Long Rake in Poems
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Native American TranslationsNative 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 in, america, earth, native american, nature, prayer,
Form:
Free verse
Salat DaysSalat 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 in, 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 in, life, , cute,
Form:
Rhyme
The Great Lakes Acronym Spells HomesThe 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 in, 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 in, adventure, autumn, dedication, history, longing, military, sea,
Form:
Epic
Rain ShowersThe 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 in, nature, life, rain, summer, water, earth, green,
Form:
Free verse
Stimulation: Paradise of PassionParadise 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 in, angst, deep, depression, desire, grief, paradise, passion,
Form:
Free verse
Dramatic Dreams Dare DingosMalnourishment 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 in, appreciation, art, bangla,
Form:
I do not know?
Renee Vivien TranslationsRenee 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 in, analogy, image, imagery, love, metaphor, surreal, symbolism,
Form:
Sonnet
The Unaltared Copassion CallOur 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 in, anger, culture, fear, hate, health, humanity, humor,
Form:
Political Verse
Sing Broken Beyond MankindSing Broken Beyond Mankind
because I speak
IN
...
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Categories:
rake in, 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 in, 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 in, dark, deep, faith, fear, grief, hope, hurt,
Form:
Free verse
The Great Lakes - Part OnePellucid 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 in, creation, environment, joy, sea, usa, water, wisdom,
Form:
Epic
Traveling Death SalesmanI 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 in, depression, dream, fear, health, military, night, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Speechless Part 2*
The heart may fall in love unwillfully
so, in a script will lie my paramour.
Oh manic quest, I've sworn to set you free
to let the ink's imagination soar.
I’ve found a place to court a writer’s muse;
this...
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Categories:
rake in, romance,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Bullets In the Soup PotBULLETS 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 in, depression, fear, hope, inspirational, life, love, life,
Form:
Free verse
Graphic Grapes OohOoh 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 in, baby,
Form:
I do not know?
Description Deciphering DescriptionsPig 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 in, animal, anniversary, appreciation, , cute,
Form:
I do not know?
No Politickin' In Soup CreekThe 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 in, community, humor,
Form:
Narrative
SeasonsSpring — 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 in, seasons,
Form:
Blank verse
Why We Will Never Say Hello Or Good-ByeWhy 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 in, courage, children, forgiveness, goodbye, love, tribute, me,
Form:
Free verse
Eccentric Kook's Reasonable Rhyme ZigzagsEccentric kook's reasonable rhyme zigzags
Doggone poet laureate
wannabe his index finger wags
nonverbally naysaying those,
who doubt mine posthumous
fame and fortune, which snags
eternal renown within pantheon
of storied writers such foolhardiness nags
yours truly keeps bad company with hags
unemployed day...
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Categories:
rake in, absence, august, blessing, cool, dream, fate, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
The MenaceNight 3
It’s still in my garden.
It’s back with a vengeance.
I can it see it there, lurking without pardon,
face black and white; its tail mocking.
Three nights in a row now:
the eyes, the fur, the scraping claws.
I...
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Categories:
rake in, cancer,
Form:
Rhyme
Something To Look Forward To, Part Ii...Emmet just sat down on a bench,
And gratefully took his boots off,
Just stretched himself out there to rest,
for the moment it was enough.
The woman seemed confused by this,
it was clear she expected rape,
but when the...
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Categories:
rake in, courage, death, life, loss, lost, love, war,
Form:
Epic