Long Brushed Poems
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Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 29
Somehow,
Forward, and headlong
I knew it was day again
There was a shift in the dark mutterings of the Devil,
Who now refused to sleep as I refused to sing,
Almost an anticipation in his voice,
As if he...
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Categories:
brushed, adventure, bible, conflict, endurance, inspirational, love, war,
Form:
Epic
State of the Art Iv
State 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:
brushed, art, muse, poems, poetry, poets, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Wonderland
Wonderland
by Michael R. Burch
We stood, kids of the Lamb, to put to test
the beatific anthems of the blessed,
the sentence of the martyr, and the pen’s
sincere religion. Magnified, the lens
shot back absurd reflections of each...
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Categories:
brushed, allegory, allusion, analogy, crazy, fantasy, imagination, magic,
Form:
Sonnet
Self Reflections
SELF REFLECTIONS
These are poems about mirrors, images, self-image, reflections, impressions and self-reflection.
Self Reflection
by Michael R. Burch
for anyone struggling with self-image
She has a comely form
and a smile that brightens her dorm ...
but she's grossly...
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Categories:
brushed, identity, image, imagery, metaphor, mirror, self, symbolism,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Poems Vi
Poems about Poems VI
The Board
by Michael R. Burch
Accessible rhyme is never good.
The penalty is understood?
soft titters from dark board rooms where
the businessmen paste on their hair
and, Walter Mitties, woo the Muse
with reprimands of Dr. Seuss.
The...
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Categories:
brushed, extended metaphor, heaven, muse, passion, poems, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
Sonnets Xlii-Li
Sonnets XLII-LI
Distances
by Michael R. Burch
Moonbeams on water?
the reflected light
of a halcyon star
now drowning in night...
So your memories are.
Footprints on beaches
now flooding with water;
the small, broken ribcage
of some primitive slaughter...
So near, yet so far.
A Surfeit of...
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Categories:
brushed, bereavement, death, death of a friend, funeral,
Form:
Sonnet
A Vain Word
A Vain Word
by Michael R. Burch
Oleanders at dawn preen extravagant whorls
as I read in leaves’ Sanskrit brief moments remaining
till sunset implodes, till the moon strands grey pearls
under moss-stubbled oaks, full of whispers, complaining
to the darkening...
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Categories:
brushed, autumn, beauty, extended metaphor, grief, heartbreak, moon,
Form:
Sonnet
Megan's Quest Part 1of7
Moon sprites dotted the sky like lilies at dawn
in a ballet meant to cause nocturnal delight.
While Fairies and Pixie Dust covered the lawn
in a dance that would...
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Categories:
brushed, adventure, courage, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
The Little Blue Fairy
There was a little wind fairy who lived in a meadow near a small town, her name was Estella. Estella had beautiful blue hair like the sky, so her friends called her the little blue...
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Categories:
brushed, blue, fairy,
Form:
Free verse
Modern Sonnets Ii
MODERN 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:
brushed, art, romance, romantic, romantic love, song, write,
Form:
Sonnet
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 14
Joulupukki awoke early the next morning and hurriedly dressed. His intention was to catch DynDoeth before the crowds started gathering in the eating hall. He had but one question for him that he...
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Categories:
brushed, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
thin fractures
Thoughts can be thin fractures in the order of things.
Sometimes my dorm room seems a sterile sarcophagus, like an accusation, or an interrogation about my romantic choices, with nothing warm or inviting there. Sometimes I’ve...
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Categories:
brushed, drink, forgiveness, integrity, morning, romance, school, student,
Form:
Free verse
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 72
Each of the new deer adjusted quickly to the pace of the ones they had been paired with, and the sleigh tracked smooth and true. The effects of the extra four deer were easily...
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Categories:
brushed, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Last Rose For a Rebel - Part 1
SHE was my wife, once ...
long ago, so very long ago ...
we met on the showboat, up-river,
almost fifty years back now ...
I was a young officer for the Confederacy,
working for the Yanks after The Turn,
supplying...
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Categories:
brushed, history, sad love, soulmate, true love,
Form:
Free verse
The Worm Poem Sequel
She was in love
Their expression of it
Was the perfection of it
The way they shared
What they had
Was beyond compare
Today is the next step
Towards their future
Today they bought a house
Overwhelmed
Overjoyed
Her...
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Categories:
brushed, dark,
Form:
Epic
Peach Drenched And Tanterlizing Irasistable
My receptive wide adoring eyes rested within the ambient light and bathed in The Shadoe and shade of the scene
Where before me a paragon of sublime refined beauty
So sensually seductively and arousingly delightful...
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Categories:
brushed, appreciation, desire, dream, fantasy, romantic love, sensual,
Form:
Romanticism
An Eternity I
Stood upright, between two roads,
On a thin metal rail,
A solitary, brown coloured bottle
Of beer, ...
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Categories:
brushed, betrayal,
Form:
Rhyme
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 24
In the morning, he was tetchy, but gentle,
Sitting beside me till my eyelids opened
I sat up, yawning, and rubbed my eyes
His hand brushed a dry tear off my face
“You are alive and well, I see,...
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Categories:
brushed, courage, life, light, love hurts, pain, romance,
Form:
Epic
Likeness Ssenekil: Part 2
*Image of Many Meanings by KWC.
Likeness ssenekiL: Part 2
(HOMONYMS: Homophones & Homographs)
The batter's foul ball killed a fowl that later caused a foul odor.
After painting the room red, he then redd it up and read...
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Categories:
brushed, word play,
Form:
I do not know?
Nightingale - Part II
...cont
His sleep was tormented,
each sound he heard playing upon his dreams,
until the sweet notes he remembered
floated into his ears like the gentleness of down.
Following the sound he was surprised
to see his lovely companion sitting quite...
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Categories:
brushed, fantasy,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The Raisin In the Box of Chocolates
"I agree," Bayard murmured while looking at the few people walking I across the street. Summer was over and the boy was beginning to get frustrated at the sight of girls wrapped in blankets of...
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Categories:
brushed, cheer up, deep, inspirational, metaphor, truth, uplifting,
Form:
Narrative
I Miss My Daddy So
Julie was wearing her new frock today,
With a pretty broach to complete her display.
She had brushed her shoes; put a bow in her hair,
Smiling as if she did not have a care. ...
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Categories:
brushed, poems,
Form:
Light Verse
Of Unknown Origin
Nylon waste is often akin to a brushed out stable, manger, or stall. But brushing the carpet is often a resemblance of a swirling cloud of dust and tobacco shards and tobacco shards are not...
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Categories:
brushed, beach, beautiful,
Form:
I do not know?
Camellia - Part 1 Translation From Tagore
This is a translation from the poem "Camellia", by Rabindranath Tagore, Nobel laureate Poet from India (1861 -1941) Understandably the story took place in late nineteenth century - early twentieth century Bengal.
Her name is...
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Categories:
brushed, life, love,
Form:
Narrative
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 4
His reverie ended as he was brought back to reality when he stepped into a patch of deep fresh snow and promptly fell face down in a hollow on the leeward side of a boulder....
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Categories:
brushed, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic