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Burnish Poems - Poems about Burnish

Epigrams IX
...These are epigrams by Michael R. Burch Road to Recovery by Michael R. Burch It’s time to get up and at ’em and out of this rut that I’m sat in. A man may attempt to burnish pure gold, bu......

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Categories: burnish, beauty, god, mother, recovery
Form: Free verse
Fledglings in parental nest
...Way-lost as if we live in hoary past-- In epics of hist’ry poets have sung, In portraits of culture, hoisted on mast, Still, where are old glories, save on the tongue? One knows of few people......

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Categories: burnish, bird, history, old,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member shady
...a shady place where burnish Asian lily blooms.... purple tail lizard......

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Categories: burnish, nature,
Form: Haiku
Autumn By Straw Light
...Between the reaching shades of tall trees copper-leafed hillocks’ catch fire, ghost flames burnish the slow stealth of evening. A translucent straw-light seen only through the thumb hole of ......

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Categories: burnish, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Town Planners Are Watched
...Town planners would us astonish, When they rocks and hills demolish, So as to new cities polish, Their smart dwellers make less foolish And it all turns out Bad Rubbish; Reason to them all adm......

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Categories: burnish, change, city, creation, cry,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Forgiving
...Forgiving another I'm quick to do, if forgetting is not also required. Their echos iterate in an old queue of actions I, alone, may have inspired. Forgiving myself for mistakes I've made (thou......

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Categories: burnish, anxiety, forgiveness, growth, love,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member God Money
...dollars dance ... in the eyes of angels plates at the ends of pews passed strategically in tempo to burnish words (even more strategic) pretty sheep buttered and wagging like the smooth ton......

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Categories: burnish, analogy, corruption, discrimination, money,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Black Swan
...I saw you … high … atop the promontory spinning with manic madness pirouettes et fouetté lost in yourself - in movement … your upper back split, low and, I swear - feathers … peeking … tu......

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Categories: burnish, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Dead Cat Waltz
...THE DEAD CAT WALTZ Tick, tick, tock. Fleeing the dancing cats. Oh those strangled cries, the pleas for help. Where are the sirens to drown them out? I'm no hero, just another suspect......

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Categories: burnish, character, soldier, war,
Form: Free verse
I Laid Me Body Stomach Down Atop a Grassy Knoll
...I laid me body stomach down atop a grassy knoll... here at Highland Manor Apartments earlier today Juneteenth 2022, (a pitch perfect spring day) with serious intent to read seat of the pants s......

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Categories: burnish, absence, age, angel, anger,
Form: Free verse
Life is to sow, not reap
...I wake one day, again for long to sleep All life to find: if life or death is fake, And learn, man’s here to sow, seldom to reap. Death lives with life all through lifetime to creep, Crawli......

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Categories: burnish, death, life,
Form: Villanelle
Subject Can Their Bad Kings Banish
...Subjects can their Bad Kings banish: Their Lords that image tarnish By being decisive and mannish While proving them a clannish After bribing schnapps of the Danish And deceiving wine the Sp......

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Categories: burnish, community, people, perspective, power,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Resolution
...Oh yes, I am resolved. Resolved to heal and not to wound, to listen more than answer back, to be more balm than stringent sound to friend, or foe when they attack. Ah yes, I am resolved, to ......

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Categories: burnish, christian, conflict, faith, gospel,
Form: Rhyme
Moon Gold
.... for public domain For a moment the world shines brighter as clouds clear the sky for the moon. Harvested fields burnish brown with gold, and the dish runs away with the spoon.* The view we......

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Categories: burnish, hope, jewish, light, moon,
Form: Rhyme
The Wounding of Innocence
...Keep forever magenta memories, chased in fields of old mud, barefooted, allow disgrace and stigma to reveal, fading amber secrets, of indelicate curiosity, scarlet laughter invited burgeonin......

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Categories: burnish, age, dark, desire, first
Form: Free verse

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