Long Watched Poems
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Bunch of limericks and other funny tricks I
"Okay, tell me, who's gonna be next?"
said the writer of the too-long text.
"No, please, not me," said the lean noun.
"Cut that fat verb there, two lines down."
And they all watched with their faces vexed.
The women...
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Categories:
watched, crazy, funny, giggle, howl, humor, silly,
Form:
Limerick
MY HUSBAND 101 AIRBOURNE SCREAMING EAGLES MY HERO AND I EMBRACE STOLEN VALOR UPON US
WE CATER TO ONE ANOTHER MORE DURING THESE HARSH TIMES OF EMOTIONAL CRUELTY ACTUALLY TWO WHOLE YEARS WHEN IT STARTED AGAIN STALKERS THREATENING MY LIFE AFTER A FAILED ASSASINATION ATTEMPT ON MY LIFE SEVERE IDENTITY...
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Categories:
watched, allah,
Form:
Naat
Cymbric Vale
I believed that I was rural … that I lived in country style,
where the city was close handy … that big distance was a mile.
Trains and buses ferried daily; a freeway ran close by …
comforts...
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Categories:
watched, holiday,
Form:
Rhyme
The Sun's a Liar-Children's Story Short Contest-
The Sun Is a Liar
It’s been quite some time since I've awoke early enough to meet the sun coming over the horizon. As I gazed out the window from my bedroom window seat, the sky...
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Categories:
watched, childhood,
Form:
Prose
The Night Before Christmas Eve
The night Before Christmas Eve
By Franklin Price
12/17/2016
Prologue
The Night Before Christmas
A most famous of poems
Read to children aloud
By their parents in homes
To children who gather
'Round the brightly lit tree
To hear Santa is coming
Presents for...
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Categories:
watched, christmas,
Form:
Rhyme
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:
watched, inspiration, literature, meaningful, memorial,
Form:
Narrative
Mad Molly Shaw
This is the story of mad Molly Shaw
She might be mad now but she wasn’t before
she came home to find her man dead on the floor
She lay down her bible and let out a roar...
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Categories:
watched, western,
Form:
Rhyme
The Power of My Pen
I have been trying to find the right words to pen this verse, but since I came to this country my words are suppressed and my voice is oppressed. The wind is blowing furiously, and...
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Categories:
watched, anti bullying, break up, community, corruption, discrimination,
Form:
Narrative
M Y L I F E
Grow.Heal.Prosper
M Y L I F E !
I feel like my life is like a boat , the boat is my life everything I’ve worked...
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Categories:
watched, black love, deep, sorry,
Form:
Free verse
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 29
Somehow,
Forward, and headlong
I knew it was day again
There was a shift in the dark mutterings of the Devil,
Who now refused to sleep as I refused to sing,
Almost an anticipation in his voice,
As if he...
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Categories:
watched, adventure, bible, conflict, endurance, inspirational, love, war,
Form:
Epic
An Uppercut I Remember
Dad hit me only once, an upper cut to the solar plexus. It nearly lifted me off my feet. I was 17 then and already fairly tall, 6’1.” He was 48 and of medium height,...
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Categories:
watched, father son,
Form:
Blank verse
Sunday Evening Spree
I see people moving, but going nowhere
I see people moving with their hands thrown in the air
I see people moving but they have nothing to share
Bags and pans, old kettle, and old man
The scavenger, the...
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Categories:
watched, betrayal, community, cute love, education, encouraging, faith,
Form:
Narrative
HOT MILK DRIPPING
Contest : Alice through the Wormhole
Sponsor : Tom Woody
29. 7.26
______________________________
warm sun sweet liquid
dark moist hole bristles soft sand
wonder exquisite
...
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Categories:
watched, allegory, birth, change, character, child, death, heart,
Form:
Other
Oak
"Oak"
The guardians
stood around and
shook their heads
great thoughts
quivering
from the ground, roots up,
as if to walk
confidently
with great armies
yet hesitation
was witnessed
in their waving gestures
perplexed
and touching
green crowns,
there they...
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Categories:
watched, dark, journey, light, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
The Messenger
"The Messenger"
Love is rich with
venom and honey.
there was a female ...
snake,
it watched
with green-eyed
avarice, covetting
a dove’s nest
the dove,
was white as snow,
not young, getting on,
tiny flecks of grey
the dove
alone,...
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Categories:
watched, dark, journey, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
Poems About Flowers
Lady’s Favor
by Michael R. Burch
May
spring
fling
her riotous petals
devil-
may-care
into the air,
ignoring the lethal
nettles
and may
May
cry gleeful-
ly Hooray!
as the abundance
settles,
till a sudden June
swoon
leave us out of tune,
torn,
when the last rose is left
inconsolably bereft,
rudely shorn
of every device but her thorn.
The...
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Categories:
watched, flower, june, rose, roses are red, spring,
Form:
Rhyme
Epitaphs
Epitaph for a Palestinian Child
by Michael R. Burch
I lived as best I could, and then I died.
Be careful where you step: the grave is wide.
Autumn Conundrum
by Michael R. Burch
It's not that every leaf must finally...
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Categories:
watched, bereavement, death, death of a friend, depression,
Form:
Epitaph
Love Poems Iii
LOVE POEMS III by Michael R. Burch
These are love poems by Michael R. Burch about passion, desire, lust, sex, dating, relationships, devotion and marriage.
Violets
by Michael R. Burch
Once, only once,
when the wind flicked your skirt
to...
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Categories:
watched, desire, devotion, love, lust, marriage, passion, relationship,
Form:
Rhyme
Rum N Raisin 3 - the Cat Who Fell To Earth
Raisin liked to make her bed upon a shelf up high
She said she likes the feeling that she’s almost in the sky
One day she fell and bonked her head and Rum could only stare
And wondered...
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Categories:
watched, cat, fantasy, nursery rhyme,
Form:
Narrative
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:
watched, beauty, death, desire, life, longing, love, nature,
Form:
Free verse
Rejection Slips 3
Rejection Slips 3
Rejection Slip
by Michael R. Burch
Whenever my writing gets rejected,
I always wonder how the rejecter got elected.
Are we exchanging at the same Bourse?
(Excepting present company, of course!)
When editors reject my poems, did I slip...
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Categories:
watched, death, desire, family, heart, life, longing, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Ice Cream Gran 5 - Turbo, We Have a Problem
It’s heading for our planet at ten thousand miles an hour
To stop it all the experts say we haven’t got the power
All the nukes in all the world won’t constitute a plan
So someone said, ‘All...
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Categories:
watched, grandmother, hero, space,
Form:
Rhyme
Sonnets Lxi-Lxx
Sonnets LXI-LXX
Erin
by Michael R. Burch
All that’s left of Ireland is her hair?
bright carrot?and her milkmaid-pallid skin,
her brilliant air of cavalier despair,
her train of children?some conceived in sin,
the others to avoid it. For nowhere
is evidence of...
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Categories:
watched, heart, night, spiritual, wife, words, write, writing,
Form:
Sonnet
Juvenilia: Early Poems V
Juvenilia: Early Poems V
Poetry
by Michael R. Burch
Poetry, I found you
where at last they chained and bound you;
with devices all around you
to torture and confound you,
I found you—shivering, bare.
They had shorn your raven hair
and taken both...
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Categories:
watched, poems, poets, teen, teenage, write, writing, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
The Storm Is In the Calm
The angles are in the storm
Just before the break of dawn
Sending a message to everyone
Telling them to remain calm
The angels are singing out loud
They want to break the treacherous cloud
and relinquish that awful...
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Categories:
watched, abuse, america, angel, anger, betrayal, community, england,
Form:
Narrative