Long Runs Poems
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MY HUSBAND 101 AIRBOURNE SCREAMING EAGLES MY HERO AND I EMBRACE STOLEN VALOR UPON US
WE CATER TO ONE ANOTHER MORE DURING THESE HARSH TIMES OF EMOTIONAL CRUELTY ACTUALLY TWO WHOLE YEARS WHEN IT STARTED AGAIN STALKERS THREATENING MY LIFE AFTER A FAILED ASSASINATION ATTEMPT ON MY LIFE SEVERE IDENTITY...
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Categories:
runs, allah,
Form:
Naat
Liquor of Lament: My Glass Is Half Full
Verse 6: I've given up love countless times
I needed to pay up for my heartbroken crimes
I already repented for my sins that made my high hopes paper-thin
Don't you feel that envy from deep within?...
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Categories:
runs, addiction, cute love, deep, depression, desire, hope,
Form:
Lyric
Letters For People Part 4
Dear people,
(Am i?) Mad it’s a conformist state?
A status that perpetuates people to pair, to compare, to prepare,
to perfect, before performance, …?
-sure hard to try...
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Categories:
runs, america, angst, business, confusion, feelings, poverty,
Form:
Epic
Emo Love
With this needle and thread I stitch the wounds Avril left
but with this blade I angrily carve a new
rough, short, jagged adjacent from the bone in my wrist
for a reflection of our relationship
and an outlet...
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Categories:
runs, anxiety, beauty, emo, i love you, jealousy,
Form:
Narrative
Two Lovers V - Convenience Store
She looked at him concerned
"Oh my God, we forgot the buns!"
A barbeque happening
Guests arriving
Coals flaming
Food prepared
But nothing to put burgers on
For their housewarming
Hasty instructions and some cash
From his Lover and her roomies
Then he starts to...
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Categories:
runs, first love, happy, relationship, romance, romantic love,
Form:
Free verse
Poems About the Coronavirus I
Poems about the Coronavirus I
yet another iffy coronavirus haiku #1
by michael r. burch
plagued by the Plague
i plague the goldfish
with my verse
yet another iffy coronavirus haiku #2
by michael r. burch
sunflowers
hang their heads
embarrassed by their coronas
I wrote...
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Categories:
runs, absence, anxiety, bereavement, caregiving, death, depression, fear,
Form:
Haiku
Open Oceans
"Open Oceans"
Kneeling on pearls
wisdom preys
praying
preying
hungry hearts
count the days
wasting away
in all that preying
for prayers
to be answered
children become
strangers
reading
strange words
finding
themselves puzzled
genuflecting to a deity
they do not know, nor wish to
fumbling
mouths closed,
swallowed hole
in the...
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Categories:
runs, journey, love, mother daughter,
Form:
Epic
Wonderland
Wonderland
by Michael R. Burch
We stood, kids of the Lamb, to put to test
the beatific anthems of the blessed,
the sentence of the martyr, and the pen’s
sincere religion. Magnified, the lens
shot back absurd reflections of each...
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Categories:
runs, allegory, allusion, analogy, crazy, fantasy, imagination, magic,
Form:
Sonnet
Animal Poems
Dot Spotted
by Michael R. Burch
There once was a leopardess, Dot,
who indignantly answered: "I’ll not!
The gents are impressed
with the way that I’m dressed.
I wouldn’t change even one spot."
Stage Craft-y
by Michael R. Burch
There once was a dromedary
who...
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Categories:
runs, animal, cat, dog, friend, friendship, friendship love,
Form:
Limerick
The Book of Changes
"The Book of Changes"
Thoughts arrived before words,
1000s of years before
the crossing of curves
always seen to be
swimming upstream
against the current
thoughts … and feelings,
in the flow, always arrive
before words, they are cast
in the...
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Categories:
runs, muse, mystery, spiritual, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
Epitaph For a Palestinian Child
Epitaph for a Palestinian Child
by Michael R. Burch
I lived as best I could, and then I died.
Be careful where you step: the grave is wide.
This poem has also been titled "Epitaph for a Child of...
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Categories:
runs, absence, bereavement, conflict, death, discrimination, eulogy, funeral,
Form:
Epitaph
Poems About Fathers and Grandfathers I
Poems about Fathers and Grandfathers I
I translated the first six Native American poems for my father when he chose to enter hospice and end his life by not taking dialysis …
Cherokee Travelers' Blessing I
loose translation/interpretation...
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Categories:
runs, father, father daughter, father son, fathers day,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Butterflies and Bees
Poems about Butterflies and Bees
Flight
by Michael R. Burch
It is the nature of loveliness to vanish
as butterfly wings, batting against nothingness
seek transcendence...
Album
by Michael R. Burch
I caress them—trapped in brittle cellophane—
and I see how young they were,...
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Categories:
runs, animal, butterfly, flying, insect, sky, wind,
Form:
Rhyme
Where Does the Butterfly Go
Where Does the Butterfly Go?
by Michael R. Burch
for the children of the Holocaust and the Nakba
Where does the butterfly go
when lightning rails,
when thunder howls,
when hailstones scream,
when winter scowls,
when nights compound dark frosts with snow ...
Where...
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Categories:
runs, holocaust,
Form:
Verse
Poems About the Coronavirus Ii
Poems about the Coronavirus II
This World's Joy
(anonymous Middle English lyric, circa early 14th century AD)
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...
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Categories:
runs, fear, loneliness, loss, natural disasters, scary, social,
Form:
Rhyme
Tawfiq Zayyad Translation: Here We Shall Remain
Here We Shall Remain
by Tawfiq Zayyad
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Like twenty impossibilities
in Lydda, Ramla and Galilee ...
here we shall remain.
Like brick walls braced against your chests;
lodged in your throats
like shards of glass
or prickly cactus...
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Categories:
runs, arabic, poems, poverty, prison, race, racism, song,
Form:
Free verse
First They Came For the Muslims
First they came for the Muslims
after Martin Niemoller
First they came for the Muslims
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Muslim.
Then they came for the homosexuals
and I did not speak out
because I was...
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Categories:
runs, culture, discrimination, faith, god, islamic, truth, usa,
Form:
Free verse
Poems About Fathers and Grandfathers Iv
Poems about Fathers and Grandfathers IV
Neglect
by Michael R. Burch
What good are your tears?
They will not spare the dying their anguish.
What good is your concern
to a child sick of living, waiting to perish?
What good, the warm...
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Categories:
runs, family, father, father daughter, father son, fathers
Form:
Rhyme
Prophets and Messiahs
The difference between
bad-old-boy
competitively evolving
egg white privilege
And good-girl
cooperatively revolutionary
just-us-yolks
Foreshadows a symbiotic contrast
between prophetic performance
and messianic practice,
said Professor Glory
in her Gospel of Permaculture class,
one Friday morning
while sitting on her crass
desk of...
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Categories:
runs, destiny, environment, nature, science, truth, wisdom,
Form:
Political Verse
Cleansings
Cleansings
by Michael R. Burch
Walk here among the walking specters. Learn
inhuman patience. Flesh can only cleave
to bone this tightly if their hearts believe
that God is good, and never mind the Urn.
A lentil and a bean might...
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Categories:
runs, holocaust, prison, race, racism, violence, world war
Form:
Verse
Medieval Poems Iii
Medieval Poems
Deor's Lament (Anglo Saxon poem, circa 10th century AD)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Weland knew the agony of exile.
That indomitable smith was wracked by grief.
He endured countless troubles:
sorrows were his only companions
in his frozen...
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Categories:
runs, england, grief, poems, poetry, poets, sorrow, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
If I Falter
If I Falter
by Michael R. Burch
for Beth
If I regret
fire in the sunset
exploding on the horizon,
then let me regret loving you.
If I forget
even for a moment
that you are the only one,
then let me forget that the...
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Categories:
runs, desire, engagement, fire, for her, friendship love,
Form:
Verse
Poems About Children V
Poems about Children V
Pan
by Michael R. Burch
Among the shadows of the groaning elms,
amid the darkening oaks, we fled ourselves
Once there were paths that led to coracles
that clung to piers like loosening barnacles
where we cannot return,...
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Categories:
runs, autumn, baseball, child, childhood, children, dog, sports,
Form:
Rhyme
Winter Awakens My Care
Winter 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:
runs, angst, england, joy, sorrow, tree, weather, winter,
Form:
Couplet
I Broke Your Heart and Mine
(His Version of Break My Heart)
I have each piece, each shattered part of your heart that I broke in two, I feel every ounce of pain, every emotion, just as you
I would never take this...
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Categories:
runs, heartbreak,
Form:
Rhyme