Long Yoked Poems
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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:
yoked, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form:
Free verse
Neigh say being corralled and cult shod
Neigh say being corralled & cult shod
"Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis"
translation = thus always I
bring death to tyrants.”
Above the fray of twittering,
squabbling, and madding crowds,
an arrogantly belligerent creature deified,
yet vilified...
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Categories:
yoked, 12th grade, age, allusion, america, fate, history,
Form:
Free verse
When All Is Set and Done, Make Sure You Leave Living
WHEN ALL IS SET AND DONE, MAKE SURE YOU LEAVE LIVING:
Chorus:
We're all dreamers chasing dreams,
But does the dreams we chasing rightfully gleam?
Trends and hypes many yearn to keep,
We're all dreamers chasing dreams,
But does the dreams...
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Categories:
yoked, destiny, life,
Form:
Lyric
Letter From a Son To His Late Mother
Ma,
Why do I need to apostrophize you? Why did you flew away into the celestial regions so earlier? Is it because you are from a land where ‘twenty is plenty’ for women? And hence, ignoring...
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Categories:
yoked, emotions, family, loss, mother son,
Form:
Prose
I Posit Picayune Propensities Prevail Among Pesky Management
I posit picayune propensities prevail among pesky management
Most favored renter status imposed on us
i.e. meaning myself;
(one tarnished prince of Highland Manor)
and the missus, his princess consort
who must abide by rigorous writ
of tidiness, whereby
every flat surface...
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Categories:
yoked, abuse, america, angst, anxiety, blessing, community, fate,
Form:
Rhyme
Shame full travesty regarding fourth of July celebration
Sham(e) full travesty regarding fourth of July celebration
American independence day
linkedin severance from English crown
Continental Congress representatives
parlayed courtesy thirteen original colonies
yielding Declaration of Independence
immediately rendered null and void
established vassalage courtesy British rule.
Fast forward two hundred and...
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Categories:
yoked, adventure, america, betrayal, birth, endurance, independence day,
Form:
Free verse
Seeds
"Seeds"
Blue reaches reflections
touching ripples
tears in time ephemeral
caresses fragrant Green my canopy
opens the light
inside me
cracked eggshell
golden-yoked sunshine
pale turquoise kintsugi
splintered paths inside my mind
in the smallness
of me
something
quietly blooms
ragged yet refined
a gecko...
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Categories:
yoked, muse, romance, sensual,
Form:
Free verse
I am
I am…
Washing a stormy night clean, its promise
this empty grave,
where sunshine suddenly erases the shadows,
who sigh like dejected, broken tears,
surfacing in the dewdrops,
lifting the darkness of a night,
before the blessings,
before the trembling silence
started to...
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Categories:
yoked, faith, forgiveness, hope, inspirational love,
Form:
Free verse
Rigel's Angel
I see an angel fly across the sky.
She stops and haloes Rigel,
and looks down upon me,
with answers I already knew.
Have you come...
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Categories:
yoked, angel, bible, farewell, love, passion, sin, woman,
Form:
Narrative
Shame Full Travesty Regarding Fourth of July Celebration
Sham(e) full travesty regarding fourth of July celebration
American independence day
linkedin severance from English crown
Continental Congress representatives
parlayed courtesy thirteen original colonies
yielding Declaration of Independence
immediately rendered null and void
established vassalage courtesy British rule.
Fast forward two hundred and...
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Categories:
yoked, 12th grade, america, anger, appreciation, betrayal, discrimination,
Form:
Free verse
Ruminating Vagaries of Life May 2nd 2021
Ruminating vagaries of life May 2nd, 2021
(conceived while in utero
which loosely summarization in toto
of this ordinary Joe Schmoe,
who did wade nine months for a roe
at mercy of obstetricians status quo,
giving me a jump start to...
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Categories:
yoked, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Free verse
Lima Describe How Yours Truly Went Peru Zing
Lima describe how yours truly went Peru zing...
thru truckloads of his personal communiqués broadcast
(methinks quite some years ago) across world wide web,
but now still smarting from selfishness, I feel quite aghast.
Yes practically every word
needs be...
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Categories:
yoked, absence, conflict, emotions, family, heartbroken, horror, integrity,
Form:
Rhyme
Just Having Fun Soul Venting
Happy and the Rest
To Everyone.. Alpha and Omega frequency good news speaks in hertz nanoseconds one touch hands shake the mind body and soul soul time mate leaped in time whole being most...
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Categories:
yoked, appreciation, bible, blessing, body, endurance, love, poetry,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Brief Mane n Tail shampoo tall tell tale
Brief Mane n' Tail shampoo tall (tell) tale
Living social amidst
crime infested urban jungle
bumping uglies cheek to jowl
analogous fate being housed in jail
escape room of great outdoors
spurred subject matter in question
to journey...
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Categories:
yoked, adventure, anger, animal, beach, beautiful, cinco de
Form:
Rhyme
Unsolved Criminal Mystery Modest Prevarication
Unsolved criminal mystery...modest prevarication
Found yours truly
a grateful dead head
convenient scapegoat dejure
Norristown police officers
fingerprinted me for
casual postal employment
linked to vicious brutal crime
someone else who shared
identical name and fingerprints as mine
the latter of corpse far...
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Categories:
yoked, absence, abuse, anger, april, bereavement, bullying, cry,
Form:
Free verse
Pain Drains Me: Sappho Translation
Sappho, fragment 58
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
Pain
drains
me
to
the
last
drop
.
Sappho, fragment 130 (Lobel-Page 130 / Voigt 130)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Eros, the limb-shatterer,
rattles me,
an irresistible
constrictor.
Sappho, unnumbered fragment
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
What cannot be...
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Categories:
yoked, depression, emotions, feelings, grief, heartbreak, hurt, pain,
Form:
Epigram
One Alarm Fire At Highland Manor Apartments
after dark April 26th, 2022
Prometheus bound out the heavens
to strike fear in the hearts of men and women
reminding us mortals how like oxen yoked
(together via a wooden beam forced
to undergo strenuous labor)
unlike most elderly residents...
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Categories:
yoked, adventure, angel, appreciation, april, confusion, fire, hero,
Form:
Rhyme
America Jacked
It's like being snatched out
of your car by gunpoint ..
It’s like being yoked up
in the collar by a robber.
I call it America Jacked,
jerked, played, pimped,
conned, duped, fooled, tripped.
Get the facts-Fight back.
Why keep flip...
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Categories:
yoked, hate, home, money, time,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Married To a Nigerian Man
Once married to a Nigerian man, mean and cruel
Who pretty much thought I needed to follow only his rules
Once married to a Nigerian, he had one intention, his 'green card'
I will continue to fight Immigration...
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Categories:
yoked, pain, day, god, me, day, god, me,
Form:
Bio
Theater of Utter Charm - Part 26
as the Crystal Mariachis arpeggiate the morning
why do the mighty remain cruel
while we are manning the oars beneath them
they see a tidy world
where mommy wipes their butts
you got your allegory you got your metaphor
plowing the...
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Categories:
yoked, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
Nostril Damn Mess
The putrid, malodorous and fowl nauseating smell
can still be conjured nearly fifty years later wracked
I never forget ineradicable tangy, sulfurous
acrid odor rankled olfaction tract
entire sinus cavity, yet...
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Categories:
yoked, angst, anxiety, conflict, creation, horror, humorous, student,
Form:
Light Verse
Dialect Tickle Matt Arial Hiz Im
Courtesy of Marx (albeit Zeppo, Harpo, Groucho, and Chico)
whose acts brought generations of laughter to Vaudeville and
then the Silver Screen adlibbed, linkedin, and ransacked skits
zoid material Bing very loosely based on writings...
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Categories:
yoked, adventure, celebrity, class, day, fantasy, hilarious, me,
Form:
Free verse
The House that, Eli the deceased priest, built for the LORD, part seven NIV
1 Samuel 5:8- part seven God's judgment upon the Philistines and Dagon, their
false god, for their oppression of Israel continued.
So they moved the ark of the God of Israel. But after they had...
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Categories:
yoked, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Prose
The Case For Traditonal Values Part Two
"It is better for a man to be married than it is to burn (with lustful desires)!' God is addressing both Christ centered and secular centered marriages. The same thing is also true for the...
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Categories:
yoked, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Hymn To Aphrodite
Hymn to Aphrodite
by Sappho
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Immortal Aphrodite, throned in splendor!
Wile-weaving daughter of Zeus, enchantress and beguiler!
I implore you, dread mistress, discipline me no longer
with such vigor!
But come to me once again in...
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Categories:
yoked, crush, desire, girlfriend, god, grief, heaven, women,
Form:
Sapphic stanza