Long Unsteady Poems
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Otomo No Sakanoue No Iratsume TranslationTo a Daughter More Precious than Gems
by Otomo no Sakanoue no Iratsume
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
Heaven's cold dew has fallen—
and thus another season arrives.
Oh, my child living so far away,
do you pine for me...
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Categories:
unsteady, child, childhood, children, daughter, girl, mother, mother
Form:
Tanka
Poems About Things That Break IPoems about Things that Break I
These are poems about things that break and/or shatter: a bubble, glass, a mirror, a twig or tree limb, a thunderstorm, cities and towers in times of war, old...
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Categories:
unsteady, break up, depression, goodbye, leaving, loneliness, lonely,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Things That Break IiiPoems about Things that Break III
These are poems about things that break and/or shatter: a bubble, glass, a mirror, a twig or tree limb, a thunderstorm, cities and towers in times of war, old...
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Categories:
unsteady, break up, farewell, pain, relationship, society, solitude,
Form:
Rhyme
On My Mother PassingON MY MOTHER’S PASSING
i wanted to keep my mother physically with me
but it would be like trying to hold the sun
like in life she still shines brighter than any star
is as gentle as the finest...
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Categories:
unsteady, cheer up, mother, mother son,
Form:
Narrative
Winter, 1948WINTER, 1948 [40 Saxton Street]
for W.W
The winter nights that pass now
are so unlike the winter nights
that passed before, that I often
struggle back in those suspended moments
when sleep grapples for a hold,
to once again hear the...
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Categories:
unsteady, age, childhood, family, nostalgia,
Form:
Free verse
Lost In the Mists, Parts I-IvLost In the Mists Parts I - IV
...
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Categories:
unsteady, mystery, spiritual, visionary,
Form:
Free verse
The Ghost of Christmas PresentTerrence the Turkey was feeling quite perky
Passing time in his rafter and doing no harm
No fighting nor squabbling, just gabbling and gobbling
Turkey talking turkey down on the farm.
Whilst having a natter, tame turkey type chatter
Before...
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Categories:
unsteady, adventure, animal, bird, celebration, christmas, food, freedom,
Form:
Quatrain
Sacred Lakes
“Sacred Lakes”
There is magic
in your shaman bones
stories shaken like strange mojo
busy under cover of autumn leaves
turning burnished topaz gold
idling unrushed roll over
in honeyed slumber
turning back hands
to face a time of
blushing...
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Categories:
unsteady, journey, love, magic,
Form:
Romanticism
Aye Passively Plead Death To Please Release Me From Agonizing Clutches(alternately titled: Typical daily mindset today –
July 17th, 2020)
The following words
mostly unredacted, nevertheless finessed
for curbed poetic/prosaic appeal
lock, stock and barrel
codify, and edify (hoopfully not mortify)
any reader unbeknownst and/or familiar
with unsteady state of yours truly,
(an...
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Categories:
unsteady, absence, cheer up, death, fate, grief, hope,
Form:
Free verse
My Broken Heart~Conversation With My Broken Heart~
Since I woke up today my heart has been complaining why
lately I am tormenting it, why cant I leave it alone, why am
I pushing it to the limit of...
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Categories:
unsteady, loneliness, lost love, recovery from,
Form:
Free verse
The Watcher from the Door
I saw the elfin man stand
...
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Categories:
unsteady, childhood, imagination, night, perspective,
Form:
Rhyme
Awaking from stuporI was never quite a candy kid
But I jumped right into the soup
I had a list of my favorite chemicals on the wall in college, a tribute, an ode
My first cigarette owned me, called on...
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Categories:
unsteady, addiction, conflict, emotions, growth, inspiration, mental health,
Form:
Free verse
The Butterfly WhispererI saw Pop sitting just outside the veranda, slumped over in his wheelchair, his limp left arm tied to the chair’s railing. He looked up and waved with his good hand. “Sara!” he...
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Categories:
unsteady, butterfly, father, father daughter, grief, inspirational,
Form:
Prose Poetry
HaloThe music video is more or less a continuation to the poem. So please play it when cued in the poem text and continue enjoying the music and lyrics.
Another bar unceremoniously has ‘asked’ him...
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Categories:
unsteady, depression, drink, inspirational, love, romantic, sensual,
Form:
Rhyme
Islands In the StormLet the storms of rage pace us by my friends, for we have our islands
Of friendships resting in calmer waters, shelter coves of treasures devotions
Never to be rocked away, or relinquished!
Admits tidal shifting, know I’m...
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Categories:
unsteady, boat, devotion, feelings, friendship, love, spiritual, storm,
Form:
Free verse
ReligionIt is not my intent to Laypeople offend,
When I refer to religion contrived by greedy men.
Not all, some individuals always ready,
To take time out to help the needy, unsteady.
No, the religious...
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Categories:
unsteady, religion,
Form:
Rhyme
Afternoon With My AuntYou came into her house through the kitchen.
The big door in from the front porch
Hadn't been used for years;
Furniture stood hard against it.
A knock at the front door meant a stranger.
Aunt Celesta makes a...
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Categories:
unsteady, caregiving, childhood, family, feelings, together,
Form:
Free verse
The Night the Stars Fell From Heavenat last something broke you
and that something, it was you
you were closing your eyes
you were seeing it through
you blew up and sold
the world outside and within
and i fell on your black day
you showed me how...
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Categories:
unsteady, death, eulogy, hero, loss, memorial, suicide, surreal,
Form:
Free verse
Preparing My ThoughtsThat moment, when you realize its time.
Time to eventually climb, those golden stairs.
Preparing your thoughts, your mind, body and soul, through the layers
Layers of fear, layers of all things that placed you onto your knees.
With...
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Categories:
unsteady, death, fear, feelings, grief, how i feel,
Form:
I do not know?
Post Op Pressures 10Suzanne thought she felt the slightest of vibration.So slight in fact she could not be sure
If she had imagined it.
Arlis woke as she worked her hand down the leg feeling for the searing heat...
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Categories:
unsteady, anxiety, natural disasters, world,
Form:
Free verse
The Art of the UniverseLooming way up high in the sky, holds a friendly, but shy star; which posses the caring, and strong-willed
determination, which controls the poor star at every waking moment.
The determination to fit in and be...
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Categories:
unsteady, adventure, beauty, imagery, journey, life, power, star,
Form:
Free verse
InfernoBEAUTY:
I step into the room,
Crowded
Boiling over with noise
A crescendo of laughter
Laughter I cannot join in on
People, faces I do not know
I feel shy, embarrassed
Did I dress well today?
Who knows?
I move around, I do what...
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Categories:
unsteady, imagination, love, passion, people, heart, heart, smile,
Form:
Narrative
The Strongest Woman, Part Ii...She said,”I need to talk about something,
that for a long while has bothered me.
For the first time in all of my life,
I do not know what I should be.
“For so long I had it all...
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Categories:
unsteady, angst, children, life, strength, stress, women, work,
Form:
Narrative
The Hero At the Gates, Part II.
Korlan lived in the Kingdom of Bellteer,
in the capital city of Magoss,
working as a guard on the city walls,
even better, they stationed him up top.
Didn’t have to talk to those who came in,
just walked his...
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Categories:
unsteady, betrayal, community, conflict, fantasy, hero, war,
Form:
Epic
Melancholia 1We mere shadows seek supports
When somewhere else lie our beings
Uncared for in inarticulate shores,
By debris left of uprisings.
Before the delayed departure
Does our bliss alight for a while
On precipices. In the...
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Categories:
unsteady, introspection, prejudice, , Lullaby,
Form:
Verse