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Translation of Eric Mottram's Poem 33 In Interrogation Rooms 1980-82 By T Wignesan Translation of Eric Mottram’s Poem 33 in Interrogation Rooms by T. Wignesan
33. on a vu un homme courir/ de la scène de crime un homme est maintenant en train d’aider/ la police avec...
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Categories:
rushed, america, conflict, culture, , literature,
Form:
Free verse
Honey Bee Flying Around In WinterI have been reluctant to pen this verse
Because I don't understand what it was all about
I have been reluctant to pen this verse
Because I don't want anyone to get hurt
Morning comes and evening...
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Categories:
rushed, angel, blessing, business, community, freedom, mythology, people,
Form:
Narrative
LimericksLimericks
by Michael R. Burch
Clyde Lied!
by Michael R. Burch
There once was a mockingbird, Clyde,
who bragged of his prowess, but lied.
To his new wife he sighed,
"When again, gentle bride?"
"Nevermore!" bright-eyed Raven replied.
The Platypus
by Michael R. Burch
The platypus,...
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Categories:
rushed, giggle, light, nonsense, parody, silly, smile, word
Form:
Limerick
Zen Death HaikuZen Death Haiku
Brittle cicada shell,
little did I know
you were my life!
—Shuho, translation by Michael R. Burch
Returning
as it came,
this naked worm.
—Shidoken, translation by Michael R. Burch
As dew glistens
on a lotus leaf,
so too I soon must vanish.
—Shinsui,...
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Categories:
rushed, age, autumn, bereavement, death, death of a
Form:
Haiku
Poems About IcarusSouthern Icarus
by Michael R. Burch
Windborne, lover of heights,
unspooled from the truck’s wildly lurching embrace,
you climb, skittish kite...
What do you know of the world’s despair,
gliding in vast solitariness there,
so that all that remains is to
fall?
Only a...
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Categories:
rushed, analogy, angel, bird, butterfly, extended metaphor, flying,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Butterflies and BeesPoems 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:
rushed, animal, butterfly, flying, insect, sky, wind,
Form:
Rhyme
Nemesis, Confrontation and the Rejoined Battle, Now CompletedNemesis, Confrontation And The Rejoined Battle,
Now Completed
(Nemesis) - Part One
O'lord of blight dare thee to now abide
Leaving thy abode to earthen realm ride
As punisher with dark universal might
As grief bearer, humanity to smite!
Dar'est thee enter,...
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Categories:
rushed, art, creation, faith, humanity, light, meaningful, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
- Au Revoir - Goodbye -- 2016 -
- JANUARY -
A freezing cold evening
Where the stars shining bright
With frost blade flanks
From mouth and nose steam
In the clear silence
White untrodden snows
Nature's frozen pulse
Sleep like a little baby
One gracious moon
After the night the...
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Categories:
rushed, remember,
Form:
Free verse
Chapter 73 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: the Historical Hakims' Hit the Road10 o'clock am the morning
Quest: A country side bike ride.
Molly woke Dolly and Damian.
Woke Everyone on that July
Morning of 2038. They had a Bicycle
Expedition to tend to plus a newly
Minted swimming pool...
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Categories:
rushed, cancer, missing you, nonsense, rude, scary, visionary,
Form:
Alliteration
Sonnets Lii-LxSonnets LII-LX
The Endeavors of Lips
by Michael R. Burch
How sweet the endeavors of lips: to speak
of the heights of those pleasures which left us weak
in love’s strangely lit beds, where the cold springs creak:
for there is...
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Categories:
rushed, dream, flower, hair, longing, love, pain, sensual,
Form:
Sonnet
Chapter 107 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: Family Festive Fountain Market JamboreeDate: January 2046
8:45 am in the Damian Domaine
Some are sleeping some are peeping
What are we eating? Said Molly to
Dolly. "What ever we can?" She replied
While still sleepy eyed checking
Supplies. So...
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Categories:
rushed, child, chocolate, confidence, family, father son,
Form:
Alliteration
Doggerel IiDoggerel II: Doggerel about Doggerel, or, More Nonsense Verse
The Board
by Michael R. Burch
Accessible rhyme is never good.
The penalty is understood:
soft titters from dark board rooms where
the businessmen paste on their hair
and, Walter Mitties, woo the...
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Categories:
rushed, animal, dog, humor, humorous, light, nonsense, silly,
Form:
Light Verse
My Most Popular Poems On the Internet IMy most popular poems on the Internet (I)
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:
rushed, internet, poems, poetry, poets, social, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
DEADLY GAME OF MRSAHow the Nation of Islam saved my granddaughter
from Catrina Bell queen pin gang leader it was a warm
day i was suffering from traumatic brain injury raising
five children including my granddaughter only four...
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Categories:
rushed, beautiful, daughter, granddaughter, grandmother, my child, writing,
Form:
Free verse
Brain InjuryPain settles in quite instantly your senses
are totally unprepared for this graveness
the notion to sleep sets in like an energetic
twilight phase the injury abruptly strangles
thought my ears are always ringing with this...
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Categories:
rushed, america, anxiety, beautiful, lonely, mental illness, peace,
Form:
Free verse
The Reluctant Serpent - a Fairy TaleOnce Upon a Time Everything was Perfect in Eden, NSW, Australia
This is a story about why snakes are reluctant to leave whenever you see them.
Why they hang about, instead of scurrying off.
A reluctant snake...
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Categories:
rushed, fairy,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
FBI ARLINGTON HEIGHTS ILLINOIS CONFIDENTIAL HUMANS SOURCE CRISIS TEAMCRISIS TEAM:HELLO WE ARE HERE TO HELP
AGENT BROWN: HELLO I AWAKEN EVERY NIGHT BETWEEN THREE OR FOUR AM I CANNOT BREATHE PANTING HEARING MY FETUS HEARTBEAT SO LOUDLY
CRISIS TEAM: YOU ARE...
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Categories:
rushed, america, analogy, anxiety, art, career, inspirational,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
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:
rushed, assonance, forgiveness, history, holocaust, humanity, memorial, slavery,
Form:
Rhyme
No Happy EndingBright lights, big city...
bright lights, big city dreams...
please just take me away tonight
Let me rest on your elegance tonight
I have no energy left to spend in reality
so please knock me unconscious
just to be in the...
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Categories:
rushed, friend, friendship, hate, heartbreak, irony, jealousy, loss,
Form:
Free verse
Poems About Flight, Flying and Birds IPoems about Flight, Flying, and Birds (I)
Flight
by Michael R. Burch
It is the nature of loveliness to vanish
as hummingbird wings, batting against nothingness
seek transcendence...
Southern Icarus
by Michael R. Burch
Windborne, lover of heights,
unspooled from the truck’s wildly lurching...
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Categories:
rushed, angel, animal, bird, flying, nature,
Form:
Free verse
Why I Don'T Trust Psychics - 2nd ThirdNOTE: This is the 2nd THIRD of a funny 3-part piece. No other way to post it due to file size limitations. It's a really fun poem, and I hope you'll take the time...
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Categories:
rushed, funny, humor,
Form:
Narrative
The Angry Black WomanShe stood with her back turned to me
Leaning slightly towards where the light tapered off into darkness
Her faced buried deep inside her cupped hands
Her own shadow towered over her seemingly at odds with her...
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Categories:
rushed, africa, anger, beauty, betrayal, black african american,
Form:
I do not know?
Once Upon A Time In Milton CreekThe sun was rising high in the east over the town of Milton creek
It was the eighteenth day of December, the start of Christmas week
All the store fronts were decorated; it was a colourful sight...
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Categories:
rushed, america, anniversary, christmas, remember,
Form:
Narrative
Loves Trial 5The Trial 5
Workers in the courtroom were making last minute sitting arrangement for Poetry Soup’s poets who have been following the case.
Their comments after reading the transcripts, were seen by Love. She...
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Categories:
rushed, heartbroken, hurt, judgement, love hurts,
Form:
Free verse
The Beast of the CaveWhen I was young, and adventure routine,
With excitement and newness still unforeseen
I was eager to spread my wings to the world
And seek more adventures as those wings unfurled
Within my long travels I happened to meet
Two...
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Categories:
rushed, adventure, dark, death, evil, scary,
Form:
Rhyme