Long Strictures Poems
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Just Doin' My Translation Job
It's all frustratingly LeftBrain relativistic,
even nihilistic in its darker
ruminating
paranoid about chaotic outcomes form,
said Einstein's post-millennial ghost.
So its all synergetic fractal 4D equivalent SpaceTime,
said Fuller,
in co-arising nondual P = N(NP)/2 (0)-Core response.
Interesting you should...
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Categories:
strictures, creation, health, humor, love, political, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
A Vain Word
A Vain Word
by Michael R. Burch
Oleanders at dawn preen extravagant whorls
as I read in leaves’ Sanskrit brief moments remaining
till sunset implodes, till the moon strands grey pearls
under moss-stubbled oaks, full of whispers, complaining
to the darkening...
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Categories:
strictures, autumn, beauty, extended metaphor, grief, heartbreak, moon,
Form:
Sonnet
Life Through a Thousand Deaths
Here life waits
with a thousand little discontinuous deaths, again,
right here in The Evolving Self's
sixth principle of preferable options for more humane revolutions
of evolution,
lurking behind Mihaly Csikzentmihalyi.
I had seen this life coming
when he began by rooting...
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Categories:
strictures, blessing, freedom, health, humanity, humor, science, spiritual,
Form:
Political Verse
Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis - part ii
Highlight of Goofus and Gallant
bred within the survival instinct
of hungry hordes of prey,
when Earth in the balance
against an uncomfortable truth
smug smurf like scavengers.
Punishment meted...
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Categories:
strictures, absence, adventure, africa, america, angel, anniversary, appreciation,
Form:
Free verse
Conversations In Pronoia
Welcome, friends, into this day.
I see we are wearing our CoPassionate Scientist hats
and TransReligious gloves today.
John Wheeler (theoretical physicist): We are the sun's way of thinking about itself.
Wow, that's truly cosmic, or kosmic;...
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Categories:
strictures, art, beauty, humor, language, love, poetry, science,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Winter Thoughts of Ann Rutledge
These are poems about Ann Rutledge and her romantic relationship with Abraham Lincoln.
Winter Thoughts of Ann Rutledge
by Michael R. Burch
Winter was not easy,
nor would the spring return.
I knew you by your absence,
as men are...
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Categories:
strictures, history, lost love, love, presidents day, romance,
Form:
Rhyme
Scantily-Clad In the Garden of S W Eden
SCANTILY-CLAD in the GARDEN of S W EDEN
Here I stand, all alone, scantily-clad in the garden of S W EDEN.
Wondering if the Original Garden still remains untilled and uneven.
Wondering how that Serpent knew of the...
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Categories:
strictures, adventure, beauty, betrayal, bible, nostalgia, symbolism, trust,
Form:
Verse
Stricken With Turbulence At About Seventy Two Inches
Stricken with turbulence at about seventy two inches
Yours truly issuing a deafening rebel yell
bursting forth with such might
courtesy cooking under pressure
analogous to volcanic upswell,
forcing me quickly to flap vestigial wings
(at the speed of sound)
while simultaneously...
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Categories:
strictures, 11th grade, 12th grade, 8th grade, adventure,
Form:
Rhyme
How to attach a shower curtain
How to attach a shower curtain...
I revisit rather than write from scratch
a poem crafted May twenty third
two thousand and twenty
since the following words apropos
and amply serve a duplicate purpose
of aforementioned title,
when yours truly enlisted
(before...
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Categories:
strictures, abuse, angel, appreciation, business, fun, hero, husband,
Form:
Rhyme
My Coping Method Fraught With Utmost Futility Thus
My coping method fraught with utmost futility thus...
My professional treatment plan
predicated upon duress in extremis
hence Electroconvulsive therapy,
a last ditch effort I avail
and surrender self qua
to shock the monkey (me)
one (twenty first century)
obstinate bipedal hominid turncoat
optioned,...
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Categories:
strictures, 11th grade, 12th grade, absence, abuse, anxiety,
Form:
Rhyme
Seal fin de siecle with unheard celebration
Seal fin de siècle with unheard celebration
though two thousand nine hundred
will be here in seventy five years,
a mere blink of the eye
never to early
to think about fêted occasion
which marks the beginning
of the 22nd century.
if not...
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Categories:
strictures, america, anniversary, betrayal, cry, dark, environment, farewell,
Form:
Free verse
How To Attach a Shower Curtain
How to attach a shower curtain...
Suffering permanent anatomical
disfigurement, nonetheless
maintaining marital bliss
at steep price despite more or less
musculoskeletal dislocation,
I eagerly, readily willingly confess.
Ideal for someone whose height
trends toward above average
unless you don't object tilting
head back in...
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Categories:
strictures, 12th grade, celebration, encouraging, fun, hilarious, husband,
Form:
Free verse
Immune system boosted, and bolstered
Immune system boosted, and bolstered...
to build better back me
analogous to hatches being
battened down
courtesy COVID-19 12+
(Pfizer only) and Flu Vaccine (65+)
October 31, 2024,
which found me convalescing
one day later with minor aches and pains
remedied with acetaminophen.
More...
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Categories:
strictures, age, america, appreciation, autumn, blessing, caregiving, health,
Form:
Free verse
Theater of Utter Charm Part 6
keeping low walking softly blending in
as a defensive buttress against you name it
shall we get back to categories vs. kaleidoscope
asked the autisticly artistic ship's doctor
his specialty more melancholia than anesthesia
I'll gladly tell you that much
which...
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Categories:
strictures, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
One Follower At a Time, Part I
When Pelchag first head of the new prophet
he didn’t give it all that much real thought,
some merchant claimed that on a cliff-top
by a trio of angels he’d been taught
what God desired of his mortal children,
what...
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Categories:
strictures, conflict, corruption, dark, daughter, evil, father, religion,
Form:
Epic
Wake Asia Wake - Part One - 2
Wake! and see the extent to which you’re still enslaved
enslaved by your own kind who hanker after conditioning platitudes
the...
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Categories:
strictures, inspirational, old, old,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Truth Lies Open To All
It was said of old, 'Truth lies open to all', but today
perception is all; no one is perfect...
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Categories:
strictures, philosophy, life, time, together,
Form:
Free verse
Doublethink Beliefs
This life
Rituals we’re asked to follow
Seem to separate man from man
Something’s wrong, it seems so shallow
Sun shines upon all with elan
So we went to temple and mosque
Sikh gurudwara and the church
Favours from God, all in...
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Categories:
strictures, muse,
Form:
Quatrain
Optimizing Gratitude
Holistic position
simultaneously invites further co-passion
and celebrates having become ever more compassionate,
Inspired that Earth stewards hope to rightly balance
human relationships
with our wider ecological responsibilities.
These right relationships
and EarthCentered responsibilities
need not compete
with more anthropocentric views
of care-giving and -receiving...
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Categories:
strictures, caregiving, destiny, earth day, health, peace, political,
Form:
Political Verse
Who Beside This Atheist Doth Say Thar Haint No Angels
Who Beside This Atheist Doth "say" Thar Haint No Angels?
Two fatal head on
deadly automobile accidents
in quick succession at
Zieglerville, Pennsylvania...
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Categories:
strictures, 12th grade, angel, death, freedom, gospel, magic,
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
Marriage To Alarmingly Ballooning
Marriage to alarmingly ballooning...
dramatically expanding spouse,
when adorning buttons
pop off undersized blouse
which spurs yours truly to grouse,
and ruffle mine tail feathers
while listening to Scheherazade.
Eats her weigh out of home and house
unsolicited feedback courtesy
quite doubtful,...
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Categories:
strictures, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, addiction,
Form:
Rhyme
Valentine Matte
Countless generations lapsed since height of Greco-Roman mythology conceived, birthed and populated vast canopy of sky and expanse of terrestrial firmament, whereat obeisant propinquity quintessentially remains stalwart this day and age as guise dolls dote...
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Categories:
strictures, adventure, age, animal, body, candy, endurance, fantasy,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Master Valluvan, the Long-Misunderstood Tamil Mentor - Part One
Part One
“The Kurral owes much of its popularity to its exquisite poetic form. A kurral is a couplet containing a complete and striking idea expressed in a refined and intricate metre. No translation can convey...
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Categories:
strictures, on writing and words,
Form:
Free verse
Marriage To Alarmingly Ballooning
Marriage to alarmingly ballooning...
dramatically expanding spouse
Eats her weigh out of home and house
unsolicited feedback courtesy
yours truly, she does grouse
quite doubtful, she could pose
for playboy and/or penthouse
returning explicit volley
of trailing appellations lobbed
expletive laced epithets
directed at her...
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Categories:
strictures, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form:
Free verse
Practice Not What We Preach
The masters of buzz words
used to instill fear
Clutching their pearls saying
“liberals take what’s dear”
Right wingers with their
inescapable nexus
Says its liberals insistent
political correctness
If the “Woke” amplified the
so called cancel culture
The...
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Categories:
strictures, political, truth,
Form:
Rhyme