Long Certainly Poems
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King of Kings??1 Kings 5:3-5 NIV??
[3] “You know that because of the wars waged against my father David from all sides, he could not build a temple for the Name of the Lord his God until the...
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Categories:
certainly, faith,
Form:
I do not know?
The Hotel CaretakerHow unparticular the day had particularly been,
On March the third of two-thousand and eighteen,
For the caretaker at an historic Adirondack Inn,
Had lacked company, and therefore, dopamine.
‘Twas Sunday when all the guests had fled,
From either...
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Categories:
certainly, death, grief, introspection, march, mystery, remember,
Form:
Rhyme
Patsy Foley Was Roly-Poly In 1947It may have been the devil himself who prompted the kids in my schoolyard back in 1947 to chant "Patsy Foley's roly-poly from eating too much ravioli."
At first, no one could remember who started the...
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Categories:
certainly, memory,
Form:
Prose
Food glorious foodFood glorious food
Asia generic guy gastronomy (and how gourmet foods eat destructively clearly beyond any) excess enthusiasm, the necessity to feed and clothe this lean mean exercising machine gunning corporeal essence christened Matthew Scott Harris...
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Categories:
certainly, 12th grade, adventure, america, appreciation, blessing, celebration,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Poems IiPoems 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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Categories:
certainly, muse, poems, poetry, poets, work, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
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:
certainly, death, desire, family, heart, life, longing, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Salvation of a Formalist, An Ode To EntropySalvation of a Formalist, an Ode to Entropy
by Michael R. Burch
Entropy?
God's universal decree
That I get to be
Disorderly?
Suddenly
My erstwhile boxed-in verse is free?
Wheeeeee!
Eternal Currents
by Michael R. Burch
How can I write and not be true
to the rhythm...
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Categories:
certainly, humor, humorous, light, nonsense, satire, write, writing,
Form:
Light Verse
Juvenilia: Early Poems VJuvenilia: Early Poems V
Poetry
by Michael R. Burch
Poetry, I found you
where at last they chained and bound you;
with devices all around you
to torture and confound you,
I found you—shivering, bare.
They had shorn your raven hair
and taken both...
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Categories:
certainly, poems, poets, teen, teenage, write, writing, youth,
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:
certainly, 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:
certainly, child, childhood, children, death, life, time, world,
Form:
Sonnet
State of the Art IiState of the Art (II)
These are my "ars poetica" poems about the art and craft of writing poetry.
What the Poet Sees
by Michael R. Burch
What the poet sees,
he sees as a swimmer
~~~~underwater~~~~
watching the shoreline...
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Categories:
certainly, muse, poems, poetess, poetry, poets, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
First They Came For the MuslimsFirst they came for the Muslims
after Martin Niemoller
First they came for the Muslims
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Muslim.
Then they came for the homosexuals
and I did not speak out
because I was...
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Categories:
certainly, culture, discrimination, faith, god, islamic, truth, usa,
Form:
Free verse
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:
certainly, boy, child, childhood, high school, student, teen,
Form:
Rhyme
Caregiving Stories RepriseWounded Sacred Dementia: Part Two
Dementia's derelict WinLose SocialWorker
suboptimizingly hesitates
when I tell her
I have not changed my mind
about not adopting Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
into my vulnerable home
with a seven-year-old AfricanAmerican boy
blind
and unable to defend himself,
or even run...
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Categories:
certainly, caregiving, culture, earth, health, integrity, love, parents,
Form:
Political Verse
Poems About Poems IiiPoems about Poems III
Radiance
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...
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Categories:
certainly, poems, poetry, poets, visionary, words, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Come Down, For Harold BloomCome Down
by Michael R. Burch
for Harold Bloom
Come down, O, come down
from your high mountain tower.
How coldly the wind blows,
how late this chill hour ...
and I cannot wait
for a meteor shower
to show you the time
must be...
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Categories:
certainly, books, culture, discrimination, education, extended metaphor, literature,
Form:
Sonnet
Various Heresies 2Various Heresies 2
You
by Michael R. Burch
For thirty years You have not spoken to me;
I heard the dull hollow echo of silence
as though strange communion between us.
For thirty years You would not open to me;
You remained...
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Categories:
certainly, atheist, bible, christian, god, jesus, religion, religious,
Form:
Verse
In the WildIN THE WILD
Early morning, we go for a drive,
An awesome feeling as we arrive,
At our camp gate which, opens
At 6 o’clock,
Now we are in the African bush
Which, will unlock,
Moments that we have missed...
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Categories:
certainly, adventure, africa,
Form:
Rhyme
An Affective Disorder, the Doctor SaidNo, Freddie can’t say he mourned when his father died and his father’s third wife found Freddie's number and gave him a call to give him the news. His father had been responsible, worked hard,...
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Categories:
certainly, anxiety, mental illness, , 8th grade, ,
Form:
Prose
The Thc OrdinanceI am fairly new to this Norwick community.
If I recall correctly
we have about forty thousand households here
where the Connecticut River
conjoins the Mohegan and Iroquois Rivers;
originally deep rich virgin eco-forest
of and for harmonic rhythm and...
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Categories:
certainly, community, earth, family, growth, health, humor, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse
Arthurian PoemsAt Tintagel
by Michael R. Burch
That night,
at Tintagel,
there was darkness such as man had never seen...
darkness and treachery,
and the unholy thundering of the sea...
In his arms,
who is to say how much she...
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Categories:
certainly, england, romance, romantic, true love, violence, visionary,
Form:
Verse
Victories For LoveThe problem of military reactions
to territorial control issues
is not merely that violence breeds further strategic development
of violence,
although this is no small,
nor amoral,
concern.
This primal problem of militarism by historic default
is that it is an intrinsically...
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Categories:
certainly, health, history, integrity, love, mental illness, military,
Form:
Political Verse
People of FaithIt's hard to say where and when our town's People of Faith Cooperative started.
After all,
we have all emerged together,
and are still emerging
people of TaoGod,
right?
Our faith includes defining our still humanizing species
as among those not capable...
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Categories:
certainly, culture, earth day, education, health, humor, nature,
Form:
Political Verse
Millie's Christmas WishMillie's Christmas Wish
Winter Vacation was coming
The kids were all set
They were thinking of Christmas
And the gifts they would get
But, Millie sat waiting
Thinking of nothing but snow
Watching the class clock
That was moving so slow
They did arts...
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Categories:
certainly, 5th grade, adventure, america, childhood, christmas,
Form:
Epic
Warrior
“Warrior”
When the Argonauts, came across
the abandoned Starship, they
found within the wrecked
command console, a DNA code
with encrypted message.
It took several attempts to
reactivate, but when opened,
the following was translated: ...
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Categories:
certainly, humanity, muse, mystery,
Form:
Narrative