Long Sprawled Poems
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For All That I Remembered
For All That I Remembered
by Michael R. Burch
For all that I remembered, I forgot
her name, her face, the reason that we loved ...
and yet I hold her close within my thought:
I feel the burnished weight...
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Categories:
sprawled, desire, dream, memory, remember, sad love, soulmate,
Form:
Sonnet
In the Wild
IN THE WILD
Early morning, we go for a drive,
An awesome feeling as we arrive,
At our camp gate which, opens
At 6 o’clock,
Now we are in the African bush
Which, will unlock,
Moments that we have missed...
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Categories:
sprawled, adventure, africa,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Poems V
Poems about Poems V
Distances
by Michael R. Burch
There is a small cleanness about her,
as though she has always just been washed,
and there is a dull obedience to convention
in her accommodating slenderness
as she feints at her salad.
She...
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Categories:
sprawled, metaphor, poems, poetry, poets, words, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Sonnets Lii-Lx
Sonnets LII-LX
The Endeavors of Lips
by Michael R. Burch
How sweet the endeavors of lips: to speak
of the heights of those pleasures which left us weak
in love’s strangely lit beds, where the cold springs creak:
for there is...
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Categories:
sprawled, dream, flower, hair, longing, love, pain, sensual,
Form:
Sonnet
In the Wild Re Post
IN THE WILD
( Re Post)
Early one morning, we begin our drive,
An awesome feeling as we arrive,
At our camp gate which, opens
At six o’clock,
Now we are in the African bush
Which, will unlock,
Moments that...
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Categories:
sprawled, animal,
Form:
Free verse
A Vain Word
A Vain Word
by Michael R. Burch
Oleanders at dawn preen extravagant whorls
as I read in leaves’ Sanskrit brief moments remaining
till sunset implodes, till the moon strands grey pearls
under moss-stubbled oaks, full of whispers, complaining
to the darkening...
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Categories:
sprawled, autumn, beauty, extended metaphor, grief, heartbreak, moon,
Form:
Sonnet
Veiled
"Lizzie Borden took an axe,
gave her mother forty whacks,
when she saw what she had done,
gave her father forty-one,
she washed herself from a watered pail,
she claimed their lies and vicious tales,
she pled not guilty and moaned...
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Categories:
sprawled, allusion, analogy, evil, father daughter, imagery, murder,
Form:
Narrative
I Survived '75
KEY - W: Will/Me - F: Friend - M: Mom
Thanksgiving week of '75, as a concurrent student earning multi-degrees from two campuses, and one off. I lived above the Uni, uphill, panicview Hilo Town and...
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Categories:
sprawled, 9th grade, angel, boy, friendship, happiness, natural
Form:
Dramatic Verse
The Girl With Eyes As Black As Crows
On that night the moon seemed hidden from her starry brothers
The kind of night not suited for the fighters nor the lovers
I ventured out only to put out the low burning lamp
When there I saw...
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Categories:
sprawled, dark, death, fantasy, murder, mythology, night, scary,
Form:
Narrative
July Bride
I was so anxious to get away but I did not realize what was on the way
I got a standing ticket because all the tickets have been sold out some on the black market, others...
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Categories:
sprawled, betrayal, endurance, environment, friendship love, happiness, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
Chapter 153-- DAMIAN DELILAH MALLORY HOLANNYA: HONEYMOON!!!
Date: April 2051
The celebration ended. The room
Empty all relatives was preparing
For their final time in Hawaii. Dolly
And Damian lay in bed conversing.
Her hand was on his chest, "I love
When the Hakim...
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Categories:
sprawled, africa, allusion, anger, beach,
Form:
Free verse
January 13th 2024 Happy Lxv-th birthday Matthew Scott Harris
January 13th 2024 - Happy Lxv-th birthday Matthew Scott Harris
date of conception:? ~ Late March – mid April 1958.
date of parturition: January xiii, mcmlix.
date of expiration:? January i, eminem,
where earth, wind, and fire...
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Categories:
sprawled, age, appreciation, birthday, celebration, dad, humorous, january,
Form:
Free verse
A Place Not Meant To Be: Part I
A Place Not Meant To Be
PART: I (810 of 1487 words)
#1: A Day...
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Categories:
sprawled, analogy,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Shame and Guilt Sabotaged Mine Healthy Growth
Shame and guilt sabotaged mine healthy growth...
and let yours truly not forget emasculation
that prickly emotional immobilization
whereby these lovely bones
subject courtesy senescence
upon cremation reduced to obliteration.
Inching closer to mortality
linkedin with concomitant
subtle deterioration of body...
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Categories:
sprawled, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form:
Free verse
No Title
I have slept but I have not slept
I have not slept but I have slept
For the first time in two years
I slept without a word of care
No codes, no crossroads
No railroads, no shiploads
No lizards no...
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Categories:
sprawled, america, betrayal, character, emotions, environment, food, gender,
Form:
Narrative
Happy Lxiv Birthday Matthew Scott Harris
Happy Lxiv birthday Matthew Scott Harris
date of conception:? ~ Late March – mid April 1958.
date of parturition: January xiii, mcmlix.
date of expiration:? January i, eminem.
A gangly, measly, and scraggly bundle
of lovely bones even as...
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Categories:
sprawled, appreciation, birthday, boy, celebrity, creation, happy birthday,
Form:
Rhyme
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:
sprawled, allegory, allusion, dark, dream, evil, horror, night,
Form:
Rhyme
Chapter 72 -- Damian Delilah Mallory and Polly: the Date Closes
The Cascades congregation came
To an end. Dashing Damian and
His crew were out of the vicinity.
On their way home. Polly spoke
"I had me a good time tonight!
Thanks for the invitation."
She said, "I'm hungry."
Damian...
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Categories:
sprawled, devotion, emotions, family, house, universe,
Form:
Alliteration
Impossible Mission To Sleep On Opposite Side of Marital Bed
Impossible mission to sleep on opposite side of marital bed...
Oddly enough even
when frolicking in the autumn mist
with seasoned super tramping
cheaply tricked out goo goo dolls
some resembling Indigo Girls,
one foo fighting beastie boy
unable to...
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Categories:
sprawled, adventure, anxiety, appreciation, betrayal, black african american,
Form:
Rhyme
Spirit and sponsor sane sexagenarian scribe and his spouse to a Utopian country
Spirit and sponsor sane sexagenarian scribe (and his spouse) to a Utopian country
He seeks (in tandem with the missus)
legal asylum in Canada...
New Brunswick, Newfoundland,
Nova Scotia, et cetera,
or any other socially
progressive European country,
and...
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Categories:
sprawled, america, angst, anxiety, betrayal, courage, crush, grave,
Form:
Rhyme
The Malignant Ulcer
I see this ulcer
Mind boggling in perception
Body arresting in phenomena
Of diverse shapes and designs
Magnificently wrought together
In one whiff of putrid scent
It is of an exotic nature
Magnanimously growing out of context
Thus ticking with apocalyptic dimensions ...
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Categories:
sprawled, integrity, leadership, metaphor, people,
Form:
Didactic
Watching Upcoming Toilet Bowl Lvii Highlight of February 12th, 2023
Watching upcoming toilet bowl lvii highlight of February 12th, 2023
Above title attests
how mine mundane mein kampf
insync as a veritable clogged drain oh:
flush with adventure overflowing excrement
er... rather excitement.
Apt aforementioned accurate personal description
believe me not,...
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Categories:
sprawled, 12th grade, abuse, adventure, anger, anxiety, bereavement,
Form:
Rhyme
Joe Versus the Raccoon
JOE VERSUS THE RACCOON
By Kate H. Stark
Each night ‘twas the same old proverbial shout.
“Hey Joe, will you please take the garbage bags out?”
Joe sighed, rolled his eyes as he walked toward the door....
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Categories:
sprawled, animal, dedication, funny, giggle, humor, humorous, imagination,
Form:
Rhyme
Watching Upcoming Toilet Bowl Lvi Highlight of February 13th, 2022
Watching upcoming toilet bowl lvi highlight of February 13th, 2022
Above title attests how mine mundane mein kampf
insync as a veritable clogged drain oh:
flush with adventure overflowing excrement
er... rather excitement.
Apt aforementioned accurate personal description
believe me not,...
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Categories:
sprawled, adventure, cool, devotion, farewell, happiness, heaven, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
African Dream
It must have been the darkest, deepest fate time create,
People saw and forgot the impact when history intervened.
We forgive and endure, but our minds will not forget
The Bizarre world trying to suppress our African...
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Categories:
sprawled, africa, allusion, character, dream, future, history, people,
Form:
Ballad