Long Wink Poems
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The Night Before Christmas EveThe 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:
wink, christmas,
Form:
Rhyme
Various Heresies 7Pagans Protest the Intolerance of Christianity
by Michael R. Burch
“We have a common sky.” — Quintus Aurelius Symmachus
We had a common sky
before the Christians came.
We thought there might be gods
but did not know their names.
The common...
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Categories:
wink, angel, atheist, bible, christian, faith, god, jesus,
Form:
Rhyme
WonderlandWonderland
by Michael R. Burch
We stood, kids of the Lamb, to put to test
the beatific anthems of the blessed,
the sentence of the martyr, and the pen’s
sincere religion. Magnified, the lens
shot back absurd reflections of each...
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Categories:
wink, allegory, allusion, analogy, crazy, fantasy, imagination, magic,
Form:
Sonnet
Self ReflectionsSELF REFLECTIONS
These are poems about mirrors, images, self-image, reflections, impressions and self-reflection.
Self Reflection
by Michael R. Burch
for anyone struggling with self-image
She has a comely form
and a smile that brightens her dorm ...
but she's grossly...
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Categories:
wink, identity, image, imagery, metaphor, mirror, self, symbolism,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Poems ViPoems about Poems VI
The Board
by Michael R. Burch
Accessible rhyme is never good.
The penalty is understood?
soft titters from dark board rooms where
the businessmen paste on their hair
and, Walter Mitties, woo the Muse
with reprimands of Dr. Seuss.
The...
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Categories:
wink, extended metaphor, heaven, muse, passion, poems, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
ObservanceObservance
by Michael R. Burch
Here the hills are old and rolling
carefully in their old age;
on the horizon youthful mountains
bathe themselves in windblown fountains...
By dying leaves and falling raindrops,
I have traced time's starts and stops,
and I have...
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Categories:
wink, loneliness, lonely, longing, loss, lost, seasons, time,
Form:
Sonnet
Poems About Poems IiiPoems about Poems III
Radiance
by Michael R. Burch
for Dylan Thomas
The poet delves earth’s detritus?hard toil?
for raw-edged nouns, barbed verbs, vowels’ lush bouquet;
each syllable his pen excretes?dense soil,
dark images impacted, rooted clay.
The poet sees the sea but...
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Categories:
wink, poems, poetry, poets, visionary, words, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
EnoughEnough!
by Michael R. Burch
It’s not that I don’t want to die;
I shall be glad to go.
Enough of diabetes pie,
and eating sickly crow!
Enough of win and place and show.
Enough of endless woe!
Enough of suffering and vice!
I’ve...
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Categories:
wink, body, cancer, death, health, irony, mental illness,
Form:
Light Verse
Please Consider Those Who - Not By Choice - Are Living Alone - 2nd ThirdThis is the 2nd THIRD of my 3-part poem - see Mark Stellinga on Poetry Soup for the other 2 THIRDS - couldn't be helped.
“What about neighbors,” I carefully pried...“do any of them check on...
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Categories:
wink, love, relationship,
Form:
Narrative
Poems About Fathers and Grandfathers IiPoems about Fathers and Grandfathers II
All Things Galore
by Michael R. Burch
for my grandfathers George Edwin Hurt Sr. and Paul Ray Burch, Sr.
Grandfather,
now in your gray presence
you are
somehow more near
and remind me that,
once, upon a star,
you...
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Categories:
wink, family, father, father daughter, father son, fathers
Form:
Rhyme
Various Heresies 6Various Heresies 6
Altared Spots
by Michael R. Burch
The mother leopard buries her cub,
then cries three nights for his bones to rise
clad in new flesh, to celebrate the sunrise.
Good mother leopard, pensive thought
and fiercest love’s wild insurrection
yield...
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Categories:
wink, atheist, bible, christian, faith, god, jesus, prayer,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Flight, Flying and Birds IPoems about Flight, Flying, and Birds (I)
Flight
by Michael R. Burch
It is the nature of loveliness to vanish
as hummingbird wings, batting against nothingness
seek transcendence...
Southern Icarus
by Michael R. Burch
Windborne, lover of heights,
unspooled from the truck’s wildly lurching...
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Categories:
wink, angel, animal, bird, flying, nature,
Form:
Free verse
Treasures That May Be Found In Destiny's New ShiftI.
Treasures That May Be Found In Destiny's New Shift
( Mille viri sententia agere nescit donec suscipit calamum scribere.)
For a brief spell, I hung my hammock in the shade
of the ancient tall oak tree, that God's...
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Categories:
wink, appreciation, art, blessing, care, dedication, poetry, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Your SanityStuck in place…
Free in space…
you’re insane
I’m as sweet as sugar cane…
Whatever happened to your unique personality?
Whatever happened to your sanity?
Has it transformed to insanity?
I like the way you make me feel
Oh, you don’t...
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Categories:
wink, anger, angst, appreciation, beauty, change, emotions, encouraging,
Form:
Rhyme
Bartender Tales Ii: ChangesKerris spoke to Damian the junior
Bartender on the phone. "Yeah, it's
8 o'clock now. I'll be there at 9 to
Open. Meet me there at that time."
He smiled happily thinking...
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Categories:
wink, beautiful, blue, engagement, friend, friendship, heart, life,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
No UmbrellaThere is always something to write about
I don’t know what you are talking about
There is always something to write about
So take out your pen and spell it out
I was trying to book a ticket for...
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Categories:
wink, anxiety, appreciation, beautiful, business, creation, rain, seasons,
Form:
Narrative
Poems About Poets IPoems about Poets I
The Wonder Boys
by Michael R. Burch
for Leslie Mellichamp
The stars were always there, too-bright cliches:
scintillant truths the jaded world outgrew
as baffled poets winged keyed kites—amazed,
in dream of shocks that suddenly came true ...
but...
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Categories:
wink, inspiration, muse, poems, poetry, poets, romantic, writing,
Form:
Verse
The Twins, Part 1In the dark of night a wind took hold,
With powers charged to shake the sky,
By moody swings of gods up high,
Their breath alone enraged and bold.
In the dark of night history spoke,
Of a world alive...
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Categories:
wink, brother, philosophy, symbolism, visionary, , cute,
Form:
Prose
Of Winks and Wings - Part 3"You see this here spot on the bench, where it's all worn away?" Clarence asked.
"Yeah, I've noticed that a few times, and wondered why they didn't paint it again." I...
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Categories:
wink, autumn, life, lost love, nature, soulmate,
Form:
Free verse
Dusty Ryder - Both Audio and TextWhat I’m going to tell you now might make you think I’m loco. I hope that you’ll believe me, but I don’t care if you do.
You asked me what - in all my life’s -...
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Categories:
wink, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
Remain SaneDo you recognize me anymore?
Do you realize that my heart is sore?
Let me memorize your heart’s melody
Let me see right through your…melancholy…
Do you ever wave goodbye to yesterday?
Can’t bear the thought of you leaving me...
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Categories:
wink, deep, depression, desire, feelings, life, loneliness,
Form:
Free verse
The Garage Sale - With IllustrationWe sat in our respective chairs, a group of friendly neighbors, chatting back and forth while people milled about the goods.
This was not the first time that we’d had a monster garage sale, so we...
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Categories:
wink, humor,
Form:
Narrative
My Eyes the Painting Photograph In the Sky- -"I am a painter and my eyes are the paint brushes I had if I look up with my open eye I see the Horizon I see the clouds to be continued
Oh shutter as I...
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Categories:
wink, allusion, analogy, appreciation,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Chapter 138 -- DAMIAN DELILAH MALLORY HOLANNYA: New Triplet ADDITIONSDate: May 2050
Damian returned home early morning
Back from another visit with Dolly. Still
Early misty May morning another
Dawning. 2050! The newborns triplets were
Sleeping. Damian was peeping. He would
Have to travel the...
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Categories:
wink, beach, child,
Form:
Alliteration
Flagan the Dragon Part2The Tale of the Bumpalump
After the Knight had unraveled...Flagan decided to travel
and get away on a long holiday.
He thought it quite grand to visit a new land
and...
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Categories:
wink, funny, humor, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme