Long Trample Poems
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SeeSee
by Michael R. Burch
See how her hair has thinned: it doesn’t seem
like hair at all, but like the airy moult
of emus who outraced the wind and left
soft plumage in their wake. See how her eyes
are...
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Categories:
trample, age, goodbye, life, loss, time, women,
Form:
Sonnet
You Never ListenedYou Never Listened
by Michael R. Burch
You never listened,
though each night the rain
wove its patterns again
and trembled and glistened...
You were not watching,
though each night the stars
shone, brightening the tears
in her eyes palely fetching...
You...
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Categories:
trample, baby, birth, children, extended metaphor, feelings, soulmate,
Form:
Sonnet
Old Pharaoh - 2 of 2For Pharaoh still exalts himself and thinks he’s in control,
But if he won’t release my folk, he’ll pay a heavy toll.
Tomorrow I will bring down hail like Egypt’s never seen,
On plants and trees and man...
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Categories:
trample, bible,
Form:
Ballad
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:
trample, betrayal, courage, devotion, love, love hurts, relationship,
Form:
Prose
Starlight and Moonlight IiStarlight and Moonlight II
These are poems about starlight and moonlight, moons and stars, dreams and visions, illuminations and intimations …
Deliver Us...
by Michael R. Burch
for my mother, Christine Ena Burch
The night is dark and scary—
under...
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Categories:
trample, dream, love, moon, night, sky, star, stars,
Form:
Rhyme
Territory TrampleHeadlights messaged through midnight windows
Curtainless glass unable to subdue the urgency
Car obtained in street nearby was theirs temporarily
Three hour drive to ship leaving island next morning
Two sixteen year old girls barely registered surprise...
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Categories:
trample, 11th grade, change, conflict, for teens, journey,
Form:
Bio
The Reptilian Anthropocene
"The Reptilian Anthropocene"
The Reptilians
war daily
enrobed in their
stiff distinction suits
rainbow coloured badges
pinned to their lapels
they beat their breasts
and oily palms
profiting from all
the soft-boiled
foxes on the run
cerebral cortex bound
thinking they are free-willed
and...
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Categories:
trample, horror, humanity, war,
Form:
Free verse
Skeletons In the ClosetLet your skeletons out of the closet and let them dance with mine, the way that our bodies once moved together in an unspoken of time
I am one of these skeletons, maybe your biggest one...
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Categories:
trample, dark,
Form:
Rhyme
Reaching Out To YouI feel like my life is a clean slate
When I’m reaching out to you
I feel you lingering in my thoughts...
You stitched up my insecure frame of mind
And stitched up the little pieces of memory...
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Categories:
trample, confusion, courage, fear, freedom, giving, journey, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Halloween Poems IiiNo One
by Michael R. Burch
No One hears the bells tonight;
they tell him something isn’t right.
But No One is not one to rush;
he lies in grasses greenly lush
as far away a startled thrush
flees from horned owls...
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Categories:
trample, angel, dark, eve, evil, fear, gothic, horror,
Form:
Rhyme
Rough Roads To RoamThe flames of the furnace (well-travelled by wind
slowly glazing the rags of gray women chagrined
at the sight of a hair fleeing tresses now thinned)
sometimes billow like waves flooding naves through the night,
when the lightning...
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Categories:
trample, culture, earth, humanity, planet, world,
Form:
Rhyme
I Could Never Be the RainMy life started with rain,
the steady stream of drops,
hitting the trees gently
and ending its descent to our world
on the wet pavement.
I am on the sidewalk,
sheltered by a makeshift roof and
a border of trees.
The...
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Categories:
trample, body, loneliness, longing, passion, rain, symbolism, voice,
Form:
Free verse
Urgent Message To Send Mephistophelian Madman Back To Stone AgeThough I wrote no book
attention summoned to look
at following--->>>
Urgent message – to send Mephistophelian madman back to stone age
predicated upon past and present, I gauge
will offer ogre golden opportunity
to rewrite anarchistic playbook...
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Categories:
trample, abuse, america, bullying, conflict, dark, depression, evil,
Form:
Rhyme
A Letter in Forewarning of Melancholia--Part Ii(continued from, "An Epistle Warning against Melancholia: an Allegory--Part I," where 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...
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Categories:
trample, depression, friend, metaphor, philosophy, psychological, uplifting, wisdom,
Form:
Prose
If Ever I Had a Country: Lxxix - Bang Bang Who Shot Me Down Like An Un-Licensed DogIF EVER I HAD A COUNTRY: LXXIX - Bang! Bang! Who Shot Me Down like an Un-licensed Dog !
IF ever I had a country, a country certainly
not subject to the whistle of a...
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Categories:
trample, america, fantasy, firework, humor, power, war,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
SeasonsSpring — a life anew
Prodding rays of warming glow,
sunshine.
Crusted ice and snow
slowly melting into trickling drops.
First to bloom
a crocus blue, a tulip tries to rise.
How long the wait
and freezing rain
chilled the weary bones.
Heat up...
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Categories:
trample, seasons,
Form:
Blank verse
Fukuda Chiyo-ni haiku translations 3Fukuda Chiyo-ni Haiku
Fukuda Chiyo-ni was a Japanese poet and painter of the Edo period, also known as Kaga no Chiyo.
Having seen the moon
I can bid this planet
farewell.
—Chiyo-ni, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
The moon settled
in...
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Categories:
trample, animal, dream, heart, humanity, moon, planet, wind,
Form:
Haiku
Our Sacred Lady of the Divine Perfect Imperfections - Part 1
"Our Sacred Lady of the Divine Perfect Imperfections" - Part 1
Our Sacred Lady of the Divine Perfect Imperfections
is worthy of our fervent introspection
constantly, equatiously
for SHE is “You”
and “You” is SHE
this is no mischievous
chicanery,
this...
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Categories:
trample, abuse, child abuse, family, journey, love, mother
Form:
Free verse
Antinatalist PoemsAntinatalist Poems
Habeas Corpus
by Michael R. Burch
I have the results of your DNA analysis.
If you want to have children, this may induce paralysis.
I wish I had good news, but how can I lie?
Any offspring you...
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Categories:
trample, baby, birth, child, child abuse, childhood, children,
Form:
Rhyme
Monster MowersI am quite content with my little mowing machine; it does the job for me.
But not my crazy neighbors whom I used to call my friends, briefly…
Now they’ve become competitive, crazed out, monsters looking for...
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Categories:
trample, adventure, fantasy, funny, humorous, imagination, life, people,
Form:
Free verse
Where Barren Branches Touch Newborn LeavesScurrying on my way home, a little leaf catches my eye, and I am compelled yet again to slow down.
a whirlwind of thoughts
compete with swaying of trees~
lone leaf on my shoe
I am not sure exactly...
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Categories:
trample, absence, introspection, leaving, life, mystery, nostalgia, tree,
Form:
Haibun
Monday ReboundHe rushed in the office with his bag in one hand, and coffee in the other hand; steam is shooting from his coffee cup, and he has eaten more than a dozen doughnut.
What on...
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Categories:
trample, absence, blessing, break up, business, city, community,
Form:
Narrative
Unquotable Quotes: Xlv - Tongue-Teasing EpigramsUNQUOTABLE QUOTES: XLV - Tongue teasing epigrams
A stitch in time can save an arranged marriage and stave off a family feud, not to mention everlasting vendettas.
Still waters run deep in sleep.
When the hens begin to...
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Categories:
trample, humor, judgement, satire, word play, words,
Form:
Epigram
Beware of the Vicious Dogs of WarfareOH! We must all be aware and we shall all know about the vicious dogs of warfare!
They trample underfoot and shed innocent blood and they shall not escape the wrath of almighty God! For He...
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Categories:
trample, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Narrative
The Saving of Joel Claughtrey, Part IiiJoel just collapsed into the brown dirt,
clutching his face in both of his palms,
cried,”Running Moon, the day that you ‘died,’
was the day my life started to go wrong!
“I drank for days, mourning for you so,
It...
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Categories:
trample, adventure, family, father son, lost love, love,
Form:
Narrative