Long Swallowing Poems
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Open Oceans
"Open Oceans"
Kneeling on pearls
wisdom preys
praying
preying
hungry hearts
count the days
wasting away
in all that preying
for prayers
to be answered
children become
strangers
reading
strange words
finding
themselves puzzled
genuflecting to a deity
they do not know, nor wish to
fumbling
mouths closed,
swallowed hole
in the...
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Categories:
swallowing, journey, love, mother daughter,
Form:
Epic
The Payload
"The Payload"
The payload
came crashing down
like rain expelled
from the fat belly
of a ruinous pregnant cloud
bilious with buxom promise
it came crashing down
like school fish released
from the tight confines
of a course rope...
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Categories:
swallowing, fantasy, muse, mystery, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
Peace In the Nowhere
"Peace in the Nowhere"
Ghosts remain in this place
they read their words
marked each day on walls
like prayers, it gives them
peace in the nowhere
someplace relevant to go
Ghosts commune in this place
disowned long ago or walked
off the...
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Categories:
swallowing, muse, poems, poets,
Form:
Narrative
Why LifeWhy does dawn dress robust morning,
while dusk undresses sight?
Each dawn incarnates another Earth Day
a lifetime of Easter mornings
redeeming nocturnal sight's revolution,
another therapeutic day of gift-it-forward light,
some longer,
some shorter
before naked covered night.
Why life?
To uncover...
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Categories:
swallowing, adventure, earth, earth day, farm, love, peace,
Form:
Free verse
Rilke Translations IiCome, You
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
This was Rilke’s last poem, written ten days before his death. He died open-eyed in the arms of his doctor on December 29, 1926, in the...
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Categories:
swallowing, tribute,
Form:
Verse
Archaic Torso of Apollo: Rilke TranslationArchaic Torso of Apollo
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
We cannot know the beheaded god
nor his eyes' forfeited visions. But still
the figure's trunk glows with the strange vitality
of a lamp lit from within,...
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Categories:
swallowing, art, body, god, life, light, poetry, writing,
Form:
Sonnet
Rainer Maria Rilke Translation: the PantherThe Panther
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
His weary vision's so overwhelmed by iron bars,
his exhausted eyes see only blank Oblivion.
His world is not our world. It has no stars.
No light. Ten thousand...
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Categories:
swallowing, allegory, analogy, animal, cat, extended metaphor, freedom,
Form:
Sonnet
Anticipation of RealitySo cramped ...
Strain to move,
Flex and budge in tiny increments ...
That's the limit.
Constantly testing, trying,
Pushing, pressing ...
Constrict, exert, constrict, struggle,
Spin slowly, push ...
That's it. That's all.
Nothing more.
But it helps ... relief,
A body sigh ...
But only...
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Categories:
swallowing, birth, mystery,
Form:
Free verse
Halloween Night In the Apple OrchardYoung Timmy saw Jim walking down the street. Timmy considered a quick retreat, but steadied himself with a shrug. Timmy dreaded the sight of Jim, a teenage bully and wanna be thug, who...
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Categories:
swallowing, children, fear, scary,
Form:
Narrative
Rainer Maria Rilke: First Elegy TranslationThis is my translation of the first of Rilke’s Duino Elegies. Rilke began the first Duino Elegy in 1912, as a guest of Princess Marie von Thurn und Taxis, at Duino Castle, near Trieste on...
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Categories:
swallowing, angel, beauty, desire, metaphor, universe, visionary, voice,
Form:
Free verse
The Crow Bar
"The Crow Bar"
she said,
here I bury my dead,
you can hear them sleeping
somnulent forget-me-nots,
snoring blithely unaware,
in neat rows between
the thick,
ink injected lines,
their soiled lives
ploughed and
turned over
replanted
sunnyside down
expunged and
wrung out
eventually,
not totally oblivious,
they...
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Categories:
swallowing, love, muse, satire,
Form:
Narrative
Monsters In My Head
"Monsters in My Head"
the small gods
inside of us
worry too much
they speak in tongues
that never know the
depth of what is real or not
for tongues
they never think
they just have a taste for blood
trading gossip...
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Categories:
swallowing, dark, i am, light, war,
Form:
Narrative
I Knew Anne Silently - My Ravenous Poe**Trigger Warning**
"I Knew Anne Silently - My Ravenous Poe"
I knew Anne.
you’d think
with a name like hers
she’d be able to find her way
out of unchartered waters.
it didn’t come as a suprise,
then, on...
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Categories:
swallowing, dark, love, poets,
Form:
Narrative
Beloved Green CommonsWhat purpose do I choose to live;
remaining aloof from evil practice and intent?
What meaning can we find to live,
reversing "evil"
that could transcend our individual absence of identity?
Original Intent uncovers love-life's revolutionary invitation
into mutual belonging.
What is...
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Categories:
swallowing, anger, creation, evil, fear, humor, love, peace,
Form:
Free verse
Friday May 13th 2022Friday May 13th, 2022
An excerpt taken from a lengthy tome,
written courtesy a favorite poet of mine.
Paraskevidekatriaphobia struck within a blink,
I swear yours truly never took a drink,
nevertheless he witnessed
and falsely accused of being a...
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Categories:
swallowing, atheist, dark, destiny, gothic, history, husband, may,
Form:
Free verse
Matty Mattel Doll Circa Mcmlxv(alternately titled: idolizing childhood's end
today April 25th, 2021
generates elusive warm treasured memories).
Akin to significance my eldest sister
felt toward her “Willies” –
(totally tubular fuzzy bendable contrivances
analogous to an outsize pipe cleaner)
until she became a tweener
my Matty...
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Categories:
swallowing, 1st grade, age, best friend, childhood, dedication,
Form:
Rhyme
Teachers Conference the FBI and meThere was no easy day going under cover
with four kids riding along with the FBI supervisor
I was just a young mother of four actually expecting
again seven months pregnant the FBI installed wires...
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Categories:
swallowing, art, beautiful, caregiving, chicago, feelings, journey, school,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Small Mutinies
"Small Mutinies"
So what if my point of view
is not that which wraps
you in comfortably warm
fluffed-up silky
cashmere blankets
of insecure insincerity
simple scribbles
bleating from the
chirping crickets
and frog croaking
symphonies
muddying waters
cutting pristine lines...
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Categories:
swallowing, halloween, muse, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
Supper At the CausewayEast west north or south which way should I go?
East West north or south, I just want to sing and shout
We have just had a nice little shower,
To cool down the boiling temperature,
but it...
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Categories:
swallowing, appreciation, business, fish, food, good friday, ocean,
Form:
Narrative
Richard Mcgeehan PoemRichard Mcgeehan Poem
Poetic license I employ
to match inventive
wisdom and witticism
regarding (brother in law of mine
husband of eldest sister of same)
interspersing, initiating, incorporating
fabrication whenever possible,
and only the subject himself
can discern fact from fiction
and get a...
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Categories:
swallowing, adventure, age, anniversary, appreciation, birthday, celebration, confidence,
Form:
Free verse
The Monochrome Echo Chamber
"The Monochrome Echo Chamber"
How many Roads
to "IT"
Black
as Black & White?
or Unicorns and Rainbows?
Unitarian 1 and only 1
Trinitarian 3 exist in 1
An answer
arrives
unheralded
Reversed in Time
Something
has lit the fuse
Something...
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Categories:
swallowing, color, dark, humanity, i am, light, science,
Form:
Narrative
Paper Tigers
"Paper Tigers"
eyes mark slow time
spotting leopard rhyme
never changing its spots
black balled
white pops
the want-to-be bees
sting the dripping honey spot
slapping cards down
kitty pots are shuffled
bluffing intelligentsia
between the gaps
flatulent poets floss their teeth
waxing lyrical strings
tied to the weary...
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Categories:
swallowing, dark, muse, poets,
Form:
Free verse
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 68Joulupukki knocked on the door before entering the room. In the center of one wall was a bed that was large enough for two humans to fit in comfortably. The young elf lying...
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Categories:
swallowing, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Catch of the Dayby sun-kissed shoreline
patiently I cast my line
waiting for a catch
Fishing was my family’s go-to, inexpensive recreational sport. Many weekends were spent at the lake checking trout lines for fish or standing on the...
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Categories:
swallowing, fish, fishing,
Form:
Prose
Re: viewing the emotionally prosperous papa razz zee life I did not liveRe: viewing the emotionally prosperous papa razz zee life I did not live
The following poetic account
written more'n a dozen
dirty dancing decades ago,
while I (a socially
withdrawn Homo Sapiens)
one indigent Yahoo
groveled...
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Categories:
swallowing, abuse, america, angst, bereavement, children, confusion, daughter,
Form:
Rhyme