Long Steps Poems
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Echoes of a Shady PastAn icy chill descends on 13 Beaver Veil Cottage as sisters Ester and Ellie walk gingerly up the steps on this wet and windy night.
This once charming pied-a-terre was now in a final phase denouement.
The...
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Categories:
steps, art, birth, character, courage, dark, imagery, imagination,
Form:
Prose
The Amistad MutinyThe Amistad Mutiny
Slavery, a dirty word no matter how it’s pronounced:
Abducted and herded to the slave fortress of Lomboko1 for trade.
To be tossed in chains below deck on the Portuguese ship Tecora,2
Sailing the Atlantic Middle...
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Categories:
steps, africa, america, history, racism, slavery, world,
Form:
Verse
Echoes Of A Shady Past Part Twon icy chill descends on 13 Beaver Veil Cottage as sisters Ester and Ellie walk gingerly up the steps on this wet and windy night.
This once charming pied-a-terre was now in a final phase denouement.
The...
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Categories:
steps, character, dark, death, emotions, gothic, imagery, imagination,
Form:
Prose
The Power of My PenI have been trying to find the right words to pen this verse, but since I came to this country my words are suppressed and my voice is oppressed. The wind is blowing furiously, and...
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Categories:
steps, anti bullying, break up, community, corruption, discrimination,
Form:
Narrative
Poetically Pathetic CrowJust enough to make it just
I want this to be enough to make this
The last song ever, the last note ever
The last romantically, poetically sad excuse for an apology, epilogue
But I've already messed up the...
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Categories:
steps, lonely, longing, loss, lost, lost love, love,
Form:
Free verse
Justice Is Crying In the StreetOh my soul what hails you?
Oh my soul what awaits you?
Oh my soul why are you in despair?
Oh my soul I have not deserted you
Oh my soul I have something to share
Oh my soul I...
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Categories:
steps, anti bullying, conflict, courage, desire, discrimination, education,
Form:
Free verse
Words of Young Generation - a Message To Nigerian YouthPlease be informed:
The Nigerian youths have agreed together in love and oneness that in 2023 presidential election and in every other elections, whether state or local government. We will not vote for anyone who...
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Categories:
steps, 5th grade,
Form:
ABC
Juvenilia: Early Poems VJuvenilia: Early Poems V
Poetry
by Michael R. Burch
Poetry, I found you
where at last they chained and bound you;
with devices all around you
to torture and confound you,
I found you—shivering, bare.
They had shorn your raven hair
and taken both...
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Categories:
steps, poems, poets, teen, teenage, write, writing, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
Where Does the Butterfly GoWhere Does the Butterfly Go?
by Michael R. Burch
for the children of the Holocaust and the Nakba
Where does the butterfly go
when lightning rails,
when thunder howls,
when hailstones scream,
when winter scowls,
when nights compound dark frosts with snow ...
Where...
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Categories:
steps, holocaust,
Form:
Verse
The Making of a PoetThe Making of a Poet
by Michael R. Burch
While I don’t consider “Poetry” to be my best poem—I wrote the first version in my teens—it’s a poem that holds special meaning for me; I call it...
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Categories:
steps, art, love, poems, poetry, poets, write, writing,
Form:
Verse
Poems About Laughter, Giggles and SmilesHere and Hereafter
by Michael R. Burch
Life’s saving graces are love, pleasure, laughter ...
wisdom, it seems, is for the Hereafter.
Laughter’s Cry
by Michael R. Burch
Because life is a mystery, we laugh
and do not know the half.
Because death...
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Categories:
steps, cheer up, children, family, giggle, joy, smile,
Form:
Rhyme
The State of the ArtThe 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:
steps, art, muse, poems, poetry, poets, romantic, writing,
Form:
Verse
Marina Tsvetaeva TranslationsI Know The Truth
by Marina Tsvetaeva
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
I know the truth?abandon lesser truths!
There's no need for anyone living to struggle!
See? Evening falls, night quickly descends!
So why the useless disputes?generals, poets, lovers?
The wind...
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Categories:
steps, love, poems, poetess, poetry, poets, truth, women,
Form:
Free verse
Poems About Fathers and Grandfathers IvPoems about Fathers and Grandfathers IV
Neglect
by Michael R. Burch
What good are your tears?
They will not spare the dying their anguish.
What good is your concern
to a child sick of living, waiting to perish?
What good, the warm...
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Categories:
steps, family, father, father daughter, father son, fathers
Form:
Rhyme
Various Heresies 5Various Heresies 5
Tonight, Let's Remember
by Michael R. Burch
July 7,2007 (7-7-7)
Tonight, let's remember the fond ways
our fingers engendered new methods to praise
the gray at my temples, your thinning hair.
Tonight, let's remember, and let us draw near...
Tonight,...
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Categories:
steps, creation, earth, god, heaven, spiritual, wine, women,
Form:
Verse
Poems About Children VPoems about Children V
Pan
by Michael R. Burch
Among the shadows of the groaning elms,
amid the darkening oaks, we fled ourselves
Once there were paths that led to coracles
that clung to piers like loosening barnacles
where we cannot return,...
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Categories:
steps, autumn, baseball, child, childhood, children, dog, sports,
Form:
Rhyme
Chapter 108 -- Damian Dj Delilah Mallory Damali Cj: the New Temple and Djs BirthdayDate: January 4 2046
Damali and DJ were active in the
Small house sprucing up for their
Day. "Hey happy birthday partner!"
Damali jostled DJ. In the main house
Now 11 morning time. Damian had
Plans...
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Categories:
steps, color, confidence, deep,
Form:
Alliteration
Fadwa Tuqan TranslationsFadwa Tuqan has been called the Grand Dame of Palestinian letters and The Poet of Palestine. These are my translations of Fadwa Tuqan poems originally written in Arabic.
Enough for Me
by Fadwa Tuqan
loose translation/interpretation by...
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Categories:
steps, allah, culture, earth, love, nature, voice, writing,
Form:
Free verse
The Poet of Palestine: Fadwa TuqanEnglish translations of Arabic poems by Fadwa Tuqan aka "The Poet of Palestine"
Enough for Me
by Fadwa Tuqan
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Enough for me to lie in the earth,
to be buried in her,
to sink...
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Categories:
steps, allah, arabic, culture, nature, poetess, poetry, writing,
Form:
Verse
History's Greatest Miracle PlayHistory’s Greatest Miracle Play
Let me tell you a story - Prologue
Actors gather to play their parts
To set the stage – backdrops and props –
In history’s greatest miracle play
Called to speak their lines
On redemption’s stage
In a...
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Categories:
steps, jesus,
Form:
Narrative
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:
steps, evil, horror,
Form:
Rhyme
Tuan Tata: Song of Uda - Parts One and Two TUAN TATA : Song of Uda - I
by T. Wignesan
(Patrick Noone, a British anthropologist, discovered the Ple-Temiar tribe living isolated in the jungle highlands in the State of Perak on the west coast of...
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Categories:
steps, death, murder, tiger, wife,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
2 Detectives and a Victim, Tonight's Episode: the TwistJoe: "It's 9 a.m., here in Gotham and my partner, Mike and I, have been here since 7 a.m., and we also passed a cow coming over here!"
Mike: "That was no cow sir just a...
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Categories:
steps, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Dramatic Verse
A Dream of a Rainbow Coloured FamilyA dream of a Rainbow coloured family
In the ocean there is a raging storm
And a lot of boats
With rudders that are shattered,
Compasses lost, sails that are torn.
And dreams that are faded or tattered
With...
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Categories:
steps, anger, conflict, humanity, inspiration, love, motivation, rainbow,
Form:
Rhyme
The Tower RebuiltI shall resolve to leave this
Place now...
And steadfastly search out,
Nestling between ridge and bluff
Amidst the folds of a foreign
Land,
Several acres of unkempt ground
Fallow and rough;
Upon which stands...
Crumbled stone walls
With an exposed slate roof in
Some...
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Categories:
steps, hope,
Form:
Rhyme