Long Word for word Poems

Putin non gmo gluten free cheese on the ritz as a celiac to follow

Initially written March 18th, 2023
and revised exactly two years later
tweaking the poem here and there
courtesy adding or subtracting Nabisco  
National Biscuit...

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If ever there’s a campfire, rekindled as the sun goes down,
where ghosts of articulated writers, return and gather ‘round;
raise their glasses to a toast to commemorate their rhyme,
I wish that I could be there if...

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"The Cost of War through Peace"

She had spent 
some elaborate 
time 
with snakes,

learning
their ways,
yet in the very 
back of her mind,

in her memories,
she remembered
the stories told
long ago,
the sleepy songs sung;

curiously,
they were always
delivered in the dark,
as...

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Auld Lange Syne
by Robert Burns
modern English translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Should old acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind?
Should old acquaintance be forgot,
And days for which we pine?

For times we shared, my darling,
Days passed, once...

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Happy, happy, let's be happy
No more tears, let's not feel crappy
Music blaring I'm in the zone
I feel the most safe here at home

Trying to not let darkness creep in
My darkest days get me in a...

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Sandra Hall was a college student, like experience gained from learning,
Living in the house of her parents; with love like red, fall leaves returning.

Sandra was in her final year of school, and she had a...

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To the successful best ...

I can see the future,
it's been calling me
I'm gonna live my life,
it's how it's gonna be
Some people never listen,
Some people gotta burn
They never hear a single thing,
And they will never learn

I...

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We often look at the person within the walls as the breaker ,
not the broken
the relentless evil that exists in this persons free will 
The horror this person was willing to create
how they bruised societies...

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Nine lives removed from royal dignity

Five days after 
getting acquainted with darling cats
pampered like queens courtesy 
thee eldest daughter 
and her partner acquired as kittens
reminiscence occurred regarding
one particular four footed feline
my late mother doted over.

Lion...

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Word for word your obituary was read 
everyone was there just like you said 
mostly enemies they weren't happy 
glancing at the photo you chose for 

the viewing ma was so brave too 
knowing full...

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misprision of Treason the contemporaries                              ...

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I'm not usually the type
to stray from structure
and just write down 
all my thoughts and feelings
word for word
with no fancy frills or clever metaphors
but every time i put my pen to paper
i realize that no...

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In the streets of the pen, poems are scattered
Some of the poems I can greet 
Some of the poems I can feed
In the streets of the pen, poems are scattered

Some of the poems I can...

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I can tell you a story
I have enough living to do so
But interested perhaps hardly
I’m sure you have better things to follow

I will tell it for myself then
You can stop reading at this point
Disinterest only...

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Fan Fiction

The Gospels and Acts, fan fiction for all,
Written decades after the epistles of Paul.
Paul knew nothing of Jesus’ life.
Not his birth, his miracles, his disciples or his strife.

So decades after he supposedly died,
Believers craved...

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A world of question's
puzzles and riddles

That day of the 7th black moon
it was a typical 
Ahpla response

When returned
I could sense him dancing
" tell me brother , the message "

After a word for word account
Ahpla howled...

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Dear Lord Byron
Please don't be upset
I wish to call you George
With affection and respect

The "Destruction of Sennacherib"
I was introduced to your poem
I learned it word for word
As I sat home all alone

You see George the...

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Can't Love be with me for once

in my life.

Can't Love for once in my life

see the way I live

and accept me for who I am

and not for what I possess.

I have seen love bounce back...

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A child holds his Mother's hand 
his Mother looks into his eyes, 
he holds a smile on his face 
and catches her by surprise. 

He holds in his tiny hand 
a letter written by him,...

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Writer I am, I unfurl thought
To say I am wordplay and plot.


Draft upon draft, I sculpt fine words;
I sign my craft, my thoughts get heard.


Sculpt now and weave, carve sculptured breath
In mindful drift from life...

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Journey Journal
NEW YEAR SOJOURN
By Leon Enriquez


Brand New Year
Prize happy cheer


Live fond bliss
Greet all you miss


Be happy
Live your story

~~~~~~~~~


Here and Now
Stillness endows


Now and Then
Love funds all trends


Here in time
Feel mystic chimes

~~~~~~~~~


Words bind rhymes
Time after time


Look and...

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Sit with me by the fireplace…
I have a story to tell….
Of when I met all of Santa’s reindeer,
And I got to know them well.
Dasher was the social one,
The fastest of the herd.
He loved to party,...

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She received a lot of advice after her Grandpa died
It seemed to come in waves…
They said Grandpa was in a better place…They told her to be brave.

Be brave for your grandpa they said…he wouldn’t want...

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I don’t know how to ask the questions I am thinking.
I don’t know how to approach you without feeling like I am shrinking.
Wanting to run away and never have to face this again.
But, knowing this...

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"Mine all Mine!"

A thief I long to be
Your eyes original like the moon and sea

A lover in the world............
An Anthology, you walk and talk like the word "AMOR."

The words you send, I nicely tuck under...

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