Long Triples Poems

Poems about Fathers and Grandfathers III




Success
by Michael R. Burch

for Jeremy

We need our children to keep us humble
between toast and marmalade;

there is no time for a ticker-tape parade
before bed, no award, no bright statuette

to be delivered...

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Poems about Children IV

Salat Days
by Michael R. Burch

Dedicated to the memory of 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...

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Sonnet Triples, Poet And Time's Thoughtful Musings

(1.)
The Sonnet And The Poetic Query

Playing on the crescent hill, moonglow dances,
  And dying mouse took its usual chances;
And wise owl sleeps off the night's happy meal
Life shines...

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Sonnet Triples, Poet And Time's Thoughtful Musings

(1.)
The Sonnet And The Poetic Query

Playing on the crescent hill, moonglow dances,
  And dying mouse took its usual chances;
And wise owl sleeps off the night's happy meal
Life shines...

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Children's Poems IV

These are poems for children and poems about children and their mothers, fathers, grandmother, grandfathers and extended families. 



Boundless
by Michael R. Burch

for Jeremy

Every day we whittle away at the essential solidity of him,
and...

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Crimson Waves Flow, As From A Red Rose,
    (From Sonnet Triples)

In Time, its eternally winding winds
therein flows a grace not to be denied
Earth, Mother Nature, oft man's truest of friends
are tears of...

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Speechless dreams are in denial. A word has arisen go grab that rifle. 

Shoot pain with lust as all humans do. Let faith drag sorrow making time feel abused. 

Simplify regret, fight a storm with...

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OL'E TY COBB OF YESTER YEAR, 
WAS A GENIUS IN SPIKES, OR SO I HEAR. 

HE RAN THE BASES WITH A BURST OF SPEED. 
LIKE ADRENALINE JUNKY IN TIME OF NEED. 

STOLE SECOND BASE WITH...

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Flailin’,  flailin’, flailin’;
There goes my ball sailin’
Into a trap, the water or the woods.

Flailin’, flailin’, flailin’;
You can hear me wailin’,
“Why won’t that damn ball go where it should?

Drives go right.  Putts go wrong.
I...

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God on my side
Guides my path and controls ripples
That endeavor to sneak astride
Initiatives I take in triples

To galvanize and utilize my talents
To the fullest in concordance with the Creator’s specifications and intentions
Cooperating and collaborating with...

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We All know Better
By Curtis Johnson

Your smiling face will often disguise the rapid and tedious race;
But I know better
Your sweet and pleasant demeanor sometimes displays God’s grace;
But not always, because at times it leaves a...

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Ravenous rats in our lives
Determined to nibble the nipples
Stabbed by knives
Cutting tenuous triples in ripples

Undulating and ululating
In horror
At the humiliating and excruciating
Error and terror

Erstwhile partners and associates
Commit or omit
To implicate affiliates
Whose remit

Captures, raptures and sutures...

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Valentines Night

The time of year
Where men line up in front of rows of heart cards
The night before the red lovers’ day
When the cost of roses doubles and triples
And restaurants are overbooked with reservations
Advertising their four...

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DEAR AUNTY NICKY

Dear Aunty Nicky,
I have been referred to you, 
my name is Fawn,
I’ve been awake all night
it’s almost dawn,
I seek your advice
On a personal issue,
Your column is reputed to be best, 
First, let me...

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Your such a crook.
 
You wrote the book.
 
One look was all it took.
 
Staring down the barrel of a loaded gun.
 
Knew then it was time to run.
 
Been under your spell for almost...

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Whisking clear white egg whites
Cracking one by one
As they stiffen
They double in size
Isn't it beautiful?
Like a cake rising in the oven
A pie crisping up
sifting flour
It sprinkles like fresh soft snow into the bowl
What a Marvel!
Kneading...

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Haiku-Triples, 
(Poems Born From Seeking Nature's Golden Treasures) 


In Mother Nature's Garden

blue sky and noon sun
flowing stream bubbling along
campfire, fish dinner

Robert J. Lindley, 6/14/2020
Haiku


As Nature's Treasures So Gift

morning, deep forest
mother doe, new fawn nearby
sunrise and...

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Hit 'em up!  Hit 'em up!
Up, out and away

Singles, doubles, triples
and of course, the Big Bombay!

Snitker stoically managing from
the dugout
Ron Washington on third and Eric
Young, Sr. on first helping runners out

Strider, Morton, Elder, and...

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I walk over archeology
relics of ancient times
and I,


fall as Tlaloc dreams 
with obsidian eyes 
and pulls me in, 
A High Priest
wields the dagger
as a virgin weeps
of manna, blood drips
as the sacrifice triples
the alliance fell 


a...

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A man not having long
To live, decides that
He wants to have his 
Last dance, so he makes
A bucket list, immediately
He flies to Las Vegas and tries
To gamble away his fortune
But instead, he triples his money
He...

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Making bells ring and sing
Within the beating soul
Within the ringing heart
Of the community
Playing my hidden part

Making bells ring and sing
Handstroke and soon backstroke
Feeling the church’s weight
Feeling the weight of bells
In a cycle of fate

Making bells...

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