Long Twas Poems
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Gluttonous Connoisseur of Ethnic Culinary Cuisines
Yours truly would never be confused for a gourmand, nevertheless I could enjoy experiencing taste testing select food samples if offered an opportunity of attending a fancy feast viz smörgåsbord, whereby oral indulgence would arouse,...
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Categories:
twas, addiction, appreciation, birthday, blessing, chicago, dream, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Mad Molly Shaw
This is the story of mad Molly Shaw
She might be mad now but she wasn’t before
she came home to find her man dead on the floor
She lay down her bible and let out a roar...
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Categories:
twas, western,
Form:
Rhyme
Son Say Goodnight To Grandpa
“Son”...”say goodnight to grandpa”
Spurred by mother dearest
as well as other politesse
drummed into her second born
fobbing blandishments as incentive
tumbled off fingers of prodigal son
tripped wordsmith to splutter forth
forthwith the following lines.
Back in the day
quaint...
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Categories:
twas, 12th grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, absence,
Form:
Rhyme
Food glorious food
Food glorious food
Asia generic guy gastronomy (and how gourmet foods eat destructively clearly beyond any) excess enthusiasm, the necessity to feed and clothe this lean mean exercising machine gunning corporeal essence christened Matthew Scott Harris...
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Categories:
twas, 12th grade, adventure, america, appreciation, blessing, celebration,
Form:
Rhyme
The Hotel Caretaker
How unparticular the day had particularly been,
On March the third of two-thousand and eighteen,
For the caretaker at an historic Adirondack Inn,
Had lacked company, and therefore, dopamine.
‘Twas Sunday when all the guests had fled,
From either...
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Categories:
twas, death, grief, introspection, march, mystery, remember,
Form:
Rhyme
The Tea Party
"Go on forth young graduates,
And show us who you are
You're now our future leaders
We know you will go far"
And so commencement ended
Pictures done and people changed
Now, off to private parties
All orderly pre-arranged
But four young girls...
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Categories:
twas, america, future, graduate, graduation, life, sad, society,
Form:
Epic
Sonnets Lxi-Lxx
Sonnets LXI-LXX
Erin
by Michael R. Burch
All that’s left of Ireland is her hair?
bright carrot?and her milkmaid-pallid skin,
her brilliant air of cavalier despair,
her train of children?some conceived in sin,
the others to avoid it. For nowhere
is evidence of...
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Categories:
twas, heart, night, spiritual, wife, words, write, writing,
Form:
Sonnet
The True Mother
“The True Mother”
What part of a heart
in another could one trust
when betrayal comes
like a silver bullet, words and deeds
sharp piercing to burrow
bleed out Life’s dreams
rust crumbles to dust
Virulent apathy spreads
Betrayal’s destruction
hand...
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Categories:
twas, betrayal, imagery, love, mother daughter, psychological, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
Visit To Antietam
Alone I arrive, walking from Frederick
over the gaps, across gentle hills
out onto a knoll
overlooking this burnished landscape.
Before me I see countless writhing rows
of indiscernible shapes gathered
in terrible rituals mid fire and smoke
darkening the sun.
From distant...
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Categories:
twas, america, conflict, history, together, war,
Form:
Ode
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:
twas, fantasy,
Form:
Rhyme
The Badly Drawn Goat
The pencil now resting the image was 'testing' for the creature before him, (his badly-drawn drawin') had come out 'not right' somewhat twisted and tight.
The picture in question, it burst with suggestion, for lines that...
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Categories:
twas, animal, creation, funny,
Form:
Rhyme
Self Destructive Wickedness Arrested, Convicted, and Gaoled
Self destructive wickedness arrested, convicted, and gaoled...
with kidnapping little boy
ordered to suffer
life sentence without parole.
The deadly scourge of
one obsessive/compulsive disorder
nearly left me starving to death.
Anorexia nervosa absent bulimia
nadir of onset
diagnoses...
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Categories:
twas, 2nd grade, 6th grade, 7th grade, absence,
Form:
Free verse
Veiled
"Lizzie Borden took an axe,
gave her mother forty whacks,
when she saw what she had done,
gave her father forty-one,
she washed herself from a watered pail,
she claimed their lies and vicious tales,
she pled not guilty and moaned...
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Categories:
twas, allusion, analogy, evil, father daughter, imagery, murder,
Form:
Narrative
The Picture of Dorian Gray: Paint Me As An Event
The Picture of Dorian Gray: Paint Me As An Event
The Picture of Dorian Gray, a decent fanciful novel by Irish writer Oscar Wilde, published in 1890. The novel, the only one written by Wilde, had...
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Categories:
twas, angst, character, muse,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
April 9th, 2024 would be ninety fifth birthday poem for dearly departed papa
April 9th, 2024 would be ninety fifth birthday poem for dearly departed papa
The following words crafted soon after the soul of me daddy set adrift into the empyrean realm joining the rank and file of...
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Categories:
twas, absence, age, anniversary, april, bereavement, death, father,
Form:
Rhyme
MY Collaboration with Actor, Singer: Ricky Nelson in the Mid Winter of ''80: PART I
MY Collaboration with Ricky Nelson in the Last Days of 1980
The eventful news of that day about what was found on board that crashed plane, won't replace that particular memory of Mr. Rick Nelson's hearty...
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Categories:
twas, appreciation, celebrity, girlfriend, imagery, lost, peace, wife,
Form:
Narrative
Quest of the Heart: Chapter Two
Brave Shadow Mane
Falling free at a tremendous velocity
Cursing my decision for acting in haste
Through clouds and frozen rain I could not see the ground
Losing consciousness, in my mouth blood I could taste
Now this was indeed...
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Categories:
twas, adventure, for her, journey, lost love, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Crown of Sonnets in Iambic Pentameter: In Story-Tale-in-Form
Crown of Sonnets in Iambic Pentameter: The Tale of Prince Zag
Note: The tale is six (6) sonnets long, each sonnet has 14 lines, each line contains variable words bearing 10 syllables, nevertheless, this tale bears...
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Categories:
twas, analogy,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Sick Art
"Sick Art"
I walk the streets
still and quiet
I do not lie
I do not betray
what the heart belies
pickled kidneys
I am a ghost
of my former self
ears lent to hear
the sweet music
of the sounds so fraught
caught up...
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Categories:
twas, dark, horror, mystery,
Form:
Free verse
The Twin Towers Disaster Or a True Friend Part 1
Touching my hand was a wet doggy.
Whatever my fate was going to be,
My dog, my hero would be with me,
If he was in terror it did not show,
I was the weak one that I know.
With...
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Categories:
twas, poetry,
Form:
Light Verse
Quest of the Heart: Chapter One
Of Ghosts and Fiends in Twilight
The sun sank low on the darkening horizon
Grey mist hung adrift over the land thickening
A cold, brisk autumn wind held and embraced me
With my horse’s pace and that of...
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Categories:
twas, adventure, for her, journey, lost love, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Gingerbread Cottage Fright
At the edge of a wood, in days of summertime,
Lived Hansel and Gretel, once upon a time;
Whose dear father, a poor woodcutter,
Could no longer earn their bread and butter.
Late one night, a conversation overheard--
As from...
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Categories:
twas, children, family, fantasy, happy,
Form:
Rhyme
Highborn
CAST:
Prince Zag The Freid: Son of King Othor The Freid, younger brother of Prince Zig The Freid
Duke Mor: Close friend of King Othor and an arbiter between father the king and of his son the...
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Categories:
twas, allegory, character, destiny, fantasy,
Form:
Rhyme
Quest of the Heart: Chapter Four
Grey Bane and the Dark Lord
Perched on a stalagmite jutting up from the floor
Hugo was staring at length across the cave
My eyes accustomed to the glow followed his gaze
Frozen in ice was my Love whom...
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Categories:
twas, adventure, for her, journey, lost love, love,
Form:
Rhyme
-mama Linda-
You know some verse and poems are Fiction this is a True story that happen to me today...
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…Well, it’s 9:28 am…
On today August 16, 2019
I was on break twixt my job, of driving school children.
Was...
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Categories:
twas, adventure, analogy, friendship, humanity, spoken word, surreal,
Form:
Narrative