Long Austere Poems
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The Only Northern Northern StarAs winter hazes of January spraying
While I was meditating on how
To write this riveting poem which
Seemed to be for someone who
I never cast in my sight.
Despite her name is not an odd in me
But I...
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Categories:
austere, africa,
Form:
Ode
CurrentsCurrents
by Michael R. Burch
How can I write and not be true
to the rhythm that wells within?
How can the ocean not be blue,
not buck with the clapboard slap of tide,
the clockwork shock of wave on rock,
the...
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Categories:
austere, assonance, extended metaphor, language, metaphor, music, poetry,
Form:
Verse
The State of the ArtThe 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 words too trite and forced?
What happened to desire?
Has...
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Categories:
austere, art, muse, poems, poetry, poets, romantic, writing,
Form:
Verse
Poems About Poets IPoems 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 poets winged keyed kites—amazed,
in dream of shocks that suddenly came true ...
but...
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Categories:
austere, inspiration, muse, poems, poetry, poets, romantic, writing,
Form:
Verse
Starlight and MoonlightThese 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
tonight
while she gathers
damask
and lilac
and sweet-scented heathers?
And will she find...
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Categories:
austere, dark, dream, love, moon, night, star, stars,
Form:
Rhyme
Catonita Strikes - Part One: a Freezer Mice AdventureContinued from FREEZER MICE
The cat had travelled straight from hell, a hell beyond the stars
The cat that theories claim once levied genocide on Mars
She now seeks vengeance on descendants of the primal shrew
Whoever knew that...
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Categories:
austere, adventure,
Form:
Narrative
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 8He awoke to the sound of lightly crunching ice. As he opened his eyes the boy stood looking at him, then with one fluid motion he stepped forward and stretched out his hand,
...
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Categories:
austere, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Understanding NatureUnderstanding Nature
Part 1: What (I Think) God Wants You to Know!
Some people don’t understand Nature,
Feel death and pain prove there’s no God
Or if there is He is a monster,
His empathy for us a fraud.
They say...
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Categories:
austere, faith, , atheist,
Form:
Rhyme
Secret Love - 2nd Place Contest WinIf you spill your secrets to the breeze,
Don't blame the wind for laying them to light.
Once said, words are disclosed, even to trees.
And claim peace in the leaves that rustle and fight.
Whispered tales of a...
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Categories:
austere, analogy, appreciation, beauty, love,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
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:
austere, death, emotions, funeral, goodbye, grave, grief, hurt,
Form:
Narrative
Revolving RiversIn backyards of my history
lies a tidal river
of ebb and flow revolutions.
These revolutions are normally no-news evolutions
back up toward headwaters of crisis and opportunity,
diastatic and polyphonic purest capital boundary roots
for future's river flow investment
out-flowing down
from...
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Categories:
austere, earth, health, integrity, nature, rights, river, science,
Form:
Political Verse
On Hearing That Ronniefor Ronald Hindmarsh-Midwood
...
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Categories:
austere, friend, friendship, light, pain,
Form:
Elegy
Translation of Marcel Moreau's: a Paris By T WignesanTranslation of Marcel Moreau's " A Paris " by T. Wignesan
IN PARIS
Paris bores me no end without you
My heart weighted down with melancholia
The spleen given over to asthenia
Empties its own sense of loss on to...
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Categories:
austere, cute love, nostalgia, november, paris, romantic love,
Form:
Quatrain
Wonderful Worthing Promenade Part 2Candy floss, seaside rock, smoothies, and flags sporting
Union Jacks
Replace the old traditions of striped deckchairs
And Kiss-Me-Quick hats.
Chipwicks for our salt and vinegar fries
And their pole-and-line freshly caught local Cod;
The Vintners Parrot: For thick sizzling...
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Categories:
austere, sea,
Form:
Rhyme
The Secret Lives of Chimney Pots IiGazing down along the zealously
Monitored borders of well clipped
Evergreen Privet hedges.
Standing watchful guard over
Divisions
Re-enforced by concrete posts and
Darkly stained, wooden, wavy-lap
Fences;
Age-old neighbourly disputes, petty
Grudges and childish jealousies -
Ably demonstrated by various
Patchworks of shabbily...
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Categories:
austere, philosophy,
Form:
Rhyme
Moksha KarakMoksha Karak
So what is the individual result of Bavgt Venus.
Is it fruit of thought from the sun?
Ascendant Ketu is the Vedic text that will provide the different outcomes.
As the positions of the planets...
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Categories:
austere, culture, destiny, faith, film, future, humanity, spiritual,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Letter To My MotherRealizing a fresh life growing inside,
What thoughts coursed through your mind,
I still wonder, oh dear my mom.
Did you gleefully welcome the news?
Or respond to it with a violent shock?
So sure, right away...
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Categories:
austere, angst, birth, mother daughter,
Form:
Free verse
Collective Tapestry TwoCollective Tapestry II
Words can uplift they also can bring down. With words we can soon discover a reason for being like the changing of the seasons. Out of every bit of circumstance we can learn...
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Categories:
austere, anxiety, art, august,
Form:
Free verse
Epigrams IiiSpeechless at Auschwitz
by Ko Un
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
At Auschwitz
piles of glasses
mountains of shoes ...
returning, we stared out different windows.
Ko Un speaks for all of us, by not knowing what to say about the...
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Categories:
austere, humor, literature, philosophy, poems, satire, words, writing,
Form:
Epigram
Halloween NightOh dear, my heart was beating fast
It couldn't have been better
Halloween night was here
At last, the neighborhood would be so austere
I was dressed as a little princess
Always wanting to be the lovely lady
The one caring...
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Categories:
austere, halloween,
Form:
Quatern
A Visit From a Social WorkerHis hand reached out to mine, open,
Holding it, I smiled, our eyes danced with understanding,
Form and blush outlined his expectations,
But I could see that there may be fear inside.
Mary restated their...
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Categories:
austere, bible, care, career, christian, christmas, freedom, god,
Form:
Free verse
The WindowMelted candles atop a resigned dresser
Wilted roses lying atop a white cloud
The flickering of fires and shadows mesh well with your
Batting eyelashes your heavy words and your breathing in rhythm with
the cadences of muted car...
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Categories:
austere, america, city, desire, emotions, heart, lust, political,
Form:
Free verse
Solitude
It is everywhere around me,
No one to share with but me.
It is too lonely to know.
But it is a great life to live.
Listening to the humming of the flies,
The squeak of the mouse.
Walking down the...
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Categories:
austere, me, poets,
Form:
Bio
Collapsing StarsSpeak to me in iambic pentameter
and weave Shakespeare sonnets with Milton anecdotes.
Read me riddles and rhymes divulged
over uneaten dinners and swing-sets with broken chains.
Allow me to lip-synch to your ballad of broken piano-fingers
and I...
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Categories:
austere, fantasy, happiness, life, love, passion, peace, romance,
Form:
Free verse
Top Dog On OlympusNero the god! I had a dream.
There I was at the foot of Mount Olympus.
Mother was with me as usual.
As we reached a cross-roads, Agrippina said:
"Come Nero, here we turn left"...
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Categories:
austere, dream, history, sky,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue