Long Sailors Poems
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Juvenilia: Early Poems XiJuvenilia: Early Poems XI
Myth
by Michael R. Burch
after the sprung rhythm of Dylan Thomas
Here the recalcitrant wind
sighs with grievance and remorse
over fields of wayward gorse
and thistle-throttled lanes.
And she is the myth of the scythed wheat
hewn and...
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Categories:
sailors, boy, poems, poetry, student, teen, teenage, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Sonnets Xlii-LiSonnets XLII-LI
Distances
by Michael R. Burch
Moonbeams on water?
the reflected light
of a halcyon star
now drowning in night...
So your memories are.
Footprints on beaches
now flooding with water;
the small, broken ribcage
of some primitive slaughter...
So near, yet so far.
A Surfeit of...
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Categories:
sailors, bereavement, death, death of a friend, funeral,
Form:
Sonnet
Ante Bellum
“ANTE BELLUM”
BEIGEBest served where it can’t be seen
On Stirling Silver platters
With redruM narcotics
Delivered by sharp Blood-Red
Well-mannered talons
Strutting in sleek wet rolling tight-skirted
Long French Silk Stockinged legs all the way down to
Lethal Six Inch stilettos...
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Categories:
sailors, america, bible, corruption, imagery, war,
Form:
Free verse
Lifeboat the SinkingAs to the this and the that and the how and the why,
I pass no judgement on the tale at hand.
And leave it to scribes to much later decide
...
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Categories:
sailors, adventure, allegory, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Dont Know What Lies Ahead - the Monchielle Style~ Don't Know What Lies Ahead ~
( Monchielle )
~O~
Don't know what lies ahead
What will happen tomorrow
So each day just enjoy
Thank God for all...
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Categories:
sailors, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
In His Light - the Mirrored Hourglass Style ~ In His Light~
( Mirrored Hourglass )
LOVE TRUST LORD PURSUE HIS WAY
Lord won't leave you alone
His mercy will show
When with Lord stay
IN HIS LIGHT
You'll walk
You'll walk
IN HIS LIGHT
When with Lord stay
His mercy will...
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Categories:
sailors, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
Early Poems IiJuvenilia: Early Poems by Michael R. Burch
Desdemona
by Michael R. Burch
Though you possessed the moon and stars,
you are bound to fate and wed to chance.
Your lips deny they crave a kiss;
your feet deny they ache to...
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sailors, poems, poetry, poets, teen, write, writing, youth,
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Rhyme
Deadly VoyageDEADLY VOYAGE:
This is ANDERSON WALKINGSHOES
Intro:
The road is slippery,
And we got to tread cauteously,
So we don't miss our step, basical
This is ANDERSON WALKINGSHOES
This is ANDERSON WALKINGSHOES....
Chorus:
Hajei....hajei....hajei....
Perception is troubling everyone,
Everyone is being...
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Categories:
sailors, analogy,
Form:
Classicism
The Holy Bible - the Quatern Style~ The Holy Bible ~
(Quatern)
It tells the beginning of man
How God created all from start
He made the moon, stars, earth, day, night
It tells of...
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Categories:
sailors, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
My AlphabetA a big A little a
What words start with the letter A
...
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Categories:
sailors, children, kindergarten, preschool,
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Abecedarian
Beware the Ides of March 2023Beware The Ides of March 2023
Ides simply referred to first new moon,
which usually fell between
the thirteenth and fifteenth day
of a given month.
The following events all occurred
fifteenth of March
across span of millenniums.
One:...
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Categories:
sailors, abuse, age, anniversary, betrayal, conflict, crush, dark,
Form:
Rhyme
The Gospel According To the BluesmanThe Gospel according to The Bluesman
Gianni watched the clouds move in
Closed his window for the rain
It was spring and that meant
That it was gonna storm again
He looked out at the street outside
He saw a man...
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Categories:
sailors, 7th grade, america, gospel,
Form:
Rhyme
Reflections By Commodore John Barry“He fought often and once bled in the cause of freedom, but his habits of War did not lessen in him the peaceful virtues which adorn his private life.” Doctor Benjamin Rush, signer of...
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Categories:
sailors, adventure, autumn, dedication, history, longing, military, sea,
Form:
Epic
Disturbing Evil emergedMy terror began decades ago as I’d witnessed the plotting plans of taking a building down meetings conversations of how dynamite hand grenades including golf balls with draino finally dust pans to pour gasoline underneath...
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Categories:
sailors, allah,
Form:
Naat
The Moon Also Rises - the MidwatchThe Moon Also Rises
The Midwatch
Harry Mayer
The X.O.’s in the shower
and the Captain’s in his bed.
The Chiefs’ are playin’ poker
as we’re steamin’ to the Med.
“I’ll take that bet and raise you”
is what the Bo’sun says
from the...
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Categories:
sailors, humor, military, sea,
Form:
ABC
A Ghetto Conversation
Hey bruh,
haven’t you heard,
ain’t you read the news?
The White House is gonna eradicate
the fear infested inner city blues
That Trump fella says,
he’s got his poison pen ready to use
He says black folks got nothing...
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Categories:
sailors, culture, prejudice, truth, word play,
Form:
Verse
Reversals of Fortune - 6 SharingsReversals of Fortune
I. Most think luck’s just what happens, though love groks luck’s seized
by each seed that sticks (somehow) in less stone-filled ground
(which its siblings blow off or press past). That’s less luck
to my brain...
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Categories:
sailors, fun, life, science,
Form:
Rhyme
The LetterThe Letter
A young man strolled along the waterfront,
His mind and heart at ease.
Said an old man, sitting on an upturned punt,
Gazing out towards the sea.
“Come...
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Categories:
sailors, boy, happiness, irony, loneliness, lost love,
Form:
Rhyme
The Ballad of CircumlocutionIn realms where thought and tempests meet
where shifting sands outpace the feet
a creature stirs with cunning guise
Circumlocution cloaked in darkened skies
its words like desert viper’s sting
they strike the heart then coil and cling.
Through jungles thick...
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Categories:
sailors, allegory, allusion, confusion, philosophy, society, vanity,
Form:
Ballad
A Man and the Moon Prose VersionSebastian looked at the moon, the source of his inspiration. When the Moon appeared in its silvery glory, he was profoundly moved to write. Sadly he could only write during a full moon. This was...
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Categories:
sailors, day, fantasy, home, moon, ocean, romance, words,
Form:
Prose
Ironies Within IroniesThe morning sun filters through dust-laden windows of the district education office like an unwelcome truth trying to penetrate wilful ignorance. Shelves buckle under the weight of untouched research journals like abandoned promises, their spines...
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Categories:
sailors, education, irony,
Form:
Haibun
major storm on the horizon reported from the forecastlemajor storm on the horizon reported from the "Fo'c'sle"
Though forever being a landlubber
a vision analogous to the nether world
deep within the bowels of the Earth
immensely distant from the sheltering sky
amidst a thick fog enveloped landscape
with...
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Categories:
sailors, absence, anxiety, destiny, god, mental health, mythology,
Form:
Free verse
The Shimmer of the Sound, Run Aground a songSong lyrics with Poem pieced in. © Artimus The Poet Susan Manley 11-24-2024 All Rights Reserved #Sunomusic #ArtimusThePoet
[Musical Introduction]
[Verse]
It came to me in waves...
and over the days...
to join in this song...
the sway of the sea...
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Categories:
sailors, beach, Lullaby, music, poetry, sea,
Form:
Lyric
Beef Jerkey and a Bottle of WineA tramp steamer plies an ocean of fog.
The Chief Bos’n makes a note in the log while the helmsman
Strains to see beyond the wheel.
The ship’s Captain leaves the bridge with a groan....
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Categories:
sailors, adventure, sea,
Form:
Ballad
Fearing the SailEven though you're hours upon
hours away...
You make me feel like a
whirlpool being fueled by the
rain...
Sucking up every word and
hmmm that you breathe...
Constantly drowning all of the
doubts that tread in...
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Categories:
sailors, adventure
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I do not know?