Long Splitting Poems
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But as the days of Noah were Matthew 24:37-39
"But as the days of Noah were, so shall the coming of the Son of Man be.
"For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying
and be given in marriage, until...
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Categories:
splitting, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Prose
Salvation of a Formalist, An Ode To Entropy
Salvation of a Formalist, an Ode to Entropy
by Michael R. Burch
Entropy?
God's universal decree
That I get to be
Disorderly?
Suddenly
My erstwhile boxed-in verse is free?
Wheeeeee!
Eternal Currents
by Michael R. Burch
How can I write and not be true
to the rhythm...
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Categories:
splitting, humor, humorous, light, nonsense, satire, write, writing,
Form:
Light Verse
Juvenilia: Early Poems Ix
Juvenilia: Early Poems IX
These are early poems of mine, written in my teens as a high school student and during my first two years of college.
Shock
by Michael R. Burch
It was early in the morning of...
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Categories:
splitting, boy, child, childhood, high school, student, teen,
Form:
Rhyme
A Snow Queen Tale
Part 1: FORE SIBERIAN FATE
silk wings wet -
angel on the lake.
starlight glitter
separates from
the golden wheat.
her docile hair,
prophecy of ice.
winter pink,
pinched cheeks.
ice skate scrapes -
flecks of flakes.
the snow queen
before her relentless
reign, a pretty thing.
her smile warms
the...
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Categories:
splitting, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
Rush Amid the Rapids Published
The greatest performance of my life.
Howard’s proud piece de resistance award on Poetry Nook for my magnum opus “Rush Amid The Rapids” in their daily member section.
After endless hours of toil, tribulation,...
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Categories:
splitting, adventure, age, appreciation, art, beautiful, beauty, feelings,
Form:
Prose
No Umbrella
There is always something to write about
I don’t know what you are talking about
There is always something to write about
So take out your pen and spell it out
I was trying to book a ticket for...
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Categories:
splitting, anxiety, appreciation, beautiful, business, creation, rain, seasons,
Form:
Narrative
Early Poems Ii
Juvenilia: Early Poems by Michael R. Burch
Desdemona
by Michael R. Burch
Though you possessed the moon and stars,
you are bound to fate and wed to chance.
Your lips deny they crave a kiss;
your feet deny they ache to...
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Categories:
splitting, poems, poetry, poets, teen, write, writing, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
Beary Tales Episodes 7-14, Poet's Notes
7. Playing With Fire
My mom IS quite clear on the dangers of fire,
But if boy'S hooked on flame, then it'S hard to obey,
There'S a longing for “MATCH GUN” (6) that most boys acquire,
Small'S the chance...
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Categories:
splitting, adventure, appreciation, best friend, blessing, innocence, love,
Form:
Quatrain
Of Paper Moons, Foxes, and Blood Oranges
I. Sighting
I saw you
through refracted light-
a prism of chance
splitting ordinary into spectrum.
Wind-tangled hair
terra cotta and rosemary beneath your nails
the scent of soil and...
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Categories:
splitting, dream, innocence, journey, loss, memory, mystery, nature,
Form:
Elegiac Lyric
Margins of Pandora
Tim’s father had been a refugee once he put down his fight and his gun
The story is that he embarked on the very last ship leaving East Prussia
Under siege tanks and bombs from above fireworks...
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Categories:
splitting, farewell,
Form:
Free verse
Font Din Black
Font Din Black
so u real???
Warning! The following choppy, batty,
dopey: elegy = flaky, goofy, history: iffy,
jumpy, kooky: loopy, matty, nappy, nippy,
sketchy material prone to find the reader
dazed and bewildered, yet comfortably...
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Categories:
splitting, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, addiction,
Form:
Free verse
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 11
In a sudden nodding shift,
I was lifted into the air by the hard wings of the Devil
His putrid stench waking me from what seemed all dream
And upon a balcony of singed vine and blackened soot,
He...
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Categories:
splitting, age, analogy, crazy, growth, life, light, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
Please Help Yarn Hexed Door Neighbor
Please help yarn hexed door neighbor...
Yours truly pinned down by invisible
vestiges of coronavirus and
getting attacked from angry plague
of buttons, plus huge spools of yarn
grossly mistook me for human sock
to seal and line...
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Categories:
splitting, abuse, anger, bullying, character, december, humorous, husband,
Form:
Rhyme
Tea and Poetry In the Ides of March - Part Three
Again the alarm is set.
Strawberries, date squares…Yum, Yum.
The alarm rings again. The tea party is over.
She returns to her perch where her wings are immediately clipped by the Bald Eagle who...
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Categories:
splitting, satire,
Form:
Free verse
Brains and Guts: The Write, Right, Rite of Revolution
Brains and guts orbit the soul—
that polar star searing in the marrow of being.
I was born somewhere between Einstein’s neurons
Ginsburg beat poetry, the birth of rock and roll, revolution marches,
and the calloused hands of a...
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Categories:
splitting, courage, destiny, history, imagery, metaphor, philosophy, social,
Form:
Spoken Word
In Marked Territory
In the raw expanse of land where rivers sigh,
marked by the shadows of cats and dogs,
with each puddle of yellow reminding us
of lives once lived, hearts bound to the...
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Categories:
splitting, analogy, sympathy,
Form:
Free verse
Where the Ocean Meets the Mountain
You, Mariana—deepest trench of my knowing
I call you by name not to possess it
but because it is the only prayer
I have ever known how to...
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Categories:
splitting, assonance, love, metaphor, mountains, ocean, woman,
Form:
Lyric
The Fly
NOTE: Some of you seemed to enjoy my stories from the past. Of course, posting this in the story folder is tantamount to burying it six feet under, as you know, so I'm posting it...
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Categories:
splitting, angst, humor,
Form:
Prose
My Fifty Years In a Nut Shell
I was born fifty years ago on April 10th 1964
Looking back through the years I began to explore
My mama said when it was time for me to be born
I decided to come early and fast...
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Categories:
splitting, family, life, nostalgia,
Form:
Rhyme
Van Gogh
Endless sunflower field
Rhythmically swaying in the wind
Like lazy ocean wave stretches
To the distant line of horizon
Touching the edge of the sky
Melting into hot noon brilliance
Boiling all shades of yellow into
One burning brightness of...
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Categories:
splitting, anxiety, art, crazy, desire, pain,
Form:
Free verse
I dread the United States presidential 2024 outcome
I dread the United States presidential 2024 outcome...
Whereby yours truly presages and doth abhor
nothing short of an imminent civil war
dwarfing insurrection on January 6, 2021
oddly enough even reducing
ordinary decibels to a mute whisper
madding crowd trumpeting...
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Categories:
splitting, abuse, america, anger, animal, corruption, emotions, fate,
Form:
Free verse
Island Nations
In a sense
each person capable of understanding these words
and those who speak diverse languages together
are island nations
splitting in two
by love
or fear
or both.
I have been concerned about the U.S. island of fundamentalist Christians,
formerly part of the...
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Categories:
splitting, christian, health, hope, islamic, love, peace, usa,
Form:
Political Verse
Ah Tis Nothing Greater Than
Ah... tis nothing greater than...
malfunctioning heater
on that brisk winter day
recorded here as proof positive
regarding following reasonable rhyme.
While scrolling thru
poems crafted yesteryear,
I chanced to jog my memory where
there
occurred power outage necessitated
more than divine...
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Categories:
splitting, 12th grade, angst, dark, environment, faith, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Harvest Inferno
Take me to the tombstone
let me touch the gray stone that stands
where life could not
I will put my face to that touchstone of deaf thunder,
What happened to your breath baby brother,
what happened in...
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Categories:
splitting, birthday, creation,
Form:
Epic
Waters and Skies
I.
You can always tell by the eyes
When they’re starting to go
You’ll fall for a few of their lies
Before you begin to know
And you will just defy it
(But they know you will never go)
They’ll glide through...
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Categories:
splitting, addiction, dark,
Form:
Rhyme