Long Syracuse Poems
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After drenching biblical rainfall
After drenching biblical rainfall...
verdant green acres covered the planet of the apes
like a petticoat junction
donning barrel of skinny dipping monkeys.
Once drought stricken vast landscape
far as the eye could see
suddenly flush with promise
of budding new shoots
and...
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Categories:
syracuse, adventure, africa, august, earth, environment, history, humorous,
Form:
Free verse
Unquotable Quotes: Xlvii - Tongue-Twisting Epigrams
UNQUOTABLE QUOTES: XLVII - Tongue Twisters
If you want to « have » your cake and « eat » it at one and the same time, simple enough, just split it into two equal parts like...
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Categories:
syracuse, england, humor, satire, sensual,
Form:
Epigram
Unappealing
I invite you on the show to tell me which way to go, I invite you on the show, to give constructive advice but you start to demoralize and we don’t need a Syracuse skeptic...
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Categories:
syracuse, clothes, courage, culture, environment, identity, image, moving
Form:
Free verse
NOSSIS ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS
NOSSIS
There is nothing sweeter than love.
All other delights are secondary.
Thus, I spit out even honey.
This is what Gnossis says:
Whomever Aphrodite does not love,
Is bereft of her roses.
—Nossis translation by Michael R. Burch
Most reverend Hera, the...
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Categories:
syracuse, beautiful, body, dance, heaven, love, rose, words,
Form:
Epigram
Ancient Greek Epigrams Iii
Ancient Greek and Roman Epigrams
That country wench bewitches your heart?
Hell, her most beguiling art’s
hiking her dress
to seduce you with her ankles' nakedness!
Sappho, fragment 57, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Stranger, rest your weary legs beneath...
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Categories:
syracuse, bereavement, death of a friend, eulogy, funeral,
Form:
Epigram
Bleeding Before Rome -1
The bombers began to bleed
their heavy tears of death
from 20,000 feet above the breathless battlefield,
B-17 Flying Fortress formations
moving with apocalyptic aplomb
the shadows of high metal crosses by the hundreds
rippling along the rugged roman earth
bringing...
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Categories:
syracuse, culture, heart, war, world war ii,
Form:
Epic
Hymn To Aphrodite
Hymn to Aphrodite
by Sappho
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Immortal Aphrodite, throned in splendor!
Wile-weaving daughter of Zeus, enchantress and beguiler!
I implore you, dread mistress, discipline me no longer
with such vigor!
But come to me once again in...
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Categories:
syracuse, crush, desire, girlfriend, god, grief, heaven, women,
Form:
Sapphic stanza
Archimedes - the First Pioneering Streaker of History !
Friends , I present to you a slice of History about the ancient Greek scientist and
mathematician Archimedes , who ran naked across the street
of Syracuse , in his birthday suit, after he discovered the...
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Categories:
syracuse, historylost, birthday, history, lost,
Form:
Narrative
Ancient Greek Epigrams Ii
Ancient Greek and Roman Epigrams
Stranger, rest your weary legs beneath the elms;
hear how coolly the breeze murmurs through their branches;
then take a bracing draught from the mountain-fed fountain;
for this is welcome shade from the burning...
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Categories:
syracuse, bereavement, death, death of a friend, eulogy,
Form:
Epigram
A Sad Story Told From a Battlefield
He didn’t have a native land,
therefore, he had no reminiscences of any sort,
neither good nor ill, other than reckless killing
at the battlefield where he was compulsorily taken into
and deployed to fight unwanted...
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Categories:
syracuse, dark, death, lonely, myth, pain, war,
Form:
Free verse
Turkish Holiday Humour Or Turk Tatil Mizah
TURK TATIL MIZAH
FOREST GUMP
Did you hear about old Forest Gump
Went up to do a parachute jump
Gave the rip cord a jerk
Found out it didn't work
Hit the ground with one hell of a thump...
JED
In the...
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Categories:
syracuse, humor,
Form:
Limerick
Gun Violence Blues - Corrected
GUN VIOLENCE BLUES - corrected
They built a gun-violence memorial
in a god-forsaken corner of my
struggling city
A collaborative effort of a few academics,
a handful of neighbors, a preacher or two,
and some interested parties...
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Categories:
syracuse, community, conflict,
Form:
Free verse
Gu Violence Blues
GUN VIOLENCE BLUES
They built a gun-violence memorial
in a god-forsaken corner of my
struggling city
A collaborative effort of a few academics,
a handful of neighbors, a preacher or two,
and some interested parties with a...
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Categories:
syracuse, community, conflict,
Form:
Free verse
Taking the Oath
TAKING THE OATH
For those who are born again through the Oath of Citizenship
at the Onondaga County Courthouse, Syracuse, New York!
The morning prayers over
the neighbor’s car cold, the ride
to the court house quiet as...
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Categories:
syracuse, immigration,
Form:
Free verse
This Is Part of My Story
On a snowy Sunday night in the City of Syracuse, NY, as I sit at my computer and write part of my story from the past.
The weather is very cold outside and I am snuggled...
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Categories:
syracuse, africa, age, black african american, blessing, child,
Form:
Narrative
The Fiddler
She was raised on the shorelines of Lake Wawasee
her mother a full-blooded Miami
and her father now buried on Syracuse Hill
said she will have his eyes.
She’ll always remember the day that he died
with fading...
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Categories:
syracuse, dedication, father, father daughter, tribute,
Form:
Ballad
This Kind of Stuff We Just Can'T Excuse
I loosen my belt and remove my shoes
So, dear, what's going on in the news
They blocked the streets; tore down statues
No surprise there; of what were they accused
The protestors,...
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Categories:
syracuse, america, satire, violence, women,
Form:
Monorhyme
At the Window
AT THE WINDOW
She had cut her hair
and wondered if he liked it
“Not a problem” he said
acutely aware of her perpetual
pattern of cyclical change
She was a Cynthian spirit,
a sensual soul, a life giving poem
healing all...
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Categories:
syracuse, love, marriage,
Form:
Free verse
The Seventy-Sixers
When Philadelphians wanted to see a basketball game,
the “Warriors” was their first team’s name.
They had several players achieving great fame.
Familiar names included Joe Fulks and Paul Arizin.
They were joined by Tom Gola and Wilt Chamberlain.
However,...
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Categories:
syracuse, history, sports, basketball,
Form:
Rhyme
Information For You Who Needs
City of Syracuse Area 3 TNT Facilitator & Community Advocate
www.tomorrowsneighborhoodstoday.org/southside
City of Syracuse Commissioner of Deeds...To notarize your papers
www.syr.gov
Centro Transportation Board of Directors...We transport you, city and counties www.Centro.org
Volunteer w/ WCNY Entertainment Academy...Where you...
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Categories:
syracuse, age, blessing, business, confidence, creation, dream, inspirational,
Form:
Free verse
October 6, 2022
OCTOBER 6, 2022
Fall in the Finger Lakes,
a meeting in Canandaigua,
a nature reserve visit on West Hill
north of Naples, the season at early
peak, all the colors including green,
the thick, deep forests of the Allegheny
Plateau chasing...
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Categories:
syracuse, seasons,
Form:
Free verse
Salt City Syracuse
Salt City Syracuse, You dwell in Mid State,
You are used for testing new products,
Rebuild, rebuild where you are,
15th Ward East, Southside of town,
81 came it decimated you,
Know home you know more,
81, Upstate Med is now,
What...
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Categories:
syracuse, absence, change, conflict, courage, emotions, encouraging, family,
Form:
ABC
New York Poets 800th Poem
Considering all the people there, it’s a big state!
Many members from New York have talent that's great.
Poets hail from Syracuse, Rochester, Albany,
Plattsburgh, Scarsdale, White Plains, or Schenectady.
They may come from Niagara Falls or Binghamton,
or one...
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Categories:
syracuse, dedication, on writing and words, people, places,
Form:
Rhyme
Poem By Basho
POEM BY BASHO
We were quiet now,
still breathing deeply from
the sexual exertions of our
late middle age, guided by
the music, gliding toward a
landing through the ambient
haze of unconditional love
The Japanese singer with the
black eyes and hair and...
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Categories:
syracuse, love, marriage, sexy,
Form:
Free verse
Syracuse Departure
SYRACUSE DEPARTURE
Twelve degrees at seven AM
and the weather a sharp bitter
force off Lake Ontario
The daybreak is luminescent
gray, the bright star rising, the
cloud cover glowing like the
opalescent door to the mysterious
power source of some
Jules Verne wonder
Passengers...
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Categories:
syracuse, journey,
Form:
Free verse