Long Shire Poems
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And Still I Drive - Part TwoStars fall under failing skies...stars fall...stars fall...
But stars do not cry.
Into Ochs valley, through the Vale of White Horse...prancing
besides a Dragons Hill;
It was here that a Roundhead - did a Royalist Cavaliers blood in...
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Categories:
shire, travel,
Form:
Rhyme
The Sheriff of NottinghamThe Sheriff, not a pleasant sort
Was learning of a bad report
About a soul, Who stood defiant
And swore an oath, to topple tyrants
Who once was noble, but now has strayed
Hell bend upon his rebels...
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Categories:
shire, fantasy,
Form:
Epic
Fire Cyphersupercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Ice cold mic hold
A flow that’s so ferocious
a Higher level focus
Exposes my neurosis
bogus amateurs are hopeless
Yoga poses lotus
Possibly psychosis
Or Musical symbiosis
intelligent my opus
intellectual Hypnosis
Rhythm in fluid motion
My style...
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Categories:
shire, hip hop, rap,
Form:
Free verse
Up Up the Fly Away Wig Doth Go Revisited and Revised April 19th, 2023Up up the fly away wig doth go revisited and revised April 19th, 2023
IM pen named Pilot Jane A. Rug
who ascribes to writing poetry
as opportunistic, holistic, and cathartic
warming me body electric
courtesy an outsize
warm brimful...
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Categories:
shire, absence, adventure, april, farewell, fate, heartbroken, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Up up the fly away wig doth go revisited and revised March 10th, 2024Up up the fly away wig doth go revisited and revised March 10th, 2024...
(Any resemblance between the following humorous account and real life circumstance tis purely coincidental).
Went off for hair raising shindig
donning noggin of villager...
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Categories:
shire, absence, adventure, confusion, humorous, march, missing,
Form:
Rhyme
Up Up the Fly Away Wig Doth Go Revisited and Revised March 10th, 2022Up up the fly away wig doth go revisited and revised March 10th, 2022...
Went off for hair raising shindig
donning noggin of villager in Nigg
(historic county of Ross-shire,
historic region of Ross
and Cromarty, northeast
coast of Scotland).
Somehow postiche...
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Categories:
shire, absence, america, appreciation, beauty, character, england, farewell,
Form:
Rhyme
Villanelles IIVillanelle
by Michael R. Burch
Is poetry mere turning of a phrase?
Has prose become its height and depth and sum?
What happened to the songs of yesterdays?
Does prose leave all nine Muses vexed and glum,
with fingers stuck in...
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Categories:
shire, dark, muse, poems, poetry, poets, song,
Form:
Villanelle
Australia RisingThere is hope in every nation; for the word is going round
That Australians are sweeping fear away'
They are ardent freedom lovers, who are forged as hammered steel, and thery're gathering supporters
Night and day!
There are honest...
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Categories:
shire, confidence, conflict, courage, freedom, humanity,
Form:
Rhyme
Brahan Seer " Coinneach Odhar "Coinneach Odhar
The future in his sight
In the eye of his rounded stone
His visions became right
Predictions he made
On Seaforth lands
At Brahan Castle
In this shire of grand
One day ships will sail round the back of...
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Categories:
shire, death, history, life, lossriver,
Form:
Rhyme
The Graffiti of Middle EarthOr Bored With The Rings
Carved into a tree in Mirkwood:
Watch out for Treebeard, girls. He's fast!
On a restroom wall in the Shire:
Hoo boy! that Bilbo Baggins,
I'm so tired of His Naggins.
Scribbled on the pink...
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Categories:
shire, cool, fairy, gender, nonsense, satire, word play,
Form:
List
Professor Wilbur the Whale the SecondOooh now then. Oh just wow. A scarlet salivating sentinel sentiment is wafting air at that door. Blowing. Blowing is not bubbling so do not count powder puffs or smoke globules that radiate sideways. It...
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Categories:
shire, analogy, animal, appreciation, , cute,
Form:
I do not know?
Straight Up Star WarsYo,
I was in an empire, part of the rebellion,
I was luke and han solo,
Takin' photos, of a world in love with chedda'
Prayin' all day for things to get betta'
Askin' Yoda in the sky for some...
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Categories:
shire, black-african amerstar, me, star,
Form:
Free verse
The Perfect Place To LiveThe sun shines its a beautiful bright star,
As i drive my car its along the bitumen tar,
The trees sway and the bushes breathe,
I want to move to the country i want to leave,
I want to...
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Categories:
shire, community, green, growth, nature, peace, political,
Form:
I do not know?
From the Shire No FearDavid Hurleys run away, he placed a sign just the other day.'
Closed till further notice I've heard.? It's beggars belief upon my word.'
I wonder if his door is round.? Like at bag end? And bolted...
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Categories:
shire, character, courage, freedom, future,
Form:
Rhyme
Tsunami Survivors Share Love (Cowritten With James Fraser)My Carolyn and I, on Plymouth Hoe we stand
To leave this shire of Devon, to far distant lands
Our desire to leave, and this change in our lives
There's a future out there, for me and my...
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Categories:
shire, adventure, love, natural disasters
Form:
I do not know?
Jazz HornJazz Horn
Now put your left foot forward.
Next put your right foot ahead.
See how that works?
See how the workings of these two appendages
Facilitates the outcome
Of one continuous forward motion
To where you’re going … in this world?
Welcome,...
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Categories:
shire, urban, me, night, old, dark, city, dark,
Form:
Blank verse
Further Family Stories RecitedBLOTTED OUT
He loved,but could not say
such words,he could not find;
He loved,but could not touch
such warmth,was just too much;
He was proud,but could not praise
such sounds he could not raise;
He supported,but not with words
such feelings,witheld unheard;
Sentiment,tight reined...
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Categories:
shire, character, family, nostalgia,
Form:
Bio
Mcdonald Hamburger and a Cup of CoffeeI wonder what he was thinking, the man
mounted on a stool, with his elbows resting on the bar,
eating a Big Mac and sipping coffee from a McCafe coffee cup.
The outside view he...
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Categories:
shire, life, night, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
Land of the Once ScornedPast the Darling plateau, down yonder
Through the docile jarrah trees
Where the wildest flowers wander
To and fro adorns the breeze
And the quietest fields of daisies mourn
The bodies of those once scorned
Safe away on endless tether
Awaits the...
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Categories:
shire, allegorytime, time,
Form:
Rhyme
Twenty-Nine In One Stroke!*"He is brave and a warrior fine--
In a stroke, killed twenty-nine!"
Thus went word from town to town,
Only to come back around...
"A better man there be none,
Seekest thou a finer one?"
Crept-in a common sight of doubt:
Who's...
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Categories:
shire, children, funny, imagination, satireme,
Form:
Couplet
Don't Follow the Road to OzI asked the wee Munchkins, "Which way do I go?"
Figured since they lived here, they would be in the know.
But they looked at me uncertainly, scared of the witch.
Then realizing she was dead; they did...
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Categories:
shire, humor,
Form:
Free verse
Invercargill My Little TownThere is a little town deep down south from which I came.
There you will find beauty from the beach, beyond are waves that crash into the
sand and hills that line the shore. Each...
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Categories:
shire, beauty, mother, nature,
Form:
Romanticism
A good thirty yardsI lie and think..? And think then dream..On how it will end?
What will be the scenes? The die is cast..' So many now
Know.! Many more will soon, and that will show.' Will they
Lose some more.?...
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Categories:
shire, drug, education, endurance, freedom,
Form:
Free verse
Withernwick, Winter 1947they dug a path down Church Lane
with walls that , to my child’s eye
seemed to rear up sheer and cold
as though reaching for the sky
at the extremes of my memory
not much else is really...
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Categories:
shire, childhood, dream, memory, winter,
Form:
Rhyme
Muck SpreadingThis was the way it was
In my childhood days
With ancient and tried
Crop farming ways.
Up to the ankles in slurry,
Muck fork in hand,
Ready to spread manure
To fertilise the land.
No tractor and spreader
Just an old ‘oss and...
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Categories:
shire, farm, father, nostalgia,
Form:
Rhyme