Lyric Couplet Poems

on pause
  for a moment

touching the shadows
on the wind

emotions
   soft-breathed

dwelling
in a lyric of love

while
eating candyfloss...

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I was an ardent, competent astronomer, ever peering in midnight blue dark,
Like mysterious destiny, ever awaiting, meeting time in some emerald park.

Labor kept me up...

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Creeping tendrils, fungal cordyceps, grabbing hamstrings by the bone,
Stunting pain in muscled biceps, stretch as if they work alone.

No matter far nor long I run,...

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The lyric deft and yet bereft, its logic baldly doffed:
an heir in err, a progeny ‘twas not untimely off’d.
In aggregate, the follicles that sprout the...

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A poem lovely as a stream
Rhythmic flow creates fluid dream.

Resonant vale curved in jade hill  
Draped by ornate trees standing still.

Golden sun seeps through...

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Oh, for a poem to stir men's souls
   to remove pseudo-shackles, to set new goals

Oh, for a lyric to move folks to cheer
...

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Night lifted the ebony shroud 
from the hazy sky draped in cloud,
the ascent of dawn had begun
with the rise of shimmering sun,
golden shower drizzled with...

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My old life seems monotonous to me now, but I allow it was fine then,
As cobalt skies allow warm butterscotch rays, to linger in the...

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Ech day me cometh tydinges thre
"Each Day Three Tidings Come to Me"
(anonymous Middle English poem, circa the 13th century AD)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Each...

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"Look at the stars, look at how they shine for you and everything you do"          ...

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THE MELODY OF DEATH 

Should I play a melody that pulls on your heart strings
Then stand back and watch the emotions that it brings

An inner...

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Adam Lay Ybounden
(anonymous Medieval English Lyric, circa early 15th century AD)
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

Adam lay bound, bound in a bond;
Four thousand winters, he...

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O Spring, I thought you’d never come.
The winter seemed so long.
And now I sense your presence near
in colour and in song.
The cardinal sings a lyric...

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Thought frames deeper flow:
Slots what wordplay shows.


Feel the surge attend:
Ink flow moves my pen.


Poise in succinct writes:
Voice how feelings cite.


Sense prompts lyric verse:
Jazz of fine...

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LOVE IS LONGING

Love is longing to feel the touch of heart and to belong
A passion to create life’s lyric together to sing
An emotion nothing can...

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