Long Talons Poems
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Self ReflectionsSELF REFLECTIONS
These are poems about mirrors, images, self-image, reflections, impressions and self-reflection.
Self Reflection
by Michael R. Burch
for anyone struggling with self-image
She has a comely form
and a smile that brightens her dorm ...
but she's grossly...
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Categories:
talons, identity, image, imagery, metaphor, mirror, self, symbolism,
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:
talons, anxiety, break up, change, confusion, sleep, time,
Form:
Verse
Apocalyptic Poems IiThese are prophetic poems and apocalyptic poems ...
Beast 666
by Michael R. Burch
“... what rough beast ... slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?”?W. B. Yeats
Brutality is a cross
wooden, blood-stained,
gas hissing, sibilant,
lungs gilled, deveined,
red flecks on a...
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Categories:
talons, earth, earth day, environment, future, visionary, weather,
Form:
Rhyme
In the WildIN THE WILD
Early morning, we go for a drive,
An awesome feeling as we arrive,
At our camp gate which, opens
At 6 o’clock,
Now we are in the African bush
Which, will unlock,
Moments that we have missed...
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Categories:
talons, adventure, africa,
Form:
Rhyme
In the Wild Re PostIN THE WILD
( Re Post)
Early one morning, we begin our drive,
An awesome feeling as we arrive,
At our camp gate which, opens
At six o’clock,
Now we are in the African bush
Which, will unlock,
Moments that...
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Categories:
talons, animal,
Form:
Free verse
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:
talons, america, bible, corruption, imagery, war,
Form:
Free verse
Pale Though Her Eyes: Vampire PoemVampire Poetry
Pale Though Her Eyes
by Michael R. Burch
Pale though her eyes,
her lips are scarlet
from drinking of blood,
this child, this harlot
born of the night
and her heart, of darkness,
evil incarnate
to dance so reckless,
dreaming of...
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Categories:
talons, dark, death, desire, evil, gothic, grave, horror,
Form:
Verse
Backhand
"Backhand"
You have turned me
inside out, cut open
like a tennis ball
I used to beat backhand
along with the racket
hard against the garage wall
To make sense of it all
as a child, the grief stolen
all too swiftly and replaced...
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Categories:
talons, child abuse, mother daughter, strength,
Form:
Free verse
Vampires Are Such Fragile CreaturesVampires
by Michael R. Burch
Vampires are such fragile creatures;
we fear the dark, but the light destroys them...
sunlight, or a stake, or a cross—such common things.
Still, late at night, when the bat-like vampire sings,
we heed his voice.
Centuries...
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Categories:
talons, dark, death, gothic, halloween, horror, lust, night,
Form:
Verse
The Beast of the CaveWhen I was young, and adventure routine,
With excitement and newness still unforeseen
I was eager to spread my wings to the world
And seek more adventures as those wings unfurled
Within my long travels I happened to meet
Two...
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Categories:
talons, adventure, dark, death, evil, scary,
Form:
Rhyme
Apocalyptic Poems IiiThese are prophetic poems and apocalyptic poems about the earth, climate change, global warming, extinction events, and mankind's role on an endangered world ...
Polish
by Michael R. Burch
Your fingers end in talons?
the ones you trim to...
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Categories:
talons, earth, earth day, environment, humanity, nature, tree,
Form:
Rhyme
Light On the Devil's Chord - the ChallengeMy hair bristled in the crisp breeze
Excitement spreading throughout my body
Even the sudden cold amused my fingertips,
Tingles spreading through my hands and up my arms
Soon I would be there too. . .
In the murky shadows...
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Categories:
talons, adventure, change, cool, imagination, music, sick, strength,
Form:
Narrative
The Pedicure VirginI don't know what came over me that day - an instant of weakness after years of resistance, I suppose.
My beaming spouse leads me, a dog on a short leash, into the forbidden citadel, the...
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Categories:
talons, humor,
Form:
Prose
Mothmananxiety, intense -
but I am not frightened ...
my heart races ... I want to flee
my blood heats and lies to
my senses ...
'get out! go now! dear gawd, fool, run!!'
for you are formidable -
eighty inches tall,...
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Categories:
talons, adventure, fantasy, moon, mystery, myth, science fiction,
Form:
Free verse
Ground Level Entry
"Ground Level Entry"
“She fits the bill”,
they say it
insouciantly
visions of being
carried in the beak
of a bilious pelican
where it builds
its rudimentary nest,
it uses sticks and debris
no stones, yet,
from irreverence
thrown at it
no higher...
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Categories:
talons, muse,
Form:
Narrative
Lusting Abyss, His Darkness
Lusting Abyss, his Darkness.
.
Darkness is he, soulless totally
It's abyss he commands desiring what he sees
In front of him stands a virgin pure as the driven snow
For white he knows it is, upon she his darkness...
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Categories:
talons, love, peace, people, places, woman,
Form:
Rhyme
Lusting Abyss, His Darkness
Darkness is he, soulless totally
It's abyss he commands, desiring what he sees
In front of him stands a virgin, pure as the driven snow
For white he knows it is, upon she his darkness will show
Long haired...
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Categories:
talons, beautiful,
Form:
Rhyme
Tardigrades Aka Water Bears Or Moss PigletsTardigrades aka Water Bears, Moss Piglets
Before T-Rex appeared and the Dodo bird disappeared,
Leading to modern-day scientific knowledge increasement,
Creatures of infinitesimal size called ‘Tardigrades’ endure,
Were and are living and thriving, just about anywhere on earth.
From mountain...
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Categories:
talons, animal, education, nature,
Form:
Verse
The Accomplice - Both Audio and TextThis is a very sad tale, indeed. Does anything hurt more than a shattered heart?
You asked me for a story from the days of long ago, of unrequited love…of broken hearts…and love betrayed.
This brings...
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Categories:
talons, anger, gothic, hurt, lost love,
Form:
Narrative
A Journey Through TimeTwo friends were travelling to the east seeking unexplored lands
eventually they reached some grim looking tall mountains
slowly they made their way up to the summit and stood there
Breathlessly they were amazed by the panoramic view...
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Categories:
talons, adventure, drink, journey, magic,
Form:
Epic
Reaping Short Terms BenefitsReaping short terms benefits...
before marital savings bond matured
as a then quinquagenarian.
Courtesy gerontologists medical practitioners
allowing, enabling, and providing
the elderly population to live
longer and healthier lives.
Linkedin with longevity loosely translates
to resurgent libido spurring
older folks predilection
to participate in...
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Categories:
talons, absence, abuse, adventure, anxiety, appreciation, betrayal, devotion,
Form:
Rhyme
To a Dead Mouse
I
Friend, whatever brought your life to end
had no appetite for mouse flesh, nudged your
small gray body on its side with a thorough sniff
and left your corpse exposed on the asphalt path,
then, for reasons of its...
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Categories:
talons, in memoriam,
Form:
Free verse
My Red-Tailed HawkHe was mighty as could be venturing down by the sea,
revered as the king soaring over his golden throne-
He was respected yet felt neglected and could never see,
all the beauty he held and sadly felt...
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Categories:
talons, beauty, bird, depression, suicide,
Form:
Rhyme
Black Iraqi WomanBlack Iraqi Woman
Written by Faleeha Hassan
Translated from the Arabic by William Hutchins
Shortly before my father died, he whispered to me longingly: “Daughter, treasure this, because it authenticates your heritage to our kinsfolk!” When I accepted...
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Categories:
talons, me,
Form:
I do not know?
Unlike Thee AthenianThose rarer men I once fondly
knew... ...
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Categories:
talons, philosophy,
Form:
Rhyme