Long Yellowing Poems
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Free Verse ILozenge
by Michael R. Burch
When I was closest to love, it did not seem
real at all, but a thing of such tenuous sweetness
it might dissolve in my mouth
like a lozenge of sugar.
When I held you in...
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Categories:
yellowing, forgiveness, heart, humanity, life, love, relationship, together,
Form:
Free verse
All That Was SpartaOur lusty voice was in the tramp of narrow, winding,
Scree-littered, deep-rutted roads;
Ravens, uttering guttural croaks, slow-wheeling above
...
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Categories:
yellowing, myth,
Form:
Rhyme
The LonelySlowly he opened the drawer and looked inside. Some time had passed since he last gazed upon the cloth that lay there. Years perhaps. Yes definitely years. The blotched rusty brown...
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Categories:
yellowing, depression,
Form:
Prose
Sometimes People ShareSometimes pandemic people share
pieces of our unspeakable personal story
That no health care worker,
sex therapist player,
or green resonant systems organizer
wants to hear,
much less smell,
or touch,
or deeply feel...
I flinch, sometimes.
Wince.
Maybe flirt with longer-term
dissociation,
to protect myself
from suicide
to protect...
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Categories:
yellowing, abuse, god, health, muse, passion, political, power,
Form:
Political Verse
All AboardWho suggests a trip back...rides to this bit of nostalgia in the middle years of the Great Depression aboard a Chicago elevated train, "the El." We hurdle head-long above asphalt blanketed streets that are determined...
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Categories:
yellowing, city, imagery, perspective,
Form:
Prose
Persevere Steps OutGaia steps out
to listen
She may roar in full voiced
crescendo
Then retreat, hiding
anticipating with global delight
diminuendo
Tomorrow
our first perfect win/win day
when no win/lose to lose/lose
has unpromisingly happened
to trigger my anxiety,
innuendo
Of win/win delight
empowering Sun's sacred
yellow persevering light
Gaia will...
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Categories:
yellowing, earth, god, green, health, power, senses, strength,
Form:
Political Verse
An Eulogy of Sorts, That, Hopefully, Lends Itself To DaverDo not vainly look in those remote
Places,
That, once, were acquainted with a
Small part of me; ...
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Categories:
yellowing, appreciation,
Form:
Rhyme
Let Me Count the Ways- For SharonHow many?
how many lives;
how many have fallen
beneath
your magical spell?
If it may be so,
let each star be named
You.
For your beauty transpires
our words
into all shine and sheen cast out
from...
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Categories:
yellowing, dedication, friendshipnight, light, autumn, light, love, may,
Form:
Free verse
A Meandering Cocophony of Thought That Evades FateA Meandering Cocophony of Thought that Evades Fate
Contractual obligations toward your future self
Non-Factual invocations that deprive you of your health
Actual comparisons between poverty and wealth
Emmanuel on the eve of a heavenly operation of...
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Categories:
yellowing, fate, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Light and Dark ILucifer, right hand of God, angel of light,glowing beauty, knowledge, intelligence unmatched by any level of creation. Almost perfect creature, archangel of the realm, leader over angels and man. That brief second in the first...
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Categories:
yellowing, creation, god, lost love, universe,
Form:
Narrative
Mystery Stew
It stands on the edge of civilization,
fed by a ghost town road
A starving artery leading into the desert
Only desperadoes and Death Valley aficionados
pass through this lonely stretch of land
But there's a diner sitting at this...
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Categories:
yellowing, food, horror, imagery, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
DisorderSkin pulled tight over gaunt faces,
hollow eyes looking out at me,
fearful of what they see,
dreading pity,
empathy,
apathy,
wanting form me
only an ear,
an ear i’ve given too many times
from those too many times
so tired is this ear
that...
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Categories:
yellowing, angst, depression, life, sad, smile,
Form:
Lyric
PolylepisTo be a polylepis tree you gotta know
You're a polylepis tree & this knowing
Cements by being a polylepis tree,
Knowing between diagrammatic cracks
Fork'd already info knowing during descent.
Mud run through alpine meadow. Rubberized
Crunch...
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Categories:
yellowing, adventure, allegory, art, death,
Form:
Free verse
Where Once Verdant Rolling HighlandsWhere once verdant rolling highlands...
Spanned into infinite vista
far as these myopic eyes can see
now yellowing Whitmanesque
leaves of grass encompass field of vision.
Nary a dark dreadnaught cloud in sight,
nor unbeknownst if/when threatening storm
looms on horizon slaking...
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Categories:
yellowing, 12th grade, absence, beauty, color, creation, earth,
Form:
Free verse
Uprooted - Blame Nette - Not For ContestUPROOTED
“The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.”--------------------Rumi
listen not to the vagrant zephyr
seeking only sustenance of its kind
idol thinkers lolling in innocence
swayed by every whispering sigh
unaware – that secrets lie.
“We put the urn aboard...
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Categories:
yellowing, family, history,
Form:
Verse
The Median Death of the Red Delicious“God bless us all when the door is shut behind us,
only then will we breathe our first breath,
and awake
from the long dream…”
Forging past the indisputable summit onto the
shelf of the perfect medium...
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Categories:
yellowing, nature, people, philosophy, places, science fiction, visionarysun,
Form:
Narrative
By Degrees- Childhood ReflectionsThe screen door slams behind me
As I rush out into the blinding sunlight
Wondering where my big brother is hiding
I better get to the pool before he finds me
And throws me into the ice cold water
That...
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Categories:
yellowing, childhood, happiness, nostalgia,
Form:
Free verse
HeartbrokenFICTIONAL EMOTIVE WRITE
Since I was a tiny baby I was brought up by my grandparents and had a very happy childhood. I knew that they were not my real parents but they gave me such...
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Categories:
yellowing, death, grave, grief, heartbreak, parents,
Form:
Haibun
The StormThe autumn breeze goes through the lushful green yet hint of yellowing trees, it's so blissful, yet so fearful.
Laying in the warm green grass, as the breeze flies through my hands.
The warm sun is almost...
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Categories:
yellowing, abuse, anger, anxiety, beautiful, best friend, betrayal,
Form:
Narrative
New Power Flower ONE: Book of Kings /What kind of man can laugh in prison? / the kings answered " a man who is free"/ just then , a trumpet sounded/ a throne and...
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Categories:
yellowing, hope, war, blue, sky, soldier, war, daffodils,
Form:
Blank verse
And Suddenly Not BeingI
The form we take
In the shape of a life
From trumpet birth blasts
To the final shadow sighs
The faithful leap
From a Dayton hill
To silver supersonic flight
A mountain of yellowing
Paper words and work
Of worn shoes
Discarded styles
An inland lake...
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Categories:
yellowing, death of a friend,
Form:
Elegy
SwansongSWANSONG
England expects Britannia to rule the waves,
From the white cliffs of Dover
To where the Sun never sets.
We’ll keep the Union Jack flying
Over this sceptred isle,
Set in a silver sea,
As a beacon of light
To ward...
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Categories:
yellowing, anger, betrayal, england, history, identity, patriotic, sea,
Form:
Free verse
Unworded RitualsGlow morning warm
hugging
sleepy scalp and face embrace
outside sacred pink
yellowing fragrant dawn
Without fear of fading dark
or death
or sin
Welcome in
naked foot massage
pressure memories of walk
on stretching strings
Hang on
for this new day's feel good dance
Lay back
tummy up
butt and...
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Categories:
yellowing, health, integrity, passion, power, relationship, trust, truth,
Form:
Political Verse
A Rose In the Heather.So still and beautiful lays the rose in the heather,
Lifeless and dying, given to bring you happiness,
So fragile is this rose laying in heather,
Slowly withering and drying, crumbling to a powder,
I look at you and...
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Categories:
yellowing, loss, lost love, nostalgia, sad, sorry, beautiful,
Form:
Romanticism
No Dearer Faithful Old FriendIt was a day when the crowded avenue of wizened oak trees
Loosened its first spluttering of yellowing leaves;
And far out across the stubbled fields, devoid of the
...
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Categories:
yellowing, best friend, memory,
Form:
Rhyme