Long Strokes Poems
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The Shape of Mourning
by Michael R. Burch
The shape of mourning
is an oiled creel
shining with unuse,
the bolt of cold steel
on a locker
shielding memory,
the monthly penance
of flowers,
the annual wake,
the face in the...
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Categories:
strokes, beauty, death, desire, life, longing, love, nature,
Form:
Free verse
The Plural Sky and the Temptation of Its Mirrored Eyes
I melt into the plural sky
its rippling tableaus of tomorrow
underneath open light waves
see-saws the labyrinth
like Delphi tendrils crossing channels
all the changing faces played
automatic, embedded in misty consort
with Hyde-Lees and Yeats
love-crushed oracles
ghostwriting...
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Categories:
strokes, i am, muse,
Form:
Free verse
Merov's Ghost and Other Shots Across My BowMerov’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:
strokes, blessing, life, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Precious Priceless ProgenyPrecious priceless progeny
Hands down the most dramatic change ever needed to make the most profound impact awoke from helping beget the first offspring. An internal paradigm shift reshuffled priorities...
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Categories:
strokes, absence, adventure, angst, anniversary, beautiful, celebration, creation,
Form:
Rhyme
Inxs of Poison From Iron Maiden Scorpion Mamma and Ac Dc Charged Aries PapaInxs of poison from iron maiden scorpion mamma and ac/dc charged aries papa
Although gainfully unemployed
(fate now finds me receiving
social security disability –
for approximately
the last baker's dozen years -
the yeast divine intercession...
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Categories:
strokes, 12th grade, abuse, anger, anxiety, atheist, bullying,
Form:
Free verse
Barefoot In the Bushfires of the Vanities
"Barefoot in the Bushfires of the Vanities"
Heat rises slowly to rapture flames licking and teasing
Blue Ghostgums to stretch and crack wide open
as Fire spreads molten sweet sap bleeding burgundy all over
amber gold wild bush...
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Categories:
strokes, art, life, muse, psychological, sensual,
Form:
Free verse
Half MeasuresThis is how it starts
the decline of who we are, the decline of something more
the start of wars
Installed in us is confidence
confidence, a blessing or a curse
Without confidence we stand degraded, disenchanted, alone
while with too...
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Categories:
strokes, suicide, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
The Twisting Tale of An Avian Apparition"The discrepancies are many, the dalliances are few,
both pitched against one dynamic, lifelong achievement"
Poking through the woods of the Mill Grove Audubon Estate,
suddenly came upon an ivy-covered studio shed
tucked away amongst foliage near Perkiomen Creek,
apparently...
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Categories:
strokes, america, appreciation, art, bird, books, dream, history,
Form:
Blank verse
Apt Name Limericks Collaboration -Nb Some Poems Will Be BawdyCOME ON SOUPER'S LETS HAVE SOME FUN AND MAKE FOLK SMILE DURING SUCH DIFFICULT TIMES FOR US ALL. THERE ARE LOTS MORE APT NAMES - PLEASE SOUP MAIL POEMS AND I WILL ADD THEM...
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Categories:
strokes, giggle, jobs,
Form:
Limerick
Categories:
strokes, art,
Form:
Shape
For ShameThe inky black water sucks her in further
As she descends into the black depths of the abyss
Cloying dark swirls cover her head as soundlessly it reaches
Possessing her every inhalation – exhalation - it envelopes her...
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Categories:
strokes, betrayal, environment, natural disasters, peace, pollution,
Form:
Free verse
If My Heart Was a BackpackOn the outskirts of the city
a young woman walked
gazing at art and viewing it lovingly.
Inside her bright red backpack
that carried the contents of her life
was a painting.
The painting was years old
and at one point...
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Categories:
strokes, feelings, i miss you, loneliness, lost love,
Form:
Free verse
Like WaterLike water
I was the river
You were the sea
I dissolved into you
And thought I was free.
Out of the cage I flew
But landed on my knees
As I tried to flee
The heavy clouds
And storms, of responsibility
Your love...
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Categories:
strokes, allegory, betrayal, confusion, courage, trust,
Form:
Rhyme
Yet More Than a BrotherMoods oscillate in cadences of peaks and valleys
Music to fractious emotions on greasy dance floors
Mistimed cues of flares smouldering relationships
Angst of redundancy seethes from within as lava
Anger is camouflaged with the cloak of reticence
Ardour suffocated...
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Categories:
strokes, allusion, analogy, appreciation, brother, character, feelings, friend,
Form:
Bio
Game of Cricket Is a Game of LifeLife is not cricket: though a game of cricket reflects life
It portrays real-life conditions; from cradle to urn
Starting with toss of a coin; ends in pulling bails off
Just as cricket life is simply...
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Categories:
strokes, dedication, emotions, endurance, fantasy, games, image, inspiration,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Harvest InfernoTake me to the tombstone
let me touch the gray stone that stands
where life could not
I will put my face to that touchstone of deaf thunder,
What happened to your breath baby brother,
what happened in...
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Categories:
strokes, birthday, creation,
Form:
Epic
Portrait of a Hanging
With the opening of my fortress cell,
solemn-faced men come locust invading in
Their mouths smile not, and eyes neither grin
as ceremonial words pursed lips expel
A deer thought escapes ... my life nears its end!
And I feel...
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Categories:
strokes, dark, death, horror, imagery, spiritual,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Love of Our LifeLOVE Of Our Life
Life’s journey swim links 2 defined moments - birth & death.
To survive its stretch we swim different strokes,
Delivered inner strength combats heavy tides & puncture pokes,
Hidden forces compatibly energize different folks,
Fortifying for...
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Categories:
strokes, desire, emotions, god, love, perspective, relationship, wisdom,
Form:
Tail-rhyme
Someone To Love-Part 1Book in hand, I strode the path
in awesome Autumn splendor.
The warmth of the sun caressing my cheek,
while the cool breeze gently tickled
goose bumps across my warm skin.
All around me the crepe paper litter
piled brilliance...
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Categories:
strokes, loss, love, love hurts,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Breath, In Blue
Now watch this video: Planet Earth: Blue Planet II
https://youtu.be/2f9SItUEtJ8
"Breath, in Blue"
Bluebottles broken scattered
shattered legions on the beach of my heart
my blue planet lungs rattle
my breath battered in the honeycomb maze
vanished all my bees belittled forgotten...
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Categories:
strokes, animal, bird, earth, fish, god, humanity, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
Genius of Dawn's Rising
In the blinded moments,
Before the mist rises over the tumbling surf…
Blueness tempting awake my dreams,
A heartbeat from the flaming blaze,
Sunshine pouring through the clusters of
Feathery clouds, like the breath of peace
Aroused from the falling...
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Categories:
strokes, appreciation, beautiful, blessing, imagery, nature, ocean, sea,
Form:
Free verse
The Tear
“The Tear”
How many oceans of salt
does it take to form a tear?
Unrelenting waves of sorrow
pounding a broken heart
hears the howl of sharp beaked foolish flying monkeys
ignorant feeding frenzies swallow whole lost families
swept...
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Categories:
strokes, dark, muse, psychological, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
She - Epitome of Erotic LoveAn Ode to Femininity and Romance -
The background music of this delicate poetic arrangement is intended to be played softly as you sit back and reminisce on romantic memories while creating new ones - Perhaps...
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Categories:
strokes, love, romantic, sensual, sexy, tribute,
Form:
Rhyme
The HookerIt was in the mists of morning, beneath the rising morning sun,
We had come to conquer Ft. Langley, It was me and Al and John.
We had all teed off quite nicely, on number one I...
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Categories:
strokes, fun, golf, humor, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
One Most Dramatic Change In My Life(A recent virtual chat with thine youngest daughter
awakened poignant memories adjusting to
fatherhood for first time).
December 22nd 1996 Bundle of Edenic Joy
Twenty one plus years ago
faux...
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Categories:
strokes, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, baby,
Form:
Dramatic Verse