Long Winks Poems
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Dragon Stew
On an early morning just before school
My tummy is churning my head hurts too
My feet are cold my forehead is hot
I have a runny nose and a tongue with blue dots
“Mom come quick!” I helplessly...
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Categories:
winks, 4th grade, 5th grade, adventure, anxiety, bible,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Poems Vi
Poems 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:
winks, extended metaphor, heaven, muse, passion, poems, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
My Heavenly Father - the Couplet Style
~ My Heavenly Father ~
( Unrhymed Couplet )
~O~
My sweet Heavenly Father, help me to serve You better in all this day
And with Your Holy Spirit guide me each day, as...
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Categories:
winks, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
Free Verse Iii
Salve
by Michael R. Burch
for the victims and survivors of 9-11
The world is unsalvageable ...
but as we lie here
in bed
stricken to the heart by love
despite war’s
flickering images,
sometimes we still touch,
laughing, amazed,
that our flesh
does not despair
of love
as...
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Categories:
winks, body, desire, kiss, love, together, war, world,
Form:
Free verse
Dream 1: 4 Weeks In Positano
"Dream 1: 4 Weeks in Positano"
Kisses long linger warm lips tasted intense
so sweet like cured Valencia Oranges
lips liquored triple sec not dry drunk on love
softly grazed, then held long
slow, deep, warm and wet
The story is...
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Categories:
winks, dream, romance, sensual,
Form:
Romanticism
Sonnets Xc-Xcvii
Sonnets XC-XCVII
Artificial Smile
by Michael R. Burch
I’m waiting for my artificial teeth
to stretch belief, to hollow out the cob
of zealous righteousness, to grasp life’s stub
between clenched molars, and yank out the grief.
Mine must be art-official?zenlike Art?
a...
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Categories:
winks, art, grave, grief, life, night, pain, smile,
Form:
Sonnet
Of Winks and Wings - Part 2
"Oh, indeed she was, young man ... I mean Greg. It IS Greg, if I recall correctly?"
"Yes. Or you can call me True Friend if you like." I turned to...
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Categories:
winks, autumn, life, lost love, nature, soulmate,
Form:
Free verse
Of Winks and Wings - Part 1
I have a little story to tell you ... it's absolutely true, of course, at least as far as I'm concerned, but you can take it as you wish - as a tale, a fact,...
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Categories:
winks, autumn, life, lost love, nature, soulmate,
Form:
Free verse
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:
winks, autumn, life, lost love, nature, soulmate,
Form:
Free verse
My New Year
If there is life there
must be an encounteration.
Even the moons and
the suns, all get to return
back if they passed
to their eventual
transportation. The morning
lights shunned and pass
like flying clouds. When...
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Categories:
winks, africa,
Form:
ABC
From Sunday School To Monday Morning
Once again I tip the scale
And mutter, whoever invented it was a man from hell.
It was not a woman who created weights for size
For women can look past the outer shell
And search deep for what...
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Categories:
winks, art, history, love,
Form:
Ballad
The Wall
Winnie, wild-eyed, went insane
and sang “Happy Birthday” in the rain,
while she washed away her bloody pain.
Now all day long she sings that song,
she sings it loud, she sings it strong,
walled in where she does...
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Categories:
winks, birthday, character, child, child abuse, loneliness, lonely,
Form:
Rhyme
Guns Is the Topic of the Day
Dave the host gives his TV audience his best gigantic I-am-Dave Smile. “Today’s topic is guns. Do you love them? Do you have them? Do we need more? Do we absolutely love...
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Categories:
winks, how i feel, perspective, political,
Form:
Political Verse
Are We Too Cold To Look Beyond
“Irish I am,” my mam speaks in hushed tones to the air
She questions still, seeming to her alone
Intones, “Ireland, O Ireland, what are you?
Where do you keep yourself, so I may rediscover you?”
Her speech unknown...
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Categories:
winks, devotion, heaven, home, ireland, longing, meaningful, passion,
Form:
Free verse
My Ebbing Physical Prowess and Strength
My ebbing physical prowess and strength
noticeably decreases in one direction.
I take lock, stock and barrel
to revisit good ole days of yore
quite conscious undeclared state of war
prevails within body electric of troubadour
now seated at his...
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Categories:
winks, 12th grade, adventure, age, angst, atheist, confusion,
Form:
Rhyme
Gemini Garden, Silent One
“a mute tongue is a slave to silence” - Silent One
You rouse the proud, sung praise all wowed
Who draws the crowd and plays so loud?
Sway befits a rock star jam
...
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Categories:
winks, appreciation,
Form:
Lyric
Walking Meditation
Walking Meditation
by Odin Roark
“And I thought marriage was hard.”
Taking Meditation for a walk
nags me with...
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Categories:
winks, hope, introspection, metaphor,
Form:
Free verse
Pandora's Box
Pandora's BoX
Whom to blame?
What woman now walks, the lethal ancestress
Of the original ancestress, that one named
Pandora, that one with the gleaming eyes that said:
"I want; I need, to know?"
Where is she...
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Categories:
winks, surreal,
Form:
Free verse
Inapropos Trois Faux Pas Jokingly Blurted Out
Inapropos trois faux pas jokingly blurted out...
yesterday August 30th, 2022.
The following fictitious account
predicated upon words spilling
out me mouth before taking time
to think through how sarcastic remark
would affect primary listener.
Comments about marital matters
particularly ours (yours truly...
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Categories:
winks, adventure, august, fate, funny love, husband, sorrow,
Form:
Free verse
Another Ministry of Truth Caught Then Lies volume 3
The National Science Foundation outsources to Colleges, today's mental assassins to secretly
censor you using "wisedex"
among other things.
"Wisedex" is
in the shadows of academia,
a deep state melanoma
with digital mitochondria and an mRNA soul.
Mental...
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Categories:
winks, art,
Form:
Free verse
Lulled To Sleep Courtesy White Noise of the Fan
Lulled to sleep courtesy white noise of the fan
Onset of first 2023 heatwave
found yours truly lulled to sleep
courtesy rattle and hum
(U2 can dreamily tread
where the streets have no name)
of oscillating fan.
Nestled under blankets,
the...
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Categories:
winks, beach, books, city, cool, environment, how i
Form:
Rhyme
Some Memories Linger Longer
I shivered
I quivered
eyes!
cried!
dried!
I puzzled winkled I bled
I muffled tingled I shed
between the greens some shades
beneath the almond tree
I stood I sat I gazed
I bled shed tears
pale leaves like flames on me
its summer time I...
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Categories:
winks, beautiful, blue, break up, cute love,
Form:
Rhyme
Moulin Rouge
Moulin Rouge
The greens and pinks magnetize to my eye
Like flowers abloom in a field espied,
Overwhelming creation’s invention
With beauty of grandiose dimension,
Shifting to the wind’s orchestrated movements
That winks at my soul (agaped by the performance),
To be...
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Categories:
winks, art, dance, french, history,
Form:
Verse
Walter V: a Father's Pride
He comes to his father holding his pet,
“Something’s wrong with Beano, he needs a vet!”
The Father looks down and seeing the frog,
Struggles with words to explain to the sprog.
So he takes a deep breath and...
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Categories:
winks, animal, boy, father son, pride,
Form:
Couplet
2015
Starched tears stream, crust
over like a spoiled sweet on
pink cheeks, flushed,
from suffocated time,
gasping for air,
I shatter at his words like brittle rust,
crushed to dust,
mind meek.
Fifth time this week.
Shallow breaths to Karma Police,
struggle to...
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Categories:
winks, abuse, addiction, anxiety, emo, emotions, hurt, poetry,
Form:
Prose Poetry