In Hip City
...In Hip City/Tony Adamo
where rhythms collide, and no jive is spoken/
Guru laid down the truth, a fusion of jazz and rap/ no holds barred streetwise rap talk/ Just as Herbie’s touch on keys/ his Hea...
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Categories:
refutation, spoken word,
Form: Spoken Word
Concerto Of Clotting
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Finally my blood began to coagulate,
and stopped to seep out of the slashed heart,
lacerated in the tempest of turmoil
by the sharp shards of your refutation.
In the memory meadow I found a...
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Categories:
refutation, analogy, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse
Siddhartha
...Divinity’s candle
stays burning alive
not born or created
conceived or contrived
Its light from the center
forever shines through
the moment’s unveiling
delivering you
To places all knowi...
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Categories:
refutation, god, light,
Form: Rhyme
Repristination
...Repristination of our nation
calls for hours of restoration.
Political powers hold their station
in hopes of that next election elation,
glad of their occupation
though to us it is agita...
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Categories:
refutation, conflict, feelings, leadership, patriotic,
Form: Monorhyme
Shotgun and the Wind
...As we neared our destination
Heard a loud reverberation
Almost instant suffocation
Windows down for ventilation
First a little accusation
Followed by a refutation
Then he says it’s defamation
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Categories:
refutation, humorous,
Form: Monorhyme
The Humble Samaritan
...Our loving sportsman, Sen. Pacman
Never missed a chance of being a samaritan
His humility and hard work earned him great reputation
And yet his whole body endured more refutation....
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Categories:
refutation, anti bullying, boxing day ,
Form: Clerihew
Theory In Crisis: I
...If Darwinian evolution is correct,
then there should exist a continuum of forms,
but what we see with a closer inspect:
that taxa-defining features are norm.
We see hair in mammals, and feather...
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Categories:
refutation, life, science,
Form: Rhyme
Juvenilia: Early Poems Xiii
...Juvenilia: Early Poems XIII
Davenport Tomorrow
by Michael R. Burch
Davenport tomorrow ...
all the trees stand stark-naked in the sun.
Now it is always summer
and the bees buzz in cesspool...
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Categories:
refutation, boy, child, childhood, high
Form: Rhyme
Final Punctuation
...moribund she wondered what
the postmortem would leave
other than a dead body and wounds
made by the many scalpels of life
operations gone wrong and stitch-ups
with sutures festering at...
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Categories:
refutation, death,
Form: Free verse
Thomas Chatterton Translation: Under the Willow Tree
...Song from Aella: Under the Willow Tree, or, Minstrel's Song
by Thomas Chatterton, age 17 or younger
modernization/translation by Michael R. Burch
MYNSTRELLES SONGE ("MINSTREL'S SONG")
O! sing...
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Categories:
refutation, dance, death, love, romance,
Form: Rhyme
Lo and Behold
...Predictions work in twists of what makes life workable
High and often misconstrued by the dogma of science
Lies and damned lies and statistics for the insecure
Foes foretold surprise when the blin...
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Categories:
refutation, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Still Naked
...Naked Truth
N~ascent truth resides at the heart of wisdom thus
A~story conjects still naked waits for refutation
T~he emperor’s clothes devoid of the latest chique
I~ntimately risqué wh...
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Categories:
refutation, heartbroken,
Form: Acrostic
Naked Truth
...Naked Truth
N~ascent truth resides at the heart of wisdom thus
A~story conjects still naked waits for refutation
T~he emperor’s clothes devoid of the latest chique
I~ntimately risqué wh...
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Categories:
refutation, truth,
Form: Acrostic
Refutational Reputation
...What is a reputation?
What meaning does this word hold?
Seems a fickle, intangible thing.
Changes, as I fashion my mould.
Shifting sand serving foundation.
Island mansion housing past sin.
Life...
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Categories:
refutation, character, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Unopposed Oxymoron
...Unopposed Oxymoron
This poem is light as a heavy contradicting complement
and rhymes with no correspondence of sound sharp at
the cutting horizon’s edge of melting confusing fission
Serious l...
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Categories:
refutation, boxing day ,
Form: Rhyme
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