Long Portraits Poems
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Rejection Slips 2
The Shape of Mourning
by Michael R. Burch
The shape of mourning
is an oiled creel
shining with unuse,
the bolt of cold steel
on a locker
shielding memory,
the monthly penance
of flowers,
the annual wake,
the face in the...
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Categories:
portraits, beauty, death, desire, life, longing, love, nature,
Form:
Free verse
Portraits of Racial Politics
“It is the custom of scholars when addressing behavior and culture to speak variously of anthropological explanations, psychological explanations, biological explanations, and other explanations appropriate to the perspectives of individual disciplines. I have argued that...
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Categories:
portraits, culture, earth, health, love, political, race, trust,
Form:
Political Verse
The Old Dark House
The Old Dark House
This tale of “The Old Dark House” is one that’s replete with a
most horrid sense of pure evil and macabre, and is worth being
retold each year during the deep-dark hours of All...
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Categories:
portraits, dark, dream, evil, fantasy, god, metaphor, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
- the Old Dark House -
This tale of “The Old Dark House” is one that’s replete with a
most horrid sense of pure evil and macabre, and is worth being
retold each year during the deep-dark hours of All Hallows’ Eve
before the...
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Categories:
portraits, dark, dream, evil, fantasy, god, metaphor, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
The Old Dark House
This tale of “The Old Dark House” is one that’s replete with a
most horrid sense of pure evil and macabre, and is worth being
retold each year during the deep-dark hours of All Hallows’ Eve
before the...
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Categories:
portraits, dark, dream, evil, fantasy, god, metaphor, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
Halloween Poems Ii
Completing the Pattern
by Michael R. Burch
Walk with me now, among the transfixed dead
who kept life’s compact and who thus endure
harsh sentence here?among pink-petaled beds
and manicured green lawns. The sky’s azure,
pale blue once like their eyes,...
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Categories:
portraits, dark, gothic, halloween, horror, magic, scary, surreal,
Form:
Rhyme
Chapter 77-- Damian Delilah Mallory: the Hakim Family --Members
7 am morning time. Damian was
Awakened by his father's phone
Call. "Damian get out of bed, on
Your feet man. We have to attend
A conference at 10 this morning."
Damian responded, "Right" and
Sprang to his feet....
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Categories:
portraits, courage, family, fate, father son, history, imagination,
Form:
Alliteration
Mayflower 2017
The hearts of white men are silently fuming
The spirits of angry widows steadily grow bitter
The bosoms of weeping mothers open wide
While the relics of the past kept washing upon our...
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Categories:
portraits, abuse, betrayal, community, conflict, environment, immigration, people,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Inside Outdoor Voices
Just as honesty plants seeds of integrity
so too
vulnerability plants seeds of honesty.
My primary vocation
in this my gay grandfatherly retiring age
is to parent mindbody challenged adolescents
of diverse colors
as ecotherapeutically as possible
to optimize their and our wealth
of...
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Categories:
portraits, environment, family, health, love, mental illness, parents,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Billy the Penguin Finds Love
In a universe far far away
There lived a penguin, whose thoughts did weigh
Heavily on his mind.
He thought of a vast array of things big and small
But there was one facet he thought of most of...
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Categories:
portraits, cute love, feelings, first love, heart, lost
Form:
Rhyme
The Mountain People
Daylight breaks through the gate and a bright light shine intensely on my face from a distance. I wasn’t sure what was going on, but I fold one arm and held on tightly to the...
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Categories:
portraits, best friend, books, business, change, childhood, community,
Form:
Narrative
Log Cabin By the Railway Track
Hilda my partner turned in her bed as the early morning train hurtled by at breakneck speed sending tremors round our dwelling.
Those long flowing tresses embrace the shafts of first light so enthusiastically.
An otherworldly spot...
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Categories:
portraits, adventure, change, cool, creation, destiny, environment, imagination,
Form:
Prose
WOMB OF ALL BEGINNINGS
WOMB OF ALL BEGINNINGS
In the delicious womb of all beginnings
we learnt to giggle electrons
to bear all things
without nusturtiums, pink lilies or doughnuts
warm gurglings of God’s dream for us
Morning glories were waiting
deep...
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Categories:
portraits, allegory, creation, extended metaphor, growth, imagery, love,
Form:
Free verse
protests
If you’ve read any of my delicious, hand-crafted vignettes and listened to us talk, you’ll know that my roommates and I are critical thinking swifties who spend hour after hour talking about anything and everything,...
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Categories:
portraits, appreciation, celebration, education, freedom, identity, school, student,
Form:
Free verse
Quivered Portraits
Picture portraits of us together in the placid plantation of peacefulness that is lit with emotionally righteous wit
Pleasant sounds fill me up and thrill me…ascends my frown into a smile
Going back to my roots...
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Categories:
portraits, courage, hope,
Form:
Free verse
Enhanced Visions
Things can be intimidating within this future of life as we know
like a luring spiritual souls path intricately lingering
departing its everlasting glow
Nullifying life’s hardships
Prospering life’s greatness
Alluring as my mindset is trying...
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Categories:
portraits, destiny,
Form:
Rhyme
Painter duo
Two painters
Two generations
Two minds
But one goal – to observe and to paint
Vincent’s Arles
20th February 1888
He left as snow fell in Paris
Seeking warmth, bright light and colour
Provence beckoned, Arles awaited
Cold welcome soon turned warm
Vincent keen to...
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Categories:
portraits, art, inspiration,
Form:
Free verse
Behind The Shadows
He has been hiding behind the shadows staring at the world with his thick lenses; He has been hiding behind the shadows with the mirror staring back at him while his spirit composes a silent...
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Categories:
portraits, bereavement, business, celebration, change, community, courage, death,
Form:
Narrative
Auric Obsidian - The Face Clean Behind the Gun
"Auric Obsidian - The Face Clean Behind the Gun"
You drew me into your new world,
the corridors of your mind
fitted me perfectly imperfect
into the portraits pegged onto your wall
an unsuspecting target
from...
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Categories:
portraits, dark, muse,
Form:
Free verse
Anticipation In the Studio
I’ve got a mate named Marty who went through the school with me,
but like most teenage scholars gave the teachers buggery,
and when it came to penning words, Marty wasn’t very smart,
but put a brush into...
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Categories:
portraits, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Crystal Eyes
Sitting on a stack of old portraits
Feeling like an ill fated king, destined to be dethroned
Lonely and long since forgotten
At least that’s the narrative my mind conjures up
Whether it breathes truth, as always
A matter of...
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Categories:
portraits, crush, i miss you,
Form:
Free verse
When Sunset And Stars Shine On Sacred Ground - a Collaboration with Frederic Parker
My love, let us live this paradisal evening
dressed in wispy clouds of red
and tailored in strips of orange embellishing the horizon
where shades and shadows embrace your face
as the last glimmer of daylight falls
leaving a raptured...
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Categories:
portraits, beauty, garden, nature, night, passion, romantic love,
Form:
Free verse
Verses In Dialogue: Joyce and Atwood Revised
James Joyce:
In winding streets of Dublin, I did dwell,
found Ulyssean tales to weave and tell.
In this modern age, voices rise anew.
What themes thrive, Margaret, in works like you?
Margaret Atwood:
Ah, James, your stream, like a cerebral...
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Categories:
portraits, appreciation, literature,
Form:
Verse
When Sunset and Stars Shine on Sacred Ground a collaboration with Susan Ashley
My love, let us live this paradisal evening
dressed in wispy clouds of red
and tailored in strips of orange embellishing the horizon
where shades and shadows embrace your face
as the last glimmer of daylight falls
leaving a raptured...
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Categories:
portraits, beauty, love, passion,
Form:
Free verse
Con'Vince' the Man
PROLOGUE:
For what's in a name,
That Shakespeare untamed,
A lyric gained fame,
But when it became,
A different ball game,
For one who's insane.
Yet if twin Yanks say 'Gogh' , 'tis equivalent
might meant, to be, like 'goes',
Dutch disagree, cite, annunciation,
could...
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Categories:
portraits, art, emotions, mental illness, passion, sad, tribute,
Form:
Rhyme