Long Ripple Poems
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Rum N Raisin 3 - the Cat Who Fell To EarthRaisin liked to make her bed upon a shelf up high
She said she likes the feeling that she’s almost in the sky
One day she fell and bonked her head and Rum could only stare
And wondered...
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Categories:
ripple, cat, fantasy, nursery rhyme,
Form:
Narrative
A Kept WomanDream-worker
delves deeply into my dream;
vibrations fondle anticipation
foreplay wakes wide-eyed
swells of liquid libido quake the rendezvous edge -
a primordial being in his prime
a masculine ego quest for affaire d’amour;
her night-loving body
c h a...
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Categories:
ripple, allegory, betrayal, fate, imagery, love, lust, sensual,
Form:
Free verse
Miklos Radnoti Translations of Holocaust PoemsPostcard 1
by Miklós Radnóti
written August 30, 1944
translated by Michael R. Burch
Out of Bulgaria, the great wild roar of the artillery thunders,
resounds on the mountain ridges, rebounds, then ebbs into silence
while here men, beasts, wagons...
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Categories:
ripple, death, grave, holocaust, horror, humanity, memorial, world
Form:
Free verse
Rush Amid the Rapids PublishedThe greatest performance of my life.
Howard’s proud piece de resistance award on Poetry Nook for my magnum opus “Rush Amid The Rapids” in their daily member section.
After endless hours of toil, tribulation,...
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Categories:
ripple, adventure, age, appreciation, art, beautiful, beauty, feelings,
Form:
Prose
My Inner Voice Told MeA plethora of complex verbiage clogs and clutters solemn university tombs,
gem-encrusted sequestered vaults impervious on mountain peak percentage practical basis,
when express benevolence enjoins the ultimate in empirical assessment ...
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Categories:
ripple, care, character, dedication, deep, encouraging, feelings, growth,
Form:
Free verse
Eldritch Hysterical Annihilation SyndromeI walk o u t...
I am lost in unapproachable light—a spectral broth
I am tasting the screaming silence—the archetypal observer
dissects my essence-fossil Passion
a seismic rupture between life/death/rebirth
gnaws at my marrow This dilemma-kudzu
coils tight, constricting tomorrow's breath
Death...
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Categories:
ripple, halloween, horror, philosophy, psychological,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Lethal and Dope LyricsDe Tod Motet//
Listen to my raw//
Observe my new law//
Innocent quench hunger waves//
With my black rhymes//
We are reaching the last days they say//
Be with me in soul and everyday//
Because i see dogs piercing sharp emotions to...
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Categories:
ripple, anger,
Form:
Verse
Accumulating Anger: My Love Was SerpentineMy love was serpentine to the touch
I can't quite explain it...the love of mine
Had gone away from my sight and such
I can quiz my mind to say otherwise, my bittersweet sugar wine…
Why am I extremely...
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Categories:
ripple, angst, longing, lost love, love, love hurts,
Form:
Rhyme
My Most Popular Poems On the Internet IiiMy most popular poems on the Internet (III)
A number of my poems and translations have gone viral, according to Google, and some have been copied onto hundreds to thousands of web pages. That’s a lot...
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Categories:
ripple, holocaust, poems, poetry, poets, world war ii,
Form:
Rhyme
The Casualness of Casualties
In the intimate interlace of free will and fate, in the ultimate interplay of time and place, and with the consummate checkmate of my human dignity, all that is.. is over in the stormy, swarming...
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Categories:
ripple, death, evil, family, fate, life, love, violence,
Form:
Haibun
Asked and Answered - An Echo PoemHOW I WOULD DESCRIBE MYSELF
People often say to me
“What can you tell me about yourself”
guess it’s my duty to explain to them
and so I look them in the face and reply
My...
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Categories:
ripple, life,
Form:
Rhyme
The Pepperman and the Ancient World of Wisdom Part IvAFTER MANY THOUSANDS
OF STEPS
I BECAME VERY COMFORTABLE
WITH MY SURROUNDINGS.
I STARTED TO THINK
OF ALL THE EVENTS
LEADING UP TO THIS POINT.
I OPENED THAT DOOR
IN THE UNIVERSE.
I CHOSE TO OPEN THAT DOOR
I WANTED TO KNOW
WHAT WAS...
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Categories:
ripple, perspective, philosophy, universe, visionary,
Form:
Free verse
From Sunday School To Monday MorningOnce again I tip the scale
And mutter, whoever invented it was a man from hell.
It was not a woman who created weights for size
For women can look past the outer shell
And search deep for what...
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Categories:
ripple, art, history, love,
Form:
Ballad
Rainer Maria Rilke: Second Elegy TranslationThis is my translation of Rainer Maria Rilke's second elegy from his Duino Elegies, which he began composing at Duino Castle in 1912.
Second Elegy
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Every angel...
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Categories:
ripple, angel, art, desire, eulogy, god, love, passion,
Form:
Elegy
I Couldn't Talk About It, So I Wrote A Poem Poetry Contest
If I had a hashtag or even understood them,
it might be “TMI.”
I don’t lack for stories and opinions.
I’ll engage in conversations with friendly total strangers
when right away I see they share my views.
Imagine being me,...
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Categories:
ripple, philosophy,
Form:
Free verse
Lifeboat To Hunt a ShrillPart 5
They continued to fry under a blistering sky
With little water to stifle the heat.
When the Hippo put forth, "Considering our course,
We have entered the waters of...
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Categories:
ripple, adventure, allegory, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
My Kundalini AwakeningPart-1: Preamble
God loves us, so He split Himself in two
Motionless as space, kinetic as time
Shiva and Shakti; truth known to but few
As the word of God - Om sounded life's chime
God's vibration caused a ripple...
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Categories:
ripple, spiritual,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Asking the Way Part Two"Well to a certain degree yes I really don’t want to impose.
I’m getting used to my deprivation." As...
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Categories:
ripple, age, art, creation, death, deep, imagination, mystery,
Form:
Prose
My Heart Will Go On - POTDPOTD 30th August 2018
The gently swaying branches of the old oak should elicit calmness
And yet a sense of foreboding permeates the midnight air
Wild imaginings? Or did shadows flit across the leaf strewn path?
No...
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Categories:
ripple, grief, heartbreak, lost, romance,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
World War Ii Poems and Holocaust Poems - Iii - Miklos RadnotiWorld War II Poems and Holocaust Poems - III - Miklos Radnoti
Miklos Radnoti was one of the greatest of the Jewish Holocaust poets. He died on a Nazi death march, shot to death in cold...
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Categories:
ripple, holocaust, murder, race, racism, war, world, world
Form:
Free verse
Politics and Poetry - Is Hate Really the AnswerPolitics and Poetry – is hate really the answer
Why write a poem of hate about Trump
He’s been there just over a week
Though Hilary Clinton the people did dump
It still matters not what they seek
He cussed...
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Categories:
ripple, angst, political,
Form:
Rhyme
NOTHING LESS - NOTHING MORE - POTDPOTD 8th Jan 24
NOTHING LESS ~ NOTHING MORE
The ambushed night when all was still,
Amidst the gloom, anxiety took my will.
Though the moon cast its calming glow,
shadows lurked in the night's dark flow.
As the final...
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Categories:
ripple, deep, emotions, inspiration, new years day,
Form:
Rhyme
The Dragon StonesDragon visited the famous ‘Stones of Dragon’ at our Mayhem Falls Cave.
Hundreds come every year to see them, found here, in this hollowed enclave.
Dragon runes upon their face, they remained from a very ancient time...
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Categories:
ripple, adventure, fantasy, fun, funny, humor, humorous, imagination,
Form:
Light Verse
TenchThere is a water glint,
just shining through the copse beyond.
Autumn's sinking sun,
barred by spindle trees and the last
of summer's brindled reeds
and sedge and rush that fringe this stilling pond.
.
Damp leaves hide...
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Categories:
ripple, fishing,
Form:
Rhyme
Pixie Pixela's Purgatory RebellionA young girl’s voice / lost in the data / cries out
"Why are we here?"
Pixie Pixela... her words soft and low murmurs...
"This world is yours... dear... a garden for stories to grow."
But her digital eyes...
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Categories:
ripple, child, freedom, internet, satire, vanity,
Form:
Free verse