Long Underfoot Poems
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Haiku 1
The Original Sin: Rhyming Haiku!
Haiku
should never rhyme:
it’s a crime!
-Michael R. Burch
The herons stand,
sentry-like, at attention ...
rigid observers of some unknown command.
-Michael R. Burch
Late
fall;
all
the golden leaves turn black underfoot:
soot
-Michael R. Burch
Dry leaf...
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Categories:
underfoot, family, heart, love, mother son, nature, seasons,
Form:
Haiku
Who Put Luebella Down the Wych Elm
"Who Put Luebella down the Wych Elm?"
There are rumours
about me, some
come seeking me
with their geiger counters
and ouji boards
with their heart
shaped planchettes
unanswered questions
in the woods, crackling
within the sounds of leaves
invisible dead things speaking
underfoot...
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Categories:
underfoot, muse, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
Zen Death Haiku
Zen Death Haiku
Brittle cicada shell,
little did I know
you were my life!
—Shuho, translation by Michael R. Burch
Returning
as it came,
this naked worm.
—Shidoken, translation by Michael R. Burch
As dew glistens
on a lotus leaf,
so too I soon must vanish.
—Shinsui,...
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Categories:
underfoot, age, autumn, bereavement, death, death of a
Form:
Haiku
Whats Behind the Curtain
I used to dream of a dark hall. Dim. Empty with thick cheap navy curtains.
The breeze. It felt hot and old. It shivered in the curtains that lined the walls on both sides.
The breeze....
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Categories:
underfoot, anxiety, dark, dream, imagery, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
Behind
I used to dream of a dark hall. Dim. Empty with thick cheap navy curtains.
The breeze. It felt hot and old. It shivered in the curtains that lined the walls on both sides.
The breeze....
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Categories:
underfoot, anxiety, depression, emo, suicide,
Form:
Blank verse
She Carries TUKAHOK In Her Chest
she is matawàhkwí
of the pullaook — turkey clan
she is lenni lenape
born where marsh meets
sky’s reflection
where grass (aski) bends
to east wind (achpateuny)
and water (mbi) feeds
all it touches
the year's spirit
in spiral moons
not lines on paper
each moon
opens its...
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Categories:
underfoot, culture, family, history, native american, ocean, river,
Form:
Epic
Laura Norder 2 - New Balls Please
Laura Norder took her gun and strapped it to her thigh
The skirt she wore was so damned short she had to strap it high
And stood there on the corner where the street lamps dare not...
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Categories:
underfoot, courage,
Form:
Narrative
Harvest Moon O're Withered Fields
...the village shivers a hive of restless souls
skin pricklin' with anticipation
as costumed runners fixin' to gather — hearts a-thrummin'
...
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Categories:
underfoot, autumn, culture, halloween, humanity, october, romance,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Stillness in November
Over harvested fields —
I walk beneath the fading afterglow
of a forgotten lantern a path worn
by wanderers older than the scroll of Zeno
its damp salve seeping through my coat
into my bones
Fog an Erebian curtain...
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Categories:
underfoot, autumn, farm, november,
Form:
Pastoral
Far Away, Far Away
Far Away, Far Away
Children when you dream at night you may see an awesome sight!
Magic fairies in the dew near trilliums of snow white hue.
You must search within your dreams by the light of midnight...
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Categories:
underfoot, childhood, fairy, fantasy, imagery, nature, nursery rhyme,
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:
underfoot, cat, dream, song,
Form:
Quatrain
major storm on the horizon reported from the forecastle
major storm on the horizon reported from the "Fo'c'sle"
Though forever being a landlubber
a vision analogous to the nether world
deep within the bowels of the Earth
immensely distant from the sheltering sky
amidst a thick fog enveloped landscape
with...
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Categories:
underfoot, absence, anxiety, destiny, god, mental health, mythology,
Form:
Free verse
The Stone Unturned
There are three little words on tiny stones strewn along the floor
of a never-ending stream which runs through a misty moor.
A marvelous moor of uncertainty where mysteriously all are led
to cross a flowing water all...
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Categories:
underfoot, love, metaphor, , extended metaphor,
Form:
Rhyme
Moomy, Smoke and a Pancake
Sweet mother, Virginia Slim wedged between your fingers,
that last light willed to die at the rig
of a darkened room.
You—half-goddess, half-ghost, pinioned in some still-life setting
of tumbled smoke and silver hair. ...
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Categories:
underfoot, appreciation, introspection, mother son,
Form:
Free verse
Malfeasance of my money
Malfeasance of my money
which perpetrators most likely find quite funny
Super bastards and sons of es wantonly deceive
easily earning the sobriquet nefarious charlatans heave
vainly doing devilish deeds done dirt cheap and leave
a broke bloke (such as...
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Categories:
underfoot, abuse, anger, angst, anti bullying, august, bullying,
Form:
Free verse
Understood
"Understood"
My feet stand solemn
grounded they're barefoot
sinking in the undertow,
feeling what’s real
my toes grip the past
while the slow words
wash it irrevocably away
the ego sashays
and hangs that Faust in the wardrobe
Locks it away
turns the...
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Categories:
underfoot, journey, love,
Form:
Free verse
Mine Nightmare With Social Anxiety
Mine Nightmare With Social Anxiety,...
Now Mostly Purged
Decades removed when body electric
felt tortured reverberated, and quaked
with MegaDeath repercussions tattooing,
piercing, foisting, ensnaring, drubbing
drum beat indelibly 'pon psyche NON
MEMORABLE years gone bye felled
psyche with...
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Categories:
underfoot, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, fate,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
A Noble Tree
The heavens shimmer
as billowy linen-white gossamer clouds slip away, as soft blossoms open for the sun.
Mystical wings of Eden brush sunset colors;
caress the rose petal; touch the lustrous cream bisque glossed onto an...
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Categories:
underfoot, allusion, anxiety, appreciation, beautiful,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Christmas Thoughts From My Friend
when I went through the living room they had turned the lights off on the tree, all but the star, sitting at the very top of the tree above all the ornaments, still shining brightly...
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Categories:
underfoot, fate,
Form:
Free verse
Being Your Eyes For Swell
Being Your Eyes for Swell 2007
Swell: Currumbin Sculpture Festival
For Fred
Picture us arm in arm, strolling,
the crunch of sand underfoot,
the scent of sea air, the touch of sea wind
on our skin, again on the beach...
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Categories:
underfoot, appreciation, art, beauty, care, friendship, nature,
Form:
Free verse
Collab Convos Jt
Jazz man of the mill suffering atomic verse
Born of the waves, air-raids of sound
Moons to profile the edge of weather
And sun to light the way
Inside the cliffs and black holes beyond...
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Categories:
underfoot, august, autumn, blessing,
Form:
I do not know?
The Land Continued
When I was a youth the earth was our friend, as it was our means of escape. We would run and chase each other across great distances, far away from the confines of home...
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Categories:
underfoot, age, childhood, earth, growing up, imagination, loss,
Form:
Narrative
Papyrus, Lapis Lazuli and the Valley of the Kings - Part 1
"Papyrus, Lapis Lazuli and the Valley of the Kings - Part 1"
“Tell me about the Valley of the Kings”, her lips moved speaking
to someone,
sitting somewhere
on the other side of the Glass...
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Categories:
underfoot, adventure, dream, mythology, romance, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
Armageddon, Lyrics
Broken souls and disillusioned dreams.
(Drowning in a sea of dread…)
Broken toys and angels without wings.
(Fragile things…)
Weep for the fallen brothers and infants without mothers.
(No light, hopes where broken…)
Pained tears encompass the empyreal rays.
(No more days…)
Pompous...
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Categories:
underfoot, death, war, world war i, world war
Form:
Lyric
Our Completeness
Rumi Verse: The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself, everything that you want you already are.
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Phenotype-inherited flaw chimera
fantasy flurry...
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Categories:
underfoot, analogy, appreciation, bereavement, betrayal, character, perspective,
Form:
Free verse