Dilettantes Poems - Poems about Dilettantes

Fish out of water

...I wonder who I’ll be when alone
A salmon spent on Lagunitas creek
A giving tree robbed of it nuts
A sunset rooster with no eggs
When your chick has flown the nest
Even if for a summer vacation
...

Flickering Reflections-No Place Like Hume

...

The mind doesn't passively await impressions, no tabula rasa,
The mind is active, understanding, not just a passerby.
He had bete noire towards Christianity, a Scottish Nominalist,
David Hume,...

Why Do We Question - Why Are We Here

...Science
never answers
the primary
questions
it ponders
in circles
deck chairs
rearranged
Reciprocal
theorems
of self
aggrandizement 
indentured
to kingdoms 
where dilettantes
reign

...

Knots Between The Pearls

...A strand of pearls not tied with knots;
we’re held together — just a thread.
At times like sticky spider silk 
and other times a shred of string 
that aches and breaks and throws our pearls acros...

Running For The Door

...If you use the word languish
I’m stopping my read
When you speak the word nurture
 I’m far from intrigued  
If I hear you say milieu
I run for the door
Or when you spout genre
my ears to abhor...

No Cigar

...You can’t teach poetry pro forma
it’s the effort of a fool
You can’t gain sagacity from a book
or by the golden rule

You can’t be what you haven’t lived
the safety net misleads
You can’t blee...

Poems For Poets V

...PROFESSOR POETS

These are poems about professor poets and other “intellectuals” who miss the main point of poetry, which is to connect with readers via pleasing sounds and the communication of emo...

Celestial Masochists

...cheer the hell up if you can
nothing cheats the hangman like enthusiasm
since my next act will be
to answer all your questions
as your tenured professor of dyslexia
throw down your eye wear
blu...

Rebel In the Shade

...Standing hidden off to the side
naked and alone,
his aura too imposing,
his cover all but blown

A target of those dilettantes,
consummate poseurs,
his space they had surrounded
—his legend t...

Word Nibbler

...A jackdaw is stealing
my tote bag of unused words,
a rodentlike kibitzer, a pecking dictator
of the worthiness of sounds.
If I run out of bullets now
he will take over my range,
blue-pencil my ...

State of the Art Iii

...State of the Art (III)

These are my "ars poetica" poems: the ones about the art and craft of writing poetry in a modern world that doesn't always recognize the artists or their work. 



Come ...

Poems About Poems Iv

...Poems about Poems IV

The Toast
by Michael R. Burch

For longings warmed by tepid suns
(brief lusts that animated clay),
for passions wilted at the bud
and skies grown desolate and gray,
for...

An Obscenity Trial

...An Obscenity Trial
by Michael R. Burch
 
The defendant was a poet held in many iron restraints
against whom several critics cited numerous complaints.
They accused him of trying to reach the "co...

Tease For Two

...
"Tease for Two"



“Ein bisschen Zucker 
mit Ihrer Sahne, Sir?“

German accent 
smoky toned 
she purred

Periwinkles suavely winked, 
then p...

Now Others Sung

...Poets write from experience,
dilettantes rave and rant

A price demanded to feed the Sage,
wishing and hoping can’t

Magic to wrap around the words,
feelings and thoughts hard won

Beauty wh...

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