Long Vulture Poems
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FlintFlint
Within its brilliance gleaming
Cool black in lacquered polished silver chrome
Cranked up pistons bleached in summer’s heat
Hot steam rising as gears thundering
Beyond the crystal liquid city lights
Highways built across the land
In hearts felt pride American...
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Abecedarian
Various Heresies 3Various Heresies 3
Breakings
by Michael R. Burch
I did it out of pity.
I did it out of love.
I did it not to break the heart of a tender, wounded dove.
But gods without compassion
ordained: Frail things must break!
Now...
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vulture, america, bible, christian, god, jesus, religion, usa,
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Verse
Poems About IcarusSouthern Icarus
by Michael R. Burch
Windborne, lover of heights,
unspooled from the truck’s wildly lurching embrace,
you climb, skittish kite...
What do you know of the world’s despair,
gliding in vast solitariness there,
so that all that remains is to
fall?
Only a...
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vulture, analogy, angel, bird, butterfly, extended metaphor, flying,
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Rhyme
Apocalyptic Poems IiThese are prophetic poems and apocalyptic poems ...
Beast 666
by Michael R. Burch
“... what rough beast ... slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?”?W. B. Yeats
Brutality is a cross
wooden, blood-stained,
gas hissing, sibilant,
lungs gilled, deveined,
red flecks on a...
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vulture, earth, earth day, environment, future, visionary, weather,
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Rhyme
Turkish Poetry Translations IiTurkish Poetry Translations II
Çanakkale Sehitlerine
"For the Çanakkale Martyrs"
by Mehmet Akif Ersoy
loose English translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Was there ever anything like the Bosphorus war??
The earth’s mightiest armies pressing Marmara,
Forcing entry between her mountain passes
To a...
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Categories:
vulture, autumn, god, love, sea, time, war, world,
Form:
Free verse
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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vulture, break up, farewell, pain, relationship, society, solitude,
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Rhyme
Rufus and BillNow the sun and the sand were treacherously hot
and not a place for Man or a Beast.
As you must be audaciously quick to find a good spot
or...
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vulture, funny, humor, humorous,
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Rhyme
Call it curiosity"Call it curiosity"
Does anyone on this app really believe
That somehow or another every one of us
Truly think that one side is meant to deceive
Or that one side is the one that is only one...
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vulture, abuse, allusion, america, anger, angst, anxiety,
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Free verse
If All of the Weird Ones Were CroppedThis piece has a fairly tricky rhyme scheme = a-a-B /c-c-B
If All of the Weird Ones Were Cropped
I was sittin’ alone in a booth in a deli in Cody, Wyoming one day,
When a...
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vulture, animal, humor,
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Rhyme
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 5He sung all the day, all the night of the fourth,
Endlessly, relentlessly, angrily and passionately
Deafening my ears in the wet sugar of his words
In an eternity of hours,
Slowly and dopily, darkness billowed away
Sifting along to...
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vulture, adventure, anger, angst, appreciation, courage, dark, desire,
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Free verse
Inception: Lighten Up My Load - Collab With Mikey Part 7I esteem your presence
Glowing with glee
At times, you do say things without thinking
I’m the god of distress –
You’re leaving me breathless
Cutting me down like I’m some decaying tree
You don’t see how...
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vulture, deep, freedom, grief, happiness, hope, hurt, words,
Form:
Free verse
Mehmet Akif Ersoy TranslationsMehmet Akif Ersoy: Modern English Translations of Turkish Poems
Mehmet Âkif Ersoy (1873-1936) was a Turkish poet, author, writer, academic, member of parliament, and the composer of the Turkish National Anthem.
Snapshot
by Mehmet Akif Ersoy
loose English translation/interpretation...
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vulture, dark, death, earth, grave, life, war, world,
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Ghazal
Thumbs UpNoticed I woke up so early in the morning today
Maybe, it was for a greater purpose in His eyes
I am feeling a positive vibe, wishing it would stay
Oh Lord, forgive my sins daily, for my...
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vulture, deep, desire, happiness, hope, longing, muse, passion,
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Free verse
The Little You Can KnowWithout form and void,
The world gave a lunatic gaze.
Lack of luminous light love bought,
Darkness did give her a chase.
Open to no one was her,
Water beneath and air above.
Open to someone...
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vulture, evil, god, humanity,
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I do not know?
Tao and the Art of Permaculture MaintenanceInformation caused qualitative culture,
some might say cussed culture,
but, whether damned or graced,
culture, or vulture,
languaged-left hemispheric information
languished after right-brained exformation
self-regenerated human in/out-side culture.
Human culture preceded human race
and DNA races
and racism
and socioeconomic language boxes
and hierarchical...
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vulture, earth, light, longing, loss, love, lust, peace,
Form:
Free verse
Light SystemsIt was Economic Earth
Gaia who taught WinWin me
Yin-diminished Taoism.
It was ego/eco-centric Permaculture Designers
WinWin DNA-with-RNA CoGoverning HealthCare Workers,
and not so much
Competitive FIGHT-MAKES-RIGHT retributional politics.
Instead, restoration
redemption
resiliently healthy love
WinWin GoodNews theology
deep listening with inside Sacred Ecology
of YangGod with...
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vulture, caregiving, environment, gospel, health, integrity, power, religion,
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Political Verse
Nervana - Imagine You and I(Warning: it has a sexual theme...)
Imagine you and I
Together, we will fly
But, first and foremost,
Let's spread butter to the toast
Suicide nervana plays me like the piano player to the piano
It's a ride...
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vulture, deep, universe,
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Free verse
Simulations and SymphoniesSimulations and Symphonies
Discussing life inside a simulation
Amalgamating strife with signs of humiliation
Confronting life with positive configurations
An enchanting wife that doesn’t need invitations
Caring for what others naturally overlook
A watchful parent, a well written book
Beauty that...
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vulture, corruption, courage, integrity, international,
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Rhyme
HimalayasHimalayas
Eons ago in the planet’s evolution,
During tectonic plate movement: 1
The Indian Island Ma moved northward
Crashing into the Eurasian continent,
To form the Himalayan mountains. 2
Out of the chaos, towering peaks arose,
Piercing heavenly soft, white cotton clouds,
Bursting...
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vulture, culture, education, environment, mountains, nature, planet,
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Verse
The Circus Is In TownCome join the unraveling circus
quite soon to be passing our way,
with the clowns in a clamor to twerk us -
line up as they lead us astray!
Arriving, the elephant trumpets
agendas of aberrant acts
while the donkeys drool,...
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vulture, humor,
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Quatrain
Here Once Stood Our HomeHERE. ONCE STOOD OUR HOME
I can't forget in a hurry,
Here once stood our ancestral home,
As was told my great- great- great- grand father
Who told my great-great-grand father,
Who told my great grand father and who
In...
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vulture, art,
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Ballad
I Am PrometheusOne day in my shop, as many before,
there appeared a beggar at my back door.
His dirty old hand held...
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vulture, mythology, poetry,
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Rhyme
Steel BarsTried to trace this man,
studied the case and had my plan,
a soul is whispering from somewhere
asking for help, I said, back off !!!
But a call is a call
it searches my soul and being,...
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vulture, abuse, addiction, bullying, father daughter, freedom, grave,
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Narrative
Saturday StoryCabbage grew ears in a silver basin. How rare! Wow! Exclusive is extremely experienced erotic erogenous errors but tremors can often be counted in the folding, unfolding and refolding of long heavy curtains. A lengthy...
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vulture, allegory, allusion, animal, anniversary,
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I do not know?
The Lightning BoltYou got roasted the moment I walked away from your reach
Everyday, I wish I could be at the sundrenched beach...
What about you practice what you preach
Be very careful what you teach
Because what...
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vulture, deep,
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Rhyme