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Free Verse Ii
Nucleotidings
by Michael R. Burch
“We will walk taller!” said Gupta,
sorta abrupta,
hand-in-hand with his mom,
eyeing the A-bomb.
“Who needs a mahatma
in the aftermath of NAFTA?
Now, that was a disaster,”
cried glib Punjab.
“After Y2k,
time will spin out of control anyway,”
flamed...
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Categories:
sworn, angel, child, childhood, children, family, time, world,
Form:
Free verse
Arthurian Poems
At Tintagel
by Michael R. Burch
That night,
at Tintagel,
there was darkness such as man had never seen...
darkness and treachery,
and the unholy thundering of the sea...
In his arms,
who is to say how much she...
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Categories:
sworn, england, romance, romantic, true love, violence, visionary,
Form:
Verse
Rejection Slips 1
Rejection Slips
With over 5,700 publications if I count poems that have gone viral, I suppose I shouldn’t complain … but I do have some poems that have never been accepted for publication. Here are a...
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Categories:
sworn, day, love, memory, night, rose, seasons, winter,
Form:
Rhyme
Celena, Brave Celena- Part 1
From Judges 11.
Pronunciation: Seh-LAY-nah
His brothers cast the young man out, the child of an harlot;
He fled away to distant Tob before they found an outlet
For anger, more than what they'd done, to fully disinherit
And drive...
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Categories:
sworn, assonance, bible, christian, dance, goodbye,
Form:
Narrative
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 42
Rian sat puzzling in his suite in the Keep. His thoughts in disarray, jumping from one concern to another without any logical order. He sat before a desk that once was...
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Categories:
sworn, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 77
“Who...what are you?” His gaze moved from Joulupukki to Lumi. Lumi offered,
“I am an elf of the Village Clan, and this is my companion Joulupukki.”
...
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Categories:
sworn, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
The Pictish Faeries
The Pictish Faeries
by Michael R. Burch
Smaller and darker
than their closest kin,
the faeries learned only too well
never to dwell
close to the villages of larger men.
Only to dance in the starlight
when the moon was full
and men...
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Categories:
sworn, fairy,
Form:
Verse
The Dance of Salome
The Dance of Salome
Herod bellowed out the night's festive orders..
"Bring the torches, bring the tables..
more wine, that we may rejoice,
for tonight we revel in kindred friendship."
Herod strolled onto the terrace, nearly stumbled in...
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Categories:
sworn, dance, daughter, moon, mother daughter, night, sin,
Form:
Narrative
Categories:
sworn, betrayal, god, racism, religion,
Form:
Free verse
Random Acts of Karma
The mute old drunk had gotten lucky the day before - a stranger had taken pity on him at the bridge, (under which he and many other homeless people lived), and stopped to give him...
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Categories:
sworn, grandchild, hope, humanity, inspirational, uplifting,
Form:
Free verse
King of the Castle
The King of the Castle
Said I’m but a child
Afraid of the world outside
Afraid to run wild and to be proud
Of the freedom it provides
Afraid of love
Afraid of the dark
Said you...
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Categories:
sworn, betrayal, corruption, depression, evil, lost, memory, mental
Form:
Narrative
Friends
THE FRIENDS
They were the best of friends to the best of friendship
They did everything together to the best of friendship
The three wise men that came together from different locations
One from the north, one from the...
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Categories:
sworn, best friend, betrayal, desire, lost love, lust,
Form:
Classicism
Young Brilliant Poet That Left Us Far, Far Too Soon Second Poet In Dedication Series
Note:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Born 4 August 1792
Horsham, Sussex, England[1]
Died , 8 July 1822 (aged 29)
Gulf of La Spezia, Kingdom of Sardinia (now Italy)
Occupation Poet, dramatist, essayist, novelist
Alma mater University College, Oxford (no degree)
Literary movement Romanticism
Spouse Harriet Westbrook
(m. 1811;...
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Categories:
sworn, appreciation, art, assonance, beautiful, blessing, encouraging, poets,
Form:
Rhyme
My Pentagram Poppet Pt 2
Almost a month now and the emotions honeymoon-surfaced fast
Plagued by the invasive thoughts of which one of us will prove to last
Anxiously waiting to see if our Jenga game will wobble, fall and crash
We're each...
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Categories:
sworn, girlfriend, women,
Form:
Rhyme
Chapter 91-- Damian Delilah Mallory: Changes
Date: April 2041
It's been one week now. There
Was no sign of the Black China
Men. The other Hakim family
Members decided to take residence
Closer to the foundational family.
Which was Greatgrand and
Carter Hakim...
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Categories:
sworn, africa, black love, books, death, Lullaby,
Form:
Alliteration
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 41
Several days passed as DynDoeth awaited a response from Seileach concerning his request for a private audience. He checked and re-checked the argument that he would make to have the throne replaced back into...
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Categories:
sworn, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Jane Eyre Crown
This is a Crown of Sonnets I wrote about one of my favorite books and movies (the version in 1943 with Liz Taylor, who was only 11 had a small role, Joan Fontaine and Orson...
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Categories:
sworn, life,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
My jubilant latent, nascent poetic tribute to black history month
My jubilant latent, nascent poetic tribute to black history month
Which acknowledgement ought to be year round,
similar to altruistic, humanistic, and philanthropic
unconditional acceptance and respect
crafted with the following words
mostly written January 23rd, 2023,
cuz I, (a...
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Categories:
sworn, abuse, africa, age, america, anger, betrayal, black
Form:
Free verse
The Miles of Smiles
If I can walk ten thousand miles
Just to see your sunlit smiles,
I’d die ten thousand more times
Maybe, a billion times per chime; this time, I’ve committed love crimes
If I can walk infinity times infinity,
Would I...
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Categories:
sworn, angst, anxiety, appreciation,
Form:
Free verse
Scare Me Good Poetry Contest
I crept into the pit of hell all alone. Contingent upon my lifestyle I knew this could be my last day alive…
She haunted me in my dreams. She terrorized me in the sunlight but through...
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Categories:
sworn, dark, deep, fear, scary,
Form:
Narrative
Nascent Poetic Tribute To Black History Month
Nascent poetic tribute to black history month...
crafted before onset when people of color
got acknowledged for twenty eight or nine days
depending if leap year occurred.
Though I yam Caucasian,
rightful to honor most bitter
racist genocidal...
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Categories:
sworn, abuse, dream, evil, february, grave, hate, history,
Form:
Rhyme
Invisibly tortured courtesy existential nihilism
Invisibly tortured courtesy existential nihilism
Psyche wracked with agony
impossible mission to extricate lovely bones
they wanna remain permanently abed.
I chiefly function to amass knowledge
courtesy assiduously, habitually,
and judiciously reading
an eclectic assortment of written material.
Yours truly woke
with ambition, disposition,
inclination,...
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Categories:
sworn, 6th grade, 7th grade, absence, age, angst,
Form:
Rhyme
And Still I Drive - Part Two
Stars fall under failing skies...stars fall...stars fall...
But stars do not cry.
Into Ochs valley, through the Vale of White Horse...prancing
besides a Dragons Hill;
It was here that a Roundhead - did a Royalist Cavaliers blood in...
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Categories:
sworn, travel,
Form:
Rhyme
Torn Apart
A piece of me has been torn apart
All of you have broken my heart
The tears are still coming and going
And I can still feel my heart burning
I know that this was coming
But I pretended and...
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Categories:
sworn, appreciation, boat, break up, loneliness, love, love
Form:
Narrative
Ah Satisfactorily Succumbing Into Salubrious Sleep
Ah...Satisfactorily Succumbing Into Salubrious Sleep
Aye sandman, I surrender to yar supreme governance
surreal spectacular soiree gifts subconscious sphere
soothing (analogous to natural palliative), ah...REM
member nought, asper exquisite entertaining cerebral
kaleidoscope replete with nonpareil visual trappings
aesthetically tantalizing unforgettable..., but...
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Categories:
sworn, 12th grade, adventure, appreciation, celebration, dance, devotion,
Form:
Free verse