Long Trail Poems
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Matthew delivers his latest bullet tinMatthew delivers his latest bullet – tin...
from the Harris-Walz front
where liberal minded socially progressive
electorate doth agonizingly grunt
targeted in crosshairs scoped out
eager and ready to be mortally wounded
courtesy notorious big headed
(and bigoted) infamous...
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Categories:
trail, absence, america, angel, august, courage, future, political,
Form:
Free verse
Forever
“Forever”
When The Terrors came,
The Uncontrollable Ones,
she closed her eyes
and listened for the notes
her mother had planted
amongst the deep blues,
beds of Forget-Me-Nots,
she followed the
labyrinthine trail
and through a gate unhinged,
it would seem destroyed, thrown aside,
she...
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Categories:
trail, dark, halloween, light, love, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
Matsuo Basho Haiku TranslationsThe first soft snow:
leaves of the awed jonquil
bow low
—Matsuo Basho translation by Michael R. Burch
Come, investigate loneliness!
a solitary leaf
clings to the Kiri tree
—Matsuo Basho translation by Michael R. Burch
The cheerful-chirping cricket
contends gray...
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Categories:
trail, animal, butterfly, death, earth, life, nature, seasons,
Form:
Haiku
Matsuo Basho Haiku Translations IiDusk-gliding swallow,
please spare my small friends
flitting among the flowers!
—Matsuo Basho translation by Michael R. Burch
A bee emerging
from deep within the peony's hairy recesses
flies off, sated
—Matsuo Basho translation by Michael R. Burch
That dying cricket,...
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Categories:
trail, autumn, death, life, seasons, spring, summer, winter,
Form:
Haiku
Apocalyptic Poems IiThese are prophetic poems and apocalyptic poems ...
Beast 666
by Michael R. Burch
“... what rough beast ... slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?”?W. B. Yeats
Brutality is a cross
wooden, blood-stained,
gas hissing, sibilant,
lungs gilled, deveined,
red flecks on a...
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Categories:
trail, earth, earth day, environment, future, visionary, weather,
Form:
Rhyme
Haiku Translations of the Oriental MastersGrasses wilt:
the braking locomotive
grinds to a halt
—Yamaguchi Seishi, translation by Michael R. Burch
Oh, fallen camellias,
if I were you,
I'd leap into the torrent!
—Takaha Shugyo, translation by Michael R. Burch
The first soft snow:
leaves of the awed jonquil
bow...
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Categories:
trail, animal, beauty, imagery, nature, philosophy, world,
Form:
Haiku
Native American TranslationsNative American Translations
Cherokee Travelers' Blessing I
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
I will extract the thorns from your feet.
For yet a little while, we will walk life's sunlit paths together.
I will love you like my own...
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Categories:
trail, america, earth, native american, nature, prayer,
Form:
Free verse
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:
trail, atheist, bible, christian, god, jesus, religion, religious,
Form:
Verse
Salat DaysSalat Days
by Michael R. Burch
(dedicated to my grandfather, Paul Ray Burch Sr.)
I remember how my grandfather used to pick poke salat ...
though first, usually, he’d stretch back in the front porch swing,
dangling his long...
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Categories:
trail, age, america, appreciation, depression, endurance, poverty,
Form:
Free verse
A Christmas Snow Angel - Part 1The young lady's car slowed to a stop ...
As she pulled as far off the highway, (onto the shoulder), as she could
(Allowing for any snow plow that might come along).
She had chosen poorly this time
Believing...
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Categories:
trail, angel, appreciation, christmas, snow, uplifting,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Transparent ExodusImagine we live in an eco-normative story
of competing for wealth-commodities,
cash piled in quantifiable currencies,
collectively blinded to our Win-Win
natural economic,
ecological,
psychological,
biological health and well-being
nurturing value roots.
One day, our PolyCultural Received View
unveils a co-operatively synergetic evolution
of...
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Categories:
trail, earth, environment, philosophy, political, psychological, spiritual, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
MOST REVEREND ARCH BISHOP CARDINAL JEROME LISTEKIOTETS THE MANY DAYS AND NIGHT YOU LENT ME YOUR
DIVINE EAR THROUGH PRAYER DURING HARDSHIP TIMES
AND ILLNESS RAISING MY GRANDDAUGHTER KEEPING HER
SAFE IN CATHOLIC SCHOOLS IN WISCONSIN OUR LADY OF
MOUNT CARMEL...
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Categories:
trail, allah,
Form:
Villanelle
The Bone Idol[First posted in 3 parts. Intended novel: time never allowed]
Prologue
This, Sir, is the prologue from before our tale begins
About the day our father did succumb to mortal sins
And left behind a man who would...
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Categories:
trail, fantasy,
Form:
Rhyme
TaporaLike Hannibal we crossed the pass and crossed
the Alps (okay, the Brynderwyn Hills)
and a bridge too far on north-west passage.
From out of the Valley of Mizpah
to...
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Categories:
trail, nostalgia,
Form:
Free verse
The Inner ChamberTHE INNER CHAMBER
Please. Stop holding back on me.
Like a child standing at the neighborhood ice cream truck, arm outstretched, eyes huge, mouth watering.
I stand here longing to slip underneath your decades of cold-rolled steel...
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Categories:
trail, betrayal, courage, devotion, love, love hurts, relationship,
Form:
Prose
Tuan Tata: Song of Uda - Parts One and Two TUAN TATA : Song of Uda - I
by T. Wignesan
(Patrick Noone, a British anthropologist, discovered the Ple-Temiar tribe living isolated in the jungle highlands in the State of Perak on the west coast of...
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Categories:
trail, death, murder, tiger, wife,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Once Upon a Halloween In the 50'sThe excitement mounted as we rummaged around in the attic looking through old steamer trunks for discarded clothes and props to make Halloween costumes. With an old suit and hat of Granddads, I became a...
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Categories:
trail, nostalgia,
Form:
Prose
FBI ARLINGTON HEIGHTS ILLINOIS CIVIL RIGHTS DIVISION CRISIS TEAM OF CONFIDENTIAL HUMAN SOURCESCRISIS TEAM : HELLO WE ARE HERE TO HELP
AGENT BROWN: I AWAKEN EVERY NIGHT IN TOTAL FEAR FOR MY SAFETY AFTER WEARING WIRES PREGNANT BUYING WEAPONS AND DRUGS FEARING FOR MINE AND MY CHILDREN...
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Categories:
trail, america, analogy, anxiety, forgiveness, hero,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
FBI FRAUDAs i reported my stalker and identity thief 2002 to the FBI she began climbing into my window for poetry my grandfathers world war 11 medal information this resulted in her arriving with a gunman...
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Categories:
trail, allah, family, poetry,
Form:
Epyllion
Growing Up, La - Part 2- - Chapter 2: Adult Responsibility (With Some Breaks) - -
By ten years old, no weekends off,
Or Saturday cartoons,
Although I did have cash to spend,
I felt my...
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Categories:
trail, life, , cute,
Form:
Rhyme
A Brief Epistle in Urgent Forewarning against Melancholia--Part I(Somewhere in late 18th-century Europe a friend, Laetitia, by way of a letter warns her beloved girlfriend, Euphoria--a young, gay and unsuspecting mistress--against the almost inevitable seductions of the infamous and maundering philanderer, Melancholia.).
Dear Euphoria,
...
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Categories:
trail, depression, friend, metaphor, philosophy, psychological, uplifting, wisdom,
Form:
Prose
Truth Is All An Act In Government ExposedOne small little country which houses
one of the highest paid governments
in this modern world joke ran upside down
A big part of our life existing reality
when the backbone is gone snakes appear with...
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Categories:
trail, betrayal, ireland, political, rights, society, truth,
Form:
Political Verse
The Poo Poo BirdThey pursued it with vigor, they pursued it with crass
They hunted with valor and hope
They proceeded with a dose of good Knightly sass
They chased it with tackle and rope
Now King Arthur declared in a boisterous...
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Categories:
trail, abortion, adventure, funny, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
2 Versions of 4 SeasonsThese 2 different versions are separated by nine years
Part 1
MUST BE SPRING
Small speckles of wild grass
Looking like tiny green drops
That had fallen to the earth
Were the very first sign
Waving in the...
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Categories:
trail, lost love, seasons, time,
Form:
Prose
Today's Journey Through Covid-19As I woke up this morning I was thinking of what should I do through COVID-19 pandemic.
I said to myself, “I want to go for a walk.”
While walking along the street, people were passing with...
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Categories:
trail, africa, baptism, beautiful, christian, courage, poems, wisdom,
Form:
Narrative