Long Rackets Poems

Poems about Flight, Flying, and Birds



Flying
by Michael R. Burch

I shall rise
and try the bloody wings of thought
ten thousand times
before I fly...

and then I'll sleep
and waste ten thousand nights
before I dream;

but when at last...
I soar the...

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These are translations of some of the oldest Japanese waka, which evolved into tanka, renga and haiku. 

While you decline to cry,
high on the mountainside
a single stalk of plumegrass wilts.
—O no Yasumaro (circa 711), translation...

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I shan't try and be witty an engage in the norm 
peeking through such pain my eyes see dim 
as crushing temporal lesion push against 
soft tissue endings pounding my optic nerves 
from my forehead...

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If roses are red
then violets are blue.
If you were as dumb as me
you'd have voted for Trump too.

This election just past,
I never wanted to sin
but I'm so tired of Losing wars
when Earth's climate needs to...

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Victories In China
14th and 15th Nov 2015 are days for avid badminton fans the world over to remember,
Somewhere over there in Fuchou, who cares where exactly that is there in China.

All that matters to die...

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Go and play golf with a melon ball. Go on. It's great. No don't cut it into segments. How on earth are you going to hit it with the club if you do that? Right,...

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Behold the pulchritude overhead exalts to about a spread. 

It is o full swift which greatly outstrips thunder and gale added, 

Yet ocular to sigh from more than a score of hillocks afar. 

It is...

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Guy in Guantanamo 

Catherine’s wheel spins round the revolution ever since that day her lover died 
when both lost the plot and their passion and she cried her grief into Bedlam
	
Guy jumped to his death...

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“Situations” 


In the morning when I rise 

On Sundays watching the game with the guys 

At the table when I eat 

In the car bobbing to a beat 

At the job on the paper chase...

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I was born with an empty packet
filling it with enticing products as I grow
I’m yet to be forty and kids at ten
are already wearing stained jackets

What is this gene inherited from generation to generation?
haven’t we...

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"I like how we have to pretend like we're playing,"
I said, though we were playing, my older brother and me,
But now he was headed over 
To the darkened shed near the basketball courts
To smoke pot,...

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Other children wanted to see 
Kingston with its bright lights and teeming markets
The contentious noise of cars, and loud rackets
Of tongues tattlering their glee
To watch the shrewd bargains at the finger tips
The clever hands, and...

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I?m in a new world of strange sounds
I?m in a familiar world yet of different tongues
And I somehow feel at home
This was the dream I wanted to own

Yesterday I was so down, eager for a...

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Makin' proper time for the rule of rhyme,
With a hint of lime, see? It ain't no crime.
I'm breakin' my fast, watchin' the broadcast,
See what's amassed, from first I'll everlast.
Standin' 'bout face causin' rackets in case,
I'll...

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It’s a season of hot and fun
brightens the morning with the golden sun
birds singing and leaves that shine
lustrous and shiny than the glitters of mine.

Some are on their morning jog
enjoying the fun of dew and...

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Rackets, rockets and sprockets of lies in their sties fly fast
Treasures and pleasures of truth offer orphans wisdom to last
Choose to cruise in lies and perish
Cruise to groove in truth and prune proof to furnish....

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Valiantly They Go Into Battle

Go forth into yonder distant land…
Valor in your hearts and squash rackets in your hands…

Go forth into the battlegrounds yonder…
Play valiantly so that all will be in awe and be held...

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Please take it away 
I don't wan't it
My anxiety is getting worse.
I'm losing control.
I feel like dying suicidal .
I'm freaking out.
I can't calm down.
Someone please help me.
I hear noisy rackets.
I hear and witness dead people.
I...

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The corruption,
The contamination,
Of what we call “Religion”,
Teaches us,
False,
Information,
About our recreation,
Saying it is easy and simple,
Like a fracture,
But it is more serious,
Like a dislocation,
Of our transformation,
To become the people we want to be,
Then the people that...

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Woe betide lower men who fickle facades embrace
And wit’s hard-won gold for shifting dross exchange; 
Dubbing avarice-sired glosses exquisite gems pure,
With obscuring eyes decimating solid worth's range.

With their own ears they cannot first-hand hear,
And gauge...

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Indian Blood

Im a Indian
with a bow an arrow of Venom
with a wall of heads of pilgrims
with colmbus head in a container sealed in
wearing the shoes of jesse owens
with usain bolts magnetically shield in
with feathers of...

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During the night, husks of buildings haunt the skies.
A hook hangs high a universe away.
It appears like a body - the way light lies.
Don’t do this anymore: make it day, make it day.

A swift gust...

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The Roadside Medicine Sellers
Are Pharmacists' bold tellers
Of an enduring contest
Not unlike a weighted test!

Ever waxing Drug Dealers
Competing as Sure Healers
But spinning laughing profits
For all their being cursed misfits!

Shame to legalizing Laws
Unbolting illegal doors,
Patent Medicine -...

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The African Cartel has been on a "clean up" mission,
filled with stories of debauchery and extortion,
Their trails stretch from the streets of the Financial District
to families that are ivy leagued and filled with prestige,
Their goal...

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In the gauze that wraps the morning
                   The players poise
       ...

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