Long Shoots Poems
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Poems About Fathers and Grandfathers IPoems about Fathers and Grandfathers I
I translated the first six Native American poems for my father when he chose to enter hospice and end his life by not taking dialysis …
Cherokee Travelers' Blessing I
loose translation/interpretation...
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Categories:
shoots, father, father daughter, father son, fathers day,
Form:
Rhyme
Ono No Komachi Translation: AutumnWatching wan moonlight
illuminate tree limbs,
my heart also brims,
overflowing with autumn.
—Ono no Komachi, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
As I slept in isolation
my desired beloved appeared to me;
therefore, dreams have become my reality
and consolation.
—Ono...
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Categories:
shoots, age, autumn, death, depression, desire, heartbreak, women,
Form:
Tanka
Ono No Komachi TranslationsAs I slept in isolation
my desired beloved appeared to me;
therefore, dreams have become my reality
and consolation.
—Ono no Komachi, translation by Michael R. Burch
Submit to you—is that what you advise?
The way the ripples...
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Categories:
shoots, desire, life, longing, love, nature, woman, women,
Form:
Tanka
Salat DaysSalat Days
by Michael R. Burch
(dedicated to my grandfather, Paul Ray Burch Sr.)
I remember how my grandfather used to pick poke salat ...
though first, usually, he’d stretch back in the front porch swing,
dangling his long...
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Categories:
shoots, age, america, appreciation, depression, endurance, poverty,
Form:
Free verse
Poems About Children IvPoems about Children IV
Salat Days
by Michael R. Burch
Dedicated to the memory of my grandfather, Paul Ray Burch, Sr.
I remember how my grandfather used to pick poke salat ...
though first, usually, he’d stretch back in the...
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Categories:
shoots, child, childhood, children, dad, father son, grandfather,
Form:
Rhyme
Beary Tales Episodes 15-24, More Poet's NotesNote to Readers of Previous Versions:
There are so many new vignettes scattered throughout the poem that I hope you will reread the whole thing! There are many new GEMS, improvements to previous verses and improved...
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Categories:
shoots, adventure, beauty, friendship, innocence, love, mentor,
Form:
Quatrain
FBI ARLINGTON HEIGHTS ILLINOIS CONFIDENTIAL HUMANS SOURCE CRISIS TEAMCRISIS TEAM:HELLO WE ARE HERE TO HELP
AGENT BROWN: HELLO I AWAKEN EVERY NIGHT BETWEEN THREE OR FOUR AM I CANNOT BREATHE PANTING HEARING MY FETUS HEARTBEAT SO LOUDLY
CRISIS TEAM: YOU ARE...
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Categories:
shoots, america, analogy, anxiety, art, career, inspirational,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Divine Comedy Translation Canto XiiWas the place where we climbing down the bank
Then arrived, alpine and, for what was there
Such as, that any eyesight would be shrank.
Similar to landslide that in side bare
Before Trento the Adige just smote,
Or for...
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Categories:
shoots, fantasy, universe,
Form:
Terza Rima
The Picture of Dorian Gray: Paint Me As An EventThe Picture of Dorian Gray: Paint Me As An Event
The Picture of Dorian Gray, a decent fanciful novel by Irish writer Oscar Wilde, published in 1890. The novel, the only one written by Wilde, had...
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Categories:
shoots, angst, character, muse,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Poems About Eros and CupidPOEMS ABOUT EROS AND CUPID
These are translations of ancient Greek poems about Eros. Eros was the Greek counterpart of the Roman god Cupid. While today we tend to think of Cupid as an angelic cherub...
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Categories:
shoots, cute love, desire, god, heart, love, lust,
Form:
Epigram
Beary Tales Episodes 7-14, Poet's Notes7. Playing With Fire
My mom IS quite clear on the dangers of fire,
But if boy'S hooked on flame, then it'S hard to obey,
There'S a longing for “MATCH GUN” (6) that most boys acquire,
Small'S the chance...
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Categories:
shoots, adventure, appreciation, best friend, blessing, innocence, love,
Form:
Quatrain
Catonita Strikes - Part Two: a Freezer Mice AdventureContinued from
‘CATONITA STRIKES - PART ONE’
A Freezer Mice adventure
When no-one was around they did the finger-clicking thing
And grew to human size in time for what the day might bring
Their guns were charged and ready and...
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Categories:
shoots, adventure,
Form:
Narrative
The Pedicure VirginI don't know what came over me that day - an instant of weakness after years of resistance, I suppose.
My beaming spouse leads me, a dog on a short leash, into the forbidden citadel, the...
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Categories:
shoots, humor,
Form:
Prose
The Crow Bar
"The Crow Bar"
she said,
here I bury my dead,
you can hear them sleeping
somnulent forget-me-nots,
snoring blithely unaware,
in neat rows between
the thick,
ink injected lines,
their soiled lives
ploughed and
turned over
replanted
sunnyside down
expunged and
wrung out
eventually,
not totally oblivious,
they...
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Categories:
shoots, love, muse, satire,
Form:
Narrative
Raid Versus WoeRaid versus woe
Black flag(s) show up
on social media platforms
when potential homicidal maniac(s)
communicate(s) intent to strike
with ambush and ready
read - able, eager, and willing
to embark upon murderous rampage.
Prospective killer armed to the teeth
usually a young bucking...
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Categories:
shoots, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 1st
Form:
Rhyme
My X-Mas Wish To Santa, My Letter To Santa, Keep the Worst BuddySONNET 1
MY CHRISTMAS WISH TO SANTA
...
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Categories:
shoots, appreciation, blessing, christmas, forgiveness, friendship, giving, truth,
Form:
Sonnet
The Lay of the Best Man - Part 4The Lay of The Best Man - Part 4
I ask you this: Have you ever known a man to ‘buckle under stress’?
Or have you never seen a man have a ‘moment of madness’?
Have you not...
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Categories:
shoots, bullying, character, corruption, discrimination, men, vanity, women,
Form:
Lay
Heart
"Heart"
Deep fissures formed
in the cracks of
the nowhere place
where time leeched
bleeding claret
through the green
veined blues
protean bit by bit
the flesh disappears
prematurely 6ft under
mulch for rebirth
the subcontinent
conscientious conscience
inward reaching
the divine central tableau...
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Categories:
shoots, muse,
Form:
Free verse
Groundhog day 2024 or Forty one days since 2023 Winter SolsticeGroundhog day 2024 or Forty one days since 2023 Winter Solstice
Rather than be a day late
and dollar short, I opted
to post poem acknowledging
the second of February,
where eponymous groundhog
gets his (most often male)
foretelling...
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Categories:
shoots, adventure, america, animal, celebration, confidence, february, spring,
Form:
Rhyme
Yes, I Met AliceWhat if I ,
Saw a waist-coated white rabbit,
Pass and disappear down a hole
Would I think I was going quite mad
Or would I want to follow him
As he exclaimed I’m late! I’m late!
For a very...
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Categories:
shoots, beautiful,
Form:
Free verse
Children Are On Crosshair.
.........................................INNOCENCE
..................................Oh! it is so very asleep
.........................As we grow up the bliss that we seek
....................To stay innocent blissfully innocent -As kids
...............My lovely world- it conspires to keep me so clean
..........No cigarettes no porn...
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Categories:
shoots, children, corruption, evil, grief, violence,
Form:
Concrete
Absolute deafening silenceAbsolute deafening silence...
during and after a moderate snowfall
today January 19th, 2024,
within Southeastern Pennsylvania
and elsewhere across the Eastern Seaboard,
whereby blanket of whiteness
muffles sounds of civilization.
I hate a spoiler alert
regarding weather forecasters prediction,
especially when meteorologist
wannabe spouse doth...
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Categories:
shoots, adventure, age, angel, appreciation, beauty, humorous, snow,
Form:
Rhyme
A View From a WindowAs dawn unfolds today beyond my fractured windowpane,
a breeze beguiles the ashen drapes. Like snakes they slip aside,
revealing wanton worlds that race and run aground, insane,
immersed in scenes obscene that savants strive to mask and...
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Categories:
shoots, peace, people, political, society,
Form:
Rhyme
White the Lowest Sky
"White the Lowest Sky"
Cries the Lowest Sky
tear drops fed as manna
o’er the littlest warrior
face raised to ultra Light
The 3
that sit in Ultra Gamma
there cries the lowest Sky
the voice that ever hears you
Cries the...
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Categories:
shoots, freedom, love, trust,
Form:
Free verse
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 82“Thank you again for your hospitality, Raðulfr.” Joulupukki stood and lifted Jessica to her feet.
“Do not argue with me child,” Raðulfr knew he was starting a battle when his...
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Categories:
shoots, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic