Long Retracting Poems
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Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 29
Somehow,
Forward, and headlong
I knew it was day again
There was a shift in the dark mutterings of the Devil,
Who now refused to sleep as I refused to sing,
Almost an anticipation in his voice,
As if he...
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Categories:
retracting, adventure, bible, conflict, endurance, inspirational, love, war,
Form:
Epic
For All That I Remembered
For All That I Remembered
by Michael R. Burch
For all that I remembered, I forgot
her name, her face, the reason that we loved ...
and yet I hold her close within my thought:
I feel the burnished weight...
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Categories:
retracting, desire, dream, memory, remember, sad love, soulmate,
Form:
Sonnet
World War Ii Poems and Holocaust Poems - I
World War II Poems and Holocaust Poems (I)
These are poems about World War II and the Holocaust, which is also called the Shoah in Hebrew.
Epitaph for a Child of the Holocaust
by Michael R. Burch
I...
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Categories:
retracting, evil, holocaust, racism, truth, war, world, world
Form:
Rhyme
Addiction To Suffering Love
So, she said,
much to everyone's BusinessAsUsual
StraightWhiteMale
surprise,
Sew,
I run into your aversion
to unpatriarchal Principles of Reversion
whenever I deeply listen
to your dark passions first,
then redial,
notice,
[occasionally speak]
as if I trust what I can win/win hear
in PreVersed
unrehearsed response
To liberal GoldenRule...
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Categories:
retracting, analogy, health, integrity, light, peace, power, social,
Form:
Political Verse
High Beams
Love ripens,
filling a vacuum left by former fears
about shortage of time
and lack of meaning.
High pitched synergy
swells toward Beloved Climax Community
as fears and anger about Here and Now
EarthDay's lack of healthy fullness...
subside in peaceful...
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Categories:
retracting, beauty, culture, destiny, fear, integrity, life, love,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
The Devil's Triangle
Three points of ionic invisibility, drawn off the charted map
Of realism or reality, the calibrated compass spins out of
Control, then suddenly freezing at polar northern degree!
Within the gravitational shift, a rippling vibrational influxes
Occurs,...
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Categories:
retracting, art, imagination, inspirational, international, science fiction, visionary,
Form:
Free verse
Suddenly frisson cold with fright
Suddenly frisson cold with fright...
I describe, suddenly feeling scared
and tried to summon sense and sensibility
after scrambling to stand upright
with all my might.
Otherwise titled
recalling taking a fall
about five years ago
ala Humpty Dumpty impersonation
(and nearly...
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Categories:
retracting, 1st grade, 2nd grade, adventure, age, allusion,
Form:
Rhyme
Why Me Father Daughter Relationship
Why me father/daughter relationship
important to this papa
Fourteen and a half years
since death of mother (mine),
nary one iota of communication
in general and compassion
in particular while
she lived, now wears
heavy and yokes
mantle fostering tears
indirectly sabotaging rapport
with eldest daughter
futility...
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Categories:
retracting, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, appreciation,
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
Brother Gaus
Brother Gaus
Gaus is a Rainbow man
Only that he’s not curved.
He’s just a miscellany
That makes him striking.
Gaus has a funny knack
Of repairing any gadget
Can do so with anything
Except repairing himself.
He can service the lot
Except his own...
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Categories:
retracting,
Form:
Free verse
The Haunting-2
THE HAUNTING
Entombed behind isolation's walled prison, a haunting
Malice has so trapped me within, evils chamber of the forsaken.
It crouches beneath shadows shroud, its leering eyes pierce,
Through the darkness’s pitch black covenant of the...
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Categories:
retracting, dark, evil, fantasy, gothic, imagery, science fiction,
Form:
Free verse
Wonderland VII: The Preacher's Tale
- Readers, I hope you forgive me.
I’m retracting some words I once said:
I'd planned to write just five of these tales
But I've added a sixth tale instead..
Night
The preacher was searching for Duchess
Also known as 'The...
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Categories:
retracting, character, literature,
Form:
Narrative
Am I Transparent
Am I transparent? Am I numb to your vision?
Have I been replaced? With new dreams and more ambitious haste
Do I exist to you? Am I just a face in the crowd?
Can you...
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Categories:
retracting, depression, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
The Victor
The corpus millennia has crawled down the vale, ...
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Categories:
retracting, feelings, life,
Form:
Lyric
Unquotable Quotes - Xii
Unquotable quotes – XII
To catch a monkey, you need a young coconut with three holes for eyes ; bore a hole in one and wait : the monkey will thrust its hand in to grab...
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Categories:
retracting, humor, life, satire, women, word play,
Form:
Epigram
The Haunting
Entombed behind isolation walled
Prison,
A haunting malice trapped me within.
Crouching beneath shadows shroud,
Leering eyes pierce.
Through darkness’s pitch black,
Covenant.
Pacing beast intercepting motions,
Movements, mocking my,
Feeble attempts to evade frenzy's,
Tormentor.
Deceptions deceiver, silver tongued,
Weaver,...
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Categories:
retracting, dark, death, evil, fear, grave, grief, halloween,
Form:
Free verse
Sinful Picnic
Hand in hand, traversing this garden
bare feet felt the tingle of grass and vine
emerald green and lively sprawling growth
delicate breeze gently blew swaying branches
leaves danced in rhythmic praise to the...
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Categories:
retracting, allegorytree, tree,
Form:
Free verse
A Mackerel Sky
"A Mackerel Sky"
shadows like sun
dance across
an ocean of tears
salt for the stinging
walking on clouds
with the Fisher King,
as if in school
in the swim of things
fishing nets for love
all in the...
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Categories:
retracting, journey, life, muse,
Form:
Narrative
Conation
Conation
Have you tilted the axis
on a new tomorrow
Have you changed with intention
— the direction of time
(The New Room: February, 2024)
Round Peg — Square Holes
The poetry of mathematics
— oxymoronic at best
(Dreamsleep: February, 2024)
Robert The Bruce
War is...
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Categories:
retracting, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
Dance of Lunar Festivals
rushes now the spill of feet
a lunar festival right nto moonlight
skirts flaring, hats flipping
as silhouettes swagger with desire
bosoms advancing retracting
against tunes from guitars and tambourine
slay this fiesta with quickening of heels
an extravaganza which shrieks
in the...
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Categories:
retracting, body, inspirational, me,
Form:
Free verse
Palinode and passage of a poet
A poet’s journey as goes on
An ever-winding road
That has many ups and downs known,
And as roads take new mode
He sees dusk together with dawn
To pen a palinode.
Comes old age carrying child’s mirth
Maturing like...
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Categories:
retracting, change, poetry,
Form:
Other
Just Within Reach (Part 2)
I laugh inside,
they must be joking,
stepping back
I let the corpse
fall to the floor
...
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Categories:
retracting, angst, death, imagination,
Form:
Free verse
Suddenly Frisson Aye Describe
Suddenly frisson aye describe...,
I suddenly feel scared
As told once upon time helloo
from me matt chew
most previous poem ugh goo,
viz freak accident found ninety
degree angled desk corner (ewe
might not bull heave)
rammed, impaled, fricasseed
smack dab skew
whirred...
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Categories:
retracting, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, care,
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
Mrs Hollywood
Dear mrs. Hollywood
This will be my only letter
I hope it's understood
Once done you'll know me better
It seems, my lack of self esteem
Helped mold your false impression
This quite possibly may sting
But consider it a blessing
I...
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Categories:
retracting, anger, farewell, tribute,
Form:
Rhyme
Healing Heat
T’was on a coolish summer night
Amidst dusk creatures howling
Fullest moon in all its might
Essence of darkness prowling
Life was going on despite
The smell of death still lurking
Hooting owls returned from flight
Whilst bustling fast foods working
The...
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Categories:
retracting, animals, death, inspirational, life, loss, nature, sad,
Form:
I do not know?
Hierophant
I grip the shifting sands, the drifting dirt.
I pull the earth and let fall through these rough fingers.
I pull the power of raw nature.
I feel the matter of all things, the push and pull...
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Categories:
retracting, allegory, allusion, analogy, angst, art, cool, crazy,
Form:
Free verse