Long Shave Poems
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Patsy Foley Was Roly-Poly In 1947
It may have been the devil himself who prompted the kids in my schoolyard back in 1947 to chant "Patsy Foley's roly-poly from eating too much ravioli."
At first, no one could remember who started the...
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Categories:
shave, memory,
Form:
Prose
Letters For People Part 4
Dear people,
(Am i?) Mad it’s a conformist state?
A status that perpetuates people to pair, to compare, to prepare,
to perfect, before performance, …?
-sure hard to try...
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Categories:
shave, america, angst, business, confusion, feelings, poverty,
Form:
Epic
Employment Trauma
My protagonist today,
a Gay Black Religious Mature Male,
not quite ready for silver-grey Obama temples
Is off this morning
to a new full-time job,
8 to 5,
Monday through Friday.
He has been out of his calming,
regular custodial collared routine,
for over...
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Categories:
shave, betrayal, caregiving, culture, health, prejudice, religion, work,
Form:
Political Verse
Poems About Laughter, Giggles and Smiles
Here and Hereafter
by Michael R. Burch
Life’s saving graces are love, pleasure, laughter ...
wisdom, it seems, is for the Hereafter.
Laughter’s Cry
by Michael R. Burch
Because life is a mystery, we laugh
and do not know the half.
Because death...
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Categories:
shave, cheer up, children, family, giggle, joy, smile,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Fathers and Grandfathers Iv
Poems about Fathers and Grandfathers IV
Neglect
by Michael R. Burch
What good are your tears?
They will not spare the dying their anguish.
What good is your concern
to a child sick of living, waiting to perish?
What good, the warm...
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Categories:
shave, family, father, father daughter, father son, fathers
Form:
Rhyme
Free Verse Ii
Nucleotidings
by Michael R. Burch
“We will walk taller!” said Gupta,
sorta abrupta,
hand-in-hand with his mom,
eyeing the A-bomb.
“Who needs a mahatma
in the aftermath of NAFTA?
Now, that was a disaster,”
cried glib Punjab.
“After Y2k,
time will spin out of control anyway,”
flamed...
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Categories:
shave, angel, child, childhood, children, family, time, world,
Form:
Free verse
Poems About Children V
Poems about Children V
Pan
by Michael R. Burch
Among the shadows of the groaning elms,
amid the darkening oaks, we fled ourselves
Once there were paths that led to coracles
that clung to piers like loosening barnacles
where we cannot return,...
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Categories:
shave, autumn, baseball, child, childhood, children, dog, sports,
Form:
Rhyme
The Witch At Inverness
Please take this time to steer your thoughts
To a wretched land of lochs and glens.
Where a village was tasked and the people fraught
At the woe and sadness life could send.
With the Dragons gone and the...
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Categories:
shave, adventure, children, magic,
Form:
Rhyme
By How Many Badbyes Can You Measure the Length of Your Day
by how many badbyes can you measure the length of your day
first comes...
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Categories:
shave, age, loneliness, memory,
Form:
Free verse
Phobia's
Phobias
A Bluto is not that Disney dog
It was when a mewling
that I would scream
Should they wet my body
And then apply cream
Ablutophobia – fear of bathing, washing, or cleaning
Achluo the demon that lurks
In darkened...
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Categories:
shave, on writing and words, hair, me, pain,
Form:
Free verse
The Labyrinth and the Gardener
A pondering of multiple raindrops from a detrimental storm onto the empty fields, crashing into them as hard and loud as clashing metals. The depth and existence of love weighs over any deprivation an unexpected...
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Categories:
shave, abuse, allegory, corruption, extended metaphor, love hurts,
Form:
Free verse
The Legend of Talos, Sero and Jack
Legend has it that six hundred years ago, lived a creature of the wild. His name was Talos. He held the strength of a bear yet wore the coat of a fox. He was deep...
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Categories:
shave, children, courage, myth,
Form:
Narrative
Resurrected Heroe
RESURRECTION OF A HEROE:
This is ANDERSON WALKINGSHOES...
CHORUS:
Far from comparison, far from fear.
Failure part of the journey; shed no tears.
Man...do... the best you can do.
Talents in your hand's only for you.
No body cares...what you...
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Categories:
shave, beautiful, beauty, hero,
Form:
Lyric
Barking Up the Wrong Tree
“Barking Up the Wrong Tree”
ghost gums
shed their bark
the min-min
makes good use of it
papyrus, soft enough to
imprint and write
thoughts, like the
ripening welts of
green ants
small bites sting
subcutaneous and
meridional,
terra...
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Categories:
shave, morning, muse, nature, night,
Form:
Free verse
can’t denyyy
I beg for your forgiveness once more
I said too much again…need I say more?
It’s been a crappy, snappy day for me and today will be my day
An attitude of gratitude instead of dismay would be...
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Categories:
shave, emotions, fear, feelings,
Form:
Lyric
Chapter 30 -- Delilah Damian and Damian Junior Mallory Friends and Family
Blocking the Doorway Dolly
Demanded, "What boys are you
Going with?" Damian Tried to
Be understanding. "Baby, just
Friends from School. Malcolm,
Shakespeare and Shannon."
She grabbed his hand "Damian
Rub my belly. This boy is
Doing somersaults in me."
"Don't go."...
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Categories:
shave, creation, dream, father son, mother,
Form:
Alliteration
Pine sap pipe
In the deep spiked pine forests
On a walk you forgot you took
Snow up your knees
Twenty feet away
An enormous old house
Not abandoned, smoke from the chimney
Large windows, dark wood walls
A forest castle here for you
To explore...
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Categories:
shave, 12th grade, flying, house,
Form:
Free verse
Samson
Joyful music filled the village
when mother’s barren womb gave birth.
Born to end Philistine pillage,
and fill sad, anxious hearts with mirth.
No wine or product of the vine,
should pass your palate when you dine.
No razor...
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Categories:
shave, betrayal, conflict, dark, passion, religion, religious, vanity,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Unquotable Quotes: Philosophers - Xxii
Unquotable quotes: Philosophers – XXII
Take Socrates: the insignia of a true philosopher is the bald pate and the luxuriant beard – the very reason why women make for such pathetic philosophers.
The bald pate facilitates the...
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Categories:
shave, humanity, humor, inspirational, philosophy, racism, religion,
Form:
Epigram
While Waiting For My Return Flight Home
"You in the military?"
I was confused at first and didn't know why the man would ask me such a question. But then I remembered my recent haircut.
"No... is it because I shaved my head, that...
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Categories:
shave, bereavement, life, stress, travel,
Form:
Narrative
Kitcheners Poster, the Great War
February came in keeping with its ancient character a month of coldness, wetness and of thawing,
With departing frost and melting snow, February could possibly be called the wet season,
Maybe it's a time for floods and...
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Categories:
shave, adventure, daffodils,
Form:
Blank verse
Lighten My Load
Enlighten the love in my desire…it burns on like a fury fire…
Benevolence is burning a hole in my head…
Because I’ve gave you it far too many times
Change is a challenging choose
You fail and you lose…
But,...
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Categories:
shave, angst, anxiety,
Form:
Free verse
Reflections of Cold Wars
Dad is that you? What are you doing there in the mirror?
I am trying to shave and I don’t need any help.
Do they shave in heaven or is it just cribbage and...
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Categories:
shave, war, drug,
Form:
Narrative
On Hearing That Ronnie
for Ronald Hindmarsh-Midwood
...
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Categories:
shave, friend, friendship, light, pain,
Form:
Elegy
Children's Fable
Are you sitting comfortably, children?
Because it's a long tale.....
Then I shall begin.
Arthur was a Mason, which in case you hadn't known
is a man who sands and chisels, making shapes from out of stone.
From animals to...
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Categories:
shave, allegory, universe,
Form:
Rhyme