Long Tourney Poems

Finally to Burn: Icarus, Resurrected
by Michael R. Burch

Athena takes me
sometimes by the hand

and we go levitating
through strange Dreamlands

where Apollo sleeps
in his dark forgetting

and Passion seems
like a wise bloodletting

and all I remember
upon awaking

is: to Love sometimes
is...

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Here in far off Borneo, junior squash players are gathered in numbers...
Young and energetic, these are Malaysia's young hopefuls and contenders...

In the numbing heat within this immense hall, the muted thuds of hard hit balls...
Interrupt...

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He is a member of the
" Intr Affilia " a non
ranking position that
Gives voice to grapples
Position. It's unofficial
Title in the game as known
Across this
 whole wide world as
" The Peoples Championship"
Well we've always known
That these...

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He is a member of the
" Intr Affilia " a non
ranking position that
Gives voice to grapples
Position. It's unofficial
Title in the game as known
Across this
 whole wide world as
" The Peoples Championship"
Well we've always known
That these...

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Poem To My Dad 
In Memory 04/17/2018
By:  RobertBenThoughts.blogspot.com

It has been almost a year
Since you left us here,
For the heavenly relm
Your reward is clear.
I miss you.

Mom is doing better than before
She thinks of you daily,
She...

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 Sometimes we want 
to grow up fast.
 Others we want our youth to 
last.
 Sometimes we want to change 
the past.
 Others we want to leave it 
alone because it was such a 
blast.
...

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Deep 
inside
Your 
eyes 
I 
looked
Saw 
my 
world,
Got 
my 
heart 
hooked
I 
looked 
at 
your 
face
And 
saw 
it 
glow
Till 
the 
stars 
above
Had 
nothing 
to 
show

From 
that 
moment
I 
took 
your 
hand
It 
felt 
so 
good
I 
could 
hold 
it
And 
hold...

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Giving up on us when we control the bus that will lead us to bliss, but instead you hiss and say it's over when all we need is a makeover.  We do need a...

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Foxes being really cute 
Invaded London not expecting anyone to shoot 
Playing around 
On the Emiratis ground 
Not hearing a hunter’s horn sound 
Until one gunner left off a shell 
And a war story for...

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D. Trump
     we dumped

     Ted Cruz
     you lose

     Cuomo
     should go

    ...

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The players come out to play. The audience gathered around, cheering them on.
One by one they take acknowledgment . The speaker motions to settle down.
He steps up to the tee with confidence. Ahead of him...

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For two weeks, at all hours, I watched FIFA games
Familiarizing myself with all the players' names
But I won't be viewing the World Cup anymore
after the favored U. S. team was unable to score

Too much drama...

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These are the long depressing walks
It's the sad songs that talk
The missed opportunities that hold us at fault

Nothing but smiles at birth
You didn't think I'd forget
The most precious angel on this earth
Since I entered this...

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The journey begins with a single step,
It miles away but the choice is yours to take,
It's all about the movement,
Moment you realize you can crawl, walk, run and fly knowing there are possibilities in impossibility,
The...

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It’s a journey man
Did all go accordingly to plan
I swear it was a journey for man
The results of a plotted hand
It’s a journey man

The forgotten me 
Souvenirs of a begotten plea 
Did you think I’d...

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Too many ups and downs in the journey
Too much sweet, bitter and honey

Far far away long way travel
Crying for peace in front of the devil

Destructed abstracted undefined destiny 
Self-realizations in the middle of the journey...

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red buds are blooming
song birds are swooning 
tonight, on the weather
they say it will snow

cardinal's crooning
mushrooms are mooning
temperatures dropping
the wind's going to blow

spring in the south is
the craziest season
winter's reluctant
not ready to go

eighties and twenties
within...

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On my day's journey
Think going to a basketball tourney

Stopped by sisters house
It was as quiet as a mouse

Out in her garden she sits
Hoe claw and gloves of misfits

Peddle pushers to kaboot
Gotta love her for she's...

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Around the world in the blink of an eye.
Conquering adventure, for a young child to spy.
Kingdoms of gold and many a magical being.
A world of imagination, limited only by one's dreaming.

Twinkling of illustrations, fiddling of...

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You cannot grow if you don’t try
Or change all that which you deny
Nor place blame for all your woes
On all the wrongs that you oppose

In feeling righteous without fault
Ensures the barricade of the vault
That holds...

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Champing The Seasons

A March spring rose like December,
pale shadows meet, by my shutter,
blues screech, that I brooded over,
... my gist be faint, cause a clutter.

As seasons shift their daily quest,
recurrent graduate the stressed,
the day soon...

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He sits across from me over a board
With checkered squares. He is white; I am black.
I need a win, him a draw. Can’t afford
To play prophylactically. Attack
Is my only chance to win this tourney.
Which leaves...

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