Long Prodigal Poems
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Come Jesus Come and Rescue all of us
Many have seen, with their own eyes,
Large signs of Christians crosses
Right in the middle of the cloudy skies.
Giving us our blessed assurance while
Giving unto all of tear drops of purest
Joy in all of our eyes.
Many...
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Categories:
prodigal, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Prose
I feel in fuhrer rated and envious
I feel in führer rated and envious...
entrapped within webbed wide world
weft as a rump pulled stilts skein
at warp speed exhibiting
my heroic trumpian wiles
cuz he (johnny come lately) a then
exemplary hedonist, narcissist,
and polygamist dons
comical,...
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Categories:
prodigal, adventure, america, analogy, anxiety, conflict, crush, god,
Form:
Free verse
Son Say Goodnight To Grandpa
“Son”...”say goodnight to grandpa”
Spurred by mother dearest
as well as other politesse
drummed into her second born
fobbing blandishments as incentive
tumbled off fingers of prodigal son
tripped wordsmith to splutter forth
forthwith the following lines.
Back in the day
quaint...
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Categories:
prodigal, 12th grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, absence,
Form:
Rhyme
Self Reflections
SELF REFLECTIONS
These are poems about mirrors, images, self-image, reflections, impressions and self-reflection.
Self Reflection
by Michael R. Burch
for anyone struggling with self-image
She has a comely form
and a smile that brightens her dorm ...
but she's grossly...
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Categories:
prodigal, identity, image, imagery, metaphor, mirror, self, symbolism,
Form:
Rhyme
Radiance, For Dylan Thomas
Radiance
by Michael R. Burch
for Dylan Thomas
The poet delves earth’s detritus—hard toil—
for raw-edged nouns, barbed verbs, vowels’ lush bouquet;
each syllable his pen excretes—dense soil,
dark images impacted, rooted clay.
The poet sees the sea but feels its meaning—
the...
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Categories:
prodigal, earth, light, love, poems, poetry, poets, words,
Form:
Sonnet
Salvage
"Salvage"
Salvage the fixating salvation
unfurling from the wreckage
of a numb world twisted inside
treasure climbs swimming
the ladder from the deep of all things
reaching upwards travelling in a new time
of melting morpheme moments overlapping
dissolved...
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Categories:
prodigal, muse, paradise, poets,
Form:
Romanticism
Poems About Dylan Thomas
These are poems about Dylan Thomas, as well as poems "for" and "after" Dylan Thomas. Dylan Thomas was one of my favorite poets from my early teens and has remained so over the years. I...
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Categories:
prodigal, poems, poetry, poets, romantic, words, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Myth, After Dylan Thomas
Myth, after Dylan Thomas
by Michael R. Burch
Here the recalcitrant wind
sighs with grievance and remorse
over fields of wayward gorse
and thistle-throttled lanes.
And she is the myth of the scythed wheat
hewn and sighing, complete,
waiting, lain in a low...
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Categories:
prodigal, autumn, faith, grief, life, myth, october, september,
Form:
Verse
Harriet Harris, Nee Kuritsky Gave Up the Ghost
Harriet Harris, née Kuritsky gave up the ghost...
~ May fourth, 2005
wedded bliss nearly fifty years
half a century almost
me not most favorite grown offspring,
she (when alive) did boast,
about youngest sister and her family,
unlike me – severely...
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Categories:
prodigal, absence, abuse, anger, appreciation, bereavement, cry, dance,
Form:
Free verse
Riding Time's Political Flow
We might do well
to worry less
about including the grizzly bear population
in our cooperatively encultured Golden Rule,
after all,
we already would kill and eat them,
if hungry enough,
as they would like to treat us.
We could do well
to become...
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Categories:
prodigal, beauty, culture, nature, philosophy, political, psychological, science,
Form:
Political Verse
Chapter 165 -- DAMIAN DELILAH MALLORY HOLANNYA; Damian Chases a milestone?
Date: August 2025
Mama Lucinda spoke with Delilah and Mallory briefly
Regarding Damian's 50th birthday celebration. While
Damian was across the road visiting with DJ and the
Rest of the older kids. 11 morning...
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Categories:
prodigal, august, birthday, black love, celebration, city, family,
Form:
Free verse
SPECIAL AGENT ALAN KING FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION ARLINGTON HEIGHTS ILLINOIS
YOU ARRIVED ON CUE I SUPPOSE RIGHT AFTER THE CHRISTMAS DAY ARSONS MURDERS PROCLAIMING MY LIFE WAS IN GRAVE DANGER WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT ARSON MURDER 8 ELDERLY PERSONS PARISHES PROCLAIMED MY EX HUSBAND...
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Categories:
prodigal, chicago, city, i love you,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
The Skeletons and Songs of Samsara - 2
In the heart where your naivety resides
you wonder what haunts the sun
and why pain enjoys your childhood eyes,
when you see warm blood run
then you know that death can color
and like you, death loves a dramatic...
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Categories:
prodigal, birth, death, life,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Badboy Monotheists
Where do we think all this economic and politically empowering
cooperative
nutritional
organically luscious imagination
and ecologically exegetical orthopraxis
started?
George Lakoff speaks of strictly straight stern paternalistic God the Universalist Fathers,
vertically Winning over an otherwise Loser, yet highly competitive, ecopolitical...
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Categories:
prodigal, games, health, integrity, math, peace, political, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
Prodigal Poets
"And when he came to himself"
Luke 15:17
In another millennial time and Chinese/Russian place,
Taoism began as aphorisms and poetry
about political philosophy,
articulating a bicameral tension
between Conservative Yangers,
patriarchal universalist ego empire builders,
and Unitarian Progressive Yinners, WinWinners,
a matriarchal cooperative...
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Categories:
prodigal, health, history, humanity, humor, religion, wisdom, woman,
Form:
Political Verse
Chapter 143-- DAMIAN DELILAH MALLORY HOLANNYA: Prodigal Aquarius Paradise Restaurant
Date: September 2050
Damian stood at the front door
Ushering everybody out to the waiting
Limousine. "Come on my People
Be quick about it wifies!" Sidney
And Saderi were willing to go along
For the...
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Categories:
prodigal, best friend, birth, husband,
Form:
Alliteration
Bye Bye Birdie
It was late in the perpetual summer, and I had been dozing,
On a blue and balmy afternoon, as I lulled on my porch swing.
When from my pleasurable dreams, I was eventually aroused,
By sweet breezes that...
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Categories:
prodigal, adventure, beautiful, bird, fantasy, friendship love, imagery,
Form:
Couplet
To God Be the Glory - Great Things He Has Done
To God be the glory - great things he has done.
‘I am Eddie Rowlands, I became a Christian in 1985, at that time I also experienced evil opposition toward me, to the extent of being...
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Categories:
prodigal, god,
Form:
Narrative
Stricken With Anguished Nausea
Stricken with anguished nausea
Written three years ago tomorrow,
yet superimposed (likened to
emotional palimpsest) upon
mental state of yore
recent post traumatic stress
triggered courtesy war
torn legally tendered greenbacks,
where enemy bonded, heisted, and netted
mine...
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Categories:
prodigal, abuse, age, analogy, angst, anniversary, anxiety, betrayal,
Form:
Rhyme
Cross-Reading
I'm reading The Evolving Self:
A Psychology for the Third Millennium,
by Czikszentmihalyi,
and How the West [sadly] Came To Rule:
The Geopolitical Origins of Capitalism,
Alexander Anievas and Kerem Nisanciogla
at the same time.
Czikszentmihalyi (C) wears academic labels of Positive...
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Categories:
prodigal, creation, culture, earth, environment, health, political,
Form:
Political Verse
When Natural Beauties Are Spiritual Truths
Which is more important to you
natural beauty
or spiritual truth?
I guess I didn't notice any difference.
Maybe there isn't.
Which is more important to you
an aesthetically rich and bountiful house
or a safe home?
You realize that's not necessarily the...
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Categories:
prodigal, beauty, birth, happiness, health, philosophy, truth,
Form:
Political Verse
Letter To My Father
*LETTER TO MY FATHER*
Dearest Father
With heart ripped into rags and shreds I write ? to you tonight
Trembling hands and ink made of tears and blood
Teary ?? eyes and bloody heels like a defeated soldier
Lost...
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Categories:
prodigal, betrayal, depression, emotions, fairy, father son, forgiveness,
Form:
Free verse
Twenty years elapsed since Harriet Harris, nee Kuritsky gave up the ghost May 5th, 2004
Twenty years elapsed since Harriet Harris, née Kuritsky gave up the ghost ~ May 5th, 2004
Often these days
the following genuine sentiment
Matthew Scott Harris
doth wish to share one son,
cuz twenty years after mother succumbed
courtesy of terminal...
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Categories:
prodigal, absence, adventure, appreciation, destiny, journey, mother son,
Form:
Free verse
Franciscan Swissophiles
Switzerland,
part of my own historic root system,
has a Bill of Rights for vegetation,
protecting rights of intrinsic dignity
with concomitant human respect for their healthy and aesthetic purposes.
It is not OK to merely throw away
without regard...
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Categories:
prodigal, gender, health, humor, love, political, poverty, power,
Form:
Political Verse
It's My Party and I'Ll Cry If I Want To
I remember waking up to the melodious sound of my mother singing happy birthday,
the aroma of bacon and pancakes wandering through the hall, invading my nostrils,
my sister having no regard for my annual celebration and...
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Categories:
prodigal, absence, birthday, childhood, nostalgia, sad,
Form:
Free verse