Long Beguiling Poems
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April's Babbling Foolishness
(Created using the bAbBlE sentence generator, various text excerpts, and a minuscule bit of human editing.)
And she smells good without keeping all ...
Beef, sitting lonely on that lies floating on the tufted floor. "Surely,"...
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Categories:
beguiling, art, computer, crazy, food, funny, horror, humor,
Form:
Prose
Sappho Translations
Sappho fragment #155
translation by Michael R. Burch
A short revealing frock?
It's just my luck
your lips were made to mock!
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Sappho fragment #156
translation by Michael R. Burch
She keeps her scents
in a dressing-case.
And her sense?
In some undiscoverable...
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Categories:
beguiling, girl, girlfriend, love, lust, sensual, woman, women,
Form:
Epigram
Poems of Recanted Bachelorhood
Poems of Recanted Bachelorhood
bachelorhoodwinked
by Michael R. Burch
u
are
charming
& disarming,
but mostly ALARMING
since my resolve
dissolved!
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Disconcerted
by Michael R. Burch
Beth, my sweet,
fresh as a daisy,
when I’m with you
my heart beats like crazy
& my future gets hazy ...
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What Goes Around, Comes
by...
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Categories:
beguiling, desire, engagement, first love, girl, love, marriage,
Form:
Verse
Sonnets Xxxiii-Xli
Sonnets XXXIII-XLI
The Folly of Wisdom
by Michael R. Burch
She is wise in the way that children are wise,
looking at me with such knowing, grave eyes
I must bend down to her to understand.
But she only smiles, and...
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Categories:
beguiling, child, childhood, children, death, life, time, world,
Form:
Sonnet
The Pied Piper From New York City - Part One
The Pied Piper from New York City – Part One
Dare his name be said?
I say, of course, Yes!
The Pied Piper, himself, is the man, the myth, the legend.
And they, the so-called incurious lot of...
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Categories:
beguiling, allusion, america, betrayal, corruption, judgement, new york,
Form:
Political Verse
A Gardening Expose
With these lines I’ll relate an intriguing tale of dubious accuracy
For I Hope to unveil sordid affairs of more than one conspiracy!
Be warned, that though you might be disturbed by the facts I relate?
They are...
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Categories:
beguiling, garden, word play,
Form:
Rhyme
CECYL, SON OF OUR SOIL : CONSUMMATE REVOLUTIONARY
{Poet’s Note : I wrote this poem for the passing of my very dear friend & comrade, Cecyl Esau, Umkhonto we Sizwe Commander in 2021, as a contribution to his memorial service. Cecyl was given...
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Categories:
beguiling, africa, allegory, character, death of a friend,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Birthday of beloved buxom babe I betrothed
Birthday of beloved buxom babe I betrothed
Pardon my hyperbole if in fact such embellishment can be sifted out amidst the pretentious poetry and/or prose NOT aired to appear superior, but more so as passion for...
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Categories:
beguiling, anniversary, appreciation, birth, birthday, endurance, fear, wife,
Form:
Free verse
Love Poems I
LOVE POEMS I by Michael R. Burch
These are love poems by Michael R. Burch: original poems and translations about passion, desire, lust, sex, a first date and dating, a first crush, a first girlfriend and...
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Categories:
beguiling, friendship love, inspirational love, lost love, love,
Form:
Rhyme
The Giant of Lisbellaw
Stood I there, that last day,
On an iron bridge...
An aqueduct by design,
Where, looking dreamily out over
The Ernes Lower Lough,
My compressed shadow
Momentarily paused -
To contently recline:
Amidst coy Junes radiant beams
of sweet benign!
All was stilled,...
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Categories:
beguiling, philosophy,
Form:
Rhyme
Rosalia - the Evil Black Witch of the Harz, Part Three
Rosalia - The Evil Black Witch of the Harz, Part Three
Vespers’ Prayer Preparation for Black Mass
In preparation for the ritual Black Mass at midnight, Rosalia recites the following prayer incantation which must be rendered latest...
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Categories:
beguiling, allegory, evil, halloween, horror, magic, mythology, scary,
Form:
Narrative
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 33 -Part 1-
My dreams were of the dire Queen
I had allowed her reign over me, callousing my heart,
She was inside me, laughing
Having crawled in
My walls closing, as she filled my soul
We were one, yes for a time,...
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Categories:
beguiling, adventure, confusion, growth, heart, inspirational, relationship, visionary,
Form:
Epic
Mockingbird - Crown of Sonnets
#1
"It is a sin to kill a Mockingbird.
While playing games with rocks or guns, defray,
them, please, ...shoot old tin cans. Each whispered song
from Mockingbirds, can heal the wounds of the day"
Virtues are...
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Categories:
beguiling, children, discrimination, integrity, prejudice,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
The Fantastic Flemmings
As I look back upon a terrific, exciting, and storied career,
I revisit the trove of golden memories, which I hold so dear.
Although some were bad, they have been predominantly sweet;
But the most striking one, still...
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Categories:
beguiling, adventure, career, family, fantasy, friendship love, imagery,
Form:
Couplet
Unscrupulous Man
You crawled out of her innocent womb
Kicking , begging and screaming
But it is too late for you to be redeemed
You were born evil and corrupted
and you have a very dirty...
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Categories:
beguiling, betrayal, conflict, courage, creation, earth, encouraging, women,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
The Clearing: Part I
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Categories:
beguiling, inspirational, nature,
Form:
Metrical Tale
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 2
I awoke the next day, with a soft smile,
Not awakened by the screeching and the moaning of the demons beside,
But of the intense breathing of my collaborator,
Crouching above me, glaring me down with eyes abhorred
Though...
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Categories:
beguiling, adventure, beauty, change, confusion, courage, deep, desire,
Form:
Free verse
Bounteous Mass Media Mechanizations
Bounteous mass media mechanizations...
generate fixation spurring sexual exploitation
evidenced courtesy adulation
particularly regarding young females,
whose seductive poses
linkedin selling (hard) wares
versus advertising males sporting, harkening,
approximating Adonis with remarkable beauty.
Western civilization commercialization,
commodification, communication
methodologies adrip with deification,...
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Categories:
beguiling, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 8th
Form:
Free verse
Secret Love
Hidden beneath the hopes and dreams, gentle
Feelings, inspiring me to trust, believe
Fondness this alive isn’t accidental
It feels amazing, just like Christmas Eve,
Joyful and inspired, like a heart afire
Breathing whispers of light over the soul
Remembering the...
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Categories:
beguiling, love, romance, senses,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Categories:
beguiling, war, time,
Form:
Free verse
The Market Place
I have been trying to pen this verse for the past two weeks but
Someone was standing in my way and my mind went astray
Can’t you see that it is a brand new day?
Winter has subsided...
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Categories:
beguiling, change, character, courage, environment, metaphor, money, truth,
Form:
Narrative
Faces In the Train
I have been used to living alone for so long
I am determined and easy going but headstrong
This morning was rather strange because I was on the train
I woke up with people gallivanting around me in...
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Categories:
beguiling, anxiety, city, conflict, deep, destiny, judgement, longing,
Form:
Narrative
Fretfully Aching To Feel Fit As a Fiddle
Fretfully aching to feel fit as a fiddle
After experiencing a severe,
albeit violent near lethal bout
of irritable bowel syndrome
(yesterday night August 30th, 2023)
triggered courtesy dulcolax caplets plus
healthy portion of lentils,
I (a beatle browed, foo fighting,...
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Categories:
beguiling, abuse, angst, anxiety, dad, death, drug, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Rendered Speechless-Literally
People often say I talk a lot, but I hardly think that is true,
Like the whispers about the bluebird, of which he never knew.
Talking helps a lot with my job, which is in public relations,
As...
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Categories:
beguiling, fantasy, imagery, people, places, summer, travel, words,
Form:
Couplet
Assemblage
All are walking to the courtyard the bell has tolled it’s time to start, they have all but arranged the wooden stakes they are just waiting to ignite the spark
Everyone stops and stares as I...
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Categories:
beguiling, betrayal, cry, death, emotions, hate, heartbroken, jealousy,
Form:
Rhyme