Long Rats Poems
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Letters For People Part 4Dear people,
(Am i?) Mad it’s a conformist state?
A status that perpetuates people to pair, to compare, to prepare,
to perfect, before performance, …?
-sure hard to try...
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Categories:
rats, america, angst, business, confusion, feelings, poverty,
Form:
Epic
Sonnet Lxxxi-LxxxixSonnet LXXXI-LXXXIX
Day, and Night
by Michael R. Burch
The moon exposes pockmarked scars of craters;
her visage, veiled by willows, palely looms.
And we who rise each day to grind a living,
dream each scented night of such perfumes
as drew...
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Categories:
rats, dream, earth, flower, moon, music, night, stars,
Form:
Sonnet
Poems About Poems VPoems about Poems V
Distances
by Michael R. Burch
There is a small cleanness about her,
as though she has always just been washed,
and there is a dull obedience to convention
in her accommodating slenderness
as she feints at her salad.
She...
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Categories:
rats, metaphor, poems, poetry, poets, words, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Doggerel IiDoggerel II: Doggerel about Doggerel, or, More Nonsense Verse
The Board
by Michael R. Burch
Accessible rhyme is never good.
The penalty is understood:
soft titters from dark board rooms where
the businessmen paste on their hair
and, Walter Mitties, woo the...
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Categories:
rats, animal, dog, humor, humorous, light, nonsense, silly,
Form:
Light Verse
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION ARLINGTON HEIGHTS ILLINOISCRISIS SESSION FBI HUMAN RESOURCE DIVISION NON-REDACTED
FBI: HELLO WHAT IS YOUR EMERGENCY
AGENT BROWN: HELLO THIS IS AGANT BROWN AND THAT DARK PLACE IS RETURNING AGAIN I AM IN CRISIS AGAIN
FBI: OKAY WE ARE HERE...
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Categories:
rats, america, analogy, anxiety, mental illness, military, patriotic,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Childhood Dreams Part 2The three little pigs came to the ball
Tried to blow the castle down
It didn’t work
It was made of solid gold
So they gave up and sat at their trough
Ate noisily
And snorted quite a lot
They...
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Categories:
rats, childhood, cinderella, dream, mum,
Form:
Free verse
Bleeding Before Rome -2Yet at this very moment the cathedral was crumbling
down upon the cries of foresaken refugees,
the monastery's walls wobbling from war's wreckage,
and as the black bursts billowed into sun drenched brutality
with the bodies of...
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Categories:
rats, culture, heart, war, world war ii,
Form:
Epic
Poems About Children IiPoems about Children II
On Looking into Curious George’s Mirrors
by Michael R. Burch
for Maya McManmon, granddaughter of the poet Jim McManmon
Maya was made in the image of God;
may the reflections she sees in those curious mirrors
always...
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Categories:
rats, child, childhood, children, grandchild, granddaughter, grandfather, grandparents,
Form:
Rhyme
Backhand
"Backhand"
You have turned me
inside out, cut open
like a tennis ball
I used to beat backhand
along with the racket
hard against the garage wall
To make sense of it all
as a child, the grief stolen
all too swiftly and replaced...
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Categories:
rats, child abuse, mother daughter, strength,
Form:
Free verse
Apocalyptic Poems IiiThese are prophetic poems and apocalyptic poems about the earth, climate change, global warming, extinction events, and mankind's role on an endangered world ...
Polish
by Michael R. Burch
Your fingers end in talons?
the ones you trim to...
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Categories:
rats, earth, earth day, environment, humanity, nature, tree,
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:
rats, humanity, political, religion, science,
Form:
Free verse
The StenchI woke up this morning with courage over my back and wisdom in my hat
I was determined to put an end to the sneaky kangaroo rats
No one had done me anything but I was reeling...
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Categories:
rats, america, courage, destiny, encouraging, endurance, england, longing,
Form:
Narrative
Christmas In the Cathedral of the Forest Deep
"Christmas in the Cathedral of the Forest Deep"
The silent heart is found
embedded in the
Cathedral of
The Forest Deep
The lost jewel
shines in the dark
see the reflection of emerald eyes
endless hazel woods scried
On Christmas Eve
when...
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Categories:
rats, christmas, love, mother daughter,
Form:
Epic
Sick Art
"Sick Art"
I walk the streets
still and quiet
I do not lie
I do not betray
what the heart belies
pickled kidneys
I am a ghost
of my former self
ears lent to hear
the sweet music
of the sounds so fraught
caught up...
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Categories:
rats, dark, horror, mystery,
Form:
Free verse
Rosalia - the Evil Black Witch of the Harz, Part ThreeRosalia - The Evil Black Witch of the Harz, Part Three
Vespers’ Prayer Preparation for Black Mass
In preparation for the ritual Black Mass at midnight, Rosalia recites the following prayer incantation which must be rendered latest...
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Categories:
rats, allegory, evil, halloween, horror, magic, mythology, scary,
Form:
Narrative
Soliloquio Del Individuo By Nicanor Parra, Translated By T Wignesan
Soliloquio del Individuo by Nicanor Parra, Translated by T. Wignesan
(Homage to Nicanor PARRA, 1914-2018, the Chilean ANTI-POET, winner of the "Cervantes Prize" (the highest literary honour for writers in Spanish), four times nominated for the...
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Categories:
rats, allegory, humanity, loneliness, philosophy, psychological, world,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
The Easter Egg HuntI don't know how it started
But it's an annual event
But I don't think that an egg hunt
Is the best way to present
The story of our saviour
Chocolate eggs you go and find
I don't think that's the...
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Categories:
rats, candy, chocolate, easter, family, funny, garden, spring,
Form:
Rhyme
Rum N Raisin 4 - Homer LoneRum was feeling playful so he went to find a mouse
He looked in every nook and cranny right throughout the house
But all the mice were sound asleep for it was dark outside
And then Rum saw...
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Categories:
rats, animal, cat,
Form:
Narrative
This Is DangerThis is dangerous
said pirates to their vampire allies
about losing past regeneration fees
and bloodline contributions.
I'm being treated unfairly,
said pathological hurt
to self-redeeming anger,
loss of sacred winning patience.
I've lost something precious,
said virginal grief
and sacred matriarchal refugees
of WiseElder
wombed through...
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Categories:
rats, culture, education, green, health, integrity, peace, religion,
Form:
Political Verse
Snail Trails and Rat TailsMy transportive
awesome Muse
speaks of a hiking trail
for an aging snail.
My communicative
wondrous music
is dancing choreography
for an ageless bee
coming.
I ask if I might speak
with the Editor in Chief
of my town's daily GoodNews Bulletin...
No.
I do not have...
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Categories:
rats, community, health, humanity, nature, peace, school, science,
Form:
Political Verse
Barking Up the Wrong Tree
“Barking Up the Wrong Tree”
ghost gums
shed their bark
the min-min
makes good use of it
papyrus, soft enough to
imprint and write
thoughts, like the
ripening welts of
green ants
small bites sting
subcutaneous and
meridional,
terra...
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Categories:
rats, morning, muse, nature, night,
Form:
Free verse
Dearly Departing ChristiansMany of you live
humbly and heartily
patriotically and industriously
nutritiously and faithfully
in Western and Southern States,
United in this time of shrinking reservoirs,
dying rivers,
hurricaned coastal residents
Displaced by floods,
invasive mold,
voracious rot and rats,
Barren top soil,
failing electrical networks,
drought,
inhumane heat,
decimated forests
Bereft...
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Categories:
rats, america, christian, culture, environment, health, integrity, peace,
Form:
Political 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:
rats, abuse, america, anger, animal, corruption, emotions, fate,
Form:
Free verse
Different From Me Part OneDifferent from me!
Snit and Snat
Part 1
Different from me!
From a very young age, I was told what to think
What to...
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Categories:
rats, adventure, prejudice,
Form:
Rhyme
One Year Four Months and Twenty-One DaysI have not penned a verse for many months because I have many things
That are undone, I have not penned a verse for months because the mornings have me on the run. Here I am...
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Categories:
rats, abuse, anxiety, celebrity, character, community, courage, money,
Form:
Narrative