Long Stalling Poems
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Light On the Devil's Chord - the ChallengeMy hair bristled in the crisp breeze
Excitement spreading throughout my body
Even the sudden cold amused my fingertips,
Tingles spreading through my hands and up my arms
Soon I would be there too. . .
In the murky shadows...
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Categories:
stalling, adventure, change, cool, imagination, music, sick, strength,
Form:
Narrative
Gingerbread Cottage FrightAt the edge of a wood, in days of summertime,
Lived Hansel and Gretel, once upon a time;
Whose dear father, a poor woodcutter,
Could no longer earn their bread and butter.
Late one night, a conversation overheard--
As from...
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Categories:
stalling, children, family, fantasy, happy,
Form:
Rhyme
Fall
"FALL"
I wrap
my Autumn world
around you
Calliope turning
raising the
season’s poetry,
I am she
returning
dancing
with Summer’s
dying leaves
Twirling you up into
my warm golden brown
symphony
hear me sing,
whispering notes,
holding keys
towards you
you're approachable
reaching...
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Categories:
stalling, autumn, symbolism, winter,
Form:
Epic
Duping a Broker - For a Change - 2nd Half In Text - Plus Full Audio VersionHere's the deal, folks...
This is, as indicated, the 2nd HALF of this fairly lengthy poem. Due to Poetry Soup's file-size limitations, this piece had to be posted in 2 parts.
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Categories:
stalling, humor,
Form:
Narrative
Watering the Garden of DreamsWhat a beautiful filled garden with gorgeous colors, ...
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Categories:
stalling, dream, flower, garden, water,
Form:
Free verse
Flying Friends In the FirmamentIn the midst of a quiet summer day, while the sun is peeping
And the gentle breeze brushing everything, dancing and passing
Our hero, an ant, seen sweating and puffing, but still climbing
Like a soldier on mission,...
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Categories:
stalling, butterfly, friendship,
Form:
Narrative
SamsonJoyful music filled the village
when mother’s barren womb gave birth.
Born to end Philistine pillage,
and fill sad, anxious hearts with mirth.
No wine or product of the vine,
should pass your palate when you dine.
No razor...
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Categories:
stalling, betrayal, conflict, dark, passion, religion, religious, vanity,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Where Did You Come FromWhere did you come from, ...
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Categories:
stalling, angel, dog, heaven, love,
Form:
Free verse
Thick Mist - WujueRHYME SCHEME abcb
Thick mist / sharp rocks cut
Dense rain / strong wind whips
Vast drought / weak build folds
Trade boon / graft wrecks ships
RHYME SCHEME aaba
Thick mist / sharp rock strips
Dense rain / strong wind whips
Vast...
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Categories:
stalling, analogy, nature,
Form:
Jueju
Categories:
stalling, dog, flower, friend, funeral, heaven, love, remember,
Form:
Free verse
The Welkin - and - the Influences1. The Welkin
Wind blows / clouds race / vast blue sky
Breeze tugs / trees sway / great green hills
Sun scourged / sand glares / small white beach
Skip stones / thoughts nag / mind fug stills
2....
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Categories:
stalling, analogy, nature,
Form:
Jueju
Heaven My New HomeToday I took a tour with Saint Peter to see what I could see. ...
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Categories:
stalling, beautiful, bird, color, home, spiritual, sweet love,
Form:
Free verse
Weird Fake NewsWeird "fake" news
This pencil necked geek
did hair thru the long grapevine
actually following false tidbit
originated within imagination i.e. mine,
while stationed at Macbook Pro
laptop - time already inching close
to hour of rise and shine
yikes still no bloody...
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Categories:
stalling, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, grave,
Form:
Free verse
Recollections From the Golden Cree II know of a river of more than average
Sorts...
Meandering, when not dallying to maunder,
Between many differing contours
And unruly contorts;
Where a privileged youth once
Happily sought -
Pursuing about his passions
In the traditional methods
By which...
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Categories:
stalling, growing up,
Form:
Rhyme
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 22
Erlenkönig waited to see the owner of the footsteps he heard from the corridor across the hall and to his left. Very cautiously one of the Iberians peeked into the courtyard. It...
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Categories:
stalling, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
EnmeshedA thick, white smog crept through the park that night,
that one color besides black.
Occasionally, street lamps would beam around like wheels
but the lights burned strangely dim.
"Let's shoot the breeze, " he said. And so...
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Categories:
stalling, confusion, recovery from, , Lullaby,
Form:
Narrative
I've Got Some Bad Ideas and a Terrible Hill to Die onHow could I exist like this?
Get out of my head and on your knees
For another way to worship
Don’t wait on me, I haven't conquered anything yet
My times a soldier with a leaking social...
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Categories:
stalling, emotions, fantasy, lost, perspective,
Form:
Free verse
Light Verse and Nonsense Verse ILight verse and nonsense verse
Mini-Ode to Stamina
by Michael R. Burch
When you’ve given so much
that I can’t bear your touch,
then from a safe distance
let me admire your persistence.
The Trouble with Elephants
by Michael R. Burch...
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Categories:
stalling, animal, fun, humor, humorous, light, nature, writing,
Form:
Light Verse
Epigrams ViEpigrams VI
These are humorous epigrams including a form I call "Less Heroic Couplets."
Less Heroic Couplets: Mini-Ode to Stamina
by Michael R. Burch
When you’ve given so much
that I can’t bear your touch,
then from a safe...
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Categories:
stalling, animal, death, dream, kiss, life, love, sleep,
Form:
Epigram
Erotic Poems IErotic Poems I
Less Heroic Couplets: Marketing 101
by Michael R. Burch
Building her brand, she disrobes,
naked, except for her earlobes.
Erotic Errata
by Michael R. Burch
I didn’t mean to love you; if I did,
it came unbid-
en, and should’ve remained...
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Categories:
stalling, body, clothes, desire, love, lust, sensual, sexy,
Form:
Rhyme
The Uphill Scrambleour way to the end of the work day is through
laughter &
as long as we must endure this system’s bull*****absurdity,
where we work for crumbs thrown to us by the 1% of the rich
tossing them to...
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Categories:
stalling, life, work, day, stress, time, work,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
stalling, dream, giving, heart, heaven, love, pain, words,
Form:
Free verse
Mother and MeI was deprived of a father at the early age of thirteen. ...
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Categories:
stalling, mother, mother son, mothers day, relationship,
Form:
Couplet
My Love Skates"Fragments and crumbs of life, all the little pieces" ...
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Categories:
stalling, beautiful, dad, daughter, fun, love, memory, water,
Form:
Rhyme
Killing MachinesOnly eighteen and conscripted to the military,
no choice of mine it was the norm at this time and scary,
barely out of school and still wet behind the ear,
too young to watch an adult movie or...
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Categories:
stalling, children, men, military, sad, soldier, war, women,
Form:
Rhyme