Long Withered Poems
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Flint
Flint
Within its brilliance gleaming
Cool black in lacquered polished silver chrome
Cranked up pistons bleached in summer’s heat
Hot steam rising as gears thundering
Beyond the crystal liquid city lights
Highways built across the land
In hearts felt pride American...
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Categories:
withered,
Form:
Abecedarian
The 996th Poem
Fulfilled fantasies and legitimate realities…you do know how to please…
Are you listening to my voice of longing and yearning?
No, don’t backstab me with your broken promises…stop being a horrid tease…
Do not worry, Lord, I am...
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Categories:
withered, beauty, change, corruption, courage, crazy, deep, writing,
Form:
Free verse
The Bone Idol
[First posted in 3 parts. Intended novel: time never allowed]
Prologue
This, Sir, is the prologue from before our tale begins
About the day our father did succumb to mortal sins
And left behind a man who would...
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Categories:
withered, fantasy,
Form:
Rhyme
An Ordinary Girl - Translation From Tagore
Sharing my translation of a famous poem (Sadharan Meye) written by Rabindranath Tagore, who won Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. It's one of his story-like poems, written in Bengali, which is one of the...
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Categories:
withered, life, loss,
Form:
Narrative
Backhand
"Backhand"
You have turned me
inside out, cut open
like a tennis ball
I used to beat backhand
along with the racket
hard against the garage wall
To make sense of it all
as a child, the grief stolen
all too swiftly and replaced...
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Categories:
withered, child abuse, mother daughter, strength,
Form:
Free verse
Eldritch Hysterical Annihilation Syndrome
I walk o u t...
I am lost in unapproachable light—a spectral broth
I am tasting the screaming silence—the archetypal observer
dissects my essence-fossil Passion
a seismic rupture between life/death/rebirth
gnaws at my marrow This dilemma-kudzu
coils tight, constricting tomorrow's breath
Death...
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Categories:
withered, halloween, horror, philosophy, psychological,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Misconception of Misery
It only started as a misconception, a misunderstanding
then like grass fed rain, it grew...grew into this
A eulogy, maybe this could be it
about you? For once, this is about me
How can it be...how can it be?
Dreaming,...
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Categories:
withered, how i feel, , 8th grade, ,
Form:
Bio
'Forward Brave Souls' Victims of Ambition's Merciless Will
“Up men to your posts! Don’t forget today that you are from old Virginia.”
– General George Pickett
Beneath Gettysburg's sun a merciless blaze
Stood Pickett with his face etched with war's haunting gaze.
A mind torn asunder...
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Categories:
withered, death, history, slavery, violence, war,
Form:
Ballad
Thomas Chatterton Translation: Excellent Ballad of Charity
An Excelente Balade of Charitie (“An Excellent Ballad of Charity”)
by Thomas Chatterton, age 17
modernization/translation by Michael R. Burch
As wroten bie the goode Prieste
Thomas Rowley 1464
In Virgynë the swelt'ring sun grew keen,
Then hot upon the meadows...
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Categories:
withered, allegory, christian, england, faith, prayer, religion, romantic,
Form:
Ballad
The Mask of Labradorite
Thrice the night—the day!—both fell to sleepless slumber,
But now in Spring, though yet again: The third was three in number.
I sense a wince remind itself,
Of what it means to be,
Instead to beg for booked...
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Categories:
withered, corruption, imagination, judgement, life, mystery, myth, psychological,
Form:
Rhyme
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 11
In a sudden nodding shift,
I was lifted into the air by the hard wings of the Devil
His putrid stench waking me from what seemed all dream
And upon a balcony of singed vine and blackened soot,
He...
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Categories:
withered, age, analogy, crazy, growth, life, light, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
One More Rosey Trip
I'm off on the beaten path
with Little Rosey in my grasp
There's palm fronds like a giant clock,
twenty hands instead of two
And there's the honeysuckle bush
that suddenly broke through
the gap in my neighbor's greenhouse
"Bonnie!" she insists
"Bonnie...
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Categories:
withered, child, childhood, cute love, dedication, family, fun,
Form:
Narrative
Matsuo Basho New Haiku Translations
Matsuo Basho New Haiku Translations
Air ballet:
twin butterflies, twice white,
meet, match & mate
—Matsuo Basho, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Denied transformation
into a butterfly,
autumn worsens for the worm
—Matsuo Basho, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Dusk-gliding...
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Categories:
withered, animal, death, earth, life, nature, philosophy, world,
Form:
Haiku
Letter From a Son To His Late Mother
Ma,
Why do I need to apostrophize you? Why did you flew away into the celestial regions so earlier? Is it because you are from a land where ‘twenty is plenty’ for women? And hence, ignoring...
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Categories:
withered, emotions, family, loss, mother son,
Form:
Prose
Harvest Moon O're Withered Fields
...the village shivers a hive of restless souls
skin pricklin' with anticipation
as costumed runners fixin' to gather — hearts a-thrummin'
...
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Categories:
withered, autumn, culture, halloween, humanity, october, romance,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Save Me From The Bare Darkness
{"I wish somebody, some entity would’ve told me, even warned me with the intuitiveness that lies within the motherly instincts, the nature of humanity without malevolent reluctance.
That lying in the darkness for whom which...
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Categories:
withered, absence, abuse, addiction, betrayal, corruption, death, deep,
Form:
Free verse
She Wrote To Me
She Wrote To Me
My secret lover I left you 5 years ago I could not take it anymore I had
to fill my emptiness without you since I left I would cut out my heart...
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Categories:
withered, dark, emotions, lost, love, , cute,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Beware of the Owner
"To live is to suffer; to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering."
Friedrich Nietzsche
Some say life is a mirror..
Whenever he whistled his eerie tune,
he would always tell me,
'It's my death hymn.'
But, then a...
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Categories:
withered, sorrow,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Categories:
withered, bereavement, death, earth, eulogy, farewell, identity, planet,
Form:
Rhyme
Flying With Wax Wings
Is it time again
Is this another day again
where I sit up once more
waste my fingers to the bone
to describe my grievance with the Sorceress
named Sarah...
No...not this time
Is it time again
is this another day when
I sit...
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Categories:
withered, anger, anxiety, betrayal, depression, devotion, sad love,
Form:
Free verse
The Tear
“The Tear”
How many oceans of salt
does it take to form a tear?
Unrelenting waves of sorrow
pounding a broken heart
hears the howl of sharp beaked foolish flying monkeys
ignorant feeding frenzies swallow whole lost families
swept...
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Categories:
withered, dark, muse, psychological, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
Feel Me
Feel me an emotion deep inside your heart,a soft crimson rose reicarnated,
a red heart full of velvet petals ,birthed from a white wild simple daisy
embroided in mystique passion,a bacchus of wine in finest...
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Categories:
withered, giggle, love, me, sweet, , Lullaby,
Form:
Lyric
Ides In Ivy
Oh, these trees, arms reaching as they
did then, but even wiser ... perhaps I as
well have learned another thing-or-two
...
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Categories:
withered, education, imagery, memory, nostalgia,
Form:
Narrative
Inviting Hills
O to tune in to good times of childhood—
To re-live gone-by years, not just to brood,
To lighten dust-laden baggage’s dead tare,
To unburden mind of deadwood afloat,
To fast-forward to dusky days of old,
To turn...
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Categories:
withered, childhood,
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
Dark Reflection
...and the Demon spoke,
its voice deep and mellow like smooth satiny chocolate,
"There is more, much more than good and evil,"
the words thunderously whispered.
The verdant emerald green of the forest quivering at the sound,
drawing in upon...
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Categories:
withered, dark, evil, imagery,
Form:
Free verse