Long Rafters Poems
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Apocalyptic Poems IiThese are prophetic poems and apocalyptic poems ...
Beast 666
by Michael R. Burch
“... what rough beast ... slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?”?W. B. Yeats
Brutality is a cross
wooden, blood-stained,
gas hissing, sibilant,
lungs gilled, deveined,
red flecks on a...
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Categories:
rafters, earth, earth day, environment, future, visionary, weather,
Form:
Rhyme
Rainy Days, and the Old Red Barn“Allen saw it first
Charlie then later
Allen chased the black raven
Charlie lived his dreams”.
Steady rain had been falling for two straight days
In dimming, muted light.
Striding out from the middle of a weeded field
The two men...
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Categories:
rafters, adventure, bird, dream, horror, imagery, magic, mystery,
Form:
Free verse
The Old Dark HouseThe Old Dark House
This tale of “The Old Dark House” is one that’s replete with a
most horrid sense of pure evil and macabre, and is worth being
retold each year during the deep-dark hours of All...
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Categories:
rafters, dark, dream, evil, fantasy, god, metaphor, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
- the Old Dark House -This tale of “The Old Dark House” is one that’s replete with a
most horrid sense of pure evil and macabre, and is worth being
retold each year during the deep-dark hours of All Hallows’ Eve
before the...
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Categories:
rafters, dark, dream, evil, fantasy, god, metaphor, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
The Old Dark HouseThis tale of “The Old Dark House” is one that’s replete with a
most horrid sense of pure evil and macabre, and is worth being
retold each year during the deep-dark hours of All Hallows’ Eve
before the...
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Categories:
rafters, dark, dream, evil, fantasy, god, metaphor, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
The Tower RebuiltI shall resolve to leave this
Place now...
And steadfastly search out,
Nestling between ridge and bluff
Amidst the folds of a foreign
Land,
Several acres of unkempt ground
Fallow and rough;
Upon which stands...
Crumbled stone walls
With an exposed slate roof in
Some...
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Categories:
rafters, hope,
Form:
Rhyme
Halloween Poems IiCompleting the Pattern
by Michael R. Burch
Walk with me now, among the transfixed dead
who kept life’s compact and who thus endure
harsh sentence here?among pink-petaled beds
and manicured green lawns. The sky’s azure,
pale blue once like their eyes,...
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Categories:
rafters, dark, gothic, halloween, horror, magic, scary, surreal,
Form:
Rhyme
Growing Up, La - Part 2- - Chapter 2: Adult Responsibility (With Some Breaks) - -
By ten years old, no weekends off,
Or Saturday cartoons,
Although I did have cash to spend,
I felt my...
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Categories:
rafters, life, , cute,
Form:
Rhyme
The Splice of Life
“The Splice of Life”
When colour
was to be
washed out
of the world
the evil ones
didn’t care
the Actor led
with his
Dementors
either side of him
Laundry,
they resolved
to be the best
pristine method
for...
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Categories:
rafters, humanity, political, religion, science,
Form:
Free verse
I dread the United States presidential 2024 outcomeI dread the United States presidential 2024 outcome...
Whereby yours truly presages and doth abhor
nothing short of an imminent civil war
dwarfing insurrection on January 6, 2021
oddly enough even reducing
ordinary decibels to a mute whisper
madding crowd trumpeting...
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Categories:
rafters, abuse, america, anger, animal, corruption, emotions, fate,
Form:
Free verse
Surrender Your FearHear my poem announce, then refine and restate
its life lesson suggestion Surrender YOUR Fear!
Yes, Surrender Your FEAR, watch stick rafters release
(note: I’m ‘Missing, Roof’ too, and I still love my life)
see life’s cobbled roofs fly,...
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Categories:
rafters, faith, life, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 61In the cottage Dyndoeth spoke with Joulupukki.
“I simply do not see any way that you can accomplish the goals you have set in the amount of time that...
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Categories:
rafters, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
G L Trestrail and Co Ltd
A rising sun burns like a solar flare
from St....
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Categories:
rafters, nostalgia,
Form:
Couplet
The Secret Lives of Chimney Pots ViStrategically placed when raised
Upwards
By your masterful and well
Practiced hand.
To mingle with ever changing
Skylines
That frown down with arrogant
Scowls
Upon the indigenous populous of
This just and tolerant island.
To study and pontificate upon...
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Categories:
rafters, philosophy,
Form:
Rhyme
The Country BusThere was a time
In the not distant past
When farmers would sell their wares
Of fruits and vegetables they had planted
To feed the town folks, and balance a budget
In exchange, for clothes, sundries and junket
For the...
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Categories:
rafters, adventure, travel,
Form:
Free verse
Jay Pallen a Wonderful Sister and FriendOn a silver moonlit pillow’s blissful patch I dreamt nirvana
verses for my sister Jay and our magic mutual bond, that
gem-enhanced treasure chest, that life support as ironclad rampart
for our twin psyche sparkle,...
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Categories:
rafters, angel, beautiful, best friend, blessing, dedication, deep,
Form:
Prose Poetry
When the World Grew Wings - FullThere once came a day
when the world took flight
('twas only a handful
who gaped at the sight)
For when she spread her wings
so few could believe;
and fewer still
could keep alive the dream,
that had awakened for all to...
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Categories:
rafters, allegory, allusion, beautiful, earth, metaphor, spiritual, symbolism,
Form:
Rhyme
The Lives I Have Known PotdIt has been ages since the laughter died, which was many suns ago,
Soon swept away by fleeting time, like the brief giggle of a rainbow.
My vacant halls now are silent, and the flower garden is...
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Categories:
rafters, absence, house, imagery, life, memory, nature, people,
Form:
Couplet
Abandoned CitiesFUKUSHIMA, OCEAN EXPOSURE:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4eGzS0eYuo
FUKUSHIMA RADIATION IN THE PACIFIC OCEAN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFPEY-r9QQY
"Abandoned Cities"
Empty sentries standing firm
Vacant windows glistening
they sit with Poe, Van Gough and Edvard Munch all broken
waiting patiently ears open, silent screams, nothing spoken
empty library of learning, all...
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Categories:
rafters, holocaust, humanity, life, war,
Form:
Free verse
The Stroke of MidnightLong ago a young lady barely eighteen , got
lost in the woods.
It was like an enchanted forest, it held
much mystery and fright.
The trees could walk and talk, she thought
that they eat her for...
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Categories:
rafters, fantasy, love, magic, night,
Form:
Free verse
The Night Soil Man - Part One The Night Soil Man
I
Nothing sticks to-get-her like turds
...
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Categories:
rafters, abuse, discrimination, night, racism, rights, slavery,
Form:
Free verse
The Violin -- Both Audio and Text - W-IllustrationOnce upon a dusty shelf, half-hidden by the rafters, I chanced upon a fine old violin.
Quite surprised to find it, I could tell that it was old, and wondered whose device it might have been.
“Dad,”...
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Categories:
rafters, love, memory,
Form:
Verse
When the World Grew Wings - Part 1There once came a day
when the world took flight
('twas only a handful
who gaped at the sight)
For when she spread her wings
so few could believe;
and fewer still
could keep alive the dream,
that had awakened for all to...
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Categories:
rafters, allegory, beautiful, bible, metaphor, spiritual, symbolism,
Form:
Rhyme
Too Close to the EdgeMemories of a bleak childhood haunted him ever and anon.
Whenever he thinks of that dark day, a thousand blades cut through him.
Shocked by the ferocity of that memory, his mind still goes insane.
Old wounds are...
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Categories:
rafters, angst, death, depression,
Form:
Haibun
Still I BreatheWhy,
I'm alive,
and still I breathe
in the midnight hour.
I want to touch you,
tear into your skin,
don't stop until I get enough,
I was born from original sin.
Don't be cruel
to a heart that's true,
shock...
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Categories:
rafters, angst, death, imagination, may, me, music, words,
Form:
Free verse