Long Poke at Poems
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Echoes of a Shady PastAn icy chill descends on 13 Beaver Veil Cottage as sisters Ester and Ellie walk gingerly up the steps on this wet and windy night.
This once charming pied-a-terre was now in a final phase denouement.
The...
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Categories:
poke at, art, birth, character, courage, dark, imagery, imagination,
Form:
Prose
Echoes Of A Shady Past Part Twon icy chill descends on 13 Beaver Veil Cottage as sisters Ester and Ellie walk gingerly up the steps on this wet and windy night.
This once charming pied-a-terre was now in a final phase denouement.
The...
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Categories:
poke at, character, dark, death, emotions, gothic, imagery, imagination,
Form:
Prose
The Power of My PenI have been trying to find the right words to pen this verse, but since I came to this country my words are suppressed and my voice is oppressed. The wind is blowing furiously, and...
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Categories:
poke at, anti bullying, break up, community, corruption, discrimination,
Form:
Narrative
Poems About Fathers and Grandfathers IPoems about Fathers and Grandfathers I
I translated the first six Native American poems for my father when he chose to enter hospice and end his life by not taking dialysis …
Cherokee Travelers' Blessing I
loose translation/interpretation...
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Categories:
poke at, father, father daughter, father son, fathers day,
Form:
Rhyme
Salat DaysSalat Days
by Michael R. Burch
(dedicated to 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 front porch swing,
dangling his long...
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Categories:
poke at, age, america, appreciation, depression, endurance, poverty,
Form:
Free verse
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:
poke at, child, childhood, children, dad, father son, grandfather,
Form:
Rhyme
Freezer Mice: RepostedThose primeval skies, no man ever knew
Ignited, as one massive boulder burst through
Hollow inside, creatures not unlike mice
Strapped themselves in as they plunged into ice
Instantly boiled then instantly frozen
None were to question the planet they'd...
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Categories:
poke at, adventure,
Form:
Narrative
Freezer MiceThose primeval skies, no man ever knew
Ignited, as one massive boulder burst through
Hollow inside, creatures not unlike mice
Strapped themselves in as they plunged into ice
Instantly boiled then instantly frozen
None were to question the planet they'd...
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Categories:
poke at, adventure, fantasy, hero,
Form:
Rhyme
Au Revoir Oh Perilous FreedomAu revoir oh perilous freedom...
Since pledging my troth
to the missus July 25th, 1996
after the comma error
punctuated mein kampf with disequilibrium.
Ever since the notions
of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness
coalesced within the mindscape
attributed to one
or more...
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Categories:
poke at, age, america, anger, anxiety, bereavement, best friend,
Form:
Free verse
A Clerihew of Poo, But Only Because Too Much Me and Not Enough the FewWell I know it's been forever and you didn't know what to do
Fear no more your philosopher is back with his clerihew
Who will be now name victim of this wonderfully silly form
Probably himself and anyone...
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Categories:
poke at, dedication,
Form:
Clerihew
Chapter 159-- DAMIAN DELILAH MALLORY HOLANNYA: Festive Family Time - same day
Date: June 2051
Damian returned to buoyant activities
Out to the front when he saw Ras Madan
Approaching happily straight to
Damian. Damian was thinking
"Waa well I just wanted the family
That lived here."...
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Categories:
poke at, allusion, birth, black love,
Form:
Alliteration
Groundhog day 2024 or Forty one days since 2023 Winter SolsticeGroundhog day 2024 or Forty one days since 2023 Winter Solstice
Rather than be a day late
and dollar short, I opted
to post poem acknowledging
the second of February,
where eponymous groundhog
gets his (most often male)
foretelling...
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Categories:
poke at, adventure, america, animal, celebration, confidence, february, spring,
Form:
Rhyme
LipomaLIPOMA
There did they go into the cyberspace
where none but the great of heart
have ever gone before
and they did find great pleasure unto the night
for it was a time of love and understanding
and she did say...
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Categories:
poke at, cancer, confusion, death, depression, health,
Form:
Free verse
Ah Tis Nothing Greater ThanAh... tis nothing greater than...
malfunctioning heater
on that brisk winter day
recorded here as proof positive
regarding following reasonable rhyme.
While scrolling thru
poems crafted yesteryear,
I chanced to jog my memory where
there
occurred power outage necessitated
more than divine...
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Categories:
poke at, 12th grade, angst, dark, environment, faith, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Surrender Your FearHear my poem announce, then refine and restate
its life lesson suggestion Surrender YOUR Fear!
Yes, Surrender Your FEAR, watch stick rafters release
(note: I’m ‘Missing, Roof’ too, and I still love my life)
see life’s cobbled roofs fly,...
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Categories:
poke at, faith, life, love,
Form:
Rhyme
The Doghousewhen I met you, I was dying. for the very first time in my life, but certainly not the last- you made sure of that
when I met you I was dying. I hadn’t eaten in...
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Categories:
poke at, for her, love hurts, miss you, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
I'Ll Be Back To Stay - Both Audio and Text“I’m sorry that it’s been so long,” the old man told the tombstones, scanning them that brisk fall day, in 1969.
“It’s not that I’ve forgotten you. It’s not that I’m not proud...
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Categories:
poke at, memory,
Form:
Narrative
The Druid 2Sam woke up all excited, his first circle would take place tonight,
He saw Crimson Fire sat deep into mediation, still as a rock
and noticed the white robes, belts and staffs laid out ready.
He knew from...
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Categories:
poke at, celebration, mystery, nature, visionary,
Form:
Epic
Fretfully Aching To Feel Fit As a FiddleFretfully aching to feel fit as a fiddle
After experiencing a severe,
albeit violent near lethal bout
of irritable bowel syndrome
(yesterday night August 30th, 2023)
triggered courtesy dulcolax caplets plus
healthy portion of lentils,
I (a beatle browed, foo fighting,...
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Categories:
poke at, abuse, angst, anxiety, dad, death, drug, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
The Things We Don'T RememberI don’t remember my first introduction to the idea of same sex couples. I don’t remember the first time I was told it was a “bad” thing.
All I remember is how it felt each time...
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Categories:
poke at, courage, culture, identity, pride, remember, spoken word,
Form:
Free verse
The Massi hear a snap. and somewhere another body goes limp. i hear it all the time these days. It’s the times i think. or maybe my youth. i can’t tell. ...
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Categories:
poke at, future, society,
Form:
Prose
That's What They SayThey say...
Still waters run deep...
Then why are there so many shallow people?
When it rains it pours...
Usually the day after I wash my truck.
Walk softly and carry a big stick...
Or walk hard and carry a small...
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Categories:
poke at, america, cheer up,
Form:
Free verse
The Bird FeederSometimes,
not often enough,
I stop my morning routine
to watch the feeding drama breathe feathered flurries in and out,
on,
and under,
my side-yard bird feeder
Outside my kitchen windows
over this morning's sudsy sink,
looking across a twinkling white field
of early...
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Categories:
poke at, bird, community, earth, humanity, humor, nature, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Here Once Stood Our HomeHERE. ONCE STOOD OUR HOME
I can't forget in a hurry,
Here once stood our ancestral home,
As was told my great- great- great- grand father
Who told my great-great-grand father,
Who told my great grand father and who
In...
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Categories:
poke at, art,
Form:
Ballad
Paper Boats Floating ByTime moves quickly, catching me unaware. It seems just yesterday I was a child growing up. Yet in a way, it seems like eons ago. I wonder where all the years went. ...
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Categories:
poke at, childhood, memory,
Form:
Free verse