Long Wrinkled Poems
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Rum N Raisin 3 - the Cat Who Fell To Earth
Raisin liked to make her bed upon a shelf up high
She said she likes the feeling that she’s almost in the sky
One day she fell and bonked her head and Rum could only stare
And wondered...
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wrinkled, cat, fantasy, nursery rhyme,
Form:
Narrative
See
See
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:
wrinkled, age, goodbye, life, loss, time, women,
Form:
Sonnet
Ancient Haiku
These are translations of some of the oldest Japanese waka, which evolved into tanka, renga and haiku.
While you decline to cry,
high on the mountainside
a single stalk of plumegrass wilts.
—O no Yasumaro (circa 711), translation...
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Categories:
wrinkled, culture, imagery, inspiration, international, metaphor, nature, poetry,
Form:
Haiku
Free Verse Ii
Nucleotidings
by Michael R. Burch
“We will walk taller!” said Gupta,
sorta abrupta,
hand-in-hand with his mom,
eyeing the A-bomb.
“Who needs a mahatma
in the aftermath of NAFTA?
Now, that was a disaster,”
cried glib Punjab.
“After Y2k,
time will spin out of control anyway,”
flamed...
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Categories:
wrinkled, angel, child, childhood, children, family, time, world,
Form:
Free verse
Pablo Neruda Translations
I love you only because I love you
by Pablo Neruda
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
I love you only because I love you;
I am torn between loving and not loving you,
Between apathy and desire.
My heart vacillates...
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Categories:
wrinkled, love, romance, romantic, romantic love, spanish, women,
Form:
Sonnet
Yosa Buson Translations
Yosa Buson haiku translations
On the temple’s great bronze gong
a butterfly
snoozes.
?Yosa Buson, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Hard to describe:
this light sensation of being pinched
by a butterfly!
?Yosa Buson, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Not to worry...
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Categories:
wrinkled, age, animal, autumn, father, moon, mother, nature,
Form:
Haiku
CIRO GARGANO JUNK SICK OFFICERS
IT WAS 1984 DURING AN ELECTION CIRO GARGANO RAN THIS SMALL TOWN OUTSIDE GREATLAKES NAVY BASE WITH HIS DRUG CARTEL AND AN IRON FIST OF CORRUPTION HE BLACKMAILED THE ENTIRE CITY SEVERAL OFFICERS SELLING...
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Categories:
wrinkled, allah,
Form:
Naat
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 11
Lumi's hand pressed upon his shoulder in a surprisingly firm grip guiding him into the dining area and to the second of two long slender tables where sat five older elves including DynDoeth.
...
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Categories:
wrinkled, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Out For a Spin
I take a four-fold spin
through Bill Plotkin's wheel
of bilateral identities,
iconic developmental faces,
ironic personalities.
FIRST comes Eastern-born
dawn of human infancy,
Innocent Sage infants
so WiseElder
in our LeftBrain emergent
wrinkling unfolding
sacred RightBrain ways.
Searching for care giving eyes
to be sure we...
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Categories:
wrinkled, gender, health, humor, integrity, nature, peace, wisdom,
Form:
Political Verse
The Ghost Dance Part III
Wovoka in the Feverland
In the Dying-Grass Moon came another winter to claim the old and sick.
This was when the first messengers came
To the desolation known as Pine Ridge.
They came riding in at the end of...
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Categories:
wrinkled, emotions, heartbreak, native american, tribute,
Form:
Free verse
The Picture of Dorian Gray: Paint Me As An Event
The Picture of Dorian Gray: Paint Me As An Event
The Picture of Dorian Gray, a decent fanciful novel by Irish writer Oscar Wilde, published in 1890. The novel, the only one written by Wilde, had...
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Categories:
wrinkled, angst, character, muse,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Categories:
wrinkled, history, native american,
Form:
Free verse
A Haunting Wooded Tale
,It's like some long lost fairy tale
That's handed down through time
But couldn't be, as you will see
For this strange tale is mine.
I chose to take a country road
I do from time to time
To...
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Categories:
wrinkled, adventure, fantasy,
Form:
Rhyme
The Rainbow Bridge Church
Book One: Ancestors of the Ark
Ch.1: Welcome to the Village of Chapel Hill
In a quiet little village far away from here, lives a Minister and his wife and the animal's...
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Categories:
wrinkled, animal, bible,
Form:
Rhyme
Barefoot In the Bushfires of the Vanities
"Barefoot in the Bushfires of the Vanities"
Heat rises slowly to rapture flames licking and teasing
Blue Ghostgums to stretch and crack wide open
as Fire spreads molten sweet sap bleeding burgundy all over
amber gold wild bush...
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Categories:
wrinkled, art, life, muse, psychological, sensual,
Form:
Free verse
Winter, 1948
WINTER, 1948 [40 Saxton Street]
for W.W
The winter nights that pass now
are so unlike the winter nights
that passed before, that I often
struggle back in those suspended moments
when sleep grapples for a hold,
to once again hear the...
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Categories:
wrinkled, age, childhood, family, nostalgia,
Form:
Free verse
Once Upon a Reservation
Back in the height
of our pre-millennial military-industrial
post-revolutionary days
of competing excess...
No, love,
Stick with
Once upon our Sacred Times...
Once upon a time
here in the US of Northern Americas
we used a Reservation Model
to dispose of hopelessly disabled aboriginals,
too RightBrain...
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Categories:
wrinkled, destiny, education, environment, green, health, humor, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
January 13th 2024 Happy Lxv-th birthday Matthew Scott Harris
January 13th 2024 - Happy Lxv-th birthday Matthew Scott Harris
date of conception:? ~ Late March – mid April 1958.
date of parturition: January xiii, mcmlix.
date of expiration:? January i, eminem,
where earth, wind, and fire...
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Categories:
wrinkled, age, appreciation, birthday, celebration, dad, humorous, january,
Form:
Free verse
Happy Lxiv Birthday Matthew Scott Harris
Happy Lxiv birthday Matthew Scott Harris
date of conception:? ~ Late March – mid April 1958.
date of parturition: January xiii, mcmlix.
date of expiration:? January i, eminem.
A gangly, measly, and scraggly bundle
of lovely bones even as...
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Categories:
wrinkled, appreciation, birthday, boy, celebrity, creation, happy birthday,
Form:
Rhyme
Moonlight Sonatas and Morning Kisses
In the realm of moons and breathless tides,
where promises dance with a serendipitous sonnet of sunrises,
along with morning kisses, unfolds a love story—
a poetic novel etched in the chronicles
within the hourglass of time,
a journey that...
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Categories:
wrinkled, best friend, blessing, devotion, inspirational love, love,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Embrace the Lines
Embrace 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:
wrinkled, life,
Form:
Free verse
THE PRISMATIC SELF
Contest : The Prismatic Self
Sponsor : Daniel Henry Rodgers
Date submitted : 19/5/25
—————-
“Contests around track, contests for followers,
for best tasting wine, most exquisite
architectural design ~ endless
quests to become best versions of Self,
sharpen mind, mould...
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Categories:
wrinkled, age, character, courage, destiny, extended metaphor, freedom,
Form:
Bio
Megan's Quest Part 6of7
With the Trolls passed out on the grass...the regrettable task
now fell to the brave Talkalot.
He moved to the gate and taking a sip from his flask...
he stared...
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Categories:
wrinkled, adventure, courage,
Form:
Rhyme
Deepfake
I’m so siced about the Barbie movie. I just watched the latest trailer. I felt a fluttering in the stummy.
Peter’s birthday was May 1st. “What do you want for your birthday?” I’d asked.
“A flash for...
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Categories:
wrinkled, birthday, boyfriend, confusion, humor, paris, romantic, write,
Form:
Free verse
Unsent Letters
Those who’ve gone on before me… what I would have liked to have told them – in those unsent letters, those unwritten stories, those unbroken promises, those unsteady poems, those unbleached memoirs – before the...
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Categories:
wrinkled, cry, death, lonely,
Form:
Free verse