Long Zigzagging Poems
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Haiku 1
The Original Sin: Rhyming Haiku!
Haiku
should never rhyme:
it’s a crime!
-Michael R. Burch
The herons stand,
sentry-like, at attention ...
rigid observers of some unknown command.
-Michael R. Burch
Late
fall;
all
the golden leaves turn black underfoot:
soot
-Michael R. Burch
Dry leaf...
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Categories:
zigzagging, family, heart, love, mother son, nature, seasons,
Form:
Haiku
The Alaskan Oil Pipeline
The Alaskan Oil Pipeline
Nineteen sixty-eight confirmed the year
Of discovery by ‘Humble Oil’
To North America’s largest oil field,
On the North Slope of the Brooks Range;
A west to east Northern Alaskan mountain chain.
An area forty miles wide...
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Categories:
zigzagging, education, environment, history, technology, tribute, usa,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The Color of Laughter
I was in a love affair with art, which had lasted for most of my life,
As beauty graces bush tree and field, whenever hued blossoms are rife.
I started painting at a young age, and had...
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Categories:
zigzagging, art, color, fantasy, fun, imagery, life, nature,
Form:
Couplet
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 16
The day, following their nuptials, was like most days. The humans that had come to witness the Joining had all left early, thanking the elves for their hospitality and packing their carts with...
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Categories:
zigzagging, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Trifolium Pollinated Courtesy Bombus
Trifolium pollinated courtesy bombus
Before landscapers mow swaths
across undulating waves of clover
(the father/daughter team
usually cut grass every Tuesday)
bumblebees alight from one to another flower.
Meanwhile, I lie splayed
mid morning June 28th, 2022
with stomach upon natural carpeting
quietly basking...
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Categories:
zigzagging, 12th grade, appreciation, beautiful, color, creation, flower,
Form:
Rhyme
Haiku Variations
Haiku Variations
by Michael R. Burch
This is a poem composed of haiku-like stanzas:
Variations on the Seasons I
by Michael R. Burch
Lift up your head
dandelion,
hear spring roar!
How will you tidy your hair
this near
summer?
Leave to each still night
your lightest...
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Categories:
zigzagging, autumn, farewell, seasons, snow, spring, summer, winter,
Form:
Haiku
The Double House
I was charged one morning with the task to consider,
That certain notions of who I was,
Had merely become a pretext for avoiding
Becoming someone else.
In the world I faced a new coordinate system was needed.
I...
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Categories:
zigzagging, allusion,
Form:
Free verse
Mad Men In High Places
If the world were a soccer ball I'd be mighty tempted
to kick it high to kingdom come.
After what I learned today I feel ripped off,
feeling the sparse warmth of a dimmed out sun.
Pray tell who...
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Categories:
zigzagging, corruption, dark, death, environment,
Form:
Rhyme
Akin Twin Invisible Presence Coaxing Paranormal
Akin twin invisible presence coaxing...paranormal
Action across ouija board
herald Faustian bargain
as fingers of left hand appear to move
planchette of their own accord...
inexplicably, silently, and verily
along a barely traceable minuscule chord
dance, with some spatial force
from outer limits,...
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Categories:
zigzagging, adventure, anxiety, body, courage, dark, grave, journey,
Form:
Rhyme
Akin Twin Invisible Presence Coaxing
Akin Twin Invisible Presence Coaxing...
Action across ouija board
fingers of left hand appear to move
planchette of their own accord...
inexplicably, silently, and verily
along a barely traceable minuscule chord
dance, with some spatial force
from outer limits,
perhaps a dimension unexplored
of...
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Categories:
zigzagging, allusion, dark, fantasy, mystery, psychological, raven, riddle,
Form:
Free verse
Bramazing Duke Part I
Be brave, said I, said I…Hey Duke, you are bramazing – brilliant and amazing combined…I hope you view this poem – I have a lot on my plate and I really like you…’l’ stands for...
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Categories:
zigzagging, best friend, blessing,
Form:
Free verse
Rated R For Recovery -3-
Racing thoughts come zipping and zigzagging in my noggin; I’m
Recovering from losing you – my mind bleeds with utter
Regret…piling up with numerous debts… I was upset for no apparent
Reason…. but just give...
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Categories:
zigzagging, depression, emotions, encouraging, grief, hope, passion,
Form:
Free verse
The Ghost of Old Love
You can never be free of old love
it'll always be caged in your heart and head
At any time the ghost of old love can hijack your brain
turn it into a forest of monkeys
shaking the...
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Categories:
zigzagging, life,
Form:
Free verse
How did I get here
(writing for the voice of my son who has terminal illness)
Reality is searingly intimate. But they say anguish,
woes and sadness are emotions best shared.
I am not saying I enjoy lamenting on them or heaping
tribulations on...
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Categories:
zigzagging, death,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Bed Time Story Boogeyman
Bed time story
Night sky stood still inky dark and gloomy
There came a light that flickered zigzagging behind the clouds
a sudden resounding loud sound of cymbals
Heavy pouring rain...
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Categories:
zigzagging, books, child, scary, weather,
Form:
Free verse
Blood Red Sky
There was movement on All Hallows’ Eve,
with stirrings all around,
The moon was full in the blood red sky
dark shadows came and went, just who was lurking by?
I don't know why I went so far
from home...
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Categories:
zigzagging, halloween,
Form:
Free verse
Shot At
SHOT AT…
Yes I went shooting with some city fellows to the Moonie
We got a place to shoot that had the wild pigs
So we are walking through a crop of something green and blooming
When a porker...
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Categories:
zigzagging, adventureme, old, city, me, old,
Form:
Rhyme
Aloof Brother Concedes Duty Evaded
Aloof brother concedes duty evaded...
Foremost gratitude heavenly indebted,
jumbling kindling, linkedin mourning
numbness overlaid, pervaded, quashed,
routed thoroughly undermined vibrant
warbling, when xing yesterday's youth
zigzagging, accompanying blitzkrieg
cleaving deafeningly exploding,
formative grim homelife, indelibly
jabbing kid, (little me) nonstop,
overwhelming progeny, quintessentially
robbing, stunting,...
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Categories:
zigzagging, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, absence,
Form:
Free verse
Aloof Brother Concedes Duty Evaded
Aloof brother concedes duty evaded...
Foremost gratitude heavenly indebted,
jumbling kindling, linkedin mourning
numbness overlaid, pervaded, quashed,
routed thoroughly undermined vibrant
warbling, when xing yesterday's youth
zigzagging, accompanying blitzkrieg
cleaving deafeningly exploding,
formative grim homelife, indelibly
jabbing kid, (little me) nonstop,
overwhelming progeny, quintessentially
robbing, stunting,...
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Categories:
zigzagging, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 1st
Form:
Bio
Facebook As Confessional Minus Sexual Abuse
Past psychological development
describes zigzagging mama's yoyo
casually, aye publicize, (asper
mein kampf) personal woe
unpleasant memories indelibly
etched, jagged, scar outlined like ticktacktoe
solitary games invariable resultant
draw between every “x” and each "o"
metaphorical of course for this poetic,
formerly non opportunistic
generic...
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Categories:
zigzagging, 6th grade, 7th grade, brother, childhood, dad,
Form:
Bio
Acrostics Du Jour
ACROSTICS DU JOUR
ODIS
Once upon a very sad time,
Disappointment crossed my hapless mind.
Instead of thinking that would be fine,
Someone gave me this dog to walk behind.
SUZANNE
Supple and sweet within my reach
Under starry skies or sandy beach
Zigzagging...
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Categories:
zigzagging, life, satireworld,
Form:
Acrostic
Categories:
zigzagging, fantasy,
Form:
Rhyme
When I Was Five
When I was five, I played
Around other children
At the park
On the west edge
Of town, where the gray concrete slab served
As our skating rink.
I recall
Their presence, but not their faces-
Their laughter, but not their smiles-
Their...
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Categories:
zigzagging, childhood, growing up, innocence, kindergarten, memory, school,
Form:
Free verse
The Perfect Day
Early morning sun leaks through the window
A gentle paw upon my chest
I yawn - good morning boy, good morning world
Raise myself gently out of bed
A stretch and a yawn and...
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Categories:
zigzagging, autumn, boyfriend, dog, family, love, , cute,
Form:
Free verse
Zealots
Zealots are totally incapable of any emotion other than rage. It is an unalterable law that people who claim to care about the human race are utterly indifferent to the sufferings of individuals.
— Quentin Crisp
ZEALOTS
The...
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Categories:
zigzagging, angst,
Form:
Haibun