Long Awakens Poems
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Summer Solstice 2025
Summer Solstice 2025
Friday, June twentieth
at 10:42 Post Meridian
Eastern standard time
will find Earth's North Pole tilted
closest toward sun.
This demarcates
most daylight hours of the year
for people living
within the northern hemisphere.
Just shy of the supposed...
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Categories:
awakens, adventure, anniversary, appreciation, beauty, dedication, earth, summer,
Form:
Free verse
Poems About the Coronavirus I
Poems about the Coronavirus I
yet another iffy coronavirus haiku #1
by michael r. burch
plagued by the Plague
i plague the goldfish
with my verse
yet another iffy coronavirus haiku #2
by michael r. burch
sunflowers
hang their heads
embarrassed by their coronas
I wrote...
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Categories:
awakens, absence, anxiety, bereavement, caregiving, death, depression, fear,
Form:
Haiku
Instruction
Instruction
by Michael R. Burch
Toss this poem aside
to the filigreed and the wild tide
of sunset.
Strike my name,
and still it is all the same.
The onset
of night is in the despairing skies;
each hut shuts its bright bewildered eyes.
The...
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Categories:
awakens, extended metaphor, fantasy, happiness, hope, hyperbole, i
Form:
Pastoral
Poems About the Coronavirus Ii
Poems about the Coronavirus II
This World's Joy
(anonymous Middle English lyric, circa early 14th century AD)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Winter awakens all my care
as leafless trees grow bare.
For now my sighs are fraught
whenever it enters...
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Categories:
awakens, fear, loneliness, loss, natural disasters, scary, social,
Form:
Rhyme
Medieval Poems Ii
Medieval Poems
Wulf and Eadwacer
(Old English circa 990 AD)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
My people pursue him like crippled prey.
They'll rip him apart if he approaches their pack.
We are so different!
Wulf's on one island; I'm on...
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Categories:
awakens, angel, england, love, middle school, poetry, song,
Form:
Rhyme
I Have Labored Sore Translation
I Have Labored Sore
anonymous medieval lyric (circa the fifteenth century)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
I have labored sore / and suffered death,
so now I rest / and catch my breath.
But I shall come /...
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Categories:
awakens, christian, death, earth, heaven, sorrow, sorry, soulmate,
Form:
Rhyme
Gilgamesh
Story has it you used your power to run amuck
Putting fear into the people, and brides in Uruk
So the people of Unuk pray to the sky God Anu
To sort out Gilgamesh, without any further ado...
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Categories:
awakens, adventure, best friend, brother, character, death of
Form:
Epic
Winter Awakens My Care
Winter Awakens My Care
anonymous Middle English poem, circa 1300
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Winter awakens all my care
as leafless trees grow bare.
For now my sighs are fraught
whenever it enters my thought:
regarding this world's joy,
how everything...
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Categories:
awakens, angst, england, joy, sorrow, tree, weather, winter,
Form:
Couplet
The Penetralia Ruby Queen
Hark and listen well, if those foretoken in the eyes of hungers lust
Trapped in their illusion, trampling the Stars into dust
Forced with the detestation stench by the swamp of absolute disgust
Thou blackest scorpion be accursed,...
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Categories:
awakens, allegory, beauty, creation, fantasy, god, inspiration, integrity,
Form:
I do not know?
Randomlings 1-34
Randomling 1: Matthew Macfadyen
I believe I'm in love with Matthew Macfadyen
He inspires in me a terribly bad yen
But as poetry goes
His name 'spires woes
Cause nothing rhymes with "Macfadyen”.
Randomling 2: Birthday Wishes
For my birthday,...
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Categories:
awakens, cat, deep, depression, dog, emotions, funny, love,
Form:
Verse
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 37
I heard two distinct voices in the night,
Conversing amongst themselves most eagerly
They whispered like children in excitement
Their sardonic mouths sung many savvy tunes
It was Death I could perceive, defending me,
And he, a strange, distant friend
Seemed...
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Categories:
awakens, change, death, gothic, grave, literature, romance, war,
Form:
Epic
A Lovers Toil
Once upon a time there was a heartless man, he didn’t care for others and compassion he couldn’t understand
His heart was cold there was no love inside, although to the outside world he carried on...
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Categories:
awakens, fantasy, heartbreak, i love you, lost love,
Form:
Rhyme
The Daily Star Thursday issue
The Daily Star Thursday issue...
announces Summer Solstice 2024
regarding purr ray zing planetary earthlings
paying obeisance to god/goddess of the sun
Thursday, June twentieth
at 4:51 Post Meridian
Eastern standard time
will find Earth's North Pole tilted
closest toward sun.
This...
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Categories:
awakens, anniversary, beauty, celebration, june, star, summer,
Form:
Free verse
The Daily Star Tuesday Issue
The daily star Tuesday issue...
announces Summer Solstice 2023
regarding ray zing planetary earthlings
Wednesday, June twenty first
at 10:57 Ante Meridian
Eastern standard time
will find Earth's North Pole tilted
closest toward sun. This demarcates
most daylight hours of the year for
people...
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Categories:
awakens, age, angel, appreciation, beautiful, creation, england, summer,
Form:
Free verse
The Dilettante Diaries: the Divine Feminine - a Tale of Seduction
“But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet;Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
–“He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven,” by W.B. Yeats
“I love you...
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Categories:
awakens, friendship, fun, happiness, journey, love, romance, sensual,
Form:
Romanticism
Mystical Song of Trees
PRELUDE.
When the sky and world are dark no sounds are heard in the woods. Perhaps the scrabbling of night creatures on the hunt fo food. But no sound of woodpeckers ra ta tatting, bird song...
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Categories:
awakens, animal, conflict, desire, environment, fairy, grief,
Form:
Free verse
A Former Great Nations Squandered Wealth I
Swept up into piles; everywhere
Abouts; in collected heaps all
Around.
It is almost as if the drab
Streets were strewn...
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Categories:
awakens, philosophy, senses,
Form:
Rhyme
The Daily Star Announces Summer Solstice 2022
The daily star announces Summer Solstice 2022
Tuesday, June twenty first
at 5:13 Ante Meridian
Eastern standard time
will find Earth's North Pole tilted
closest toward sun. This demarcates
most daylight hours of the year for
people living the northern hemisphere.
Just shy...
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Categories:
awakens, appreciation, beautiful, blessing, celebration, creation, devotion, june,
Form:
Rhyme
Four paths of tantra trika
1) Preamble
As breath’s created, sustained and destroyed,
we see trika, threefold aspect at play
through life, where we are by ego decoyed,
until we choose to make love our mainstay.
Beyond religions, scriptures and folklore,
let’s explore the direct path...
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Categories:
awakens, spiritual,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Watch Therefore
Standing therefore, we stand on the wall
...
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Categories:
awakens, anti bullying,
Form:
Rhyme
The Monochrome Echo Chamber
"The Monochrome Echo Chamber"
How many Roads
to "IT"
Black
as Black & White?
or Unicorns and Rainbows?
Unitarian 1 and only 1
Trinitarian 3 exist in 1
An answer
arrives
unheralded
Reversed in Time
Something
has lit the fuse
Something...
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Categories:
awakens, color, dark, humanity, i am, light, science,
Form:
Narrative
Franciscan Swissophiles
Switzerland,
part of my own historic root system,
has a Bill of Rights for vegetation,
protecting rights of intrinsic dignity
with concomitant human respect for their healthy and aesthetic purposes.
It is not OK to merely throw away
without regard...
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Categories:
awakens, gender, health, humor, love, political, poverty, power,
Form:
Political Verse
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 68
Joulupukki knocked on the door before entering the room. In the center of one wall was a bed that was large enough for two humans to fit in comfortably. The young elf lying...
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Categories:
awakens, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Playing God
An eerie wind blows through the decaying bushes on the outskirts,
while a rusted door sways on its broken hinges.
The smell of ozone lingers from thunder cracking in the distance,
as...
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Categories:
awakens, adventure, corruption, future, poetry, science fiction, symbolism,
Form:
Prose
Song From Beyond the Stars Part 2 Earthside Gathering
from the extremely large to the very small, rocks have been game changers
planet-sized melters, moon-makers
asteroids with cataclysmic impact, dinosaur terminators
again life's prospects pivoting
this time, on tiny stable...
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Categories:
awakens, adventure, destiny, humanity, science fiction,
Form:
Verse