Thrill of Late Summer
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Written: August 09, 2025, for contest SEASONS NOW AND AFTER Sponsored by: Nette Onclaud
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Aurora sheds her velvet, gleaming flame,
Dusk with iridescent shad...
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Categories:
incarnadine, autumn, summer,
Form: Other
Ductile Grace
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Written: July 26, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Kai Michael Neumann
Quote: "Be still, for the silence of God is the language of the soul." by Rumi
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Categories:
incarnadine, appreciation, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
An unfrivolous dance of where and when
...On supposedly eternal shore,
steps purposefully wander as they did before not long ago
when existence swoop with the bow over strings-
its created harmony an unseen, camouflaged racket-
where tr...
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Categories:
incarnadine, angst, beach, star, suicide,
Form: Free verse
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:
incarnadine, dream, love, moon, night,
Form: Rhyme
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:
incarnadine, desire, love, lust, marriage,
Form: Rhyme
Heat Lightening
...Heat Lightening
by Michael R. Burch
Each night beneath the elms, we never knew
which lights beyond dark hills might stall, advance,
then lurch into strange headbeams tilted up
like searchlight...
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Categories:
incarnadine, car, crush, desire, love,
Form: Sonnet
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:
incarnadine, bible, christian, god, heaven,
Form: Sonnet
The Dark
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Beyond the distant saddened sight,
inside this lonely broken place,
I see the light that slowly fades,
the flame that burns like love's gaze
into this empty soundless space,
the void o...
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Categories:
incarnadine, dark, gothic, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
The Tender Weight of Her Sighs
...The Tender Weight of Her Sighs
by Michael R. Burch
The tender weight of her sighs
lies heavily upon my heart;
apart from her, full of doubt,
without her presence to revolve around,
found want...
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Categories:
incarnadine, creation, depression, divorce, farewell,
Form: Sonnet
Our Horizon
...At the edge of day and night,
a silent joy reigns between
thoughts in unison.
Ocean’s field shimmers blue-green
beneath a sky, tangerine.
Our sailboat’s hue is mirrored
on the sea, incarnad...
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Categories:
incarnadine, future,
Form: Rhyme
Dear Sire
...Dear Sire, minstrel and poet oh most dear
prithee doth tell whilst thou with quill adore
thine art of rarest breed, mine heart doth peer
whereon I do beseech thee write me more
of yesterday...
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Categories:
incarnadine, love, summer,
Form: Sonnet
Shooting Blank Verse
...We met in rage, incarnadine fury,
meandered, then, became tenacious friends.
From wary circling hearts, we took the chance,
we joined our hands, we spun in place, we laid
a spiral architecture do...
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Categories:
incarnadine, life, love, magic,
Form: Blank verse
Bridegroom of the Sky
...Like a bridegroom crowned in crimson,
He rises out of his chamber,
Scarlet circlets round his person,
Bedecked in tangerine amber;
With tears of joy* shed on the grass,
The world rejoices...
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Categories:
incarnadine, beautiful, morning, sun,
Form: Quatrain
Haiku 107
...Haiku 107
reading poetry...
The Wasteland Incarnadine
winter afternoon
01.13.2014
Incarnadine, by Mary Szybist, is the 2013 National Book Award Winner
for Poetry....
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Categories:
incarnadine, poetry, winter,
Form: Haiku
At Heaven's Gate - Part 3
...Part 3: AT HEAVEN’S GATES
To set Her free from destiny was far from my design,
but, though unplanned, I touched Her hand to give Her peace of mind.
She told me then, and then aga...
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Categories:
incarnadine, fantasy,
Form: Ballad
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