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Stripling Poems - Poems about Stripling

Traitorous Eye by Charles d’Orleans translation
...French poems by Charles d’Orleans in modern English translations by Michael R. Burch Traitorous Eye by Charles d’Orleans loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Traitorous ey......

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Categories: stripling, death, fear, grave, heart,
Form: Rhyme
I stand proud with pride
...I stand proud with pride... exuding suave debonair air plus head and shoulders taller (than the empire state building - hey what's a little hyperbole, eh?) since September eleventh two thous......

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Categories: stripling, adventure, beautiful, color, faith,
Form: Free verse



Why do today what you can put off till tomorrow?
...Why do today what you can put off till tomorrow? The following extrapolated thought thread exercised, NOT utilized to intimate how Fats Domino belied, and wowed a crowded house ass-sized. ......

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Categories: stripling, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member blue-eyed midnight
... * This has become a fave genre for me, as I’ve always been fascinated by metamorphosis and introspection of a shadowy nature … I hope you enjoy it. * ~ ruin of me … what was......

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Categories: stripling, analogy, beauty, dark, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Mind Bruises
...I will tell you a sorrowful tale of an ancient time when the turning years carved grooves into vinyl, a time that changed everything and nothing. He was a lad, a stripling, knobble kneed and roug......

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Categories: stripling, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Replete With Colonial Army Spirits
...Though I posted the following poem (B)efore (C)ovid, a sense of glee donned my being the notion arose to trumpet anew said literary handily crafted endeavor. Not far from here – Perkiomen V......

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Categories: stripling, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Roman a Clef Tragicomedy
...Roman à clef tragicomedy... overlaid with façade of fiction = Mein Kampf in summer re: typed out during winter of my discontent, when yours truly no spring chicken stirred ruse to expatiate po......

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Categories: stripling, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Husband Feebly Tried To Smite Figuratively
...Preface preceding promiscuous philandering peccadillos undermining energy and time not spent with missus and mother of our precious progeny, whereby, yours truly sought, (somewhat assertively, mod......

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Categories: stripling, betrayal, conflict, depression, desire,
Form: Rhyme
A Cry In the Night
...Your voice kisses the breath of the morning wind Snapping in the solemnity that bears a cry unto God. Angels have come to earth; that in slumber seemed, Like the wind creaking among the faith we o......

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Categories: stripling, anxiety, dark, death, evil,
Form: Free verse
More Iffy Coronavirus Haiku
...yet another iffy coronavirus haiku #1 by michael r. burch plagued by the Plague i plague the goldfish with my verse yet another iffy coronavirus haiku #2 by michael r. burch sunflowe......

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Categories: stripling, america, death, eulogy, health,
Form: Haiku
Roman a Clef Tragicomedy
...Roman à clef tragicomedy... overlaid with façade of fiction = Mein Kampf No need for yours truly to dig deep, (albeit bonafide figuratively) by Dickens thru mine Uriah Heep, a gnarled mass cre......

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Categories: stripling, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Diotimus Translation
...Stripped of her stripling, if asked, she’d confess: “I am now less than nothingness.” —Diotimus, translation by Michael R. Burch......

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Categories: stripling, mother,
Form: Epigram
Athenian Epitaphs
...Athenian Epitaphs Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be, but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea. —Michael R. Burch, after Plato Does my soul abide in heaven, or hell? Only th......

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Categories: stripling, death, eulogy, funeral, grave,
Form: Epigram
Premium Member Born Again
... Written: by Miracle Man 9-5-2019 In stripling years, I existed in the shadows. God had given me reason, Of Satan to dispose. To change life’s direction, I felt suddenly impelle......

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Categories: stripling, bible, forgiveness, god, inspirational,
Form: Lyric
Das Dada Codified Bonafide Anachronism
...Das dada = codified bonafide anachronism me thoughts infused with thom hankering for yesteryear circa antebellum i.e. American Civil War era veer rilly, teetering, smoldering, rumbling upon i......

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Categories: stripling, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

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