Long Climb on Poems
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Be of Good, Compassionate CourageDandelions…
They flutter, now I see
Fiery lions…
They're dancing with me
Sunlight…
Come out and shine down
Moonlight…
Shun out my darkened frown
I am the infinitesimal stars in the tranquil, terrestrial night
I am the scars minutes before the sunlit dawn...
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Categories:
climb on, confidence, courage, encouraging, endurance, hope, muse, passion,
Form:
Free verse
Echoes of a Shady PastAn icy chill descends on 13 Beaver Veil Cottage as sisters Ester and Ellie walk gingerly up the steps on this wet and windy night.
This once charming pied-a-terre was now in a final phase denouement.
The...
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climb on, art, birth, character, courage, dark, imagery, imagination,
Form:
Prose
Echoes Of A Shady Past Part Twon icy chill descends on 13 Beaver Veil Cottage as sisters Ester and Ellie walk gingerly up the steps on this wet and windy night.
This once charming pied-a-terre was now in a final phase denouement.
The...
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Categories:
climb on, character, dark, death, emotions, gothic, imagery, imagination,
Form:
Prose
The Night Before Christmas EveThe night Before Christmas Eve
By Franklin Price
12/17/2016
Prologue
The Night Before Christmas
A most famous of poems
Read to children aloud
By their parents in homes
To children who gather
'Round the brightly lit tree
To hear Santa is coming
Presents for...
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Categories:
climb on, christmas,
Form:
Rhyme
An Uppercut I RememberDad hit me only once, an upper cut to the solar plexus. It nearly lifted me off my feet. I was 17 then and already fairly tall, 6’1.” He was 48 and of medium height,...
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Categories:
climb on, father son,
Form:
Blank verse
Poems About IcarusSouthern Icarus
by Michael R. Burch
Windborne, lover of heights,
unspooled from the truck’s wildly lurching embrace,
you climb, skittish kite...
What do you know of the world’s despair,
gliding in vast solitariness there,
so that all that remains is to
fall?
Only a...
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Categories:
climb on, analogy, angel, bird, butterfly, extended metaphor, flying,
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:
climb on, humor, humorous, light, nonsense, satire, write, writing,
Form:
Light Verse
SeeSee
by Michael R. Burch
See how her hair has thinned: it doesn’t seem
like hair at all, but like the airy moult
of emus who outraced the wind and left
soft plumage in their wake. See how her eyes
are...
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Categories:
climb on, age, goodbye, life, loss, time, women,
Form:
Sonnet
Early Poems IiiJuvenilia: 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:
climb on, poems, poetry, poets, teen, write, writing, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
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:
climb on, boy, child, childhood, high school, student, teen,
Form:
Rhyme
For All That I RememberedFor All That I Remembered
by Michael R. Burch
For all that I remembered, I forgot
her name, her face, the reason that we loved ...
and yet I hold her close within my thought:
I feel the burnished weight...
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Categories:
climb on, desire, dream, memory, remember, sad love, soulmate,
Form:
Sonnet
Poems About Poems VPoems about Poems V
Distances
by Michael R. Burch
There is a small cleanness about her,
as though she has always just been washed,
and there is a dull obedience to convention
in her accommodating slenderness
as she feints at her salad.
She...
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Categories:
climb on, metaphor, poems, poetry, poets, words, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Chapter 64 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: the Family Seventeen- Vacation XivDamian Stood with the front
Door opened and said, "Family!
We will be leaving in fifteen
Minutes. Do whatever you have
To before we hit the road. Use
The bathroom whatever!
Come on!! HAKIM!! About 7
minutes...
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Categories:
climb on, bridal shower, business, chanukah, child, devotion, father
Form:
Alliteration
There's Still Love - the Quatern Style~ There's Still Love ~
( Quatern )
~O~
There's still Love. Just open heart wide.
Have Faith! See the Light! Don't be blind.
Just climb each mountain. Dream! Believe.
Seek God each day, with Him,...
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Categories:
climb on, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
No Matter What - the Trinet Style~ No Matter What ~
( Trinet )
~O~
Embrace Life
No matter
What start with heart full of
Love Faith Hope never let anything
Steal your
Dreams tomorrow
New day
~0~
The best
For you
May still come embrace...
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Categories:
climb on, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
Rejection Slips 1Rejection Slips
With over 5,700 publications if I count poems that have gone viral, I suppose I shouldn’t complain … but I do have some poems that have never been accepted for publication. Here are a...
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Categories:
climb on, day, love, memory, night, rose, seasons, winter,
Form:
Rhyme
Megan's Quest Part 1of7Moon sprites dotted the sky like lilies at dawn
in a ballet meant to cause nocturnal delight.
While Fairies and Pixie Dust covered the lawn
in a dance that would...
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Categories:
climb on, adventure, courage, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Free Verse IiiSalve
by Michael R. Burch
for the victims and survivors of 9-11
The world is unsalvageable ...
but as we lie here
in bed
stricken to the heart by love
despite war’s
flickering images,
sometimes we still touch,
laughing, amazed,
that our flesh
does not despair
of love
as...
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Categories:
climb on, body, desire, kiss, love, together, war, world,
Form:
Free verse
Enlightening Systems"Overcoming misleading [economic and political] metaphors
that are physically [naturally, ecosystemically, phylogenically] in [and of]
your [ecological-organic embodied] brain
is never easy."
George Lakoff, The Political...
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Categories:
climb on, blessing, humor, math, mentor, metaphor, religion, science,
Form:
Political Verse
Indignation 1-6-21How dare you desecrate the Capitol with urine and feces!
Even filthy pigs refuse to defecate near their own dwelling place.
How dare you flaunt confederate flags, grim reminders of our bloody history,
Alongside swastikas, hate symbols...
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Categories:
climb on, anger, discrimination, emotions, hurt, prejudice, racism, violence,
Form:
Free verse
This World of DewTHIS WORLD OF DEW
This world?
Moonlit dew
flicked from a crane's bill.
—Eihei Dogen Kigen, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Seventy-one?
How long
can a dewdrop last?
—Eihei Dogen Kigen, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Dewdrops beading grass-blades
die before...
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Categories:
climb on, age, art, autumn, bereavement, death, life, time,
Form:
Haiku
Song of Amergin: TranslationThe Song of Amergin: Modern English Translations
The Song of Amergin
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
I am the sea breeze
I am the ocean wave
I am the surf's thunder
I am the stag of the seven tines
I am...
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Categories:
climb on, ireland, myth, mythology, song, storm, visionary, war,
Form:
Free verse
Mario William Vitale Latest WritingsThe language and images of Mario Vitale's poetry are so closely bound to the natural cycles of seasons, of generations, of the body's functioning, that is surprising to realize how many of his poems deal...
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Categories:
climb on, art,
Form:
Free verse
Sonnets Xc-XcviiSonnets XC-XCVII
Artificial Smile
by Michael R. Burch
I’m waiting for my artificial teeth
to stretch belief, to hollow out the cob
of zealous righteousness, to grasp life’s stub
between clenched molars, and yank out the grief.
Mine must be art-official?zenlike Art?
a...
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Categories:
climb on, art, grave, grief, life, night, pain, smile,
Form:
Sonnet
Childhood Dreams Part 2The three little pigs came to the ball
Tried to blow the castle down
It didn’t work
It was made of solid gold
So they gave up and sat at their trough
Ate noisily
And snorted quite a lot
They...
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Categories:
climb on, childhood, cinderella, dream, mum,
Form:
Free verse