Long Sore Poems
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Bunch of limericks and other funny tricks I
"Okay, tell me, who's gonna be next?"
said the writer of the too-long text.
"No, please, not me," said the lean noun.
"Cut that fat verb there, two lines down."
And they all watched with their faces vexed.
The women...
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Categories:
sore, crazy, funny, giggle, howl, humor, silly,
Form:
Limerick
My Uncanny Sighs of Distress and the Tears of Tribulation
I’m in distress
I can’t express
How I feel deep down inside
This feeling is a terrible tide
How do I impress
Everyone here in excess?
I’m just here to simply abide
By God’s Law, I don’t subside
My tears are diamonds in...
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Categories:
sore, angst, courage, emotions, encouraging, endurance,
Form:
Rhyme
Childhood Dreams Part 1
When I was a child
Everything was magical
Full of mystery and the unknown
I read hundreds of books
The library my haven
My home
Hours upon hours
Night and day
I read and got lost in text
They supplied me with adventures
Secret journeys
Fun...
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Categories:
sore, childhood, cinderella, dream, fairy,
Form:
Free verse
Prolonged offal bout courtesy constipation redux revisited
Prolonged offal bout courtesy constipation... redux revisited
Upteenth instance where yours truly
experienced assault upon hindquarters.
A worse hellish fate than perdition
and the closest in the throes
of agonizing death scene rendition
stabbing sphincter muscle spasms
wrench yours truly...
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Categories:
sore, abuse, adventure, anger, angst, body, humorous, obituary,
Form:
Free verse
The pain of not knowing
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A lament of Love? and Loss
In the silence, I hear your voice,
A whispered reminder, of my foolish choice.
I was blind to your needs, and deaf to your pain,
And now I'm left...
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Categories:
sore, anxiety, betrayal, black love, crush, cute love,
Form:
Light Verse
A Day Under the Sun
Blue Hunter's Moon of the Festival of Lights.
And the day of Vengeance of our Holy One to comfort all those who mourn.
Isaiah 61:3-11
I Proclaim the acceptable Generation or Year and Day of Yehoshua also known...
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Categories:
sore, blue, earth day, faith, growth, moon, rainbow,
Form:
Prose
Letters For People Part 4
Dear people,
(Am i?) Mad it’s a conformist state?
A status that perpetuates people to pair, to compare, to prepare,
to perfect, before performance, …?
-sure hard to try...
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Categories:
sore, america, angst, business, confusion, feelings, poverty,
Form:
Epic
Impossible Mission To Captcha Infinitesimal Moment
Impossible mission to captcha infinitesimal moment
alternately titled: tick tock runneth amuck
seconds elapse imperceptibly
leaving me dumbstruck,
how quickly fleeting tempus fugit;
ofttimes imagined as time thief.
Hence following vignette: quiet as a mouse lurks the time thief...
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Categories:
sore, 12th grade, analogy, butterfly, death, farewell, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
As Time Walked By
These are early poems of mine, written as a high school student in the 10th grade.
as Time walked by
by Michael R. Burch
yesterday i dreamed of us again,
when
the air, like honey,
trickled through cushioning grasses,
softly flowing,...
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Categories:
sore, 10th grade, boy, child, childhood, first love,
Form:
Free verse
I Have Labored Sore Translation
I Have Labored Sore
anonymous medieval lyric (circa the fifteenth century)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
I have labored sore / and suffered death,
so now I rest / and catch my breath.
But I shall come /...
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Categories:
sore, christian, death, earth, heaven, sorrow, sorry, soulmate,
Form:
Rhyme
The Journey
Once upon a weedy lawn
At Cedar Oaks Retirement Home
There sat my mother, weak and old
On an afghan knit to block the cold.
It was summer, but in mom's grey eyes
Was winter, when all around us dies.
I...
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Categories:
sore, appreciation, child, daughter, devotion, family, forgiveness, mom,
Form:
Rhyme
Romeo and Juliet: the Remix
Three voices required,
Professor,
and two students:
Yang as Fr. Time
YinYin as Sr. Gaia
In a college classroom with Win-Win Game Theory written on whiteboard.
Professor:
Today we are going to role play
a Win-Win enculturation game.
Natural and Social Communication...
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Categories:
sore, absence, allegory, destiny, games, humor, love, myth,
Form:
Narrative
Doggerel Ii
Doggerel II: Doggerel about Doggerel, or, More Nonsense Verse
The Board
by Michael R. Burch
Accessible rhyme is never good.
The penalty is understood:
soft titters from dark board rooms where
the businessmen paste on their hair
and, Walter Mitties, woo the...
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Categories:
sore, animal, dog, humor, humorous, light, nonsense, silly,
Form:
Light Verse
Translation With Commentary of a Wild West Classic: Summer Wine By T Wignesan
Translation with commentary of an archetypal Wild West Classic : " Summer Wine "
(I'd wage my bottom diamond dime future generations will re-discover and treasure this true American classic like only a few others of...
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Categories:
sore, america, angel, betrayal, england, myth, romance, song,
Form:
Ballad
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 89
The magic disappeared. The lead Troll's hand fell through the air where the magic was released and he lost his balance almost falling to the ground. He hesitated feeling the emptiness in front...
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Categories:
sore, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Ironbar
He just appeared to me, like wispily curling
Chimney smoke,
One grim and early morning in the very midst of
Decembers briefest days, on the highest slope,
Toiling through my daily round; where, slowly
Driving up...
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Categories:
sore, nature, universe,
Form:
Rhyme
Dante's Hell Translation Canto X
Now is going on through a secret way
Between the martyrdoms and the ground wall,
My master, and I behind him to stay.
“Oh highest virtue, who me gently haul
In wicked rounds”, I started, “If you please,
Speak to...
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Categories:
sore, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
Dante's Divine Comedy Translation Canto Ix
That color vileness painted on my face
When coming back my duke to me I saw
His new squeezing inside much more took place.
He heedful stopped as man hearing to draw;
Because his eye could not reach...
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Categories:
sore, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 71
The preparations were almost complete when Lumi reappeared down stairs. He seemed preoccupied and burnished an all encompassing smile across his face.
“Lumi... Lumi,” Joulupukki had to repeat himself to...
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Categories:
sore, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Dante's Divine Comedy Hell Translation Canto Vii
(Continuing the trip through Hell of Dante with poet Virgilio)
Pah-peh Sah-tan, Pah-peh Sah-tan al-ept!”,
Started Pluto with his hoarse voice toss
And that gentle wise, who any knowledge kept,
Told to encourage me: “don’t have a loss
By...
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Categories:
sore, fantasy, universe,
Form:
Terza Rima
The Juniper Prize: Between the Known and the Unknown
“The Juniper Prize: Between the Known and the Unknown”
That man built a house
of straw and sticks
and the stories that burned within -
all consuming the titled prize;
like a bird
sings a song
the metre repeats and...
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Categories:
sore, muse,
Form:
Narrative
Plane Crashes Fate Takes Over
It was Christmas Eve and I was at the airport,
Not a soul in sight, almost deserted, it was 10.00 pm,
Only two hours before Christmas day,
Perhaps if I got on a plane, I would see Santa...
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Categories:
sore, love,
Form:
Free verse
Long In the Tooth Male Doth Recount Reflect Reimagine
Long in the tooth male doth recount, reflect, reimagine...
his woebegone damn dental daze today May 5th, 2021
No particular rhyme nor reason
garden variety indentured flunky (me)
revisits his salmagundi salad days,
when oral blight smote
left...
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Categories:
sore, 2nd grade, absence, age, body, cinco de
Form:
Rhyme
Remain Sane
Do you recognize me anymore?
Do you realize that my heart is sore?
Let me memorize your heart’s melody
Let me see right through your…melancholy…
Do you ever wave goodbye to yesterday?
Can’t bear the thought of you leaving me...
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Categories:
sore, deep, depression, desire, feelings, life, loneliness,
Form:
Free verse
The-Hour-Glass
Please, save me!!
Solitude is speaking, oh so lonely...
We have plenty of gain
In our pockets, overflowing with light
You are like an airplane,
Landing safely from a fantastic flight
My beating heart can't take this anymore
The moment...
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Categories:
sore, betrayal, deep, depression, desire, lost, passion, time,
Form:
Lyric