Alembic Poems - Poems about Alembic

...These are poems for my friend and fellow poet Kevin Roberts... Nightfall by Michael R. Burch for Kevin Nicholas Roberts Only the long dolor of dusk delights me now, as I await death. T......

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...He wished it to be full of sound. round about the way successful collaborations are done. Fun: done: and Right. Sought of like taking the featured artist's position and elaborating on it. Peop......

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...Poems about Poems (II) Kin by Michael R. Burch for Richard Moore 1. Shrill gulls, how like my thoughts you, struggling, rise to distant bliss? the weightless blue of skies that are no......

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...Poems about Poets I The Wonder Boys by Michael R. Burch for Leslie Mellichamp The stars were always there, too-bright cliches: scintillant truths the jaded world outgrew as baffled poet......

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...The State of the Art (I) by Michael R. Burch Has rhyme lost all its reason and rhythm, renascence? Are sonnets out of season and poems but poor pretense? Are poets lacking fire, their word......

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...Safe Harbor by Michael R. Burch for Kevin N. Roberts The sea at night seems an alembic of dreams— the moans of the gulls, the foghorns’ bawlings. A century late to be melancholy, I wat......

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...double trouble on the boil earth bowels ooze devils oil ancient rock and occult blood darkest liquor thick as mud cauldron charged to overflow fire flare and charcoal glow spirits risi......

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...Pour the drips and drops from an iambic alembic, Evaporations of rosy prose and rhyming thyme, To concoct within 'ye cauldron what the polemic Spoons from this soup of poetic slime. Add a measl......

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...Proust searched his brain for memories that made the man, could finally understand that this changed him just by looking; so he called himself a sentimental realist! many a prisoner, in walls ......

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