Long Cellophane Poems
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Sonnets Lxi-Lxx
Sonnets 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:
cellophane, heart, night, spiritual, wife, words, write, writing,
Form:
Sonnet
Poems About Butterflies and Bees
Poems 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:
cellophane, animal, butterfly, flying, insect, sky, wind,
Form:
Rhyme
Free Verse I
Lozenge
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:
cellophane, forgiveness, heart, humanity, life, love, relationship, together,
Form:
Free verse
Beckoning
Beckoning
by Michael R. Burch
Yesterday the wind whispered my name
while the blazing locks
of her rampant mane
lay heavy on mine.
And yesterday
I saw the way
the wind caressed tall pines
in forests laced by glinting streams
and thick with...
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Categories:
cellophane, anxiety, break up, change, confusion, sleep, time,
Form:
Verse
Burnt Aqua
"Burnt Aqua"
I can taste the sun
on my tongue
it spills down
my throat
like burnt aqua
healing the beating frisson
I am ebony inside
shading in my shadow world
some somnolent soul
waking from slumber’s dream dance
a small death in life...
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Categories:
cellophane, death, dream, life,
Form:
Free verse
Translation of Eric Mottram's Homage To Paul Eluard By T Wignesan
Translation of Eric Mottram’s HOMAGE TO PAUL ELUARD by T. Wignesan
(Note: Here, I retain EM’s translations into English from Paul Eluard’s poems and his source language quotations from “this vital spirits…” onwards, for, according...
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Categories:
cellophane, devotion, eulogy, french, relationship, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
Boa's Ark - Part 3
Continued from Part 2
5. MIDNIGHT DREAMS
At night the soldiers sometimes dream
of many things which make them scream,
like
...
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Categories:
cellophane, fantasy, men, philosophy, war,
Form:
Rhyme
Perdidit Antiquum Litera Prima Sonum
The sky has dug a hole in the cloud
it's fuc**** triangle's fault I can't see the pigs
stratified societies
revitalized on schizophrenic base of
finger pointing minority
staring at fragmented people
seeing them as dispensed particles
that...
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Categories:
cellophane, discrimination,
Form:
Free verse
Collab Convos Jt
Jazz man of the mill suffering atomic verse
Born of the waves, air-raids of sound
Moons to profile the edge of weather
And sun to light the way
Inside the cliffs and black holes beyond...
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Categories:
cellophane, august, autumn, blessing,
Form:
I do not know?
The Lucky Ones
Lucky ones
Your pay is to break, to hurt, be bent and stink,
the bank is your body, selling labor the means.
A wage is a a wave of dread
for the very dinner on your plate.
Again...
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Categories:
cellophane, america, horse, work,
Form:
Cowboy Poetry
Inside Awaited a Boon
as a cild it hat often been the box that mattered
it gave shelter and comfort...
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Categories:
cellophane, celebration,
Form:
Free verse
The Nuances of Daily Life
I miss the nuances of daily life
while weeks are frozen in this quarantine.
I miss the lost normalcy of my days
in all aspects, obvious and unseen.
I miss turning my head to read the spines
of the novels...
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Categories:
cellophane, animal, anxiety,
Form:
Rhyme
The Teenage Body After Suicide
The human being
(also referred throughout history
as 'long pig' and 'hairless goat'
in the case of younger specimens)
Observing the anatomy and skeleton,
one can see that the human animal
after death young tender meat.
The large central pelvis and broad...
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Categories:
cellophane, 12th grade,
Form:
Free verse
Rats in the Cellar
Rats in the cellar, squirrels in the tree,
things aren't the same as they used to be.
When I left for school with my li'l lunch pail,
I didn't expect a penguin to swallow a whale.
Such an injustice,...
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Categories:
cellophane, dark,
Form:
Rhyme
Corporate
I was a teenager when back when, when I first started working in the tape industry. Working in Manhattan traveling from New Jersey either by train, bus or car for seventeen long years. I've learnt...
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Categories:
cellophane, work,
Form:
Haibun
Just a Message
What I am about to say comes in many shapes and sizes, but none hold a candle the idea I see.
My thoughts go deep as I ponder and see my life float by like...
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Categories:
cellophane, dream, emotions, identity, perspective, silence, voice, write,
Form:
Free verse
Paper Buckles 1-3
1.
any colour may be applied to the
night-dress
this city actually has no cart
driven by horses
before a pretty long time the shepherds
had also told adieu
by secret signalling the red-hat addiction
called...
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Categories:
cellophane, fantasyday, night, day, night,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Voyage
Written: March 28, 2024 For Constance La France Contest
Quote: (The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.) Marcel Proust
...
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Categories:
cellophane, adventure, voyage,
Form:
Rhyme
Don'T Marry Meredith
It's funny, because I've vacuumed under your bed
a hundred times in the past two years
I've dusted the black bedside table
picked up your Scotch and Soda pants off the floor,
still jingling with belt attached...
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Categories:
cellophane, abuse, angst, family, fate, mirror, mother son,
Form:
Free verse
Electrification of Udelnaya Market
ELECTRIFICATION OF UDELNAYA MARKET
Thank goodness
New glass steel towers are cleaning up the mess
Of Udelnaya market. Traffic was too fast *
Street is pedestrianised and bypassed
Bright lights are lit ...
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Categories:
cellophane, urban,
Form:
Imagism
Cellophane World
cellophane world...
procuring accouterment
of this and that from hither and thither
the consumeristic narcotic
rages through our pulsing veins
as we desperately try to pull on the ever-loosening reins
growing up all those years ago was easier, I do confess
with...
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Categories:
cellophane, life, love, truth,
Form:
I do not know?
The Insignificance of Man
Blunt deadly weapons of mass destruction
electrify, fracture, and
jeopardize Homo Sapiens
species (and entire biosphere)
continuity rent asunder
doomsday declared (nuclear winter
gallows humor spelt
with eternal snow day)
dystopian authors outflanked
nuclear fallout wreaks worst
rocky horror picture
effected upon mankind
global (worldwide)
big screen radioactive
wee...
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Categories:
cellophane, 10th grade, 12th grade, death, earth, journey,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Spirits of Easters Past Potd
SPIRITS OF EASTERS PAST
On Easter Sunday, Christians celebrate
Christ rising from the dead.
I loved Easter as a child, it was as special
as Christmas...
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Categories:
cellophane, beautiful, candy, childhood, christian, easter, family,
Form:
Quatrain
It Can'T Be Art
It can’t be art
Spun in a windstorm of caustic insisting
Plastered like mud on the walls of Pompeii
Frescos of joy before charcoal was misting
Writing in ash, catastrophic display
Poetic spittle once cast to the broken
Scribbled in...
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Categories:
cellophane, angst,
Form:
Rhyme
I Dont Like It Here
i am a creation of empty minded sex
and anger that plucks the heads from flowers
i come from broken glass absorbed into the front seat
from a desolated house
where plates and pillows whisper dirty words
where mirrors...
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Categories:
cellophane, 11th grade, abuse, anxiety, dark, depression, mental
Form:
Free verse