Best Unharvested Poems

...carries the wilted weight of autumn
                   ...

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The Original Sin: Rhyming Haiku!
 
Haiku
should never rhyme:
it’s a crime!
-Michael R. Burch
 
The herons stand,
sentry-like, at attention ...
rigid observers of some unknown command.
-Michael R. Burch
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Haiku Variations
by Michael R. Burch

This is a poem composed of haiku-like stanzas:


Variations on the Seasons I
by Michael R. Burch

Lift up your head
dandelion,
hear spring roar!

How will...

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(an All Poetry feat to walk in 
the poetic feet of Robert Frost)

Bucolic New England, circa
Early twentieth century New England
awash with dynamic harmonic leisureliness,
when much...

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Black rose,
your soul aerates
an ebony, sweet calamus fragrance
Paved over by concrete of regret ...
unharvested time lost, never again to get
Delicate black rose,
a beautiful flower died...

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It is hard to take back the things said
Hard for the storks hovering in the air to vanish beyond the longing of the times 
Once...

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Henry, you tried and tried and tried —
turkey legs and beer kegs of great import*
Did they get between you and the ladies,
   ...

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No flowers in the field
Sadness today
I wear upon my heart a shield

For in this field love grows
No harvest
Why?  Only God knows

Each season bears the...

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 Here's to those who
        Don't get the kudos they deserve:
       ...

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Long-time neglect morphs into degradation

     A sad sight of a deserted dwelling; a burning eyesore

  Tantamount to sown seeds of...

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It is anything and everything
   The song of the soul singing within
      A child’s laugh playing their games
...

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Africa, 

Upon this vantage pedestal I see you, 

i gaze from this hollow quest, 

away from the home of my ancestors, 

a sojourner for a...

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Road noises rise like precautionary tales
Heat shimmering on the roadway ahead
Straight as an arrow from past to future
Seen through tunnels of unharvested grain
Punctuated by power-producing...

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Tapering to a point
time pierces the veil
Unharvested moments
a gardener’s tale  
Dug from the furrows
a voice has been freed
Whose final word spoken  
—eternity’s seed

(Septa...

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Not knowing the outcome,
I’d hide in the field

And wait for nature
to turn out the yield

Perception unharvested,
the thick to the thin

The fantasies rotting
—all truth caving in

(Stoltzfus...

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