Long Shamble Poems

1. Ripples in warm sunbeams dwell.
From a sandy cocoon I wake and stir.
A floater in the blue does knell,
A dot, a stain, a blackened blur.
Am I the only one who sees?
No, the beach is afoot...

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Banks o' Doon
by Robert Burns
modern English translation by Michael R. Burch

Oh, banks and hills of lovely Doon,
How can you bloom so fresh and fair;
How can you chant, ecstatic birds,
When I'm so weary, full of care!
You'll...

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The Philosopher is a single long poem, I apologize for the inconvenience of splitting it
into 2 parts.

He pushes aside the weathered curtain
The colourless tub, the bland tiles, his grey glazed sight
He looks over his shoulder...

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T'is the time of year when things do go bump in the night
a time when witches come back to life ready to snatch a child
to boil up in their evil cauldron that walks and even...

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To a Louse
by Robert Burns
translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Hey! Where're you going, you crawling hair-fly?
Your impudence protects you, barely;
I can only say that you swagger rarely
Over gauze and lace.
Though faith! I fear you dine but...

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Salesman:	“Can I help you? Yes sir. Yes Sir!
		Well, you’ve come to the right place.
		Our own lineup has won awards
		We lift you up through time and space!”

Buyer:	“Why, yes, I am. That’s a fact.
		But I’ll be careful...

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the year that was

January 

The world watches in amazement
Longest shut down in history
Watching it all in Korea
contemplating escaping the cold winter

February 

World watches as North Korea and the US
Walking back from the brink of war
escaping...

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It's about The Journey 

It's ok , to go through
Some things to make you a better you 
It's ok to find 
The nature of being kind 
It's a blessing 
To not stress 
To pass all...

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18 YEARS, JUST LIKE YESTERDAY.                              ...

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   along with hot salsa and many tortilla chips, I do wish,
      chicken quesadillas are...

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Barefoot on the paving slab chill, concrete
feet feel frostbite emanations in their callused souls;
rooftop mystique clamours silent slate triangles,
perched the stray cat observers, red-eyes smoking coals.
Down to the river's edge where swaying reeds
feed mongrel contemplations...

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He sat alone in a dark self-made cell
Only a crack of light revealed him there
His face a shadow of a good life once
Now a torture show to the uncivilized
Ghostlike features masked his lean face
You could...

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outside
inventoried oval-stoned
cathedrals appealing
chiming crimes of passion
woke citronella
fog
hung in cement-hamocked snowdrifts
cloaked slow on slick-stained windowsides
tenement sheets
with the pomegranate notes
of rhythms unrhymed
   while all the uptown laundromarts
rising up
from insomniac-scrambled sidewalks
corked-copper moon tumbling earthward
like a sweet
sweatshredded...

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And blondes whistle (mightily)
Groove and rhythm supplied
By their accidental guardians
Feigning lock-down on these
Rancid, insipid rugged shores
It's what's expected
The triumphant stasis
The settling down of
Benign expectations
Mixed coarsely with the
Vinegar-garnished
Toxic waves disguised as hope
Fame and glamor
The settling in...

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I always had this sense of pity for those thinking of ending their lives, 
Those unemployed, struggling youths & those who left this world before their wives. 
I always thought it is an act of...

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Love shall say it's sorry so truth may atone
My soul brings praise to no other, you alone
Like the stars tell stories of your eyes alone
Like the tides weave history in every moan
I have languished in...

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Walking becoming overcoming.
Orion becomes Jesus walking on water.
Trek trudge and stumble, taking it in stride.
Bearing a cross of torment and torture.
Struggling slogging shepherding,
slaving in blood mixed tears. 

Walking through light and shadow.
Sleep meandering, dreams seamlessly
mingle...

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Tender memories can't fade as quickly as seasons,
they r'll stop beating on a destined night,
and the one who gave me life and might:
is always present, never gone as the lost years!


Today it won't rain while...

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Courage to promote humility
Courage to admit your mistakes
Courage to embrace malleability
Courage for noble stakes 

To die
To tackle hurdles and obstacles that seem insuperable
To fly high
The flag of integrity for the vulnerable

Whose predicament makes you sick
Although...

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Lovely Chauffeur
by Rick Rucker

While riding in the car were we,
She turned to me, suddenly,

Then, right out, without preamble,
My disordered life, she turned into a shamble!

"We haven't been dating all that long,"
"But for two in Love,...

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( ITS ALL GONE )

Michael couldnt help him self, he had a bad addiction.
He coud sit there for hours, and not care about the friction.
His wife was hanging by a thread, their life was in...

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A searing headache this morning my head splits
In circumstances whose cause I can’t pinpoint
In twilights when I teeter and shamble on my stilts
As my head I wrack to diagnose the flashpoint

That turns my world topsy...

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The graveyard of the dead
The dirt coils and warms the bodies in the ground
The tombstones stand above the ground
Marking where the dead lay

The grimm graveyard moans with despair
The black metal gates shriek with horror
As the...

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smitten as kittens
to the fact we be selfishly killen
so crucible and selfless are we
then who is making you think this way
about the way it is
when the way they say aint true at all
but the bow...

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My mind is in shamble
So much that its cost
How can I gamble
If what I won was just lost

I’ve scrambled my bean
To the point that I’m drained
If you know what I’ve seen
You’ll see that I’m stained

Damaged...

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