Long Stave off Poems
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Gluttonous Connoisseur of Ethnic Culinary CuisinesYours truly would never be confused for a gourmand, nevertheless I could enjoy experiencing taste testing select food samples if offered an opportunity of attending a fancy feast viz smörgåsbord, whereby oral indulgence would arouse,...
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Categories:
stave off, addiction, appreciation, birthday, blessing, chicago, dream, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Tawfiq Zayyad Translation: Here We Shall RemainHere We Shall Remain
by Tawfiq Zayyad
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Like twenty impossibilities
in Lydda, Ramla and Galilee ...
here we shall remain.
Like brick walls braced against your chests;
lodged in your throats
like shards of glass
or prickly cactus...
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Categories:
stave off, arabic, poems, poverty, prison, race, racism, song,
Form:
Free verse
April 9th, 2024 would be ninety fifth birthday poem for dearly departed papaApril 9th, 2024 would be ninety fifth birthday poem for dearly departed papa
The following words crafted soon after the soul of me daddy set adrift into the empyrean realm joining the rank and file of...
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Categories:
stave off, absence, age, anniversary, april, bereavement, death, father,
Form:
Rhyme
Saturday, September 23, 2023Saturday, September 23, 2023
Coincides with first day of fall
and Autumnal equinox for said year,
where colorful splash kindled like tinder.
After I riff flecked about thee August
Autumn Equinox 2023,
this seasonal polymath teached you
fall Equinox...
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Categories:
stave off, animal, appreciation, autumn, celebration, cool, environment, heaven,
Form:
Free verse
Glory To Thermodynamics In GeneralGlory to thermodynamics in general...
and generation of heat in particular
cuz yours truly
spoiled with trappings
of Western Civilization.
How ideal I imagine
to dwell in a self sufficient domicile,
where thrum of the central heater...
automatically activated
upon...
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Categories:
stave off, adventure, appreciation, april, community, courage, desire, light,
Form:
Rhyme
The remnants of August 2024 Hurricane DebbieThe remnants of August 2024 Hurricane Debbie
Like a humane huntress, she
(the anthropomorphized storm)
brought a spate of cool Autumn like
temperatures and gentle soothing rain
here within my neck of the woods
for the last couple of days.
No matter...
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Categories:
stave off, adventure, appreciation, august, cool, environment, fate, howl,
Form:
Free verse
Victorious flirtatious foreplayVictorious flirtatious foreplay
I awoke early - now my body will sleep,
though thoughts rise like the Azores
of snuggling next to such an adorable atomic
bombshell of a beauty - boars
into my mind with
sonata fantasy syrup passing
overdrive...
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Categories:
stave off, 12th grade, absence, adventure, age, angel, appreciation,
Form:
Rhyme
April 9th, 2023 Birthday Poem For Dearly Departed PapaApril 9th, 2023 birthday poem for dearly departed papa
Borne aloft into the netherland
the body bearing thee soul
of Boyce Brandon Harris
birth name given to my late father
buoyed aloft united with spirit
of mine late...
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Categories:
stave off, age, anger, anniversary, appreciation, april, bereavement, birthday,
Form:
Free verse
April 9th, 2025 birthday poem for dearly departed papaApril 9th, 2025 birthday poem for dearly departed papa
Elysian fields long since embraced dada's soul
which rocketed into aerospace
(courtesy General Electric satellite)
just a tad shy of
fifty four plus months ago,
nevertheless melancholia
still plucks mine heart strings.
Mine...
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Categories:
stave off, absence, abuse, adventure, anger, appreciation, bereavement, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
April 9th 2021 Birthday Poem For Dearly Departed PapaApril 9th, 2021 birthday poem for dearly departed papa
Elysian fields embraced dada's soul
which rocketed into aerospace
(courtesy General Electric satellite)
just a tad more'n six months ago,
nevertheless melancholy
still plucks mine heart strings.
Mine psyche still situated awry
placid countenance...
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Categories:
stave off, absence, angel, april, bereavement, birthday, dad, death,
Form:
Rhyme
Easter as interpreted by oneEaster as interpreted by one...
rebated, rebelled, rebirthed, rebooted,
and rebuked courtesy
one ill shod Unitarian atheist,
who means NOT to affect
any sacrilegious fallout
nor offend devoutly religious
man, woman, or child,
when the most important
Christian holiday notated,...
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Categories:
stave off, adventure, bible, celebration, christian, easter, family, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
I Relished Being Hungry For Thanksgiving Pop Slop Gloppy GrubI relished being hungry for Thanksgiving pop slop gloppy grub
whereby the missus didst potchke
created whirling dervish hubbub
after enjoying repast,
(fit for a tarnished king),
yours truly able, eager, and ready
to soak my ego freezing carcass in...
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stave off, abuse, adventure, appreciation, autumn, blessing, drink, thanksgiving,
Form:
Rhyme
Glory To Thermodynamicsand spoils of Western Civilization.
Thrum of the central heater...
manually activated upon advent of twilight
(since yours truly not resident within "smart home"),
nevertheless warm cockles and muscles
appreciate basking, and luxuriating,
within climate controlled environment,
whether bone chilling deep freeze...
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Categories:
stave off, adventure, earth, green, heaven, inspiration, journey, light,
Form:
Free verse
Awaiting a growth spurt that never happenedAwaiting a growth spurt that never happened
When a boy,
I wanted to be as tall as my father
(he passed away October seventh
two thousand and twenty
linkedin to congestive heart failure),
who stood at his prime
about six feet and...
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Categories:
stave off, 12th grade, 9th grade, anger, angst, birth,
Form:
Free verse
Ongepatshket Torqued Skewed ReflectionOngepatshket torqued skewed reflection
drawn courtesy lots of byte size chalk.
When e'er I summon fat chance
to empower me self with courage
and steal a passing glance
in the mirror then instantaneously
hairline fractures appear
than 'afore long
snap,...
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Categories:
stave off, 12th grade, adventure, america, celebration, confidence, february,
Form:
Rhyme
Creative Cerebral Craftiness CoaxesCreative cerebral craftiness coaxes...
Childhood campy chimera curtain call
subsequently hinting (based on accuweather)
the approach of blizzard squall
so burrow under quilted cover y'all
until warm temperatures arrive when springtime
ushers social media platforms
buzzfeeding earthlinked instant karma
jump/kickstarting linkedin...
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Categories:
stave off, 12th grade, adventure, age, baptism, business, creation,
Form:
Rhyme
Easter As Interpreted By OneEaster as interpreted by one...
rebated, rebirthed rebooted, and rebuked
ill shod Unitarian atheist
Though avast percentage
of stonehenge temple piloted ghosts,
harking back millennia
constantly zip unseen thru aerospace,
they unwittingly espy
woolly sheep hush fleeced herd
profoundly religious peep pulls
plodding fast as...
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Categories:
stave off, allegory, angel, appreciation, body, celebration, creation, easter,
Form:
Free verse
Doubting Thomas luxuriates under Dylanesque milkweedDoubting Thomas luxuriates under Dylanesque milkweed
made fibrous threads...constituting heavy blanket
(crocheted by the missus)
on a cool Autumn like morning...
to stave off experiencing getting
chilblains, goosebumps,
or subjected to the blast of cold air
wafting thru the opened bedroom window
on...
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Categories:
stave off, analogy, animal, august, autumn, celebration, character, hair,
Form:
Free verse
I aim to live in the here ahem hair and nowI aim to live in the here (ahem hair) and now...
despite entrenched familiar
obsessive compulsive disorder behavior
distracting me courtesy
countless what if scenarios,
particularly before undergoing
voluntary drastic makeover
as iterated in a previous poem,
and briefly recounted here
as foregoing Samson...
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Categories:
stave off, 7th grade, absence, abuse, age, america, anxiety,
Form:
Free verse
Circa Sixty One Years Ago July 6th 2001Circa sixty one years ago July 6th, 2001 -
birth of dear beloved wife
We now get along swimmingly
analogous to this bro and his older sis
on the cusp of our gifted silver married years
if her presence absent,...
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Categories:
stave off, 11th grade, 12th grade, age, birthday, celebration,
Form:
Rhyme
The following fictitious scenario I evokeThe following fictitious scenario I evoke
Analogous to fire breathing
puffed up imaginary dragon
(in a land called Honah Lee)
ye might rightly think
what the deuce
haunting spectre ace of spades
goodfella aiming to be a poet all about,
meaning...
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stave off, adventure, age, america, angel, appreciation, blessing, celebration,
Form:
Rhyme
Ready, Aim, FireI’m mad as H E Double Hockey Sticks, flummoxed, and more than a little scared
Kids are being shot in their own back yards, makes me sick to my stomach
Mommas and daddies taken in handcuffs...
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Categories:
stave off, angst,
Form:
Free verse
Stretching outer limits of incredulity beyond realm of logicStretching outer limits of incredulity beyond realm of logic
In an attempt to recount how life came about on planet Earth,
thence subsequently spanning across the webbed wide world
birthed cockamamie idea within mind of then young Matthew
Scott...
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Categories:
stave off, absence, adventure, america, angel, animal, childhood, cool,
Form:
Free verse
The Tongue In Cheek BalmThe (tongue In Cheek) Balm...
Of "permanent" Sleep
Abbott, nothing beats the
immortal heavenly reincarnation
after mortality odometer
unexpectedly set to zeros
preparing deceased
...
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Categories:
stave off, absence, allah, angel, celebration, goodbye, motivation, peace,
Form:
Free verse
I owe appreciative courtesy to alternative pressI owe appreciative courtesy to alternative press...
for enlightening my senses
to the evocative, reciprocative
and suffocative
auditory and visual material
publicized in The Nation
magazine January 2025 issue
on page 59 about Macklemore
(his given birth name
Benjamin Hammond Haggerty)
an American rapper
composed protest...
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Categories:
stave off, adventure, america, appreciation, art, blessing, encouraging, fashion,
Form:
Free verse