Long Reckoning Poems
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Atmospheric Elocutions For Surviving Armageddon
Atmospheric Elocutions For Surviving Armageddon
Elocution lessons for the morality police
Persecution of those not callously elite
Convolution of the elongation of the technique
Revolution from the poor, downtrodden and bleak
Ageless reckonings that are born...
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Categories:
reckoning, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Observance
Observance
by Michael R. Burch
Here the hills are old and rolling
carefully in their old age;
on the horizon youthful mountains
bathe themselves in windblown fountains...
By dying leaves and falling raindrops,
I have traced time's starts and stops,
and I have...
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Categories:
reckoning, loneliness, lonely, longing, loss, lost, seasons, time,
Form:
Sonnet
A Snow Queen Tale
Part 1: FORE SIBERIAN FATE
silk wings wet -
angel on the lake.
starlight glitter
separates from
the golden wheat.
her docile hair,
prophecy of ice.
winter pink,
pinched cheeks.
ice skate scrapes -
flecks of flakes.
the snow queen
before her relentless
reign, a pretty thing.
her smile warms
the...
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Categories:
reckoning, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
The Angry Black Woman
She stood with her back turned to me
Leaning slightly towards where the light tapered off into darkness
Her faced buried deep inside her cupped hands
Her own shadow towered over her seemingly at odds with her...
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Categories:
reckoning, africa, anger, beauty, betrayal, black african american,
Form:
I do not know?
Legacy accompanied with inadequacy DESPAIR RING
Legacy accompanied with inadequacy DESPAIR RING
uninvited GUESTS linkedin as the themes of mein kampf.
Despite countless factorial permutations
& combinations, this cyber surfer
avails left and right alm
seeking succor Out Of Human Bondage
invisibles shackles bind head,
shoulders, knees and...
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Categories:
reckoning, abuse, age, angst, anxiety, city, depression, earth,
Form:
Free verse
Spring Festival
Symbols cry in dry ice theater -
the expanse of aesthetic visa-
drawn-
from the romance of the silvery eye -
as it golden advances the lid of covenance
in dynamic enzyme.
Open faced type interpreted-
interpreter-embossed embol-
in...
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Categories:
reckoning, beautiful, god, love,
Form:
Epic
Rosalia - the Evil Black Witch of the Harz, Part Five
Rosalia - The Evil Black Witch of the Harz, Part Five
The Monseigneur knew that they must be successful in this venture as the “Lord’s Madmen” or face the very real possibility of eternal damnation, if...
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Categories:
reckoning, allegory, evil, halloween, horror, magic, mythology, scary,
Form:
Narrative
Agenda
"Again... I apologize but threefold times ...
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Categories:
reckoning, america,
Form:
Political Verse
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:
reckoning, adventure, autumn, dedication, history, longing, military, sea,
Form:
Epic
The Light of Reckoning -2
The Roman administrators came for the wealth of our worship
demanding that I crack the church's coffers wide open
for their needs, for the Empire's desperate embellishments,
in place of gold I presented the poor
I told the onery...
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Categories:
reckoning, creation,
Form:
Epic
Pulse of the Poet's Abyss
In my chambers where phantasmagoria undulate
not as vigilant watchers but as mnemonic parasites
I ruminate—
no longer a singular entity but...
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Categories:
reckoning, emotions, gothic, halloween, imagination, muse, poets,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Ground Level Entry
"Ground Level Entry"
“She fits the bill”,
they say it
insouciantly
visions of being
carried in the beak
of a bilious pelican
where it builds
its rudimentary nest,
it uses sticks and debris
no stones, yet,
from irreverence
thrown at it
no higher...
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Categories:
reckoning, muse,
Form:
Narrative
A Tale of Dark Angels
Expectations high did not pan out ...
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Categories:
reckoning, angel, anger, angst, character, god,
Form:
Metrical Tale
Anything For a Laugh
I’ve always been a prankster and a lover of a joke.
I love to see the puzzled look on an unsuspecting bloke,
when he looks around and lifts his hat - totally confused.
Some take a joke for...
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Categories:
reckoning, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Fork Git About Spooner Hiz Ham
Fork git about spooner hiz ham
And join (singing the words
in the next paragraph) whether alone
in a traffic jam
basting, cooking, then eating a lamb
prepared by thee missus
a superb culinary madam.
“A Ram Sam Sam” Lyrics
A ram...
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Categories:
reckoning, 1st grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, adventure,
Form:
Rhyme
Transference
"transference"
transference
in a narcissistic world
propaganda for the
unsuspecting
validation
for the damaged
writers
soldiers
victims
survivors
war fought daily
in shallow trenches
buckling at the knees
stand up
brave comedians
salute compatriots and cowards
caught in their camouflaged net
all the crumbling...
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Categories:
reckoning, psychological, symbolism, war,
Form:
Free verse
Portrait of a Hanging
With the opening of my fortress cell,
solemn-faced men come locust invading in
Their mouths smile not, and eyes neither grin
as ceremonial words pursed lips expel
A deer thought escapes ... my life nears its end!
And I feel...
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Categories:
reckoning, dark, death, horror, imagery, spiritual,
Form:
Prose Poetry
2071 - Big Brother Watches From On High
2017 - year zero
They loaned to the poor, who cannot repay.
They stole from the old, who cannot recover.
They sold our future, for better or worse
and made our children pay.
They schooled arithmetic to be feared.
They tutored...
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Categories:
reckoning, corruption, humanity, pain, parody, political, truth,
Form:
Free verse
Anguish And Admonitions Of Eve
No! you weren’t born
to be beaten
raped
chained to a life bloodstained ingrained with pain
wordless worthless voiceless choiceless
No! you can’t live
being beaten
raped
chained to a life profaned restrained ...
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Categories:
reckoning, abuse, conflict, courage, perspective, society, violence, women,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
You'll Never Tell My Secret
(His Version of Your Secret I’ll Never Tell)
You call me your love, such a sweet endearment from someone I used to know, a sentiment that I am undeserving of and rightfully so
The secret you’re referring...
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Categories:
reckoning, love,
Form:
Rhyme
The Little You Can Know
Without form and void,
The world gave a lunatic gaze.
Lack of luminous light love bought,
Darkness did give her a chase.
Open to no one was her,
Water beneath and air above.
Open to someone...
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Categories:
reckoning, evil, god, humanity,
Form:
I do not know?
Bees Under Milk Wood : a Spell
"Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting." Robert Frost
"Bees Under Milk Wood : A Spell"
Spider Web glistens wet
in the spoilt lies of...
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Categories:
reckoning, romance,
Form:
Romanticism
Umpteenth heat wave since onset of summer sizzles Delaware Valley today July 16th, 2024
Umpteenth heat wave since onset of summer
sizzles Delaware Valley today July 16th, 2024
Said geographical area composed of counties
located in Southeastern Pennsylvania,
South Jersey, Delaware, and
Eastern Shore of Maryland.
Sweltering temperatures
figuratively grip human zoo
bipedal hominids (yours truly,
an olive...
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Categories:
reckoning, america, earth, grave, humanity, july, summer,
Form:
Free verse
Swimming Against the Current
[Note: You will see in the work below connections to other poems I have posted here. Those poems are tangents to this poem that more completely tell the tale of rise, pride, hubris, fall,...
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Categories:
reckoning, ozymandias, pride, sin,
Form:
Free verse
A Matter Of Faith
When I was a child, I wondered
Was deep sleep, death?
Was every morning a new life, a new incarnation?
Waking up, I found the people around me were the same
I was the same too, nothing changed
This cannot...
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Categories:
reckoning, allusion, creation, faith, god, metaphor, philosophy, religion,
Form:
Free verse