Silverish
...The perfect petals puncture the fabric’s purple-blue,
And silver-platter fins paint the water every hue.
A globed sky has thawed, ripe with pine and sapphire stars—
And the glinted sheen of the...
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Categories:
globed, 12th grade, animal, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Modern Sonnets I
...MODERN SONNETS I
I prefer the original definition of the sonnet as a “little song” of indeterminate form and length. These modern sonnets vary from more-or-less traditional to free verse.
Mak...
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Categories:
globed, art, freedom, romantic, romantic
Form: Sonnet
Love Poems Iv
...LOVE POEMS IV by Michael R. Burch
These are love poems by Michael R. Burch: original poems and translations about love, passion, desire, lust, sex, dating, romance, relationships and marriage.
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Categories:
globed, desire, love, lust, marriage,
Form: Rhyme
Sonnets Xlii-Li
...Sonnets XLII-LI
Distances
by Michael R. Burch
Moonbeams on water?
the reflected light
of a halcyon star
now drowning in night...
So your memories are.
Footprints on beaches
now floodin...
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Categories:
globed, bereavement, death, death of
Form: Sonnet
Self Destruction
...Nature abhors a vacuum,
Loathes right angles,
But reveres the Corona.
For Nature so loved the corona
It dirked the form
Atop the penile shaft
Rendering the shape
Like a helmeted soldier
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Categories:
globed, nature,
Form: Free verse
Anamorphosis
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"anamorphosis"
your eyes
like mundi’s orb
crystal Orion belted
mysterious black opals
Blue globed
opallios light veined,
a Star calls ...
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Categories:
globed, humanity, i am, love,
Form: Free verse
Redolence
...Redolence
by Michael R. Burch
Now darkness ponds upon the violet hills;
cicadas sing; the tall elms gently sway;
and night bends near, a deepening shade of gray;
the bass concerto of a bullfro...
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Categories:
globed, women,
Form: Sonnet