A Tryst in Interlude
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I rise when gilded starlight still replete the skies
Never have I beckoned hours of abstruse sleeping
I hear elegiac trills as a lone nightingale cries,
evoking memories that conjure tears o...
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Categories:
aurorean, love,
Form: Rhyme
Delving Into the Depth of Silence
...When golden starlight abandons darkened skies
and halcyon silence greets the paling of dawn...
that's when I am able to solemnly contemplate
my awakened sentiments in tranquil solitude.
Before th...
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Categories:
aurorean, silence,
Form: Free verse
Spring Sonata
...The Solar Spring is breathtaking sending out itself everywhere
a sense of renewal is arising, growing, budding, and blooming.
The groundbreaking is taxing the granules of rich earthen...
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Categories:
aurorean, allusion, analogy, appreciation, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Juvenilia: Early Poems Xii
...Juvenilia: Early Poems XII
Because You Came to Me
by Michael R. Burch
for Beth
Because you came to me with sweet compassion
and kissed my furrowed brow and smoothed my hair,
I do not love...
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Categories:
aurorean, boy, child, childhood, poems,
Form: Rhyme
Starlight and Moonlight
...These are poems about starlight and moonlight, moons and stars, dreams and visions, illuminations and intimations …
Will There Be Starlight
by Michael R. Burch
Will there be starlight
to...
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Categories:
aurorean, dark, dream, love, moon,
Form: Rhyme
Roses and Lilacs
...Winter
by Michael R. Burch
The rose of love's bright promise
lies torn by her own thorn;
her scent was sweet
but at her feet
the pallid aphids mourn.
The lilac of devotion
has felt the wi...
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Categories:
aurorean, desire, longing, love, nature,
Form: Verse
Nashville and Andromeda
...Nashville and Andromeda
by Michael R. Burch
I have come to sit and think in the darkness once again.
It is three a.m.; outside, the world sleeps . . .
How nakedly now and unadorned
the surro...
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Categories:
aurorean, dark, introspection, loneliness, night,
Form: Free verse
The Leveler
...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 ravish, dishevel her . . .
ti...
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Categories:
aurorean, fate, nature, seasons, spring,
Form: Verse
Paling of Dawn: a Tryst In Interlude
...I rise when gilded starlight still replete the skies
Never have I beckoned hours of abstruse sleeping
I hear elegiac trills as a lone nightingale cries,
evoking memories that conjure tears of ...
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Categories:
aurorean, imagery, solitude,
Form: Rhyme
Free Will Hath Limitations
...(following on figurative heals
sans, l'amour,
i.e.,and that bastard conception
of life, liberty, and the
pursuit by George - Marshall ling, Grant
ting, and Bing Frank.)
Expectant...
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Categories:
aurorean, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Free Will Hath Limitations
...expectant motherhood
doth generate aurorean
glowing halo, inducing
jubilant kickstarter lil bean,
administering capitalone
earthlinked joyful lyft,
natural pheromone readying...
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Categories:
aurorean, deep, fate, freedom, future,
Form: Free verse
Negotiation
...Like runaway water
you run to meet your lover,
the death.
The hidden story,
spurts many questions.
You want the
severed head of the pen
back,to write the destiny.
The savage resurg...
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Categories:
aurorean, art,
Form: ABC