Long Stout Poems
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Ice Cream Gran 5 - Turbo, We Have a ProblemIt’s heading for our planet at ten thousand miles an hour
To stop it all the experts say we haven’t got the power
All the nukes in all the world won’t constitute a plan
So someone said, ‘All...
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Categories:
stout, grandmother, hero, space,
Form:
Rhyme
Let Me Give Her DiamondsLet Me Give Her Diamonds
by Michael R. Burch
Let me give her diamonds
for my heart's
sharp edges.
Let me give her roses
for my soul's
thorn.
Let me give her solace
for my words
of treason.
Let the flowering of love
outlast a winter
season.
Let me...
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Categories:
stout, valentines day,
Form:
Verse
The Badly Drawn GoatThe pencil now resting the image was 'testing' for the creature before him, (his badly-drawn drawin') had come out 'not right' somewhat twisted and tight.
The picture in question, it burst with suggestion, for lines that...
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stout, animal, creation, funny,
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:
stout, death, murder, tiger, wife,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Bleeding Before Rome -2Yet at this very moment the cathedral was crumbling
down upon the cries of foresaken refugees,
the monastery's walls wobbling from war's wreckage,
and as the black bursts billowed into sun drenched brutality
with the bodies of...
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Categories:
stout, culture, heart, war, world war ii,
Form:
Epic
Love Poems IiLOVE POEMS II
These are love poems by Michael R. Burch: original poems and translations about passion, desire, lust, sex, dating and marriage. On an amusing note, my steamy Baudelaire translations have become popular with the...
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Categories:
stout, desire, love, lust, marriage, passion, romance, sexy,
Form:
Rhyme
Speaker, Subject, and Theme In Edna St Vincent Millay's ''I, Being Born a Woman and Distressed''“I, Being Born a Woman and Distressed” (Sonnet XLI)
by Edna St. Vincent Millay
I, being born a woman and distressed
By all the needs and notions of my kind,
Am urged by your propinquity to find
Your person fair,...
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Categories:
stout, america, anger, love, passion, poems, poetess, poetry,
Form:
Prose
This Is No FableI was relaxing in my sunroom, one very peaceful afternoon,
Enjoying the fables of Aesop, and all the flowers abloom.
The view from the many windows, was gold sunshiny delight,
With blossoms and rich greenery, and many birds...
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Categories:
stout, adventure, animal, fantasy, flower, imagery, life, tree,
Form:
Couplet
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 33 -Part 1-My dreams were of the dire Queen
I had allowed her reign over me, callousing my heart,
She was inside me, laughing
Having crawled in
My walls closing, as she filled my soul
We were one, yes for a time,...
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Categories:
stout, adventure, confusion, growth, heart, inspirational, relationship, visionary,
Form:
Epic
The Long Way HomeIt was late in the balmy springtime, and I was attending a lecture,
On a topic of great interest, which was the history of architecture.
As a great lover of beauty, I admired structural geometric designs,
Like the...
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Categories:
stout, fantasy, home, magic, people, school, spring, time,
Form:
Couplet
Doppler Radar Killed Our Classic Car - 2nd Half As Text Plus Full AudioHere'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:
stout, car,
Form:
Narrative
Two Dads -- 2nd HalfHere'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.
The 1st...
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Categories:
stout, father son,
Form:
Verse
The Bloodstone, the Raven and Master Poe Part Three of ThreeThe Bloodstone, The Raven And Master Poe,
Part Three of Three
There came hammer knocking on the back door
As Poe was acting out pitiful moans
Raven thought, could this be from Hell's dark shore
Another beast hearing anguishing groans
Then...
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Categories:
stout, art, dark, deep, gothic, horror, imagination, raven,
Form:
Rhyme
Ghosts of the Sun Dance-Part 1Ghosts of the Sun Dance
1. The Path
A quest dating back through our history
Surpassing the flesh, a spiritual path
Human endurance, road to mystery
Dark trail winding through the gardens of wrath
It echoes through me, this deep ambition
Half...
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Categories:
stout, spiritual, sports, endurance, drug,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
A Darzet Countree Lad Be OiOi be nowt but an auld country hick,
we a liddle bit of gall, an a lotta stick.
Oi baint niver afeared to speak me mind,
nor critizise folks harshly iffen Oi find
zummit I don’t loik. Tis...
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Categories:
stout, immigration, memory,
Form:
Rhyme
The Third Wind1st wind, childhood
2nd wind, jobs, career
3rd wind, elder life.
...
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Categories:
stout, adventure, life, meaningful, metaphor, places, space, time,
Form:
Haiku
The Hero - Monomyth(Dedication: For Ann)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The tale now mints: a hero hears
A call that tints, a choice appears.
It cannot be, this journey quest
To cross the seas, to face the test.
Denial comes brisk, no hero here
To dare grave risk,...
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Categories:
stout, devotion, myth,
Form:
Couplet
Ode To a Tree - Synopsis - EpicI.
Espy, distinguish divinely made lively, lovely Trees
He or she, inhales carbon dioxide, then breathes
out for us humans, life given clean oxygen
Stout roots run deep, holding God's earth
Also, with you we were taught our first lesson
II.
Animals...
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Categories:
stout, adventure, beauty, earth, earth day, introspection, nature,
Form:
Ode
True GritMy name is Mattie Ross and I hail from Yell County
In the state of Arkansas living, on a ranch with family
At the age of fourteen I suffered personal tragedy
When my father Frank Ross was...
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Categories:
stout, america, death, loss, murder,
Form:
Narrative
Harry HorsmanHarry Horsman's treatment was withdrawn over a week ago and they are making him comfortable, he is now in Hospice care.
Susan Ashly…we can only hope that Hospice care can keep Harry comfortable. May comfort be...
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Categories:
stout, caregiving, heartbroken,
Form:
Free verse
I Bear-Ly SurvivedThe beauteous days of summer were here at last,
And the primetime of nature was coming so fast!
We sat on the porch, watching a lazy day go by,
With no interesting views, to gladden our eyes.
Then one...
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Categories:
stout, adventure, animal, fantasy, flower, imagery, nature, tree,
Form:
Couplet
TitanicGlobal pride! Greatest story-theme worldwide! Oceanic!
Voyage liner - Atlantic! British cruise ship! Titanic!
Born in the yard of Harland and Wolf! Floated to venture!
Who did ever dream of a deadliest wreck- adventure?
Christened after Titans of the...
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Categories:
stout, adventure, beauty, boat, fear, life, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Thomas Chatterton Translation: Under the Willow TreeSong from Aella: Under the Willow Tree, or, Minstrel's Song
by Thomas Chatterton, age 17 or younger
modernization/translation by Michael R. Burch
MYNSTRELLES SONGE ("MINSTREL'S SONG")
O! sing unto my roundelay,
O! drop the briny tear with me,
Dance no more...
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Categories:
stout, dance, death, love, romance, romantic, song, tree,
Form:
Rhyme
The Wheat and the TareThey crept upon our shores eating away the inner core
They crept upon our shore knocking on our barricade doors
Tall stout men with peevish eyes and strange looks on their white faces
Invade our quarters looking for...
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Categories:
stout, community, conflict, confusion, death, desire, violence, western,
Form:
Narrative
Blarney Stone Collab-MORE ADDITIONSIf anyone would like to have some community fun,
please send me a limerick(s) in a comment or soup mail.
The famous Blarney Stone, some can't resist
When in Ireland, it's on tourist's checklist
But do...
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Categories:
stout, humor,
Form:
Limerick