Long Subtle Poems
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Mad Molly ShawThis is the story of mad Molly Shaw
She might be mad now but she wasn’t before
she came home to find her man dead on the floor
She lay down her bible and let out a roar...
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Categories:
subtle, western,
Form:
Rhyme
Fairer, IndeedWOMEN ...
Truly amaze me ... they possess the super-human
strength to birth a child - one of the most painful
and demanding physical and emotional feats of end-
urance known to our species - yet they have the
self-confidence...
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Categories:
subtle, appreciation, humanity, love, wisdom, woman, women,
Form:
Free verse
WonderlandWonderland
by Michael R. Burch
We stood, kids of the Lamb, to put to test
the beatific anthems of the blessed,
the sentence of the martyr, and the pen’s
sincere religion. Magnified, the lens
shot back absurd reflections of each...
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Categories:
subtle, allegory, allusion, analogy, crazy, fantasy, imagination, magic,
Form:
Sonnet
Pequot River Land TrustOnce,
or twice,
maybe thrice,
surely not
not fractal
A clan of crazy ecofeminists
conspired within an 88 unit residential castle
in their historically converted
sometimes hysterically clueless condo
colonial-red predative brick
badly bald aging building
With a sometimes soggy south walled school,
but...
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Categories:
subtle, blue, culture, environment, green, health, humor, math,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Fate decreed sexting or texting while married abominableFate decreed sexting/texting while married abominable
Therefore karma caught up to me big time
and delivered yours truly sent to purgatory
(figurative speaking) by casting a spell,
whereby the government issued Safelink
Tracfone got permanently disabled
and all the data
(including contact...
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Categories:
subtle, adventure, animal, anxiety, appreciation, black love, dream,
Form:
Rhyme
Warrior
“Warrior”
When the Argonauts, came across
the abandoned Starship, they
found within the wrecked
command console, a DNA code
with encrypted message.
It took several attempts to
reactivate, but when opened,
the following was translated: ...
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Categories:
subtle, humanity, muse, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
Factoidman and Shallowman - Part 2[Now ShallowMan is quite content
receiving FactoidMan’s consent
to quibble and express dissent
as long as keeping covenant
with fingers crossed and belfry bent
when viewing Facts in sealed cement:]
SM
“The Facts you give me circumvent
those ‘truths’ your chuckles supplement;
although they...
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Categories:
subtle, society, truth, universe,
Form:
Rhyme
Dillen's Continuing Dmv AdventuresI wrote a sad but true urban legend called “Dillen and the DMV” last week.
Here follows an update.
Background Review:
One of my health care employees, Dillen, has wicked ADD, borderline intelligence, not qualifying for disability supports,...
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Categories:
subtle, betrayal, culture, health, humanity, language, political, race,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Poems About Fathers and Grandfathers IiPoems about Fathers and Grandfathers II
All Things Galore
by Michael R. Burch
for my grandfathers George Edwin Hurt Sr. and Paul Ray Burch, Sr.
Grandfather,
now in your gray presence
you are
somehow more near
and remind me that,
once, upon a star,
you...
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Categories:
subtle, family, father, father daughter, father son, fathers
Form:
Rhyme
My Spirit AnimalThe soul of the earth is wrapped up inside
And the spirit of God is walking beside me
The universe rests upon my shoulder
And I can feel its power moving all over
embracing the soul of man
And causing...
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Categories:
subtle, 8th grade, blessing, character, encouraging, environment, faith,
Form:
Narrative
Harriet Harris, Nee Kuritsky Gave Up the GhostHarriet Harris, née Kuritsky gave up the ghost...
~ May fourth, 2005
wedded bliss nearly fifty years
half a century almost
me not most favorite grown offspring,
she (when alive) did boast,
about youngest sister and her family,
unlike me – severely...
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Categories:
subtle, absence, abuse, anger, appreciation, bereavement, cry, dance,
Form:
Free verse
Beary Tales Episodes 15-24, More Poet's NotesNote to Readers of Previous Versions:
There are so many new vignettes scattered throughout the poem that I hope you will reread the whole thing! There are many new GEMS, improvements to previous verses and improved...
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Categories:
subtle, adventure, beauty, friendship, innocence, love, mentor,
Form:
Quatrain
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:
subtle, hope,
Form:
Rhyme
InsecurityA shameful secret that everyone hides behind their fake facades, when we should be honored to wear them and show them off
Why do we hide who we truly are from the strangers that we meet?...
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Categories:
subtle, abuse,
Form:
Rhyme
The Twins, Part 1In the dark of night a wind took hold,
With powers charged to shake the sky,
By moody swings of gods up high,
Their breath alone enraged and bold.
In the dark of night history spoke,
Of a world alive...
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Categories:
subtle, brother, philosophy, symbolism, visionary, , cute,
Form:
Prose
MY Collaboration with Actor, Singer: Ricky Nelson in the Mid Winter of ''80: PART IMY Collaboration with Ricky Nelson in the Last Days of 1980
The eventful news of that day about what was found on board that crashed plane, won't replace that particular memory of Mr. Rick Nelson's hearty...
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Categories:
subtle, appreciation, celebrity, girlfriend, imagery, lost, peace, wife,
Form:
Narrative
RetributionIn sandy Egypt lived three men
In ancient days when pharaohs reigned
The kingdom of the pyramids,
Osiris and that Isis’ den,
Whom everyone worships and heeds,
Or at least doing so they feigned,
And those gods too blessed them and...
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Categories:
subtle, sin,
Form:
Rhyme
Selected Lyrics From the Imaginary Invalid After graduating from UF, in the early '80s I wrote the book, lyrics and score for a musical adaptation of Moliere's farce Le Malade Imaginaire ("The Imaginary Invalid") and have decided to post five...
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Categories:
subtle, funny, humorous, parody, satire,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Agenda"Again... I apologize but threefold times ...
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Categories:
subtle, america,
Form:
Political Verse
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 25
Erlenkönig also pushed forward the idea of the Council of Six.
Which was a wonderful idea in theory. The council eventually became the
most powerful force in the Elfin Clans, one representative from each of...
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Categories:
subtle, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Unquotable Quotes: L 50 - Tongue-Teasing EpigramsUNQUOTABLE QUOTES: L (50) - Tongue-Teasers
The « early bird catches the worm » only because the worm has not woken up yet.
« I don’t love you ! I hated your father ! » - must...
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Categories:
subtle, art, humor, irony, women, word play,
Form:
Epigram
How Huxley Sees the World
"How Huxley Sees the World"
He composes his world -
dream extractions
simulated from
the surreal reality of man
colour cognitive from the dead moments
we phantomise to life in sleep
electric light colour bursts forth
from a perspective unique
a hare...
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Categories:
subtle, art, future, humanity,
Form:
Free verse
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 20
After Bréagán left the courtyard Erlenkönig began his own preparations for the upcoming fight. He did not have time to think of the elf's self apprehension. He knew that because of the chiding...
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Categories:
subtle, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
The Mask of TourmalineTwice the night had fallen upon a sleepless slumber,
Yet again awoken by winter when the third was three in number.
I sense that a silence doth sneak ‘tween cracks of weathered wood,
Conniving with that which shadows...
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Categories:
subtle, anxiety, horror, imagination, mystery, myth, night, psychological,
Form:
Couplet
A Harvest Quartet of Subtle HarmonicsSpring's Excitement
There are rhythms of Nature that no one controls
that farms use to advantage! Time's fishermen sailed
both with tides and fair breezes offshore in their boats
at each dawn and dusk's onshore brought home each day's...
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Categories:
subtle, farm, love, science, seasons,
Form:
Rhyme