Long Rhymed Poems
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Poem Revised Memorial Day May 30th, 2022 At 1500 HoursPoem revised Memorial Day May 30th, 2022 at 1500 hours
Flagrante delict adulterous sordid behavior
automatically linkedin with Lothario;
an unscrupulous seducer of women,
based upon a character
in The Impertinent Curious Man,
a story within a...
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Categories:
rhymed, absence, abuse, adventure, anger, black african american,
Form:
Rhyme
Haiku 1The Original Sin: Rhyming Haiku!
Haiku
should never rhyme:
it’s a crime!
-Michael R. Burch
The herons stand,
sentry-like, at attention ...
rigid observers of some unknown command.
-Michael R. Burch
Late
fall;
all
the golden leaves turn black underfoot:
soot
-Michael R. Burch
Dry leaf...
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Categories:
rhymed, family, heart, love, mother son, nature, seasons,
Form:
Haiku
The Remaining - Prologue: Terra Firma and the Bitumen“The Remaining”
PROLOGUE: “Terra Firma and The Bitumen”
"The slow descent into Hell
Had led Her mind to escape to Heaven
Her firmament was Her Mind
Her body just a Shell"
Heaven for Her existed in The Dream
She called Her...
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Categories:
rhymed, angel, daughter, god, heaven, imagery, jesus, mother,
Form:
Free verse
Medieval Poems VMedieval Poem V
A Proverb from Winfred's Time
anonymous Old English poem, circa 757-786
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
1.
The procrastinator puts off purpose,
never initiates anything marvelous,
never succeeds, and dies alone.
2.
The late-deed-doer delays glory-striving,
never indulges daring dreams,
never succeeds,...
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Categories:
rhymed, earth, england, love, middle school, poems, poets,
Form:
Rhyme
Wisdom's Marching CouncilI know you invited the Brothers to side-line along,
but only if we are here to listen;
Don't speak.
Yet I may have credential for qualifying voice.
For I, like some of you,
know what it means to develop cooperative,
too...
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Categories:
rhymed, deep, health, poverty, race, wisdom, women,
Form:
Political Verse
Veronica Franco TranslationsVeronica Franco translations
Veronica Franco (1546-1591) was a Venetian courtesan who wrote literary-quality poetry and prose.
Capitolo 19: A Courtesan's Love Lyric (I)
by Veronica Franco
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
"I resolved to make a virtue of...
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Categories:
rhymed, desire, french, joy, love, lust, poetess, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Winter Awakens My CareWinter Awakens My Care
anonymous Middle English poem, circa 1300
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Winter awakens all my care
as leafless trees grow bare.
For now my sighs are fraught
whenever it enters my thought:
regarding this world's joy,
how everything...
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Categories:
rhymed, angst, england, joy, sorrow, tree, weather, winter,
Form:
Couplet
Prose PoemsProse Poems
Something
by Michael R. Burch
Something inescapable is lost?lost like a pale vapor curling up into shafts of moonlight, vanishing in a gust of wind toward an expanse of stars immeasurable and void. Something uncapturable is...
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Categories:
rhymed, animal, child, childhood, children, magic, rose, science,
Form:
Prose
A Poem For My History TeacherI wanted to write
The best slavery poem ever written—
Perhaps win a Pulitzer or Faulkner.
I had every intention of conforming
To the standards
Of modern verse and composition,
Lyrics fluidly written,
Perfect...
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Categories:
rhymed, assonance, forgiveness, history, holocaust, humanity, memorial, slavery,
Form:
Rhyme
Translations of the Oldest Rhyming Poems In the English LanguageTranslations of the Oldest English Rhyming Poems
The Rhymed Poem aka The Rhyming Poem aka The Riming Poem
Old English/Anglo-Saxon poem from the Exeter Book, circa 990 AD
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
(excerpt)
He who granted me life...
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Categories:
rhymed, england, poems, poetry, poets, words, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
The Rhyming Poem - Part IThe Rhymed Poem aka The Rhyming Poem and The Riming Poem
Old English Poem (i.e., Anglo-Saxon Poem) from the Exeter Book, ca. 990 AD
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
He who granted me life created this sun
and...
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Categories:
rhymed, england, literature, poems, poetry, poets, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
The Rhyming Poem - Part IiThe Rhymed Poem aka The Rhyming Poem and The Riming Poem - Part II
anonymous Old English Poem from the Exeter Book, circa 990 AD
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
He who granted me life created this...
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Categories:
rhymed, england, literature, poems, poetry, poets, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
2020At first, it wasn't my father's Oldsmobile.
Then, there came a longing for a new identity
with an invasion of one morphing after another.
Next thing I knew, there was 'no' Oldsmobile.
It seems that so many things started...
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Categories:
rhymed, america, anxiety, christian, christmas, god, hope, joy,
Form:
Rhyme
Unquotable Quotes: Paris the Last Week of the August Reprieve - Xxxv Part OneUnquotable quotes: Paris, the last week of the August reprieve – XXXV
Part One ...
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Categories:
rhymed, august, autumn, farewell, september, society,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Crop Failure - Bitter HarvestThe past can’t tell the future; I'd almost forgotten this,
The past six years had brought me higher yields than average,
Though expectations soared, now nada, nothing, zilch.
Our wheat fields decimated from the lack of rain.
And those...
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Categories:
rhymed, anti bullying, bible, faith, life, love,
Form:
Free verse
Translation With Commentary of Mais Que Dieu Me Pardonne By T WignesanTranslation of Kendji Girac and Claudio Capeo's Que Dieu me pardonne by T Wignesan
Lyrics by Kendji Girac and Renaud REBILLAUD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP2jp31jFMc
(The two young French songsters' duet, now, yo-yo-ing in the upper echelons of c-Star...
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Categories:
rhymed, courage, dance, encouraging, god, heart, poetry, song,
Form:
Couplet
Fire Cypher 2 For My HatersThis is a lethal ink injection.
I know I’m blessed to have rejection
Haters in my life
only lead to introspection
Understand
I’m still the man
Who are you to question
I agree to disagree
With all your...
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Categories:
rhymed, art, hip hop, rap,
Form:
Rhyme
Parts and Holes"You are a part of me
I do not yet know"
claims interdependent Valarie Kaur
And I wonder,
Is she speaking to me?
Or rhetorically asking any stranger
except me,
already known
because I feel her same unitarian way
already grown
Ego/Eco-centering balanced
symmetrically integral
as a...
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Categories:
rhymed, earth, health, integrity, time,
Form:
Political Verse
Thick Mist - WujueRHYME SCHEME abcb
Thick mist / sharp rocks cut
Dense rain / strong wind whips
Vast drought / weak build folds
Trade boon / graft wrecks ships
RHYME SCHEME aaba
Thick mist / sharp rock strips
Dense rain / strong wind whips
Vast...
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Categories:
rhymed, analogy, nature,
Form:
Jueju
21 WomenWhen the American flag waved bravely, for women it did not FURL.
However, many bold and determined women have changed the WORLD.
I am a proud bother of 8 sisters;
Two of whom are older and 6 are...
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Categories:
rhymed, women,
Form:
Ode
Fox News Is Fraud NewsFOX NEWS article rhymed
When Donald Trump lost the presidency, Fox News lost too
“We’re bleeding eyeballs,” a Fox producer remarked “And we’re scared of blue”
But unlike Trump, Fox was never in denial about its loss...
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Categories:
rhymed, america, anger,
Form:
Rhyme
Truth Shortchanged"Each popular belief sans proof endures."
-- Jezeús
* * *
Despite the countless beings dying here as well as there,
this earth is...
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Categories:
rhymed, pain,
Form:
Rhyme
The Butterfly, Part IiThe buttery changed the subject
To lighten the atmosphere
He decided to make the object
My preoccupation with fear
The butterfly said, “Why are you afraid to give something a try?”
“You shouldn’t worry, you’re not gonna die”
“Are you afraid...
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Categories:
rhymed, allegory, allusion, analogy, butterfly, me, mental illness,
Form:
Rhyme
8 Line Challenge For Eric Boddie8 LINE CHALLENGE For ERIC BODDIE
8 LINE CHALLENGE for Eric Boddie
Line challenge for Eric Bodie
PLEASE KEEP IT GOING
by: All of Us
Eight lines at a time
I don't care if you do or do not...
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Categories:
rhymed, humor, poetry, writing, universe,
Form:
Verse
The Gift of 'Not' Knowing - Now With CommentsThe Gift of ‘Not’ Knowing
I have toyed with the thought of free-will as a curse
(Hell reserved for bad choices, but Grace earned a joke?)
Is there madness or peace for those gifted by God
(or by dust...
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Categories:
rhymed, blessing, love, poetry, writing,
Form:
Rhyme