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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:
bloodletting, assonance, extended metaphor, language, metaphor, music, poetry,
Form:
Verse
VacuumVacuum
by Michael R. Burch
Over hushed quadrants
forever landlocked in snow,
time’s senseless winds blow...
leaving odd relics of lives half-revealed,
if still mostly concealed...
such are the things we are unable to know
that once intrigued us so.
Come then, let us...
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Categories:
bloodletting, education, extended metaphor, farewell, first love, graduation,
Form:
Free verse
State of the Art IvState of the Art (IV)
These are my "ars poetica" poems about the art and craft of writing poetry.
Hearthside
by Michael R. Burch
“When you are old and grey and full of sleep...” — W. ...
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Categories:
bloodletting, art, muse, poems, poetry, poets, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Flight, Flying and Birds IiPoems about Flight, Flying, and Birds
Flying
by Michael R. Burch
I shall rise
and try the bloody wings of thought
ten thousand times
before I fly...
and then I'll sleep
and waste ten thousand nights
before I dream;
but when at last...
I soar the...
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Categories:
bloodletting, animal, bird, flying, 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:
bloodletting, analogy, angel, bird, butterfly, extended metaphor, flying,
Form:
Rhyme
Sonnets Xxxiii-XliSonnets 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:
bloodletting, child, childhood, children, death, life, time, world,
Form:
Sonnet
Poems About Laughter, Giggles and SmilesHere and Hereafter
by Michael R. Burch
Life’s saving graces are love, pleasure, laughter ...
wisdom, it seems, is for the Hereafter.
Laughter’s Cry
by Michael R. Burch
Because life is a mystery, we laugh
and do not know the half.
Because death...
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Categories:
bloodletting, cheer up, children, family, giggle, joy, smile,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Fathers and Grandfathers IvPoems about Fathers and Grandfathers IV
Neglect
by Michael R. Burch
What good are your tears?
They will not spare the dying their anguish.
What good is your concern
to a child sick of living, waiting to perish?
What good, the warm...
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Categories:
bloodletting, family, father, father daughter, father son, fathers
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Children VPoems about Children V
Pan
by Michael R. Burch
Among the shadows of the groaning elms,
amid the darkening oaks, we fled ourselves
Once there were paths that led to coracles
that clung to piers like loosening barnacles
where we cannot return,...
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Categories:
bloodletting, autumn, baseball, child, childhood, children, dog, sports,
Form:
Rhyme
Modern Sonnets IiMODERN SONNETS II
I prefer the original definition of the sonnet as a “little song” of indeterminate form and length. These modern sonnets vary from more-or-less traditional to free verse.
In Praise of Meter
by Michael R. Burch
The...
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Categories:
bloodletting, art, romance, romantic, romantic love, song, write,
Form:
Sonnet
The Stela Epic, Part 1 of 8The Stela Epic by DR. Mohammed F A Alrazak
The grains of sand, the drops of rain, makes the stage for souls to play
The prints of feet on rocks were wonders and arts as the...
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Categories:
bloodletting, culture, freedom,
Form:
ABC
Amberina BallerinaA born lioness my untamed heart? ha!
a mouse, this pulsing token ruled by unruly wants
at times given, traded or stolen - sometimes
thrown down on a dare to be won or lost
till it became...
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Categories:
bloodletting, destiny, emotions, inspiration, introspection, memory, metaphor, nostalgia,
Form:
Free verse
BurnBurn
by Michael R. Burch
for Trump
Sunbathe,
ozone baby,
till your parched skin cracks
in the white-hot flash
of radiation.
Incantation
from your pale parched lips
shall not avail;
you made this hell.
Now burn.
Keywords/Tags: burn, earth, environment, fire, future, nature, natural, planet, climate, pollution,...
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Categories:
bloodletting, earth, environment, fire, future, natural disasters, nature,
Form:
Free verse
Icarus, ResurrectedFinally to Burn: Icarus, Resurrected
by Michael R. Burch
Athena takes me
sometimes by the hand
and we go levitating
through strange Dreamlands
where Apollo sleeps
in his dark forgetting
and Passion seems
like a wise bloodletting
and all I remember
upon awaking
is: to Love sometimes
is...
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Categories:
bloodletting, desire, dream, fantasy, flying, god, joy, magic,
Form:
Verse
Pied PiperessAs Medusa walks in, shuts the door,
caresses precision hand down the mahogany-
and shows one what for.
Senses in starbursts-cloudburst
flavor crystals accenting- your bloom
of predicate corpus, cat claws in my brain,
comes metamorphosis-
Led mushrooming depth of...
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Categories:
bloodletting, beautiful,
Form:
Rhyme
Southern 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...
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Categories:
bloodletting, adventure, america, angel, courage, flying, sun, wind,
Form:
Free verse
Fata Morgana
"Fata Morgana"
feet hardly touch the ocean
when silent stars of no voice
transmit words to pay the ferryman
on the water no reflection
gently the sun waves smiling as if to say
feel that, the warmth of waking...
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Categories:
bloodletting, muse, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
Not of This Earth*Image of Child Sad Suffering provided by Pixabay.
Not Of This Earth
Poetic Form: Narrative
Asymmetric mistrals warp speckled vaporous pallidness toward rhythmless voids. Obviates an evacuating azure as a midday star pivots to a twilight qualm. Numinous...
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Categories:
bloodletting, dark, death, earth, scary, science fiction,
Form:
Narrative
The Shape of Jazz To ComeIs war coming? Are we headed for another crazy cataclysm?
My sons, draft age. Only now can I appreciate the pain
so sharp it drains the color from one's eyes, your reason
for living gone in a spasm...
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Categories:
bloodletting, crazy, fear, history, pain, surreal, violence, war,
Form:
Verse
Myrddin Wyllt Journey ThroughLong ago far from Annwn, roaming the castle of Bedlam ...
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Categories:
bloodletting, abuse, confusion, dark, history, irony, psychological, science,
Form:
Free verse
Dark HallsOnce
these corridors
echoed with life
a citadel for restoration
of body and mind
a bastion of promise
for the tormented
to the outside world
it had many names
Forest Lawn Sanitarium
was its Nome de plume
I--- simply called it--- home
In its day
it was...
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Categories:
bloodletting, betrayal, death, horror, mental illness,
Form:
Free verse
Elitists Part 5Well, well"aint seen nothin like me"?
No one is shocked a person of darker pigment can pass a football or do anything they set out to dream with heart in hard work. I think you better...
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Categories:
bloodletting, abuse, africa, anger,
Form:
Rhyme
- Life's Struggles In Color -- high ambitions is not synonymous with a successful life
...
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Categories:
bloodletting, life, perspective,
Form:
Free verse
Zarathustra Gave Me the Green Light Part One“Query”
from a word miner non-trumpeting
Beatle browed quarry man.
One emailing digital commoner bemoans assiduous,
zealously yearning xing worthy values undergirding
the storied renown quintessential peaceable operation
nations marvel lately kindling justice,
institutionalizing hope, gentility, freedom, equality.
Dummkopf...
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Categories:
bloodletting, bullying, environment, fear, grave, hope, hyperbole, rights,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Finally To Burn: the Descent of IcarusAthena takes me
sometimes by both hands
and we go levitating
through strange Dreamlands
where Apollo sleeps
in his dark forgetting
and Passion seems
like a wise bloodletting
and all I remember
,upon awaking,
is: to Love sometimes
is like forsaking
one’s Being—to drift
far beyond any thought,
forsaking...
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Categories:
bloodletting, solitude,
Form:
Verse