Long Precipice Poems
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Atmospheric Elocutions For Surviving Armageddon
Atmospheric Elocutions For Surviving Armageddon
Elocution lessons for the morality police
Persecution of those not callously elite
Convolution of the elongation of the technique
Revolution from the poor, downtrodden and bleak
Ageless reckonings that are born...
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Categories:
precipice, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Epitaphs
Epitaph for a Palestinian Child
by Michael R. Burch
I lived as best I could, and then I died.
Be careful where you step: the grave is wide.
Autumn Conundrum
by Michael R. Burch
It's not that every leaf must finally...
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Categories:
precipice, bereavement, death, death of a friend, depression,
Form:
Epitaph
Peace Prayer
These are peace poems, prayer poems, hymns and lullabies I have written for family, friends and the world over the years ...
Peace Prayer
by Michael R. Burch
for Jim Dunlap
Be calm.
Be still.
Be silent, content.
Be one with the...
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Categories:
precipice, beauty, blessing, love, nature, peace, prayer, time,
Form:
Free verse
A Brief Epistle in Urgent Forewarning against Melancholia--Part I
(Somewhere in late 18th-century Europe a friend, Laetitia, by way of a letter warns her beloved girlfriend, Euphoria--a young, gay and unsuspecting mistress--against the almost inevitable seductions of the infamous and maundering philanderer, Melancholia.).
Dear Euphoria,
...
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Categories:
precipice, depression, friend, metaphor, philosophy, psychological, uplifting, wisdom,
Form:
Prose
Bookish Menagerie: A Time Traveler's Library
Toddlers' Exploration:
Cardboard drum and a thunderous beast
With playful roars in tiny fists and feasts.
Fleeting wings glide to dreams just out of reach
Soaring through tales of barnyard Waddles and Squeaks.
Moo! Quack! Giggles tumble and bump.
Flaps...
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Categories:
precipice, adventure, books, childhood, imagination, literature, mystery, teen,
Form:
Narrative
Eldritch Hysterical Annihilation Syndrome
I walk o u t...
I am lost in unapproachable light—a spectral broth
I am tasting the screaming silence—the archetypal observer
dissects my essence-fossil Passion
a seismic rupture between life/death/rebirth
gnaws at my marrow This dilemma-kudzu
coils tight, constricting tomorrow's breath
Death...
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Categories:
precipice, halloween, horror, philosophy, psychological,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Jean-Louis Barrault As I Lay Dying
Heavy storm was sweeping dark Paris streets
Lit with dim lights that dreary November night
With ghostly shadows lurking in the corners
Cold wind dancing with dirty wet leaves fallen
In the water pools in the middle...
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Categories:
precipice, allusion, art, death, french, imagery, life, philosophy,
Form:
Ballad
Literary Feud Among - Pt 2
Step Forward McCarthy vs. Hellman
What is this The Digital Crucible of Truth?
On a stage of scrutiny,
titans c l a s h— ...
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Categories:
precipice, emotions, judgement, literature, poetry, poets, rude, writing,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
The Precipice
"The Precipice"
In the Autumn
she wore a wedding veil
A cold winter would lift it
Kiss her lips passionately to
speak words of
LOVE
on a
late roll call
“Well, that’s insanity for you”
some snakes would hiss
others rapture-faced
on...
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Categories:
precipice, god, humanity, science,
Form:
Free verse
Of Paper Moons, Foxes, and Blood Oranges
I. Sighting
I saw you
through refracted light-
a prism of chance
splitting ordinary into spectrum.
Wind-tangled hair
terra cotta and rosemary beneath your nails
the scent of soil and...
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Categories:
precipice, dream, innocence, journey, loss, memory, mystery, nature,
Form:
Elegiac Lyric
The Lay of the Best Man - Part 4
The Lay of The Best Man - Part 4
I ask you this: Have you ever known a man to ‘buckle under stress’?
Or have you never seen a man have a ‘moment of madness’?
Have you not...
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Categories:
precipice, bullying, character, corruption, discrimination, men, vanity, women,
Form:
Lay
My Thing Is This
As hapless vapors of decay, surround us, suffocating the fecund earth. A blanket of suffocating grey, born from the diseased aspirations of humanity. We, the self-appointed masters of a planet in shambles, gaze upon the...
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Categories:
precipice, corruption, education, environment, extended metaphor, freedom,
Form:
Free verse
The World is Bleeding
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Categories:
precipice, death, feelings, judgement, violence, war,
Form:
Rhyme
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:
precipice, angst, anxiety, betrayal, community, environment, faith, how
Form:
Rhyme
The Volunteer, a Poem Inspired By Hrh Prince George of Cambridge
'We have a future king to make,'
Said the deep, resounding voice.
'But it is not a proper fit for everyone.
For a king must know first how to obey than to command,
And to abide rather than reign.'
'And...
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Categories:
precipice, baby, baptism, birth, child, england, london, patriotic,
Form:
Free verse
Inevitable Death Defines Afterlife - Deux
Inevitable death defines afterlife - deux
Flinty stones figuratively rolling inside
whooping out that primal
binaural beat of your drum
ma mind haphazardly
ricocheting axon to neuron
inducing inxs of chaos
wreaking entropy beheld
by beauty and the beast
enveloping...
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Categories:
precipice, absence, allah, angel, atheist, creation, death, eulogy,
Form:
Rhyme
Aye Passively Plead Death To Please Release Me From Agonizing Clutches
(alternately titled: Typical daily mindset today –
July 17th, 2020)
The following words
mostly unredacted, nevertheless finessed
for curbed poetic/prosaic appeal
lock, stock and barrel
codify, and edify (hoopfully not mortify)
any reader unbeknownst and/or familiar
with unsteady state of yours truly,
(an...
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Categories:
precipice, absence, cheer up, death, fate, grief, hope,
Form:
Free verse
I Still Believe In You, a Letter To America
Dear America.
I still believe in you.
No, I'm not saying that I always believe in the people that make up America. ...
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Categories:
precipice, america,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Choices of Hope
His mean bulging eyes stare at me from behind the screen, and from the look on his face you could see that he has been meddling with my midnight dreams, for twelve long hours he...
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Categories:
precipice, america, betrayal, business, care, career, city, culture,
Form:
Narrative
Viral
"Viral"
overlords for the good
of the world
walk and breathe
their lines
pure as
Snow White
war addicted
kissed while sleeping
shadows speak
a good talk
viral wars rehearsed
it’s all in our system now
compromised
inside out
the...
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Categories:
precipice, dark, hero, humanity, light, peace, truth, war,
Form:
Free verse
Kneading Autumn's Yearning
[An Autumn kitchen a crucible of y e a s t and y e a r n i n g]
Samantha kneads dough with determined hands, she hears
Hank's cry—"Vi vi an"—a phantom...
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Categories:
precipice, adventure, autumn, desire, emotions, literature, longing, travel,
Form:
Narrative
The Playground Peacemaker
She knows what it means,
and must never not mean,
to work with newborn win/win children
perverted by wounding RightWing patriarchal punishments
overpowering LeftWing ecofeminist invitations
to liberality of loyal transparency
and lovely vulnerability.
When she asserted her sociological conclusion:
Too many...
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Categories:
precipice, appreciation, caregiving, change, conflict, courage, health, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse
The Ultimate Freedom
Do you know the value of life?
You don't but you do
Deep inside
Who do you think you work for to learn how to walk?
Who do you think you work for when you take good grades in...
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Categories:
precipice, death, freedom,
Form:
Free verse
Along Came Grace
Unlike a song I fell in love with about 'leaving',
you don't always want to leave on a jet plane, not
knowing when you'll be back again. Sometimes, like
me, it's best to take a bus or a...
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Categories:
precipice, god, jesus, sin,
Form:
Narrative
Man on the Precipice of Eternity
In seventy-eight, my steel-stallion, KZ1000,
pride, wind in my hair.
Its Sissy Bar, firm tether, bag secured,
my wanderlust's prayer.
Where sun, snow, wind sculpt my journey's theme
...
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Categories:
precipice, death, destiny, emotions, faith, god, life, loss,
Form:
Narrative