Long Candescent Poems

Poems about Poems (II)

Kin
by Michael R. Burch

for Richard Moore

1.
Shrill gulls,
how like my thoughts
you, struggling, rise
to distant bliss?
the weightless blue of skies
that are not blue
in any atmosphere,
but closest here...

2.
You seek an air
so clear,
so rarified
the effort leaves...

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When the mirror of 
               life is a gossamer film,       
 veiling v i n...

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In a Stolen Moment
by Michael R. Burch

In a stolen moment,
when the clock’s hands complete their inevitable course
and sleep is the night’s dark spell,
I call it a curse,

seeking the force,
the font of candescent words, the electric...

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Atmospheres of the weary tears that flow through the river Styx
Bonded by the watchful eye for Hades is in the molten mix

Cerberus is in his bliss as he watch’s the grotesque gates of hell
Death becomes...

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La Isla del Encanto
			   (El Poema del Linda)

There was no Elizabethan
Changing of eyes
On the Isle of Enchantment;
No sudden moment of charm or bewilderment.
Rather, came a delicate awakening
Like soft dawn rising over groves
Redolent of...

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The mass production of coal is dead,
Buried infer lamps carried on the head,
Halogen miners sang the unforgiving dirge,
With fragments of flaky particles emerge,
Drilling hammers that smote the ground,
Never again to hear its rumbling sound.
Voices roar...

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Within my mind are dusty cobwebs
 where drafty breathings edge the corners of remembering
 as they hold in a picture stilled that looms, 
unchanged but not for lack of a broom;
 school books, pads and...

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"Dance with me within the wind, then just let me love you" - Orania Hamilton.

Your flushing face in the wind,
ebon hair defiant, flutters unbridled.
Some swirl squally, thread the gale,
the forehead lattice captures my yearning,
lest like...

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The dazzling dawn lights up my heart’s horizon, 
spreads the sensuous spectrum of luring longing
on the gorgeous blooming garden flushed with my love,
swathing the facsimile of your florid face with charisma.

The patina of rose blushes...

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Spiralling Stardust Sight



Chasing clusters of dust and Venus vapid lust
We sail and we sway throughout the Milky Way
In a thrust, we land on a planet of candescent crust
And with dynamic display spiralling star dust spray

Jupiter...

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My heart-beat drums of love and charm.
O' hear the voice of love that sings a sweet song.
Listen to the songbird's *dulcet serenade and dawning alarm,
and reply, oh lovebird, with a lovesick *tongue.
Liberate thy spirit of...

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Chasing clusters of dust and Venus vapid lust
We sailingly sway throughout the Milky Way
In a thrust, we land on a planet of candescent crust
And with dynamic display spiraling star dust spray

Jupiter and its moon Callisto...

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I play the blues but I think it best not to live them any longer
Things end sometimes; and sometimes it feels as if;
You loose; and yes even me.
    And the silent inscriber...

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My soul the reputation so grew
It acclaimed I was engaged and 
Credentialed reputation my dreams knew
The lonely the honoring my mind 
So I felt obligated the distinction 
I felt compelled I have dreams 
Dreams of...

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This vision ahead intoxicates
near waters edge I sway
Rydal lake beyond so crisp so clear
as though created yesterday

I sit a while to soak the scene
swiftly turn, to see, to spy
faint flutter aimed towards my ears
a most...

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A fragrant flower left by the glamorous gods
For me to praise and panoramically ponder
A monolithic maiden rising from the pods
As each day my hopes grow fanatically fonder

Within the day she is the shimmering summer sun
Within...

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Oh to live in the pulse of the sun and feel blessed   
and smell the sweet scent of a flower's in-chide  
to inhale all the power of summer's attest  
and exhale...

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This vision ahead intoxicates
Near waters edge I sway
Rydal lake so crisp so clear
As if created yesterday

I sit a while to soak the scene
swiftly turn, to see, to spy
Faint flutter aimed towards my ears
The most elegant...

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The word of anger spoken by the square
mouth of the dark, an interstellar swear,

addressed to who knows whom. A scarlet curse,
a four-horned furiousness, which in the journal
kept by the apathetic universe
looks like an inner breakup,...

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as the cool air blows
the barren wasteland regrown
a luminescent glow
feeds the reeds
feeds the trees
photosynthesis reborn
the budding of fruit
nourishment
webs are casted
sails are masted
in preparation of the morn
of the sweet candescent norm
Spring is love
it rises in the...

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Slumber beseeched this sight which closed

In warmth of silence to brush repose....

Silkened choirs of soft voices heard

Scions whispers gracing ivories notes ~

As carriages gliding atop sweet serenities

Keys as visions amid these their dreams

In violet hues...

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Swirls of shadowed light rest in minds filled with wakeful anxiety, while the burning ice warms their souls with its chills

Falling in tandem with the rising waves cresting against sandless beaches, reaching for pieces broken...

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Dreams are my only friends,
I can morph and bend them into anything.
Suddenly a fortress appears and ascends,
To which I am to be made the king!

Columns and spires stretch out across me,
Structure and walls I did...

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Dancing with angels beyond Heaven's gate
twirling orbs of light, candescent in flight
joyous melodies, the Lord's songs elate
souls lift in praise, mine reaching new height
luminated in love, farewell to night 

Eternal life, dance of celebration
God's promise...

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