My Most Popular Poems On the Internet I
...My most popular poems on the Internet (I)
A number of my poems and translations have gone viral, according to Google, and some have been copied onto hundreds to thousands of web pages. That’s a lo...
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glaucus, internet, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Poems About Flight, Flying and Birds Ii
...Poems about Flight, Flying, and Birds
Flying
by Michael R. Burch
I shall rise
and try the bloody wings of thought
ten thousand times
before I fly...
and then I'll sleep
and waste te...
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Categories:
glaucus, animal, bird, flying, nature,
Form: Free verse
Rip
...R.I.P.
by Michael R. Burch
When I am lain to rest
and my soul is no longer intact,
but dissolving, like a sunset
diminishing to the west...
and when at last
before His throne my past
is ...
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Categories:
glaucus, death, dream, funeral, grave,
Form: Verse
Epitaphs
...Epitaph for a Palestinian Child
by Michael R. Burch
I lived as best I could, and then I died.
Be careful where you step: the grave is wide.
Autumn Conundrum
by Michael R. Burch
It's n...
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Categories:
glaucus, bereavement, death, death of
Form: Epitaph
Athenian Epitaphs
...Athenian Epitaphs
Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be,
but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea.
—Michael R. Burch, after Plato
Does my soul abide in heaven, or hell?
Only th...
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Categories:
glaucus, death, eulogy, funeral, grave,
Form: Epigram
Searching For Avalon
..."Oh, Gods of the sea, hark;
will this wild wind pitch us,
down, down to a watery end?
Ship's awash, pigs half-drowned;
and chickens floating away.
"What is our sin, for Thor's anger
to be kin...
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Categories:
glaucus, boat, prayer, sea, storm,
Form: Free verse