Long Quarreled Poems

Poems about Children VI

Playmates
by Michael R. Burch

WHEN you were my playmate and I was yours,
we spent endless hours with simple toys,
and the sorrows and cares of our indentured days
were uncomprehended . . . far, far...

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Playmates
by Michael R. Burch
 
WHEN you were my playmate and I was yours,
we spent endless hours with simple toys,
and the sorrows and cares of our indentured days
were uncomprehended . . . far, far away ....

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Fantastic landscape, beautiful mountains and valleys, dark blue everything. Wonderful sparkling rivers, oh this is the Hell!
The Hell! My new home, my new world, a new life. The new Life! I will come soon, I...

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There was a lady in Yellowknife town, 
..Blow the winds and burn the fire—
For many years she lived alone.
..Blow the winds high-low.

She met a young man one fine day
..Blow the winds and burn the fire—
His...

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Now this is what ya’ call…a serious feud…

                     
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A person named Jeannie she is angry at the world.
All her life each day, all she done was quarreled.
Another one I met, all she does is sit and bets.
Spending all her time and money, which...

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Good & Evil sat down to dine,
one clear, midsummer’s eve.
They feasted and ate from their porcelain plates,
on vegetables, cream and roast beef.

Now Good & Evil were friends in a sense,
but often they quarreled and fought.
They...

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The woodcutter and puppeteer
once lived 
in coexistence
although unknown
craft left hidden
strings quietly rewoven

In past life
the woodcutter 
was greedy
and when threatened
by possibility
cut the strings
holding together
glue and wax

The puppeteer planned
and they quarreled
until the woodcutter
lost their glue
and the strings
once...

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Friends of my childhood –
They are all gone,
One died a wretched death,
Abandoned, deserted, exorcised by his people.
He was the smart one – The street-smart kind,
Initiated us into the ways of the world.

One killed in a...

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A questing journey to mountain’s peak
Thro’ forests dark and battles thick
almost severing hope’s endless wick
‘Tis an answer our heroes seek

Traveling trio with hearts all true
with bow, with arrow, with sword and shield
A year or more,...

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Don Arracho was fifty-four years old.
Rancho de Plata, gained from mission sale,
was Arracho's for price of a little gold.
Officials closed the mission's door, sad tale
when Spaniards came to grief and hold did fail.
Church gave release...

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Wrinkled, but beautiful still
Even in decrepit apparel and uncombed;
Jagged skin and sensual fragrance lost
But still spongy her touch is and the smell
Only thing I’d miss the most in the universe.

Toiled through hardship and still...

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HOMESICK

I used to go away to camp and have a lot of fun,
But I was glad when I came home and that long week was done.
For often I would think of home and Mom and...

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GLEO and the WOMAN
Rommel E. Gabitan

The Giant has awaken from his sleep
As the Lion roared furiously
The Eagle fluttered his metal wings
As the Ox finally bared his fangs

The Woman trembled with fear
As the Lion roared mercilessly
She...

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The King commanded and they quarreled great stones 
To lay a foundation to a house a home
 David said gather foreigners hew out stones 
To build a house of God 
Oh! But who will
 Who...

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Gases penetrating consciousness as they travel deeper
exchanging hallucinations for intelligence as they stand the better reaper.

Currently bask in a dark and blurred station
my mind manifesting via a blank orientation.

In the highest heavens, so feeling the...

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Dear Santa,

On the lines below you’ll find my Christmas wish is listed:
Simply: could you take us back to a time when we didn’t quarrel…when we all co-existed?

A time when all the Earth was one…when we...

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I saw you once,
Too long ago
A grin so wide spread across your face.
Your eyes shone bright,
And gave you light,
Giving life a sweeter taste.

You held me once,
You came so close,
You took me in your arms and...

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I wonder why we stopped speaking
Didn't think we would be dis far gone
The future looked like yards of teru cloth
Pure yellow, unsoiled
We splashed d colours
Missed the drawings and strokes
We made a rainbow mess.
 
D plains...

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He wore a floppy, chewed-up hat
And he came to replace Chester,
Who limped off to a better deal
And then let sad feelings fester.

On Gunsmoke they called him Festus,
But his real name was Ken Curtis—
At first no...

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Two Men Forsaken
(Apology to Robert Frost)

Two men quarreled on a lonely street,
To see them argue mad me sad.
It wasn’t by accident that they should meet
And glare at each other from head to feet.
It was obvious...

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We quarreled, argued, fought  but she was unfair,
"Write me a poem then Shakespeare", she taunted.
Then threw pen and paper on the table as a challenge.

"C'mon Lover", she snarled trying to hurt me, "get busy."
I...

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I dreamed of you last night, you wore a smile
Fifty years ago you took your life
And left me for the agony, the trial

Since then I’ve had no vision but denial
Your face was absent,cut out by...

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Great Expectations 

You wanted me to be doctor
But I turned out to be an infamous felon
Raving the streets and committing crimes
Am no longer the doctor you wanted me to be
Not the puppet controlled by your...

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The decanter is filled with chicory blooms
(blue, for the sky is her pleasure)
while the snapshot turns nigrescent
marking rain for the evening weather
The ring with which they two had wed
lay gilded 'round her finger
With her eyes...

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