Best Briefer Poems

oh tell me what's this ruse, my little friend?
    proud petals spread and reaching for the sun
        did you not think that you should be undone
  by all the winter white the heavens send?

I...

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ME, MY MUSE AND ME!

ME
What I am about to say and do,
Would be inconceivable by more 
Than a few,
How could I dare,
Its isn’t fair,
For it is Christmas season,
Do I have a valid reason
I hear you say,
Please hear me out I pray!
My muse has been cheating,
Spying...

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What Good Are Our Tears?
by Michael R. Burch

What good are our tears?
They will not spare the dying their anguish.
What good is our concern
to a child sick of living, waiting to perish?

What good, the warm benevolence of tears
without action?
What help, the eloquence of prayers,
or a pleasant...

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Underwear used to be a fig leaf
Then somebody invented the brief
I think it’s absurd
To name it that word
I mean, what’s briefer than a leaf?

Was it named by a white collar thief?
Like a lawyer who longed to be chief?
I could see his purport
When he said in...

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When gazing 'cross love's glistening expanse,

               The magic of those June thru August moons ...

       Was bound to weave the warmest of romance -

 ...

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Little bird, what troubles thee
      is it the worm in your belly
little bird, what pains thee
      is it the worm of misery

is it the bitterness in your heart, 
     or the...

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F - First of November, winter takes the reins,
R - rime appears as Jack Frost has his first peek,
O – Oddly it seems, the Sun moves out of town; 
S - shortly, the grass will turn a nasty brown.
T - The fall days will grow...

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Come 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 now, or not ever.

Come down, O, come down
from the high...

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Here he lies lifeless
He whose hands had many healed
though unsung by some

Now, we cheer him home
Down his homestead, we set him
Our selfless hero!

Pain is the pleasure 
of earthly patriotism...
Fame is for a time

Though the rose blossoms
on fields where good does not stay, 
it withers at...

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Wife Lucy gave me the dickens for being late
                     How could I say I had an appointment with Kate
      ...

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should my voice fade in your ears
and my love vanish in your memory
it is then I will come gain
although time may hide me yet again
I will seek your understanding
brief are my days amongst you
and briefer still
the words I have spoken
I shall go with the wind
but...

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My heart felt old; I sought the cold.
Canada’s land was what I planned.
Among trees grand and far inland
To dance my sad brand of sarabande.
Yet precious moments come when joy flowers,
Far briefer than Four-O’clocks,
As resurrected visions composed of spectral smoke,
Reignite our love in brief rapture; abruptly...

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EPANEPLEPIS POETRY
A
REMINDER
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A man who knew what he was talking about, a man who knew!
"Mankind must put an end to war or, war will end mankind"
Quote President John F. Kennedy; D. Trump not worthy of the title let alone a quote.
Restrained just recently, President Trump was,...

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We Look For Holy Moments, 
And In Looking, Overlook

Moments Blessed And 
Filled With Things
From Mountains We Once Shook.

Small Events Unfolding, 
Each One Smaller, Briefer Still.

As Cavernous Creases 
We Call Brains, 

Migrations Fill.
Spark-lit Seconds 

Speak For Us 
While Destiny Darkens Past.

Pointing And Branched 
With Lightning Flare...

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Thru maritime miles of meals and mates
I posed as a pirate for polishing plates
For singing a song of the surf and the sea
I traded my turf for a tempest of tea

I had to be strong when I woke up at four
To prove my own worth...

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