Long Sham Poems
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My Uncanny Sighs of Distress and the Tears of Tribulation
I’m in distress
I can’t express
How I feel deep down inside
This feeling is a terrible tide
How do I impress
Everyone here in excess?
I’m just here to simply abide
By God’s Law, I don’t subside
My tears are diamonds in...
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Categories:
sham, angst, courage, emotions, encouraging, endurance,
Form:
Rhyme
Various Heresies 7
Pagans Protest the Intolerance of Christianity
by Michael R. Burch
“We have a common sky.” — Quintus Aurelius Symmachus
We had a common sky
before the Christians came.
We thought there might be gods
but did not know their names.
The common...
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Categories:
sham, angel, atheist, bible, christian, faith, god, jesus,
Form:
Rhyme
Tuan Tata: Song of Uda - Parts One and Two
TUAN TATA : Song of Uda - I
by T. Wignesan
(Patrick Noone, a British anthropologist, discovered the Ple-Temiar tribe living isolated in the jungle highlands in the State of Perak on the west coast of...
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Categories:
sham, death, murder, tiger, wife,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
The Pied Piper From New York City - Part One
The Pied Piper from New York City – Part One
Dare his name be said?
I say, of course, Yes!
The Pied Piper, himself, is the man, the myth, the legend.
And they, the so-called incurious lot of...
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Categories:
sham, allusion, america, betrayal, corruption, judgement, new york,
Form:
Political Verse
Various Heresies 6
Various Heresies 6
Altared Spots
by Michael R. Burch
The mother leopard buries her cub,
then cries three nights for his bones to rise
clad in new flesh, to celebrate the sunrise.
Good mother leopard, pensive thought
and fiercest love’s wild insurrection
yield...
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Categories:
sham, atheist, bible, christian, faith, god, jesus, prayer,
Form:
Rhyme
Farmer Fred Talks Politics Vol I
Farmer Fred was out in his field making inspection
When I snuck up on him without detection
I stated my greetings with great voice inflection
Which caused Fred to jump in the opposite direction
Then he smiled and made...
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Categories:
sham, political,
Form:
Narrative
Remorse With a Touch of Ripened Radiance Xd
I grieve for your safety, sis, and I pray for you almost every day –
Depression does leave a big impact on us in a negative way
But I think you think I’m crazy…tell me if...
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Categories:
sham, betrayal, change, freedom, hope, sad, sister, uplifting,
Form:
Verse
Te Amo, Love
Love is so overrated
But, my love towards you, in which I prize,
Is, to you, overrated
Melt away my heart of ice
I'll be your living sacrifice
Roll the dice, play the piano
Pay the price, te amo...te amo…
I watch...
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Categories:
sham, appreciation, beautiful, beauty, change, cute love, deep,
Form:
Romanticism
Soft-Spoken Sanity
I'm a very picky guy, getting involved
With my quality quantity
Oh oh look at how I have evolved
It's fantastic that it's reality
It's not a fantasy alone
And God answered His phone
No longer on my...
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Categories:
sham, deep, desire,
Form:
Rhyme
War Is a War Crime
Once wars were fought with sticks and stones
to flog the flesh and batter bones
and conquer lands, defending thrones -
though gods provoke, not one atones.
The multitude (by hordes beset
with battle-ax or bayonet)
braved blades, dyed red...
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Categories:
sham, war, world,
Form:
Quatrain
The Faces of Man
"The Faces of Man"
The faces of Man
transformative
held in the hand
of Mephistopheles
blood sells white and red
pontificating with two fingers
consuming greed for
want of everything
they meld into the
curves of their crooked bends
he’s come to...
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Categories:
sham, dark, humanity, psychological,
Form:
Epic
I Had No Clue It Was Valentines Day Part 1
I had no clue it was Valentine’s Day
Because no one said happy Valentine’s Day
I had no clue it was valentines’ Day
Because I had no one to share the Day
I ventured into another world
And drifted off...
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Categories:
sham, angel, celebration, community, confidence, death, encouraging, environment,
Form:
Narrative
Haman and United We Fall Together We Stand
In school it was all about Greek and Latin at a stretch it proposed
...
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Categories:
sham, absence,
Form:
Free verse
The Apocrypha of Familiars
“The Apocrypha of Familiars”
Wings hover
light luminescent
revelling sprites dark pearls
Corvidae shades
of a family
highly functioning
dysfunctional plural
morphing unobserved
perceived non-unique
spiralling into shape
more black and grey
than white spills
from their eyes
light from their shining
hidden away
intelligence...
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Categories:
sham, muse, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
MY Collaboration with Actor, Singer: Ricky Nelson in the Mid Winter of ''80: PART II
CONTINUES PART II:
Then she departs, ... his newfound friend
stands (clueless me, no intro of her) I with Rick ... waiting
wife comes--(Hellooo Oh) newfound by brochure stand
he says, "My wife Kris." "Hm" <--(My utterance--smiling, as I'm...
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Categories:
sham, appreciation, celebrity, girlfriend, imagery, lost, peace, wife,
Form:
Narrative
Failed
How dare you walk around all cocky and self righteous
Nailing your ASS is going to be my final gift
U know what u did covering it up because you had to
You don't fool me Doc I...
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Categories:
sham, abuse, loss,
Form:
Rhyme
The Devils Army
See them coming they are possessed
See them coming they are obsessed
See them coming they are undressed
Their blood filled eyes stares at us in disgust
And big guns protrudes from their sides, they are...
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Categories:
sham, betrayal, break up, bullying, conflict, confusion, death,
Form:
Free verse
In My Very Own Dreams
So this is it, huh?
This is the end?
We have come this far,
And this is the end?
All over, just like that?
Your betrayal seep in through my pores,
It taints me whole.
This is the ending of a horrible...
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Categories:
sham, courage, growth, identity, inspirational, power, pride, self,
Form:
Free verse
Shame full travesty regarding fourth of July celebration
Sham(e) full travesty regarding fourth of July celebration
American independence day
linkedin severance from English crown
Continental Congress representatives
parlayed courtesy thirteen original colonies
yielding Declaration of Independence
immediately rendered null and void
established vassalage courtesy British rule.
Fast forward two hundred and...
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Categories:
sham, adventure, america, betrayal, birth, endurance, independence day,
Form:
Free verse
Authenticity isn’t GMO
Push the limits…try to find outlets and coping skills for yourself
Pull away from the urge to throw those childish, languishing fits
Explore and implore with me now
Feels drown away and fade somehow
Hooked to your melody
Haunted and...
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Categories:
sham, angst, deep, fear,
Form:
Free verse
Corruption
CORRUPTION
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS
Now that I’m approaching the final inning
I need to re assess the ideas I had at the beginning
I thought that if you were altruistic and right
That alone was the strength needed to fight
To...
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Categories:
sham, character, corruption, integrity, introspection, judgement, muse,
Form:
Rhyme
I wanna trade in my stubby spindleshanks
I wanna trade in my stubby spindleshanks...,
(a poor excuse for legs),
and get me the latest
sophisticated prosthetics advancements,
whereat integration of cultured stem cells
into custom made appendages
allows, enables, and provides
unfortunate recipients of amputations
to experience sensations.
No more will...
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Categories:
sham, 11th grade, 12th grade, anger, april, betrayal,
Form:
Free verse
Mother Goose Would Find Her Tail Feathers Ruffled
Mother Goose would find her tail feathers ruffled
Hey diddle diddle
the cat and the fiddle
when off to see
a crooked man and woman,
whilst cowards jumped
over moo ving little
pair of mismatched muggles,
who both walked...
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Categories:
sham, abuse, allusion, anger, animal, baby, bird, fun,
Form:
Rhyme
Voyage To the Bottom of This
Voyage to the bottom of this...
prevaricated forth write Declaration!
As most every girl and boy
taught back in the day,
learning base sic life lessons,
when going to Zerns,
now permanently closed,
but once upon a time one...
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Categories:
sham, 11th grade, 12th grade, absence, america, business,
Form:
Free verse
Non Labor Relations Day September 1st 2023 Poem
Non labor (relations) day September 1st, 2023 poem
Aye dream of Genie (as a lad din)
Schwenksville, Pennsylvania -
keystone state abbreviated as Pea Yay,
this stupid non huge poem
deployed courtesy scholar
really...a boot nuttin
butta an overrated allay
zee good for...
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Categories:
sham, 12th grade, adventure, angst, appreciation, autumn, break
Form:
Rhyme