Long Extended metaphor Poems
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CurrentsCurrents
by Michael R. Burch
How can I write and not be true
to the rhythm that wells within?
How can the ocean not be blue,
not buck with the clapboard slap of tide,
the clockwork shock of wave on rock,
the...
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Categories:
assonance, extended metaphor, language, metaphor, music, poetry,
Form:
Verse
VacuumVacuum
by Michael R. Burch
Over hushed quadrants
forever landlocked in snow,
time’s senseless winds blow...
leaving odd relics of lives half-revealed,
if still mostly concealed...
such are the things we are unable to know
that once intrigued us so.
Come then, let us...
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Categories:
education, extended metaphor, farewell, first love, graduation,
Form:
Free verse
InstructionInstruction
by Michael R. Burch
Toss this poem aside
to the filigreed and the wild tide
of sunset.
Strike my name,
and still it is all the same.
The onset
of night is in the despairing skies;
each hut shuts its bright bewildered eyes.
The...
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Categories:
extended metaphor, fantasy, happiness, hope, hyperbole, i
Form:
Pastoral
Poems About Poems ViPoems about Poems VI
The Board
by Michael R. Burch
Accessible rhyme is never good.
The penalty is understood?
soft titters from dark board rooms where
the businessmen paste on their hair
and, Walter Mitties, woo the Muse
with reprimands of Dr. Seuss.
The...
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Categories:
extended metaphor, heaven, muse, passion, poems, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About IcarusSouthern Icarus
by Michael R. Burch
Windborne, lover of heights,
unspooled from the truck’s wildly lurching embrace,
you climb, skittish kite...
What do you know of the world’s despair,
gliding in vast solitariness there,
so that all that remains is to
fall?
Only a...
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Categories:
analogy, angel, bird, butterfly, extended metaphor, flying,
Form:
Rhyme
You Never ListenedYou Never Listened
by Michael R. Burch
You never listened,
though each night the rain
wove its patterns again
and trembled and glistened...
You were not watching,
though each night the stars
shone, brightening the tears
in her eyes palely fetching...
You...
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Categories:
baby, birth, children, extended metaphor, feelings, soulmate,
Form:
Sonnet
No MarkNo Mark
by Michael R. Burch
A wave implodes,
impaled upon
impassive rocks...
this evening
the thunder of the sea
is a wild music filling my ear...
you are leaving
and the ungrieving
winds demur...
telling me
that nothing returns
as it was before...
here where you have...
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Categories:
break up, change, divorce, extended metaphor, farewell,
Form:
Verse
Come Down, For Harold BloomCome Down
by Michael R. Burch
for Harold Bloom
Come down, O, come down
from your high mountain tower.
How coldly the wind blows,
how late this chill hour ...
and I cannot wait
for a meteor shower
to show you the time
must be...
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Categories:
books, culture, discrimination, education, extended metaphor, literature,
Form:
Sonnet
A Vain WordA Vain Word
by Michael R. Burch
Oleanders at dawn preen extravagant whorls
as I read in leaves’ Sanskrit brief moments remaining
till sunset implodes, till the moon strands grey pearls
under moss-stubbled oaks, full of whispers, complaining
to the darkening...
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Categories:
autumn, beauty, extended metaphor, grief, heartbreak, moon,
Form:
Sonnet
Myth, After Dylan ThomasMyth, after Dylan Thomas
by Michael R. Burch
Here the recalcitrant wind
sighs with grievance and remorse
over fields of wayward gorse
and thistle-throttled lanes.
And she is the myth of the scythed wheat
hewn and sighing, complete,
waiting, lain in a low...
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Categories:
extended metaphor, autumn, faith, grief, life, myth, october, september,
Form:
Verse
Rainer Maria Rilke Translation: the PantherThe Panther
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
His weary vision's so overwhelmed by iron bars,
his exhausted eyes see only blank Oblivion.
His world is not our world. It has no stars.
No light. Ten thousand...
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Categories:
allegory, analogy, animal, cat, extended metaphor, freedom,
Form:
Sonnet
ProofWe are the days that we’ve become.
moments dripping gifted from
the lounging clocks in rolling melted sightings,
given by the gifted madness of a soulmate’s fightings.
Our lives wrapped up in phrases coined
in books like,...
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Categories:
allegory, america, computer, crazy, extended metaphor, irony,
Form:
Rhyme
More Resilient Dancing DaysShared enthusiastic curiosity
between two or more
May also become felt
as mutually assured
active hope
we might make it through dinner
without seeking reparations
while digging our way
through emotionally deserted
dessert
Curiously lingering faith
in progressive integrity
of bilateral co-passions
and possibly multilateral
spiritual inside
reflects...
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Categories:
extended metaphor, health, humor, integrity, peace, political,
Form:
Political Verse
StormThe day was fine and sunlit,
Decorated by several clouds
drifting aimlessly in the radiant ocean-blue sky.
Chorused by gentle puffs of the morning breeze,
Sending leaves on the streets twirling like
ballerinas in a dazzling and mesmerising dance.
and...
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Categories:
extended metaphor, courage, fear, metaphor, natural disasters, school, ,
Form:
Imagism
Regenerate IntelligenceI often fail to notice
nuanced distinctions
between ethics of punishment,
retribution, on right hand
and boycott,
shunning revenge, on my left;
Between reigning down further abuse
and more quietly raining temporary neglect,
social
economic
political distancing.
Punishment is a tool
for privileged narcissists,
win/lose competitors,
colonizers,
for fake-righteously...
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Categories:
earth, extended metaphor, health, heart, integrity, political,
Form:
Political Verse
Advice To the Earthling, From What You Would Call An Alien BeingFrom all worlds and time’s eternal outer reaches,
Where the Creator is perceived to dwell.
You try to learn what your told He teaches,
Regarding Life, the Universe, Heaven and Hell.
The soul is a precious, beautiful place,
Where you...
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Categories:
allusion, analogy, earth, extended metaphor, judgement, meaningful,
Form:
Rhyme
Riding Sixties ShotgunI was in the shotgun seat
in 1960 Lansing Michigan
headed straight as a harddrive
through ghettoizing "Negra Section"
hunting down our commercial whitebread
heavenly ThriftyAcres
Wanna be a WalMart ImPlantation
but not Southern enough,
somehow,
to withstand straight-male competition
in fluent White Privileged...
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Categories:
beauty, community, culture, extended metaphor, health, romance,
Form:
Political Verse
Chatgpt-4 Shockingly Rates One of My Sonnets a 94 Out of 100“ChatGPT-4, can you give me your literary opinion on the following sonnet? By the way, it is preambled by an explanatory prolegomenon which discusses the sonnet’s theme and my inspiration for composing it:”
Mental “Masturbation”
(The title...
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Categories:
extended metaphor, satire, sin, smart,
Form:
Sonnet
Burning Paper HousesSlowly creeping out of winter
Would it ever be the same
If I showed up at your door
Out of breath, out of line
With a million excuses behind my manic behavior?
A video diary full...
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Categories:
betrayal, extended metaphor, imagery, loss, winter,
Form:
Free verse
WOMB OF ALL BEGINNINGSWOMB OF ALL BEGINNINGS
In the delicious womb of all beginnings
we learnt to giggle electrons
to bear all things
without nusturtiums, pink lilies or doughnuts
warm gurglings of God’s dream for us
Morning glories were waiting
deep...
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Categories:
allegory, creation, extended metaphor, growth, imagery, love,
Form:
Free verse
A Pool of BloodBlood spilling in the east running all the way to the west
Forming rivers of doubt in the north and South
An army of men converge along the river bank
With long guns strapped to their sides
And big...
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Categories:
change, city, conflict, courage, extended metaphor, immigration,
Form:
Free verse
Revenge Kisses and Afternoon ShamsHave I failed you as a man?
Our only communication was what washed up on shore
But there's so much space between the ocean floor and the sand
One cascades and the other crystalizes
But you...
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Categories:
emotions, extended metaphor, fear, imagery, irony,
Form:
Free verse
The Stone UnturnedThere are three little words on tiny stones strewn along the floor
of a never-ending stream which runs through a misty moor.
A marvelous moor of uncertainty where mysteriously all are led
to cross a flowing water all...
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Categories:
love, metaphor, , extended metaphor,
Form:
Rhyme
Grave FeelingsI rediscover organic errors
hidden in co-gravitating
love language.
Gravity is easily noticed
as Apple falling toward Earth;
less visibly co-scienced,
experientially remembered,
as co-gravitational
co-relational intent
As Apple's ego-gravity core
falls drawn toward sacred Earth's
Mothering womb
smothering tomb
once more
returning toward deeply divine
anthrosupremely verbal
overpowering EarthTribe's co-operating...
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Categories:
earth, extended metaphor, health, integrity, math, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
Smitten By the SpringWhen I stepped in here
I caught the unsymmetrical patterns on the wall,
The dark maroon contrasting curtains,
An open cupboard and
A thick layer of dust on the broken mirror
The floor, the surrounding
A damp room with...
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Categories:
art, change, city, deep, extended metaphor, home,
Form:
Ode