Long Scouring Poems
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Tawfiq Zayyad Translation: Here We Shall RemainHere 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:
scouring, arabic, poems, poverty, prison, race, racism, song,
Form:
Free verse
Prose Poems IiProse Poems II
by Michael R. Burch
These are prose poems (is that an oxymoron?) and experimental poems...
briefling
by Michael R. Burch
manishatched, hopsintotheMix, cavorts, hassex (quick!, spawnanewBrood!); then, likeamayfly, he’s suddenly gone: plantfood.
bachelorhoodwinked
by Michael R. Burch
u are charming...
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Categories:
scouring, poems, poetry, rose, roses are red, world,
Form:
Prose
Song From Beyond the Stars: New Adventure[ ... story with context, a plausible universe with top and bottom
a coat of cosmos covering
over a subterranean protoverse of potential fields
a quantum cellar creating
the very big...
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Categories:
scouring, adventure, destiny, future, imagination, journey, planet, science
Form:
Verse
My jubilant latent, nascent poetic tribute to black history monthMy jubilant latent, nascent poetic tribute to black history month
Which acknowledgement ought to be year round,
similar to altruistic, humanistic, and philanthropic
unconditional acceptance and respect
crafted with the following words
mostly written January 23rd, 2023,
cuz I, (a...
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Categories:
scouring, abuse, africa, age, america, anger, betrayal, black
Form:
Free verse
Chapter 144 -- DAMIAN DELILAH MALLORY HOLANNYA: Offspring and Desharah's BirthdayDate: October 2050
Cool October afternoon. Damali
Damian Sidney Amadeus Dolly
Molly and Holly planned a sort of
small birthday celebration for Desharah
and Sedanah both would soon be in
the beginning of...
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Categories:
scouring, 11th grade, allusion, best friend, child,
Form:
Alliteration
Nascent Poetic Tribute To Black History MonthNascent poetic tribute to black history month...
crafted before onset when people of color
got acknowledged for twenty eight or nine days
depending if leap year occurred.
Though I yam Caucasian,
rightful to honor most bitter
racist genocidal...
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Categories:
scouring, abuse, dream, evil, february, grave, hate, history,
Form:
Rhyme
My Nascent Poetic Tribute To Black History MonthMy nascent poetic tribute to black history month
more apropos and alternately titled:
praise to thee people
of variegated melanin color,
whose immense understated improvements
and enhancement of webbed wide world
worth more than paltry words
of yours truly can...
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Categories:
scouring, 12th grade, adventure, africa, anger, appreciation, beautiful,
Form:
Rhyme
Inevitable Death Defines LifeInevitable death defines afterlife
I mull mortality
thru lens crafted occipital orbs
regarding a better future
experience sing a space oddity –
whar incessant yaks
exuding a big hurt
emanate as cosmic atomic
bipedal hominids replete roof lee wax
during a...
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Categories:
scouring, absence, allah, angel, anxiety, atheist, bereavement, death,
Form:
Rhyme
African DreamIt must have been the darkest, deepest fate time create,
People saw and forgot the impact when history intervened.
We forgive and endure, but our minds will not forget
The Bizarre world trying to suppress our African...
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Categories:
scouring, africa, allusion, character, dream, future, history, people,
Form:
Ballad
SwangeThe moon has groaned home;
And soon the shadow’s drum,
Resonates the rhythmic silhouette,
To the ferocious pains of the spine;
Hear the heavy throbs of the drum,
The panting steps of the trumpet,
And the singing sage of the flute.
See...
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Categories:
scouring, 11th grade, abuse, africa,
Form:
Epic
Ability To Defecate Wildly Swings Both WaysAbility to defecate wildly swings (both ways)...
between incontinence and constipation
Irritable bowel syndrome i.e.
the former excretory bout I address
the above (polite way to phrase diarrhea)
and avoid moon efficient cheekiness,
yours truly doth buttress,
a literal warranted pain in...
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Categories:
scouring, 12th grade, adventure, desire, health, imagery, recovery
Form:
Free verse
Did I Say What I Said You SaidDid I say What I said You said
You said looking a little forlorn
a little redundant
the contradicting crosses in your eyelashes
thrusting forth the brazen prophet in you for the day
...
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Categories:
scouring, grief, humanity, metaphor, psychological, spoken word, words,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Heart of StoneHeart Of Stone
What a heart wrenching piece of news..
In today’s spread of daily news…
Boldly headlined ‘Mom: No Forgiveness”
It was about filial hurt and devastated dreams.
This news worthy piece of news was rather brief..
The...
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Categories:
scouring, anger, betrayal, daughter, emotions, family, forgiveness, mother
Form:
Narrative
Lighthouse KeeperLighthouse keeper vacancy announced
Envelope delivered; contents read aloud
A smile turned into laughter, then into a shout
Parents and Son hugged before he set off.
Applicants sitting quietly, Into the room strides a man
Age etched on his...
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Categories:
scouring, adventure, career, death,
Form:
Free verse
One Man Army of the Appocalypse2 million suicidal babies
the munchonsen of psychiatry
just pushed me over the edge
what do we say when we cross the border?
we're going to disneyland
what are we going to do when we get there
inform as many innocents...
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Categories:
scouring, confusion, death, history, political, visionary, warhappy, people,
Form:
Free verse
The Careful Dissemination of FundsI hear their idle chatter and wish that sound was optional.
A box checked in a menu, a simple click and forget.
The rapid dilation of my pupils brings me back.
Back to hypnotic aisles of temptation and...
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Categories:
scouring, computer-internet, funny, life, people, philosophy, political, social,
Form:
Prose Poetry
A Morning StarOh fallen star of Bethlehem, your established moment shines,
upon canvas of harsh intent, descendent of heavenly design?
A mighty angel’s leading light to those befallen, pleasure-bent?
Are gleaming eyes masking spites or, our demands, aspiring content?
Looking...
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Categories:
scouring, faithlight, star, light, men, star,
Form:
Free verse
Blood TestSeeming to decipher,
The count of the sample,
Whether white, red or dead,
It appears, each is ample,
The blood of our lives,
Not the fluid, arterial,
But the beings, among them,
Usurped the toy in your cereal,
Their daily appearance,
At the start...
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Categories:
scouring, brother, family, father, father son, mother, mother
Form:
Rhyme
Under the WaterfallWings flutter
off in the distance
as I shuffle through these stones,
tasting the energy trapped in each,
scouring my lands
for my lost crystal,
that which...
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Categories:
scouring, imagination, nature, passionhair, me,
Form:
Romanticism
My Nascent Poetic Tribute To Black History Month Mini Chap Book 1this just one example of many peoples
UNFAIRLY subjected
to subservience and exempt
from enjoying the fruits of their labor.
January twelfth two thousand and ten
(original date this communique writ then
kept wedged...
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Categories:
scouring, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form:
Imagism
Haitian EarthquakesJanuary twelfth two thousand and ten
October seventh two thousand eighteen
and again August fourteenth,
two thousand and twenty one
witnessed near annihilation and destruction
of the Haitian nation,
(especially courtesy first and third aforementioned)
whereby countless/ nameless...
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Categories:
scouring, angst, august, bereavement, conflict, earth, freedom, grief,
Form:
Rhyme
Human Organs AnyoneHuman Organs Anyone
Early this morning, there was this dire warning over social media...
Of a van apprehended in Thailand filled with bodies of dead children..
There was a disturbing photo of young children, some half naked...
Laid out...
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Categories:
scouring, abuse, business, community,
Form:
Free verse
How did I get here(writing for the voice of my son who has terminal illness)
Reality is searingly intimate. But they say anguish,
woes and sadness are emotions best shared.
I am not saying I enjoy lamenting on them or heaping
tribulations on...
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Categories:
scouring, death,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
I Try To Push the Wall Downthe sick sun returns to die my stomach stings squirms and burns eternity is calling out a warm meal my jaw tenses up the breath goes into my swollen throat a lady bug crawls on...
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Categories:
scouring, spiritual, visionary,
Form:
Free verse
Sacred Carnal CustodyJesus was a patristic carpenter,
a non-nationalistic builder
of goodnews communal structure,
a nonviolent communicating leader,
a multispirit-natural facilitator,
divinely humane bilateral
spiritual health is natural wealth
facilitator of recreative green
and blue
and red-blooded sensory communion.
I am a mere custodian
of messianic intention,
practice,
discipline,
caring for...
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Categories:
scouring, analogy, environment, health, integrity, senses, sensual, sexy,
Form:
Political Verse