Long Wearies Poems

I cry at baptisms, funerals,  and touchy movies. There are more                       ...

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Sappho Translations XIII by Michael R. Burch

In these translations the fragment numbers are mostly Lobel-Page. All translations are by Michael R. Burch and should be so credited if they are used in any way, shape...

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Butter Girl
Hey butter girl! You’re barmy in here there.
By that; in my pretty, little brown-heart;
Black boy’s heart. Or brown if you will!

Succumbed by taunting heat, how come you’re taunt ?
If you could do as much...

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The Coin

I am a survivor at all costs
I refuse to lay down my life
Living the Good Fight of Faith
Until my steps cease to be

Someone said to me recently
Looking me straight in the eyes
Said, I mourned...

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Ecotone 

I did not plant the prairie tickseed that appeared among
The cultivated flowers of my garden and quickly dominated.
It seemed to say, “We live, still!

My house sits in a tension zone, an ecological “no man’s...

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THE UNIVERSE ALWAYS SAYS YES

I had to be
Because
I am

She said no
The no was ignored

He carried on 
As it was meant to be.

She lay still.
Thus, was me.

Did not come from the earth
Nor will I be committed...

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Allow no sleep to your eyes and no slumber to your eyelids, for a little 
sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest and poverty will come on 
you like a...

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Oh wow just look at that tower. It is the tower of towels. They are in a queue waiting for the dryer today. The drier is having a manicure so they will all have to...

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I relish, I cherish
                               ...

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A fragile Force

O’ year after year, and even day after day,
I come to grasp the grandeur of what is at play.
The importance of the LIFE that is available to all,
The significance in rising after we...

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Time in shadows slips away
Like the sun to dusky grave
And there I find the vivid past
When sun in shadow melts at last
No shades of ardent grey
No stars to wipe the dark away
But time I know...

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So easily
silken in droplets of anticipation
on lips quivered
in union relentless
longing desperate
for voice of thoughts and eager consummation

Spend the hours alone
until night wearies of never ending smiles
as with intrigue
exchanged those words
metaphors of souls
abandoned to those passions

All...

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Much to my consternation,
I see poems, lacking punctuation!
It would seem my poetic friend,
the latest and modern trend
is to write without indication,
of a poet’s true inclination.
Pray how, ask I, can we
understand what we see,
without capitals or...

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people come, they go
pattern of lives loose-woven
and unrecognised

fate is just chance, some
random coincidence of
persons and events

if pattern there is
you and I could not see it
too close and too faint

life at rainbow’s end
where primary colours blend
all...

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As you walk

without hesitation

without gratitude

Seemingly,

without fear 

As you walk

back to your place
of power and privilege


You still
require her to smile


As you walk
past the place of humanity,
brokenness


shrill echoes
of shattered glass
 

You still
require her to smile


As you walk
back...

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Denial is a can of peas
whose contents
should never be indulged
beyond the expiration date.
Yet there I stood, 
evidence screaming reality
at my eyes, their gaze steadfast
upon the wailing baby girl 
before me in her bassinet.
My mind then...

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Enduring love in a letter box
for it wearies not with age
neither does it fade in time 
It forever lives on every page

Oh I know it all to well
love comes and go's like the tides
but here...

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You are one to a guy living close,
Who sometimes lets you in on his woes,
The wrought by nearness of abodes;
Families walking the same roads…

Neighbor don’t deny your Good Morning,
At noon over the slight still mourning:
“Our...

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What Is It

                                ...

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Actor 
factor

Actress
finesse

Icon
beckon

Stage fright 
one’s plight

Playwright
in sight 

Big star
goes far 

Bit part 
false start

Lead role 
lifts soul

Star cast 
so vast

Screen play
per say

Box smash
makes stash

Huge flop
might drop

Sitcom
Aplomb 

Reruns
big guns

series
wearies

Fluffed lines
crowd whines

Encore 
for more 

Contract
intact 

Wide screen
makes scene...

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It's insanity, for all is vanity;
   It's like spinning your wheels, going nowhere fast.
Getting caught up in things that will not last.
  Building your hopes upon the sand;
Wasting your time on an...

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New day,
Same people,
Different encounters,
Smiling faces,
Straight looks,
Together in a space,
Eyes fixed on you,
Ears wide open,
Minds set on the table,
Waiting to be fed,
Some craving for an overflow,
Some satisfied with the daily ration,
They say, “too much wearies the...

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There are days when I wonder why it matters
To have existed at all in this time and space.
My presence here is like a sound that clatters
Then fades to silence leaving not a trace.

Was there some...

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I dwell in a pretty home
Filled with fragrant emotions 
Beautiful days pass as foam
Endearing enchants our fashions. 

Home of ours, built with hopes
To dine without any unpleasant worries
Every brick earned of hardest sweat
Tied us with...

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Yesterday's Frenzy

Caught in the sunny solitude 
While on the coastal beach of lauretol 
You were the enchanted princess 
And i was innocent 
Blushing in your frisson 
Basking in the magical tent of the sunlight 
Gazing...

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