Long Snuff Poems
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Play Slipknot’s ‘Snuff’ song four times and use these lyrics:
(Do not use the official video clip. It has more than just the song.)
I still feel your pain within my skin…
Ripping out my heart again,
So I...
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Categories:
snuff, friend, heartbroken, lost love, love,
Form:
Lyric
Summer
“SUMMER”
Where
has Summer
gone?
The world
has lost
Summer
Sweet
little
dream
missing
all those other
beautiful
small dreams
seen as toys
small and
inconsequential
casually tossed aside,
disposable play,
things
pure shining lights
smiling eyes once so bright,
switched off,
'neath...
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Categories:
snuff, abuse, child abuse,
Form:
Epic
Heat LighteningHeat Lightening
by Michael R. Burch
Each night beneath the elms, we never knew
which lights beyond dark hills might stall, advance,
then lurch into strange headbeams tilted up
like searchlights seeking contact in the distance . . .
Quiescent unions...
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Categories:
snuff, car, crush, desire, love, lust, sexy, teen
Form:
Sonnet
The Badly Drawn GoatThe pencil now resting the image was 'testing' for the creature before him, (his badly-drawn drawin') had come out 'not right' somewhat twisted and tight.
The picture in question, it burst with suggestion, for lines that...
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Categories:
snuff, animal, creation, funny,
Form:
Rhyme
Divine Comedy Translation Hell Canto XivBecause the charity of my native place
Obliged me, the broken branches I the picked up
Them giving back him, who was to debase.
Then we finally reached where had to leap
From the second turn to third, and...
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Categories:
snuff, fantasy, , cute,
Form:
Terza Rima
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:
snuff, cute love, desire, god, heart, love, lust,
Form:
Epigram
Pipe Lines of Kaimu: Imu Ground OvenPreparations for 'Luau' (LOU-ow) or a Hawaiian Party-like event, for a church Luau, would be a 'Ho'ike' (hoe-'E-kay). The hunters will tie the hind legs of whatever animal will go into an 'i'mu' (E'-moo), which...
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Categories:
snuff, appreciation, beautiful, blessing, celebration, happiness, religion, together,
Form:
Narrative
How I Got Rich and What Happened ThenWritten in summer of 1976.
I used to eat my lunch with groups
of businessmen from Campbell Soups.
We drank a drink at lunch each day
Of Coca-Cola mixed with hay
And talked of pending corporate plans
And willow-haired orangutans.
I spent...
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Categories:
snuff, business, humor, humorous, money, nonsense, satire,
Form:
Couplet
Reversals of Fortune - 6 SharingsReversals of Fortune
I. Most think luck’s just what happens, though love groks luck’s seized
by each seed that sticks (somehow) in less stone-filled ground
(which its siblings blow off or press past). That’s less luck
to my brain...
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Categories:
snuff, fun, life, science,
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:
snuff, fantasy,
Form:
Epic
One generic baby boomer, a garden variety sexagenarianOne generic baby boomer, (a garden variety sexagenarian)...
offers his interpretation of critical race theory
I, (an articulate, charming, domesticated,
erudite, friendly, genteel, humorous, intelligent,
kind, learned, male, albeit modest – married)
with freshly clipped formerly gnarly toenails
discounts...
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Categories:
snuff, 12th grade, abuse, africa, america, anger, betrayal,
Form:
Rhyme
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 32“What concerns you,” he asked?
“This one looks much like his kin, has he inherited other aspects of his father as well?”
“Do you mean magic?”
The guard...
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Categories:
snuff, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Up In SmokeUP IN SMOKE...
Tobacco companies you should be ashamed of your yourselves
pushing your nasty CANCER sticks
what a bunch of money hungry low lives and self centered PRICKS
GET out of my life forever hit the bricks!
I SEE...
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Categories:
snuff, health, drug,
Form:
Free verse
A Tale of Cosmos - Part 2the Universe, a self-defining everything
but then, what of the Cosmos wherein we all dwell?
that big bang blast, forever on a far-flung fling
from beyond and within which, lurks heaven and...
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Categories:
snuff, philosophy, science, universe,
Form:
Verse
PoortownI grew up in Poortown
A mile down the road
From hard topped streets
Where Miss Eleanor lived
She sat on the front porch
Smoking ready rolled
Eating brought on peaches
And she would hide...
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Categories:
snuff, america, community, growing up, poverty, relationship, integrity,
Form:
Free verse
I Say It How It Is In My EyesStrange this all falls on deaf ears
a mockery of justice twist whichever way you wish
people killed in a hospital act of terror yes or no
Where those blind cannot ever see
the gospel...
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Categories:
snuff, abortion, anti bullying, betrayal, cancer, death, freedom,
Form:
Political Verse
NdidiNDIDI (PATIENCE IS GOLDEN)
Patience said:
"Whatever my old man says."
So,
I saw the wise, bald, old man
In his thatched mud hut
Loin cloth knotted
Around his shoulders
The whiff of utaba (snuff)
Saturating the atmosphere
He googled me
Between the rims...
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Categories:
snuff, pride,
Form:
Prose
Preposterous ErosPreposterous Eros
by Michael R. Burch
“Preposterous Eros” – Patricia Falanga
Preposterous Eros shot me in
the buttocks, with a Devilish grin,
spent all my money in a rush
then left my heart effete pink mush.
These are poems about Eros, the...
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Categories:
snuff, desire, love, love hurts, lust, passion, romance,
Form:
Epigram
Scarecrow‘so glad ya made it out alright,’ she says.
‘i’m feelin’ a whole lot better knowin’ that the crops’re bein’ taken care-uh.”
you nod, smile politely
and step out of your car straight into drying mud.
‘i just don’t...
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Categories:
snuff, autumn, horror, imagery, sun,
Form:
Free verse
How I Got RichHow I Got Rich and What Happened Then
I used to eat my lunch with groups
of businessman from Campbell's Soups.
We drank a drink at lunch each day
Of Coca-Cola mixed with hay
And talked of pending corporate plans
And...
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Categories:
snuff, business, humor, humorous, money, satire,
Form:
Couplet
Halloweenie Roast
Zotëri Count Dracula
is a terrible, Transylvanian host
Mister Tarantula Fangs serves watered down pâté:
Fermented, sour liver compost
I know,
because my Planet Terror peep Tarantino
said so
Vladdie’s batty bandë
campy lip sync way too much on the fly
Playing air...
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Categories:
snuff, fun, humorous, scary, word play,
Form:
Light Verse
Ahmad Faraz TranslationsThe Eager Traveler
by Ahmad Faraz
translation by Michael R. Burch
Even in the torture chamber, I was the lucky one;
When each lottery was over, unaccountably I had won.
And even the mightiest rivers found accessible refuge in me;
Though...
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Categories:
snuff, urdu,
Form:
Verse
What the Thunder SaidAgain, the great slow rolling rumble
As the gray shield of the sky shakes above.
It comes as does some giant, or prowling beast of such kind
Black,...
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Categories:
snuff, devotion, inspirational, introspection, mystery, philosophy, visionary, song,
Form:
Didactic
All Alone With MyselfNo matter what, I can't do it.
Bother someone else with my issues.
After all I created all my problems, right?
Of course I did, I needed no help in making them.
And I need no help fixing them.
No...
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Categories:
snuff, angst, cry, pain, stress,
Form:
Free verse
Imp-Ulse Attraction
The seductive voice
emanating from the Cyclops eye,
whispers: Don’t believe what you see!
Only trust what I say,
when you zombie sleep turn off the TV
Have no bewitching faith in your bad dreams,
especially the one...
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Categories:
snuff, allusion, imagery, satire, surreal,
Form:
Dramatic Verse