Categories:
hypertexts, spiritual,
Form: Than-Bauk
Children's Poems II
...Children's Poems II - Lullabies
These are poems for children and poems about children and their mothers, fathers, grandmother, grandfathers and extended families.
Sappho's Lullaby
by Mich...
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Categories:
hypertexts, boy, child, childhood, children,
Form: Rhyme
Juvenilia: Early Poems X
...Juvenilia: Early Poems X
These are early poems written in my teens and twenties.
Regret
by Michael R. Burch
Regret,
a bitter
ache to bear...
once starlight
languished
in your hair......
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Categories:
hypertexts, age, child, children, dream,
Form: Rhyme
Apocalyptic Poems Iii
...These are prophetic poems and apocalyptic poems about the earth, climate change, global warming, extinction events, and mankind's role on an endangered world ...
Polish
by Michael R. Burch
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Categories:
hypertexts, earth, earth day, environment,
Form: Rhyme
Starlight and Moonlight Ii
...Starlight and Moonlight II
These are poems about starlight and moonlight, moons and stars, dreams and visions, illuminations and intimations …
Deliver Us...
by Michael R. Burch
for m...
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Categories:
hypertexts, dream, love, moon, night,
Form: Rhyme
Starlight and Moonlight
...These are poems about starlight and moonlight, moons and stars, dreams and visions, illuminations and intimations …
Will There Be Starlight
by Michael R. Burch
Will there be starlight
to...
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Categories:
hypertexts, dark, dream, love, moon,
Form: Rhyme
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 ...
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Categories:
hypertexts, art, muse, poems, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
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:
hypertexts, memory, pain, remember, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Sonnets Lxxi-Lxxx
...Sonnets LXXI-LXXX
Because You Came to Me
by Michael R. Burch
Because you came to me with sweet compassion
and kissed my furrowed brow and smoothed my hair,
I do not love you after any fashio...
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Categories:
hypertexts, desire, grief, loss, love,
Form: Sonnet
Sonnets Lxi-Lxx
...Sonnets LXI-LXX
Erin
by Michael R. Burch
All that’s left of Ireland is her hair?
bright carrot?and her milkmaid-pallid skin,
her brilliant air of cavalier despair,
her train of children?s...
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Categories:
hypertexts, heart, night, spiritual, wife,
Form: Sonnet
Survivors, a 911 Poem
...Survivors
by Michael R. Burch
(for the victims and survivors of 9/11 and their families)
In truth, we do not feel the horror
of the survivors,
but what passes for horror:
a shiver of “e...
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Categories:
hypertexts, death, family, horror, pain,
Form: Rhyme
Poems About Poets I
...Poems about Poets I
The Wonder Boys
by Michael R. Burch
for Leslie Mellichamp
The stars were always there, too-bright cliches:
scintillant truths the jaded world outgrew
as baffled poet...
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Categories:
hypertexts, inspiration, muse, poems, poetry,
Form: Verse
The State of the Art
...The State of the Art (I)
by Michael R. Burch
Has rhyme lost all its reason
and rhythm, renascence?
Are sonnets out of season
and poems but poor pretense?
Are poets lacking fire,
their word...
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Categories:
hypertexts, art, muse, poems, poetry,
Form: Verse
The Moon As a Metaphor For Your Mouth
...The Moon as a Metaphor for Your Mouth
by Michael R. Burch
When I was closest to love, it did not seem
real at all, but a thing of such tenuous sweetness
it might dissolve in my mouth
like a lo...
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Categories:
hypertexts, candy, love, metaphor, moon,
Form: Sonnet
Final Prophecy
...Final Prophecy
by Michael R. Burch
Listen to me now and heed my voice;
I am a madman, alone, screaming in the wilderness,
but listen now.
Listen to me now, and if I say
that black is black,...
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Categories:
hypertexts, cry, dream, judgement, moon,
Form: Verse
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