Long Aghast Poems
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The Shape of Mourning
by Michael R. Burch
The shape of mourning
is an oiled creel
shining with unuse,
the bolt of cold steel
on a locker
shielding memory,
the monthly penance
of flowers,
the annual wake,
the face in the...
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Categories:
aghast, beauty, death, desire, life, longing, love, nature,
Form:
Free verse
Poems About IcarusSouthern Icarus
by Michael R. Burch
Windborne, lover of heights,
unspooled from the truck’s wildly lurching embrace,
you climb, skittish kite...
What do you know of the world’s despair,
gliding in vast solitariness there,
so that all that remains is to
fall?
Only a...
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Categories:
aghast, analogy, angel, bird, butterfly, extended metaphor, flying,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Butterflies and BeesPoems about Butterflies and Bees
Flight
by Michael R. Burch
It is the nature of loveliness to vanish
as butterfly wings, batting against nothingness
seek transcendence...
Album
by Michael R. Burch
I caress them—trapped in brittle cellophane—
and I see how young they were,...
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Categories:
aghast, animal, butterfly, flying, insect, sky, wind,
Form:
Rhyme
Sonnets Lii-LxSonnets LII-LX
The Endeavors of Lips
by Michael R. Burch
How sweet the endeavors of lips: to speak
of the heights of those pleasures which left us weak
in love’s strangely lit beds, where the cold springs creak:
for there is...
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Categories:
aghast, dream, flower, hair, longing, love, pain, sensual,
Form:
Sonnet
Early Poems IJuvenilia: Early Poems by Michael R. Burch
Smoke
by Michael R. Burch
The hazy, smoke-filled skies of summer I remember well;
farewell was on my mind, and the thoughts that I can't tell
rang bells within (the din was in)...
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Categories:
aghast, kid, poetry, poets, teen, write, writing, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
Merov's Ghost and Other Shots Across My BowMerov’s Ghost (1) and Other Shots Across My Bow!
In mid-November of Fourteen, I published my first web verse here, (2)
the earliest spanned sixty years, composed for Senior English class
one night in Nineteen Sixty-One. Assigned just...
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Categories:
aghast, blessing, life, love,
Form:
Rhyme
No RecantingMay we be 'so graced' as to relinquish any faith, ...
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Categories:
aghast, christian, forgiveness, god, political, pride,
Form:
Verse
Freezer Mice: RepostedThose primeval skies, no man ever knew
Ignited, as one massive boulder burst through
Hollow inside, creatures not unlike mice
Strapped themselves in as they plunged into ice
Instantly boiled then instantly frozen
None were to question the planet they'd...
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Categories:
aghast, adventure,
Form:
Narrative
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 11Lumi's hand pressed upon his shoulder in a surprisingly firm grip guiding him into the dining area and to the second of two long slender tables where sat five older elves including DynDoeth.
...
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Categories:
aghast, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Poems About Flight, Flying and Birds IPoems about Flight, Flying, and Birds (I)
Flight
by Michael R. Burch
It is the nature of loveliness to vanish
as hummingbird wings, batting against nothingness
seek transcendence...
Southern Icarus
by Michael R. Burch
Windborne, lover of heights,
unspooled from the truck’s wildly lurching...
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Categories:
aghast, angel, animal, bird, flying, nature,
Form:
Free verse
The Dancing: the Last DanceWas it a cruel twist of fate?
Sneering, laughing chance?
Perhaps something I ate?
A bad bout of happenstance?
It wrenched and tore at my gut,
A sickening, sober, foreboding sign.
Wretched chance it was not,
This time was by insidious design.
The...
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Categories:
aghast, allusion, analogy, angst, anxiety, dance, dark, metaphor,
Form:
Rhyme
Freezer MiceThose primeval skies, no man ever knew
Ignited, as one massive boulder burst through
Hollow inside, creatures not unlike mice
Strapped themselves in as they plunged into ice
Instantly boiled then instantly frozen
None were to question the planet they'd...
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Categories:
aghast, adventure, fantasy, hero,
Form:
Rhyme
Apocalyptic Poems IThese are prophetic poems and apocalyptic poems ...
The Vision of the Overseer’s Right Hand
by Michael R. Burch
“Dust to dust ...”
I stumbled, aghast,
into a valley of dust and bone
where all men become,
at last, the same color...
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Categories:
aghast, earth, earth day, environment, future, humanity, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
The Plagueas the PROPHETS of profits, WE lead and WE’re fair
while WE’re living the life of the poor BILLIONAIRE
– silver yachts, pearly castles, cash (plenty to spare) –
with the world on OUR backs... ah! the burdens...
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Categories:
aghast, society,
Form:
Quatrain
Another Cruel Link In Their Chain Another Cruel Link in their Chain
1. Beginnings
Her babe was her joy, such a beautiful boy,
and he suckled her breast till the end.
The slaver sought cash, bestowed mammy a thrash,
sold her...
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Categories:
aghast, body, life, men,
Form:
Ballad
A Poet of a Thousand WordsA poet of a thousand words
The pen garnished by the flame
Like a sea no desire knows
And love becomes the same
As poet to my love for thee
I confess between the lace
Of time and every sorrow made
I...
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Categories:
aghast, love,
Form:
Free verse
The Mask of TourmalineTwice the night had fallen upon a sleepless slumber,
Yet again awoken by winter when the third was three in number.
I sense that a silence doth sneak ‘tween cracks of weathered wood,
Conniving with that which shadows...
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Categories:
aghast, anxiety, horror, imagination, mystery, myth, night, psychological,
Form:
Couplet
A Murder Most FoulI am having that dream of dreams again
The one that wakes me up in the night
...
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Categories:
aghast, autumn, beautiful, best friend, betrayal, heart, lost
Form:
Narrative
The Mask of AlabasterOnce the night had fallen upon a sleepless slumber,
Whence the winter woke me when the third was three in number.
I sense that a wince doth lurk and wear which wicked gaze,
Of conniving shadows cast between...
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Categories:
aghast, anxiety, confusion, deep, dream, education, fantasy, fear,
Form:
Couplet
I'Ve Got To GoI’m on my way, I’ve got to go
(the reasons why you’ll never know),
whisked away in winter’s winds, your sleeping sighs remind me.
And I’ll ramble where I please,
sometimes slipping to my knees,
phantom memories a’ chasing close...
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Categories:
aghast, cute, farewell,
Form:
Rhyme
Original Mask of AlabasterA wince doth lurk wearing which wicked gaze,
Of conniving cast shadows ‘tween my windowpanes.
Gazing through the window’s diaphanous gelid glass,
I see a flushing fluorescent misty haze of frothy brass.
It floats aloft the frost of...
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Categories:
aghast, addiction, allusion, confusion, dream, evil, horror, night,
Form:
Couplet
Very Fine ImageryI was touring the lovely countryside, once on a golden Saturday,
Lost within the raptures, of languid summertime's scenic display.
And I came into the vicinity, of a beautiful historic old home,
So being curious and interested, inside...
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Categories:
aghast, adventure, fantasy, house, imagery, mirror, places, world,
Form:
Couplet
RewindRewind
By Julia Shaw
At seventy-two my life has been so very fine,
That I'd like to push a button and just rewind.
I'd go back to my wedding day so exciting
And marry again the man I found so...
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Categories:
aghast, appreciation, child, daughter, life, nostalgia, time, tribute,
Form:
Rhyme
Wellington GateHis walk into town would prove fateful that day,
As his mind wandered idly while finding his way.
His footsteps were brisk like fall chill in the air,
Past Wellington Gate, south of Denby town square.
He paused for...
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Categories:
aghast, death, emotions, funeral, goodbye, grave, grief, hurt,
Form:
Narrative
Dancing In Horror With Fate In Blackest Abyss Collaboration With Kurt RavidasDancing In Horror With Fate In Blackest Abyss
Collaboration with Kurt Ravidas
I walk mountain storm, step out to cut deep its edge
forever tempting that fall from its narrow ledge,
in the midst of ravenous rage and great...
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Categories:
aghast, art, dark, evil, fantasy, horror, raven, surreal,
Form:
Rhyme