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Formalist Poems - Poems about Formalist


Sonnets Xcviii-C
...Sonnets XCVIII-CII Willy Nilly by Michael R. Burch for the Demiurge aka Yahweh/Jehovah Isn’t it silly, Willy Nilly? You made the stallion, you made the filly, and now they sleep in the......

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Categories: formalist, bible, christian, god, heaven,
Form: Sonnet
Roses and Lilacs
...Winter by Michael R. Burch The rose of love's bright promise lies torn by her own thorn; her scent was sweet but at her feet the pallid aphids mourn. The lilac of devotion has felt the wi......

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Categories: formalist, desire, longing, love, nature,
Form: Verse



The Persistence of a Memory of Apricot Shampoo
...The Persistence of a Memory of Apricot Shampoo by Michael R. Burch For all that I remembered, I forgot her name, her face, the reason that we loved... and yet I hold her close within my thought......

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Categories: formalist, desire, hair, longing, love,
Form: Sonnet
Salvation of a Formalist, An Ode To Entropy
...Salvation of a Formalist, an Ode to Entropy by Michael R. Burch Entropy? God's universal decree That I get to be Disorderly? Suddenly My erstwhile boxed-in verse is free? Wheeeeee! E......

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Categories: formalist, humor, humorous, light, nonsense,
Form: Light Verse
Isolde's Song
...After the deaths of Tristram and Isolde, a hazel and a honeysuckle grew out of their graves until the branches intertwined and could not be parted. Through our long years of dreaming to......

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Categories: formalist, funeral, grave, love, romance,
Form: Sonnet



See
...See by Michael R. Burch See how her hair has thinned: it doesn’t seem like hair at all, but like the airy moult of emus who outraced the wind and left soft plumage in their wake. See how her e......

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Categories: formalist, age, goodbye, life, loss,
Form: Sonnet
Wood Chew Believe Aye Took Stock
...Wood chew believe aye took stock...? Upon a whim, an endeavor arose to communicate cumulative key whatchamacallit, yea...nuggets o' wisdom, asper about yours truly no reason, nor rhyme unwi......

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Categories: formalist, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Lyric
The Last of the Free Verse Defenders
...He intoned: Poems don't have to rhyme and boldly stepped foward into the world of books and magic Leaving behind the formalist slant he mov......

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Categories: formalist, art, imagination, on writing
Form: Free verse

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