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Apocalyptic Poems Ii
These 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:
reeking, earth, earth day, environment, future, visionary, weather,
Form:
Rhyme
Various Heresies 5
Various Heresies 5
Tonight, Let's Remember
by Michael R. Burch
July 7,2007 (7-7-7)
Tonight, let's remember the fond ways
our fingers engendered new methods to praise
the gray at my temples, your thinning hair.
Tonight, let's remember, and let us draw near...
Tonight,...
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Categories:
reeking, creation, earth, god, heaven, spiritual, wine, women,
Form:
Verse
Turkish Poetry Translations Ii
Turkish Poetry Translations II
Çanakkale Sehitlerine
"For the Çanakkale Martyrs"
by Mehmet Akif Ersoy
loose English translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Was there ever anything like the Bosphorus war??
The earth’s mightiest armies pressing Marmara,
Forcing entry between her mountain passes
To a...
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Categories:
reeking, autumn, god, love, sea, time, war, world,
Form:
Free verse
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 37
I heard two distinct voices in the night,
Conversing amongst themselves most eagerly
They whispered like children in excitement
Their sardonic mouths sung many savvy tunes
It was Death I could perceive, defending me,
And he, a strange, distant friend
Seemed...
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Categories:
reeking, change, death, gothic, grave, literature, romance, war,
Form:
Epic
THE DON JUST BEFORE DAWN
YOU MEAN LIKE PETERS BOSS OF BOSSES DETROIT HITMAN OBSESSED WITH BEING BIG PAULIE THE MAKING OF JOHN GOTTI BOSS OF ALL BOSSES INCLUDING BIG DON OF CLASSIC SCUM PAYOFFS BRIBES BULLYING CAR BOMBS IGNITING...
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Categories:
reeking, allah,
Form:
Naat
Tozzath
Pellucid pachyderms wade across
the purpling River Manjees
and Tozzath watches from the bank,
the seat of his maroon pantaloons soaked with mud,
his nostrils flaring with the fragrance of ombadalias,
whose lacey petals flutter
like the wings of long-dead...
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Categories:
reeking, death, fantasy, girl, magic, word play,
Form:
Free verse
Apocalyptic Poems Iii
These 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:
reeking, earth, earth day, environment, humanity, nature, tree,
Form:
Rhyme
Megan's Quest Part 4of7
The Company was set and all were prepared
for a journey that was true cause for alarm.
But their spirits were high and as much as they dared
still hoped...
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Categories:
reeking, adventure, courage, loss,
Form:
Rhyme
LIFE AS AN FBI INFORMANT WEARING WIRES PREGNANT WITH AN ABUSIVE SPOUSE
AFTER WEARING WIRES PREGNANT FOR THE FBI BUYING WEAPONS AND DRUGS COMPLETING SEVERAL IT WAS CLEAR MY ABUSIVE EX HUSBAND WAS SEVERELY JUNK SICK HE GREW ANGRY BITTER VERY BITTER PARINOID OF BEING KILLED HE...
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Categories:
reeking, allah,
Form:
Naat
Mehmet Akif Ersoy Translations
Mehmet Akif Ersoy: Modern English Translations of Turkish Poems
Mehmet Âkif Ersoy (1873-1936) was a Turkish poet, author, writer, academic, member of parliament, and the composer of the Turkish National Anthem.
Snapshot
by Mehmet Akif Ersoy
loose English translation/interpretation...
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Categories:
reeking, dark, death, earth, grave, life, war, world,
Form:
Ghazal
Donald Mark and James Francis
MARILYN HOLDING ON TO
MEMORIES THROUGH ASHES
REMEMERING THE LOST DONATE
BONE MARROW SHORE CLAIR MICHIGAN
MY PRAYERS ARE WITH YOU PLEASE
STOP THREATENING MY LIFE
I CAN'T IMAGINE AFTER ALL THESE
YEARS RIVERSIDE DRIVE...
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Categories:
reeking, allah,
Form:
Lento
Chief Garbage Taster As Fifth Grade Halloween Gag
Chief garbage taster as fifth grade Halloween gag
at Henry Kline Boyer Elementary School
interestingly enough landed me a grubhub grab bag.
I rooted thru poetry anthology of mine,
and came across an unpublished poem
by one obscure poet (me),...
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Categories:
reeking, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 5th
Form:
Rhyme
Living With a Myth
Living With A Myth
How dares one to speak of disability and live with it to tell the story narrate
...
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Categories:
reeking, society,
Form:
Free verse
Ooniversal Oo
OOOniversal oo
Frightened tepid antisocial ant was football training avidly but failing to attend a fragrant tailor army. Oh dear. That was sure to be put forward to the sacred sanction ship and the sacred sanction...
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Categories:
reeking, absence, adventure, angst, anti bullying, anxiety, appreciation,
Form:
I do not know?
Paul Valery Translation of the Graveyard By the Sea
This is my modern English translation of Paul Valéry's poem “Le cimetière marin” (“The graveyard by the sea”). Valéry was buried in the seaside cemetery evoked in his best-known poem. From the vantage of the...
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Categories:
reeking, death, french, grave, obituary, ocean, paris, sea,
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:
reeking, ozymandias, pride, sin,
Form:
Free verse
The Notebook
An early wintry storm hit late last night on this date, September 11th, 2035. There was strangeness in the air like a stale aftermath of partying. Frigid. Strange that people still celebrate Freedom Day...
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Categories:
reeking, nostalgia,
Form:
Narrative
Chief Garbage Taster As Fifth Grade Halloween Gag
at Henry Kline Boyer Elementary School
As a Halloween costume,
one year during early grade school,
my father got the brilliant idea
for his sole son to be dressed
with one of a kind getup.
Missus Shaner...
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Categories:
reeking, 5th grade, adventure, autumn, character, father son,
Form:
Free verse
FBI CRISIS TEAM
The FBI CRISIS TEAM came on quite suddenly
I saw her standing there dark skinned ashy
knees she was after my identity strangest
feeling this crime is the worse because it lingers
identity fraud...
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Categories:
reeking, allah,
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
Better Daya
I know you’re happy,
Guess I’m stuck bein’ me,
Guess I stay missin’ out on chances that I couldn’t see.
But in the meantime,
Keep your head,
And know I’m doin’ just fine.
You know, maybe I’ll get lucky and catch...
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Categories:
reeking, angst, emotions, growing up, high school, introspection,
Form:
I do not know?
Channelling a King
Channelling a King
(A regal voice whispers)
Oh Here
She Comes
Oh Here
She Comes
Oh Blessed Be
Oh Blessed be
Tonight the Goddess of Fertility and Motherhood
Appears on her white charger
To enchant and tempt all
Who wishes to follow her
To her Faeryland
Ashera
The...
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Categories:
reeking, devotion,
Form:
Rhyme
Three Witches, a Love Story
THREE WITCHES A LOVE SONNET
Three ancient, rotten, horrid, witches
just awoke from their daytime snore,
These evil, reeking, damaged, sisters,
Cursed the land for thirty-five score.
As they hobbled down stairs
they stammered and coughed,
Till they reached the...
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Categories:
reeking, beauty, halloween,
Form:
Rhyme
Pyramus-Thisbe - a Selfless Love-W
Pyramus was the handsome young man
Thisbe the fair maiden of Babylon.
The houses of their parents did adjoin
Neighborhood brought the two in relation.
And the acquaintance ripened into love
And the fire within them burnt with bright...
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Categories:
reeking, death, fire, for her, lost love, love,
Form:
Chant Royal
The Boadicea Blood Cup
"The Boadicea Blood Cup"
Didst thou think? Didst thou?
Didst thou think, at all?
That thou would remain untouched, unchecked, unscathed
Safely locked up away from mine wrath and thee, thy self-made grave?
Imprisoned in your Dark Lost Woods of...
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Categories:
reeking, daughter, home, lost love, love, magic, mother,
Form:
Free verse
Shaken Up
SHAKEN UP
The vortex sucked
me into the globe.
shaken, distressed
pounding on the confines
of the glass.
the snow n-e-v-e-r stops.
Music lifts,
from the bowels
of this new world —
the humor of “it’s
...
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Categories:
reeking, betrayal, christmas, storm,
Form:
Free verse