusion, analogy, anxiety,
Form:
Free verse
Saul Grills Marilyn At a Seedy New Orleans Jazz DiveSaul’s twinkling eyes took it all in – the platinum hair framing a first-class face, the silvery sheath dress wrapped around a figure that was out of sight, but in plain view. She was definitely...
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Categories:
player, humor, murder, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
It's Me, Not YouIt's You, Not Me
*this poem can be offensive and has naughty words*
It's all my fault
I put a gentle halt
I'm cold in my skin
You are warm with anger, disappointment and sadness from deep within
It's me,...
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Categories:
player, anxiety, beauty, betrayal, boyfriend, break up, cheer
Form:
Lyric
The Hustle - Both Audio and Text - W-ImageI was an avid billiard player for many years, and a very good one, and believe me, these old (and young) HUSTLERS are out there -
...
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Categories:
player, humor,
Form:
Narrative
The Mulberry Tree and Its Birds Part Two
A GIFT FOR EVERYONE
ESPECIALLY
FOR CHILDREN
The Mulberry Tree & its Birds
IMPORTANT NOTE:
Now watch a short Video film made by me (placed on my Music Channel on You Tube) based on this Poetic...
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Categories:
player, bird, tree,
Form:
Epitaph
The Game of HockeyThe 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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Categories:
player, hockey, sports,
Form:
Verse
My Last Las Vegas CesMy Last Las Vegas C.E.S. (1)
(A Memorial Poem)
I long counted Steve Bristow a friend (1) and we'd fly off to lunch
some days (Steve would get 'hours in' he needed for license - small planes).
It was...
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Categories:
player, adventure,
Form:
Rhyme
The ReunionThey came from as far a way as New York and Dallas Texas. The class of 1981 wasn't a large class, it was the very first class of a very very private school. Their school,...
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Categories:
player, allusion, death,
Form:
Prose
What's Love Got To Do With ItI started out life as Anna Mae Bullock, ...
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Categories:
player, child, cry, hurt, music, song, woman, world,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Wonder As a Political Choice"Wonder
or radical [polypathic, polycultural] amazement
is a prerequisite for an authentic [ecopolitical] awareness
of that which is;
[regenerative love-rooted v degenerative fear-rooted
messages,
actions,
choices,
decisions regarding democratically cooperative
egalitarian
health and security for all];
it [polypathic open-systemic (0)-sum Wonder]
refers not only to what we...
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Categories:
player, culture, earth, education, environment, health, nature, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
TroubleDedicated to the song “Trouble” by Coldplay
(Verse 1)
I didn’t mean to
I didn’t mean to
I didn’t mean to cause you trouble
Oooh ah oooh
I didn’t mean to act so uncanny
I didn’t mean to act...
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Categories:
player, angst, change, deep, depression, desire, fear, words,
Form:
Lyric
Bionic Betty: Another True Tale From the Mental WardBetty was bonafide crazy. She had shot her husband after a night of drunken quarreling, and was in the state mental hospital instead of being in the slammer. She'd shot the louse in the stomach...
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Categories:
player, crazy, woman,
Form:
Narrative
Escape of the Bluesman's SongWithin the frame a sepia scene
a dusty porch a rickety chair
the fabric of your dusky face creased
with ceaseless sunbaked woes
your old pair of getaway feet gives
a different walk of...
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Categories:
player, africa, america, grief, racism, slavery, song, sorrow,
Form:
Free verse
Chapter 137 -- DAMIAN DELILAH MALLORY HOLANNYA: Damian Hakim's Realty Rentals and Condominiums Date: April 2050
Damian's definite definition was on
Full demonstration display as he
Walked the treadmill for 30 minutes.
Then bench pressed 30 minutes. Rested
Then an hour later,
Still early morning. Calisthenics
"This was the...
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Categories:
player, birth, confidence, deep, devotion,
Form:
Alliteration
The Sooner RecruitFifty years, boy and man, I’ve been a Sooners fan;
And watched thousands of recruits try to make my Sooners Team.
Often, I’ve enviously wondered what it must be like
To be a touted Sooners recruit, living out...
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Categories:
player, celebrity, character, childhood, courage, dedication, desire, dream,
Form:
Rhyme
Favorite Recurring Nightmares Part 2 FinalNightmare 8. To Lose the Gift of Feeling Heard
Is each person not poet when he spills his heart?
Has your verse lost its edge if it’s true no one listens,
Or does God mean that no one...
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Categories:
player, anxiety, christian, fun, humor, life,
Form:
Quatrain
2020 Earthrights PartyTell us what everybody most needs to know about the 2020 Global EarthRights Party.
Well speaking for myself,
and I guess probably my extended family
of diverse relatives and friends and neighbors,
certainly including the polar bears and turtles
and...
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Categories:
player, earth, games, health, humor, political, power, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse