Long Throaty Poems
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CECYL, SON OF OUR SOIL : CONSUMMATE REVOLUTIONARY
{Poet’s Note : I wrote this poem for the passing of my very dear friend & comrade, Cecyl Esau, Umkhonto we Sizwe Commander in 2021, as a contribution to his memorial service. Cecyl was given...
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Categories:
throaty, africa, allegory, character, death of a friend,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Winter, 1948
WINTER, 1948 [40 Saxton Street]
for W.W
The winter nights that pass now
are so unlike the winter nights
that passed before, that I often
struggle back in those suspended moments
when sleep grapples for a hold,
to once again hear the...
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Categories:
throaty, age, childhood, family, nostalgia,
Form:
Free verse
The Table - the Difference Between Heaven and Hell
The Table
...
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Categories:
throaty, heaven, humanity, imagery, inspirational, joy, love,
Form:
Narrative
Two Doves of Red Lipstick
act i:
walk down the strip, the neon lights casting a gaudy glow on the fray. i meet my dealer, a facilitator of welcome distraction, and we exchange nods. i take a bump, and the rush...
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Categories:
throaty, dark,
Form:
Free verse
The Echo Returns Not
The Echo Returns Not
Sponsor : Unseeking the Seeker
[ Poet’s note : SOLOMON MAHLANGU was a South African Freedom fighter & cherished leader in revolutionary army, Umkhonto we Sizwe. He was sentenced to death by...
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Categories:
throaty, adventure, africa, angst, character, conflict, courage, death,
Form:
Prose Poetry
SATURN GOD OF TIME
Saturn ! You magnetised with
enchanting icy rings
promised white gold
endless skates on
Chrysalis circled cates
said we would go round
like fairy rings
said you had so much
Love to give I would never
go wanting nor...
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Categories:
throaty, allegory, color, creation, extended metaphor, image, planet,
Form:
Rhyme
Something Special
A wave across a smoky bar
That was my impulsive bid
I thought, “Damn, that was stupid”
You frowned like I was bizzare
“Too late, go with it!” I did.
The wave I had to do
To get your attention
I was...
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Categories:
throaty, lost love, love, relationship, romance, romantic, romantic
Form:
Free verse
Best Sports Poems Iv
The best sports poems by Michael R. Burch, Part IV
King Henry the Great
by Michael R. Burch
Long live the King!
Send him victorious,
happy and glorious,
long to reign over us:
Long live the King!
Long...
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Categories:
throaty, america, baseball, basketball, boxing day , football, sports,
Form:
Rhyme
Haiku-Coa Craziness
cocoa powder puffs
for velvet truffle cheeks...
chocolate blush
sunny yolk says hi
butter gives an oozing hug--
bitter choc just melts
mmm, good, just so good
chocolate tickles tongue...
happy throaty slide
messy brown fingers
hot weather melts bittersweet--
oh! just lick them off
no more...
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Categories:
throaty, food, happinesschocolate,
Form:
Haiku
Transition
We are travellers on this terrestial plane
where acorns are consumed in tinder season
oaks fell by angry hurricane
robust iroko mowed by lumbers greedy saw
haughty araba viciously murdered for standing
on progress impatient path
omo...
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Categories:
throaty, death, life, sad, light, light,
Form:
Blank verse
Green Spyder
When I first saw it
in the dark corner there
where none would see it
hidden away from sight
dark green was its color
in the darkness hard to see
with few bright glitters
catching the light
smooth flowing curves it had
without harsh...
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Categories:
throaty, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Reaney's Lamborghini
So slick and sexy. Purred past Temple Bar.
That throaty engine advertising punch.
All legal London, strolling out for lunch,
with turning heads declared, “Now that’s a car!”
So many barristers are – if not losers,
low earners...
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Categories:
throaty, humorous,
Form:
Quatrain
Poem For Eula Davis
Poem for Eula Davis
October 8, 2013 at 8:39am
POEM FOR EULA DAVIS
A very throaty Warbler issued
Quavering Trills in a morning song -
As he serenaded the dew
drops on the grateful trees
Other...
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Categories:
throaty, tribute, universe,
Form:
Classicism
Poem For Euna Davis
POEM FOR EUNA DAVIS
A very throaty Warbler issued
Quavering Trills in a morning song -
As he serenaded the dew
drops on the grateful trees
Other birds were answering with
songs of praise from familiar days.
No...
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Categories:
throaty, bird, funeral, tribute, universe,
Form:
Free verse
Obsidian
An almost stillness came about
as she strode into my door,
like breath itself refused to move,
fearful of touching her mysterious beauty
But her obsidian eyes betrayed her.
Sharp and gleaming,
with a silver sheen
she looked at me,
and...
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Categories:
throaty, abuse, dark, mystery,
Form:
Free verse
A Shaved Slice of Time
A Shaved Slice of Time
It was an act of love when I reached for your hand, knowing instinctively it was not going to be there as you had always promised. It was in that singular...
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Categories:
throaty, death, emotions, loneliness, loss, lost love, love,
Form:
Narrative
Women Are Necessary Evil
Evil combs from their waists morally
Like a song from dead throaty tune.
Machete of tempting guts, they spread
Nagging substances to the eyes of men,
This thistles taxed our brave minds.
Our blood a gulp of water to their...
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Categories:
throaty, betrayal,
Form:
Ballad
Does This Lady Love Her Mister
Because of it, we laughed as grass is green—there is she not common.
Realizing how it is I became, such implied in her with favor.
--
And, being left off distant of, but near to her, I thus...
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Categories:
throaty, 12th grade,
Form:
Ballad
Can a Lady Love This Mister
Because of it, we laughed as grass is green there is she common.
And I realized; how it is I this became, such implied to her with favor.
And being left off distant of, but near to...
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Categories:
throaty, 12th grade,
Form:
Metrical Tale
The Preacher Part 3
“It’s time,” she said in a deep throaty voice,
She picked him up and carried the preacher who had little choice,
He hung over her shoulder as she walked with ease,
Her blistering flesh when she touched him...
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Categories:
throaty, death, imagination
Form:
Rhyme
Back To Back
Well I broke out of Cook County Jail,
With a plastic knife and a wooden pale.
Me sentence was 2 years to me despair,
I decided to escape, dig me way out, it took me 3 years to...
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Categories:
throaty, funnyme, me,
Form:
Rhyme
On First Looking Into Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
To Eamon
I followed you down that long straight road
Stretched through plain under sky
You with your boy and your bicycle
Me, with Despair in my stare and my sigh.
And we came to the Dante-esque crossroads
And watched...
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Categories:
throaty, philosophytime,
Form:
Ballad
An Old Wives Tale
Once upon a time when I was just but a little a boy
My grandmother of illustrious memory – told me many a story
A lot of them funny but some scary
But her favourite tale which...
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Categories:
throaty, satirefamily, grandmother, family, grandmother, me,
Form:
Rhyme
Sweet Southern Security
Sweet Southern Security
Sprawling shady oak trees, tall slender
pine trees with jutting needles, and broad whispering
magnolia trees towering above as the bright moonlight
filters through their waving restless limbs and leaves,
mirroring the silvery...
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Categories:
throaty, happiness, hope, introspection, life, loss, lost love,
Form:
Free verse
Behind The Eight Ball
His chapstick soft lips
Distracted me
From the perverse taste
Of stale cigarettes
He inhaled
Between every other word
But it didn’t
Make my sagacious heart
Uneasy
He was winsome
With that throaty laugh
After...
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Categories:
throaty, deep, heartbreak,
Form:
Free verse