Long Taking Poems
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The Sun's a Liar-Children's Story Short Contest-The Sun Is a Liar
It’s been quite some time since I've awoke early enough to meet the sun coming over the horizon. As I gazed out the window from my bedroom window seat, the sky...
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Categories:
taking, childhood,
Form:
Prose
Where Is Your MindWhere Is Your Mind?
Where is your mind?
Is it way out there in the clouds of smoking cigarettes and cigars?
Is it way out there in the clouds of smoking marijuana?
Where is your mind?
Is it way out...
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Categories:
taking, adventure, allegory, analogy, desire, growth, passion, perspective,
Form:
Lyric
Trump In MotionTRUMP SMELLS B.O.
TRUMP SMELLS B.O.
BUST UP THE BEAT TO INTRODUCE IT'S TEMPO
GOT ME PLACES TO GO
SILENCE IS GOLDEN GOT BLOOD THAT"S UNFOLDING
SITS IN HIS IVORY TOWER ENGAGED IN THE WALL WHILE HE SITS IN HIS...
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Categories:
taking, anxiety, art, autumn,
Form:
Free verse
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:
taking, western,
Form:
Rhyme
The Power of My PenI have been trying to find the right words to pen this verse, but since I came to this country my words are suppressed and my voice is oppressed. The wind is blowing furiously, and...
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Categories:
taking, anti bullying, break up, community, corruption, discrimination,
Form:
Narrative
After All Is Said and DoneI wrote this random rap song just yesterday! Have a blast, reading it! :D
"We shall all be like magnets,
Connecting to God's Laws in perfect symmetry
We shall all shine as the sun,
Glorifying the son of...
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Categories:
taking, anxiety, deep, depression, desire, emotions, encouraging, hope,
Form:
Lyric
Fully Employed NowHumanity keeps looking forward, toward the coming of a birth,
and we’re all deemed as equals on our first day on this earth,
but as the years go quickly by our lives become our own;
we’re seen as...
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Categories:
taking, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Patsy Foley Was Roly-Poly In 1947It may have been the devil himself who prompted the kids in my schoolyard back in 1947 to chant "Patsy Foley's roly-poly from eating too much ravioli."
At first, no one could remember who started the...
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Categories:
taking, memory,
Form:
Prose
Sunday Evening SpreeI see people moving, but going nowhere
I see people moving with their hands thrown in the air
I see people moving but they have nothing to share
Bags and pans, old kettle, and old man
The scavenger, the...
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Categories:
taking, betrayal, community, cute love, education, encouraging, faith,
Form:
Narrative
Oak
"Oak"
The guardians
stood around and
shook their heads
great thoughts
quivering
from the ground, roots up,
as if to walk
confidently
with great armies
yet hesitation
was witnessed
in their waving gestures
perplexed
and touching
green crowns,
there they...
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Categories:
taking, dark, journey, light, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
Two Lovers V - Convenience StoreShe looked at him concerned
"Oh my God, we forgot the buns!"
A barbeque happening
Guests arriving
Coals flaming
Food prepared
But nothing to put burgers on
For their housewarming
Hasty instructions and some cash
From his Lover and her roomies
Then he starts to...
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Categories:
taking, first love, happy, relationship, romance, romantic love,
Form:
Free verse
Love Poems IiiLOVE POEMS III by Michael R. Burch
These are love poems by Michael R. Burch about passion, desire, lust, sex, dating, relationships, devotion and marriage.
Violets
by Michael R. Burch
Once, only once,
when the wind flicked your skirt
to...
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Categories:
taking, desire, devotion, love, lust, marriage, passion, relationship,
Form:
Rhyme
InstructionInstruction
by Michael R. Burch
Toss this poem aside
to the filigreed and the wild tide
of sunset.
Strike my name,
and still it is all the same.
The onset
of night is in the despairing skies;
each hut shuts its bright bewildered eyes.
The...
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Categories:
taking, extended metaphor, fantasy, happiness, hope, hyperbole, i
Form:
Pastoral
SnapshotsSnapshots
by Michael R. Burch
Here I scrawl extravagant rainbows.
And there you go, skipping your way to school.
And here we are, drifting apart
like untethered balloons.
Here I am, creating "art,"
chanting in shadows,
pale as the crinoline moon,
ignoring your face.
There...
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Categories:
taking, divorce,
Form:
Free verse
The Battle Hymn of Covid19I cannot let this obsession with Coronavirus (COVID19) go
It is apparent, from the number of deaths projected, to be in the hundreds of thousands, that many Americans still are not heeding the warnings. I hope...
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Categories:
taking, america, death, health, inspiration,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Fathers and Grandfathers IPoems about Fathers and Grandfathers I
I translated the first six Native American poems for my father when he chose to enter hospice and end his life by not taking dialysis …
Cherokee Travelers' Blessing I
loose translation/interpretation...
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Categories:
taking, father, father daughter, father son, fathers day,
Form:
Rhyme
RipR.I.P.
by Michael R. Burch
When I am lain to rest
and my soul is no longer intact,
but dissolving, like a sunset
diminishing to the west...
and when at last
before His throne my past
is put to test
and the demons...
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Categories:
taking, death, dream, funeral, grave, judgement, sleep, sunset,
Form:
Verse
The Strange Case of Ft
"The Strange Case of F.T."
They say the dead don’t talk
the stories I have calculated
to deliver a saving grace
confessional shared amongst
my equal peers, or so I deem
you somewhat sometimes seem,
less than me, you...
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Categories:
taking, dark, horror, poets,
Form:
Narrative
Juvenilia: Early Poems XJuvenilia: Early Poems X
These are early poems written in my teens and twenties.
Regret
by Michael R. Burch
Regret,
a bitter
ache to bear...
once starlight
languished
in your hair...
a shining there
as brief
as rare.
Regret,
a pain
I chose to bear...
unleash
the torrent
of your hair...
and show me
once...
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Categories:
taking, age, child, children, dream, teen, time, war,
Form:
Rhyme
BeckoningBeckoning
by Michael R. Burch
Yesterday the wind whispered my name
while the blazing locks
of her rampant mane
lay heavy on mine.
And yesterday
I saw the way
the wind caressed tall pines
in forests laced by glinting streams
and thick with...
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Categories:
taking, anxiety, break up, change, confusion, sleep, time,
Form:
Verse
Early Poems IiiJuvenilia: Early Poems by Michael R. Burch
In the Whispering Night
by Michael R. Burch
In the whispering night, when the stars bend low
till the hills ignite to a shining flame,
when a shower of meteors streaks the sky
while...
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Categories:
taking, poems, poetry, poets, teen, write, writing, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
ObservanceObservance
by Michael R. Burch
Here the hills are old and rolling
carefully in their old age;
on the horizon youthful mountains
bathe themselves in windblown fountains...
By dying leaves and falling raindrops,
I have traced time's starts and stops,
and I have...
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Categories:
taking, loneliness, lonely, longing, loss, lost, seasons, time,
Form:
Sonnet
Chapter 48 -- Damian Delilah Mallory and Damian JuniorYear 2031 would soon come
To a close. Everyone will be
A little wiser.
Damian Junior wanted a
Girlfriend and he was soon to
Be 13. Amadeus and
Desharah will both turn 10.
The oldest kids had a desire to
Add...
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Categories:
taking, beautiful, birth, black love, business, cute, emotions,
Form:
Alliteration
Come Down, For Harold BloomCome Down
by Michael R. Burch
for Harold Bloom
Come down, O, come down
from your high mountain tower.
How coldly the wind blows,
how late this chill hour ...
and I cannot wait
for a meteor shower
to show you the time
must be...
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Categories:
taking, books, culture, discrimination, education, extended metaphor, literature,
Form:
Sonnet
Let Us Speak ClearlyLet me speak clearly with you
dear religious and atheist Trumpians,
A fool in executive office
is a leader
only in foolish directions.
A rich thief
is the worst thief
as survival motives
are absent,
so self-thrival motives
remain piratically rampant.
An intellectual prostitute
to feel-good AmericaFirst...
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Categories:
taking, caregiving, culture, education, health, integrity, love, peace,
Form:
Political Verse