Long Thieve Poems

To a Mouse
by Robert Burns
translation/modernization/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Sleek, tiny, timorous, cowering beast,
Why’s such panic in your breast?
Why dash away, so quick, so rash,
In a frenzied flash
When I would be loath to run after you
With...

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Life flashes by in a moment of time.
Late twilight’s rose fades, the sweet songbirds leave.
Though we strive to remain in reasoned rhyme
All living will die, the joyful will grieve.
What vision can guide us? What blinding...

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Hurriedly enroute to her royal majesty
porcelain goddess throne
whereupon earlier today
March 28th, 2022,
after incomplete defecation
sitting pretty on pissoir,
I jiggled and wiggled posterior

(analogous to performing
the bum bared hustle)
until gasping for breath
though unable to shake loose
dangling dingleberry yours...

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He was on my bench, so I asked, are you watching the ducks?
No, he said, I am watching the geese!
We both had a big laugh at that,
well they do look like ducks, I said.
I sat...

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Midnight strikes, the world is sleeping; hours until the dawn starts creeping,
Over hills and trees and rivers, bringing in another day.
In the darkness safe and hidden, a visitor somewhat unbidden,
Makes their way across the landing,...

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September meets with warm embrace,
 quickening the harvest pace,
though looming autumn can't efface 
 what's left of summer's arid grace.

The linen hanging on the line 
 dances with the gust and shine,
while maypops heavy on...

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I love you for what you were, but not for what you are.
Those days when I trembled at your soft touch, are so far
Away that they seem in the early mists of time.
You lit up...

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Blank Page
Clean Slate

Untouched
Somewhat

Once Great
Tho Not So Great Enough

Back Again
Here I Am

Here Again
Unfinished

Tinkered
Tailored

Soldiered Too Fit
Sailors Despise

Redundance
Repitition

Without Point
Without Goal

Without Role
Without Cause

Without Baseline
Without Ship

We All Crash
We All Drown

Why Am I Here
Why Do I Seek Ground

What Is Rich
What Is...

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Like any other day, the autumn leaf's came tumbling down and continue so. Soon a
yard were once the green grass was visible, now the frost awaits it's season and the
oracles of time is now feastable....

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You humans walk about with ease 
With no care nor mere concern
Where every step could maim or kill
And pilage upon return

Whether consciously or unaware 
Your ignorance is noted 
Oblivious to basic laws of motion
Where walking...

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She talks to angels but what is she speaking? What are the prayers she is asking 
for,the mystery that the remains the question i ask. Dont understand the 
mystery of her actions is it a...

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Here I sit alone in my ‘prison cell’
Cut off from the ones I love – it is a living hell
I feel so alone, I crave human contact, anyone would be great
Just someone to talk to...

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My Eyes Are The Seers Of  Treasure,
Among The Limbs When I Dream Of Leisure,
The Brain Is Wealth,
As A Thieve Is To Stealth,
The Future Is For The Dreamers,
For As Far As I Recall, I’m Among...

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Free From Money


I search for money and money I cannot find
What do I perceive;
more search and tired mind
I search for money and money I cannot find.

I don't need a bank
to lean on my flank.

In pursuit...

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This phrase "tomorrow" I've heard and heard
Yet no one dares bother to manage the word
Thus, I try to imagine as day nears the reach
That love is a timeless and immortal breach ...

This phrase "tomorrow" that...

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Play Station

It’s not entertainment
But a relief from boredom
Purchased with the mesmerized hours of a working life

And save for love and friendship
To highlight the continuum 
There would remain nothing to relieve the endless waltz of boredom

So...

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Do you think about me?

Did you think about me when your lying in bed?
smoothing the sheets then stroking your head.

Did you think about me when you go for your walks?
your gorgeous eyes and bountiful locks.

Did...

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I walked upon an empty step,
Where a shadowed body was kept.
The shadow was beat,
Turning as cold as winter sleet.

It had bright blue eyes,
That extended all through the skies.
The shadow was nine,
Living to be blind.

I walked...

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so many smiles have pierced my passions
speared by dazzling white
so much dear flesh resolved to warm me
midst those moonlight nights
for ne’er should once I take for granted
dreams that madness might …
but I have been a...

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I long for freedom,yet my actions crucify me
My cross of sins shy me from redemption
Tell me my friends,if I have left any
Is there a better wayof lightening my cross
Some say yes while others confuse me...

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It’s the summer holidays, upon Mushroom Hill
The summer house is finished, as painted new
There children as gather you can feel the thrill
Window glass polished, as to get a better view

The summer house is finished as...

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Restless ghostly night,
      whilst full moon hangs bright
         drench in yellow with fright.

   The hour of All Hallow's Eve
 ...

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     long days and nights upon this blue
 my best attempts to speak with you
and still my studies can’t construe
 the basics of your tongue
     but oh...

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i was dining with the river that took my life then gave it back
it called me to its mistaken gentle waves. Never did i know a river could be wise so that
it could spot me...

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When I wake up in the morning
after dreaming and see the dawn of light,
like a rude rooster crowing, reality bites,
when I watch the nightly news
and hear about the daily crimes,
like a terrorist attacking, reality bites,
when...

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