Long Stepping Poems
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Hurricane Katrina - 20 years later
On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina stormed through New Orleans and Louisiana. The only difference was, in New Orleans (intentional or not), the levees broke. The flood waters flooded the 9th ward and most of...
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Categories:
stepping, anniversary, change, life, people, storm, usa, world,
Form:
Narrative
NIGHT TERRORS CONTINUE ALLAH WILL PROVIDE
MY PTSD HAD BEGUN TO CAPTURE MY THOUGHTS MY DREAMS OF COMMITING SUICIDE QUIETING THE RUSSIAN VOICES IN MY HEAD THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION SPECIAL AGENT LEROY HEIMBACH MY MIND WOULDN'T ALLOW ME REST...
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Categories:
stepping, allah,
Form:
Naat
Seductive Responsibilities
I am exhausted by bad government excuses to avoid responsibility
and I am, today, sick with excuses to avoid my own responsibility,
well within the bounds of my self-governing authority:
"I'm just a mortal human. I make mistakes.
I...
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Categories:
stepping, culture, health, humanity, humor, political, race, stress,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Childhood Dreams Part 1
When I was a child
Everything was magical
Full of mystery and the unknown
I read hundreds of books
The library my haven
My home
Hours upon hours
Night and day
I read and got lost in text
They supplied me with adventures
Secret journeys
Fun...
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Categories:
stepping, childhood, cinderella, dream, fairy,
Form:
Free verse
Chapter 88 -- Damian Delilah Mallory Solomon Brothers: the Billards Blowout
Early afternoon. The Solomon
Were in their, (according to Damali)
Club house. But the reality of the
Circumstance is this. The Club
House was the Damian Domaine.
Damian's Billards. Damian didn't
Know it was their chosen hangout.
As the...
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Categories:
stepping, africa, allusion, devotion,
Form:
Alliteration
Custody of 2020 Eyes
Monks and nuns,
ascetics and miscellaneous humble proletariat folks,
were taught custody of the eyes,
to show respect for those older
and/or wiser
and/or more supremely royal,
and/or in other positions of merited or inherited authority,
to avoid appearing too curious
too available
too...
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Categories:
stepping, games, gender, health, poverty, psychological, racism, slavery,
Form:
Political Verse
Turkish Poetry Translations Ii
Turkish Poetry Translations II
Çanakkale Sehitlerine
"For the Çanakkale Martyrs"
by Mehmet Akif Ersoy
loose English translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Was there ever anything like the Bosphorus war??
The earth’s mightiest armies pressing Marmara,
Forcing entry between her mountain passes
To a...
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Categories:
stepping, autumn, god, love, sea, time, war, world,
Form:
Free verse
Some Poems
A Stolen Memory
A Mirthful Chorus
By Sy Roth
We surrounded him
Asked to let go.
She stared at the misshapen face,
Unshaven sandpapery skin
Eyelids a tabula rasa
Fluttery sere skin
And we could see the humor blossoming in his...
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Categories:
stepping, dream, loneliness,
Form:
Free verse
Chapter 119 -- DAMIAN DELILAH MALLORY: Damali Desharah DJ-- Desharah's and Sedanah's New Digs
Desharah woke early morning 8 am.
She wanted to check out her new
House. But she waited for Sedanah
To come out of her dreams.
"WAKE UP SEDA." They roomed
Together. That's what her mother
Wanted....
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Categories:
stepping, absence, confidence, voyage,
Form:
Alliteration
Rilke Translations Ii
Come, You
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
This was Rilke’s last poem, written ten days before his death. He died open-eyed in the arms of his doctor on December 29, 1926, in the...
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Categories:
stepping, tribute,
Form:
Verse
Archaic Torso of Apollo: Rilke Translation
Archaic Torso of Apollo
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
We cannot know the beheaded god
nor his eyes' forfeited visions. But still
the figure's trunk glows with the strange vitality
of a lamp lit from within,...
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Categories:
stepping, art, body, god, life, light, poetry, writing,
Form:
Sonnet
Miklos Radnoti Translations of Holocaust Poems
Postcard 1
by Miklós Radnóti
written August 30, 1944
translated by Michael R. Burch
Out of Bulgaria, the great wild roar of the artillery thunders,
resounds on the mountain ridges, rebounds, then ebbs into silence
while here men, beasts, wagons...
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Categories:
stepping, death, grave, holocaust, horror, humanity, memorial, world
Form:
Free verse
Rainer Maria Rilke Translation: the Panther
The Panther
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
His weary vision's so overwhelmed by iron bars,
his exhausted eyes see only blank Oblivion.
His world is not our world. It has no stars.
No light. Ten thousand...
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Categories:
stepping, allegory, analogy, animal, cat, extended metaphor, freedom,
Form:
Sonnet
Merov's Ghost and Other Shots Across My Bow
Merov’s Ghost (1) and Other Shots Across My Bow!
In mid-November of Fourteen, I published my first web verse here, (2)
the earliest spanned sixty years, composed for Senior English class
one night in Nineteen Sixty-One. Assigned just...
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Categories:
stepping, blessing, life, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Factoidman and Shallowman - Part 1
[Well, ShallowMan’s ne’er at a loss
for voicing shallow thoughts that gloss.
With trenchant wit he reaps the dross
when seeking sense in applesauce.
But to his aid flies FactoidMan
who always has a Fact at hand;
with him, who needs...
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Categories:
stepping, society, truth, universe,
Form:
Rhyme
And Still I Drive - Part One
Stars fall under failing skies...stars fall...stars fall...
And sadly...i start to drive.
Through the unremarkable village with its tall
Georgian Bay window panes, lightless,
devoid of visages; outwardly staring back at my
Abject countenance with detached contempt and...
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Categories:
stepping, heartbreak, places,
Form:
Rhyme
A Night On a Wharf
A Night On A Wharf
The couple decide to walk. The boardwalk still lit at this late hour guides them. They walk hand in hand,..whispering softly with small talk...solemn.,. lonely , yet together. The walk is...
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Categories:
stepping, blessing,
Form:
Carpe Diem
Terror Bugs: Part 5 - A Freezer Mice Adventure
[Continued from ‘Terror Bugs: Part 4 - A Freezer Mice Adventure’]
__________
A water cannon screeched around the corner on two wheels
Four and twenty Terror Bugs were nipping at its heels
Their acid blistered paint work but it...
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Categories:
stepping, adventure,
Form:
Narrative
Out For a Spin
I take a four-fold spin
through Bill Plotkin's wheel
of bilateral identities,
iconic developmental faces,
ironic personalities.
FIRST comes Eastern-born
dawn of human infancy,
Innocent Sage infants
so WiseElder
in our LeftBrain emergent
wrinkling unfolding
sacred RightBrain ways.
Searching for care giving eyes
to be sure we...
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Categories:
stepping, gender, health, humor, integrity, nature, peace, wisdom,
Form:
Political Verse
Wall Street
Set upon the new world stage within the burning fires of hell. Silently posed factions of the elite, suppress the true inherit of Mother Earth. The meek children bending over for millennium, taken spankings of...
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Categories:
stepping, political, slam, social, war, war, world, lost,
Form:
Epic
For Onion Pt 2
I miss the old days where only you had my key
I miss the old times - running wild and free
I miss the old house and your pool and banana tree
I miss the days when it...
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Categories:
stepping, child,
Form:
Rhyme
Prolegomena Soliloquy - Pt 1
Tell me, my friend,
does infinity not unsettle your reason,
or is it a comfort—to believe it meaningless?
Look beyond the rust of your disbelief—
this isn’t the frostbitten dogma you...
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Categories:
stepping, beauty, christian, easter, faith, longing, science, universe,
Form:
Lyric
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 14
Despite his impatience to show me his hell,
He waited for me in my rest,
Lying upon the ground, I awoke in prayer,
Thanking God above and asking Him for guidance
“My heart is Yours, always,
From the moment...
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Categories:
stepping, adventure, anxiety, conflict, courage, dark, holocaust, horror,
Form:
Epic
Youth's Sweet Friendship Fragments
"Fragments and crumbs of life, all the little pieces"
John Ruskin, 1853
I think of youth’s sweet...
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Categories:
stepping, friendship,
Form:
Prose
Rainer Maria Rilke: First Elegy Translation
This is my translation of the first of Rilke’s Duino Elegies. Rilke began the first Duino Elegy in 1912, as a guest of Princess Marie von Thurn und Taxis, at Duino Castle, near Trieste on...
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Categories:
stepping, angel, beauty, desire, metaphor, universe, visionary, voice,
Form:
Free verse