Long Shroud Poems
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Short Stuff: EpigramsEpigrams by Michael R. Burch
Negligibles
by Michael R. Burch
Show me your most intimate items of apparel:
begin with the hem of your quicksilver slip ...
Negotiables
by Michael R. Burch
Love should be more than the sum of its...
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Categories:
shroud, body, clothes, death, eulogy, introspection, love, obituary,
Form:
Epigram
Peace In the Nowhere
"Peace in the Nowhere"
Ghosts remain in this place
they read their words
marked each day on walls
like prayers, it gives them
peace in the nowhere
someplace relevant to go
Ghosts commune in this place
disowned long ago or walked
off the...
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Categories:
shroud, muse, poems, poets,
Form:
Narrative
A Kept WomanDream-worker
delves deeply into my dream;
vibrations fondle anticipation
foreplay wakes wide-eyed
swells of liquid libido quake the rendezvous edge -
a primordial being in his prime
a masculine ego quest for affaire d’amour;
her night-loving body
c h a...
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Categories:
shroud, allegory, betrayal, fate, imagery, love, lust, sensual,
Form:
Free verse
Unidentified Extraterrestrials Willingly Abducted MeUnidentified extraterrestrial(s) willingly abducted me
As a divergence
from the apocalyptical, dialectical,
geomorphological, judgmatical,
metaphorical, philosophical...,
I share an out of this
(webbed wide) world,
light hearted anecdote
ye may find far fetched.
Believe me you,
an unspecified number of...
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Categories:
shroud, absence, adventure, august, blessing, confusion, courage, dream,
Form:
Free verse
The Ghost Dance Part IiiWovoka in the Feverland
In the Dying-Grass Moon came another winter to claim the old and sick.
This was when the first messengers came
To the desolation known as Pine Ridge.
They came riding in at the end of...
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Categories:
shroud, emotions, heartbreak, native american, tribute,
Form:
Free verse
The Depths
"The Depths"
From the depths
silence.
Where
are the voices
of other
women?
In that other place,
the monsters violate,
they take and take
bloody all, what they want
the dreams of women
are torched, murdered,
next to them,
the sweet dreams of lives...
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Categories:
shroud, children, humanity, women,
Form:
Narrative
Insecurity Part TwoI went against my better judgment, I was flattered not appalled, the only affection that I had ever known was just affection that I didn’t want
By a man that was many years older than me,...
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Categories:
shroud, abuse,
Form:
Rhyme
Mother of the AgeStately stood Princess Amber in all her finery,
Emerald tunic over a crimson gown,
With gems inlaid in her rustling gown,
Her arms bangled in intricate gold slowly rose,
Her slender fingers rested on her heaving bosom,
Listening to unstopping...
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Categories:
shroud, anger, beautiful, emotions, forgiveness, imagery, jealousy,
Form:
Epic
The Call of the Grimoire
"The Call of the Grimoire"
when Exalibur was retrieved
from the rock, then foolishly
and irretrievably lost
in that dreadful battle most worthless
the imps encouraged
the once good Poesie folk
to jeer and throw pebbles
the...
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Categories:
shroud, i am, light, magic, muse,
Form:
Narrative
Fabrics Finding FabricationsA prawn masquerading as a peanut can be quite disturbing. So many times a peel is a garment used to shroud. A tentacle hidden. Here and there. Then to reappear with an often violent burst...
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Categories:
shroud, animal,
Form:
I do not know?
Unidentified Flying Object Abducted Yours Truly,Unidentified flying object abducted yours truly,...
a willing experimental subject
to escape untenable married life.
Upon falling into a deep slumber,
the following subconscious
somnambulant scenario arose
allowing, enabling, and providing
temporary alleviation from
outa harried...
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Categories:
shroud, absence, adventure, anxiety, appreciation, blessing, courage, destiny,
Form:
Free verse
Unquotable Quotes: Paris the Last Week of the August Reprieve- Xxxv Part TwoUnquotable quotes: Paris, the last week of the August reprieve – XXXV Part Two
II
The first signs reek tell-tale
Buffer-to-buffer...
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Categories:
shroud, august, autumn, farewell, lost love, winter,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Kingdom of My Embrace"Years” and “Distance”, phantoms of the dark that do their evil
in the quietude of the everyday, coming and going without so
much as a footprint or a whisper, and taking the most valuable
possessions of the heart,...
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Categories:
shroud, absence, appreciation, children, family, love,
Form:
Free verse
Architects of Humanitarian CrisesCopyright © 2008 #03
4/12/2008 // (Edited: 1/22/2013/lp
(a historical glimpse of humanity's rise)
*This poetic epic begins with the
greatest sin against humanity
*This poem is dedicated to all
serving and protecting the
¨Basic Rights of Mankind¨
Once, mankind was forgiven from...
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Categories:
shroud, christian, devotion, faith, history, hope, journey, life,
Form:
Couplet
The Drummer1
The drummer beats slowly, the drummer beats loud
as he beats of humanity wrapped in a shroud.
Well he beats of the rape and the killing of war
and the mind mangling sorrow we blithely ignore
and...
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Categories:
shroud, freedom, history, humanity, peace, society, strength, war,
Form:
Rhyme
The White Lady of Skipsea
"The White Lady of Skipsea"
Last night I dreamt
I dreamed of you
a kind of dream
within a dream
Diaphanous,
my soul escaped,
this firmament,
my immaculate heart
held hands, my fingers
did entwine with
handsome Morpheus
Crystal radiate
twin gossamer...
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Categories:
shroud, dark, fantasy, gothic, history, horror, mystery, romance,
Form:
Free verse
SplatSplat
Explosions do not always signify combustion but often combustion arrives after many years of layering the layers and tightly packing. Thus meaning that a fried piece of fat could slip and burst out of the...
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Categories:
shroud, africa, animal,
Form:
I do not know?
Words the Ship Melanie Dear Melanie Troubled Times LosstouchWords
The ship
Words come to me like spring.
They set free, they shed the shroud,
open with all their glory, beauty and sing.
They stand tall, they ring out loud,
from a life that blossoms with...
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Categories:
shroud, daughter,
Form:
Rhyme
God Pty LtdAncient sinister fires dwell in the savage creator's eye,
Soon his fire starter will be coming for a second try,
Choosing to believe, that which cannot be seen cannot be rude,
A cloak and dagger God who spies...
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Categories:
shroud, 10th grade,
Form:
ABC
God Pty LtdAncient sinister fires dwell in the savage creator's eye,
Soon his fire starter will be coming for a second try,
Choosing to believe, that which cannot be seen cannot be rude,
A cloak and dagger God who spies...
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Categories:
shroud, 10th grade,
Form:
ABC
The Sadist and the MasochistA sadist and a masochist you would think they would be the perfect fit, but I found out the hard way that it is the complete opposite
See you are the sadist as you once told...
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Categories:
shroud, heartbroken,
Form:
Rhyme
Summer Memories Summer Realities Thoughts About Part 1Summer Memories
Summer Realities
This, the first day of summer, two thousand and two, finds me,
slipping back into what once was my desire, my need, my reality.
This step back into, and into times passed, has allowed me...
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Categories:
shroud, summer,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Velvet Glove CompartmentAge defiant was this spruce and spirited citizen slinking blithely past the burgundy red doors of her enigmatic country dwelling.
As her olive skin neatly curved fingers
slid over an intermittently scratched carbon black handrail she...
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Categories:
shroud, adventure, age, birth, celebration, deep, devotion, feelings,
Form:
Prose
Temporary TravellersNA Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Ink Empress
Temporary Travellers
...
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Categories:
shroud, faith, god, humanity, inspirational, men, spiritual,
Form:
Quatrain
Transmigration of the WindThe strong gust of wind was cut off from its source; a frigid early spring blast that swept across a lofty mountain range, high above British Columbia.
It then encircled one of the lesser peaks and...
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Categories:
shroud, imagery, journey, nature, sky, spring, water, wind,
Form:
Prose