Long Primitive Poems
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SnapshotsSnapshots
by Michael R. Burch
Here I scrawl extravagant rainbows.
And there you go, skipping your way to school.
And here we are, drifting apart
like untethered balloons.
Here I am, creating "art,"
chanting in shadows,
pale as the crinoline moon,
ignoring your face.
There...
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Categories:
primitive, divorce,
Form:
Free verse
Sonnets Xlii-LiSonnets XLII-LI
Distances
by Michael R. Burch
Moonbeams on water?
the reflected light
of a halcyon star
now drowning in night...
So your memories are.
Footprints on beaches
now flooding with water;
the small, broken ribcage
of some primitive slaughter...
So near, yet so far.
A Surfeit of...
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Categories:
primitive, bereavement, death, death of a friend, funeral,
Form:
Sonnet
Prescribing Rebirth To Dt2DT2 came to me, unwillingly and clandestinely,
only because he was referred by his mother,
who was concerned that he was growing up and out
to become an ego-terrorist,
and she had heard of my feminist work as ecotherapist--
so...
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Categories:
primitive, birth, body, culture, health, humor, mental illness,
Form:
Political Verse
Rejection Slips 1Rejection Slips
With over 5,700 publications if I count poems that have gone viral, I suppose I shouldn’t complain … but I do have some poems that have never been accepted for publication. Here are a...
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Categories:
primitive, day, love, memory, night, rose, seasons, winter,
Form:
Rhyme
Smooth Big Cat
"Smooth Big Cat"
He was one of those guys you just knew would be a dud. "Be nice", she said to herself.
She met him on the upswing from the abyss of a dismally closed final chapter....
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Categories:
primitive, adventure, muse, mystery, romance,
Form:
Narrative
Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis - part iiHighlight of Goofus and Gallant
bred within the survival instinct
of hungry hordes of prey,
when Earth in the balance
against an uncomfortable truth
smug smurf like scavengers.
Punishment meted...
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Categories:
primitive, absence, adventure, africa, america, angel, anniversary, appreciation,
Form:
Free verse
UnleashedI got up this morning in a good mood
searching for solitude in the distant skies
And watching the clouds rolling by
I stopped and listened to the sounds around me
While contemplating my sacred destiny
Barking dogs and...
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Categories:
primitive, appreciation, confidence, future, happy, loneliness, love, places,
Form:
Narrative
Song From Beyond the Stars: New Adventure[ ... story with context, a plausible universe with top and bottom
a coat of cosmos covering
over a subterranean protoverse of potential fields
a quantum cellar creating
the very big...
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Categories:
primitive, adventure, destiny, future, imagination, journey, planet, science
Form:
Verse
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:
primitive, adventure, allegory, courage, cute, hair, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Goodbye Six Pack Hello Poetry ScribesGoodbye six pack hello* poetry scribes
My poetic side COSMOFUNNEL
wordsmith thanks tumblr in his noggin
ofttimes triggering babbling brook
to swell after deluge
becoming stream of consciousness runnel
carving, gouging, and liquidating topography
qua zee mow toe natural formed...
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Categories:
primitive, adventure, angst, april, body, father, hair, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Once Upon a ReservationBack in the height
of our pre-millennial military-industrial
post-revolutionary days
of competing excess...
No, love,
Stick with
Once upon our Sacred Times...
Once upon a time
here in the US of Northern Americas
we used a Reservation Model
to dispose of hopelessly disabled aboriginals,
too RightBrain...
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Categories:
primitive, destiny, education, environment, green, health, humor, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Defecation accidentally cloggedDefecation accidentally clogged...
for the umpteenth time
during spate to sit scrawny buttucks
on porcelain throne id est
videre licet toilet bowl...
with toxic water brew threatening
to overflow onto the floor,
and hence found yours truly (me)
immersing himself...
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Categories:
primitive, adventure, analogy, angel, blessing, december, extended metaphor,
Form:
Free verse
Last Trap of ZulaikhaZulaikha:
What a bird you are, o red-billed Bird,
you don’t eat reddish mangoes!
By eating which ash, will you exist then
in this bower of fate?
Yusuf:
That there is any fruit better than the name of God
and any...
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Categories:
primitive, dream,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
The Reptilian Anthropocene
"The Reptilian Anthropocene"
The Reptilians
war daily
enrobed in their
stiff distinction suits
rainbow coloured badges
pinned to their lapels
they beat their breasts
and oily palms
profiting from all
the soft-boiled
foxes on the run
cerebral cortex bound
thinking they are free-willed
and...
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Categories:
primitive, horror, humanity, war,
Form:
Free verse
My jubilant latent, nascent poetic tribute to black history monthMy jubilant latent, nascent poetic tribute to black history month
Which acknowledgement ought to be year round,
similar to altruistic, humanistic, and philanthropic
unconditional acceptance and respect
crafted with the following words
mostly written January 23rd, 2023,
cuz I, (a...
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Categories:
primitive, abuse, africa, age, america, anger, betrayal, black
Form:
Free verse
Eternity's Viral HourglassThat which is neutral,
no big deal,
normal,
not noticed,
enjoys an intimate mirror effect,
behaves and misbehaves
with the logic of eternity.
Time steers virtually clockwise,
eastern dawn toward west's setting sun,
birth through death,
with day's completion duskly hoping
for red skies at night.
Time...
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Categories:
primitive, culture, destiny, environment, math, philosophy, psychological, religion,
Form:
Free verse
Nascent Poetic Tribute To Black History MonthNascent poetic tribute to black history month...
crafted before onset when people of color
got acknowledged for twenty eight or nine days
depending if leap year occurred.
Though I yam Caucasian,
rightful to honor most bitter
racist genocidal...
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Categories:
primitive, abuse, dream, evil, february, grave, hate, history,
Form:
Rhyme
The Long Way HomeIt was late in the balmy springtime, and I was attending a lecture,
On a topic of great interest, which was the history of architecture.
As a great lover of beauty, I admired structural geometric designs,
Like the...
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Categories:
primitive, fantasy, home, magic, people, school, spring, time,
Form:
Couplet
The True Knight -POTDPOTD 9th April 2018
Synopsis -
A story of selflessness without jealousy or rancor that is often evident through the ages in all walks of life, even in modern times.
She’s a queen who sees her lover...
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Categories:
primitive, love, romance, sensual,
Form:
Romanticism
New Year's Eve 2022New Year's Eve 2022
Yours truly riddled with social anxiety,
hence (billy me) he will idle away
December 31st, 2022
sequestered (with the missus)
hunkered down in his mancave
while madding crowd
entertains reckons partition of time
into...
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Categories:
primitive, adventure, celebration, dance, december, holiday, january, new
Form:
Free verse
Omnipresent lurch toward authoritarianismThe views and opinions herewith extemporized to spur discourse with me, or to be mindful when exercising the right to vote in the country of your existence, which expressed intimation predicated upon read reliable publications...
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Categories:
primitive, abortion, abuse, america, anger, bereavement, emotions, history,
Form:
Free verse
World BleedersWorld Bleeders (#777 words)
If you claim to be sane
in this crazy whirled we live
I pity the world in your domain
in that you forget to forgive
I think your normal is abnormal
You must be one of the...
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Categories:
primitive, change, dark, death, earth, evil, political, world,
Form:
Rhyme
As a mortal man of threescore and five yearsAs a mortal man of threescore and five years...
I bore witness and/or assimilated, gleaned,
and nursed implacable thirst for knowledge
courtesy reading factual narratives,
historical fiction, or biography
that since the advent of Homo sapiens
avast number of civilizations
and their...
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Categories:
primitive, age, america, anger, angst, anxiety, humorous, me,
Form:
Free verse
Softly Off-Colored Poem - 2Poet's Pre-Notes: A poem from my 8th week in a Stanford continuing education class offered on the internet, a study of free verse and structure. The poem writing technique is to write as unconsciously as...
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Categories:
primitive, life,
Form:
Free verse
My Nascent Poetic Tribute To Black History MonthMy nascent poetic tribute to black history month
more apropos and alternately titled:
praise to thee people
of variegated melanin color,
whose immense understated improvements
and enhancement of webbed wide world
worth more than paltry words
of yours truly can...
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Categories:
primitive, 12th grade, adventure, africa, anger, appreciation, beautiful,
Form:
Rhyme