Long Shirked Poems
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Poems About Poems Ii
Poems about Poems (II)
Kin
by Michael R. Burch
for Richard Moore
1.
Shrill gulls,
how like my thoughts
you, struggling, rise
to distant bliss?
the weightless blue of skies
that are not blue
in any atmosphere,
but closest here...
2.
You seek an air
so clear,
so rarified
the effort leaves...
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Categories:
shirked, muse, poems, poetry, poets, work, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
State of the Art Iii
State of the Art (III)
These are my "ars poetica" poems: the ones about the art and craft of writing poetry in a modern world that doesn't always recognize the artists or their work.
Come Down
by...
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Categories:
shirked, art, muse, poems, poetry, poets, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Still wrestling with impasse to contentment
Still wrestling with impasse to contentment
Dispense sing with fidelity blithely agog
just me and mine dark shadow
slinking along outer limits of
the edge of night doth blog
passivity, the path
of least resistance ohm my dog,
shocking...
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Categories:
shirked, abuse, adventure, beauty, body, christmas, desire, father
Form:
Rhyme
Wrestling With Impasse To Contentment
Wrestling with impasse to contentment
Dispense sing with fidelity blithely agog
just me and mine dark shadow
slinking along the edge of night doth blog
passivity, the path of least resistance ohm my dog,
shocking voltage surges an emphatic...
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Categories:
shirked, abuse, adventure, age, anger, betrayal, black african
Form:
Rhyme
Empty Nest Syndrome, Plus Lapsed Romances Revisited
Empty nest syndrome, plus lapsed romances revisited...
courtesy Matthew Scott Harris
sentimental memorialized mental archive
No matter mine eldest daughter
(born December 22nd, 1996)
starred circa within storied
Matthew Scott Harris family
rendition of Breaking Home Ties.
Now interspersed with
following recherché trivia:
originally titled...
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Categories:
shirked, abuse, anger, bereavement, cry, daughter, father, introspection,
Form:
Bio
Bemused
beMUSEd
by Michael R. Burch
Perhaps at three
you'll come to tea,
to have a cuppa here?
You'll just stop in
to sip dry gin?
I only have a beer.
To name the "greats":
Pope, Dryden, mates?
The whole world knows their names.
Discuss the "songs"
of...
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Categories:
shirked, art, inspiration, inspirational, muse, poems, poetry, poets,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Poets Iv
Poems about Poets IV
The Princess and the Pauper
by Michael R. Burch
for June Kraeft
Here was a woman bright, intent on life,
who did not flinch from Death, but caught his eye
and drew him, powerless, into her spell
of...
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Categories:
shirked, inspiration, muse, poems, poetry, poets, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Marital Covenant Chaste Away Errant Infidelity
Yours truly shirked fidelity regarding faithful vows
bequeathed courtesy angel of mercy,
who pledged her troth
July twenty fifth nineteen ninety six
five months (not quite to the day) before
"star student" birthed
on December twenty second,
(now gainfully employed
at Certified B-Corporation
San Francisco,...
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Categories:
shirked, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, absence,
Form:
Rhyme
The Complaint Part 3
Both heights and lowlands we traversed to spread Your message; O glad pain!
Not even once, You know well, we strove against the world in vain.
Not only land we bore Your Word glorious across the heaving...
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Categories:
shirked, allah, faith,
Form:
Heroic Couplet
It Has To Be
Embrace this torso decaying in the wardrobe I wake up those skeletons laying in the warzone
I make up the rules as I go along you all know so get ready ya better be set...
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Categories:
shirked, rap,
Form:
Rhyme
With Apologies To Joyce Kilmer
?I thought that I would never see
Another macho man like me.
Ex-green Beret and Airborne Ranger,
Who never shirked in face of danger.
But that ancient myth was soon dissolved,
When my wife asked me to get involved,
And accompany...
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Categories:
shirked, clothes, humor, parody,
Form:
Rhyme
Can You Survive
It was like the apocalypse
Dark skies
Lined up in rows
How we got there
No one knows.
Chatting all around
Most seemed to have a good
time.
Then he came around
Unseen but heard
Voice so shrieking it made...
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Categories:
shirked, life
Form:
Free verse
A Tribute To Gani
Yesterday,
It was just yesterday in September,
He was laid to rest in golden casket,
Though he lived a golden life to deserve more.
Yet as men do,
The celebration of hypocrites comes after the death of kings.
Rare Wig gawk...
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Categories:
shirked, appreciation, bereavement, courage, eulogy, freedom, good night,
Form:
Elegy
Ode To Samantha 11
Mummy went to heaven cause they needed her up there
Mummy went to heaven, God tell her that we care
She was such a special Mummy, and we loved her ever so
Mummy went to heaven, I bet...
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Categories:
shirked, family, loss, love, happy, care, care, happy,
Form:
Rhyme
My Life As I See It
My life as I see it wasn’t easy, but I didn’t have it that rough,
I got my share of breaks, but it was virtually an uphill fight,
There were nights when the moon shirked its duties...
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Categories:
shirked, introspection, life,
Form:
Free verse
How Can I Compensate
How Can I Compensate...?
Just between myself,
and cosmic force
this good fella agreed
to dedicate, postulate,
validate, et cetera,
what...
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Categories:
shirked, 10th grade, 11th grade, 9th grade, father
Form:
Free verse
True Life
Guilty of life once lived in sections,
drastically making changes.
Concessions to new obsessions,
suffering identity exchanges.
Revision life's only pattern,
inborn self considered a sin.
Wherever did the facade end,
and my actual truth begin?
Mercurial soul.
Gale force wind on fire.
Searching recklessly.
Banishing...
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Categories:
shirked, emotions, encouraging, forgiveness, inspiration, inspirational,
Form:
Rhyme
Farewell Brother
#FAREWELL, BROTHER
by
Hannah Rain
Lowering him down upon his curved back,
On silky blue sheets, all pleated and tacked,
A pillow they stuffed beneath his cold head,
And combed his gray hair, that once was bright red.
Then buttoning his tweed,...
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Categories:
shirked, brother, farewell, friend, funeral, goodbye, military,
Form:
Ode
Lawrence of Neasden, Stood Down
They called him Lawrence of Neasden
And he dressed in Khaki shorts
And he always rode a camel
Which he kept in his car port
They arrived there in Central Neasden
Having ridden all through the night
To arrive with...
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Categories:
shirked, adventure, conflict, history, leadership, patriotic,
Form:
Rhyme
A Mountain From a Pile
How far do the ripples spread, when eventually we die
Probably stay in the locality, level off, no major outcry
But let’s say we’re famous, suffering unexplained death
The ripples keep expanding, growing further in breadth...
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Categories:
shirked, allusion, corruption, prejudice, truth,
Form:
Rhyme
Registering, Renouncing, Regrets
Hating the life you've chosen, and will leave,
doesn't mean not respecting it, or those who'll stay.
Realizing that, for you, it is just not the way,
doesn't mean for those taken, you won't forever grieve.
Deciding to serve...
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Categories:
shirked, addiction, death, hate, loss, military, pain, suicide,
Form:
Rhyme
Janet From Another Planet
Maybe you’ve seen Janet
she’s from another planet
making all her regular stops
at the local charity shops
loves a second hand rail or two
lives in the land of good as new
to knock and shock them in the aisles
with...
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Categories:
shirked, 10th grade, drink, missing, planet,
Form:
Rhyme
Humanity Must Hustle Mach Schnell
Humanity must hustle mach schnell -
At warp speed to stave off
further global catastrophe
courtesy portentous tragedy
loosed within Australia
think Pandora's box
harbinger spelling dystopia
across webbed wide world
avast holocaust cremating
irrevocable and irreversible
innocent species, now urgency
of humankind to reckon
eyes crisis...
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Categories:
shirked, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, heartbroken,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Main Street
Hagerstown, Indiana
I strolled my hometown Main Street today (about a quarter mile).
Many happy memories flooded my soul, causing me to smile.
A friendly bench beckoned me and I sat awhile to ponder,
The past I left so...
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Categories:
shirked, nostalgiame, me, drug,
Form:
Rhyme
Bad Poem
One day I delivered a poem
one that seemed to be premature
so I swaddled her up
and set her aside
to grow 'til I felt reassured
How she yowled and howled for attention...
how she cried so piteously!
How she coughed...
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Categories:
shirked, humor, humorous, silly, word play, writing,
Form:
Rhyme