Long Arcs Poems
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As Time Walked By
These are early poems of mine, written as a high school student in the 10th grade.
as Time walked by
by Michael R. Burch
yesterday i dreamed of us again,
when
the air, like honey,
trickled through cushioning grasses,
softly flowing,...
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Categories:
arcs, 10th grade, boy, child, childhood, first love,
Form:
Free verse
Charles D'Orleans: a Medieval Marvel
Charles d'Orleans: a Medieval Marvel
Spring
by Charles d’Orleans (c. 1394-1465)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Young lovers,
greeting the spring
fling themselves downhill,
making cobblestones ring
with their wild leaps and arcs,
like ecstatic sparks
struck from coal.
What is their brazen goal?
They grab...
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Categories:
arcs, art, autumn, french, prison, spring, summer, winter,
Form:
Roundel
Medieval Poems
Medieval Poems
How Long the Night
anonymous Middle English lyric, circa early 13th century AD
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
It is pleasant, indeed, while the summer lasts
with the mild pheasants' song ...
but now I feel the northern...
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Categories:
arcs, allegory, bible, christian, england, london, nostalgia, poetry,
Form:
Verse
Charles D'Orleans Translations
Spring
by Charles d'Orleans (c.1394-1465)
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
Young lovers,
greeting the spring
fling themselves downhill,
making cobblestones ring
with their wild leaps and arcs,
like ecstatic sparks
struck from coal.
What is their brazen goal?
They grab at whatever passes,
so we can...
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Categories:
arcs, bereavement, depression, desire, heartbreak, heaven, romance,
Form:
Roundel
Oasis
Oasis
by Michael R. Burch
for Beth
I want tears to form again
in the shriveled glands of these eyes
dried all these long years
by too much heated knowing.
I want tears to course down
these parched cheeks,...
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Categories:
arcs, marriage,
Form:
Verse
Oft In My Thought: Charles D'Orleans Translation
Oft in My Thought
by Charles D'Orleans
translation by Michael R. Burch
So often in my busy mind I sought,
Around the advent of the fledgling year,
For something pretty that I really ought
To give my lady dear;
But that sweet...
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Categories:
arcs, blessing, christian, faith, god, heartbreak, heaven, lost
Form:
Roundel
8 Little Egypts
Something strange
and unexplainable comes this way,
this way, it comes to us sly and fast,
some say, perhaps,
it has already arrived,
it walks unseen, in the midst of all, of us
we go about our...
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Categories:
arcs, easter, humanity, words,
Form:
Narrative
Poems About Eros and Cupid
POEMS ABOUT EROS AND CUPID
These are translations of ancient Greek poems about Eros. Eros was the Greek counterpart of the Roman god Cupid. While today we tend to think of Cupid as an angelic cherub...
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Categories:
arcs, cute love, desire, god, heart, love, lust,
Form:
Epigram
Favorite Recurring Nightmares Part 1
Don't you think that this title is darkly divine?
But, of course, there will have to be weirdness that’s funny,
Though my nightmares are many and have complex arcs
There’s some risk here I might have to work...
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Categories:
arcs, anxiety, crazy, fun, funeral, holocaust, humorous, life,
Form:
Quatrain
Monofilamania
It is so hard to let go of love,
lovingly.
It sharks,
unpeels more gut more quickly
than reel or reeler ever lost
in all those years of lazy inches
in and out:
casting,
winding in and playing out,
hardly fishing, rarely catching
anything
from...
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Categories:
arcs, allegory, passion, woman, memory, sea, fish, lust,
Form:
Free verse
dichotomy -
yeah, right ...
do you really think I believe that?
that I'll swallow that pill?
look at the damn lines on this brow ...
do you think they were etched
by happenstance??
not even CLOSE, sweetheart
I earned those ragged rivulets one-by-one
and...
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Categories:
arcs, analogy, break up, conflict, forgiveness, love, relationship,
Form:
Free verse
Ghosts of Christmas Past
Ghosts of Christmas Past
I do not fear the ghosts
of my Christmas past.
My yearly visit with each one
is a gift
a present
for this one day
I drive out to Lantzville Beach
and bring my dog along
My mother loved dogs...
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Categories:
arcs, christmas, nostalgia,
Form:
Free verse
Bing Chat Ai Shockingly Gives Me a Score of 95 Out of 100 For My Poem
Me: "Bing, the intended rhyme scheme for the poem below is ABABAB; and I made additional changes in line 9 of the poem in order to improve its meter and make more vivid and clarify...
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Categories:
arcs, child, childhood, death, dream, evil, fear, gothic,
Form:
Lyric
Graphic Grapes Ooh
Ooh a scented grape graphic. Now that's wisdom. Contained a logical pattern in a juice cup. Heron haven heaping. Wisdomstic of a Judas flaw. Consealed in Sanskrit. Heavenly heaping cream on a very large bun....
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Categories:
arcs, baby,
Form:
I do not know?
My Future Self
“looking back, I’m ashamed of what I was
I’m different now, though not without flaws
Each crest becomes a trough, as we move on
God slowly steers soul towards a new dawn” Unseeking Seeker
Life is like...
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Categories:
arcs, muse,
Form:
Free verse
Coming Home
I remember the night I first tasted sweet love.
Joining a boy for that magical, first time,
Under the glimmer of our own, fat moon,
Next to a silvery lake, sampling the divine.
We explored and shared the ultimate...
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Categories:
arcs, first love, hope, lonely, longing, love, soulmate,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Backdoors of My Town
I was a whimsical, interior designer, bringing colors and joy into living spaces,
Subtly changing neighborhoods and lives, like vibrant arcs the rainbow traces.
People were as dissimilar as their houses, the both of them rather fascinating,
Like...
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Categories:
arcs, beauty, fantasy, imagery, life, nature, people, places,
Form:
Couplet
This Nonestablishmentarian Iman Kant Riff
This nonestablishmentarian (Iman) kant riff!
Otherwise titled as: Thanksgiving
nothing more'n gobbledygook
we stuff ourselves with.
Mine suburban outpost
approximately thirty seven plus miles
southeast of where liberty bell marks
history upon cobblestone streets
where sounds of silence
from walking...
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Categories:
arcs, america, autumn, celebration, food, life, thanksgiving, thanksgiving
Form:
Rhyme
Saturn Dance and Basaltic Magma
Written: February 22, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Sara Jama
...
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Categories:
arcs, appreciation, universe,
Form:
Free verse
Poems about Shadows and Darkness
These are poems about shadows, poems about darkness, poems about shades in the form of ghosts and spirits...
Shadows
by Michael R. Burch
Alone again as evening falls,
I join gaunt shadows and we crawl
up and down my room's...
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Categories:
arcs, dark, evil, moon, night, stars, sunset, winter,
Form:
Rhyme
diamond diadem of dawn
I'm white s m o k e ,
a silhouette of titanium wings,
tethered to the snowy flesh of a flawless dandelion,
whose skin still remembers ~
the thawing of winter from its...
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Categories:
arcs, deep, destiny, life, light, metaphor, philosophy, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
Love's Last Heartbeat
In the moorlands of desires,
I've forever sung choruses of
fertile faith, amidst the flock
of bleeding birds, sprinkling
heartbeats on lush olive herbs,
In the dream of retracing their
scintillating season of beachy spring.
'Hope' had...
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Categories:
arcs, angst, metaphor, sad love, sorrow, true love,
Form:
Free verse
Ethereal Egg
Might it be a pool or wishing well
with rainbow ripples round it wound
within an enchanted cosmic dell
of a fabulous world newfound—
or perhaps a spacetime passageway
that tunnels through regions yonder
to place where poets come out to...
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Categories:
arcs, animal, humanity, imagery, imagination, nature, space, stars,
Form:
Ekphrasis
Upon Visiting Gortmore
The new roves are not like the old,
They purvey an unwieldy aspect
To their elderly kindred folk;
Even on this steep hill forms encroach
Upon an edifice grand of bygone grandeur;
So to ‘Ghurt Muire’ that Jacobean domain
With...
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Categories:
arcs, uplifting,
Form:
Pastoral
Unicorn's Gala
Invitations to the Gala
issued by a grave impala
were highly sought out missives
by the bold and the submissive
Those omitted uttered curses
shook angry fists or heavy purses
Had they but known that
the price of admission
was...
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Categories:
arcs, fantasy, imagination, red,
Form:
Imagism