Long Uncross Poems
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Where Does the Butterfly Go
Where Does the Butterfly Go?
by Michael R. Burch
for the children of the Holocaust and the Nakba
Where does the butterfly go
when lightning rails,
when thunder howls,
when hailstones scream,
when winter scowls,
when nights compound dark frosts with snow ...
Where...
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Categories:
uncross, holocaust,
Form:
Verse
Juvenilia: Early Poems Ix
Juvenilia: Early Poems IX
These are early poems of mine, written in my teens as a high school student and during my first two years of college.
Shock
by Michael R. Burch
It was early in the morning of...
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Categories:
uncross, boy, child, childhood, high school, student, teen,
Form:
Rhyme
Cat 5
I saw a cat quartet within my dodgy dream,
Sorta started worryin' that I'd gone off the beam,
Really began to wonder if my mind was gettin' weak,
They had their own language that only they could speak.
While...
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Categories:
uncross, cat, dream, song,
Form:
Quatrain
Good Ol' Triple-Six and the Eternal Drive-By - Part 2
- and, anyway, who breaks wind over double-M, a. k. a. Manson,
Marilyn?
I'll give a ride on my razor any day to
The-Second-Prime-of-Nine-to-the-Sixth,
who was around long before CD's, DVD's, MTV, and YOU / MYtube,
spitting out the healing...
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Categories:
uncross, hope, inspirational, jesus,
Form:
Free verse
RESCIND
Undo the past, unbreak the trust,
Unsay the words spoken in disgust.
Unhear the song the cuckoo sang,
Unsee the places we’ve never been,
Untread the paths we’ve yet to begin.
Undo the promise made in haste,
Unveil the plans we...
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Categories:
uncross, anger, divorce, forgiveness, lost, moving on, relationship,
Form:
Rhyme
Fulcrum
Fulcrum
Listen to me sweetheart.
It is easy to be a fool.
It requires no intelligence at all.
You will always listen to those who speak
Words you personally want to hear.
You will always ignore and belittle those
Who disagree...
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Categories:
uncross, angst,
Form:
Free verse
Burn, Ovid
Burn, Ovid
by Michael R. Burch
“Burn Ovid”—Austin Clarke
Sunday School,
Faith Free Will Baptist, 1973:
I sat imagining watery folds
of pale silk encircling her waist.
Explicit sex was the day’s “hot” topic
(how breathlessly I imagined hers)
as she taught us the...
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Categories:
uncross, desire, god, lust, religion, school, sensual, sexy,
Form:
Free verse
How a Perfunctory Poet Punctuates a Piece
A period here. a question mark there?
A handful of commas,,,tossed in the air
To fall all willy-nilly but he doesn't care.
Then he closes his eyes so he never sees,
And does it again with apostrophe's.
Next colons: and...
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Categories:
uncross, humor, writing,
Form:
Light Verse
How This Started
The room was unusually dark that tinny night,
As music and laughter replaced the light,
Toasts were given for proud glories earned,
As horrors of war exploded and burned.
My warrior father, the subject of such great acclaim,
My worrier...
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Categories:
uncross, confusion, life, thank you,
Form:
Bio
You Leave Me Hanging
I hate it that you leave me hanging
sat waiting for a word or smile
I tell myself you mean nothing to me
but I've crossed my fingers as I wait awhile
I pace the room with indifferance
pretending not...
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Categories:
uncross, introspection, life, day,
Form:
Quatrain
Glory of Deity
1.A, cardinal of alphabets
deity is pre-eminent.
2.What use thou learned?
unless venerating divine
3.Captives of his flower-heart
long live on earth.
4.Devotee of fair nature
never faces hazard.
5.Admirers of nature never
suffer ignorant fatalism.
6.Self controlling of sense
organs, long live.
7.Critics of unique divine
suffer...
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Categories:
uncross, nature,
Form:
Couplet
No Murdering
1.Virtue does not-kill; committing
yields other sins.
2.Sharing, guarding, available bread,
succeeds collected wisdom.
3.Better not-slaying first,unique
truthfulness comes next.
4.Holy-books’ right path, unthinking
virtuous not-kill beings.
5.Among feared renounced, fearing
not-killing is supreme.
6.Devouring-death uncross life-days of
followers of not-killing.
7.Never kill to save
thy loose...
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Categories:
uncross, murder,
Form:
Couplet
Uncross
Uncross your eyes and stop thinking about it they told you in third grade but you did not cry you had a faster mind to stop and think about that running sneaker across...
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Categories:
uncross, inspirational,
Form:
Free verse
Your Eggrolls Are Dry
Your eggrolls aren't dry.
Your eggrolls aren't wet.
You say they're just right.
like it's some sort of threat.
You hand me an eggroll
along with a plum sauce.
I can tell you're still mad
as your eyes start to uncross.
This time...
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Categories:
uncross, appreciation, bereavement, blessing, business, care, dedication, devotion,
Form:
Quatrain