Long Spiked Poems
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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:
spiked, angst, dark, i am, identity, psychological, self,
Form:
Rhyme
Epigrams
Epigrams by Michael R. Burch
If brevity is the soul of wit
then brevity and levity
are the whole of it.
—Michael R. Burch
To write an epigram, cram.
If you lack wit, scram!
—Michael R. Burch
Conformists of a feather
flock together.
—Michael...
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Categories:
spiked, bible, metaphor, philosophy, poetry, wisdom, words, writing,
Form:
Epigram
The Bartender
Twenty two years had passed by
She blinked, and a lifetime had passed
She started this job as a lark
She never thought it would last
Two husbands and rehab were part of this bar
The husbands...her clients all...
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Categories:
spiked, america, community, family, heart, society, strength, wisdom,
Form:
Rhyme
The Light of Reckoning -2
The Roman administrators came for the wealth of our worship
demanding that I crack the church's coffers wide open
for their needs, for the Empire's desperate embellishments,
in place of gold I presented the poor
I told the onery...
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Categories:
spiked, creation,
Form:
Epic
Babylonian Anthem
Thou, O king, hast made a decree,
that every man that shall hear the
sound of the cornet, flute, harp,
sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer,
and all kinds of musick, shall fall
down and worship the golden image:
And whoso...
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Categories:
spiked, bible, patriotic, religious, truth,
Form:
Narrative
The Warlord Wars No More -2
Pay heed to those deeds from whence the heart must confess...
You're far from Rome Proconsul Caesar...
As they say, "All roads lead to Rome" Ariovistus
and all tresspasses are treated as threats of war...
My recent conquest of...
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Categories:
spiked, history,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Psychotic Trip
PSYCHOTIC JOURNEY
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS
Feeling really beat, I went to bed early last night
Suddenly awakened feeling something’s not right
There was total darkness, I was not in my room
Lying on a cold flooring, with a feeling...
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Categories:
spiked, allegory, allusion, dark, dream, evil, horror, night,
Form:
Rhyme
Zolar the Inet God
(after Edgar Allan Poe's "The Angel of the Odd")
It was a tidy day and I sat, replete, under vellux blankets.
Sadly, my tea was weak, the bottle of cinnamon whiskey
tantalizingly low, and my feet swelling above...
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Categories:
spiked, abuse, addiction, anti bullying, betrayal, bullying, horror,
Form:
Quatrain
Unquotable Quotes Viiil: Sexual Harassment - the Feminist Kind
Unquotable Quotes VIIIL : SEXUAL HARASSMENT* - the feminist kind
(*”aggressive pressure or intimidation”: Is it really “any different” in most cases in the act, judging by Hollywood standards?)
STOP: ARREST ALL GIRLS
- standing with legs...
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Categories:
spiked, beautiful, crush, cute love, desire, humor, men,
Form:
Free verse
Reversals of Fortune - 6 Sharings
Reversals 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:
spiked, fun, life, science,
Form:
Rhyme
Pine sap pipe
In the deep spiked pine forests
On a walk you forgot you took
Snow up your knees
Twenty feet away
An enormous old house
Not abandoned, smoke from the chimney
Large windows, dark wood walls
A forest castle here for you
To explore...
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Categories:
spiked, 12th grade, flying, house,
Form:
Free verse
The Others Part 2
Suicide isn't an option but I can't say it has never been,
I'll admit, I tried it once, way back when.
I was only a teenager,
And things had just piled too high.
At first, I just did designs,...
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Categories:
spiked, best friend, psychological,
Form:
Rhyme
Flickering Flame
Dear, ice cold hands:
You came from a place of hurt and evil. You were used to people walking in and out of your life. You perfected how to push people out of your life, just...
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Categories:
spiked, beauty, death, fire, hurt, lost love, sad
Form:
Narrative
From The Workshop Collection: Canary And Her Gold Mind
I am still
Sitting here like an expendable bill
With no Jill
Wanting to climb the hill
Where I will
Be able to fill
My bucket from the mill...
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Categories:
spiked, america, angel, lost love, men, murder, sexy,
Form:
Rhyme
The Night New York Slept
It was one solemn, long night,
Tenebrous with the astuteness of perfidy,
And multiple hours before the break of an
Impatient dawn.
Lampposts froze through the pergola of winter.
Limp from exposure to unprintable tales of orgies,
And their lights, hidden...
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Categories:
spiked, city, new york,
Form:
Free verse
Epigrams Iv
Sex Hex
by Michael R. Burch
Love’s full of cute paradoxes
(and highly acute poxes).
Love
by Michael R. Burch
Love is either wholly folly,
or fully holy.
Nun Fun Undone
by Michael R. Burch
Abbesses'
recesses
are not for excesses!
Here and Hereafter
by Michael R. Burch
Life’s saving...
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Categories:
spiked, bible, christian, death, funeral, god, grave, religion,
Form:
Epigram
A Woman's Worth
A Woman’s Worth
When she walks in the room
she wants people to stop and stare
not because they’re whispering…
what she got on girl, what’s up with that hair?
But because she looks good, conservative and chic
looking her best...
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Categories:
spiked, beautiful, clothes, for her, power, self, urban,
Form:
Bio
Baltimore 4-28
Baltimore 4-28
Lets start,
By being real,
I mean really, real!
With harsh truths that need to be freed from our fragile lie,
It is easy to say, or see "thugs", "punks" in the streets of BWI!...
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Categories:
spiked, abuse, america, anger, anti bullying, anxiety, beautiful,
Form:
Prose
Lady Liberty Speaks
Art History
I stand erect with outstretched hand Representing liberty, for many, a foreign land My fire dances an incessant jubilant glow
I represent hope for the oppressed to sow
Pungent salts mixed with glassy sands
...
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Categories:
spiked, symbolism,
Form:
Rhyme
Artemisia, Part 12 of 12
A Daniel, Come to Judgment!
Before I give my judgment in this case,
my custom is to have the plaintiff read
aloud, before the other party, face to face
the statute law that’s pertinent. The screed,
Miss Gentileschi, starts...
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Categories:
spiked,
Form:
Terza Rima
Johnny Blaze Ghost Rider
Let me tell you a story ...
Johnny Blaze, a stunt motorcyclist, who, to save the life of his sick father,
a stunt rider also, gives his soul to the devil. But, the devil lies because...
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Categories:
spiked, fantasy,
Form:
Prose
Gomorrah Toys
Military maneuvers,
conducted by starship troopers,
make a Lot of king Chedorlaomer noise
Earhole space
penetrated by the Pentagon puffing pace ...
stealth sound of smoke signals
Warning drumbeat signs
of an incoming, deadly drone invasion
Attack helicopters hover
over tempting topography...
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Categories:
spiked, truth, violence, war, wisdom,
Form:
Alliteration
I Held Marys Hand
I Held Mary’s Hand
I held Mary’s hand as John covered his face,
So still,
At Peace,
Faded are the slapping sounds of the whip against his flesh,
Gone now are the shrieks as his crown was pegged into...
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Categories:
spiked, angel, baptism, bible, easter, heaven, relationship,
Form:
Free verse
Mistletoe
The sun upon my face blinds me as my boat rocks gently
through the rolling swells that lap against the hull.
The sound of the droning engine mesmerizes my mind
bringing a dreaminess to this bright cool...
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Categories:
spiked, christmas, holiday,
Form:
Prose
Our Christmas Eve Dinner
'Twas our Christmas Eve dinner; we all had sat down
at the table to eat. Grandma couldn’t be found!
We children were fussing; Dad rose to his feet.
shouting, “Where are you, Ma? We’re ready to eat!”
When from...
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Categories:
spiked, dad, humorous, mom, prayer,
Form:
Couplet