Long Soloist Poems

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Honestly, things are getting out of proportion (Do your part, man!)
Give me a portion of your love (a portion of your love)
You’re my ultimate luck, desire and devotion 
You’re as beloved and spectacular 
As...

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I wish to
Relay
To all of my people the importance of sticking together as a 
team

And that
Because we have run 
through the preliminary trials as selfish individual, goal seekers
we have barely made it to the finals,...

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Feb. 6, 2021
	Hello I was born normal on May 17, 1979 from Paranaque, Philippines. My name is Jacqueline Ramirez Mendoza and was taken from Jacqueline Kennedy Onasis. Given by my cousin, Jocelyn Picazo Santos. My...

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BROKEN DREAM

At any time in your life, did your dream of whom
you wanted to be when you grow up came true?
Or it did not and at this time in your life you
are thinking what it...

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I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions. ~ Augusten Burroughs




Following my heart…
I’ve found
Sometimes I’m led into pain
Reflecting off of my feelings
Like a dewdrop on a soft petal
Caressing the hope with...

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Am I really this old,
so many ghosts
beckoning?
—Michael R. Burch

Sleepyheads!
I recite my haiku
to the inattentive lilies.
—Michael R. Burch

Stillness:
the sound of petals
drifting down softly together...
—Miura Chora, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

The sky tries to assume
your eyes’...

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I was a fashionable horticulturist, for elegant flowers keep eternally in style,
Like the saffron sun, coming and going, always causing dark skies to smile.

Plants were a jade preoccupation, long before glad days of my rosy...

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These are original haiku by Michael R. Burch and his translations of haiku by the Japanese masters Matsuo Basho, Yosa Buson, Masaoka Shiki, and others. 

Am I really this old,
so many ghosts
beckoning?
—Michael R. Burch

Sleepyheads!
I recite...

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Music is an undying 
art of soul ~ 
an abstract eden, where, 
euphonious unicorns 
glide in strawberry sonatas, 
amplifying rhapsody in
ballads of flight, 
when fuchsia feathers
tease those 
jingling breezes, 
infusing breaths
in every lifeless aroma;
where I...

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Hidden

I am the wind whistling in your ears, chilling you to the bone,
I am the heart tearing you to pieces,
I am the path leading you home.
I am the mind that compels,
And the arms carrying ...

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THE STRANGER MAN (3)

But let life live its life and I mine.
I ease myself of all worries
And drift where I may such as liberal
As a wind and unheeding to the obstruction
Where of the fate of...

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The Messiah you see painted on the ceilings of your churches and on the floors of the convenience stores on the corner are me--I know that you’ve wished for a better savior in the past...

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Tingles
    down my spine
for me it’s nearly time
my very first performance
in the Parkinson’s choir

Practising the songs
    morning
        noon
    ...

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LEGEND: GH - Glenn Hughes          JL - Jon Lord/Lordy

GH: "Oh Lordy!"
JL: "Heil!"
GH: "How'd ya like puffin' that magic."
JL: "Bugs is outta the hat, man, -- so...

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Packed my 92-year-old dad
Into the old Lansing-made black Cadillac
To see the Detroit Symphony play at Wharton
We’re dressed up at the red light of Waverly and Saginaw

This vital busy corridor
Once home to Schmidt’s Estes Furniture Leonard’s...

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The genie in the bottle  beside Alladin's lamp
awaiting the cue to perform her dance
Aromatic spices fill the air..authentic meals to be my fare.
Tagines of fowl and lamb....fish and yams 
 Bastille chicken flavored with...

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I envision myself as a talented soloist,
After singing Elvis in the dinning-room, to a thankful audience

Would  i be nervous or feel comfortable with the audience,
I would  dream of wearing a beautiful gown.

Along way...

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Slowly You Fade Away
Before time erases your last shadow,
The eyes of the world have begun to blur your outline.
You dissolve slowly, before you get lost in oblivion.
Mice-like eyes scan you, with a grimace suggesting,
That you...

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The Flash of my eyes
Does nothing to arise
An element of surprise
Or even evoke
Delectable daydreams
In the sweat streaming down your backside
All I can do is keep
Pumping the beat for what it's worth
Once the throbbing drips
And these...

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I searched 'ere the dawn, where could it have gone,
for now, it possesses me, as a mystery, till dawn met me.

I've no rhyme or reason that a loved entity goes awry,
having to comb with despair...

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Slithering in the depthless waters
We find the eel—never blinking
Rarely has he seen the sun
Encompassed with mistrust
He’s a soloist of the deep

Calm burning in his soul, 
We find his home
Serenely built on the quietude of his...

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It can kill, or it can chill, at best can thrill,
the darkness of the night your choosing.
Pitch black, clouded over deserts nights,
nigh freezing, the darkness of the sands.
Arctic, Antartica, nigh six months of darkness,
illuminated north...

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Vivaldi’s Violin

 The sound begins vague as a thought from perhaps 
a misted remembrance made more distant more soft 
in the surrounding sunset not trusting eyes only ears.

I sit up and listen indeed stretch all...

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I believe in the good things in life,
In wonderful things, separate from strife.
They can be seen in a young child's smile,
Or in the marathon's run of the final mile.
They exist in the beauty of morning's...

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Lily Valentine
By Franklin Price
5/19/2019

I'm here to tell a timely tale
Of  lovely Lily Valentine
It may be slightly slanted
She's a relationship of mine

She's the daughter of my daughter
She has great talent in her voice
Since her early...

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