Long Rake Poems
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Native American Translations
Native American Translations
Cherokee Travelers' Blessing I
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
I will extract the thorns from your feet.
For yet a little while, we will walk life's sunlit paths together.
I will love you like my own...
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Categories:
rake, america, earth, native american, nature, prayer,
Form:
Free verse
Salat Days
Salat Days
by Michael R. Burch
(dedicated to my grandfather, Paul Ray Burch Sr.)
I remember how my grandfather used to pick poke salat ...
though first, usually, he’d stretch back in the front porch swing,
dangling his long...
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Categories:
rake, age, america, appreciation, depression, endurance, poverty,
Form:
Free verse
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:
rake, life, , cute,
Form:
Rhyme
She Carries TUKAHOK In Her Chest
she is matawàhkwí
of the pullaook — turkey clan
she is lenni lenape
born where marsh meets
sky’s reflection
where grass (aski) bends
to east wind (achpateuny)
and water (mbi) feeds
all it touches
the year's spirit
in spiral moons
not lines on paper
each moon
opens its...
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Categories:
rake, culture, family, history, native american, ocean, river,
Form:
Epic
The Great Lakes Acronym Spells Homes
The Great Lakes acronym spells homes
I chose titled topic by a fanciful whim,
nevertheless still consider my knowledge
of aforementioned material slim.
Housing multivarious biomes
register ecological syndromes
whereby constituents of NOAA
Great Lakes Environmental
Research Laboratory writ tomes.
Pellucid...
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Categories:
rake, adventure, america, appreciation, beautiful, boat, creation, earth,
Form:
Rhyme
Reflections By Commodore John Barry
“He fought often and once bled in the cause of freedom, but his habits of War did not lessen in him the peaceful virtues which adorn his private life.” Doctor Benjamin Rush, signer of...
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Categories:
rake, adventure, autumn, dedication, history, longing, military, sea,
Form:
Epic
Rain Showers
The Earth dry and bare; waiting eagerly for the drops of care;
Caught in the hot, steaming summer’s snare;
The flowers and creepers decorating window sills; all look desolate and ill;
As the nature withers...
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Categories:
rake, nature, life, rain, summer, water, earth, green,
Form:
Free verse
Stimulation: Paradise of Passion
Paradise of passion has dawned upon my mind of my once dusked mindset (desired future of peace that has transformed my mind that was of darkness for the better)
I'm envious of others' ecstasy for...
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Categories:
rake, angst, deep, depression, desire, grief, paradise, passion,
Form:
Free verse
Dramatic Dreams Dare Dingos
Malnourishment is the song from the pans whose empty hold could offer no more products to be boiled and whirled. They were quite sad having been bought then hung. Hung. Sparkly signalling stale sales. Stale...
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Categories:
rake, appreciation, art, bangla,
Form:
I do not know?
Renee Vivien Translations
Renee Vivien Translations
Song
by Renée Vivien
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
When the moon weeps,
illuminating flowers on the graves of the faithful,
my memories creep
back to you, wrapped in flightless wings.
It's getting late; soon we will sleep
(your eyes...
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Categories:
rake, analogy, image, imagery, love, metaphor, surreal, symbolism,
Form:
Sonnet
The Unaltared Copassion Call
Our UU ecofeminist minister
was verbally accosted one Sunday morning
after celebrating multicultural peace
and respect
and integrity
sufficient to restore private ego- and public eco-justice.
This was far too much to take in,
to peacefully and holistically rake in,
for a...
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Categories:
rake, anger, culture, fear, hate, health, humanity, humor,
Form:
Political Verse
Sing broken beyond mankind ii
When the river failed I was asleep and the birds breaking to air made no sound
because I speak
IN...
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Categories:
rake, america, nature, political,
Form:
Free verse
4x10
The Killing Field”
Ariana nodded, tremolo fingers,
and they ran across the killing field,
watching the steel-toed kite ascend—
a fleeting instant of triumph in the vacuum.
Josh scoffed as it dipped,
both caught in the pull of the abyss,
falling but...
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Categories:
rake, absence, allegory, angel, angst,
Form:
Free verse
4x10
The Killing Field”
Ariana nodded, tremolo fingers,
and they ran across the killing field,
watching the steel-toed kite ascend—
a fleeting instant of triumph in the vacuum.
Josh scoffed as it dipped,
both caught in the pull of the abyss,
falling but...
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Categories:
rake, absence, allegory, angel, angst,
Form:
Free verse
Sing Broken Beyond Mankind
Sing Broken Beyond Mankind
because I speak
IN
...
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Categories:
rake, america, columbus day, earth, earth day, history,
Form:
Rhyme
Esperance
“The Autumn is old; The sere leaves are flying; He hath gathered up gold, And now he is dying…Old age, begin sighing.”- Thomas Hood
In the amber hues, kissed by scarlet
Soothing whispers in laughing hearts,
Music, trembling...
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Categories:
rake, appreciation, autumn, beautiful, dance, peace, seasons, tree,
Form:
Free verse
The Inception: God Is Alwayz Good -Part 3-
The mask of shame has made me the monster…must, like Shrek,
I transform into a handsome man momentarily…but I’m a nervous wreck
Rinse away the blood of the innocent
From your hands…
Grand lands fight against each other…I...
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Categories:
rake, dark, deep, faith, fear, grief, hope, hurt,
Form:
Free verse
The Great Lakes - Part One
Pellucid pearls in northeastern North America since planetary birth
Comprise Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario dearth
Largest group of freshwater lakes on Earth
Straddle Canadian–United States border tethering partial global girth
Constituting 21% of world's surface...
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Categories:
rake, creation, environment, joy, sea, usa, water, wisdom,
Form:
Epic
Traveling Death Salesman
I can't sleep.
Or, I can
and did
for three hours
but I continue waking
into a Stephen King nightmare
too real to ignore
because I feel isolated
in this quagmire
of hopeless history.
In this my collective nightmare,
President Trump goes to Saudi Arabia
like Mr....
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Categories:
rake, depression, dream, fear, health, military, night, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Bullets In the Soup Pot
BULLETS IN THE SOUP POT
I
BEFORE THE MIRROR
Sometimes, I sit on my sofa
Pondering on why war, poverty, hatred
and anguish has become a comforting bliss.
They say life is an unending quest; is it?
They say true love lasts...
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Categories:
rake, depression, fear, hope, inspirational, life, love, life,
Form:
Free verse
Graphic Grapes Ooh
Ooh a scented grape graphic. Now that's wisdom. Contained a logical pattern in a juice cup. Heron haven heaping. Wisdomstic of a Judas flaw. Consealed in Sanskrit. Heavenly heaping cream on a very large bun....
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Categories:
rake, baby,
Form:
I do not know?
Description Deciphering Descriptions
Pig plop at eighty degrees is a synonym of doubt but double octave sploosh is a great interjection into the bowl. Wow. Flush flashing fakery freely framing frogs fingerspelling forged formats. And a deliberate rake...
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Categories:
rake, animal, anniversary, appreciation, , cute,
Form:
I do not know?
No Politickin' In Soup Creek
The oldest citizen of Soup Creek, Nopaul E. Ticks, posed to show his support for the town council's ban on politicians.
I hear that nasty Trump feller, wants to stump in Soup Creek.
He wrote to Mayor...
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Categories:
rake, community, humor,
Form:
Narrative
Seasons
Spring — a life anew
Prodding rays of warming glow,
sunshine.
Crusted ice and snow
slowly melting into trickling drops.
First to bloom
a crocus blue, a tulip tries to rise.
How long the wait
and freezing rain
chilled the weary bones.
Heat up...
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Categories:
rake, seasons,
Form:
Blank verse
Why We Will Never Say Hello Or Good-Bye
Why We Will Never Say Hello or Good-bye
By Ingrid Showalter Swift
Rake your fine fingers across my tender lips...
waiting with the hunger that years have made.
...Do you still hear me?
I am off in a...
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Categories:
rake, courage, children, forgiveness, goodbye, love, tribute, me,
Form:
Free verse