Long Burnish Poems
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Black Swan
I saw you …
high …
atop the promontory
spinning with manic madness
pirouettes et fouetté
lost in yourself -
in movement …
your upper back split, low
and, I swear -
feathers … peeking …
tucked under your shoulder blades
splayed and black as black
(obsidian...
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Categories:
burnish, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
love’s last press
silly dream …
but it’s mine nonetheless
wait …
wait for it …
I’ll wait for it now and ever
to feel that press
the press of sweet tenderness
that melting mouth that met mine all
those aching moonrises ago
the first - a...
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Categories:
burnish, analogy, death, love, passion,
Form:
Free verse
Great Britain In No Particular Order
In no particular order
England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
But together Great Britain
I have never been to Scotland.
Wales or Northern Ireland as well.
That’s because I’m getting old.
And I’m not well, I’m ill.
Yet what I see...
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Categories:
burnish, break up, courage, together, truth, uplifting,
Form:
Free verse
.."?Your Beauty!"..
Blackberry kisses, within the celestial starlit mornings hour....
Stirring these passions aglow, amid the flickering flames of desire ~
Caressing such thoughts of you; smouldering embers, that burnish so very brightly!
These ardent heated emotions; florids, of the...
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Categories:
burnish, faith, life, love, passionlonging,
Form:
I do not know?
"your Beauty!"
Blackberry kisses, within the celestial starlit mornings hour....
Stirring these passions aglow, amid the flickering flames of desire ~
Caressing such thoughts of you; smouldering embers, that burnish so very brightly!
These ardent heated emotions; florids, of the...
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Categories:
burnish, life, love, passionlonging,
Form:
I do not know?
Nun In Friar Small-Bro's Grave---Yard Part 2
Continuation
With ghouls, unlearned, no stone’s unturned
to burnish blame with Nun’s proud name
and leave the midnight sky... scarred.
They raise their hats to copy cats
in FRiar Small-Bro’s grave...yard.
While rumours spread amongst the dead,
Nun stays the...
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Categories:
burnish, daughter, fantasy, mother, sister, wife,
Form:
Rhyme
I Laid Me Body Stomach Down Atop a Grassy Knoll
I laid me body stomach down atop a grassy knoll...
here at Highland Manor Apartments
earlier today Juneteenth 2022,
(a pitch perfect spring day)
with serious intent to read
seat of the pants suspense thriller
The New Comprehensive
A-Z Crossword Dictionary.
Invariably, yours...
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Categories:
burnish, absence, age, angel, anger, appreciation, betrayal, blessing,
Form:
Free verse
Mr Ceo How Much Do You Make
Mr CEO, How Much Do You Make
Going around in Whatsapp circle is a viral message...
About a CEO with an inflated ego hoping to burnish his image....
Being a CEO knowing his own worth and full of...
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Categories:
burnish, anti bullying, appreciation, character, community, conflict,
Form:
Free verse
Moon Talks To the Stars
Where are you going, my Little Ones?
Oh, my precious, dear Little Ones ...
do not dishearten...
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Categories:
burnish, love, metaphor, moon, stars, sun, tribute, universe,
Form:
Free verse
Epigrams IX
These are epigrams by Michael R. Burch
Road to Recovery
by Michael R. Burch
It’s time to get up and at ’em
and out of this rut that I’m sat in.
A man may attempt to burnish pure gold, but...
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Categories:
burnish, beauty, god, mother, recovery from, teacher, time,
Form:
Free verse
The Dead Cat Waltz
THE DEAD CAT WALTZ
Tick, tick, tock.
Fleeing the dancing cats.
Oh those strangled cries, the pleas for help.
Where are the sirens to drown them out?
I'm no hero, just another suspect,
now that the circus is coming to...
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Categories:
burnish, character, soldier, war,
Form:
Free verse
Seduction's Abduction
I begin as a covet, dulcet demure
pure in play, unbound to a dogma or tablature, a luscious lure,
I find that nerve of passion's verve nestled 'neath narcissistic comfiture
a covey of tingles taunting the ambition you...
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Categories:
burnish, desire, lust, passion, spiritual,
Form:
Epic
Paint a Picture Black and Gray
Pull out the easel
set the canvas
positioned long and slender clean slate.
Sketch the figures huddled and dark-bound hostage
to charcoal-cooled coals
etching...
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Categories:
burnish, africa, art, dark, grief, horror, humanity, jewish,
Form:
Imagism
God Money
dollars dance ...
in the eyes of angels
plates at the ends of pews
passed strategically in tempo
to burnish words
(even more strategic)
pretty sheep
buttered and wagging
like the smooth tongue at the podium
not to follow rags, you see
no barefoot bums...
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Categories:
burnish, analogy, corruption, discrimination, money, satire,
Form:
Free verse
my soul as the day
o there is a place that dwells deep within
it makes warm the sun as new days begin
wellspring of essence that...
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Categories:
burnish, analogy, imagery, introspection, sun,
Form:
Rhyme
A Poet With a Priceless Pen
I am poet with a priceless pen
born to burnish the beauty of men.
I wonder what mortal mirrors reflect...
For me, all races deserve respect.
I often hear the splashing of rain,
and flood rushing down the drain.
I see...
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Categories:
burnish, analogy, poetry, poets,
Form:
Couplet
My Time Has Come
My time has come... my time has come
To rise and meet the day.
In hope the woe that follows me
Has been lost and gone astray.
As I have a desperate need to make amends
To burnish up my...
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Categories:
burnish, devotion, farewell,
Form:
Rhyme
Twin Palms
Twin Palms
In a pensive mood I walked downhill
Reflecting on the disappearing years
Wondering how many more autumns left
To enjoy the golden sun on his way home
Down the flaming hill-side.
I spread out my palm to catch...
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Categories:
burnish, beautiful, life, love, sunset, symbolism,
Form:
Romanticism
fields of life -
to wend through golden grasses of my past
with chill winds at my back from o'er the hill
oh how I wish...
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Categories:
burnish, analogy, introspection, life,
Form:
Villanelle
Fledglings in parental nest
Way-lost as if we live in hoary past--
In epics of hist’ry poets have sung,
In portraits of culture, hoisted on mast,
Still, where are old glories, save on the tongue?
One knows of few...
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Categories:
burnish, bird, history, old,
Form:
Sonnet
Pairing Indeterminate
Where then the emotive happiness
with such procrastinated enchantment brings
desirous supposedly encountered
and romantic wanderings heady cadence
which pins the inattentive to the skins of longing
It is said to be lost in the surge
to swirl with giddy waltz
yes...
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Categories:
burnish, heart, lonely, longing, love,
Form:
Free verse
Sweet Seduction
Smouldering flower blooming
Untouched in life’s garden
Valleys of divine bliss
Pleasure in smouldering innocence
None has treaded
So many emotions unspoken
So many things unsaid”
Hills to explore and mould to hand
You reap what you sow
Fruit of crops
Mystery of woven...
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Categories:
burnish, romance, romantic, sensual,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Just Like the Chestnut Horses
Into the mellow I fall gently gliding into green pastures
owling eyes watching behind birch, the sound of breaking pine
wild horses flying past the wind, a country of blushing skies
The quiet day...
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Categories:
burnish, appreciation, silence,
Form:
Free verse
Unwise To Flex Macho Muscles
I save my love in the cave
Where she roams free
Shoving aside the pride of the stave
Whose tentacles disagree
With the quality and quantity of care
Love demands in return for expanding horizons
In which she’s the key player...
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Categories:
burnish, poems,
Form:
Free verse
The Wall
I waited to see
My reflection in you
My eagerness reached the sky.
As the day passes Its strength spreads to the universe.
Days passed as the seconds.
Neither I saw
The spread of my reflection
To the world
Nor I saw it in...
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Categories:
burnish, inspirational, universe,
Form:
I do not know?