Long Wakes Poems
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The Shape of Mourning
by Michael R. Burch
The shape of mourning
is an oiled creel
shining with unuse,
the bolt of cold steel
on a locker
shielding memory,
the monthly penance
of flowers,
the annual wake,
the face in the...
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Categories:
wakes, beauty, death, desire, life, longing, love, nature,
Form:
Free verse
Free Verse ILozenge
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 lozenge of sugar.
When I held you in...
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Categories:
wakes, forgiveness, heart, humanity, life, love, relationship, together,
Form:
Free verse
- Au Revoir - Goodbye -- 2016 -
- JANUARY -
A freezing cold evening
Where the stars shining bright
With frost blade flanks
From mouth and nose steam
In the clear silence
White untrodden snows
Nature's frozen pulse
Sleep like a little baby
One gracious moon
After the night the...
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Categories:
wakes, remember,
Form:
Free verse
The Sleeper and the Supernaturalist
"The Sleeper and The Supernaturalist"
The Sleeper
shone as she walked
through the Woods
shining alive
like nothing
natural could
caught
in the moonlight
unaware
the innocent
red-caped roses stared
the trees whispered,
"beware, beware"
barefoot softly
the Supernaturalist
transfigures instead
from under shine
she bares...
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Categories:
wakes, muse, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
A Kept WomanDream-worker
delves deeply into my dream;
vibrations fondle anticipation
foreplay wakes wide-eyed
swells of liquid libido quake the rendezvous edge -
a primordial being in his prime
a masculine ego quest for affaire d’amour;
her night-loving body
c h a...
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Categories:
wakes, allegory, betrayal, fate, imagery, love, lust, sensual,
Form:
Free verse
Romeo and Juliet: the RemixThree voices required,
Professor,
and two students:
Yang as Fr. Time
YinYin as Sr. Gaia
In a college classroom with Win-Win Game Theory written on whiteboard.
Professor:
Today we are going to role play
a Win-Win enculturation game.
We will define enculturation...
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Categories:
wakes, absence, allegory, destiny, games, humor, love, myth,
Form:
Narrative
Tips For Modern PoetsDear Novice Poet,
Welcome to the wide open wonderful world of poetry! Today more than ever before, a poem can easily be whatever you want it to be. The rules are simple. There...
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Categories:
wakes, write,
Form:
Prose
Prose Poems IiProse Poems II
by Michael R. Burch
These are prose poems (is that an oxymoron?) and experimental poems...
briefling
by Michael R. Burch
manishatched, hopsintotheMix, cavorts, hassex (quick!, spawnanewBrood!); then, likeamayfly, he’s suddenly gone: plantfood.
bachelorhoodwinked
by Michael R. Burch
u are charming...
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Categories:
wakes, poems, poetry, rose, roses are red, world,
Form:
Prose
Echoes of the Angel's FallenInvocation to the Muse
From the gleaming skin of life’s underbelly,
sin unreconciled, formed from Nephilim seed,
fleet footed jokers mask pawns into flight;
To the epistle of the Most High.
For in the beginning, the true and only...
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Categories:
wakes, allegory, angel, christian,
Form:
Epic
A Lovers ToilOnce upon a time there was a heartless man, he didn’t care for others and compassion he couldn’t understand
His heart was cold there was no love inside, although to the outside world he carried on...
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Categories:
wakes, fantasy, heartbreak, i love you, lost love,
Form:
Rhyme
Life Is Like That Extent Live That Moto Full Extent -Life is like that extent
Live that moment
to full extent...
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Categories:
wakes, education, life, love,
Form:
Bio
Shaggy Dog Limericks: the All-Time Best -- Vote For Your FavoriteThe Spaniel
A Spaniel that uses its head
Can tell when its owner’s unfed
So instead of a duck
That is down on its luck
Will deliver a pizza instead
The Afghan Hound
The Afghan’s a dog groomer’s...
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Categories:
wakes, animal, cat, cute, dog, fun, humor, pets,
Form:
Limerick
Mcgillicuddy's WakeTwo new crutches and two double shots of Bushmills Irish Whiskey enabled Joe Faherty to move from the back seat of Moira Murphy's 1976 Buick into Eagan's Funeral Home for Tim McGillicuddy's wake. At 87,...
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Categories:
wakes, death of a friend, fantasy,
Form:
Prose
The Verdict. NOW
Well, GI Jack is welcome back, he left his...
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Categories:
wakes, society, war,
Form:
Ballad
The Legend of the RoseLong 'ere legends encountered finesse amidst flairs of passionate cravings,
thereupon, be a period wherein an episode occasioned an opportunity that will be reserved forever.
An outbreak of dismembering words are been exchanged between groups of rapscallions.
The...
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Categories:
wakes, allusion, analogy, appreciation, fantasy, flower, imagery, imagination,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
PrologueWhether you have come to possess this compendium of doggerel confessions by chance or by choice, should you decide to venture beyond this page, I politely suggest you consider the contents to be nothing more...
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Categories:
wakes, allegory, literature,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Son, You Need A Haircut: 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline"A dressed day has disrobed into the depth of a drawer's nightstand."
(Oh, how positively awesome that what can be sorted out in such an explanatory pattern that a difference would maketh a day.)
The muskiness...
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Categories:
wakes, anger, angst, anxiety, conflict, confusion, jealousy,
Form:
Prose
A Murder Most FoulI am having that dream of dreams again
The one that wakes me up in the night
...
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Categories:
wakes, autumn, beautiful, best friend, betrayal, heart, lost
Form:
Narrative
Hilda's Family ReunionPaddy didn't want to go to his wife's family reunion. He told her that in the same nice way he had told her in years past so as to avoid other reunions over the many...
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Categories:
wakes, family, marriage,
Form:
Prose
It Won'T Be Dark ForeverDaylight dies
Blackout the sky
Does anyone care
Is anyone there
Enjoy this life
Pop open a Sprite
Roll over to the right and kiss my wife
She's fast asleep
Daylight is trynna come
It's trynna creep
When she...
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Categories:
wakes, cheer up, depression, desire, encouraging, feelings, future,
Form:
Free verse
Kitchens Are DirtyIt was dark out. The stars shone dimly, and the horizon blushed faintly as the birds sang, too cheery for the hour. A chill swept the edges of all the outside world: not cold enough...
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Categories:
wakes, absence, cry, depression, home, loneliness, lonely, silence,
Form:
I do not know?
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 67The half elf watched as Lumi spoke with Chroí; then, in the center of the circle the soil began to move and from it appeared the Garden Elf. He said nothing, he never spoke....
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Categories:
wakes, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Wind WhisperingMentors with the BeeTrees
From NorthWinds
come darkening winter
as newborn discontent
waiting to spring forth.
From SouthWinds
come summer's diastasis
climax of full-born wisdom,
contentment for and from all four directions
spread across sleeping hearts
of each nighttime regeneration.
From normalizing WestWind toward East colonializing
patriarchal...
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Categories:
wakes, happiness, health, humor, integrity, love, mental illness,
Form:
Political Verse
Yes, I Met AliceWhat if I ,
Saw a waist-coated white rabbit,
Pass and disappear down a hole
Would I think I was going quite mad
Or would I want to follow him
As he exclaimed I’m late! I’m late!
For a very...
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Categories:
wakes, beautiful,
Form:
Free verse
Chapter 69 -- Damian Delilah Mallory and Polly: Secret PlacesAah Summer time. The house
Was quiet. Dolly and Molly were
The only ones awake and already
Showered and dressed. Dolly said.
"Woo I am ready for whatever."
Molly agreed saying, "Yeah,
Sister girl what are...
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Categories:
wakes, allusion, best friend, color,
Form:
Alliteration