Long Promised 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: promised, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form: Prose


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SPECIAL AGENT PAULA BRAND AND MY AMERICAN POETRY

2003 TAMPA FLORIDA I CRIED OUT TO THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION ARLINGTON HEIGHTS ILLINOIS JAMAICAN THIEVES BROKE INTO MY HOME RIPPING PAGES IN JOURNAL ARSON MURDER DYNAMITE CIRO GARGANO MY EX ABUSIVE HUSBANDS TORCHED...

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Categories: promised, allah,
Form: Naat
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When the Roll is Called up Yonder, We Will All Be There published by Eber and Wein

When Christ shall say,"Come up here," we shall be entering heaven's door.
What wondrous blessings shall be in store for me and all of the others who
Truly do believe in Christ's glorious victory.  All because...

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Categories: promised, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form: Prose Poetry

More Pickles Than One

For ten months now I’ve brooded over coming second place
in the pickle section deeming, it no less than a disgrace.
It was written plain and simple, so there can be no excuse,
that the pickles in this...

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Categories: promised, humor,
Form: Rhyme

The Sun's a Liar-Children's Story Short Contest-

The Sun Is a Liar



It’s been quite some time since I've awoke early enough to meet the sun coming over the horizon. As I gazed out the window from my bedroom window seat, the sky...

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Categories: promised, childhood,
Form: Prose


Poetically Pathetic Crow

Just enough to make it just
I want this to be enough to make this
The last song ever, the last note ever
The last romantically, poetically sad excuse for an apology, epilogue
But I've already messed up the...

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Categories: promised, lonely, longing, loss, lost, lost love, love,
Form: Free verse
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Rumors

Rumors
How we arrived at where we are
By Franklin Price
05/03/2020

By now you've heard the rumors
How Covid-19 came to Earth
How it did not come here naturally 
How Wuhan, China gave it birth

Maybe aided by our government
To make...

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Categories: promised, america, health, hope, leadership, perspective, recovery from,
Form: Rhyme

When It Struck 11

When it struck 11, I sighed in relief
When it struck 11, I haven't felt grief
The time kept ticking on and it wasn't brief
And I'm so… patiently shaking like a leaf
Vigorously feeling vital everyday...
Every minute...every second...come...

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Categories: promised, angst, anxiety, betrayal, conflict, courage, emotions, endurance,
Form: Free verse
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Pressures And Troubles - The Free Verse Style




~Pressures  And Troubles ~
 (Free Verse  ) 



~O~


Pressures and troubles build up and there you go
And keeping that smiling face is really very hard
That's when things have a way to add up and...

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Categories: promised, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form: Free verse

Fahr An' Ice

Fahr an' Ice
by Michael R. Burch

From what I know of death, I'll side with those
who'd like to have a say in how it goes:
just make mine cool, cool rocks (twice drowned in likker),
and real fahr...

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Categories: promised, death, drink, fun, humor, humorous, light,
Form: Light Verse

Rejection Slips 2

Rejection Slips 2

The Shape of Mourning
by Michael R. Burch
 
The shape of mourning
is an oiled creel
shining with unuse,
 
the bolt of cold steel
on a locker
shielding memory,

the monthly penance
of flowers,
the annual wake,
 
the face in the...

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Categories: promised, beauty, death, desire, life, longing, love, nature,
Form: Free verse

Words of Young Generation - a Message To Nigerian Youth

Please be informed: 

The Nigerian youths have agreed together in love and oneness that in 2023 presidential election and in every other elections, whether state or local government. We will not vote for anyone who...

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Categories: promised, 5th grade,
Form: ABC
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Father Time's Interview

Hi.
We don't have a lot of time,
or, well, I guess you do,
but I don't,
so let's plunge right into the first big question:
Which came first, form or function?

False dichotomy. No such thing as a totally dysfunctional...

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Categories: promised, allegory, earth, environment, nature, philosophy, universe,
Form: Free verse

Ono No Komachi Translation: Autumn

Watching wan moonlight
illuminate tree limbs,
my heart also brims,
overflowing with autumn.
—Ono no Komachi, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

As I slept in isolation
my desired beloved appeared to me; 
therefore, dreams have become my reality
and consolation. 
—Ono...

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Categories: promised, age, autumn, death, depression, desire, heartbreak, women,
Form: Tanka

Ono No Komachi Translations

As I slept in isolation
my desired beloved appeared to me; 
therefore, dreams have become my reality
and consolation. 
—Ono no Komachi, translation by Michael R. Burch

Submit to you—is that what you advise? 
The way the ripples...

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Categories: promised, desire, life, longing, love, nature, woman, women,
Form: Tanka

Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 34

I listened to his heart profusely, 
For a beat like his was much to ponder
I often wondered, his thoughts, and,
A light in me knew, with wretched wonderment
What the whispers in his mutterings meant to me

They...

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Categories: promised, desire, destiny, endurance, feelings, heart, leadership, psychological,
Form: Epic

Mirza Ghalib Translations

Near Sainthood
by Mirza Ghalib
translation by Kanu V. Prajapati and Michael R. Burch

On the subject of mystic philosophy, Ghalib,
your words might have seemed deeply profound
and we might have pronounced you a saint...
if only we hadn't found
you...

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Categories: promised, soulmate, spiritual, tamil, truth, urdu, women, words,
Form: Verse

Poems About Poems V

Poems about Poems V

Distances
by Michael R. Burch

There is a small cleanness about her,
as though she has always just been washed,
and there is a dull obedience to convention
in her accommodating slenderness
as she feints at her salad.

She...

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Categories: promised, metaphor, poems, poetry, poets, words, write, writing,
Form: Rhyme
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No Matter What - The Davedas Cascade Style


~  No  Matter  What  ~
 (  Daveda's  Cascade  )



~O~



So happy my soul you did save 
To sin I don't have to be slave 
My heart in God I...

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Categories: promised, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form: Free verse

Poems About Things That Break Ii

Poems about Things that Break II
 
These are poems about things that break and/or shatter.
 
 
 
Water and Gold
by Michael R. Burch
 
You came to me as rain breaks on the desert
when every flower...

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Categories: promised, break up, depression, divorce, emotions, farewell, goodbye,
Form: Rhyme
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Chapter 126 -- Damian Delilah Mallory Holly: Holly's Orientation and Invitation

Date:   July  2049

Early morning combinations 
Personal hygiene conversations
And kisses in most of the Hakim 
Households. Damian was negotiating 
For properties in Virginia namely 
Virginia Beach. He wanted the 
Prosperous realty. He spoke...

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Categories: promised, allusion, birth, devotion,
Form: Prose
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A Snow Queen Tale

Part 1: FORE SIBERIAN FATE

silk wings wet -
angel on the lake.
starlight glitter
separates from

the golden wheat.
her docile hair,
prophecy of ice.

winter pink,
pinched cheeks.
ice skate scrapes -
flecks of flakes.

the snow queen
before her relentless
reign, a pretty thing.

her smile warms
the...

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Categories: promised, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
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At the Footbridge - Limerick Collaboration

At the footbridge Sue was meeting her beau
(He was married to a woman called Flo)
Sue soon found out his deception
She dismembered his erection
For his love life it was a massive blow

To the hospital fled poor...

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Categories: promised, betrayal, body, humorous,
Form: Limerick
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There's Still Love - the Quatern Style

~ There's  Still  Love ~
 ( Quatern  )



~O~


There's still Love. Just open heart  wide.
Have Faith! See the Light! Don't be blind.
Just climb each mountain. Dream! Believe.
Seek God each day, with Him,...

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Categories: promised, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form: Free verse
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My Heavenly Father - the Couplet Style

~ My  Heavenly  Father  ~
( Unrhymed  Couplet )



~O~


My sweet Heavenly Father, help me to serve You better in all this day 
And with Your Holy Spirit guide me each day, as...

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Categories: promised, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form: Free verse
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