Long Wang Poems
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Growing Up Too Soongrowing up too soon
you said: is there anything more excruciating than lagging behind
being passed by
a hasbeen
still knocking on portals
twitching toes twirling thumbs
in fidgety drawn-curtained waiting rooms
and...
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Categories:
wang, age, growing up, lonely, longing, psychological, women,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Epigrams ViEpigrams VI
These are humorous epigrams including a form I call "Less Heroic Couplets."
Less Heroic Couplets: Mini-Ode to Stamina
by Michael R. Burch
When you’ve given so much
that I can’t bear your touch,
then from a safe...
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Categories:
wang, animal, death, dream, kiss, life, love, sleep,
Form:
Epigram
Chinese Translations IiiChinese Translations III
Quiet Night Thoughts
by Li Bai aka Li Po
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Moonlight illuminates my bed
as frost brightens the ground.
Lifting my eyes, the moon allures.
Lowering my eyes, I long for home.
Lines from Laolao...
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Categories:
wang, animal, mountains, nature, sound, voice,
Form:
Free verse
Epigrams ViiEpigrams VII
A question that sometimes drives me hazy:
am I or are the others crazy?
—Albert Einstein, poetic interpretation by Michael R. Burch
The Whole of Wit
by Michael R. Burch
for and after Richard Moore
If brevity is the...
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Categories:
wang, animal, growth, nature, peace, voice, wind, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
Prologue To Lessons of Changefor King Wen, circa 1151-1143 B.C.E. – with seven mind-bending kowtows
There where you had no occasion for play
There in your confined Ming I space
Where change wrought no change
In your fate
But for those plagued by your...
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Categories:
wang, life, may,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Lessons of Change - X - Part OnePart One
GOU - Hexagram 44: One powerful Yin encounters or comes to meet the Yang in the Sixth month of the Gregorian Calendar, on the Sixth of June onwards – having associated with five (meaning...
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Categories:
wang, natural disasters, june, may,
Form:
Free verse
Rose Thorns
"Rose Thorns"
The bonfire lit within
births a new soul
barefoot and bleeding
it unbends the bound
armoured heart
constricted
beating impatient
naked dreams
hellbent on leaving
The Numb
behind,
Casting forgotten
shaman shadow
from an empty
burnt out shell
a new deity
divine and healing
begins...
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Categories:
wang, i am, love, muse,
Form:
Free verse
Deliberate Pain Staking Attentiveness To Perfection(alternately titled: impossible mission goes awry
probably mortal enemy cast spell binding jinx)
Both mental versus
physical tasks necessitate
laser sharp attentiveness
triggered within blinks
similarly on par when people toast
momentary instance utter silence
before more'n one
wine glass simultaneously clinks
cheering hurray, especially
if...
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Categories:
wang, 12th grade, analogy, change, death, goodbye, inspiration,
Form:
Free verse
To You, Tainan-IIn the beginning it was just a smell
a smell i could not quite make sense of
a smell that the city was, a smell that the people in it were
in the beginning it was just...
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Categories:
wang, city, culture,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Gonna Be a Redneck WeddingOur family got the news today
Our bubba's gettin' hitched
Young Daisy Mae, she's near fourteen
Got our boy bewitched
He's sayin' that he loves her
He's making her his bride
She's the first to get him this close
Though not too...
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Categories:
wang, america, funny, humor, love, music, song, wedding,
Form:
Rhyme
Not On the MenuNot On The Menu
Sister girl don’t judge the brothers at
The zip mart with oily stained jeans
And dirty fingernails, judging him not clean
Turning your head,
Sighing with dread
Thinking he got a nerve to look your way.
It...
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Categories:
wang, appreciation, boyfriend, humor,
Form:
Light Verse
Happily Ever After-WHere is the love story of Zhi Nu and Niu Lang
A romantic ancient Chinese tale of very long
Zhi was a nymph and Niu Lang was a cowherd
Cowherd-nymph love forbidden,secretly wedded.
Had two children, but their...
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Categories:
wang, day, fish, friend, life, love, sky,
Form:
Rhyme
My Secret LoverIs what l been trying to tell my mind when it wants to run mad
I try to tell it everything right, but it goes Vaal left
I need to put some sense into this brain should...
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Categories:
wang, absence, crush, deep, emotions, feelings,
Form:
Lyric
Dan the dil'Dan was such an ardent fan of schwab and scoros
With such evil plans, he toadied up this man from
Wang' As we call Wangeratta.) for he didn't give a damn' his pebble specs were
Focused on, the...
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Categories:
wang, appreciation, christmas, corruption, evil, proposal,
Form:
Free verse
Prologue
Dim Sum Dong sat at the WEF subversion of free Countries event at Davos, Switzerland and daydreamed about prostitutes home in China and the
organ harvesting and concentration -re-education
camps and thought, these things like...
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Categories:
wang, art,
Form:
Other
If You Pull a Long Face - Part XxxviiIF YOU PULL A LONG FACE : Part XXXVII
IF you pull a long repentant face
It avails you to pull it where no one sees you pray
For forgiveness though not after being caught outright losing face
A...
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Categories:
wang, character, destiny, innocence, judgement, nature, political, spring,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
A Fool Trying To Catch Bygone DaysAlthough Tai-Gueng-Uang’s* wife
did not abandon her husband but wanted
to avoid poverty, she, now, is so sad and agonizing
because no water poured to the ground can be recovered.
Although the people say that Tai-Gueng-Uang angled...
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Categories:
wang, metaphor,
Form:
Free verse
The Passion of Christ Continued (Part 3)by this time jesus had made his way to japan
where rock and roll definately originated
"Born in Hong Kong"
two reasons i suppose, they wanted to be the ones who discovered group sex
and even though they weren't...
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Categories:
wang, me, jesus, me, , cute,
Form:
I do not know?
En Gardezip zap
what is that?
flish flash
we're fighting for cash
wing wang
this is a mighty tang-o
cling clang
the fire bird sang
and this is the battle for out lives
all i wanted was to forget you
i just wanted to be free
no,...
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Categories:
wang, adventure, hope, life, loss, song-lyricme, heart, heart,
Form:
Rhyme
China Spies and LiesChina Spies and Lies
Concentration camps in the north
disappearing book sellers in the south
Chinese spies hunt one and all
Army of thieves , worldwide
Zhao Ziyang, where is he?
erased from Chinese history
where is the brave young man
who battled...
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Categories:
wang, abuse, art, corruption, political, racism,
Form:
Free verse
Dangerous Cargo - With Apologies To Hedy LamarrShe slithered from the jungle in a Vera Wang sarong
Like some wicked juju temptress with no sense of right or wrong.
I remember how it thrilled me,
Oh yeah, when she shimmied in the buff;
And...
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Categories:
wang, desire, sensual,
Form:
Lyric
Twintig Tien Tot NouTwintig tien tot nou
So vinnig soos jy inwurm… in troosprys vlees-genot
..en dink dat dit so lank sal hou; Pasop vir toekoms lot!
En as ek dan verkeerd mag wees – bewys dit dat jy het
presies...
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Categories:
wang, divorce,
Form:
Rhyme
MountainsWhispers handsome infinity
Time stands still in the vicinity
Mountains that I love to see
Clouds hug them with impish glee
I am fortunate in my tent at Wang Di
On the top are my birds of pinkish hue
They...
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Categories:
wang, beauty, bird, flower, jealousy, metaphor, mountains, wind,
Form:
Free verse
Anger MismanagementI
want
to
undress
you
and
leave
you
dressed,
I
want
to
exhume
the
scum
that
lies
trapped
deep
down
the
mines
of
your
shallow
brain,
I
want
to
slice
you
open
with
screaming
double
edged
whispers,
Buy...
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Categories:
wang, anger,
Form:
Concrete
The Village FeteA glorious azure summer sky,
Triumphant with its blazing sun
Bestows the land with warmth and life
And lifts the hearts of everyone.
The Village fete is on today!
Come young and old, come rich and poor
To hear excited children...
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Categories:
wang, childhood, community, family, fun, nostalgia, summer,
Form:
Quatrain