Long Topmost Poems
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August 13th, 2025 twenty six plus years since awful series of unfortunate events
August 13th, 2025 – twenty six plus years since awful series of unfortunate events
The following poem posted about a half hour before the bewitching hour that spelled calamity (which though a freaky Friday the thirteenth)...
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Categories:
topmost, abuse, adventure, anger, angst, animal, anniversary, august,
Form:
Free verse
August 13th 2021 Twenty Two Years Since
August 13th, 2021 – twenty two years since...
Wicked bad designed day poem originally crafted
then alternately titled for no particular rhyme nor reason:
courtesy Doctor Donald Dossey
who coined paraskevidekatriaphobia.
August thirteenth nineteen hundred and...
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Categories:
topmost, abuse, adventure, animal, confusion, fate, grave, grief,
Form:
Rhyme
Wicked Bad Designed Day
(alternately titled: courtesy Doctor Donald Dossey
who coined paraskevidekatriaphobia
August thirteenth nineteen hundred and ninety nine
forever etched in annals of my personal infamy
as one still sending hair raising shivers down my spine
which following unpleasant...
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Categories:
topmost, abuse, adventure, angst, good friday, grave, mom,
Form:
Free verse
The Little Master, Sachin Tendulkar
The Little Master, Sachin Tendulkar
At Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai,
The Little Master chose to say good-bye;
His Rembrandtesque canvass hat shading eyes,
He whispered thanks up to high-open skies.
Gods spurned earth but...
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Categories:
topmost, character, courage, endurance, inspirational love, sports, tribute,
Form:
Ballad
Building Castles In the Sky
Ludwig Andreas von Feuerbach Or What Is in A Name
When building Babylonian Towers with the Lego of our minds we construct
...
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Categories:
topmost, god, religion,
Form:
Free verse
Matsuo Basho: English translations of Haku about Summer 1
Matsuo Basho: English translations of haiku about summer, life, sun, sunshine, sunlight, melons, willows, rain, rivers, hats, shade, sad, sadness.
Such coolness
when shouldered:
the summer’s first melon.
—Matsuo Basho, translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
A wicker basket
shields the coolness
of...
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Categories:
topmost, horse, life, river, sad, summer, sun, sunshine,
Form:
Haiku
Odyssey From Africa 14d
Chapter 14d (King Ptolemy the second, cont.)
https://www.amazon.com/Odyssey-Africa-adventures-Phil-Salmon/dp/197392479X
“And upon the open ocean
Far from land in roving sail-ships
How to find the congregations
Of the sharks and rays and tuna
“Where the seabirds thresh the water
Diving after shoals of...
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Categories:
topmost, adventure, africa, history, mythology, nature, science, voyage,
Form:
Narrative
Robert Burns Translation: Banks O' Doon
Banks o' Doon
by Robert Burns
modern English translation by Michael R. Burch
Oh, banks and hills of lovely Doon,
How can you bloom so fresh and fair;
How can you chant, ecstatic birds,
When I'm so weary, full of care!
You'll...
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Categories:
topmost, bird, love, river, romance, romantic, rose, song,
Form:
Verse
Odyssey From Africa 12d
Odyssey from Africa, Chapter 12 (d) The fireflower (cont.)
Dominated by one hilltop
Round in form, it’s summit hidden
In the whiteness of a cloud base
There they saw their destination
Now they climbed by steepening gradient
Through a...
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Categories:
topmost, adventure, africa, animal, history, mythology, nature, voyage,
Form:
Narrative
Dlcw Don'T Let China Win
DLCW Dont Let China Win
For the badminton pundits in this country, there are a great many of them...
In their eyes, the greatest badminton player is Lee Chong Wei , a true Malaysian...
If you are...
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Categories:
topmost, appreciation, community, dedication, international, thank you,
Form:
Free verse
Epic Sighting -1
Long ago there lived a little princess with her parents, The King Of Icy Mountains and The Queen Of Peaks. Life was blissful with a very happy kingdom. Princess Star had her own...
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Categories:
topmost, children, death, evil, fantasy, mountains, sunset,
Form:
Haibun
A Waste of Space
I balance my illicitly obtained bottle of absinthe from a man who knows a man, for an exorbitant amount of Euros, on the worn wooden windowsill of my topmost room at the rundown pension overlooking...
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Categories:
topmost, culture, introspection, literature, metaphor, philosophy,
Form:
Prose
Odyssey From Africa 12c the Fireflower
Chapter 12 (c) The Fireflower (continued)
So forthwith it was decided
That upon the next day’s dawning
They would send a party swiftly
Inland by a river valley
They would climb to highland forest...
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Categories:
topmost, adventure, africa, animal, history, mythology, nature,
Form:
Narrative
The Nature's Child
THE NATURE’S CHILD!
Defying fate, freedom denied,
Confined within the four-walled cage,
Safeguarded from the Autumn wind and sun,
Shining bright beyond my reach!
The scriptures decide the societal pace,
The learned men clench the reins,
At the altar of the parochial...
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Categories:
topmost, child, love, nature,
Form:
Free verse
I also feel blase today February 19th 2024
I also feel blasé today February 19th, 2024
Linkedin to being lax,
and shirking house cleaning tasks,
which negligence cost us
(yours truly and the missus)
a golden opportunity
to relocate to Hillcrest Village
in Boyertown, Pennsylvania
another HUD subsidized property
under the aegis...
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Categories:
topmost, angel, appreciation, blessing, crazy, destiny, fate, jewish,
Form:
Free verse
Ode On the Clan's Iroko Tree
(for: them who are ever there!)
these branches and roots
that cord to the grave ancients
should be free from man’s swords!
both oracle and priest held for days …
I
Your voice speaks in the silence of the night
To...
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Categories:
topmost, nostalgiavoice, voice,
Form:
Free verse
The Error, Translation of Carlos Bousono's Poem: El Error
The Error, Translation of Carlos Bousono’s poem : El Error
for Miguel Delibes
(There are just some words and phrases in this translation that I might yet want to modify or substitute with other alternative phrasing. T....
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Categories:
topmost, life, world,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
A Man of Integrity
Today, the local daily papers highlighted a man of honour...
Deserving of his honorific title Datuk bestowed on men of honour...
Given his loud and strident calls for those holding the reins of power....
To better buck up...
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Categories:
topmost, anxiety, community, corruption, courage, leadership, passion, society,
Form:
Light Verse
When It Rains It Pours
When It Rains It Pours
Idiomatic sayings are such a delightful way of expressions,
The truth in them may sometimes stretch our imagination..
When it rains, it pours is one such expressive gem of wisdom..
When troubles in...
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Categories:
topmost, allusion, community, conflict, confusion, leadership,
Form:
Free verse
Robert Burns Translation: To a Louse
To a Louse
by Robert Burns
translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Hey! Where're you going, you crawling hair-fly?
Your impudence protects you, barely;
I can only say that you swagger rarely
Over gauze and lace.
Though faith! I fear you dine but...
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Categories:
topmost, animal, body, clothes, funny, hair, insect, society,
Form:
Verse
Compare the Term Plans In 60 Sec-Contest
COMPARE TOP TERM PLANS IN JUST 60 SEC!
I am the soul of all the Grecian Gods you have revered and penned
I know no matter what happens to you, you will come back to us in...
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Categories:
topmost, allusion, dance, flower, food, god, sensual, wine,
Form:
Classicism
I Am Dancing Along the Corridor of Love
I AM DANCING ALONG THE CORRIDOR OF LOVE.
As I write to you, family and friends have started suspecting perhaps I'm suffering from 'lovecamia' that is, the problem of not being loved as coined by me...
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Categories:
topmost, i love you,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Papa's Condemnation of Prejudice
Papa's condemnation of prejudice...
and subsequent grim statistic one
(among millions, or more)
tragedy with feted kiss
Yarraka Bayles darling son
hoop fully experiences bliss,
yet more vehement rage
against machinations (think
with little effort cruel humans)
trumpets, tools, thrives...
wreaking psychological havoc -
case...
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Categories:
topmost, 11th grade, 12th grade, cry, funeral, mother
Form:
Narrative
Mid Spring
MID-SPRING
It is mid-May,
Mid the welcome of spring’s changes all
Over the norther hemisphere;
Amid still growing joy with strolls through
Parks and fields, admiring the all
Of after Winter,
And here, still growing in our own ways,...
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Categories:
topmost, flower, god, growth, light, metaphor, prayer, spring,
Form:
Imagism
Learning Math
Learning Math is so much fun
We sing, dance and play to count
We compute at topmost speed
We are all Math Wizard Kids
Let’s have...
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Categories:
topmost, education, fun,
Form:
Lyric