Long Showing Poems
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Potpourri of silly poems
In most of my verse, my simple aim
is just sorta to enter tame.
Then, once inside ~
go completely hog wild ~
showing no reserve,
showing absolutely no shame.
"What do you think of my pup?",
I asked a cop as...
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Categories:
showing, giggle, poetry, silly, writing,
Form:
Light Verse
What are the three physical signs that Bob Barber is predicting to immediately proceed the rapture
These are the three physical signs that Bob Barber believes could proceed the
rapture
1 The ink becomes dry 'on the covenant that is signed by many'.
And after the rapture when...
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Categories:
showing, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Prose
Potpourri of new verse - some could be better, some could be worse
I always wanted to be a medieval jester,
the one who sneaks up behind the queen
and makes her guess who caressed her.
I always wanted to be the Lord of Misrule,
King Lear's sad fool,
and the one who...
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Categories:
showing, angst, dark, i am, identity, psychological, self,
Form:
Rhyme
Want To Play a Game
You’re sick, demented, and twisted and you want to judge me for my sins? What about yours? The ones that lie deep within
The ones that sculpted you into the person that you are, the ones...
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Categories:
showing, death, fear, games, horror, sad love, scary,
Form:
Rhyme
Gluttonous Connoisseur of Ethnic Culinary Cuisines
Yours truly would never be confused for a gourmand, nevertheless I could enjoy experiencing taste testing select food samples if offered an opportunity of attending a fancy feast viz smörgåsbord, whereby oral indulgence would arouse,...
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Categories:
showing, addiction, appreciation, birthday, blessing, chicago, dream, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
M Y L I F E
Grow.Heal.Prosper
M Y L I F E !
I feel like my life is like a boat , the boat is my life everything I’ve worked...
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Categories:
showing, black love, deep, sorry,
Form:
Free verse
An Uppercut I Remember
Dad hit me only once, an upper cut to the solar plexus. It nearly lifted me off my feet. I was 17 then and already fairly tall, 6’1.” He was 48 and of medium height,...
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Categories:
showing, father son,
Form:
Blank verse
Yellow Winged Angel
I.
He was patient very-very
with child's tenderness in eyes
yellow winged angel's unwary,
He was living quiet in skies.
Without disputes, without roughness,
without want to weep and moan,
He was dreaming among heartless
building cloud castles alone.
He was waking up...
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Categories:
showing, abuse, angel, angst, philosophy, solitude, yellow,
Form:
I do not know?
Rejection Slips 3
Rejection Slips 3
Rejection Slip
by Michael R. Burch
Whenever my writing gets rejected,
I always wonder how the rejecter got elected.
Are we exchanging at the same Bourse?
(Excepting present company, of course!)
When editors reject my poems, did I slip...
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Categories:
showing, death, desire, family, heart, life, longing, love,
Form:
Rhyme
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:
showing, betrayal, caregiving, culture, health, prejudice, religion, work,
Form:
Political Verse
Solo Performance
It had been a hellish week.
On Monday
my lonely and tired AfricanAmerican husband
told me, as gently as possible,
that what I had hoped was a temporary separation
is to be extended into perpetuity.
This separation had been scheduled to...
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Categories:
showing, age, earth, family, health, integrity, nature, spiritual,
Form:
Political Verse
The Remaining - Prologue: Terra Firma and the Bitumen
“The Remaining”
PROLOGUE: “Terra Firma and The Bitumen”
"The slow descent into Hell
Had led Her mind to escape to Heaven
Her firmament was Her Mind
Her body just a Shell"
Heaven for Her existed in The Dream
She called Her...
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Categories:
showing, angel, daughter, god, heaven, imagery, jesus, mother,
Form:
Free verse
Rejection Slips 1
Rejection Slips
With over 5,700 publications if I count poems that have gone viral, I suppose I shouldn’t complain … but I do have some poems that have never been accepted for publication. Here are a...
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Categories:
showing, day, love, memory, night, rose, seasons, winter,
Form:
Rhyme
An Ordinary Girl - Translation From Tagore
Sharing my translation of a famous poem (Sadharan Meye) written by Rabindranath Tagore, who won Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. It's one of his story-like poems, written in Bengali, which is one of the...
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Categories:
showing, life, loss,
Form:
Narrative
The Reluctant Serpent - a Fairy Tale
Once Upon a Time Everything was Perfect in Eden, NSW, Australia
This is a story about why snakes are reluctant to leave whenever you see them.
Why they hang about, instead of scurrying off.
A reluctant snake...
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Categories:
showing, fairy,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Translation of Eric Mottram's Courbet: Elegy 8 By T Wignesan
Translation of Eric Mottram’s Courbet: Elegy 8 by T. Wignesan
Blanches oeuvres ouvertes
résident dans les jours
la surface du banc de travail est noire
les géraniums-lierres
les fougères et les adragans
accumulent leurs oeuvres et jours:
La toile noire de Courbet
un...
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Categories:
showing, america, art, creation, philosophy, poetry, writing,
Form:
Free verse
Grand Dragon Press
Some may say grand dragon others grand wizard either or it began in 60s everything was a bit chaotic the death of John f Kennedy Bobby Kennedy pope John XXlll my birth and Martin Luther...
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Categories:
showing, allah,
Form:
Quintain (English)
Our Arcade 1985
Is how it all began our beautiful thing we both knew it was arcade concealing it the way we did and was we wrong for protecting the jukebox the many simple pleasures hidden treasures would...
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Categories:
showing, allah,
Form:
Quatorzain
Operation Money Jump
Thanksgiving, 1971,
a parachute pilgrim approaches Northwest Flight 305
as Dan Cooper, anonymous businessman, anarchist airborne,
black suit, black sunglasses, a black tie
and a black briefcase broaching black motives,
Portland to Seattle, prison or criminal pantheon,
before...
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Categories:
showing, america, history, mystery,
Form:
Epic
STOLEN VALOR CRUEL AND VERY CRIMINAL INTENT 101 AIRBORNE SCREAMING EAGLES
STOP STOLEN VALOR AGAINST DISABLED WAR HEROS AND THEIR FAMILIES MY WONDERFUL HUSBAND MY WONDERFUL WAR HERO EXPERIENCING A HORROR NO MILITARY FAMILY SHOULD EVER ENDURE AFTER SEVERAL BREAK INS HOME INVASIONS RIPPING DOCUMENTS FROM...
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Categories:
showing, allah,
Form:
Naat
I Want a Doggy
Oh how I want a doggy,
a bundle of love and fur. ...
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Categories:
showing, dog, friend, love,
Form:
Narrative
One Thing That Love Is
Everything here is true
Just as stated
because it's already happened
or - it has yet to occur -
but it's very soon to occur
and I have such strong feeling
that the future will be as I see it
as...
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Categories:
showing, dog, love, memory, sad,
Form:
Free verse
Living With Uncertainty, Chaos and Corruption
The world is constantly changing
People are steadily rearranging
Life seems to be a gigantic nightmare
Keep moving, but never getting there
This country was built on the backs of slaves
Our ancestors buried in...
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Categories:
showing, confusion, corruption, spoken word,
Form:
Free verse
Something Old Something New
In a matter of months, we would experience the greatest economic ...
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Categories:
showing, change, travel,
Form:
Free verse
Know Thyself
Know Thyself
(one of the two Delphic commands of Apollo)
For years before the narrow windows of my senses
...
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Categories:
showing, god, me, world, voice, creation, fear, me,
Form:
Elegy