Long Wrinkle Poems
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Self ReflectionsSELF REFLECTIONS
These are poems about mirrors, images, self-image, reflections, impressions and self-reflection.
Self Reflection
by Michael R. Burch
for anyone struggling with self-image
She has a comely form
and a smile that brightens her dorm ...
but she's grossly...
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Categories:
wrinkle, identity, image, imagery, metaphor, mirror, self, symbolism,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Poems ViPoems 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:
wrinkle, extended metaphor, heaven, muse, passion, poems, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
SeeSee
by Michael R. Burch
See how her hair has thinned: it doesn’t seem
like hair at all, but like the airy moult
of emus who outraced the wind and left
soft plumage in their wake. See how her eyes
are...
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Categories:
wrinkle, age, goodbye, life, loss, time, women,
Form:
Sonnet
Whats Behind the CurtainI used to dream of a dark hall. Dim. Empty with thick cheap navy curtains.
The breeze. It felt hot and old. It shivered in the curtains that lined the walls on both sides.
The breeze....
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Categories:
wrinkle, anxiety, dark, dream, imagery, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
BehindI used to dream of a dark hall. Dim. Empty with thick cheap navy curtains.
The breeze. It felt hot and old. It shivered in the curtains that lined the walls on both sides.
The breeze....
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Categories:
wrinkle, anxiety, depression, emo, suicide,
Form:
Blank verse
EnoughEnough!
by Michael R. Burch
It’s not that I don’t want to die;
I shall be glad to go.
Enough of diabetes pie,
and eating sickly crow!
Enough of win and place and show.
Enough of endless woe!
Enough of suffering and vice!
I’ve...
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Categories:
wrinkle, body, cancer, death, health, irony, mental illness,
Form:
Light Verse
Sonnets Xvii-XxivSonnets XVII-XXIV
Discrimination
by Michael R. Burch
The meter I had sought to find, perplexed,
was ripped from books of "verse" that read like prose.
I found it in sheet music, in long rows
of hologramic CDs, in sad wrecks
of long-forgotten...
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Categories:
wrinkle, books, poems, poetry, poets, voice, write, writing,
Form:
Sonnet
Home Sweet Hell"That also has a steep drop off the far side of Home Sweet Hell" said my soulless guide as he pointed in the direction of the nearby screams.
I could see what resembled silhouettes or...
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Categories:
wrinkle, anxiety, death, future, life, scary,
Form:
Free verse
Shaggy Dog Limericks: the All-Time Best -- Vote For Your FavoriteThe Spaniel
A Spaniel that uses its head
Can tell when its owner’s unfed
So instead of a duck
That is down on its luck
Will deliver a pizza instead
The Afghan Hound
The Afghan’s a dog groomer’s...
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Categories:
wrinkle, animal, cat, cute, dog, fun, humor, pets,
Form:
Limerick
Embrace the LinesEmbrace The Lines
Vitality marks gently stretch your soft skin beyond the wildest dreams of
beauty unbound where children had once or thrice embraced your womb
the soothing waters cushioning and cradling three miracles three water
marks engraved...
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Categories:
wrinkle, life,
Form:
Free verse
Old ManSilently he sat in darkness, flinching at the sight of light.
Which created a glow reflecting on his balding head.
His cold glare did not help my nerves,
so I simply stood there observing his silence.
His philosopher...
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Categories:
wrinkle, angst, dark, life,
Form:
Prose
The CowboyThe Cowboy
A hundred thousand miles
were written on his face
He'd earned near every wrinkle
Did this cowboy known as "Jace"
He'd ridden cross the country
From Death Valley up to Maine
In weather full of sunshine
To the roughest hurricane
He owned...
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Categories:
wrinkle, america,
Form:
Epic
Bees Under Milk Wood : a Spell
"Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting." Robert Frost
"Bees Under Milk Wood : A Spell"
Spider Web glistens wet
in the spoilt lies of...
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Categories:
wrinkle, romance,
Form:
Romanticism
WOMB OF ALL BEGINNINGSWOMB OF ALL BEGINNINGS
In the delicious womb of all beginnings
we learnt to giggle electrons
to bear all things
without nusturtiums, pink lilies or doughnuts
warm gurglings of God’s dream for us
Morning glories were waiting
deep...
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Categories:
wrinkle, allegory, creation, extended metaphor, growth, imagery, love,
Form:
Free verse
Those Early Attempts At a Mexican Foodthose early attempts at a Mexican food
no store bought cardboard taco shells
she had to prepare her own
the appearance of the tortilla press
the arrival of the tortilla holder
became a beginning to a menagerie of new tools...
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Categories:
wrinkle, august, devotion, food, happiness,
Form:
Romanticism
Three Witches, a Love StoryTHREE WITCHES A LOVE SONNET
Three ancient, rotten, horrid, witches
just awoke from their daytime snore,
These evil, reeking, damaged, sisters,
Cursed the land for thirty-five score.
As they hobbled down stairs
they stammered and coughed,
Till they reached the...
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Categories:
wrinkle, beauty, halloween,
Form:
Rhyme
Dead Crush
"Dead Crush"
Oh uplift me woman
if we were to have a
conversation would
bees fly out of your mouth
or just mewling, simpering
watered-down honey
not so pristine, just soft
and somewhat
ingratiatingly tainted
you ply uplifting
romantic notions
like an air...
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Categories:
wrinkle, courage, freedom, women,
Form:
Free verse
Resolving Issues"Resolving Issues"
Should a problem arise between you and another one,
Handle it maturely with them before you jump the gun.
Take the subject up with the other one affected,
Not with other people while the right one is...
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Categories:
wrinkle, character, conflict, wisdom,
Form:
Rhyme
Last Roseglanced at one last rose in my garden!
...
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Categories:
wrinkle, garden, nature, rose,
Form:
Free verse
murder-der-derIt’s Harvard VS Yale this weekend, the vibes are just starting now. Everyone - and I mean everyone - has been asking about my game tickets, because guest tickets are $25 a pop. I’m more...
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Categories:
wrinkle, fashion, football, humor, school, student,
Form:
Free verse
Shaggy Dog Limericks ViThe Rottweiler
I wouldn’t provoke a Rottweiler
Not unless I were prepped like a miler
Seems a little inbreeding
Done without heeding
Has turned Benji into a Sieg Heiler
The Saint Bernard
Though not in his nature to beg
He would flip for...
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Categories:
wrinkle, animal, cute, dog, fun, funny, humor, pets,
Form:
Limerick
Sequestered In My Cozy NookI have known:
of wise detectives catching crooks
of "Thought Police" revising books
a shipwrecked family named Robinson
of lion, witch, and wardrobe magic
Heathcliff's...
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Categories:
wrinkle, books,
Form:
Rhyme
Pity ClarityPity Clarity
by Michael R. Burch
Pity Clarity,
and, if you should find her,
release her from the tangled webs
of dusty verse that bind her.
And as for Brevity,
once the soul of wit—
she feels the gravity
of ironic chains and massive...
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Categories:
wrinkle, life, love, poetry, poets, time, truth, words,
Form:
Verse
CalibrationHere I stand, entirely symmetrical
with the longitudinal lines
that thrusts perfectly through
the balance of our planet
with not a moment of fluctuation.
Stiffly positioned in a direct stance,
ensuring not a single curve
in the chain...
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Categories:
wrinkle, 12th grade, blessing, care, creation, religion, strength,
Form:
Free verse
What Shall He Be Called, the Bastard Who Innocently Lies WitNot every woman’s dream
of procreation
can be fulfilled;
not every woman dreams
of procreation,
her body thrilled.
But loved and lovers’ inclinations –
recreation
not re-creation –
cannot, will not be stilled.
until
one day
intervention
bypassed her –
she –...
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Categories:
wrinkle, angst, death, faith, hope, loss, sad, father,
Form:
Free verse