Long Cinder Poems
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Currents
Currents
by Michael R. Burch
How can I write and not be true
to the rhythm that wells within?
How can the ocean not be blue,
not buck with the clapboard slap of tide,
the clockwork shock of wave on rock,
the...
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Categories:
cinder, assonance, extended metaphor, language, metaphor, music, poetry,
Form:
Verse
Fahr An' Ice
Fahr an' Ice
by Michael R. Burch
From what I know of death, I'll side with those
who'd like to have a say in how it goes:
just make mine cool, cool rocks (twice drowned in likker),
and real fahr...
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Categories:
cinder, death, drink, fun, humor, humorous, light,
Form:
Light Verse
Various Heresies 3
Various Heresies 3
Breakings
by Michael R. Burch
I did it out of pity.
I did it out of love.
I did it not to break the heart of a tender, wounded dove.
But gods without compassion
ordained: Frail things must break!
Now...
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Categories:
cinder, america, bible, christian, god, jesus, religion, usa,
Form:
Verse
Burning Logs
Each flame
elegantly weaves in waves
flowing up from resources red cinder hot,
similar in warm color
temperature decrees
of beauty as integrity's truth
trust each surrounding flame.
Each flame
unique in point of origin below
as ubiquitously flickering fading destinations above.
Yet...
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Categories:
cinder, caregiving, community, creation, health, integrity, love hurts,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Sonnets Xxxiii-Xli
Sonnets 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:
cinder, child, childhood, children, death, life, time, world,
Form:
Sonnet
Juvenilia: Early Poems Xi
Juvenilia: Early Poems XI
Myth
by Michael R. Burch
after the sprung rhythm of Dylan Thomas
Here the recalcitrant wind
sighs with grievance and remorse
over fields of wayward gorse
and thistle-throttled lanes.
And she is the myth of the scythed wheat
hewn and...
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Categories:
cinder, boy, poems, poetry, student, teen, teenage, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Divine Comedy Translation Hell Canto Xiv
Because the charity of my native place
Obliged me, the broken branches I the picked up
Them giving back him, who was to debase.
Then we finally reached where had to leap
From the second turn to third, and...
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Categories:
cinder, fantasy, , cute,
Form:
Terza Rima
Apocalyptic Poems I
These are prophetic poems and apocalyptic poems ...
The Vision of the Overseer’s Right Hand
by Michael R. Burch
“Dust to dust ...”
I stumbled, aghast,
into a valley of dust and bone
where all men become,
at last, the same color...
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Categories:
cinder, earth, earth day, environment, future, humanity, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
The eye of the storm
Huge fluffy clouds began to form over
Sanibel Island as the salted gulf splashed
against the rocks around the lighthouse
coastal waters rose up as a calming coolness
carried this gentle warm breeze over to...
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Categories:
cinder, allah,
Form:
Nonet
My Love, My Best Friend, My Wife
I write this prose for my dear, fair lady wife
To celebrate her Birthday on November 29th
She’s my partner, my best friend, the love of my life
Without her my life would be as dark as night
From...
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Categories:
cinder, allegory, birthday, celebration, for her, husband, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Joe Versus the Raccoon
JOE VERSUS THE RACCOON
By Kate H. Stark
Each night ‘twas the same old proverbial shout.
“Hey Joe, will you please take the garbage bags out?”
Joe sighed, rolled his eyes as he walked toward the door....
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Categories:
cinder, animal, dedication, funny, giggle, humor, humorous, imagination,
Form:
Rhyme
Lilith Waits
Lilith Waits
Lilith waits as she surveys, all her brutal yesterdays
She cruelly paved with stepping-stones of broken hearts and human bones.
Her lips turned up at their red corners, she grins at all the...
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Categories:
cinder, fantasy,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Reply From the Nonexistent
please tell me ...
what happened?
what dire damage have i wrought?
what did i do to ruin it, that friendship, rare?
you once knew me better than most ...
my darkness didn't frighten you, didn't rattle,
you sighted those demons...
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Categories:
cinder, friendship, loss, memory, missing, missing you, teenage,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
The Great Forgotten Language
"The Great Forgotten Language"
In the forest
Love shows
the way
spreading seeds
strange creatures
come forth
into the clearing
of a known self
some run away
spooked as if
the bare reflection
shows their undressed soul
confronting,
are the peculiar
ghosts risen, speaking
like...
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Categories:
cinder, humanity, love, muse,
Form:
Narrative
Canto Xxiv Dante's Hell Translation Part 2
“For other answer”, told, “ I cannot lean
Than do it, because to honest question
Must follow action, with no word between”.
We dropped down the bridge with its progression
Where following it is reached the eighth bank,
Then I...
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Categories:
cinder, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
A Vanilla Dove
Cypress trees like evergreen steeples
rise above rows of gravestone woes,
their shadows lie side by side like railroad ties
across writhing paths banded like snakes;
gravel birth cords sinuous
sensing the ground seeking the sun
crossroads...
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Categories:
cinder, bird, death, grief, hope, life, sorrow, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
The Freckled Face of a Girl
~~~
Dappled grey horses
sweat crusted and weary
hooves drifting dust
lift a day
passing dreary
The harness bells faded
reigned in at the rill
a cool running brook
near the base of our hill
~
My eyes
I'm a lad
scant older than four
brought visions to mind
full...
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Categories:
cinder, family, first love, heart, lost love,
Form:
Ballad
NEW YEARS BAKE OFF
My Greek grandmother and godmother, cousins,
My grandma baked and cooked homely,
My Nona, my godmother exotically,
Each one perfect, one couldn’t fault either,
Their husbands, playing backgammon
Looked up and winked at each other,
Each one betting a fiver!
Their competitiveness...
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Categories:
cinder, grandmother,
Form:
Rhyme
Cliff
*Image of Pala au & Nanahoa by Historic Hawaii
AUDIO: Couplet read
VIDEO: Unique Okala Island Off Monumental Cliffs of Moloka'i
Cliff
Cliff's supply the bemused aback.
Amassed jaws sink as all stand back,
tourist gawks, at paired land splendors.
First; mountain...
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Categories:
cinder, imagery, nature, paradise,
Form:
Couplet
Life's Greatest Regret
I watch the sun fall from the sky
tumbling soundlessly, the horrid quiet deafening.
As I see it touch the horizon, the world burns
and clouds, like kindling, burst into flames
set afire, until their brilliant hues burn to...
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Categories:
cinder, sad love,
Form:
Free verse
Recursa Absurda
Straight lines, sepia
The suppression of unwanted thoughts
Like time spent in sensory deprivation
Time spent in a droning room
Under sterile light hums, practically drooling
The vacuum of most moments
As standard as cinder blocks
Punctuated by things so washed out,...
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Categories:
cinder, absence, depression, loss, memory, repetition, silence, sleep,
Form:
Free verse
Gomorrah Toys
Military maneuvers,
conducted by starship troopers,
make a Lot of king Chedorlaomer noise
Earhole space
penetrated by the Pentagon puffing pace ...
stealth sound of smoke signals
Warning drumbeat signs
of an incoming, deadly drone invasion
Attack helicopters hover
over tempting topography...
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Categories:
cinder, truth, violence, war, wisdom,
Form:
Alliteration
One Night In Dixie
The road wore a coat, a thick blanket of snow
Spring had not reached those Tennessee hills
As midnight approached, three Rebs lie in a hole
Near a slope where six brethren were killed
In tattered gray suits and...
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Categories:
cinder, war,
Form:
Ballad
He Knows
As I think back to that dark time in our community I don’t know if I’d ever seen anyone quite
like that (Cinder Girl). We girls thought she had (Lovely Bones). The last time I...
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Categories:
cinder, mystery, on writing and wordstime, me, time,
Form:
Narrative
Intemperate To a Tilt
And so I ponder my frailities as give giveness to the/they that are in response to my/your parental misgivings, the way windward wade their roughened cinder complexities confided to an annotated disgfiured desire-repost postured, annotized...
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Categories:
cinder, allusion, anger, angst, character, philosophy, society,
Form:
Free verse