Long Proudest Poems
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Poems About Laughter, Giggles and SmilesHere and Hereafter
by Michael R. Burch
Life’s saving graces are love, pleasure, laughter ...
wisdom, it seems, is for the Hereafter.
Laughter’s Cry
by Michael R. Burch
Because life is a mystery, we laugh
and do not know the half.
Because death...
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Categories:
proudest, cheer up, children, family, giggle, joy, smile,
Form:
Rhyme
Juvenilia: Early Poems XiJuvenilia: Early Poems XI
Myth
by Michael R. Burch
after the sprung rhythm of Dylan Thomas
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...
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proudest, boy, poems, poetry, student, teen, teenage, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
The Inner ChamberTHE INNER CHAMBER
Please. Stop holding back on me.
Like a child standing at the neighborhood ice cream truck, arm outstretched, eyes huge, mouth watering.
I stand here longing to slip underneath your decades of cold-rolled steel...
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Categories:
proudest, betrayal, courage, devotion, love, love hurts, relationship,
Form:
Prose
Gitter Dunn - 2nd Half In Text - Plus Full Audio VersionThis is the 2nd Half - sorry, this is the only way to get my long pieces posted - an full length audio version is also posted
“Every single person, and the minister agreed…and just...
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Categories:
proudest, father,
Form:
Narrative
Think Twice - Celine Dion TributeThink twice this world can be such a wicked place my sweet child.
It's all coming back to me now, the memories we shared.
Goodbyes the saddest word, be careful in a world so wild.
You used to...
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Categories:
proudest, child, love, parents,
Form:
Pantoum
Thinking and Therefore BecomingIt is all very well for Mr. DesCartes
to think with his mind
and therefore be with his body,
yet this fails to explain
why when I think happy and healthy
I feel like I am more,
and when I think...
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Categories:
proudest, caregiving, education, health, love, mental illness, philosophy,
Form:
Political Verse
Memphis BelleI recall the day she journeyed to the delta from her village above the first cataphract with a New Kingdom attitude and an Old Kingdom strut, inspiring rumors to be passed from shadoof to shadoof...
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Categories:
proudest, allegory,
Form:
Blank verse
The Tommy and Mollie Conners StoryJolly Polly Sue Conner was her name, and she came
from the grand old town found just outside of Harvest Oak, ...
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Categories:
proudest, family,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The Soldier's WayWhen my son was small he and his friends loved to play marines
A brown eyed soldier dressed up in his helmet and his jeans
I asked him why he always died whenever they would play
He just...
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Categories:
proudest, dedication, loss, warson, school, beautiful, war, wife,
Form:
Rhyme
I Never Knew a Love Before - Warning, It's a Long OneI never knew a love before
Of you my proudest moments stand
For only I can see
This life was once a jumbled mess
Much more than it should be
I gaze upon the history
Of what has come and...
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Categories:
proudest, longing, love,
Form:
Rhyme
The Complaint Part 2The pageantries of mighty kings to us were shows that mattered not,
Beneath the shade of blades unsheathed in Kalima we glory sought.
Our only life was then to face the perils of Your Holy wars;
To glorify...
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Categories:
proudest, allah, faith,
Form:
Heroic Couplet
Making a DifferenceMaking A Difference ...
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Categories:
proudest, animal, bible, bird, care, fish, flying, god,
Form:
Prose
Ms. Jennychester sat in the second row
every day at his school
no one asked, no one knows
but yet the kids were cruel
Ms. Jenny had a simple task
to teach by the book
but chester never seem to pass
so she...
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Categories:
proudest, childhood, faith, inspirational, life, mother, people, sympathy,
Form:
I do not know?
The Bulldogs and the MudhogsFootball brought shivers to folks in Three Rivers
With slivers of Fall in the air
And the crowd was excited but not so delighted
By weather more cloudy than fair
A player named Paul was the proudest of...
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Categories:
proudest, pride,
Form:
Rhyme
Ode To Sharon OldsDear Sharon, I see no end
To the rant of an educated mind
Once the pen is moving. I've seen A students
Butcher my writing. I remember the Fall
Of 2009, the poetry workshop at Stony Brook University,
The...
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Categories:
proudest, dedication, school, thank youme, love, me, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
All the ThingsAll The Things
Grandma told me to be mindful. She used to tell me that when I was a kid. What exactly that meant did not completely become clear to me, until after she was gone....
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Categories:
proudest, 12th grade, abortion, absence, abuse, addiction, adventure,
Form:
Narrative
A Love LetterA Love Letter
Started writing for the Love Letter Contest but finished too late : (
My Precious Maria,
I can remember it like it was yesterday… your first words to me…
They sang a melody like no...
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Categories:
proudest, i love you, missing you, remember,
Form:
Free verse
Never Forgetthe buildings gray stood grand and tall
the proudest prize of man's bright call
none dared to think that one might fall
...
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Categories:
proudest, new york, tribute,
Form:
Rhyme
Where Roses Never DieI remember the first roses I received.
I was going on my first official date,
and my beau brought me a beautiful
bouquet of red roses. At the time I was
so embarrassed when I had to...
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Categories:
proudest, beautiful, life, love, rose,
Form:
Free verse
To the MoonIn April of '57 the US got quite the shock
The Soviets launched Sputnik
The space satellite rock
We fell behind in the race from that very day,
That is, until...
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Categories:
proudest, america, leadership, moon, race, space,
Form:
Rhyme
Happy Sparrow, Happy MeNo, there was nothing routine about a baby sparrow sitting helpless in a parking lane.
Perhaps a rushing and less observing person would have run over the little lonely bird; But I will always...
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Categories:
proudest, animal, appreciation, bird, inspirational, lost,
Form:
Narrative
We'Re Just BrownGrandma’s brown knuckles crinkled
As she gently peeled the heirloom
Potatoes, discarding the brown-
Skinned strips into the garbage
Bin. She was at home here, alive
And aloud, tastes and scents mingling
In the air like wispy...
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Categories:
proudest, grandmother,
Form:
Sestina
That Type of LightMy granddad was light,
But not that caramel light,
or even that peanut butter light,
but that "you sure you not white?"
yeah, that type of light.
My mama told me that back then,
when you were that light,
sometimes you wouldn't...
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Categories:
proudest, black african american, color, discrimination, grandfather, light,
Form:
Free verse
Gold and ClayThe writer’s prose like fluid flowed
Across half-a-thousand gilded pages,
With flowered images and profound lines
The was last throughout the ages.
But the follow-up, it got two stars
And critics dog-piled the hate.
Sometimes we shine with sheen of gold,
Other...
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Categories:
proudest, beauty, how i feel, humanity, life, lost,
Form:
Rhyme
TormentedTormented
A crude soul remained, of a life of a hero silent but brave. Tormented with dreams of days
gone past, tormented of lives of whose destiny didn’t surpass. It wasn’t a gun or a...
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Categories:
proudest, warlife, sick,
Form:
Light Verse