Long Self worth Poems
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Where Is Your MindWhere Is Your Mind?
Where is your mind?
Is it way out there in the clouds of smoking cigarettes and cigars?
Is it way out there in the clouds of smoking marijuana?
Where is your mind?
Is it way out...
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Categories:
self worth, adventure, allegory, analogy, desire, growth, passion, perspective,
Form:
Lyric
A Day Under the SunBlue Hunter's Moon of the Festival of Lights.
And the day of Vengeance of our Holy One to comfort all those who mourn.
Isaiah 61:3-11
I Proclaim the acceptable Generation or Year and Day of Yehoshua also known...
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Categories:
self worth, blue, earth day, faith, growth, moon, rainbow,
Form:
Prose
Free Verse ILozenge
by Michael R. Burch
When I was closest to love, it did not seem
real at all, but a thing of such tenuous sweetness
it might dissolve in my mouth
like a lozenge of sugar.
When I held you in...
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Categories:
self worth, forgiveness, heart, humanity, life, love, relationship, together,
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:
self worth, poems, poetry, rose, roses are red, world,
Form:
Prose
Amberina BallerinaA born lioness my untamed heart? ha!
a mouse, this pulsing token ruled by unruly wants
at times given, traded or stolen - sometimes
thrown down on a dare to be won or lost
till it became...
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Categories:
self worth, destiny, emotions, inspiration, introspection, memory, metaphor, nostalgia,
Form:
Free verse
Bruce Walker, ElegyMy teacher died.
His lungs failed him.
He taught me that the lungs
harbor grief.
His lungs are gone.
My grief has only just arrived.
He used his lungs...
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Categories:
self worth, death of a friend, love, teacher,
Form:
Elegy
A Poly-Amorous Man(One poet's vision of what being indwelled by Christ's heart might look like)
What makes me feel loved isn't easy to say,
And not because the heart of...
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Categories:
self worth, love, integrity,
Form:
Rhyme
Jane Eyre CrownThis is a Crown of Sonnets I wrote about one of my favorite books and movies (the version in 1943 with Liz Taylor, who was only 11 had a small role, Joan Fontaine and Orson...
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Categories:
self worth, life,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Neigh say being corralled and cult shodNeigh say being corralled & cult shod
"Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis"
translation = thus always I
bring death to tyrants.”
Above the fray of twittering,
squabbling, and madding crowds,
an arrogantly belligerent creature deified,
yet vilified...
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Categories:
self worth, 12th grade, age, allusion, america, fate, history,
Form:
Free verse
A Birthday Letter_______
Well now this is sad and tragic
For both of us to hear
You and I at cross purposes
Ever our fate, my Dear
I just found your correspondence
Last letter that you sent
It was, I...
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Categories:
self worth, lost love, love, pain, romance, romantic love,
Form:
Rhyme
New DayNo way! It's a new day.
Now I can sit and write poetry all freaking day.
Time to get serious.
Each new day is the most important day in this life.
A life is a blessing.
A...
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Categories:
self worth, appreciation, beautiful, beauty, change, deep, life,
Form:
Didactic
Poetic PsychoanalystPlant the seeds you wish to reap.
I have planted my seed in the soil of my people.
I have no home, no earthly land,
I have no food sometimes, sometimes,
I must find the white spot in my...
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Categories:
self worth, america, analogy, confusion, hate, jealousy,
Form:
Political Verse
Yesterday Love Was Such An Easy Game To PlayYesterday,
I went home for lunch,
I never go home for lunch.
When I got to our apartment
I don't know why but I didn't reach for my key.
Francine was at work and I always leave last in the...
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Categories:
self worth, betrayal, break up, heartbroken, jealousy, lost love,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
University of LifeFrom the school of Hard Knocks, Life's University;
A student of progressive learning, a grad to never be.
For this course of study, there is not an end,
Until my time is up with hope to Heaven, I'll...
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Categories:
self worth, education, life, school,
Form:
Rhyme
Better DayaI know you’re happy,
Guess I’m stuck bein’ me,
Guess I stay missin’ out on chances that I couldn’t see.
But in the meantime,
Keep your head,
And know I’m doin’ just fine.
You know, maybe I’ll get lucky and catch...
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Categories:
self worth, angst, emotions, growing up, high school, introspection,
Form:
I do not know?
I lacked emotions where others concernedBack approximately half my life ago
dissociative disorder
if qualified to self diagnose
mein kampf psychological state...
I lacked emotions where others concerned.
That refrain replayed itself,
when wife picked up
(like a broken record),
where parents left off
before...
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Categories:
self worth, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th grade, absence,
Form:
Free verse
Anyone CanAnyone Can steal; Anyone Can lie;
Anyone Can cheat and then deny.
Anyone Can be resentful and bitter,
Give up easily and be then, a quitter.
Anyone Can allow themselves to hate;
Feed into their ego and perpetuate.
Anyone Can serve...
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Categories:
self worth, character,
Form:
Rhyme
A Few Tips For the LadiesMen are not that complicated!
The perfect mate is often over-rated
Ladies relax calm down
Don't let your selves get so jaded
Men are simple creatures
a few basic things that they need
Gonna share a few tips my dear
Mother...
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Categories:
self worth, marriage,
Form:
Rhyme
Behind Closed DoorsHer wedding day was beautiful, when she wed her beau,
Innocent and trusting, so little did she know
About the man who had stolen away her tender heart
And now wed to him she was, 'til death do...
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Categories:
self worth, abuse, betrayal, bullying, violence,
Form:
Rhyme
Thief-A Childrens StoryCaw,Caw,Caw, cried the crow of shiniest black. So beautiful in his coat of silky dark feathers. Strutting about on a small table top, in his beak, a new found treasure. A ring of sparkling...
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Categories:
self worth, children,
Form:
Prose
In Search of Lazarus"Fragments and crumbs of life, all the little pieces, John Ruskin, 1853
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I had no friends and was totally striped of personal pride and self respect. ...
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Categories:
self worth, angel, christian, food, humanity, love,
Form:
Personification
You Taught MeYou taught me to be strong;
You taught me to be brave.
You taught me to persevere,
Not give up easily and cave.
You taught me to be honest;
You taught me to be humble.
You taught me that my failures
Aren't...
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Categories:
self worth, best friend, love, mother, mothers day, teacher,
Form:
Rhyme
Actions Speak Louder Than WordsActions Speak Louder Than Words Contest
Sponsor: Silent One
Why can't I sleep tonight?
I can not stop thinking about our last fervid conversation.
Broken promises of a long lost love affair between the cores of two fleshly...
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Categories:
self worth, break up, forgiveness,
Form:
Narrative
My Confined MindUntamed self control my own worst enemy I can be
I can not be the poison and the remedy
The voices I hear are not in my head
I hear the words as if they’ve been said.
Horrific thoughts...
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Categories:
self worth, character, , cute,
Form:
I do not know?
When Jealousy Rears Its Ugly HeadYesterday I went home for lunch
I never go home for lunch
When I got to our apartment I don't know why
but I didn't reach for my key
I was sure I had locked the...
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Categories:
self worth, betrayal, heart, hurt, jealousy, sorry,
Form:
Narrative