Long Wailing Poems
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Justice Is Crying In the StreetOh my soul what hails you?
Oh my soul what awaits you?
Oh my soul why are you in despair?
Oh my soul I have not deserted you
Oh my soul I have something to share
Oh my soul I...
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Categories:
wailing, anti bullying, conflict, courage, desire, discrimination, education,
Form:
Free verse
A Love's DialogueUnique: I need someone to hold me and tell
me it's alright.
I need someone to hold my hands and feel
my pain.
I need someone to kiss away my pain.
I need someone to look into my eyes and...
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Categories:
wailing, allusion,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Poem Revised Memorial Day May 30th, 2022 At 1500 HoursPoem revised Memorial Day May 30th, 2022 at 1500 hours
Flagrante delict adulterous sordid behavior
automatically linkedin with Lothario;
an unscrupulous seducer of women,
based upon a character
in The Impertinent Curious Man,
a story within a...
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wailing, absence, abuse, adventure, anger, black african american,
Form:
Rhyme
Malkavian ThreeHis 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:
wailing, dark, psychological,
Form:
Bio
Peace PrayerThese are peace poems, prayer poems, hymns and lullabies I have written for family, friends and the world over the years ...
Peace Prayer
by Michael R. Burch
for Jim Dunlap
Be calm.
Be still.
Be silent, content.
Be one with the...
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Categories:
wailing, beauty, blessing, love, nature, peace, prayer, time,
Form:
Free verse
The Moon As a Metaphor For Your MouthThe Moon as a Metaphor for Your Mouth
by Michael R. Burch
When I was closest to love, it did not seem
real at all, but a thing of such tenuous sweetness
it might dissolve in my mouth
like a...
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Categories:
wailing, candy, love, metaphor, moon, romantic love, sweet,
Form:
Sonnet
Enheduanna TranslationsEnheduanna is the first writer we know by name. She created the first poetry anthology and hymnal, circa 2250 BC, in ancient Sumer. She was the daughter of King Saragon the Great.
Lament to the...
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Categories:
wailing, god, moon, poems, poetess, poetry, religion, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
Ante Bellum
“ANTE BELLUM”
BEIGEBest served where it can’t be seen
On Stirling Silver platters
With redruM narcotics
Delivered by sharp Blood-Red
Well-mannered talons
Strutting in sleek wet rolling tight-skirted
Long French Silk Stockinged legs all the way down to
Lethal Six Inch stilettos...
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Categories:
wailing, america, bible, corruption, imagery, war,
Form:
Free verse
The JourneyOnce upon a weedy lawn
At Cedar Oaks Retirement Home
There sat my mother, weak and old
On an afghan knit to block the cold.
It was summer, but in mom's grey eyes
Was winter, when all around us dies.
I...
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Categories:
wailing, appreciation, child, daughter, devotion, family, forgiveness, mom,
Form:
Rhyme
A Poem For My History TeacherI wanted to write
The best slavery poem ever written—
Perhaps win a Pulitzer or Faulkner.
I had every intention of conforming
To the standards
Of modern verse and composition,
Lyrics fluidly written,
Perfect...
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Categories:
wailing, assonance, forgiveness, history, holocaust, humanity, memorial, slavery,
Form:
Rhyme
Random Excerpts From Ice In My Eyes, Smoke In Yours - a Novel"Hey, you philosophysing Hindu. Give me a break, Buddy. I was just pulling your leg. [...] I want the rest of the story. Really, I mean it.” Theson said nothing. [...] “I can see you’re...
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Categories:
wailing, fantasy, growing up, lost, nature, religion,
Form:
Free verse
Celena, Brave Celena- Part 1From Judges 11.
Pronunciation: Seh-LAY-nah
His brothers cast the young man out, the child of an harlot;
He fled away to distant Tob before they found an outlet
For anger, more than what they'd done, to fully disinherit
And drive...
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Categories:
wailing, assonance, bible, christian, dance, goodbye,
Form:
Narrative
The Exaltation of InannaThe Exaltation of Inanna: Opening Lines and Excerpts
by Enheduanna, daughter of Sargon I of Akkad and high priestess of Inanna
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Lady of all divine powers!
Lady of the resplendent light!
Righteous Lady...
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Categories:
wailing, faith, god, light, religion, religious, sin, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 6Upon this date he spoke no more of the preceding moments,
Tearing and hurling insult upon insult
In several directions, his tongue whipped and scorched me,
And he waited relentlessly to see the spark in my eyes...
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Categories:
wailing, adventure, character, gothic, heart, love, philosophy, power,
Form:
Free verse
Light On the Devil's Chord - the ChallengeMy hair bristled in the crisp breeze
Excitement spreading throughout my body
Even the sudden cold amused my fingertips,
Tingles spreading through my hands and up my arms
Soon I would be there too. . .
In the murky shadows...
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Categories:
wailing, adventure, change, cool, imagination, music, sick, strength,
Form:
Narrative
Lament To the Spirit of WarLament to the Spirit of War
by Enheduanna (circa 2285-2250 BCE)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
You hack down everything you see, War God!
Rising on fearsome wings
you rush to destroy the land:
raging like thunderstorms,
howling like hurricanes,
screaming like...
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Categories:
wailing, allegory, analogy, conflict, death, soldier, storm, war,
Form:
Free verse
Part 2 You Have To WhistleNeither Tray or I take any guff from adults, especially adults in authority; it’s a result of having had the belt when you are young, thus learning you cannot trust your care-givers or anyone else.
In...
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Categories:
wailing, child abuse, giving, i love you, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
The Bailout Ballad - the Layman's LamentOne day not long past our economy faltered
And wouldn’t improve if our course were unaltered.
'Cause we buy stuff at Wal-Mart (where things are dirt cheap)
'Cause they buy from China (treats workers like sheep
(So farmers left...
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Categories:
wailing, business, humor, humorous, money, political, satire,
Form:
Couplet
The Last Plague - the Sonnet Style~ Sonnet: The Last Plague ~
(New English Sonnet)
And the Lord said to Moses that day
That He'd bring onto Egypt one more plague
After this Pharaoh will let go, open cage
He'll drive you out...
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Categories:
wailing, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
Quest of the Heart: Chapter One, ContOf Ghosts and fiends in Twilight, Cont.
A thought flashed in my mind from the old tales told
The lore of the beast and I had felt his foul breath
I had seconds to act or be devoured...
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wailing, adventure, for her, journey, lost love, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Chapter 137-- same day DAMIAN DELILAH MALLORY HOLANNYA: DJ Desharah AmadeusDate: April 2050
Same day:
Damian walked with
Godfrey Barrington Shadir and Matthias
Isiah the others across to the
Other side of The estate to visit Desharah
Damali and Sedanah. Arrival was
Swift. Damali...
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Categories:
wailing, allusion, child,
Form:
Prose
Chapter 144 -- DAMIAN DELILAH MALLORY HOLANNYA: Offspring and Desharah's BirthdayDate: October 2050
Cool October afternoon. Damali
Damian Sidney Amadeus Dolly
Molly and Holly planned a sort of
small birthday celebration for Desharah
and Sedanah both would soon be in
the beginning of...
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Categories:
wailing, 11th grade, allusion, best friend, child,
Form:
Alliteration
You MatterThe last time you felt good, you played along with them, and they were fooled
The feeling inside was blue and you always considered the suicide rendezvous
It’s when you can’t laugh or cry, and feel it’s...
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Categories:
wailing, suicide,
Form:
Rhyme
Terror Bugs: Part 4 - A Freezer Mice Adventure[Continued from ‘Terror Bugs: Part 3 - A Freezer Mice Adventure’]
__________
The Terror Bugs pursued them through the skies toward the river
Cody flew just fast enough but still he felt a shiver
“Any slower and we’ll stall...
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Categories:
wailing, adventure,
Form:
Narrative
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 11In a sudden nodding shift,
I was lifted into the air by the hard wings of the Devil
His putrid stench waking me from what seemed all dream
And upon a balcony of singed vine and blackened soot,
He...
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Categories:
wailing, age, analogy, crazy, growth, life, light, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse