Long Quadruple Poems

Poems about Poets VII

Gallant Knight
by Michael R. Burch

for Alfred Dorn and Anita Dorn

Till you rest with your beautiful Anita,
rouse yourself, Poet; rouse and write.
The world is not ready for your departure,
Gallant Knight.

Teach us to sing...

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Wishing for 1984

'War is Peace Freedom
is Slavery Ignorance 
is Strength Big Brother…'

is waiting for Godot who came quickly and travelled from Pyongyang to glorious
theoretical impossibility, but wait everything goes and now we are on to...

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*To fully appreciate this a person would have to be at least somewhat familiar with the movie: Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure

"Dude, here's a heads up - ENTROPY BITES!" said Bill as he limped up...

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   LizPiggo didn't answer, 
she just handed the money over to the 
Chinese lady and nestled into the quadruple 
wide booster seat the Chinese lady had placed 
for her. She liked LizPiggo. LizPiggo...

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The force of my thoughts is a force to report,
Attention, no Deficit, Hyperactive, no Disorder, call it slaughter
when Hyperfocus onslaughts play hocus pocus with my thoughts,
a tornado, a hurricane a monsoon loom and taunt
a brainstorm...

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Seven Yesrs Ago


Seven years ago on this very day,
The most wonderful man in my life passed away.
He was gentle and sweet and giving,
Played cards or bet horses for a living.
We’d go to the footy or...

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At home, I have witness them all,
 Witness the process of germinating
 From precious seed sown amongst thorn and tares,
 To taken root, even when there’s no chance
 There is unverified full hatred,
 Wild spurious...

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" On Line "
 
I want one of those computers
Superconductor duper super science fiction 
Like in the films you see
Where the female efficient voice
Tells me everything is working properly
 
Punch up my memory boost and...

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I see all things as a pattern

to be recognized and reckoned with ideas 
that are wise all things that can be 

seen and unseen 

I recognize the units that fit 
the things that slide neatly...

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we did not Dye in vain!
 
from “songs of the sea snails”
 
though i’m just a slimy crawler,
my lineage is proud:
my forebears gave their lives
(oh, let the trumps blare loud!)
so purple-mantled Royals
might stand out in...

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You put a smile on my face
Every time you crack a joke, everyone is amaze
When you get a coin in my ears
And when you blow up all my fears

When I strum the guitar that you...

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Lion 'bout grabbing tiger by tail

Holy mole lee
watch out fowl, balladeer
look out... i.e. donkey kong
primate doth share
footloose slothful writing,
essentially swiftly tailored hare

reed styled mountebank
gets made by mice elf,
an imperfect triangulated square,
while "fake" charioteer
looses neigh scent...

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Keep life simple and supple
When aside from your dimples you brush conundrum
For joys to triple or quadruple
To the beat at the feet of laughter’s drum

Whose percussion glorifies and ratifies
Happiness in all her splendor and majesty
As...

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Stand for your beliefs 
Despite tribulations and blues
Worry not about physical, psychological or metabolic reliefs
But defend to the hilt the values

Defining, refining and buttressing your personality and character
From infancy to adulthood
Where values and beliefs are...

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She is one of Oliver’s girls so do not expect her to be anything common.
Her navy dress with blue polka dots is magical, but those quadruple eyes
Oh, my. Where did they come from?
All on the...

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"Prior to plopping into the vast waste pipe, countless first grind up."
-- the scraps of flesh on the
scraped plate

*   *   *

Oh, dear, I fear the blade in the disposal ate my...

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Characterized by the early settlement
of the San Bushmen of the Kalahari.
Its patriotic sentiments of profound bravery
echos the nation’s long struggle for independence
well articulated and expressed in the psalm of Axali Doeseb.

This second to the least...

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Conceivable lines pivoting on time splinter extraordinary
Two pieces of extra ordinary provokes ambidextrious configurations of double dynamics in the dramatics of spilling inks ingenious strokes of creativity the aesthetics appealing to the prolific Minds concept...

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Acing awesome atomic axel jumps
Baffling backflips and butterfly jumps
Completing camel spins and cross strokes
Dance jumps, dance lifts and death spirals
Eclipsing extensions and edge jumping
Fearless heights for fan spirals and flying spins 
Gracefully gliding across galactic...

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A baby's basket
bounced two-times two.
Circled chimed towers ring
downtown beep-bop to the rhythm.
Enjoy the music; birds
fly over docks. It's the busy bouncing
great city street lights that 
hit the road, shimmer in the dark.
I enjoy watching you...

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When might they be swarming the market
Eardrums deafening with pure racket:
The at-all-times mad desire
That makes importer a messiah:
Shipping bent on vomiting the goods
Over which the dying user broods…

A consumer’s quest for the newness 
One’s government...

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(Retourne is a French poetry form wherein repetition is used. It consists 
of four quatrains (four-line stanzas), with each line having eight syllables. The trick 
is though that the first stanza's second line must also...

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CONNVERSATION (quadruple Tanka)

Young:    “what do old men do?”
Old:         “are ya tryin’ ta be cute?”
Young:    “no    cute is for...

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Identified by a combination of the third and eighth letters
is this region considered the best place to be born,
and also housing one of the most welcomed topographies
in a habitat highly rated and respected globally.

The father...

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The wounded sigh of a father,
Tells his concern for his child 
Whose actions seem stupid and wild.
   
The wounded sigh of a teacher,
Reflects his worry for his pupil
His progress, if he can’t quadruple.

The...

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