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
The emotional, mental and spiritual fallout courtesy Colt Gray
The emotional, mental and spiritual fallout courtesy Colt Gray
Apalachee High School,
located in Winder, Georgia
witnessed an active shooter,
whereby the alleged lone gunman
(actually just a teenager of fourteen years)
killed four people and injured nine more
the latter hospitalized with...
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Categories:
quaint, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 8th
Form:
Free verse
Juvenilia: Early Poems V
Juvenilia: 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 I
Lozenge
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 Iii
Poems 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 Word
A 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 Joggers
Goodness, 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 6
Various 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 Jump
Thanksgiving, 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 Published
The 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 Ballerina
A 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
Somewhere On Foot Part Two
“Oh please don’t worry.
I haven’t a heightened sixth sense… about the mint infused lilt here.”
There must be a compass without a point surrounding me
“Looking for directions.
The town you’re seeking is a few winding roads and...
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Categories:
quaint, beautiful, character, deep, environment, growth, immigration, philosophy,
Form:
Prose
The Rainbow Bridge Church
Book One: Ancestors of the Ark
Ch.1: Welcome to the Village of Chapel Hill
In a quiet little village far away from here, lives a Minister and his wife and the animal's...
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Categories:
quaint, animal, bible,
Form:
Rhyme
I a youthsome wholesome jokesome handsome
I (a youthsome, wholesome, jokesome, handsome,...
gamesome, chucklesome, bothersome,
and awesome modest fellow)...
does not deliberately court immortalization,
and wonders what criteria confer elevation,
exaltation, glorification, hero worship,
idolization, veneration, or worship.
I go about a daily humdrum routine
me, a twenty first...
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Categories:
quaint, age, appreciation, birth, creation, desire, fishing, longing,
Form:
Free verse
The Call
The 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 Hiphop
And 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 Clarence
I 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 Their
Obey 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
Macabiloquent Mastery
As I ascend the podium, a predator of piquant pontifications, my eyes ravage the assemblage of adversaries, their countenances a canvas of consternation and morbid fascination. The atmosphere is heavy with the miasma of malignant...
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Categories:
quaint, dark,
Form:
Free verse
A Visit To Quiet Town
While 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 Sonnets
I
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 On
Alice, 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 Place
The 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 Barrier
Do 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