Long Vacant Poems
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Home invasions identify fraud federal bureau of investigation Arlington Heights Illinois Murder2003
This horrid identity fraud began 2003 tampa my desperate plea for help I contacted special agent Paula Brand from Arlington heights Federal Bureau of Investigation also special agent Leroy Heimbach federal bureau of investigation Arlington...
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Categories:
vacant, allah,
Form:
Naat
When It Struck 11
When it struck 11, I sighed in relief
When it struck 11, I haven't felt grief
The time kept ticking on and it wasn't brief
And I'm so… patiently shaking like a leaf
Vigorously feeling vital everyday...
Every minute...every second...come...
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Categories:
vacant, angst, anxiety, betrayal, conflict, courage, emotions, endurance,
Form:
Free verse
The Hardships of Honesty - Neither Will I
I often surprise many people in many ways
With the words I say…with the actions I make…
It’s extraordinary how many seek high praise
With the words they say…with the actions they fake…
Neither will I…
Assume the worst in...
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Categories:
vacant, angst, conflict, emotions, endurance, faith, hope, passion,
Form:
Free verse
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:
vacant, death, grief, introspection, march, mystery, remember,
Form:
Rhyme
Currents
Currents
by Michael R. Burch
How can I write and not be true
to the rhythm that wells within?
How can the ocean not be blue,
not buck with the clapboard slap of tide,
the clockwork shock of wave on rock,
the...
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Categories:
vacant, assonance, extended metaphor, language, metaphor, music, poetry,
Form:
Verse
Open Oceans
"Open Oceans"
Kneeling on pearls
wisdom preys
praying
preying
hungry hearts
count the days
wasting away
in all that preying
for prayers
to be answered
children become
strangers
reading
strange words
finding
themselves puzzled
genuflecting to a deity
they do not know, nor wish to
fumbling
mouths closed,
swallowed hole
in the...
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Categories:
vacant, journey, love, mother daughter,
Form:
Epic
An Bee Cailleach
“Éagmais croí a dhíscaoileadh ar gach eagla.
Faoi dhíon taobh istigh de na blianta seo.
Fanacht i bhfianaise, a dhíscaoileadh ar gach eagla.
Ós rud é go ndearnadh tú a chaitheamh.
Briseadh an tost seo”
"An Bee Cailleach"
She lives to...
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Categories:
vacant, fantasy, imagery, joy, life, love, magic, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
Malkavian Three
His glowing golden eyes glistened with a comprehension beyond the mortal condition
A well-toned, tall, and tanned man, who most, not all, would call handsome
A brightly bleached stalactite overbite gleaned between the mean features of an...
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Categories:
vacant, dark, psychological,
Form:
Bio
The Fallen
“The Fallen”
Remote,
he sees himself
in the reflection of cold close
yet distant shop windows,
his final journey along the
Hard Time Road
walking alone,
unforgiven, no home
for the rest of his natural life
a million knives...
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Categories:
vacant, family, freedom, friendship, god, i am, jesus,
Form:
Free verse
The Tender Weight of Her Sighs
The Tender Weight of Her Sighs
by Michael R. Burch
The tender weight of her sighs
lies heavily upon my heart;
apart from her, full of doubt,
without her presence to revolve around,
found wanting direction or course,
cursed with the thought...
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Categories:
vacant, creation, depression, divorce, farewell, goodbye, sorrow, sorry,
Form:
Sonnet
Free Verse Ii
Nucleotidings
by Michael R. Burch
“We will walk taller!” said Gupta,
sorta abrupta,
hand-in-hand with his mom,
eyeing the A-bomb.
“Who needs a mahatma
in the aftermath of NAFTA?
Now, that was a disaster,”
cried glib Punjab.
“After Y2k,
time will spin out of control anyway,”
flamed...
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Categories:
vacant, angel, child, childhood, children, family, time, world,
Form:
Free verse
The 996th Poem
Fulfilled fantasies and legitimate realities…you do know how to please…
Are you listening to my voice of longing and yearning?
No, don’t backstab me with your broken promises…stop being a horrid tease…
Do not worry, Lord, I am...
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Categories:
vacant, beauty, change, corruption, courage, crazy, deep, writing,
Form:
Free verse
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:
vacant, fantasy,
Form:
Rhyme
Factoidman and Shallowman - Part 1
[Well, ShallowMan’s ne’er at a loss
for voicing shallow thoughts that gloss.
With trenchant wit he reaps the dross
when seeking sense in applesauce.
But to his aid flies FactoidMan
who always has a Fact at hand;
with him, who needs...
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Categories:
vacant, society, truth, universe,
Form:
Rhyme
Once Upon a Halloween In the 50's
The excitement mounted as we rummaged around in the attic looking through old steamer trunks for discarded clothes and props to make Halloween costumes. With an old suit and hat of Granddads, I became a...
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Categories:
vacant, nostalgia,
Form:
Prose
And Still I Drive - Part One
Stars fall under failing skies...stars fall...stars fall...
And sadly...i start to drive.
Through the unremarkable village with its tall
Georgian Bay window panes, lightless,
devoid of visages; outwardly staring back at my
Abject countenance with detached contempt and...
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Categories:
vacant, heartbreak, places,
Form:
Rhyme
Chapter 84-- Damian Delilah Mallory: Quest
Date: December 2040
Damian is on the phone speaking
With architects. He made
Airline and hotel reservations.
Soon Afterwards he went
To Molly and caressed her away from
From a sweet dream. "Hey, baby girl."
He sat on...
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Categories:
vacant, africa, age, allusion, beauty, black love, boy,
Form:
Alliteration
Starlight and Moonlight Ii
Starlight and Moonlight II
These are poems about starlight and moonlight, moons and stars, dreams and visions, illuminations and intimations …
Deliver Us...
by Michael R. Burch
for my mother, Christine Ena Burch
The night is dark and scary—
under...
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Categories:
vacant, dream, love, moon, night, sky, star, stars,
Form:
Rhyme
Translation of the Windmills of Your Mind By T Wignesan
Translation of Les Moulins de mon Cœur-THE WINDMILLS OF YOUR MIND by T. Wignesan
(For the orignal text in French by Eddy MARNAY : see here below. The English version by Marilyn and Alan BERGMAN differs...
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Categories:
vacant, autumn, destiny, heartbroken, lost love, poetry, solitude,
Form:
Elegiac Lyric
Eldritch Hysterical Annihilation Syndrome
I walk o u t...
I am lost in unapproachable light—a spectral broth
I am tasting the screaming silence—the archetypal observer
dissects my essence-fossil Passion
a seismic rupture between life/death/rebirth
gnaws at my marrow This dilemma-kudzu
coils tight, constricting tomorrow's breath
Death...
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Categories:
vacant, halloween, horror, philosophy, psychological,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Misanthropic Melodies
Misanthropic melodies played from a broken violin
Prehistoric prophecies that ignite new ideas before they begin
Telescopic telomeres that formulate a scientific grin
Endoscopic X-rays and a doctor drunk on gin
Valiant human beings with virtue among the discord
Salient...
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Categories:
vacant, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Travel Light
* This poem was written for a contest originally, but was used by Professor Anne-Marie Thornton of Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey, to teach her WAR POETRY class in the spring semester of 2017. My...
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Categories:
vacant, child, children, loss, war,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
travel light
Her small angelic face ...
Once a place where broad smiles bloomed like butterflies on marigolds,
is streaked with the furrows that countless tears have etched into the
layers of dust and dirt and explosive residue that now...
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Categories:
vacant, child, conflict, courage, war,
Form:
Free verse
The Gospel According To the Bluesman
The Gospel according to The Bluesman
Gianni watched the clouds move in
Closed his window for the rain
It was spring and that meant
That it was gonna storm again
He looked out at the street outside
He saw a man...
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Categories:
vacant, 7th grade, america, gospel,
Form:
Rhyme
My Daughter the Need a Walk From the Dark Side, Into the Darkness
My Daughter
My beautiful Daughter, walks life’s paths alone,
She does so, by design – not of hers – on her own.
She travels heavily !, from place to empty space,
from space to vacant place – in what...
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Categories:
vacant, daughter, girlfriend,
Form:
Rhyme