Long Procession Poems
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The Amistad Mutiny
The Amistad Mutiny
Slavery, a dirty word no matter how it’s pronounced:
Abducted and herded to the slave fortress of Lomboko1 for trade.
To be tossed in chains below deck on the Portuguese ship Tecora,2
Sailing the Atlantic Middle...
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Categories:
procession, africa, america, history, racism, slavery, world,
Form:
Verse
Snapshots
Snapshots
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:
procession, divorce,
Form:
Free verse
Sonnets Xlii-Li
Sonnets 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:
procession, bereavement, death, death of a friend, funeral,
Form:
Sonnet
Athenian Epitaphs Ii
Athenian Epitaphs II
These are ancient Greek epitaphs for lost family and friends, including dogs and other animals ...
Now his voice is prisoned in the silent pathways of the night:
his owner's faithful Maltese...
but will...
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Categories:
procession, animal, best friend, death of a friend,
Form:
Epitaph
MOST REVEREND ARCH BISHOP CARDINAL JEROME LISTEKI
OTETS THE MANY DAYS AND NIGHT YOU LENT ME YOUR
DIVINE EAR THROUGH PRAYER DURING HARDSHIP TIMES
AND ILLNESS RAISING MY GRANDDAUGHTER KEEPING HER
SAFE IN CATHOLIC SCHOOLS IN WISCONSIN OUR LADY OF
MOUNT CARMEL...
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Categories:
procession, allah,
Form:
Villanelle
Starlight and Moonlight Ii
Starlight and Moonlight II
These are poems about starlight and moonlight, moons and stars, dreams and visions, illuminations and intimations …
Deliver Us...
by Michael R. Burch
for my mother, Christine Ena Burch
The night is dark and scary—
under...
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Categories:
procession, dream, love, moon, night, sky, star, stars,
Form:
Rhyme
Categories:
procession, history, native american,
Form:
Free verse
The Queen of England
Queen Elizabeth Alexandra Mary ll
Her seemingly eternal monarch--God has now beckoned
Balmoral Castle, reigned over the United Kingdom
"God Save The Queen" The British national anthem
21 April 1926 – 8 September 2022
...
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Categories:
procession, appreciation, celebration, death, grief, loss,
Form:
Clerihew
Love Poems Iv
LOVE POEMS IV by Michael R. Burch
These are love poems by Michael R. Burch: original poems and translations about love, passion, desire, lust, sex, dating, romance, relationships and marriage.
She Was Very Strange, and Beautiful
by...
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Categories:
procession, desire, love, lust, marriage, passion, relationship, romance,
Form:
Rhyme
Mad Woman Walk
Walk see the mad woman a come
Walk a come she just a come
Listen to how she talk she is not one of us
She sound like an aristocrat and a sensational bureaucrat
The idlers screamed from the...
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Categories:
procession, anniversary, appreciation, celebration, community, endurance, holiday, imagery,
Form:
Narrative
PolyNomial CoBinary Math Problems
The problem of PolyNomials,
equivalent or not?
with Not PolyNomials
hides a geometric bilateral
not-no means yes
polynomial assumption
that was profoundly channeled by ZeroCentric Bucky Fuller's
universal whole systemic Synergy.
1 Polynomial v 0 NotPolynomial
assumes if we could distinguish NP...
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Categories:
procession, dark, humor, integrity, math, relationship, science, time,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
A Different Tune
Everybody is singing a different tune
Everybody is dancing to a different beat
Everybody is praying to a different God
And here I am feeling very sad
I am here, you are there but I have no fear
The politicians...
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Categories:
procession, america, appreciation, christian, community, endurance, faith, growth,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Alice, What's Going On
Alice, did th' afternoon grow long an' dull;
As your older sister did read an' mull?
While in your mind, boredom grew-
That you'd grown restless no one knew!
That's what came before th' fall-...
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Categories:
procession, adventure, cat, children, fantasy, imagery, imagination, youth,
Form:
Couplet
Nightingale - Part III
...cont
She flew back to her nest that she so carefully tended and loved,
the angel close behind her.
“Why do you stay,” he said angrily.
“I have given you your wing.” He stopped to think.
“I have offered...
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Categories:
procession, fantasy,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Living with Agoraphobia
Coping with Agoraphobia well you are basically pent up
in your home for me it finally took it's toil my therapist
came to my home because I was basically limited spending
hours in a room...
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Categories:
procession, america, angel, anxiety, appreciation, freedom, me, poetess,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Triumphant Victory Affirmations
*Inspired By Jocko Willinks Triumphant Victory Affirmations/ I AM Victorious/
Alpha Affirmations
O' Great Victory, How you have shined down upon thee
On these Wings Of Triumph, So High, So Victorious, like...
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Categories:
procession, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
Tossed on the Wide Seas
“Life is like a ship tossed on the high sea
To journey amidst sunshine and wild waves.” - By author.
**************************************************************
...
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Categories:
procession, boat, inspirational, ocean, sea, self, wind,
Form:
Rhyme
Small Addictions
“Small Addictions”
bit by bit
the hunger begins,
the time when everyone,
it would seem, is giving in
to those small addictions
inevitably they become
your sole purpose for living,
your entire self turned inside out,
those small addictions
inevitably grow
they...
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Categories:
procession, love, muse,
Form:
Narrative
Channelling a King
Channelling a King
(A regal voice whispers)
Oh Here
She Comes
Oh Here
She Comes
Oh Blessed Be
Oh Blessed be
Tonight the Goddess of Fertility and Motherhood
Appears on her white charger
To enchant and tempt all
Who wishes to follow her
To her Faeryland
Ashera
The...
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Categories:
procession, devotion,
Form:
Rhyme
A New Queen Is Born
I stood at the back of the line and watched nature unfold in front of my weeping eyes. I stood at the back of the line watching them moving in droves from every corner of...
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Categories:
procession, care, celebration, change, death, environment, future, leadership,
Form:
Narrative
Soul Stance River - 5
The delegation arrives in a procession of handsome, barbaric lineage
rugged in animal accoutrements and subdued in the presence of the future's skin,
the women, fine in wild beauty are bejeweled in beads, white and blues
that accent...
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Categories:
procession, history,
Form:
Epic
Story of the Hungry Poor Child
Mommy, if I make up my bed
Which consist of old Sunday newspapers
Could I have, can I have a slice of bread
And if I sweep the floors with my bare feet
I'm so hungry mommy can I...
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Categories:
procession, blessing, blue, caregiving, cheer up, inspirational, loss,
Form:
Free verse
only God sees a medic cry
Verse #1:
C
In my arms, Robert died that day
G ...
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Categories:
procession, independence day,
Form:
Lyric
Meet Me At the Cemetery
Meet at the Cemetery
This is where I live
Meet me at the cemetery to make your final bid
One suitcase and one long gown
This is where I am bound
Bones and bones meet with bones
Dead bones, dried...
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Categories:
procession, adventure, anxiety, appreciation, blessing, character, community, confusion,
Form:
Narrative
Wonderful Worthing Promenade Part 2
Candy floss, seaside rock, smoothies, and flags sporting
Union Jacks
Replace the old traditions of striped deckchairs
And Kiss-Me-Quick hats.
Chipwicks for our salt and vinegar fries
And their pole-and-line freshly caught local Cod;
The Vintners Parrot: For thick sizzling...
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Categories:
procession, sea,
Form:
Rhyme