Long Thundering Poems
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Flint
Flint
Within its brilliance gleaming
Cool black in lacquered polished silver chrome
Cranked up pistons bleached in summer’s heat
Hot steam rising as gears thundering
Beyond the crystal liquid city lights
Highways built across the land
In hearts felt pride American...
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Categories:
thundering,
Form:
Abecedarian
Marina Tsvetaeva Translations
I Know The Truth
by Marina Tsvetaeva
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
I know the truth?abandon lesser truths!
There's no need for anyone living to struggle!
See? Evening falls, night quickly descends!
So why the useless disputes?generals, poets, lovers?
The wind...
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Categories:
thundering, love, poems, poetess, poetry, poets, truth, women,
Form:
Free verse
Enheduanna Translations
Enheduanna is the first writer we know by name. She created the first poetry anthology and hymnal, circa 2250 BC, in ancient Sumer. She was the daughter of King Saragon the Great.
Lament to the...
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Categories:
thundering, god, moon, poems, poetess, poetry, religion, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
Arthurian Poems
At Tintagel
by Michael R. Burch
That night,
at Tintagel,
there was darkness such as man had never seen...
darkness and treachery,
and the unholy thundering of the sea...
In his arms,
who is to say how much she...
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Categories:
thundering, england, romance, romantic, true love, violence, visionary,
Form:
Verse
Stranger Than Fiction
*warning* disturbing lines have been detected - you have been warned, readers. Okay, enjoy this somewhat deep and astounding poem from me that took days to write...>:)
I bet you anything that I'm the laziest guy...
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Categories:
thundering, deep, universe,
Form:
Free verse
The World Is a Small Plane
I have travelled through the cluttered corridors of my tired mind countless times.
I have reached deep into the dark abyss of my captive soul and in that profoundly disturbing darkness, I went searching to...
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Categories:
thundering, appreciation, faith, inspirational, love, self, strength,
Form:
Narrative
Random Excerpts From Ice In My Eyes, Smoke In Yours - a Novel
"Hey, you philosophysing Hindu. Give me a break, Buddy. I was just pulling your leg. [...] I want the rest of the story. Really, I mean it.” Theson said nothing. [...] “I can see you’re...
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Categories:
thundering, fantasy, growing up, lost, nature, religion,
Form:
Free verse
Unleashed
I got up this morning in a good mood
searching for solitude in the distant skies
And watching the clouds rolling by
I stopped and listened to the sounds around me
While contemplating my sacred destiny
Barking dogs and...
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Categories:
thundering, appreciation, confidence, future, happy, loneliness, love, places,
Form:
Narrative
The Ghost Dance Part III
Wovoka in the Feverland
In the Dying-Grass Moon came another winter to claim the old and sick.
This was when the first messengers came
To the desolation known as Pine Ridge.
They came riding in at the end of...
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Categories:
thundering, emotions, heartbreak, native american, tribute,
Form:
Free verse
Talk To Me Stop Talking
Just a view on the inner critic. Every time I read what I wrote I see a different angle. This person never even opened their eyes. Some day you can't.
The day had begun. Simple. It...
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Categories:
thundering, mental illness,
Form:
Prose
Light On the Devil's Chord - the Challenge
My 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:
thundering, adventure, change, cool, imagination, music, sick, strength,
Form:
Narrative
Lament To the Spirit of War
Lament to the Spirit of War
by Enheduanna (circa 2285-2250 BCE)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
You hack down everything you see, War God!
Rising on fearsome wings
you rush to destroy the land:
raging like thunderstorms,
howling like hurricanes,
screaming like...
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Categories:
thundering, allegory, analogy, conflict, death, soldier, storm, war,
Form:
Free verse
Desert, Wilderness, Storm
THE DESERT THE WILDERNESS THE STORM
I am parched, my back is arched,
my body racked with pain,
Nothing green in sight,
my thirst, my plight,
eyes playing tricks on me again.
An illusion of rest beside...
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Categories:
thundering, christian, destiny, god, life,
Form:
Prose Poetry
We Are Freedom Destiny
{intro}
One step closer to you
I want to fly into your arms,
My freedom park
My daytime lark
You're my freedom destiny
Even when times get scary
You give me childlike cheer
Instead of gullible, childish fear
Bullet...
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Categories:
thundering, deep, depression, desire,
Form:
Lyric
'Forward Brave Souls' Victims of Ambition's Merciless Will
“Up men to your posts! Don’t forget today that you are from old Virginia.”
– General George Pickett
Beneath Gettysburg's sun a merciless blaze
Stood Pickett with his face etched with war's haunting gaze.
A mind torn asunder...
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Categories:
thundering, death, history, slavery, violence, war,
Form:
Ballad
Follow the Bouncing Ball
She dresses the land down
in a virginal bridal gown
a masterfully cut and sewn chenille
shines brightly with a fine crystal appeal
Her assistants work quite diligently
to add special touches and then flee
they decorated the mountain peaks
using all their...
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Categories:
thundering, cheer up, , cute,
Form:
Free verse
Letters From Batman
Playing Batman and Robin is a lot different
When the Riddler is your Stepfather
And simultaneously an alcoholic and pedophile
When your secret mission is to keep him
From bringing heroin and pornography
To Gotham city
Your mother wanted to...
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Categories:
thundering, abuse, adventure, courage, death, hero, introspection, mystery,
Form:
Free verse
Which Paradise Is Not the Elusive Chimere
Which paradise is not the elusive chimère?
…how long does it take to live one life…learn the lessons of a lifetime…find the time to live…find the time to sort things out…know what you did...
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Categories:
thundering, heaven, innocence, myth, paradise, symbolism, truth, universe,
Form:
Free verse
A Paradox of Time Reborn
The sun, resplendent in its blazing might,
Burns fiercely o'er a barren, lifeless waste,
A desert dry and vast where earth is scorched
By searing radiation, deathly bright.
No sign of life but one lone phoenix flies,
Soaring precarious, close...
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Categories:
thundering, allegory, creation, death, destiny, fantasy, fate, symbolism,
Form:
Blank verse
I See You Looking At Me- Collab With Dm
I see you looking at me
There is an old pang in my chest
there where your hands used to caress
where your lips loved to roam
there where you called your home
There is an old flutter now
What is...
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Categories:
thundering, absence, lost love, passion, relationship, remember,
Form:
Narrative
I See You Looking At Me - Collab With Em
I see you looking at me
There is an old pang in my chest
there where your hands used to caress
where your lips loved to roam
there were you called your home
There is an old flutter now
What...
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Categories:
thundering, forgiveness, joy, lost love, love,
Form:
Narrative
Herstory from Battlefields to Laboratories
Herstory from Battlefields to Laboratories
- Daniel Henry Rodgers
Beneath stardust's scattered gleam,
Her-story, a comet’s tail, blazing across time.
Through seasons it molds
...Once hushed now bold
We rise like a chorus harmonizing
...In this vast of an eternal fold.
For...
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Categories:
thundering, freedom, girl, history, literature, march, rights, women,
Form:
Narrative
The Village On the Water Iv
Thump-thump of stiffening fish contorting
In the bilge beneath the gunwale;
Lidless, bulging, reddened eyes, swivelling upwards,
Protruding horribly from the straining sockets,
Express stupefied amazement at inconceivable
...
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Categories:
thundering, appreciation, culture, dedication,
Form:
Free verse
Thankful
I remember…
Waking up with an eagerness
That can only be felt, never described
By mere nouns, verbs or adjectives –
This was a feeling more precious than gold,
More electrifying than that string of lights
Placed so perfectly on tender...
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Categories:
thundering, appreciation, faith, inspirational, inspirational love, thank you,
Form:
Free verse
Samara
Samara...
Brilliant sunshine, silvery cloud;
looked down and found me lost in a crowd.
Some nights, I flew and followed the breeze.
Some nights, my world turned into a freeze.
Sometimes, I was lost, going my way;
it didn't matter night...
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Categories:
thundering, allusion, life, metaphor, seasons,
Form:
Masnavi