Long Brightness Poems
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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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brightness, assonance, extended metaphor, language, metaphor, music, poetry,
Form:
Verse
Poems About FlowersLady’s Favor
by Michael R. Burch
May
spring
fling
her riotous petals
devil-
may-care
into the air,
ignoring the lethal
nettles
and may
May
cry gleeful-
ly Hooray!
as the abundance
settles,
till a sudden June
swoon
leave us out of tune,
torn,
when the last rose is left
inconsolably bereft,
rudely shorn
of every device but her thorn.
The...
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Categories:
brightness, flower, june, rose, roses are red, spring,
Form:
Rhyme
Fahr An' IceFahr an' Ice
by Michael R. Burch
From what I know of death, I'll side with those
who'd like to have a say in how it goes:
just make mine cool, cool rocks (twice drowned in likker),
and real fahr...
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Categories:
brightness, death, drink, fun, humor, humorous, light,
Form:
Light Verse
Rejection Slips 3Rejection Slips 3
Rejection Slip
by Michael R. Burch
Whenever my writing gets rejected,
I always wonder how the rejecter got elected.
Are we exchanging at the same Bourse?
(Excepting present company, of course!)
When editors reject my poems, did I slip...
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Categories:
brightness, death, desire, family, heart, life, longing, love,
Form:
Rhyme
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:
brightness, analogy, angel, bird, butterfly, extended metaphor, flying,
Form:
Rhyme
Roses and LilacsWinter
by Michael R. Burch
The rose of love's bright promise
lies torn by her own thorn;
her scent was sweet
but at her feet
the pallid aphids mourn.
The lilac of devotion
has felt the winter hoar
and shed her dress;
companionless,
she shivers—nude, forlorn.
Published...
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Categories:
brightness, desire, longing, love, nature, romance, rose, roses
Form:
Verse
Sonnets Lxi-LxxSonnets LXI-LXX
Erin
by Michael R. Burch
All that’s left of Ireland is her hair?
bright carrot?and her milkmaid-pallid skin,
her brilliant air of cavalier despair,
her train of children?some conceived in sin,
the others to avoid it. For nowhere
is evidence of...
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Categories:
brightness, heart, night, spiritual, wife, words, write, writing,
Form:
Sonnet
RipR.I.P.
by Michael R. Burch
When I am lain to rest
and my soul is no longer intact,
but dissolving, like a sunset
diminishing to the west...
and when at last
before His throne my past
is put to test
and the demons...
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brightness, death, dream, funeral, grave, judgement, sleep, sunset,
Form:
Verse
Peace PrayerThese are peace poems, prayer poems, hymns and lullabies I have written for family, friends and the world over the years ...
Peace Prayer
by Michael R. Burch
for Jim Dunlap
Be calm.
Be still.
Be silent, content.
Be one with the...
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Categories:
brightness, beauty, blessing, love, nature, peace, prayer, time,
Form:
Free verse
Poems About Butterflies and BeesPoems about Butterflies and Bees
Flight
by Michael R. Burch
It is the nature of loveliness to vanish
as butterfly wings, batting against nothingness
seek transcendence...
Album
by Michael R. Burch
I caress them—trapped in brittle cellophane—
and I see how young they were,...
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Categories:
brightness, animal, butterfly, flying, insect, sky, wind,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Poems IvPoems about Poems IV
The Toast
by Michael R. Burch
For longings warmed by tepid suns
(brief lusts that animated clay),
for passions wilted at the bud
and skies grown desolate and gray,
for stars that fell from tinseled heights
and mountains bleak...
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Categories:
brightness, allegory, allusion, appreciation, art, poems, poetry, poets,
Form:
Rhyme
VillanellesVillanelles
The villanelle is a poetic form based on repetition, with a double refrain.
Villanelle: The Divide
by Michael R. Burch
The sea was not salt the first tide...
was man born to sorrow that first day,
with the...
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Categories:
brightness, moon, repetition, romance, romantic, romantic love, sea,
Form:
Villanelle
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:
brightness, child, childhood, children, death, life, time, world,
Form:
Sonnet
Free Verse ILozenge
by Michael R. Burch
When I was closest to love, it did not seem
real at all, but a thing of such tenuous sweetness
it might dissolve in my mouth
like a lozenge of sugar.
When I held you in...
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Categories:
brightness, forgiveness, heart, humanity, life, love, relationship, together,
Form:
Free verse
- Au Revoir - Goodbye -- 2016 -
- JANUARY -
A freezing cold evening
Where the stars shining bright
With frost blade flanks
From mouth and nose steam
In the clear silence
White untrodden snows
Nature's frozen pulse
Sleep like a little baby
One gracious moon
After the night the...
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Categories:
brightness, remember,
Form:
Free verse
The Moon As a Metaphor For Your MouthThe Moon as a Metaphor for Your Mouth
by Michael R. Burch
When I was closest to love, it did not seem
real at all, but a thing of such tenuous sweetness
it might dissolve in my mouth
like a...
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Categories:
brightness, candy, love, metaphor, moon, romantic love, sweet,
Form:
Sonnet
Juvenilia: Early Poems IxJuvenilia: Early Poems IX
These are early poems of mine, written in my teens as a high school student and during my first two years of college.
Shock
by Michael R. Burch
It was early in the morning of...
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Categories:
brightness, boy, child, childhood, high school, student, teen,
Form:
Rhyme
Radiance, For Dylan ThomasRadiance
by Michael R. Burch
for Dylan Thomas
The poet delves earth’s detritus—hard toil—
for raw-edged nouns, barbed verbs, vowels’ lush bouquet;
each syllable his pen excretes—dense soil,
dark images impacted, rooted clay.
The poet sees the sea but feels its meaning—
the...
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Categories:
brightness, earth, light, love, poems, poetry, poets, words,
Form:
Sonnet
Sonnets Lii-LxSonnets LII-LX
The Endeavors of Lips
by Michael R. Burch
How sweet the endeavors of lips: to speak
of the heights of those pleasures which left us weak
in love’s strangely lit beds, where the cold springs creak:
for there is...
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Categories:
brightness, dream, flower, hair, longing, love, pain, sensual,
Form:
Sonnet
Poems About Dylan ThomasThese are poems about Dylan Thomas, as well as poems "for" and "after" Dylan Thomas. Dylan Thomas was one of my favorite poets from my early teens and has remained so over the years. I...
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Categories:
brightness, poems, poetry, poets, romantic, words, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Love Poems VLOVE POEMS V
These are love poems by Michael R. Burch, about life, the dream of love, virtue, a first kiss, a first crush, the birth of a first relationship, the joy of a first love...
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Categories:
brightness, birth, confusion, crush, dream, joy, kiss, longing,
Form:
Rhyme
Myth, After Dylan ThomasMyth, after Dylan Thomas
by Michael R. Burch
Here the recalcitrant wind
sighs with grievance and remorse
over fields of wayward gorse
and thistle-throttled lanes.
And she is the myth of the scythed wheat
hewn and sighing, complete,
waiting, lain in a low...
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Categories:
brightness, autumn, faith, grief, life, myth, october, september,
Form:
Verse
Rondels, Roundels and RondeauxRondels, Roundels and Rondeaux
These are poetic forms similar to villanelles, with refrains (repeated lines) and sometimes double refrains.
Rondel: Merciles Beaute ("Merciless Beauty")
by Geoffrey Chaucer
loose translation/interpretation Michael R. Burch
Your eyes slay me suddenly;
their beauty I cannot...
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Categories:
brightness, art, beauty, heart, repetition, romance, romantic, romantic
Form:
Roundel
Rejection Slips 1Rejection Slips
With over 5,700 publications if I count poems that have gone viral, I suppose I shouldn’t complain … but I do have some poems that have never been accepted for publication. Here are a...
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Categories:
brightness, day, love, memory, night, rose, seasons, winter,
Form:
Rhyme
By the SeaAs she saw it.
The mountains and the meadows were always so beautiful this time of year. It seemed as if a fresh new world always came to life. The high cliffs turned sharply downward....
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Categories:
brightness, beautiful, body, desire, grandmother, imagination, me, mother,
Form:
Verse