Long Tentative Poems
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ErinErin, for a girl who embodies Ireland
by Michael R. Burch
All that’s left of Ireland is her hair—
bright carrot—and her milkmaid-pallid skin,
her brilliant air of cavalier despair,
her train of children—some conceived in sin,
the others to avoid...
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Categories:
tentative, ireland,
Form:
Sonnet
Tawfiq Zayyad Translation: Here We Shall RemainHere We Shall Remain
by Tawfiq Zayyad
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Like twenty impossibilities
in Lydda, Ramla and Galilee ...
here we shall remain.
Like brick walls braced against your chests;
lodged in your throats
like shards of glass
or prickly cactus...
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Categories:
tentative, arabic, poems, poverty, prison, race, racism, song,
Form:
Free verse
As Time Walked ByThese are early poems of mine, written as a high school student in the 10th grade.
as Time walked by
by Michael R. Burch
yesterday i dreamed of us again,
when
the air, like honey,
trickled through cushioning grasses,
softly flowing,...
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Categories:
tentative, 10th grade, boy, child, childhood, first love,
Form:
Free verse
Unidentified Extraterrestrials Willingly Abducted MeUnidentified extraterrestrial(s) willingly abducted me
As a divergence
from the apocalyptical, dialectical,
geomorphological, judgmatical,
metaphorical, philosophical...,
I share an out of this
(webbed wide) world,
light hearted anecdote
ye may find far fetched.
Believe me you,
an unspecified number of...
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Categories:
tentative, absence, adventure, august, blessing, confusion, courage, dream,
Form:
Free verse
By How Many Badbyes Can You Measure the Length of Your Day by how many badbyes can you measure the length of your day
first comes...
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Categories:
tentative, age, loneliness, memory,
Form:
Free verse
Unidentified Flying Object Abducted Yours Truly,Unidentified flying object abducted yours truly,...
a willing experimental subject
to escape untenable married life.
Upon falling into a deep slumber,
the following subconscious
somnambulant scenario arose
allowing, enabling, and providing
temporary alleviation from
outa harried...
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Categories:
tentative, absence, adventure, anxiety, appreciation, blessing, courage, destiny,
Form:
Free verse
Celebarating the Adventure of Advent: a Collaboration With Kai Michael NeumannUniversal elegy grieves and yet embraces shifts of paradigm
New beginnings consciousness initiates comprehends and thus proceeds from
Illusion’s delusion collusions misconceptions in the irritating
Vortex whirlpool immanent void of false containment
Enlightenment modern postmodern retro visionary futuristic aspirations
Resound...
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Categories:
tentative, adventure, community, universe,
Form:
Sestina
Absolute deafening silenceAbsolute deafening silence...
during and after a moderate snowfall
today January 19th, 2024,
within Southeastern Pennsylvania
and elsewhere across the Eastern Seaboard,
whereby blanket of whiteness
muffles sounds of civilization.
I hate a spoiler alert
regarding weather forecasters prediction,
especially when meteorologist
wannabe spouse doth...
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Categories:
tentative, adventure, age, angel, appreciation, beauty, humorous, snow,
Form:
Rhyme
The monumental bane of OCD obsessive compulsive disorderThe monumental bane of OCD - obsessive compulsive disorder
As origin of Homo Sapien species surged ahead,
harboring nascent predominance
asper said primate reproductively bred,
(albeit via incremental fits and starts)
evolutionary forebears didst dread
Tom Tom Club former members
an American...
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Categories:
tentative, adventure, africa, animal, anxiety, atheist, environment, history,
Form:
Rhyme
The TurningThe year has finally yawned and turned
Upon a half-revealed shoulder.
A vibrancy, intrinsic to a reemerging
Enforcement of the strengthening light,
In its deliberate and unconcerned ...
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Categories:
tentative, celebration,
Form:
Rhyme
Aye Passively Plead Death To Please Release Me From Agonizing Clutches(alternately titled: Typical daily mindset today –
July 17th, 2020)
The following words
mostly unredacted, nevertheless finessed
for curbed poetic/prosaic appeal
lock, stock and barrel
codify, and edify (hoopfully not mortify)
any reader unbeknownst and/or familiar
with unsteady state of yours truly,
(an...
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Categories:
tentative, absence, cheer up, death, fate, grief, hope,
Form:
Free verse
At Least We See It ComingLiving in California is a brave thing to do, I’m convinced
Any time the ground around you could break into pieces, but residents seem so indifferent
of this threat that the ground they stand on could take...
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Categories:
tentative, home, natural disasters, nature, places, strength, weather,
Form:
Free verse
The UndertowThe Undertow
The two could feel the undertow
Pull at them both - then let them go
He wondered if she could know
Or sense it too and let it flow
The undertow in the fast-running tide
Ebbed and flowed at...
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Categories:
tentative, anxiety, conflict, confusion, desire, emotions,
Form:
Verse
TitanicGlobal pride! Greatest story-theme worldwide! Oceanic!
Voyage liner - Atlantic! British cruise ship! Titanic!
Born in the yard of Harland and Wolf! Floated to venture!
Who did ever dream of a deadliest wreck- adventure?
Christened after Titans of the...
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Categories:
tentative, adventure, beauty, boat, fear, life, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Is Aranjuez a Pining After the Composer's MotherIs ARANJUEZ a pining after the composer's mother ?
(Joaquin Rodrigo - 1901-1999 - who composed the " Aranjuez " concerto on piano in 1938/9 and which later was destined for the guitar and orchestra, turned...
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Categories:
tentative, how i feel, longing, loss, memory, mother
Form:
Free verse
A Sunken HeartA couple of twisted shacks composed in Card Board City in Everywhere
County the nameless man or woman spits out another tooth with
...
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Categories:
tentative, obituary,
Form:
Free verse
Stokey 2014Stokey 2014
I am working the door
At an all night bar
Sometimes I think I have spent too much time alone. These long nights remind me of flowers and effigies. I drink too much. There’s...
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Categories:
tentative, addiction, allusion, anxiety,
Form:
Narrative
Winter - a Hard PlaceA damp, dank odour pervades the saturated forest; pungent. acrid;
The stench an assault on the human senses:
Working subtly, slowly permeating every pore until it compromises the very heart of the forest.
Seeping easily between the debris;...
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Categories:
tentative, animal, appreciation, bird, dedication, nature,
Form:
Free verse
Electorate Witnesses Wounded BeastElectorate witnesses wounded beast...
flailing, lurching, and writhing in throes of agony
Trumpets blare acknowledging
crack hunters lucky strike,
i.e. bullseye salvo shot at
innocuous yet brutish
and nasty looking Homo sapien
courtesy elite militia incapacitates,
(yet doth not kill) mortal enemy.
Tis a...
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Categories:
tentative, absence, autumn, class, evil, fate, humanity, november,
Form:
Political Verse
Wolves
"Wolves"
Pulchritude is not a beautiful word.
Dark can be beautiful
when walking with wolves
hearing their stories
sad songs of love lost
soft they begin
and then hungry
for the essential missing elemental,
they can be heard harshly calling,
after a...
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Categories:
tentative, dark, halloween, romance,
Form:
Romanticism
Haikuverse HarvestJanuary juxtapose
More cold now
Beyond hot heat!
Cold cold air
Windy surprise;
Minus heat therapy?
Winding way whirls
Shiver seeding shiver
January jostling juice
Lotus sunbathe --
Muddy pond flavours
Mid-afternoon glare
Misdirected
Whim and fancy;
Windy detours
New year in late January,
Oozing days forfeit;
Scent of the times!
Why do...
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Categories:
tentative, journey,
Form:
Haiku
Ablaze For GodLight this fire of love within me for you lord.
Ignite the passion for fulfilling your purporse for my life.
A maddening disposition towards sin, I need.
A craving desire for your presence, I long for.
A living vessel...
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Categories:
tentative, christian, dedication, life, motivation, prison, relationship, strength,
Form:
Lyric
Perry and Empire‘Twas but a mist-enshrouded speckle
dark-painted on looming horizon.
Petty worker holds unwavering watch,
silently, stealthily keeps his eyes on.
Forward motion undeniable,
each passing minute size increasing.
Small heart stands alert and viable –
beating fast and tremulous; though, never...
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Categories:
tentative, allegory, heart, imagery, relationship, symbolism, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
The Philosopher Part 2He draws the curtain open
His weary legs haul him over gravity's threshold
He sways, the water leaving through the drain with the rest of his will, his strength
He steps past his minds mistress
And crumples onto the...
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Categories:
tentative, angst, dedication, depression, hope, life, philosophywords,
Form:
Free verse
Litany of Cat ComplaintsLITANY OF CAT COMPLAINTS
Why so glum Rusty? Offered Max as a tentative
One-no-trump opener.
Well, it’s all down to you guys ...
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Categories:
tentative, cat, good night,
Form:
Free verse