Long Veronica Poems

Matthew delivers his latest bullet – tin...

from the Harris-Walz front
where liberal minded socially progressive
electorate doth agonizingly grunt
targeted in crosshairs scoped out 
eager and ready to be mortally wounded 
courtesy notorious big headed 
(and bigoted) infamous...

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Veronica Franco translations

Veronica Franco (1546-1591) was a Venetian courtesan who wrote literary-quality poetry and prose.

Capitolo 19: A Courtesan's Love Lyric (I) 
by Veronica Franco
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

"I resolved to make a virtue of...

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Bright lights, big city...
bright lights, big city dreams...
please just take me away tonight
Let me rest on your elegance tonight
I have no energy left to spend in reality
so please knock me unconscious
just to be in the...

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Toddlers' Exploration: 

Cardboard drum and a thunderous beast
With playful roars in tiny fists and feasts.
Fleeting wings glide to dreams just out of reach
Soaring through tales of barnyard Waddles and Squeaks.
Moo! Quack! Giggles tumble and bump.
Flaps...

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With these lines I’ll relate an intriguing tale of dubious accuracy
For I Hope to unveil sordid affairs of more than one conspiracy!
Be warned, that though you might be disturbed by the facts I relate?
They are...

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A Bagpipe am I,
My drones point to the sky!
I am magic they say, since the wizard ‘spelled’ on me that day.

He gave me the gift of immortal time,
I could travel through centuries,
T’was a gift.
It was...

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How can something be amazing and terrifying at the same time? 
I have a wife and three kids
no, wait that's my imagination running wild
I have a girlfriend, my world of a month now
but I've chased...

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Won’t you please take me back
To the brown couch at my Gramma’s house 
With the big gold-framed antique mirror over it
And hand me Grampa’s old transistor radio
Covered in leather with glorious knobs
That brought me the...

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My (bleeding) heart is filled to overflowing, 
To see any growing glad(iolus), garden glowing;
Each sun peached, (petunia) petaled delight,
Is frozen in precious moments of pure delight,
From bursting buds, to the spicy boom of blooms,
Nature is...

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Mitchell: Good sirs, my word was fair. No discrepancy stains the pages of my ledger. The fifth tier is a sub-basement beneath the cellar floor of the temple’s vestibule. Any woman who is not tagged...

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11. They came to devour and sin.
I was briefed by a cornucopia of beings:
From Torchwood, ARGUS, SHIELD and their kin;
The Talamasca, The Shop and MiB Greens;
A BPRD agent who was burning in Hell;
The Syndicate, Consortium,...

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1111
MY POETREE FAMILY.
Note: If you read this you are
family too.
_________
I was born into poetry
by my dearest lovely sweet mother Kate Achi Bissong. Who always make sure i am
forever strong.

I was way too lucky
to have Edison...

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**Veronica, 14**
She likes to wear short t-shirts and make up.
Yesterday she was talking about boys not stopping messaging her on the phone.
She likes to chew on bubblegums during class.
She insulted a teacher of mine for...

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Peace plunked herself down and started uncontrollable loudly sobbing so very loudly
that her entire thin youthful frame started visible shaking against her own active will 
power.  Her dark blue eyes were being blinded by...

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"Mrs Langley, what did Jesus Christ, tell you recently about  me?" asked Peace.

"Believe it or not , Peace,  Jesus Christ recently told me that you are the very last
person that needs to become...

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Jason texted Ray on his cell phone while they were riding their two separate
city buses in the opposite directions.

"I am so very sorry about my being such a jerk and giving you a bad time...

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The very next day Ray's family returned back again to Rene's fast food restaurant's
with their adapted motto, 'quick and timely service with a smile."  His father drove
his car to the middle section that his...

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The friend Ray called on his cell phone was named Bob and he agreed to meeting
Ray at their Open Door's church.  Bob became his newest best friend and Bob was
the youth pastor at their...

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He woke up in the middle of the dream again.
She was wearing the same blue-red suit. 
Her brunette hair was scooped up, off her neck.
She was walking with a lively step, on heels.
He was intrigued....

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As Medusa walks in, shuts the door,
caresses precision hand down the mahogany-
and shows one what for.

Senses in starbursts-cloudburst
flavor crystals accenting- your bloom 
of predicate corpus, cat claws in my brain, 
comes metamorphosis-
Led mushrooming depth of...

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Dos Cabezas Getaway     

Coming of age film about Boy Baby Wally found wrapped in a 1943 issue of "Farm Implement" magazine abandoned screaming in a Last Chance gas station toilet on...

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I slapped him across the face
He stayed, he just faced
I accused him for what he hadn't done
I thought he'd abuse me but he took that as fun..

Shame was painted on his face
Not that he was...

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STATIONS

Hark! Oh, Angels, where art Thou?!
'Tis here that thou art needest now!
Before Him does the burden lie
To bear the Cross to Calvary!

While crowds all gather, He is not alone
Though some mock the One that claims...

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It starts with a little 6 year old girl named "Jellee" (pronounced "jelly")
from Liberia, Africa (on the western coast) -
and ends when she is about 18 and having changed her name to Veronica.

I personally interviewed...

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I am sitting down with my pen,
in a faraway land
For many days, I recalled my memories,
That faded with poor calories
I want to share the aesthetic childhood
spent in the lap of a maternal knighthood.

They are my...

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