Long Retreats Poems
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Apocalyptic Poems IThese are prophetic poems and apocalyptic poems ...
The Vision of the Overseer’s Right Hand
by Michael R. Burch
“Dust to dust ...”
I stumbled, aghast,
into a valley of dust and bone
where all men become,
at last, the same color...
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Categories:
retreats, earth, earth day, environment, future, humanity, nature,
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:
retreats, humanity, political, religion, science,
Form:
Free verse
Lincolns Lesson LearnedHard driven by the embarrassment,
...
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Categories:
retreats, america, beautiful, blessing, community, integrity,
Form:
I do not know?
The True Knight -POTDPOTD 9th April 2018
Synopsis -
A story of selflessness without jealousy or rancor that is often evident through the ages in all walks of life, even in modern times.
She’s a queen who sees her lover...
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Categories:
retreats, love, romance, sensual,
Form:
Romanticism
Parts Two and Three Honoring Elizabeth Barrett Browning(4.)
As Midnight Hours Call In More Darkened Hosts
Slow flows a river of doubt and regret
foaming its swirling eddies and sad pits
cavernous echoes one can not forget
nor withstand jagged cuts and hardest hits!
As sun retreats and...
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Categories:
retreats, appreciation, art, creation, poetry, poets, tribute, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
The Raven Has Fled“The ribbon is cut
The die is cast
The cement is dry
Yet nothing lasts
The brazen rewarded
The hero a fool
All reason outdated
New fury the tool”
A journey presented
Your ship to go far
With...
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Categories:
retreats,
Form:
Rhyme
Polly Gone - CollabFred’s feeding his neighbour’s pet parrot,
He replaced its water with claret,
Poll dropped off her perch
Now Fred’s in the lurch
and claiming it choked on raw carrot
Big trouble is looming for Fred
As Polly is very much dead
The...
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Categories:
retreats, bird, crazy,
Form:
Limerick
The WitchBehold!
A gaping black-
Curtains of a heaven, drawn
Set adrift
Across the wilt of the zodiac!
An’ so, she emerged
An’ madness dreamt into reality
A bow, to tether-
Then glide down humanity
Every heart string, to vibrate an’ tear-
Tooth...
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Categories:
retreats, death,
Form:
Free verse
Tea and Poetry In the Ides of March - Part TwoBring two poems is what he said.
She chose a Personification, ‘Violin’, (the proud recipient of an International Poetry contest award), and a narrative, ‘The Rise and fall of an Empire.’
***
A Raven greets her.
She...
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Categories:
retreats, satire,
Form:
Free verse
The Battle of Britain IIA pulsing motive met them in the sky
to paint his birds before they flew your way,
then talons reared, determined to deny
the devil’s flying wolves a win this day.
Your heaven’s filled relentlessly with fire
as deficit engulfed...
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Categories:
retreats, world war ii,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
ShaneShane walks in, hurries to the back of the bar. He finds the door opened to an alley littered with the garbage of the restaurant beside it, the one whose neon sign has two lights...
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Categories:
retreats, anxiety, best friend, betrayal, brother,
Form:
Prose
The Battle of Britain IIIA dogged stance had made the beast retire
as disappointment filled the devil’s veins.
Though Brit resolve repulsed his hellish fire
this demon’s air of pompousness remains.
His raging storm had faltered in the face
of fierce resistance,...
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Categories:
retreats, world war ii,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Man on the Precipice of EternityIn seventy-eight, my steel-stallion, KZ1000,
pride, wind in my hair.
Its Sissy Bar, firm tether, bag secured,
my wanderlust's prayer.
Sun, snow, wind sculpt my journey's theme,
my...
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Categories:
retreats, death, destiny, emotions, faith, god, life, loss,
Form:
Narrative
Dapper DracDapper Drac had a panic attack, and topping off the dread
His trendy boots clashed with his suit, plus his white shirt was stained red
Sure his hair was right, and dynamite, as seen in the mirror
Yet...
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Categories:
retreats, funny, horror,
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
In the Hush of My SanctuaryIn my sanctuary’s hush, Poe’s tales I clasp,
Into his world, I plunge, a breath, a rasp.
Beneath the creaking floorboards, a heart's pulse
In my mind, it throbs and gasps;
Suddenly, I'm the culprit, in horror's vice, my...
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Categories:
retreats, death, fear, halloween, heart, horror, violence,
Form:
Rhyme
Battlefield of Love's TormentAchingly, I watch as you frequently fall
For the idyllic notion of unconditional love
The dream, the desire, the fantasy
Drawn, inexplicably, to the potent flame
Of one who ignites the spark
You learn from her, confide in her
Losing yourself
As...
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Categories:
retreats, longing, lost, love, sad,
Form:
Free verse
Thats What A Buddhas Like(Rinpoche in Sarnath, 1987)
That’s What A Buddha’s Like
It’s hard to know where to start
when talking about the ineffable.
Maybe starting at the end is best.
It’s taken me a lifetime to appreciate
the little things, the simple, unadorned,...
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Categories:
retreats, appreciation, devotion, friendship, teacher,
Form:
Narrative
Gildas TranslationsGILDAS TRANSLATIONS
These are modern English translations of Latin poems by the English monk Gildas Sapiens (“Gildas the Wise”).
“Alas! The nature of my complaint is the widespread destruction of all that was good, followed by...
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Categories:
retreats, christian, england, evil, god, heaven, hero, sea,
Form:
Free verse
Child Scream Outdespair hangs heavy
in the air these days
but the only path
is through they say
an intruder in the midst
blowing his cold still drip
into the ivy
teardrops overwhelm tilted ice trays
gently gathering each
hoping for a catch...
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Categories:
retreats, cancer, emotions, family, grief, heartbreak, heartbroken, innocence,
Form:
Free verse
The Stray CatAround that lonely house by the hill
The stray cat prowls through
His eyes glowing like meteors in the dark
And his fur's fawn rough
The stray cat strolls to the casement
Meowing for succour
The owner-occupier sneaks with a rod
Ready...
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Categories:
retreats, anger, break up, creation, cute love, endurance,
Form:
Free verse
Regrets Of The Raspberry Moon
When cyan night's
raspberry moon
is dipped in softness
of the afterglows,
I gaze at that glossy
first evening star between
creamy fingers of
my cherry palm,
which trace lunar kins -
those angelic fireflies,
twinkling and pirouetting,...
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Categories:
retreats, dark, deep, emotions, feelings, heartbroken, metaphor, moon,
Form:
Free verse
Track Through the DesertTrack Through The Desert
The place is Arabia in the early...
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Categories:
retreats, adventure,
Form:
Free verse
I Reach For Pink MaskOpen up the Mask Drawer Please
I cackled delight as I opened up my mask drawer.
Naughty Wednesday mask was on top. It had a permanent stamp on it that said “Call in sick.”
Wednesday is the longest...
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Categories:
retreats, anger,
Form:
Free verse
WarmthWhat but ‘warmth’ speaks of ‘love’ to a child, to the aged,
Warmth all poems convey (that get launched from tome’s heart?)
I pray love gets displayed, found in stranger filled room
That you aren’t fishing for when...
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Categories:
retreats, journey, life, love,
Form:
Rhyme
The Raven Has Fled- Part OneThe ribbon is cut
The die is cast
The cement is dry
Yet nothing lasts
The brazen rewarded
The hero a fool
All reason outdated
New fury the tool
A journey presented
Your ship to go far
With doldrums eclipsed
By the light of new stars
The...
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Categories:
retreats, allegory,
Form:
Free verse