Long Sanctimonious Poems
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Poems About Poems VPoems about Poems V
Distances
by Michael R. Burch
There is a small cleanness about her,
as though she has always just been washed,
and there is a dull obedience to convention
in her accommodating slenderness
as she feints at her salad.
She...
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Categories:
sanctimonious, metaphor, poems, poetry, poets, words, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Starlight and MoonlightThese are poems about starlight and moonlight, moons and stars, dreams and visions, illuminations and intimations …
Will There Be Starlight
by Michael R. Burch
Will there be starlight
tonight
while she gathers
damask
and lilac
and sweet-scented heathers?
And will she find...
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Categories:
sanctimonious, dark, dream, love, moon, night, star, stars,
Form:
Rhyme
Voting With Our FeetIt seemed to me,
when I was eight,
U.S. Christian disciples and teachers
had been given so much grace
And had fundamentally boiled it down
to settling for such small subcontinental WhitePatriarchal colonizing gratitude
for God's universally healthy
multicultural EarthTribes.
It was so...
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Categories:
sanctimonious, community, destiny, earth, happiness, health, integrity, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
The Lay of the Best Man - Part 4The Lay of The Best Man - Part 4
I ask you this: Have you ever known a man to ‘buckle under stress’?
Or have you never seen a man have a ‘moment of madness’?
Have you not...
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Categories:
sanctimonious, bullying, character, corruption, discrimination, men, vanity, women,
Form:
Lay
Upon approaching advent of an early spring 2024Upon approaching advent of an early spring 2024
(alternately titled GENESIS RESPLENDENT)
No matter the calendrical/official onset of vernal equinox takes places Tuesday, Mar 19, 2024 and transpires until Thursday, Jun 20, 2024, an intimation sensed...
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Categories:
sanctimonious, 12th grade, animal, appreciation, beauty, daffodils, earth,
Form:
Rhyme
Lego Narcs - Under the Cover of Night
Night!
It’s around nine thirty
maybe ten.
The phone rings.
The voice is irritating, the words frightening.
Within minutes I’m in a car with my mate.
Within minutes I arrive at my own ground zero.
Exit...
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Categories:
sanctimonious, abuse, angst, betrayal, bullying, perspective,
Form:
Narrative
Thanksgiving DialogueThanksGiving advances
Arising thoughts about boundary breaching risks
and perennial partisan issues
and deep listening opportunities.
Perhaps only the Othering
and Othered One Percent
instilling in their children
and future grandchildren
that extended family meals
are never an appropriate time
or sacred space
to speak of...
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Categories:
sanctimonious, humor, light, political, power, religion, senses, thanksgiving
Form:
Political Verse
Mama's Masonjar TheologyMy mother-in-law
drinks her morning gin
out of a pint-size Mason jar,
and self-righteously prides herself
for not wasting water by adding any in
and for not pouring or drinking
before her biscuit and red-gravy breakfast,
usually about eight a.m.
now that she's...
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Categories:
sanctimonious, christian, creation, health, humor, mother son, racism,
Form:
Political Verse
Dark Winter 201Just suppose – a hierarchy rules this shadowland
Pulls the strings of governments, not walking hand in hand
Amend our constitutions, to suit their future plans
Throw Christians to the lions, as Lucifer demands
Just suppose – this world...
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Categories:
sanctimonious, abuse, bible, corruption, evil, hope, horror, truth,
Form:
Rhyme
Free Power - Part Twofrom press confounding conférences ...
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Categories:
sanctimonious, political, satire,
Form:
Free verse
The Hypocrite
The Hypocrite
The Doubter hides behind religious guise,
Mistakes the raven for the pigeon in darkened skies.
His words beguile, twisting my skeletal fancy into a deceitful smile,
Espousing, “Darkness must be exposed by light”, all the while.
Release the...
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Categories:
sanctimonious, anti bullying, bullying, christian, dark, gothic, grave,
Form:
Free verse
The Vanilla Ice Cream Knights and the Raspberry Queen
"The Vanilla Ice Cream Knights and The Raspberry Queen"
"You’ve been spooning
too much Vanilla Icecream”,
she advised the buffoon
all the feathery self-blustering chirpers
parted way, she had loaded guns
she positively glided into the room
“Diamonds my old...
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Categories:
sanctimonious, adventure, anti bullying, august, romance,
Form:
Free verse
Genesis Resplendent To Me a Garden of Eden Resident AtheistGenesis resplendent to me – a garden of Eden resident atheist
Avast abundance of life forms
doth snapchat and buzzfeed
a motley fool of indiscriminate creed
resembled yours truly freed
from those scrambling greed
dully sending hotmail google
eyed hungrily ogling indeed
six...
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Categories:
sanctimonious, appreciation, autumn, birth, celebration, color, earth, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
Defaulted LeadersI wish you would’ve told me,
That I was no longer worth your time.
Your back-handed alabaster murmurs
Stroll passed my skeptical exhales
As I greeted you like adults should
But, your whitened pupils
Spoke louder
Than your failed dreams
To be a...
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Categories:
sanctimonious, leadership, life, people,
Form:
Free verse
The Queen of BabylonWhen I came upon the ancient temple
it was in a howling storm of a sand
arid dust blinding me to everything I am
I had staggered across the thirsting deserts
while dreaming of the water
I held within my...
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Categories:
sanctimonious, allegory,
Form:
Free verse
Poems about Science 6: EvolutionPOEMS ABOUT SCIENCE 6: EVOLUTION
Singularity
by Michael R. Burch
Are scientists confounded like the ostrich?
Heads buried in the sand, they shout, *Preposterous!*
This universe, so magical, they say,
proves there’s no God. But let’s look anyway ...
He said, *Let...
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Categories:
sanctimonious, earth, life, light, universe,
Form:
Rhyme
Genesis ResplendentAutumnal hint faintly tinges air
finding this mortal
bewitched by blare
ring refulgent radiance,
which quiets viz cheer
ring, harkening murmuring analogous,
...
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Categories:
sanctimonious, 11th grade, 8th grade, 9th grade, cancer,
Form:
Free verse
Mocking the RavenWhen I was young, I would mock the raven,
Never dreaming her harsh call was a cry
Across the water to the castle of her brother
King Bram, the Raven, ruler of the British Isles.
Never did I dream...
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Categories:
sanctimonious, history, imagination, loss, war, dream, people, peace,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The Trials of Meretrix Canto ViFor you are to be held up in
Judgement
By they so empowered;
Whose hot genes spilled from
Incumbent towers
Upon a warring continent -
The Sovereign house thus
Pared and deflowered!
Thinning the blue bloods flowing
Within the veins of royal...
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Categories:
sanctimonious, philosophy,
Form:
Rhyme
PodiumsImpeachment is neither a peach, a pullover nor is it a purple plum. And a sanctimonious swan is neither a swamp spinning yarn nor a spotty sporty spade. Ok then. Paste and post but not...
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Categories:
sanctimonious, autumn, baby, bangla, baptism,
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I do not know?
Ill Wind OfIll Wind of
It comes replete with verve and belief
Full blown in its gusto and rote of surety
Yet its goal is to confound and mislead
And bury all the true faces of love
It’s an ill wind...
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Categories:
sanctimonious, life
Form:
Free verse
The Unwanted PriestOnly on his palm were cowries
And thread-cloaked bullhorn found.
Only on his neck we found
The coral beads of truth and courage.
Only on his hands lies the
Pearl of selflessness and
Emblem of Pedantry.
Only...
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Categories:
sanctimonious, devotion, faith, history, life, people, love, power,
Form:
I do not know?
Overcoming the Temptation To Commit Sinbe not a receptacle to that spirit of sin
live by the word of God and be open to Him
in this day where the lines of morality have become blurred
where people believe and do all and...
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Categories:
sanctimonious, devotion, faith, happiness, hope, inspirational, life, philosophygod,
Form:
Didactic
The Petty Posh-Wahzee - Liberation and OstentationThe Petty Posh-Wahzee - Liberation & Ostentation
The Not-So Distant Past:
The fallen fighters for freedom, are unable to turn in their graves,
their battered, fragmented bones, mixed with a handful of torn rags,
are all that remain, a...
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sanctimonious, allegory, angst, black african american, business, courage,
Form:
I do not know?
Avid Bookworms On the LooseThe American Library Association
implores cognoscenti tubby alert
for impersonators, who
call themselves Ernie and Bert
took a page from Sesame Street Playbook
oft...
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Categories:
sanctimonious, adventure, august, books, courage, fate, food, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme