Long Stale Poems
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The State of the Art
The State of the Art (I)
by Michael R. Burch
Has rhyme lost all its reason
and rhythm, renascence?
Are sonnets out of season
and poems but poor pretense?
Are poets lacking fire,
their words too trite and forced?
What happened to desire?
Has...
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Categories:
stale, art, muse, poems, poetry, poets, romantic, writing,
Form:
Verse
The Old Dark House
The Old Dark House
This tale of “The Old Dark House” is one that’s replete with a
most horrid sense of pure evil and macabre, and is worth being
retold each year during the deep-dark hours of All...
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Categories:
stale, dark, dream, evil, fantasy, god, metaphor, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
Oft In My Thought: Charles D'Orleans Translation
Oft in My Thought
by Charles D'Orleans
translation by Michael R. Burch
So often in my busy mind I sought,
Around the advent of the fledgling year,
For something pretty that I really ought
To give my lady dear;
But that sweet...
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Categories:
stale, blessing, christian, faith, god, heartbreak, heaven, lost
Form:
Roundel
- the Old Dark House -
This tale of “The Old Dark House” is one that’s replete with a
most horrid sense of pure evil and macabre, and is worth being
retold each year during the deep-dark hours of All Hallows’ Eve
before the...
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Categories:
stale, dark, dream, evil, fantasy, god, metaphor, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
The Old Dark House
This tale of “The Old Dark House” is one that’s replete with a
most horrid sense of pure evil and macabre, and is worth being
retold each year during the deep-dark hours of All Hallows’ Eve
before the...
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Categories:
stale, dark, dream, evil, fantasy, god, metaphor, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
Nottingham Girl At The Goose Fair Prt 1
Every year In Robin Hood Country Nottingham
There in October, they hold. What is known, as the Goose Fair. It's huge. and goes back centuries, straining the Middle Ages, perhaps even longer.
My pals and I back...
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Categories:
stale, history, longing,
Form:
Free verse
Artificial Iris
"Artificial Iris"
Orwell was lurking in the background, somewhere;
the dream was eerily familiar,
the words and their meanings, read in Syntax,
once read between pages of hardcopy in school
were aptly ignored -
however,
our Overlords were...
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Categories:
stale, surreal,
Form:
Narrative
Understanding Nature
Understanding Nature
Part 1: What (I Think) God Wants You to Know!
Some people don’t understand Nature,
Feel death and pain prove there’s no God
Or if there is He is a monster,
His empathy for us a fraud.
They say...
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Categories:
stale, faith, , atheist,
Form:
Rhyme
How I Got Rich and What Happened Then
Written in summer of 1976.
I used to eat my lunch with groups
of businessmen from Campbell Soups.
We drank a drink at lunch each day
Of Coca-Cola mixed with hay
And talked of pending corporate plans
And willow-haired orangutans.
I spent...
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Categories:
stale, business, humor, humorous, money, nonsense, satire,
Form:
Couplet
Watching Isms
There is a world of difference
between schism and jism,
but they both end up the same.
Just as patriarchal Roman Catholicism
overpowers living and breathing Christianity,
so too does Capitalism
overpower cooperative capital co-investment,
so too does autocratic rationalism
overpower syncretic enculturing...
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Categories:
stale, culture, earth day, health, philosophy, psychological, religion,
Form:
Political 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:
stale, allegory, allusion, analogy, holocaust, horror, loss, memory,
Form:
Rhyme
Secularexperience V Sacredtheory
Experience v Theory,
like Both/And inducted feelings v. Either/Or deductions,
like Internal Information v External ReConstructions,
like Memory v ReImaging,
like Cause/Effect v DNA of causal-effective nest
of resilient Golden WinWin Theory
Western nature v spirit theories v Eastern nondual...
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Categories:
stale, caregiving, education, environment, green, health, philosophy, wisdom,
Form:
Political Verse
Halloween Poems Iii
No One
by Michael R. Burch
No One hears the bells tonight;
they tell him something isn’t right.
But No One is not one to rush;
he lies in grasses greenly lush
as far away a startled thrush
flees from horned owls...
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Categories:
stale, angel, dark, eve, evil, fear, gothic, horror,
Form:
Rhyme
Goldfish Wetdreams
So here's my big insight.
My two cents worth,
which will remain worth only a penny
unless it somehow aligns with your penny
for thoughts and shared feelings.
What if we put our human nature genie
back in Earth's home-nature...
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Categories:
stale, culture, earth, environment, health, humor, nature, political,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Dramatic Dreams Dare Dingos
Malnourishment is the song from the pans whose empty hold could offer no more products to be boiled and whirled. They were quite sad having been bought then hung. Hung. Sparkly signalling stale sales. Stale...
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Categories:
stale, appreciation, art, bangla,
Form:
I do not know?
Brought Low Till I Had Enough
I found out, walking the difficult route,
That falling in love ain’t a friend at all
No one can hear my midnight shout, I’m out
Try to knock me out, but I’ll stand tall
Help is on the way...
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Categories:
stale, emotions, endurance, fear, hope, hurt, love hurts,
Form:
Rhyme
2071 - Big Brother Watches From On High
2017 - year zero
They loaned to the poor, who cannot repay.
They stole from the old, who cannot recover.
They sold our future, for better or worse
and made our children pay.
They schooled arithmetic to be feared.
They tutored...
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Categories:
stale, corruption, humanity, pain, parody, political, truth,
Form:
Free verse
Christmas Eve In Jamaica
I stand here in my innocence
Not knowing what is planned in heaven
The skies are grey the wind is still and
The heavy sound system is blasting on the hill
I could not tell what it was all...
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Categories:
stale, beauty, business, celebration, christmas, community, courage, endurance,
Form:
Narrative
The Monochrome Echo Chamber
"The Monochrome Echo Chamber"
How many Roads
to "IT"
Black
as Black & White?
or Unicorns and Rainbows?
Unitarian 1 and only 1
Trinitarian 3 exist in 1
An answer
arrives
unheralded
Reversed in Time
Something
has lit the fuse
Something...
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Categories:
stale, color, dark, humanity, i am, light, science,
Form:
Narrative
The Broken Valkyrie
"The Broken Valkyrie"
when
the artificial
sun
replaced
true Light,
revolution
was a forgotten
Valkyrie,
Liberty
had been
put to bed
broken whore
of Babylon
no longer holding
the torch for anyone;
women and men
grew to love
their servitude,
complacency
skewered...
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Categories:
stale, dark, humanity, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
Diary Notes: Lament At Dawn - a Year Ago Yet Now No Change
Diary Notes: Lament at Dawn A Year Ago and yet now No Change
...
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Categories:
stale, august, christian, discrimination, hate, immigration, islamic, jewish,
Form:
Free verse
Breath, In Blue
Now watch this video: Planet Earth: Blue Planet II
https://youtu.be/2f9SItUEtJ8
"Breath, in Blue"
Bluebottles broken scattered
shattered legions on the beach of my heart
my blue planet lungs rattle
my breath battered in the honeycomb maze
vanished all my bees belittled forgotten...
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Categories:
stale, animal, bird, earth, fish, god, humanity, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
Silent Newborn Revolutions
"Evolution
takes its sweet time
in its work
on our collective consciousness;
the lasting leap from fear to love
in the human mind
will be its masterpiece."
Walking to Listen, p. 139
Andrew...
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Categories:
stale, confusion, culture, education, environment, health, mental illness,
Form:
Political Verse
All Aboard
Who suggests a trip back...rides to this bit of nostalgia in the middle years of the Great Depression aboard a Chicago elevated train, "the El." We hurdle head-long above asphalt blanketed streets that are determined...
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Categories:
stale, city, imagery, perspective,
Form:
Prose
The Notebook
An early wintry storm hit late last night on this date, September 11th, 2035. There was strangeness in the air like a stale aftermath of partying. Frigid. Strange that people still celebrate Freedom Day...
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Categories:
stale, nostalgia,
Form:
Narrative