Best Aglitter Poems
War Flower
...seeded in battle
growing amongst the death mass
weep
no longer in grief
blooming blooming high
veiny stem all aglitter
she
will outlive your fray
trusting the true gale
in her dance she ......
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Categories:
aglitter, celebration, dedication, encouraging, happiness,
Form:
Haiku
To Snow and Angel Dust
...She bounced right off the inkling
. . . . . . . . . golden rings and tinker bells winking
on tiny toes......
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Categories:
aglitter, faith, imagination, inspirational, love,
Form:
Free verse
Currents
...Currents
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 w......
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Categories:
aglitter, assonance, extended metaphor, language,
Form:
Verse
Confetti The Wind
...Armed with little more than hope,
it becomes your trusted shield.
For you believe in yourself;
and the confidence you wield.
The city's all aglitter;
yet hunger's all too real.
And th......
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Categories:
aglitter, city, emotions, feelings, imagery,
Form:
Quatrain
Vacuum
...Vacuum
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......
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Categories:
aglitter, education, extended metaphor, farewell,
Form:
Free verse
State of the Art Iv
...State of the Art (IV)
These are my "ars poetica" poems about the art and craft of writing poetry.
Hearthside
by Michael R. Burch
“When you are old and grey and full of sleep...” — W. ......
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Categories:
aglitter, art, muse, poems, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
I'Ve Danced On Tables
...I’ve danced on tables
My boots laced high
I have that kinda style
Cognac in one hand
Tambourine in another
I go on for miles
Songs of sorrow
Songs of love
Sweeping the night time air
Stars a......
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Categories:
aglitter, age, celebration, dance, freedom,
Form:
Rhyme
A Daughter's Bedroom, Later
...American Girls blankly stare
Where shadows lend the mood of dusk
And Harry Potter shares a shelf
With Curious George
Nearby the bed
On which I read
To my young girl …
Dream, sweet baby, sleep—......
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Categories:
aglitter, father daughter, growing up,
Form:
Free verse
I Can'T Hear You When You Whisper
..." I CAN'T HEAR YOU WHEN YOU WHISPER "
you screech one final time,
so loudly that the walls between us shake
(Listen, listen, listen!)
I repeat, with fresh rebellion
but to you, it's just ......
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Categories:
aglitter, abuse, anger, angst, death,
Form:
Free verse
Luxe
...And all the world is aglitter,
Bedecked in glamour’s lurid sheen,
Hearts fluttered by Mammon’s bluster,
......
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Categories:
aglitter, addiction, anxiety, desire, fashion,
Form:
Hybronnet
astral plain
...astronomers often describe
the path of their heavenly ride
far off in the distant night sky
defining what's higher than high
luminous wavelength emitters
heavenly hosts all aglitter
lost in gra......
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Categories:
aglitter, creation, culture, encouraging, light,
Form:
Rhyme
Lemons and Limes
...Lemons and limes, in whims and rhymes
Reminding you softly of far better times
When the air was clear and the sun was hot
And you wasted your days lying half-dead on the lot
Lemons and limes, r......
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Categories:
aglitter, depression, growing up, nostalgia,
Form:
Rhyme
Nightfall for Kevin Roberts
...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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Categories:
aglitter, dark, death, night, poems,
Form:
Free verse
One Starlit Night
...It was a night of whispered words of love.
His voice caressed me like a romantic song
in the rich tones of an erotic melody
that made me tremble at his gentle touch.
I shall never forget that......
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Categories:
aglitter, first love,
Form:
Free verse
Icarus, Resurrected
...Finally to Burn: Icarus, Resurrected
by Michael R. Burch
Athena takes me
sometimes by the hand
and we go levitating
through strange Dreamlands
where Apollo sleeps
in his dark forgetting
......
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Categories:
aglitter, desire, dream, fantasy, flying,
Form:
Verse