This World of Dew
...THIS WORLD OF DEW
This world?
Moonlit dew
flicked from a crane's bill.
—Eihei Dogen Kigen, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Seventy-one?
How long
can a dewdrop last?
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Categories:
dejectedness, age, art, autumn, bereavement,
Form: Haiku
Poems About Regret
...Regret
by Michael R. Burch
Regret,
a bitter
ache to bear . . .
once starlight
languished
in your hair . . .
a shining there
as brief
as rare.
Regret . . .
a pain
I chose to bear ...
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Categories:
dejectedness, memory, pain, remember, sad,
Form: Rhyme
What Good Are Our Tears
...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?
Wha...
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Categories:
dejectedness, child, child abuse, children,
Form: Free verse
I Refuse To Mourn
...I refuse to mourn
Your death
Mr. Dead President!
I refuse to sit here
And pretend to have forgotten
How much your own people
Waited to experience the sweetness
Of a time like this!
I ...
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Categories:
dejectedness, anger, political,
Form: Lyric
Come Down, For Harold Bloom
...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 met...
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Categories:
dejectedness, books, culture, discrimination, education,
Form: Sonnet
Love Has a Southern Flavor
...Love has a Southern flavor: honeydew,
ripe cantaloupe, the honeysuckle’s spout
we tilt to basking faces to breathe out
the ordinary, and inhale perfume ...
Love’s Dixieland-rambunctious: tangle...
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Categories:
dejectedness, desire, longing, love, romance,
Form: Sonnet
Harder To Resist
...Feeling Isolated and dejected like an outcast,
From years of intimidation, humiliation and rotten past,
Broken by dejectedness; a defined rejection,
Life has become a hopeless situation.
All I ...
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Categories:
dejectedness, depression,
Form: Sonnet