Long Pounding Poems
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Psychologically still thirteen
Psychologically still thirteen
Ordinarily meaning pre Internet days
familiarization with me would entail
bringing the avid listener
into my private mancave hideaways
less a physical place than a juncture in relationship,
(whereby one or the other of us)...
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Categories:
pounding, 7th grade, age, angst, birth, blue, family,
Form:
Rhyme
Blue Shotgun Lantana
"As other spirits sail on music, mine, oh my love, swim on your perfume." Charles Baudelaire
"Sometimes you find an old bottle from which the soul returns."
Charles Baudelaire
"Smell is a Word. Perfume is Literature."
"There are...
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Categories:
pounding, muse, mystery, sensual,
Form:
Free verse
Wonderland
Wonderland
by Michael R. Burch
We stood, kids of the Lamb, to put to test
the beatific anthems of the blessed,
the sentence of the martyr, and the pen’s
sincere religion. Magnified, the lens
shot back absurd reflections of each...
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Categories:
pounding, allegory, allusion, analogy, crazy, fantasy, imagination, magic,
Form:
Sonnet
Sonnets Xxxiii-Xli
Sonnets XXXIII-XLI
The Folly of Wisdom
by Michael R. Burch
She is wise in the way that children are wise,
looking at me with such knowing, grave eyes
I must bend down to her to understand.
But she only smiles, and...
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Categories:
pounding, child, childhood, children, death, life, time, world,
Form:
Sonnet
Free Verse I
Lozenge
by Michael R. Burch
When I was closest to love, it did not seem
real at all, but a thing of such tenuous sweetness
it might dissolve in my mouth
like a lozenge of sugar.
When I held you in...
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Categories:
pounding, forgiveness, heart, humanity, life, love, relationship, together,
Form:
Free verse
Early Poems Iii
Juvenilia: Early Poems by Michael R. Burch
In the Whispering Night
by Michael R. Burch
In the whispering night, when the stars bend low
till the hills ignite to a shining flame,
when a shower of meteors streaks the sky
while...
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Categories:
pounding, poems, poetry, poets, teen, write, writing, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
Disability, Illness and Fundamentalism
Disability, Illness and Fundamentalism
My brother died of Cystic Fibrosis,
When I was twelve and he fourteen,
It took away his ambitions,
To study at Oxford - the pipe organ’s steam.
I understand being born with...
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Categories:
pounding, atheist, cancer, health, prayer, religion, rights, science,
Form:
Rhyme
Juvenilia: Early Poems Iv
Juvenilia: Early Poems IV
I wrote this around age 17.
Bible Libel
by Michael R. Burch
If God
is good
half the Bible
is libel.
I read the Bible from cover to cover at age eleven, ten chapters per day, at the suggestion...
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Categories:
pounding, poems, poetry, poets, teen, write, writing, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
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:
pounding, allah,
Form:
Quatorzain
SICKNESS AND IN HEALTH 2019 THRU 2020 COVID COUNTRY TWO STROKES AN ANUERYSM BLESSED NEVER ALONE
COPING HEALING SUFFERING MY ILLNESSES HAD BEGUN TO TAKE THEIR TOLLS TRYING TIMES MY BEAUTIFUL HUSBAND AND I VOLUNTEERING FAITHFULLY WITH OUR VETERANS FAMILY ATTENDING OUR PTSD GROUPS MOVE PROGRAM HEALTHY EATING WITH OUR VETERANS...
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Categories:
pounding, allah,
Form:
Naat
CIRO GARGANO JUNK SICK OFFICERS
IT WAS 1984 DURING AN ELECTION CIRO GARGANO RAN THIS SMALL TOWN OUTSIDE GREATLAKES NAVY BASE WITH HIS DRUG CARTEL AND AN IRON FIST OF CORRUPTION HE BLACKMAILED THE ENTIRE CITY SEVERAL OFFICERS SELLING...
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Categories:
pounding, allah,
Form:
Naat
Echoes of the Angel's Fallen
Invocation to the Muse
From the gleaming skin of life’s underbelly,
sin unreconciled, formed from Nephilim seed,
fleet footed jokers mask pawns into flight;
To the epistle of the Most High.
For in the beginning, the true and only...
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Categories:
pounding, allegory, angel, christian,
Form:
Epic
INFORMANT 1992
BEING AN INFORMANT UNDERCOVER DOPE FIEND HAD A FEW PERKS ESPECIALLY FOR MY ABUSIVE EX HUSBAND HE DID ODD JOBS FOR CIRO AND HIS PARTNER LARRY MOVING VIDEO MACHINES FENCING WEAPONS CIRO HAD STORED IN...
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Categories:
pounding, allah,
Form:
McWhirtle
MY BABY
IT'S BEEN AWHILE PERHAPS EIGHT BEFORE THE MURDERS YOU SEATED WITH JAMAICAN JAY TOWNSEND JOHNSON HENRY ATTEMPTING TO OBSTRUCT JUSTICE IN THE 1984 CHRISTMAS DAY ARSON THAT RESULTED IN 8 ELDERLY PERSONS DEATH GOD ONLY...
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Categories:
pounding, allah,
Form:
Naat
Grand Dragon Press
Some may say grand dragon others grand wizard either or it began in 60s everything was a bit chaotic the death of John f Kennedy Bobby Kennedy pope John XXlll my birth and Martin Luther...
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Categories:
pounding, allah,
Form:
Quintain (English)
A Walk On the Beach
I went again today ... to that place, the allurement overwhelming ... the one
we called "ours" so tritely, "mine" before you, "mine" again now, (tho' others
have doubtless staked claimed - ages before and since). I...
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Categories:
pounding, heartbreak, lost love, ocean, passion, solitude, soulmate,
Form:
Free verse
Early Poems Ii
Juvenilia: Early Poems by Michael R. Burch
Desdemona
by Michael R. Burch
Though you possessed the moon and stars,
you are bound to fate and wed to chance.
Your lips deny they crave a kiss;
your feet deny they ache to...
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Categories:
pounding, poems, poetry, poets, teen, write, writing, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
Chinese Translations I
Chinese Poets: English Translations
These are modern English translations of poems by some of the greatest Chinese poets of all time, including Du Fu, Huang O, Li Bai, Li Ching-jau, Li Qingzhao, Po Chu-I, Tzu Yeh,...
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Categories:
pounding, children, heaven, moon, sorrow, spring, water, wine,
Form:
Free verse
Catonita Strikes - Part One: a Freezer Mice Adventure
Continued from FREEZER MICE
The cat had travelled straight from hell, a hell beyond the stars
The cat that theories claim once levied genocide on Mars
She now seeks vengeance on descendants of the primal shrew
Whoever knew that...
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Categories:
pounding, adventure,
Form:
Narrative
Love Poems I
LOVE POEMS I by Michael R. Burch
These are love poems by Michael R. Burch: original poems and translations about passion, desire, lust, sex, a first date and dating, a first crush, a first girlfriend and...
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Categories:
pounding, friendship love, inspirational love, lost love, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Barefoot In the Bushfires of the Vanities
"Barefoot in the Bushfires of the Vanities"
Heat rises slowly to rapture flames licking and teasing
Blue Ghostgums to stretch and crack wide open
as Fire spreads molten sweet sap bleeding burgundy all over
amber gold wild bush...
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Categories:
pounding, art, life, muse, psychological, sensual,
Form:
Free verse
Visitor - Part 2 - a Collaboration With July Morning
The Story so far continued from 'Visitor'…
An attractive extra-terrestrial female researcher sent to a remote island to observe earth and beam back her findings is struggling with unfamiliar, alien romantic emotions. Even though she is...
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Categories:
pounding, adventure, romance, science fiction, sensual,
Form:
Narrative
FICTIONAL BIO:
FICTIONAL BIO:
The missus asked me
(hitherto known as her bozo)
just mere moments ago
to craft humorous poem to glow
nsync with the shiny nose of Rudolph
keeping syncopated metrical flow
thus methought to crow
about being equally as foolish
streaking naked outside...
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Categories:
pounding, adventure, allegory, courage, cute, hair, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Coconut Madness
Oh Hanna.
The sinking of the USS Stefan wood.
Oh Hanna
I want to take you to Montana.
We can camp out by the springs we will go and see the way oil is founding...
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Categories:
pounding, allegory,
Form:
Free verse
Legend of the Red October Run
Dedicated to the 2000 National College Football Champions, the Oklahoma Sooners
--------------------------------------------------------------
Over fifty years, boy and man, I’ve been a Sooners fan
Watched and reveled in their glories, every one;
But there’s no more glorious “Sooner Magic”...
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Categories:
pounding, adventure, autumn, desire, football, games, heart, history,
Form:
Rhyme