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The Sun's a Liar-Children's Story Short Contest-
The Sun Is a Liar



It’s been quite some time since I've awoke early enough to meet the sun coming over the horizon. As I gazed out the window from my bedroom window seat, the sky...

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Categories: for teens, childhood,
Form: Prose



Instruction
Instruction
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: for teens, extended metaphor, fantasy, happiness, hope, hyperbole, i
Form: Pastoral
Juvenilia: Early Poems Vi
Juvenilia: Early Poems VI



An Illusion
by Michael R. Burch

The sky was as hushed as the breath of a bee
and the world was bathed in shades of palest gold
when I awoke.

She came to me with the sound...

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Categories: for teens, poetry, poets, teen, teenage, write, writing, youth,
Form: Rhyme
Rip
R.I.P.
by Michael R. Burch

When I am lain to rest
and my soul is no longer intact, 
but dissolving, like a sunset
diminishing to the west...

and when at last
before His throne my past
is put to test
and the demons...

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Categories: for teens, death, dream, funeral, grave, judgement, sleep, sunset,
Form: Verse
Juvenilia: Early Poems V
Juvenilia: Early Poems V

Poetry
by Michael R. Burch

Poetry, I found you
where at last they chained and bound you;
with devices all around you
to torture and confound you,
I found you—shivering, bare.

They had shorn your raven hair
and taken both...

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Categories: for teens, poems, poets, teen, teenage, write, writing, youth,
Form: Rhyme



The Making of a Poet
The Making of a Poet
by Michael R. Burch

While I don’t consider “Poetry” to be my best poem—I wrote the first version in my teens—it’s a poem that holds special meaning for me; I call it...

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Categories: for teens, art, love, poems, poetry, poets, write, writing,
Form: Verse
Juvenilia: Early Poems X
Juvenilia: Early Poems X

These are early poems written in my teens and twenties.

Regret
by Michael R. Burch

Regret,
a bitter
ache to bear...

once starlight
languished
in your hair...

a shining there
as brief
as rare.

Regret,
a pain
I chose to bear...

unleash
the torrent
of your hair...

and show me
once...

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Categories: for teens, age, child, children, dream, teen, time, war,
Form: Rhyme
Dream of Infinity
Dream of Infinity
by Michael R. Burch

Have you tasted the bitterness of tears of despair?
Have you watched the sun sink through such pale, balmless air
that your soul sought its shell like a crab on a beach,
then...

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Categories: for teens, confusion, depression, dream, farewell, leaving, loneliness, longing,
Form: Couplet
Juvenilia: Early Poems Ix
Juvenilia: Early Poems IX

These are early poems of mine, written in my teens as a high school student and during my first two years of college.

Shock
by Michael R. Burch

It was early in the morning of...

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Categories: for teens, boy, child, childhood, high school, student, teen,
Form: Rhyme
Radiance, For Dylan Thomas
Radiance
by Michael R. Burch

for Dylan Thomas

The poet delves earth’s detritus—hard toil—
for raw-edged nouns, barbed verbs, vowels’ lush bouquet;
each syllable his pen excretes—dense soil,
dark images impacted, rooted clay.

The poet sees the sea but feels its meaning—
the...

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Categories: for teens, earth, light, love, poems, poetry, poets, words,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Chapter 92 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: Family Affairs
Next day new school day. 
Amadeus was the first to
Wake then he woke DJ and 
Damali And all three went for
The showers. Twenty minutes 
Later they woke everybody else 
Including the adults. The Hakim 
Children...

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Categories: for teens, beach, christmas, emotions, family, first love, leadership,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Chapter 100 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: Big Barbecue Celebration of Life Mass Invitations Continues
While family Mingled with one 
Another and strangers the party flowed 
Smoothly. Music was enjoyed.
Everybody indulged. With a little 
Champagne some wine and juice.
The bar also served smoothies.
Adults mingled. Delilah Mallory 
Mother Daughtry and Amaliah...

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Categories: for teens, 4th grade, birth, child, confidence,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Chapter 98 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: Teenager Invaders Misbehavior
Late evening March 2045

The Teenagers were adventurous 
They were venturing.  DJ and 
Damali Trech were both 18 years 
Old. The Copy Cat Club was the
Place to  be for teens.  It mostly 
Served...

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Categories: for teens, confidence, courage, emotions, father daughter, father son,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Chapter 99 -- Damian Delilah Mallory Dj Damali Nyaf and Rico: the Celebration-- Mass Invitations
Date:   April  2045
 
An excellent April afternoon blooming.
Damali is now 19 years old this
Day. Damali was thinking of his future 
Stretched out at his study desk.
He had been enrolled for a year...

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Categories: for teens, granddaughter,
Form: Alliteration
Juvenilia: Early Poems Iv
Juvenilia: Early Poems IV
I wrote this around age 17.



Bible Libel
by Michael R. Burch

If God
is good
half the Bible
is libel.

I read the Bible from cover to cover at age eleven, ten chapters per day, at the suggestion...

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Categories: for teens, poems, poetry, poets, teen, write, writing, youth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Please Consider Those Who - Not By Choice - Are Living Alone - 2nd Third
This is the 2nd THIRD of my 3-part poem - see Mark Stellinga on Poetry Soup for the other 2 THIRDS - couldn't be helped.



“What about neighbors,” I carefully pried...“do any of them check on...

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Categories: for teens, love, relationship,
Form: Narrative
Poems About Dylan Thomas
These are poems about Dylan Thomas, as well as poems "for" and "after" Dylan Thomas. Dylan Thomas was one of my favorite poets from my early teens and has remained so over the years. I...

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Categories: for teens, poems, poetry, poets, romantic, words, write, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Juvenilia: Early Poems Vii
Juvenilia: Early Poems VII

These are early poems I wrote as a boy and as a teenager.

The Leveler
by Michael R. Burch

The nature of Nature
is bitter survival
from Winter’s bleak fury
till Spring’s brief revival.

The weak implore Fate;
bold men...

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Categories: for teens, boy, child, childhood, fear, high school, poems,
Form: Rhyme
My Most Popular Poems On the Internet I
My most popular poems on the Internet (I)

A number of my poems and translations have gone viral, according to Google, and some have been copied onto hundreds to thousands of web pages. That’s a lot...

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Categories: for teens, internet, poems, poetry, poets, social, write, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Where Do We Come In
Where do we come in
					in medias res  not knowing nor caring when
doesn’t everybody pine being number one we leave behind our lives in pages  pictures  or else make for images of what...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: for teens, caregiving, character, humanity, leadership, people, rights, sports,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 7
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
A new day begins and new promises made
The child guiding his way
Finally warmed he seemed less afraid
As through the snow they slowly made headway
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     “Who is this child?” he whispered to...

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Categories: for teens, christmas, fairy,
Form: Epic
Juvenilia: Early Poems Viii
Juvenilia: Early Poems VIII

These are early poems of mine, written in my teens as a high school and college student. 

Moon Lake
by Michael R. Burch

Starlit recorder of summer nights,
what magic spell bewitches you?
They say that...

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Categories: for teens, boy, child, childhood, high school, student, teen,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Remember When
Remember when you were very young,                             ...

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Categories: for teens, fun, games, life, love, remember, today, youth,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member I Want a Doggy
Oh how I want a doggy, 
a bundle of love and fur.                       ...

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Categories: for teens, dog, friend, love,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Brace For Impact
We were off,                                ...

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Categories: for teens, car, kid, red, snow, vacation, weather, winter,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Book: Shattered Sighs