Long Wrenching Poems
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Medieval Poems Iii
Medieval Poems
Deor's Lament (Anglo Saxon poem, circa 10th century AD)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Weland knew the agony of exile.
That indomitable smith was wracked by grief.
He endured countless troubles:
sorrows were his only companions
in his frozen...
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Categories:
wrenching, england, grief, poems, poetry, poets, sorrow, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Oncle Albert - Part 1
Here he stands, Edwardian vogue, sometimes with his spats,
sometimes with his brogues below his dungarees. With rounded collar points and tie, and jacket donned below this flying suit, his waste is tied with simple...
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Categories:
wrenching, flying, history,
Form:
Narrative
I Survived '75
KEY - W: Will/Me - F: Friend - M: Mom
Thanksgiving week of '75, as a concurrent student earning multi-degrees from two campuses, and one off. I lived above the Uni, uphill, panicview Hilo Town and...
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Categories:
wrenching, 9th grade, angel, boy, friendship, happiness, natural
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Sarah’s Origin
My eyes stare straight,
fixated on something in the distance,
humming a song that would send chills,
if you ever got the chance to listen.
A padded cell and a straitjacket,
the doctor giving one of his ‘visits,’
his moans...
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Categories:
wrenching, dark, death, gothic,
Form:
Epic
Rebuilding Paradise
Paradise
like Rome
is not built
and not rebuilt
and rebuilt
and redeveloped
and healed
and redeemed
in one 24-hour
cycle
and recycle
and revolving
round day v night,
And/or
appreciatively regarding both day
and dualdark
rich and fertile
souled and soiled
recycling night.
So too
my personal
and political
and economic
and ecological
and theologically reformed...
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Categories:
wrenching, earth, eve, god, health, love, paradise, passion,
Form:
Political Verse
Silence reigns supreme in my reich
Silence reigns supreme in my reich
No don (except me)
doth trumpet within the aborted
barren reach of freedoms within expansive realm,
I annexed courtesy manifest destiny,
which peoples now inhabiting said jurisdiction
circumscribed by following coordinates -
Latitude: 40° 16' 22.20"...
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Categories:
wrenching, absence, abuse, addiction, anger, celebration, dark, hair,
Form:
Free verse
Song From Beyond the Stars: New Adventure
[ ... story with context, a plausible universe with top and bottom
a coat of cosmos covering
over a subterranean protoverse of potential fields
a quantum cellar creating
the very big...
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Categories:
wrenching, adventure, destiny, future, imagination, journey, planet, science
Form:
Verse
Long In the Tooth Male Doth Recount Reflect Reimagine
Long in the tooth male doth recount, reflect, reimagine...
his woebegone damn dental daze today May 5th, 2021
No particular rhyme nor reason
garden variety indentured flunky (me)
revisits his salmagundi salad days,
when oral blight smote
left...
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Categories:
wrenching, 2nd grade, absence, age, body, cinco de
Form:
Rhyme
Wonderful Women
Mary was a virgin girl:
With big dreams and aspirations!
An angel came to visit her:
With honor and salutations!
Troubled by his sayings:
She did not know what to think!
The angel said to Mary:
My dear, no need to shrink!
Mary...
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Categories:
wrenching, inspirational, women,
Form:
Rhyme
Candy Girl - 2
"Candy Girl" - 2
He had been watching her from the far end of the Ice Bar, where he was sitting propped up on an ice ledge which was cushioned in plush Reindeer hide and Yak...
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Categories:
wrenching, adventure, muse, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 8
He awoke to the sound of lightly crunching ice. As he opened his eyes the boy stood looking at him, then with one fluid motion he stepped forward and stretched out his hand,
...
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Categories:
wrenching, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
A Moment of Hope the Invisible Man 30
Sometimes I have the courage to think of the things that made me what I am today,
My memory takes me back to terrible things far away far off into my bitter past,
My mind like a...
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Categories:
wrenching, depression, happy, beautiful, me, world, old, dream,
Form:
Prose Poetry
And still his death haunts webbed wide world post American Civil War
And still his death haunts webbed wide world post American Civil War
Preface: On the evening of April 14, 1865, while attending a special performance of the comedy, "Our American Cousin," President Abraham Lincoln was shot.
President...
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Categories:
wrenching, 11th grade, 12th grade, absence, age, america,
Form:
Rhyme
The Thieves of Our Hearts
"The Thieves Of Our Hearts!"
...
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Categories:
wrenching, heart, life, men, women,
Form:
Rhyme
Shame and Guilt Sabotaged Mine Healthy Growth
Shame and guilt sabotaged mine healthy growth...
and let yours truly not forget emasculation
that prickly emotional immobilization
whereby these lovely bones
subject courtesy senescence
upon cremation reduced to obliteration.
Inching closer to mortality
linkedin with concomitant
subtle deterioration of body...
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Categories:
wrenching, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form:
Free verse
I Wait With Bated Breath For C Cure T Clarence
I wait with bated breath for... C. Cure T. Clarence
The following crafted
approximately midway
into the administration
of forty fifth president,
whose crass, gutsy, lewd,
repulsive yawping finds
him squarely poised to
nab the nomination as
Republican front runner
come the...
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Categories:
wrenching, america, anxiety, appreciation, character, confidence, fate, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Ill Fated Address
AN ILL-FATED ADDRESS
Being on holiday in Athens was truly the best 21st present
my parents could have given me, stayed with my granddad,
felt great, I traveled on my own, no more an adolescent.
Sad that I...
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Categories:
wrenching, birthday,
Form:
Free verse
Part Two- Gunshot Wound To the Heart- a Short Story From My Memoir - a Journey of Roses and Thorns
It was a hot summer day. Harry had stopped by Grandma's house and offered to take the two little girls down to the store and treat them to an ice-cream cone. Grandma, thinking...
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Categories:
wrenching, nostalgia,
Form:
Prose
Ford's Theater April 15th 1865
Ford's Theater, April 15th, 1865...
Petersen House, Washington, D.C.
I admit to own a passion
for the Civil War in general,
and the life and death of
the sixteenth president in particular
between a hard spot of whiskey
and draughts of arrack;
nonetheless...
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Categories:
wrenching, absence, age, america, anniversary, april, bereavement, cry,
Form:
Rhyme
The Lay of the Best Man - Part 2
The Lay of The Best Man - Part Two
I will not understate my distaste, but I do not hate. I rate hate as being irate
Shall I underrate the spate of your hate as you devastate;...
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Categories:
wrenching, humanity, men,
Form:
Lay
Crow Fights The Raven
Beneath the pall of an eldritch moon,
...
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Categories:
wrenching, betrayal, bird, gothic, horror, metaphor, murder, night,
Form:
Free verse
Solitaire Solitude
Solitaire / Solitude
Solitude will be my recognition, my fame !
Solitude is my time to claim !
Solitary is my adopted name !
Solitaire is the name of my game,
to play away these hours of mine
until there is...
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Categories:
wrenching, passion,
Form:
Rhyme
Look no further than the nose on your face
Look no further than the nose on your face...
for Mutualism among Homo sapiens
long thought to be a pipe dream
case in point sited by a couple of recent
purportedly natural events possibly
exacerbated courtesy global warming
namely present conflagrations
include...
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Categories:
wrenching, america, anger, anti bullying, celebration, environment, film,
Form:
Free verse
Satan Tries To Strike
*** Satan Tries to Strike ***
By the house,
By the door
coming in
across the floor
To kneel by my bed,
My guardian angel came
Carrying ways to hold the peace
of our Lord,
To restore the joy in my morn…
And, to wait...
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Categories:
wrenching, angel, christian, family, health, imagery, spiritual, truth,
Form:
Rhyme
An Inspiraling Expiration
It might become too ironically
and iconically embareassing
to admit
I am taking a (s)hit
while exploring
my latest
and perhaps final
nutritional surmise
compressing peak climax
surprise
A well-capitalized
Systematic Theology
of EcoLogical Systems
is not such
an inviting much
of a moving title
Yet herein
we might...
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Categories:
wrenching, earth, environment, health, humor, passion, power, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse