Long Suits Poems
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FlintFlint
Within its brilliance gleaming
Cool black in lacquered polished silver chrome
Cranked up pistons bleached in summer’s heat
Hot steam rising as gears thundering
Beyond the crystal liquid city lights
Highways built across the land
In hearts felt pride American...
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Categories:
suits,
Form:
Abecedarian
Rum N Raisin 3 - the Cat Who Fell To EarthRaisin liked to make her bed upon a shelf up high
She said she likes the feeling that she’s almost in the sky
One day she fell and bonked her head and Rum could only stare
And wondered...
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Categories:
suits, cat, fantasy, nursery rhyme,
Form:
Narrative
Charles D'Orleans: a Medieval MarvelCharles d'Orleans: a Medieval Marvel
Spring
by Charles d’Orleans (c. 1394-1465)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Young lovers,
greeting the spring
fling themselves downhill,
making cobblestones ring
with their wild leaps and arcs,
like ecstatic sparks
struck from coal.
What is their brazen goal?
They grab...
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Categories:
suits, art, autumn, french, prison, spring, summer, winter,
Form:
Roundel
Medieval PoemsMedieval Poems
How Long the Night
anonymous Middle English lyric, circa early 13th century AD
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
It is pleasant, indeed, while the summer lasts
with the mild pheasants' song ...
but now I feel the northern...
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Categories:
suits, allegory, bible, christian, england, london, nostalgia, poetry,
Form:
Verse
Charles D'Orleans TranslationsSpring
by Charles d'Orleans (c.1394-1465)
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
Young lovers,
greeting the spring
fling themselves downhill,
making cobblestones ring
with their wild leaps and arcs,
like ecstatic sparks
struck from coal.
What is their brazen goal?
They grab at whatever passes,
so we can...
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Categories:
suits, bereavement, depression, desire, heartbreak, heaven, romance,
Form:
Roundel
Ante Bellum
“ANTE BELLUM”
BEIGEBest served where it can’t be seen
On Stirling Silver platters
With redruM narcotics
Delivered by sharp Blood-Red
Well-mannered talons
Strutting in sleek wet rolling tight-skirted
Long French Silk Stockinged legs all the way down to
Lethal Six Inch stilettos...
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Categories:
suits, america, bible, corruption, imagery, war,
Form:
Free verse
Rondels, Roundels and RondeauxRondels, Roundels and Rondeaux
These are poetic forms similar to villanelles, with refrains (repeated lines) and sometimes double refrains.
Rondel: Merciles Beaute ("Merciless Beauty")
by Geoffrey Chaucer
loose translation/interpretation Michael R. Burch
Your eyes slay me suddenly;
their beauty I cannot...
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Categories:
suits, art, beauty, heart, repetition, romance, romantic, romantic
Form:
Roundel
OasisOasis
by Michael R. Burch
for Beth
I want tears to form again
in the shriveled glands of these eyes
dried all these long years
by too much heated knowing.
I want tears to course down
these parched cheeks,...
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Categories:
suits, marriage,
Form:
Verse
Oft In My Thought: Charles D'Orleans TranslationOft in My Thought
by Charles D'Orleans
translation by Michael R. Burch
So often in my busy mind I sought,
Around the advent of the fledgling year,
For something pretty that I really ought
To give my lady dear;
But that sweet...
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Categories:
suits, blessing, christian, faith, god, heartbreak, heaven, lost
Form:
Roundel
Sophisticated Lady - Small Town Girl - Both Audio and Text Versions“Sophisticated lady” gropes the table at her bedside, blindly taking random swipes to kill the morning scream
That shatters little privacies she shares with no one else, and steals, with full impunity, her one recurring...
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Categories:
suits, sorrow,
Form:
Narrative
Sophisticated Lady, Small Town Girl“Sophisticated lady” gropes the table at her bedside, blindly taking random swipes to kill the morning scream
That shatters little privacies she shares with no one else, and steals, with full impunity, her one recurring...
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Categories:
suits, loneliness, sorry,
Form:
Rhyme
An Epistolary Essay In Forewarning of Melancholia--Part I(Somewhere in late 18th-century Europe a friend, Laetitia, by way of a letter warns her beloved girlfriend, Euphoria--a young, gay and unsuspecting mistress--against the almost inevitable seductions of the infamous and maundering philanderer, Melancholia.).
Dear Euphoria,
...
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Categories:
suits, depression, friend, metaphor, philosophy, psychological, uplifting, wisdom,
Form:
Prose
Home Sweet Hell"That also has a steep drop off the far side of Home Sweet Hell" said my soulless guide as he pointed in the direction of the nearby screams.
I could see what resembled silhouettes or...
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Categories:
suits, anxiety, death, future, life, scary,
Form:
Free verse
My Corporate Life and How It All EndedI met with some bankers in fine textured suits.
I struck a deal quick. (I had such a knack.)
I offered rare cacti and tropical fruits –
a cure-all for things that ail your back.
I served 'em...
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Categories:
suits, business, humor, humorous, money, political, satire,
Form:
Couplet
Truth Is All An Act In Government ExposedOne small little country which houses
one of the highest paid governments
in this modern world joke ran upside down
A big part of our life existing reality
when the backbone is gone snakes appear with...
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Categories:
suits, betrayal, ireland, political, rights, society, truth,
Form:
Political Verse
Classified Part FourI was hungry and headed to one of the tents that had been set up as a field kitchen and noticed Tim who came over to talk to me , he said that he was...
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Categories:
suits, science fiction,
Form:
Prose
Classified Part ThreeThe photograph that Tim had shown me a few hours earlier certainly did not do it justice.
From what I could see it was a large triangular shape on three legs which were all at a...
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Categories:
suits, science fiction,
Form:
Prose
Candy Girl - 2
"Candy Girl" - 2
He had been watching her from the far end of the Ice Bar, where he was sitting propped up on an ice ledge which was cushioned in plush Reindeer hide and Yak...
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Categories:
suits, adventure, muse, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
Mom's Old Photos - 2nd Half 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:
suits, memory, mom,
Form:
Narrative
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 8He awoke to the sound of lightly crunching ice. As he opened his eyes the boy stood looking at him, then with one fluid motion he stepped forward and stretched out his hand,
...
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Categories:
suits, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Hold the PhoneHold the phone, hold the freakin’ phone. Lisa’s got a boyfriend!
I’ve never seen Lisa with a boyfriend. Lisa draws men like fireworks on a dark night, but I’ve never seen her keep one. I mean,...
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Categories:
suits, boyfriend, fashion, humor, money, student,
Form:
Free verse
Traditional Solitaire potential combinationsTraditional Solitaire potential combinations...
that clenched another win today
February 20th, 2024
(eight hundred and ninety yesterdays ago
since June 13th, 2021)
original crafting date of following poem,
when yours truly
single handedly trumped computer,
for umpteenth time,
which saw...
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Categories:
suits, 12th grade, 8th grade, adventure, age, appreciation,
Form:
Free verse
The Reptilian Anthropocene
"The Reptilian Anthropocene"
The Reptilians
war daily
enrobed in their
stiff distinction suits
rainbow coloured badges
pinned to their lapels
they beat their breasts
and oily palms
profiting from all
the soft-boiled
foxes on the run
cerebral cortex bound
thinking they are free-willed
and...
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Categories:
suits, horror, humanity, war,
Form:
Free verse
Harmless FoeWhite old men are kind
White old men are divine
White old men are my brothers
White old men are inviting me to supper
White old men are my dream
White old men are very clean
White old men want to...
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Categories:
suits, betrayal, bullying, community, confidence, conflict, confusion, discrimination,
Form:
Free verse
Traditional Solitaire Potential CombinationsTraditional Solitaire potential combinations...
that clenched another win (yahoo)
jimmied today August 15th, 2022 single handedly
just before the crack of dawn
with both hands tied behind my back,
and a blindfold worn over my eyes.
While in the midst of...
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Categories:
suits, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure, birth, computer,
Form:
Free verse