Long Wakes Poems
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Woman: The Flame that Lights the World
In every dawn that breaks anew,
In every dream, and skies of blue,
A woman’s strength, steadfast and true,
Guides the world in all we do.
Through ages past and times untold,
Their stories rise, so brave, so bold,
In quiet...
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Categories:
wakes, inspiration, literature, meaningful, memorial,
Form:
Narrative
Juxtapositions of Soul
Sponsor : Regina Macintosh
submission : 2/7/25
_____________________
embedded in avatar’s
sequential chromosomes
novel_sprite_ageless___BIRTHED
Soul protected simultaneously ...
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Categories:
wakes, allusion, change, character, deep, extended metaphor, growth,
Form:
Epic
Rejection Slips 2
Rejection Slips 2
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 I
Lozenge
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
Romeo and Juliet: the Remix
Three 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.
Natural and Social Communication...
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Categories:
wakes, absence, allegory, destiny, games, humor, love, myth,
Form:
Narrative
A Kept Woman
Dream-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
Tips For Modern Poets
Dear 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 Ii
Prose 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 Fallen
Invocation 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 Toil
Once 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
The Rainbow Bridge Church
Book One: Ancestors of the Ark
Ch.1: Welcome to the Village of Chapel Hill
In a quiet little village far away from here, lives a Minister and his wife and the animal's...
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Categories:
wakes, animal, bible,
Form:
Rhyme
Shaggy Dog Limericks: the All-Time Best -- Vote For Your Favorite
The 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 Wake
Two 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 Rose
Long '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
Prologue
Whether 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 Foul
I 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 Reunion
Paddy 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 Forever
Daylight 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 Dirty
It 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?
Alice Through The Wormhole
Blinding rays of moonlight pierce through windblown curtains, whilst droplets of sweat bead on a heavy forehead. Sleep becomes more elusive with every tick of the clock, as insomniac nights and broken days gnaw into...
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Categories:
wakes, beauty, imagery, imagination, poetry, stars, symbolism, writing,
Form:
Narrative