Long Torture Poems
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Faded In Xoxo Oxox Fadin' OutA special dedication to Beyoncé's "Drunk in Love" song in her album "Beyoncé", which came out in 2013.
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I took a cat nap...yah put on your classic, clever-mini cap
drank that sorrow sap, my companion...
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Categories:
torture, deep,
Form:
Lyric
Above UnderVerse 1: We held hands and I fell under your spell...you are the hell from above
My heart has turned to ashes, but I rose again like a Phoenix because of you and I's love
I bled...
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Categories:
torture, deep, desire, emotions, universe,
Form:
Lyric
Poetically Pathetic CrowJust enough to make it just
I want this to be enough to make this
The last song ever, the last note ever
The last romantically, poetically sad excuse for an apology, epilogue
But I've already messed up the...
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Categories:
torture, lonely, longing, loss, lost, lost love, love,
Form:
Free verse
Various HeresiesIf God
is good
half the Bible
is libel.
-Michael R. Burch
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Willy Nilly
Michael R. Burch
Isn’t it silly, Willy Nilly?
You made the stallion,
you made the filly
and now they sleep
in the dark earth, stilly.
Isn’t it silly, Willy Nilly?
Isn’t it silly, Willy...
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Categories:
torture, atheist, christian, faith, god, heaven, religion, spiritual,
Form:
Verse
Willy NillyWilly Nilly
by Michael R. Burch
for the Demiurge aka Yahweh and Jehovah
Isn’t it silly, Willy Nilly?
You made the stallion,
you made the filly,
and now they sleep
in the dark earth, stilly.
Isn’t it silly, Willy Nilly?
Isn’t it...
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Categories:
torture, christian, creation, faith, god, spiritual, truth, world,
Form:
Verse
Doggerel IDoggerel I or Nonsense Verse
A$$tronomical
by Michael R. Burch
Einstein, the frizzy-haired,
proved E equals MC squared.
Thus, all mass decreases
as activity ceases?
Not my mass, my a$$ declared!
Bible Libel
by Michael R. Burch
If God
is good,
half the Bible
is libel.
I came up...
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Categories:
torture, dog, hilarious, humor, humorous, light, nonsense, nursery
Form:
Limerick
Juvenilia: Early Poems VJuvenilia: Early Poems V
Poetry
by Michael R. Burch
Poetry, I found you
where at last they chained and bound you;
with devices all around you
to torture and confound you,
I found you—shivering, bare.
They had shorn your raven hair
and taken both...
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Categories:
torture, poems, poets, teen, teenage, write, writing, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
The Making of a PoetThe Making of a Poet
by Michael R. Burch
While I don’t consider “Poetry” to be my best poem—I wrote the first version in my teens—it’s a poem that holds special meaning for me; I call it...
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Categories:
torture, art, love, poems, poetry, poets, write, writing,
Form:
Verse
The State of the ArtThe State of the Art (I)
by Michael R. Burch
Has rhyme lost all its reason
and rhythm, renascence?
Are sonnets out of season
and poems but poor pretense?
Are poets lacking fire,
their words too trite and forced?
What happened to desire?
Has...
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Categories:
torture, art, muse, poems, poetry, poets, romantic, writing,
Form:
Verse
The Moon As a Metaphor For Your MouthThe Moon as a Metaphor for Your Mouth
by Michael R. Burch
When I was closest to love, it did not seem
real at all, but a thing of such tenuous sweetness
it might dissolve in my mouth
like a...
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Categories:
torture, candy, love, metaphor, moon, romantic love, sweet,
Form:
Sonnet
Various Heresies 2Various Heresies 2
You
by Michael R. Burch
For thirty years You have not spoken to me;
I heard the dull hollow echo of silence
as though strange communion between us.
For thirty years You would not open to me;
You remained...
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Categories:
torture, atheist, bible, christian, god, jesus, religion, religious,
Form:
Verse
Various Heresies 5Various Heresies 5
Tonight, Let's Remember
by Michael R. Burch
July 7,2007 (7-7-7)
Tonight, let's remember the fond ways
our fingers engendered new methods to praise
the gray at my temples, your thinning hair.
Tonight, let's remember, and let us draw near...
Tonight,...
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Categories:
torture, creation, earth, god, heaven, spiritual, wine, women,
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:
torture, deep, universe,
Form:
Free verse
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:
torture, fantasy, growing up, lost, nature, religion,
Form:
Free verse
Home Sweet Hell"That also has a steep drop off the far side of Home Sweet Hell" said my soulless guide as he pointed in the direction of the nearby screams.
I could see what resembled silhouettes or...
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Categories:
torture, anxiety, death, future, life, scary,
Form:
Free verse
Perhat Turson: Elegy TranslationPerhat Tursun
Perhat Tursun (1969-) is one of the foremost living Uyghur language poets, if he is still alive. Born and raised in Atush, a city in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Tursun began writing poetry...
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Categories:
torture, brother, eulogy, magic, prison, spiritual, violence, wine,
Form:
Free verse
The Depths
"The Depths"
From the depths
silence.
Where
are the voices
of other
women?
In that other place,
the monsters violate,
they take and take
bloody all, what they want
the dreams of women
are torched, murdered,
next to them,
the sweet dreams of lives...
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Categories:
torture, children, humanity, women,
Form:
Narrative
Medical Madnesshttps://gigglespoet.com/#jp-carousel-66 My scars from a misdiagnosis are my armor
Lord, old memories plague me in the darkness
And as they rear their ugly head
They only remind me of all that I've lost...
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Categories:
torture, abuse, bereavement, betrayal, birth, courage, endurance, faith,
Form:
Quintain (English)
recognizin’ you, realizing somethin’ moreDeliberately recognizing the sun against the moonbeams
I see your eyes gleam and your happiness screams
Into my eager ears over the years and I’m tension-whelmed with the tears I shed
Hanging at the last thread, giving in...
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Categories:
torture, angst, emotions, endurance,
Form:
Free verse
Rosalia - the Evil Black Witch of the Harz, Part TwoRosalia - The Evil Black Witch of the Harz, Part Two
Rosalia’s Instruments of Evil and Debauchery
Rosalia needed certain tools or instruments of evil and debauchery to successfully pursue her nefandous plans of bringing the people...
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Categories:
torture, allegory, evil, halloween, horror, magic, mythology, scary,
Form:
Narrative
Noneastern Family PoliticsI began reading Jane Anna Gordon's "Creolizing Political Theory"
from the back toward the front,
as usual,
because if I appreciate where this narrative journey will end,
then I probably will find we start off with similar questions
of...
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Categories:
torture, culture, health, power, , literature, , western,
Form:
Political Verse
A Day In School, Thru Autistic Eyesalarm goes off*
I sit straight up startled and scared
Just my alarm, I hit the button
Get up and go to the bathroom
I brush my teeth with my toothbrush
Scratchy, painful bristles
Toothpaste that makes me sick
With the strong...
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Categories:
torture, child, childhood, emotions, feelings, loneliness, pain, perspective,
Form:
Narrative
Dante's Divina Commedia Translation Canto ViiiI tell, to follow, that long trait before
We reached the back foot of the tower tall,
Our eyes went up to the top core
For two little flames we saw install,
And another responding from so far
That...
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Categories:
torture, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
Where To WanderFeel more than free to take a quick tour into my mind's eye
Then, you'll find that you're on my mind and I don't know why
Dare to wonder Where to wander
Dare to wonder What I...
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Categories:
torture, deep, drug,
Form:
Free verse
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 26From that day on and forward,
I began to see the wretchedness my God had warned me of
He cursed the Lord wholeheartedly, for inflicting yet another agony on him,
In his well he called The Prison of...
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Categories:
torture, adventure, anger, beautiful, corruption, dark, inspirational, nature,
Form:
Epic