Long Stacked Poems
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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:
stacked, america, angst, business, confusion, feelings, poverty,
Form:
Epic
Paul and Sarah - Part Two
Conditions were harsh out in Kansas,
For the children and Sarah and Paul.
Neighbors and friends packed up and were gone;
Headed west they could hear fortune's call.
Never sure year to year of the harvest,
So their talents were...
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Categories:
stacked, adventure, america, love,
Form:
Rhyme
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:
stacked, america, angel, betrayal, england, myth, romance, song,
Form:
Ballad
No God of Mine - 2021 Edit
[This poem 'No God Of Mine' was seemingly confounding readers as
to its meaning. Ordinarily, if I felt a poem wasn't cutting it, I'd delete
it, but on this occasion, I've been asked to explain it... so here goes.]
By...
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Categories:
stacked, evil, horror,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Regret
Regret
by Michael R. Burch
Regret,
a bitter
ache to bear . . .
once starlight
languished
in your hair . . .
a shining there
as brief
as rare.
Regret . . .
a pain
I chose to bear . . .
unleash
the torrent
of your hair . ....
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Categories:
stacked, memory, pain, remember, sad, sorrow, sorry, sympathy,
Form:
Rhyme
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 28
The elves left separately and reconvened in the safe room. If Rian was aware of Joulupukki's presence in the Village, they did not want to give away what magic he had. When...
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Categories:
stacked, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
The Pain of Love
The Pain of Love
by Michael R. Burch
for T. M.
The pain of love is this:
the parting after the kiss;
the train steaming from the station
whistling abnegation;
each interstate’s bleak white bar
that vanishes under...
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Categories:
stacked, age, bereavement, death, farewell, funeral, pain,
Form:
Verse
A World Without Pity
After wishing me a good morning, he said that it was all set,
It was time to raze the house, even though I wasn't in debt!
But they wanted to build a big highway, exactly in this...
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Categories:
stacked, adventure, fantasy, home, lost, time, world,
Form:
Couplet
Pipe Lines of Kaimu: Imu Ground Oven
Preparations for 'Luau' (LOU-ow) or a Hawaiian Party-like event, for a church Luau, would be a 'Ho'ike' (hoe-'E-kay). The hunters will tie the hind legs of whatever animal will go into an 'i'mu' (E'-moo), which...
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Categories:
stacked, appreciation, beautiful, blessing, celebration, happiness, religion, together,
Form:
Narrative
Escape of the Bluesman's Song
Within the frame a sepia scene
a dusty porch a rickety chair
the fabric of your dusky face creased
with ceaseless sunbaked woes
your old pair of getaway feet gives
a different walk of...
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Categories:
stacked, africa, america, grief, racism, slavery, song, sorrow,
Form:
Free verse
The Peasants Truck
Everybody moved out of the country to get a taste of the shining city
Ripe banana, ripe plums, are perishing in Uncle Sam’s broiling sun
I cannot stand the scorching heat that is swelling up from the...
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Categories:
stacked, angel, blessing, business, character, confidence, earth, friendship,
Form:
Narrative
The Lament of a Black Man
Who am I? Am I even human? What is my place in this world?
I am confused, sometimes I do not even feel like a human being.
Like a boat in a stormy sea, I aimlessly drift...
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Categories:
stacked, black african american, death, discrimination, hate, power,
Form:
Free verse
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:
stacked, farewell,
Form:
Free verse
The Last Train, Part I
On the canvas of a cold, grey, winter sky,
In large black letters above the Iron Gate,
Read the message: "Arbeit Macht Frei".
A shrewdly sinister, propagandist lie,
Designed to deceive all of our eventual fate.
This was the very...
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Categories:
stacked, allegory, allusion, analogy, holocaust, horror, loss, memory,
Form:
Rhyme
geneva
During finals week, I’d spent days on various reports and papers, scribbling in the margins of notes and books, checking facts, revising flashcards and prepping with friends. I’ve an unshakable faith in plodding persistence.
We were...
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Categories:
stacked, boyfriend, humor, love, school, student, travel,
Form:
Free verse
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:
stacked, angst, humor,
Form:
Prose
Jailbreak At Milton Creek
There was a rumour that outlaw Kyle was to be sprung from jail
But Sheriff Koplin got wind of it and he'd make sure they'd fail
That day Queeny Holly and her gang rode into town,...
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Categories:
stacked, america, humor, violence,
Form:
Narrative
Car Number Sixteen
This train is coming down the main
This train is rocking my brain
This train is the overcrowded train
This train is washing in the rain
This train is the messy train
This train is filled with pain
This train...
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Categories:
stacked, confidence, desire, endurance, forgiveness, freedom, growth, happiness,
Form:
Narrative
The Dilettante Diaries: Avian Notes On the Sensate Slip Stream : the Silent War In 3 Acts - Pt3
“I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.”
The Dilettante Diaries: Avian Notes on the Sensate Slip Stream : The Silent War in 3 Acts
(Part 3)
Avian Notes...
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Categories:
stacked, bible, bird, earth, evil, god, love, war,
Form:
Free verse
Saturday Night Smoke
Saturday Night Smoke
It is Saturday night, and I have to put up a terrible fight,
It is Saturday night, and the people are walking around with much delight, the days are creeping up slowly...
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Categories:
stacked, anxiety, appreciation, art, business, community, growth, hope,
Form:
Narrative
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:
stacked, fun, life, science,
Form:
Rhyme
The Lights Ft Edgar Allan Poe
I
See the phone towers with the lights-
Glowing lights!
What a world of mischief and sorrow their pattern foretells!
How they twinkle, twinkle, twinkle
In the icy air of night!
While the clouds that are...
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Categories:
stacked, adventure, america, angst, city, deep, desire, dream,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Cladestine
THE CHIMNEY
The once fine air, refreshens with dust
Between the village horizon and crest
Since the sailing of a death chemical chimney.
Young green plants seedlings growing on slope
Are left to sip these carcinogenic dusts, sapling
And entwined...
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Categories:
stacked, corruption, death of a friend, depression, emotions,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The Village On the Water Vi
But we of the Three Tribes live undiscovered
In the reverberating stillness of the
Three Gorges...
And are therefore unknown to the warring mongol;
His impassioned lusts -- his...
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Categories:
stacked, celebration, community, environment,
Form:
Free verse
Your Final Stand Green Soldiers
YOUR FINAL STAND... GREEN SOLDIERS!
WARNING: ADULT SUBJECT, STRONG CONTENT
RIVERS of RED
FACES of BLUE
SKYS of GRAY
WHAT LESSONS can be learned from POLAND?
1945 my FAMILY fled the RUSSIAN...
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Categories:
stacked, war,
Form:
Free verse