Long Varsity 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:
varsity, 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:
varsity, boy, child, childhood, high school, student, teen,
Form:
Rhyme
Fiftieth Reunion Reflections
Thinking back on my all White
but One,
all Right
but One,
classroom learning experience,
I can see why
many of my straight white male classmates,
especially those with early varsity team excellence
and above average grade point systems
tipping toward future capital-valued employment
might...
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Categories:
varsity, community, gender, health, heaven, peace, racism,
Form:
Political Verse
Derivatives With Limits
Working over Birk’s Works and other tunes my saxophonist admires—
Cheesecake, Blackbird—for the theoretical, applied mathematics
inside an abstract, audial harmonization of the Big Bang and The Fall.
The derivative reveals the slope of the tangent along the...
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Categories:
varsity, cancer, funny, god, hero, parents, soldier, work,
Form:
Free verse
An Italian English Student
To Varsity!
Oh long awaited time
To study literature and rhyme
A time to learn to make words flow
And say to Life a big Hello.
Life’s cup is full up to the brim
And I’ve dived in for a...
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Categories:
varsity, happiness, life, men, world, body, life, love,
Form:
Light Verse
Map Battle part 1
In this world, where chaos reigns supreme,
I am the voice of the people, the one who leads the dream.
My heart beats with a...
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Categories:
varsity, art,
Form:
Rhyme
Dismantling of a Nation
Dismantling Of A Growing Nation
Back in late 70s, while I was just another fresh face in a local varsity....
Racial based politics was gaining grounds with public sympathies....
Remembered distinctly DAP, the opposition party, was gaining...
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Categories:
varsity, anxiety, birth, character, community, future,
Form:
Free verse
High School Sweet Heart
High school sweet heart
Oh my darling,
I remember like it was yesterday,
Our first year in high school,
It was love at first sight, and that was so cool.
We shared a desk together,
Do you still remember my...
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Categories:
varsity, boyfriend, break up,
Form:
Rhyme
Nate Sestina's Sestina
Sometimes things don’t work out as planned
not that Nate planned it, such is basketball love
and strong are the threads of the basketball net.
He hooped all summer, sweating on outdoor court
before moving to school...
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Categories:
varsity, basketball, dream, life,
Form:
Sestina
Crookedness and Clowns
They channelized the news
the quick zapped flash of fact undeniably
taking the opportunity by storm
by the contortions of varsity
they proclaimed so devoutly
the new acceptable norm
of an already butchered normality
And who with applause
with the legalized blurb
of an...
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Categories:
varsity, anxiety, society, today,
Form:
Free verse
Hold On To Your Confidence When Called To Your Mission
Sometimes you may feel like you're stuck on the benches of life
Not knowing if you'll ever get in the game causing you anquish and strife
Dismissed and unused never getting a chance to play...
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Categories:
varsity, basketball, confidence, eve, faith, prayer, trust,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Varsity Reunion
Reunion, Reunion I have to go
To meet those friends I used to know.
And talk about the days gone by
When we were young with spirits high.
But, all I found was a money speech
Asking for me to...
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Categories:
varsity, people, me, me,
Form:
Light Verse
When I Was 18
When I was 18
When was 18, I wasn't worried about where my 21-year-old girlfriend was going to lay her head.
When I was 18, my hoop dreams began to wane with the realization I was only...
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Categories:
varsity, black african american, father, son, drug,
Form:
Free verse
Bullet Holes Through a Four-Four Count
Slinger
Waiting on the day
for the Swallow to transmute the air
between this ether and yours
patterned after an annual bedsheet
and full of a chest
swelling with blood
and a face
as forgotten as chests
buried beneath sea...
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Categories:
varsity, dark, heart, image, light, psychological, relationship, voice,
Form:
Free verse
Destination MLB Birthday Wishes Grandson
A tall baseball player with a bat, he knocks it clear
out of the park!
Whilst other boys sit so comfortably at their home,
he is a Varsity player, under bright lights, in the dark!
So goal-driven,...
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Categories:
varsity, baseball, beautiful, birthday, celebration, dedication, grandson,
Form:
Rhyme
Everything Is Always For the Best
Why the long face, son? Did someone die?
Aw, Dad. I flunked my math exam
Did you do your level best, son?
I did, Dad. I studied so hard for...
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Categories:
varsity, father son, inspirational, relationship, repetition,
Form:
Free verse
Playin' Catch
PLAYIN' CATCH
Mom and Dad would have the car packed the night before we left,
the station wagon filled with all the essentials we'd need for our
extended camping trips. Dad always made sure I had my ball...
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Categories:
varsity, dad, me, time,
Form:
Narrative
Cynthia
She reminded mi of Liz thou prettier than Liz
She was engrossed in her smart phone... me relaxed
next to her chat chatting business... i could tell shes engrossed
not in her smart chats.... but in my chat...
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Categories:
varsity, crush, cute love, dedication,
Form:
Prose
My Ten Grands and More
One of my grandsons, name of Benjamin
He likes eating toast made with cinnamon
But uses his wits
To not eat his grits
Then excuses himself like a gentleman
Charlie thrives on competition
Out smarting you is his mission
Bear hugs
Tiny bugs,...
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Categories:
varsity, familyme,
Form:
Limerick
An Eagles Encounter
EAGLES ENCOUNTER
Mi was doing my nite rounds..
then was a student at a local varsity
when i had an encounter with them eagles
they offer me peace...salaams..
but they were really trying
to appear nonthreatening
one of them asked mi a...
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Categories:
varsity, africa, angel, metaphor, satire, society, world,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
A Holiday Tribute to My Grandson
My Grandson's Toys;Christmas Memories
Dear Edward:
You grew from Little League to be Varsity
star!
Sadly, we rarely see much of one another
anymore.
So Grandma, finds happiness in your...
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Categories:
varsity, christmas, grandmother, grandson, high school, memory,
Form:
Free verse
Baseball, Bible and a Boy
~~ A Grandmother’s Memoirs~~
God, did indeed, more than bless me with jeweled, precious memories.
And a family living so near. That’s no small thing, these days, when you only see family, once a year!
I held...
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Categories:
varsity, baseball, granddaughter, grandson, love, memory,
Form:
Free verse
We
We are thirteenish.
We meet.
I know.
She does not.
We meet at times
When home for hols.
Then I’m at varsity,
She’s a student nurse.
We meet more often.
Deep down I still know,
It’s clear she does not.
We qualify.
We split.
She’s in London,
I am...
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Categories:
varsity, death, love,
Form:
Blank verse
Distant Memories
Oh, those carefree days of youth
where did they go, where did they go?
He sits quietly in his recliner watching the TV drone on and on...
Handsome in his youth, now his body is gaunt and frail
his...
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Categories:
varsity, age, loss, memory,
Form:
Free verse
Empty Closets
Empty Closets
by Odin Roark
How empty the content
Delusion's walk-in closet
Hideaway's glory
Filled to burst
Collected identities
Acquired by proxy
Guarded by duplicity's two-edge sword
Honed by loneliness
Obsessive darkness
Filled with...
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Categories:
varsity, happiness,
Form:
Free verse