Long Quaint Poems
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April's Babbling Foolishness(Created using the bAbBlE sentence generator, various text excerpts, and a minuscule bit of human editing.)
And she smells good without keeping all ...
Beef, sitting lonely on that lies floating on the tufted floor. "Surely,"...
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Categories:
quaint, art, computer, crazy, food, funny, horror, humor,
Form:
Prose
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:
quaint, 12th grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, absence,
Form:
Rhyme
Juvenilia: Early Poems VJuvenilia: Early Poems V
Poetry
by Michael R. Burch
Poetry, I found you
where at last they chained and bound you;
with devices all around you
to torture and confound you,
I found you—shivering, bare.
They had shorn your raven hair
and taken both...
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Categories:
quaint, poems, poets, teen, teenage, write, writing, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
Free Verse ILozenge
by Michael R. Burch
When I was closest to love, it did not seem
real at all, but a thing of such tenuous sweetness
it might dissolve in my mouth
like a lozenge of sugar.
When I held you in...
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Categories:
quaint, forgiveness, heart, humanity, life, love, relationship, together,
Form:
Free verse
Poems About Poems IiiPoems about Poems III
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...
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Categories:
quaint, poems, poetry, poets, visionary, words, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
A Vain WordA Vain Word
by Michael R. Burch
Oleanders at dawn preen extravagant whorls
as I read in leaves’ Sanskrit brief moments remaining
till sunset implodes, till the moon strands grey pearls
under moss-stubbled oaks, full of whispers, complaining
to the darkening...
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Categories:
quaint, autumn, beauty, extended metaphor, grief, heartbreak, moon,
Form:
Sonnet
Sunday Morning JoggersGoodness, I nearly lost my balance on the spiral seashells and broken sea stone chipping matrix.
My quaint obsession with marine life and that skyline paradox blossoming so tantalisingly, might be a source of some...
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Categories:
quaint, age, art, birth, devotion, feelings, heart, irony,
Form:
Prose
Various Heresies 6Various Heresies 6
Altared Spots
by Michael R. Burch
The mother leopard buries her cub,
then cries three nights for his bones to rise
clad in new flesh, to celebrate the sunrise.
Good mother leopard, pensive thought
and fiercest love’s wild insurrection
yield...
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Categories:
quaint, atheist, bible, christian, faith, god, jesus, prayer,
Form:
Rhyme
Operation Money JumpThanksgiving, 1971,
a parachute pilgrim approaches Northwest Flight 305
as Dan Cooper, anonymous businessman, anarchist airborne,
black suit, black sunglasses, a black tie
and a black briefcase broaching black motives,
Portland to Seattle, prison or criminal pantheon,
before...
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Categories:
quaint, america, history, mystery,
Form:
Epic
Rush Amid the Rapids PublishedThe greatest performance of my life.
Howard’s proud piece de resistance award on Poetry Nook for my magnum opus “Rush Amid The Rapids” in their daily member section.
After endless hours of toil, tribulation,...
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Categories:
quaint, adventure, age, appreciation, art, beautiful, beauty, feelings,
Form:
Prose
Amberina BallerinaA born lioness my untamed heart? ha!
a mouse, this pulsing token ruled by unruly wants
at times given, traded or stolen - sometimes
thrown down on a dare to be won or lost
till it became...
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Categories:
quaint, destiny, emotions, inspiration, introspection, memory, metaphor, nostalgia,
Form:
Free verse
The CallThe Call
For as long as I can remember, I have been phoning my mom. Even before leaving home when I was a teenager. Whenever I had good or bad news, it was just natural for...
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Categories:
quaint, angst, blessing, courage, death, emotions,
Form:
Free verse
Legacy of HiphopAnd that is why... this platform is here for answers they can't deny...
It's a truth within a complexity that is standing high...
Let us follow the roots and explore the depths of its grand design...
Cause every...
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Categories:
quaint, deep,
Form:
I do not know?
I Wait With Bated Breath For C Cure T ClarenceI wait with bated breath for... C. Cure T. Clarence
The following crafted
approximately midway
into the administration
of forty fifth president,
whose crass, gutsy, lewd,
repulsive yawping finds
him squarely poised to
nab the nomination as
Republican front runner
come the...
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Categories:
quaint, america, anxiety, appreciation, character, confidence, fate, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
He Was TheirObey The Cross That Jesus Suffered Although It Will Cost All You Claim As Yours !
Each of us must learn to take a part in the dance be part of Christ's vine by his design
Although...
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Categories:
quaint, anxiety, art,
Form:
Free verse
A Visit To Quiet TownWhile returning home from my job, in bustling New York City,
The blaring horns of traffic, and the noise were getting to me.
With loud yelling on the sidewalks, and cawing crows up above,
And my poor aching...
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Categories:
quaint, fantasy, imagery, people, places, silence, travel, vacation,
Form:
Couplet
Chinese SonnetsI
These days I forgive myself everything. After all
I'm alone and unhappy so I give myself a little treat
whenever possible. On summer nights I remember
the good women who loved me but live with their husbands now.
This...
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Categories:
quaint, crazy, friend, grief, kiss, society, women, work,
Form:
Verse
Alice, What's Going OnAlice, 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:
quaint, adventure, cat, children, fantasy, imagery, imagination, youth,
Form:
Couplet
I Felt So Out of PlaceThe sunshine and singing birds, awoke me that fine day;
And warmth caressed my face, as the wrens began to play.
I stretched luxuriantly in my bed, while smiling broadly,
At the gaiety of beautiful summer, in all...
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Categories:
quaint, adventure, fantasy, humor, imagery, nature, science fiction,
Form:
Couplet
Invisible BarrierDo we perform countless roles in our life?
we do…and we try to perform our best in every challenge that comes our way!
...
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Categories:
quaint, childhood, children, poverty, uplifting,
Form:
Free verse
Lost and FoundI loved my job as a botanist, which took me to many foreign lands,
Like the golden sun rises smiling, to meet all our natural demands.
I was always marked for this work, ever since I was...
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Categories:
quaint, adventure, fantasy, flower, green, lost, nature, work,
Form:
Couplet
Fireflies - Both Audio and Text - W-IllustrationDriving down a country road one sultry summer evening, with headlights sweeping through the little clouds of dust ahead,
Caused by cars that led the way…or met me in the night…I scanned the ditches, left...
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Categories:
quaint, sky, stars,
Form:
Rhyme
Winter Thoughts of Ann RutledgeThese are poems about Ann Rutledge and her romantic relationship with Abraham Lincoln.
Winter Thoughts of Ann Rutledge
by Michael R. Burch
Winter was not easy,
nor would the spring return.
I knew you by your absence,
as men are...
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Categories:
quaint, history, lost love, love, presidents day, romance,
Form:
Rhyme
Making TeaIt's styles of a nameless brand pristine day
an exclusive star-sheathed shadow after
overwhelming luminous glare fainted
a somewhat true-to-life footpath in
a back of structured quaintness
Encountering myself at a passionate spring
oozing its life gliding o'er its rocky...
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Categories:
quaint, allusion, analogy, blessing, celebration, dad, daughter, mother,
Form:
Concrete
VisionsDare to live your life to the fullest. Take a chance for you
create your own happiness for it is a decision. Life
...
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Categories:
quaint, surreal,
Form:
Free verse