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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:
the blues, anxiety, art, autumn,
Form:
Free verse
How Time FliesIntro/read aloud:
You deserve a bro hug and a friendly pat...
That's the spirit - keep going forward
You're getting back of track...I'll try to encourage you without acting awkward...
I leave your side
Without a word...
I can't help,...
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Categories:
the blues, deep, depression, desire,
Form:
Lyric
Liquor of Lament: My Glass Is Half FullVerse 6: I've given up love countless times
I needed to pay up for my heartbroken crimes
I already repented for my sins that made my high hopes paper-thin
Don't you feel that envy from deep within?...
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Categories:
the blues, addiction, cute love, deep, depression, desire, hope,
Form:
Lyric
Forever
“Forever”
When The Terrors came,
The Uncontrollable Ones,
she closed her eyes
and listened for the notes
her mother had planted
amongst the deep blues,
beds of Forget-Me-Nots,
she followed the
labyrinthine trail
and through a gate unhinged,
it would seem destroyed, thrown aside,
she...
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Categories:
the blues, dark, halloween, light, love, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
Juvenilia: Early Poems ViJuvenilia: Early Poems VI
An Illusion
by Michael R. Burch
The sky was as hushed as the breath of a bee
and the world was bathed in shades of palest gold
when I awoke.
She came to me with the sound...
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Categories:
the blues, poetry, poets, teen, teenage, write, writing, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About IcarusSouthern Icarus
by Michael R. Burch
Windborne, lover of heights,
unspooled from the truck’s wildly lurching embrace,
you climb, skittish kite...
What do you know of the world’s despair,
gliding in vast solitariness there,
so that all that remains is to
fall?
Only a...
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Categories:
the blues, analogy, angel, bird, butterfly, extended metaphor, flying,
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:
the blues, father, father daughter, father son, fathers day,
Form:
Rhyme
Native American TranslationsNative American Translations
Cherokee Travelers' Blessing I
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
I will extract the thorns from your feet.
For yet a little while, we will walk life's sunlit paths together.
I will love you like my own...
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Categories:
the blues, america, earth, native american, nature, prayer,
Form:
Free verse
Caregiving Stories RepriseWounded Sacred Dementia: Part Two
Dementia's derelict WinLose SocialWorker
suboptimizingly hesitates
when I tell her
I have not changed my mind
about not adopting Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
into my vulnerable home
with a seven-year-old AfricanAmerican boy
blind
and unable to defend himself,
or even run...
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Categories:
the blues, caregiving, culture, earth, health, integrity, love, parents,
Form:
Political Verse
Salat DaysSalat Days
by Michael R. Burch
(dedicated to my grandfather, Paul Ray Burch Sr.)
I remember how my grandfather used to pick poke salat ...
though first, usually, he’d stretch back in the front porch swing,
dangling his long...
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Categories:
the blues, age, america, appreciation, depression, endurance, poverty,
Form:
Free verse
The Thc OrdinanceI am fairly new to this Norwick community.
If I recall correctly
we have about forty thousand households here
where the Connecticut River
conjoins the Mohegan and Iroquois Rivers;
originally deep rich virgin eco-forest
of and for harmonic rhythm and...
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Categories:
the blues, community, earth, family, growth, health, humor, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse
Fortunes Re ToldFORTUNES READ the sign displayed
TRINKETS, CHARMS AND SPELLS
The store had not been here yesterday
shades of candles, books and bell
Drapes were hung from side to side
The windows all were dark
Where was this place a day ago?
Just...
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Categories:
the blues, surreal,
Form:
Epic
A Snow Queen TalePart 1: FORE SIBERIAN FATE
silk wings wet -
angel on the lake.
starlight glitter
separates from
the golden wheat.
her docile hair,
prophecy of ice.
winter pink,
pinched cheeks.
ice skate scrapes -
flecks of flakes.
the snow queen
before her relentless
reign, a pretty thing.
her smile warms
the...
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Categories:
the blues, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
A Poem For My Algebra TeacherI know I promised
no more ‘Make you Cry Poems’
I said I'd never write another
‘Wipe your eye poem’
And for three years
I tried not to retract,
but after so many tears
I have...
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Categories:
the blues, 6th grade, abuse, betrayal, children, confusion, family,
Form:
Free verse
Ask The Master - The Quatrain Style
~ Ask The Master ~
( Quatrain )
~O~
When all around you see
All your dreams go wrong
Ask the Master for help
He'll help you be strong
~o~
When troubles pile...
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Categories:
the blues, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
Still wrestling with impasse to contentmentStill wrestling with impasse to contentment
Dispense sing with fidelity blithely agog
just me and mine dark shadow
slinking along outer limits of
the edge of night doth blog
passivity, the path
of least resistance ohm my dog,
shocking...
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Categories:
the blues, abuse, adventure, beauty, body, christmas, desire, father
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Flight, Flying and Birds IPoems about Flight, Flying, and Birds (I)
Flight
by Michael R. Burch
It is the nature of loveliness to vanish
as hummingbird wings, batting against nothingness
seek transcendence...
Southern Icarus
by Michael R. Burch
Windborne, lover of heights,
unspooled from the truck’s wildly lurching...
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Categories:
the blues, angel, animal, bird, flying, nature,
Form:
Free verse
Identity ApplesIdentity Apples
iam a fat skeleton, resurrecting
from the sad memories of dada
and dark mysteries of aminism
iam buganda
i bleed hope
i drip the honey of fortune
makerere, think tank of africa
i dance...
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Categories:
the blues, africa, analogy, anxiety, assonance, bangla, bereavement,
Form:
Didactic
Heroic Crown of Sonnets - Part Two
(continued from A Year Of Months (January-June)
https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/heroic_crown_of_sonnets_-_part_one_772928
A Year Of Months (July-December)
8. July
July now follows summer's song of June;
with sun ablaze, her days are humid, warm.
Great time to languish in the afternoon,
and later, watch an evening...
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Categories:
the blues, earth, seasons, thanksgiving day,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Same Ol' Song and DanceAs I look back across more musical times
of rhythmic reflections,
ceremonies and commemorations
of each dawn and dusk eremitic liturgy,
if that is not an oxymoron
of sound and sight,
song and dance,
tragically sad, yet also bilaterally bound with happier...
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Categories:
the blues, community, dance, humanity, humor, integrity, love, music,
Form:
Political Verse
The Plagueas the PROPHETS of profits, WE lead and WE’re fair
while WE’re living the life of the poor BILLIONAIRE
– silver yachts, pearly castles, cash (plenty to spare) –
with the world on OUR backs... ah! the burdens...
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Categories:
the blues, society,
Form:
Quatrain
Couples CounselingMy early 20s Eldest Black Lives Matter Son
wears his disabling ADHD label uncomfortably,
impatiently,
like a possibly self-redeeming crown
but with unfortunate MessiahComplex thorns
as the Great WhiteMan's sacrificial lamb.
His First, and hopefully last, Girl
is an ADHD Latina,
with sparkling...
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Categories:
the blues, earth, games, health, humor, integrity, mental illness,
Form:
Political Verse
Amberina BallerinaA born lioness my untamed heart? ha!
a mouse, this pulsing token ruled by unruly wants
at times given, traded or stolen - sometimes
thrown down on a dare to be won or lost
till it became...
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Categories:
the blues, destiny, emotions, inspiration, introspection, memory, metaphor, nostalgia,
Form:
Free verse
Beary Tales Episodes 1-6, Poet's Notes(Remembering Innocence)
Note to Readers of Previous Versions:
There are so many new vignettes scattered throughout the poem that I hope you will reread the whole thing! There are new tales, improvements to previous verses, and improved...
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Categories:
the blues, adventure, best friend, blessing, innocence, love, mentor,
Form:
Quatrain
Saul Grills Marilyn At a Seedy New Orleans Jazz DiveSaul’s twinkling eyes took it all in – the platinum hair framing a first-class face, the silvery sheath dress wrapped around a figure that was out of sight, but in plain view. She was definitely...
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Categories:
the blues, humor, murder, mystery,
Form:
Narrative