Long Cliffs Poems
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Rejection Slips 2
Rejection Slips 2
The Shape of Mourning
by Michael R. Burch
The shape of mourning
is an oiled creel
shining with unuse,
the bolt of cold steel
on a locker
shielding memory,
the monthly penance
of flowers,
the annual wake,
the face in the...
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Categories:
cliffs, beauty, death, desire, life, longing, love, nature,
Form:
Free verse
The Book of Changes
"The Book of Changes"
Thoughts arrived before words,
1000s of years before
the crossing of curves
always seen to be
swimming upstream
against the current
thoughts … and feelings,
in the flow, always arrive
before words, they are cast
in the...
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Categories:
cliffs, muse, mystery, spiritual, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
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:
cliffs, forgiveness, heart, humanity, life, love, relationship, together,
Form:
Free verse
Medieval Poems Iv
Medieval Poems IV
IN LIBRARIOS
by Thomas Campion
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Booksellers laud authors for novel editions
as pimps praise their whores for exotic positions.
Brut (circa 1100 AD, written by Layamon, an excerpt)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R....
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Categories:
cliffs, angel, mother, romance, romantic, rose, roses are
Form:
Rhyme
Early Poems Iii
Juvenilia: Early Poems by Michael R. Burch
In the Whispering Night
by Michael R. Burch
In the whispering night, when the stars bend low
till the hills ignite to a shining flame,
when a shower of meteors streaks the sky
while...
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Categories:
cliffs, poems, poetry, poets, teen, write, writing, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
Medieval Poems Iii
Medieval Poems
Deor's Lament (Anglo Saxon poem, circa 10th century AD)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Weland knew the agony of exile.
That indomitable smith was wracked by grief.
He endured countless troubles:
sorrows were his only companions
in his frozen...
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Categories:
cliffs, england, grief, poems, poetry, poets, sorrow, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Chaucer Translation: Rejection
Rejection
a roundel by Geoffrey Chaucer
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Your beauty from your heart has so erased
Pity, that it's useless to complain;
For Pride now holds your mercy by a chain.
I'm guiltless, yet my sentence has...
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Categories:
cliffs, beauty, french, heart, innocence, nature, pride, women,
Form:
Roundel
Medieval Poems V
Medieval Poem V
A Proverb from Winfred's Time
anonymous Old English poem, circa 757-786
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
1.
The procrastinator puts off purpose,
never initiates anything marvelous,
never succeeds, and dies alone.
2.
The late-deed-doer delays glory-striving,
never indulges daring dreams,
never succeeds,...
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Categories:
cliffs, earth, england, love, middle school, poems, poets,
Form:
Rhyme
Bergfried
I. The Settlement
Hickory bark bluffs
at the blend of two
...
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Categories:
cliffs, adventure, allusion, metaphor, myth, native american, remember,
Form:
Narrative
Chaucer Translation: Merciless Beauty
Merciles Beaute ("Merciless Beauty")
by Geoffrey Chaucer
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Your eyes slay me suddenly;
their beauty I cannot sustain,
they wound me so, through my heart keen.
Unless your words heal me hastily,
my heart's wound will remain...
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Categories:
cliffs, beauty, heart, relationship, romance, romantic, romantic love,
Form:
Roundel
Memories In the Sand
If ever a moment in real life deserved a romantic, melancholy
backing track, it would have been that one ... we'd spent the
entire afternoon at Ferry Beach, sunning and playing frisbee, I
playing guitar, she practicing her...
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Categories:
cliffs, memory, missing you, passion, relationship, soulmate, time,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Prose Poems Ii
Prose Poems II
by Michael R. Burch
These are prose poems (is that an oxymoron?) and experimental poems...
briefling
by Michael R. Burch
manishatched, hopsintotheMix, cavorts, hassex (quick!, spawnanewBrood!); then, likeamayfly, he’s suddenly gone: plantfood.
bachelorhoodwinked
by Michael R. Burch
u are charming...
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Categories:
cliffs, poems, poetry, rose, roses are red, world,
Form:
Prose
I Survived '75
KEY - W: Will/Me - F: Friend - M: Mom
Thanksgiving week of '75, as a concurrent student earning multi-degrees from two campuses, and one off. I lived above the Uni, uphill, panicview Hilo Town and...
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Categories:
cliffs, 9th grade, angel, boy, friendship, happiness, natural
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 7
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
A new day begins and new promises made
The child guiding his way
Finally warmed he seemed less afraid
As through the snow they slowly made headway
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
“Who is this child?” he whispered to...
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Categories:
cliffs, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Celena, Brave Celena- Part 1
From Judges 11.
Pronunciation: Seh-LAY-nah
His brothers cast the young man out, the child of an harlot;
He fled away to distant Tob before they found an outlet
For anger, more than what they'd done, to fully disinherit
And drive...
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Categories:
cliffs, assonance, bible, christian, dance, goodbye,
Form:
Narrative
Translations of the Oldest Rhyming Poems In the English Language
Translations of the Oldest English Rhyming Poems
The Rhymed Poem aka The Rhyming Poem aka The Riming Poem
Old English/Anglo-Saxon poem from the Exeter Book, circa 990 AD
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
(excerpt)
He who granted me life...
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Categories:
cliffs, england, poems, poetry, poets, words, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Thirty-Two
from island corner, big Antrim lad
to Belfast city, a tiny pad
shattered windows, tilted clocks
Goliath had lost his socks
gargantuan giant going mad
Armagh apple girl, any topic
...
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Categories:
cliffs, ireland, nonsense,
Form:
Verse
MY Collaboration with Actor, Singer: Ricky Nelson in the Mid Winter of ''80: PART I
MY Collaboration with Ricky Nelson in the Last Days of 1980
The eventful news of that day about what was found on board that crashed plane, won't replace that particular memory of Mr. Rick Nelson's hearty...
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Categories:
cliffs, appreciation, celebrity, girlfriend, imagery, lost, peace, wife,
Form:
Narrative
Dreamtime in Dreamland
(“Dreaming Gaia”, 2020, original encaustic)
Dreamtime in Dreamland
Over the years I’ve logged a lot of time sleeping
With much of that time in dreamland.
I’ve had plenty of mundane dreams,
Years and years of them
Sometimes the dreams themselves
Even lasting...
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Categories:
cliffs, appreciation, creation, dream,
Form:
Narrative
By the Sea
As she saw it.
The mountains and the meadows were always so beautiful this time of year. It seemed as if a fresh new world always came to life. The high cliffs turned sharply downward....
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Categories:
cliffs, beautiful, body, desire, grandmother, imagination, me, mother,
Form:
Verse
My Mind a Ship In Darkness
My mind a ship in darkness ...
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Categories:
cliffs, adventure, , Lullaby,
Form:
Free verse
Fixated Freefall
Falling away,
Away from your embrace
Day by day,
Washing away my face
In the mirror before me...
I ran the race with determination and fury...
I took the correction that God had in mind for me all along...but yet, I...
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Categories:
cliffs, corruption, courage, , Lullaby,
Form:
Free verse
In Marked Territory
In the raw expanse of land where rivers sigh,
marked by the shadows of cats and dogs,
with each puddle of yellow reminding us
of lives once lived, hearts bound to the...
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Categories:
cliffs, analogy, sympathy,
Form:
Free verse
The Mystery of the Necklace
Sitting on the beach,
As dusk falls upon the end of shore,
I look at the lighthouse,
As I see a faint figure,
Looking beyond the sea.
She holds her chest,
As if she is holding a necklace.
She waits for her...
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Categories:
cliffs, fantasy, inspirational, longing, love, mythology, romantic,
Form:
Free verse
Love
Love
1.
I saw the bitter tears of unhappiness,
Running down your ravaged with pain
...
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Categories:
cliffs, love,
Form:
Free verse