Long Whittle Poems
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Family PoemsFamily Poems
Mother's Smile
by Michael R. Burch
There never was a fonder smile
than mother's smile, no softer touch
than mother's touch. So sleep awhile
and know she loves you more than "much."
So more than "much, " much more than...
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Categories:
whittle, child, childhood, family, father, father son, mother,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Fathers and Grandfathers IiiPoems about Fathers and Grandfathers III
Success
by Michael R. Burch
for Jeremy
We need our children to keep us humble
between toast and marmalade;
there is no time for a ticker-tape parade
before bed, no award, no bright statuette
to be delivered...
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Categories:
whittle, family, father, father daughter, father son, fathers
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Children IvPoems about Children IV
Salat Days
by Michael R. Burch
Dedicated to the memory of my grandfather, Paul Ray Burch, Sr.
I remember how my grandfather used to pick poke salat ...
though first, usually, he’d stretch back in the...
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Categories:
whittle, child, childhood, children, dad, father son, grandfather,
Form:
Rhyme
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 58When they came to a side hall Joulupukki stopped.
“Do you feel the magic?” He said to her. She nodded. He stepped around the corner, on the far...
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Categories:
whittle, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
The Silver AxeHe wondered with horror how so many memories, so many forms to be branded on his skin and engrave there.
Then the wet rattle of a twisted throat, and he beats his last breath to his...
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Categories:
whittle, poems, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Ponderings of My 60th BirthdayPonderings on my 60 th Birthday!
On this my 60 th year I have gained a few new insights that can only come with age and experience.
I do find it surreal that 60 years have...
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Categories:
whittle, birthday,
Form:
Free verse
A Journeyman's PleaThe great poets begged for muse and not for moments stolen.
We lesser mortals cup in hand beg, not for attentions’ span nor
cause to celebrate, but Time; a worthy goal.
Seconds spent pondering half-held slow bled moments
shuffling...
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Categories:
whittle, angst, atheist, break up, dark, death, depression,
Form:
Free verse
Whittled DownPurposely, intentionally
enter out my reluctance and enter in a nose dive back into the past
a Samurai Jack experience
It has to be here somewhere
these long forgotten memoirs pieced together yet never mentioned
never verbally spoken nor handwritten
They...
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Categories:
whittle, missing you,
Form:
Free verse
Exfoliation I AmEXFOLIATION, I AM
In my advanced age am I but
The castoff--remnants
Of a vitality that once was and has been...
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Categories:
whittle, allusion, bereavement, family, happiness, how i feel,
Form:
Light Verse
Orange Crush the Adventures of Soda Pop ViiFor those who are following this story, here is the next installment. If this is your first time reading, please read the first one and it will help make sense of the story. Thanks for...
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Categories:
whittle, adventure, childhood, crush,
Form:
Personification
Letters For People Part 8Dear people,
Worthless, it. Certain, is…
To Encouraged services that offer the nervous sure assurances-
to sure help self serve self worth with a sense of self-deservedness. Welp!
...
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Categories:
whittle, beauty, confidence, corruption, humor, integrity, thank you,
Form:
Epic
Before the Gates of Alahsar - Version - 2 - 29Cries of beast and man intertwine,
mortals lamenting what has been done,
this night is filled with sorrow,
forever horrific scenes pressed into the mind.
From this sorrow, can glory really take flight?
in time to come it may do.
Fight...
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Categories:
whittle, dark, death, dream, fantasy, light, love, war,
Form:
Epic
Children's Poems IVChildren's Poems IV
These are poems for children and poems about children and their mothers, fathers, grandmother, grandfathers and extended families.
Boundless
by Michael R. Burch
for Jeremy
Every day we whittle away at the essential solidity of him,
and...
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Categories:
whittle, baseball, boy, child, childhood, children, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
The WhittlersThe Whittlers
The stately county courthouse was their usual meeting place,
a columned Greek Revival, and a lovely public space.
They sat upon their benches under lofty pecan trees,
wood shavings on their ankles and some cedar twixt their...
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Categories:
whittle, growing up, nostalgia,
Form:
Rhyme
What Kids DidCompared with us, the kids today
Too little play and too much weigh.
Alone indoors they snack and sit
And buttons hit, while we stayed fit.
We'd quickly chores and homework do,
Then dash through doors to fun pursue,
To basketballs...
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Categories:
whittle, children, fun, growing up, happiness, nostalgia, sports,
Form:
Quatrain
~ Poem the 1st Chap. Inspired Bye ~ Part #23~ Shown to me here, as it is one now known by me to be the very beauty of His generous
character. The one
seen shining, on the no truer notions of his.
Known now...
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Categories:
whittle, upliftinggod, me, beauty, beauty, god, hope, love,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Passion
Passion
Passion can be very good,
But it is misunderstood.
“Passion” comes from the word for “suffering,”
So, in a sense, without buffering:
It can give, but it too takes,
For every heart it lifts, it breaks!
If you feel it, then...
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Categories:
whittle, passionlife, heart, heart, life, me,
Form:
Rhyme
Impregnable Fortified DonjonAlias indomitable invincible
Donald John Trump oozes wrath
inexorably plunging every species
of life toward apocalyptic warpath
mercilessly threatentens world
wide web promising bloodbath
validating ex post facto commander
in chief as nonpareil sociopath
hence... this call to arms gives run
for money challenging...
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Categories:
whittle, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, corruption,
Form:
Political Verse
~ Awhile Sat Whittling ~Yep I reckon I'll go out, about a bit to roam, and talk a while
and ponder I will, yep, set here and talk some alone with God
of the many a sorted thing, and...
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Categories:
whittle, inspirational, life, love, passion, peace, time, uplifting,
Form:
Verse
Toad and TrollThere was a fussy old toad, yes; some might call him, a curmudgeon, at soul.
When his ladylove died, he took it in stride, and sought someone else to pester.
Eventually, he came to our lake,...
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Categories:
whittle, adventure, funny, imagination, uplifting, old, home, home,
Form:
Light Verse
GooglingHanging out new to the scene
So often wonder what it means
As I sit in front of the worlds screen
Started in on ...Googling
I typed in a single word
Pressed enter for the Google search
Took me down the...
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Categories:
whittle, funny, humor,
Form:
Free verse
Marketabilityto be a single woman in
america & aging to boot,
one must have breasts that sing to
the air (that never fall, that never
sag, that never do anything but
what the magazines show on
their covers).
to be a single...
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Categories:
whittle, life, woman, dream, america, dream,
Form:
Free verse
The Legend of BlackmorrowThe horrors began with a hush
as banking empires locked their doors
to balance grand consolidations
and whittle tender values down.
Upon resurrection, crowds gathered
attempting to withdraw marrow wealth.
Rotting complacency filled the vaults
while floating paper clogged the aisles.
We slumped...
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Categories:
whittle, allegory, hopevoice, voice, drug,
Form:
Free verse
The Development of Dead Eyes: Part Imost people trouncing round the empire
walk with a sense of respect built by
the accumulation of things,
built by the constant reassertion of one’s
personality publicly,
pronouncing themselves a
functional
social
being,
as defined by these terms alone---
and the western world...
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Categories:
whittle, life, , western,
Form:
Free verse
Quiet AttentionTogether we would whittle sticks while chewing juicy gum
We would find a place to rest beside a river green and wide
The skies were blue, and tall grass would grow, and brush against my knees
Where willow...
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Categories:
whittle, childhood, devotion, family, old,
Form:
Free verse