Long Wreckage Poems
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Son Say Goodnight To Grandpa
“Son”...”say goodnight to grandpa”
Spurred by mother dearest
as well as other politesse
drummed into her second born
fobbing blandishments as incentive
tumbled off fingers of prodigal son
tripped wordsmith to splutter forth
forthwith the following lines.
Back in the day
quaint...
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Categories:
wreckage, 12th grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, absence,
Form:
Rhyme
Dream of Infinity
Dream of Infinity
by Michael R. Burch
Have you tasted the bitterness of tears of despair?
Have you watched the sun sink through such pale, balmless air
that your soul sought its shell like a crab on a beach,
then...
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Categories:
wreckage, confusion, depression, dream, farewell, leaving, loneliness, longing,
Form:
Couplet
Salvage
"Salvage"
Salvage the fixating salvation
unfurling from the wreckage
of a numb world twisted inside
treasure climbs swimming
the ladder from the deep of all things
reaching upwards travelling in a new time
of melting morpheme moments overlapping
dissolved...
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Categories:
wreckage, muse, paradise, poets,
Form:
Romanticism
Juvenilia: Early Poems Iv
Juvenilia: Early Poems IV
I wrote this around age 17.
Bible Libel
by Michael R. Burch
If God
is good
half the Bible
is libel.
I read the Bible from cover to cover at age eleven, ten chapters per day, at the suggestion...
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Categories:
wreckage, poems, poetry, poets, teen, write, writing, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
Early Poems I
Juvenilia: Early Poems by Michael R. Burch
Smoke
by Michael R. Burch
The hazy, smoke-filled skies of summer I remember well;
farewell was on my mind, and the thoughts that I can't tell
rang bells within (the din was in)...
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Categories:
wreckage, kid, poetry, poets, teen, write, writing, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
Bleeding Before Rome -2
Yet at this very moment the cathedral was crumbling
down upon the cries of foresaken refugees,
the monastery's walls wobbling from war's wreckage,
and as the black bursts billowed into sun drenched brutality
with the bodies of...
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Categories:
wreckage, culture, heart, war, world war ii,
Form:
Epic
Amberina Ballerina
A born lioness my untamed heart? ha!
a mouse, this pulsing token ruled by unruly wants
at times given, traded or stolen - sometimes
thrown down on a dare to be won or lost
till it became...
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Categories:
wreckage, destiny, emotions, inspiration, introspection, memory, metaphor, nostalgia,
Form:
Free verse
Plane Crashes Fate Takes Over
It was Christmas Eve and I was at the airport,
Not a soul in sight, almost deserted, it was 10.00 pm,
Only two hours before Christmas day,
Perhaps if I got on a plane, I would see Santa...
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Categories:
wreckage, love,
Form:
Free verse
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 14
Despite his impatience to show me his hell,
He waited for me in my rest,
Lying upon the ground, I awoke in prayer,
Thanking God above and asking Him for guidance
“My heart is Yours, always,
From the moment...
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Categories:
wreckage, adventure, anxiety, conflict, courage, dark, holocaust, horror,
Form:
Epic
Juvenilia: Early Poems Xii
Juvenilia: Early Poems XII
Because You Came to Me
by Michael R. Burch
for Beth
Because you came to me with sweet compassion
and kissed my furrowed brow and smoothed my hair,
I do not love you after any fashion,
but wildly,...
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Categories:
wreckage, boy, child, childhood, poems, student, teen, teenage,
Form:
Rhyme
Asked and Answered - An Echo Poem
HOW I WOULD DESCRIBE MYSELF
People often say to me
“What can you tell me about yourself”
guess it’s my duty to explain to them
and so I look them in the face and reply
My...
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Categories:
wreckage, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Gingham Prison: Beyond the Yellow Brick Road
(A call for the lights to dim as a single spotlight illuminates the legend Judy Garland, who is center stage. She wears a faded housecoat as her beautiful, brandy brown eyes hold a lifetime of...
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Categories:
wreckage, addiction, anxiety, depression, loneliness, lonely, psychological, woman,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
In America June 14th Equals Flag Day
In America June 14th equals flag day
and in Pennsylvania a federal holiday.
"...I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. And to the republic for which it stands. One nation under god...
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Categories:
wreckage, 1st grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th
Form:
Rhyme
Odder Than Odd Itself
Where did you go?
I want you to know
That I love you so,
But I got to get up and roam
Due to being far from home
Oh, I hear them...and feel them...
I hear the echoes of...
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Categories:
wreckage, angst, anxiety, beauty, crazy, depression, desire, emotions,
Form:
Free verse
Mother Snap
As I pivot to confront my offspring, I anticipate the sight of terror etched in their innocent eyes, a reflected horror that would mirror the abyssal darkness that has long resided within me.
Instead, I am...
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Categories:
wreckage, dark,
Form:
Free verse
My Poetry Session of ANXIOUS sorrow
Hours and hours of wasting time has escalated my anxieties…
I'm sorry, God, I'm addicted to so many bad behaviors…
Powers enlighten my mindset, and flowers make me feel at ease
Dementia kicking in as I procrastinate and...
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Categories:
wreckage, anger, angst, anxiety,
Form:
Free verse
Rebellious nonestablishmentarian Pennsylvania Yankee
Rebellious nonestablishmentarian Pennsylvania Yankee...
honored at freedom fête
of course in my dreams
where Tony the Tiger
roars Matthew Scott Harris
ranks as one hip cat gr-r-eat
showcasing adroitness
with ability to turn a phrase
evident if we could arrange a tête-à-tête
where...
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Categories:
wreckage, adventure, america, animal, appreciation, hero, humanity, remember,
Form:
Free verse
Incomplete Metamorphosis of Distilled Adolescent
Incomplete metamorphosis of distilled adolescent...
therefore he characterizes himself as an anomaly...any idea why?
Mortified, petrified, stultified, et cetera sheltered,
and mortally wounded prepubescent,
I consider myself
analogously buttressed, cocooned,
garrisoned (for bing keeler),
hardened, insulated,
where cell baited jumping frog
o'...
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Categories:
wreckage, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 7th
Form:
Rhyme
Isis Staind 26 Plus Years of Marriage
Isis staind 26+ years of marriage
Yes, believe me you,
I (also considered the best karaoke singer
for the go-go's)
putting Shabrina Leonita to shame
back in two thousand and twenty one
once flew high as the eagles
a...
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Categories:
wreckage, adventure, age, america, anniversary, appreciation, betrayal, marriage,
Form:
Rhyme
Vapor Barrier Mastic
Oxygen is depleting from what remains within the confines of which, a means to an end, lie guarded. Watch as hope disappears within the aftermath of this wreckage, which was constructed-meticulously seeking absolute perfection…; only...
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Categories:
wreckage, abuse, allusion, betrayal, character, deep, fear, humanity,
Form:
Didactic
Reply From the Nonexistent
please tell me ...
what happened?
what dire damage have i wrought?
what did i do to ruin it, that friendship, rare?
you once knew me better than most ...
my darkness didn't frighten you, didn't rattle,
you sighted those demons...
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Categories:
wreckage, friendship, loss, memory, missing, missing you, teenage,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
An Omen of the Taste of Twilight
Vanished
the wild magic of this place;
this wilderness I now roam alone
as its lifeblood seeps
into
Afterlife
..my mournful howls
across time and distance
go unanswered -
Oh, how I long to join again
in my brethren’s song..
fading sunlight falls in...
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Categories:
wreckage, animal, death, fate, grief, howl, longing, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
The Loss of the Lifeboat, the 'Solomon Browne'
In the year ninteen eighty one on the nineteenth day of December
A day the town of Mousehole in Cornwall, will always remember
An R.N.L.I. Watson class wooden lifeboat, the 'Solomon Browne'
Launched from Penlee lifeboat station in...
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Categories:
wreckage, boat, death, people, rain, sad, sea, storm,
Form:
Narrative
Isis staind 27 plus years
Isis staind 27+ years...
of scorpion stinging poison us marriage,
whereby the missus and I,
nevertheless experienced genesis as
mama and papa respectively.
(jest kibitizing)
thus explaining why I
(a beatle browed
sixty five year young adult)
joined blue...
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Categories:
wreckage, adventure, angst, anniversary, appreciation, celebration, divorce, humorous,
Form:
Free verse
Grant This Civil Yankee To Doodle Till Lee Gets Blue In the Face
Grant this civil yankee to doodle till Lee gets blue in the face
blowing 99 red balloons April 9th, 2023
will signal 158 years since Appomattox
plus what would have been ninety sixth birth
of the late...
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Categories:
wreckage, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure, america, appreciation,
Form:
Rhyme