Long Sputtered Poems
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Where Art Thou Anonymous Benefactor To Offer Me Succor
Where art thou anonymous benefactor...to offer me succor?
Ah... methinks legal tender
could be a boon to help me bolster
mein kampf with necessary material equipage,
which prospect to acquire essential
commodities sabotaged
at the altar of...
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Categories:
sputtered, 8th grade, absence, anger, angst, boy, confusion,
Form:
Free verse
Juvenilia: Early Poems Vi
Juvenilia: Early Poems VI
An Illusion
by Michael R. Burch
The sky was as hushed as the breath of a bee
and the world was bathed in shades of palest gold
when I awoke.
She came to me with the sound...
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Categories:
sputtered, poetry, poets, teen, teenage, write, writing, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
Rejection Slips 1
Rejection Slips
With over 5,700 publications if I count poems that have gone viral, I suppose I shouldn’t complain … but I do have some poems that have never been accepted for publication. Here are a...
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Categories:
sputtered, day, love, memory, night, rose, seasons, winter,
Form:
Rhyme
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 3
They say the one you think of last before sleep,
Is the one you care for the most— the one you wish to hold, admire, love…
The two of us…beings of bravery,
Had labored all the night,
In...
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Categories:
sputtered, adventure, allegory, anxiety, art, friendship, sympathy, time,
Form:
Free verse
Reflections Upon Mine Gender Identity Redux
Reflections upon mine gender identity redux
Although heterosexual
predilections punctuated
physiological pulsations
about five inches below
innie belly button of mine
showcasing undersize
male member, when fully erect
not much to crow
about, contributed
diminished masculinity within
body electric regarding
wordsmith...
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Categories:
sputtered, age, analogy, anxiety, atheist, birth, boy, confidence,
Form:
Free verse
A Day For a Lifetime
Driving my car across the country, numerous years ago, going to a new place,
Changing who I’d know
A loud bang broke the boredom and...
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Categories:
sputtered, adventure, anxiety, food, memory, romance, travel, true
Form:
Ballad
A Conversation With Little Red Riding Hood
A Conversation With Little Red Riding Hood
[I’ve always loved the fairy tale, “Little Red Riding Hood”, and I’ve used it to teach many lessons, especially on perspective and morals in my classroom, so this contest...
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Categories:
sputtered, books, character, education, fairy, humorous, school,
Form:
Rhyme
Perry and Empire
‘Twas but a mist-enshrouded speckle
dark-painted on looming horizon.
Petty worker holds unwavering watch,
silently, stealthily keeps his eyes on.
Forward motion undeniable,
each passing minute size increasing.
Small heart stands alert and viable –
beating fast and tremulous; though, never...
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Categories:
sputtered, allegory, heart, imagery, relationship, symbolism, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
sputtered, irony, spoken word,
Form:
Rhyme
Ashes To Ashes
The first time I saw Vera...
I saw: A scrawny, wrinkled, little thing with sallow wrinkled skin, a head of fine white hair that looked like a dandelion gone to seed and a pair of faded...
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Categories:
sputtered, addiction, death,
Form:
Narrative
Alaskan Expedition
I am a photographer of wildlife and I was on an expedition,
to capture the wilderness of North Alaska and the life of Inupiact Eskimo's;
...
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Categories:
sputtered, adventure,
Form:
Epic
Double Feature
Double Feature
Flashback! Three friends of childhood featuring a blond, brunette and red-head
Sharing the script of summer days and rain soaked winter afternoon
Unfolding documentary of roads ocean journey to California, Colorado and Norway.
Zoom in on a...
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Categories:
sputtered, friendship, life,
Form:
Verse
Dark Mermaid
My life and my love are the open sea. I do not fear her and she has come to respect this old sailor man.
Alas, it may be that my life of bliss is only...
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Categories:
sputtered, conflict, death, deep, sea, water,
Form:
Narrative
The Cowboy Rides For Christmas, Part Ii
For half an hour Dix had rode true
when the canyon opened up wider.
In front of him five stubbly men
sat around a roaring fire.
The leader Dixon recognized,
as his sifted through Santa’s sack.
He was an outlaw known...
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Categories:
sputtered, adventure, christmas, family, hero, holiday,
Form:
Cowboy Poetry
Alive
A single ray shone light through a knothole and anchored his thoughts
At daybreak for the spider-web’s shadow enlightened the beach hut
Tim had lived in a mansion but hardship had unburdened his soul
He was happy because...
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Categories:
sputtered, dedication,
Form:
Verse
Eaten By Ants - Part 1
no one saw it coming they never do
the phone poles were giving off sparks
dogs began to howl birds flocked to the sky
A Plymouth hubcap of immense proportions
quivered and droned in the air over the capitol
television...
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Categories:
sputtered, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
Attributes of Being Average
(alternately titled one me silly more till manufactured
from go win addle American
non refundable private parts)
each set of twenty three chromosomes
the basic biological building blocks
of life came out cervix
when second hand...
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Categories:
sputtered, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 5th
Form:
Personification
To Father On Your Suicide--1960
You think not of life, but of the moon:
still and white. August wind chimes
like sweet bones sound a tune
of twenty-three; the somber age
when you will die
and summer turns another page.
Each capsule is a sparrow
downed...
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Categories:
sputtered, family, father, history,
Form:
Elegy
Maxon Hadcock's Long Ride, Part Ii
...The two toughs turned, both their eyes went wide,
then as one they stared in laughing,
“Look at this fool, he thinks he’s a cowboy!
I think his head must’ve taken a rapping.”
They advanced with their blades, not...
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Categories:
sputtered, death, evil, god, journey, life, lonely, sad,
Form:
Cowboy Poetry
A Beautiful Woman
A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN
Her face was a constellation of perfections
She was ravishing; beautiful beyond condemnation.
Her voice was like many water
Yet, it's coo whenever she sputtered.
Her gait was just so alluring
No...
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Categories:
sputtered, beautiful, inspirational, success, uplifting,
Form:
Ekphrasis
The Truck Drivers Will Save the World
I cannot help but notice that,
since Wuhan virus was released,
we have seen a real absence of
those who proclaim themselves elite.
The lawyer and the professors,
the politicians and the like,
have all become somewhat useless,
and some have just...
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Categories:
sputtered, appreciation, celebrity, culture, how i feel, political,
Form:
Rhyme
Dream of Forgiveness
For the longest time, I could not speak your name.
I could not write it; I could not bear to think it.
I was angry.
I was too young, too vulnerable, too powerless.
There was no justice for...
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Categories:
sputtered, abuse, anger, forgiveness, recovery from,
Form:
I do not know?
My Mother 4-volume
4. Everyone lives life in their own way,
But why am I spared, I’d often say.
Once more, my mother and the bearded elder,
Saved me from death, my life to shelter.
It was summer, the skies restless and wild,
Sun...
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Categories:
sputtered, mother,
Form:
Ballad
My Thunderous Wondrous Electric Toy Train
It was shiny and bright sitting under the tree.
There were other things there, but that's all I could see:
a Lionel toy train on a circular track!
The caboose was maroon and the engine was black.
And to...
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Categories:
sputtered, christmas, nostalgia,
Form:
Rhyme
One Nine and Sixteen What Are We Fighting For
One Nine and Sixteen What Are We Fighting For
...
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Categories:
sputtered, absence, assonance, betrayal, caregiving, how i feel,
Form:
Rhyme