Long Vultures Poems
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I Am My Father's SonThey were gambling in front of the house.
Manservants and pages bustled about
Serving Suitors who just curse and carouse.
Few mix wine with water. I heard one shout,
"Clean down the tables with wet sponges! Rouse
Yourselves! And when...
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Categories:
vultures, adventure, anger, anxiety, bullying, father, history, introspection,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
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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Categories:
vultures, analogy, angel, bird, butterfly, extended metaphor, flying,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Adam, Eve, Lucifer, Eden and the FallPoems about Adam, Eve, Lucifer
Eden
by Michael R. Burch
Then earth was heaven too, a perfect garden.
Apples burgeoned and shone, unplucked on sagging boughs.
What, then, would the children eat?
Fruit indecently sweet,
redolent as incense, with a tempting aroma...
Outcasts
by...
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Categories:
vultures, bible, christian, creation, god, heaven, paradise, sin,
Form:
Free verse
Poems About Butterflies and BeesPoems about Butterflies and Bees
Flight
by Michael R. Burch
It is the nature of loveliness to vanish
as butterfly wings, batting against nothingness
seek transcendence...
Album
by Michael R. Burch
I caress them—trapped in brittle cellophane—
and I see how young they were,...
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Categories:
vultures, animal, butterfly, flying, insect, sky, wind,
Form:
Rhyme
In the WildIN THE WILD
Early morning, we go for a drive,
An awesome feeling as we arrive,
At our camp gate which, opens
At 6 o’clock,
Now we are in the African bush
Which, will unlock,
Moments that we have missed...
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Categories:
vultures, adventure, africa,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Things That Break IiPoems about Things that Break II
These are poems about things that break and/or shatter.
Water and Gold
by Michael R. Burch
You came to me as rain breaks on the desert
when every flower...
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Categories:
vultures, break up, depression, divorce, emotions, farewell, goodbye,
Form:
Rhyme
Sonnets Lii-LxSonnets LII-LX
The Endeavors of Lips
by Michael R. Burch
How sweet the endeavors of lips: to speak
of the heights of those pleasures which left us weak
in love’s strangely lit beds, where the cold springs creak:
for there is...
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Categories:
vultures, dream, flower, hair, longing, love, pain, sensual,
Form:
Sonnet
In the Wild Re PostIN THE WILD
( Re Post)
Early one morning, we begin our drive,
An awesome feeling as we arrive,
At our camp gate which, opens
At six o’clock,
Now we are in the African bush
Which, will unlock,
Moments that...
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Categories:
vultures, animal,
Form:
Free verse
Poems About Flight, Flying and Birds IPoems about Flight, Flying, and Birds (I)
Flight
by Michael R. Burch
It is the nature of loveliness to vanish
as hummingbird wings, batting against nothingness
seek transcendence...
Southern Icarus
by Michael R. Burch
Windborne, lover of heights,
unspooled from the truck’s wildly lurching...
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Categories:
vultures, angel, animal, bird, flying, nature,
Form:
Free verse
The Splice of Life
“The Splice of Life”
When colour
was to be
washed out
of the world
the evil ones
didn’t care
the Actor led
with his
Dementors
either side of him
Laundry,
they resolved
to be the best
pristine method
for...
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Categories:
vultures, humanity, political, religion, science,
Form:
Free verse
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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Categories:
vultures, funny, humor, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
That Was RandomThere are actual people
half woman half man
running mornings and
dream people in movies
half language half light.
Tomorrow is John’s funeral.
* * *
This is my minute
my moment
Oops, gone!
Anything can happen
if you don’t resist
Resist!
* * *
But who am I? You think bullets won’t
kill?...
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Categories:
vultures, angel, death, dream, river, spring, women, write,
Form:
Free verse
What If - New UpdateWhat if…
If fear did not guard and watch over me?
My seeds of shame and doubt
Would timidly venture out
And finally sprout,
But as they reached the light,
Like a vampire, would wither and die
Without the protection of night.
Or:...
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Categories:
vultures, conflict, courage, fear, inspiration, longing, motivation, prayer,
Form:
Free verse
Tea and Poetry In the Ides of March - Part ThreeAgain the alarm is set.
Strawberries, date squares…Yum, Yum.
The alarm rings again. The tea party is over.
She returns to her perch where her wings are immediately clipped by the Bald Eagle who...
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Categories:
vultures, satire,
Form:
Free verse
Halloween Poems IiiNo One
by Michael R. Burch
No One hears the bells tonight;
they tell him something isn’t right.
But No One is not one to rush;
he lies in grasses greenly lush
as far away a startled thrush
flees from horned owls...
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Categories:
vultures, angel, dark, eve, evil, fear, gothic, horror,
Form:
Rhyme
Rough Roads To RoamThe flames of the furnace (well-travelled by wind
slowly glazing the rags of gray women chagrined
at the sight of a hair fleeing tresses now thinned)
sometimes billow like waves flooding naves through the night,
when the lightning...
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Categories:
vultures, culture, earth, humanity, planet, world,
Form:
Rhyme
Stolen Illumination of the StarSTOLEN ILLUMINATION OF THE STAR
This journey has not been a fanciful adventure,
we're all settlers in these dynasty of neo-colonialism
united only by what divides us. Victims, yes
victims of civilized inducement,
terms of...
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Categories:
vultures, political,
Form:
Narrative
To a Dead Mouse
I
Friend, whatever brought your life to end
had no appetite for mouse flesh, nudged your
small gray body on its side with a thorough sniff
and left your corpse exposed on the asphalt path,
then, for reasons of its...
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Categories:
vultures, in memoriam,
Form:
Free verse
Vultures Circling - Part OneI'd just checked out of a hotel in the town of Santa Fe
Went to the store to collect supplies and went on my way
I was heading for the gold rush in the state of...
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Categories:
vultures, america, death, girl, horse, sun,
Form:
Narrative
Skinwalker
"Skinwalker"
That one’s mind
is like a scene from Chagall
dreams flow like blood bleeds
across the cortex page curtain call
an audience with the silent speakeasy
cerebellum with its swift
matter-of-factness
logically guides the fingers
to dance across keys...
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Categories:
vultures, muse,
Form:
Free verse
Flying With Wax WingsIs it time again
Is this another day again
where I sit up once more
waste my fingers to the bone
to describe my grievance with the Sorceress
named Sarah...
No...not this time
Is it time again
is this another day when
I sit...
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Categories:
vultures, anger, anxiety, betrayal, depression, devotion, sad love,
Form:
Free verse
Cannibal ProphetsProphecy is risky
and peculiar.
Prophets so seldom unveil opportunities
to win resilient integrity
without concomitant risks
of unhealthy failure.
Prophets of booming doom
and gloom
far outweigh voices for Golden Rules
and healthy tipping points
toward organic wealthy Ratios
to thrive opportunity rich
and risk free...
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Categories:
vultures, caregiving, culture, earth, environment, health, history, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
The Twelve Months of the YearJanuary: is mountain of blessing where the births sing with hope for those
Semen mentioned on this occasion to Ottoman Empire where conqueror doesn't
Need dozens of sword to shout. He only understands the cap...
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Categories:
vultures, success, symbolism, wisdom, , Lullaby,
Form:
ABC
Where Must I GoI got up at 1:00 am this morning just after the break of day, the overnight air had just begin to rise sending a multitude of diamonds flickering in the skies, it is the sort...
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Categories:
vultures, america, body, books, city, community, death, england,
Form:
Narrative
When Will You Say Enough Is EnoughI have seen the fireflies two nights in succession
wandering restlessly in the dark
hundreds of them blinking evocative lights
symbolizes the souls of warriors whose blood
have drenched the desiccated earth for a cause
they believe...
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Categories:
vultures, adventure,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue