Long Cling Poems
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Poems About Flowers
Lady’s Favor
by Michael R. Burch
May
spring
fling
her riotous petals
devil-
may-care
into the air,
ignoring the lethal
nettles
and may
May
cry gleeful-
ly Hooray!
as the abundance
settles,
till a sudden June
swoon
leave us out of tune,
torn,
when the last rose is left
inconsolably bereft,
rudely shorn
of every device but her thorn.
The...
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cling, flower, june, rose, roses are red, spring,
Form:
Rhyme
Various Heresies 7
Pagans Protest the Intolerance of Christianity
by Michael R. Burch
“We have a common sky.” — Quintus Aurelius Symmachus
We had a common sky
before the Christians came.
We thought there might be gods
but did not know their names.
The common...
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Categories:
cling, angel, atheist, bible, christian, faith, god, jesus,
Form:
Rhyme
THE LAST GOODBYE
This is for the Contest - 'Titanic - Fare Thee Well' Sponsored by Tom Woody.
...
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Categories:
cling, death, inspirational, loss, love,
Form:
Narrative
Wonderland
Wonderland
by Michael R. Burch
We stood, kids of the Lamb, to put to test
the beatific anthems of the blessed,
the sentence of the martyr, and the pen’s
sincere religion. Magnified, the lens
shot back absurd reflections of each...
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Categories:
cling, allegory, allusion, analogy, crazy, fantasy, imagination, magic,
Form:
Sonnet
Poems About Flight, Flying and Birds Ii
Poems about Flight, Flying, and Birds
Flying
by Michael R. Burch
I shall rise
and try the bloody wings of thought
ten thousand times
before I fly...
and then I'll sleep
and waste ten thousand nights
before I dream;
but when at last...
I soar the...
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Categories:
cling, animal, bird, flying, nature,
Form:
Free verse
Rejection Slips 3
Rejection 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:
cling, death, desire, family, heart, life, longing, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Salvation of a Formalist, An Ode To Entropy
Salvation 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:
cling, humor, humorous, light, nonsense, satire, write, writing,
Form:
Light Verse
Roses and Lilacs
Winter
by Michael R. Burch
The rose of love's bright promise
lies torn by her own thorn;
her scent was sweet
but at her feet
the pallid aphids mourn.
The lilac of devotion
has felt the winter hoar
and shed her dress;
companionless,
she shivers—nude, forlorn.
Published...
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Categories:
cling, desire, longing, love, nature, romance, rose, roses
Form:
Verse
Poems About Fathers and Grandfathers I
Poems about Fathers and Grandfathers I
I translated the first six Native American poems for my father when he chose to enter hospice and end his life by not taking dialysis …
Cherokee Travelers' Blessing I
loose translation/interpretation...
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Categories:
cling, father, father daughter, father son, fathers day,
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Rhyme
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:
cling, heart, night, spiritual, wife, words, write, writing,
Form:
Sonnet
Rip
R.I.P.
by Michael R. Burch
When I am lain to rest
and my soul is no longer intact,
but dissolving, like a sunset
diminishing to the west...
and when at last
before His throne my past
is put to test
and the demons...
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Categories:
cling, death, dream, funeral, grave, judgement, sleep, sunset,
Form:
Verse
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:
cling, forgiveness, heart, humanity, life, love, relationship, together,
Form:
Free verse
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:
cling, boy, poems, poetry, student, teen, teenage, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
The Moon As a Metaphor For Your Mouth
The Moon as a Metaphor for Your Mouth
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...
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Categories:
cling, candy, love, metaphor, moon, romantic love, sweet,
Form:
Sonnet
For All That I Remembered
For 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:
cling, desire, dream, memory, remember, sad love, soulmate,
Form:
Sonnet
Come Down, For Harold Bloom
Come 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:
cling, books, culture, discrimination, education, extended metaphor, literature,
Form:
Sonnet
What Good Are Our Tears
What Good Are Our Tears?
by Michael R. Burch
What good are our tears?
They will not spare the dying their anguish.
What good is our concern
to a child sick of living, waiting to perish?
What good, the warm benevolence...
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Categories:
cling, child, child abuse, children, death, poverty, sick,
Form:
Free verse
Poems About Poems V
Poems 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:
cling, metaphor, poems, poetry, poets, words, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Arthurian Poems
At 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:
cling, england, romance, romantic, true love, violence, visionary,
Form:
Verse
Sonnets Xvii-Xxiv
Sonnets XVII-XXIV
Discrimination
by Michael R. Burch
The meter I had sought to find, perplexed,
was ripped from books of "verse" that read like prose.
I found it in sheet music, in long rows
of hologramic CDs, in sad wrecks
of long-forgotten...
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Categories:
cling, books, poems, poetry, poets, voice, write, writing,
Form:
Sonnet
Victories For Love
The 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:
cling, health, history, integrity, love, mental illness, military,
Form:
Political Verse
Juvenilia: Early Poems Iv
Juvenilia: Early Poems IV
I wrote this around age 17.
Bible Libel
by Michael R. Burch
If God
is good
half the Bible
is libel.
I read the Bible from cover to cover at age eleven, ten chapters per day, at the suggestion...
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Categories:
cling, poems, poetry, poets, teen, write, writing, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
OPERATION JULIE PENNY SERVED 9 YEARS IN LONDON PRISON GARGANO JAMAICAN MULES
IT'S HARD TO SLEEP KNOWING GARGANO JAMAICAN TALIBAN IDENTITY THIEVES MULES LEAVING TORONTO TO GLASGOW TO CALIFORNIA BEING AN FBI CONFIDENTIAL HUMAN SOURCE IT'S TRULY HARD TO SLEEP AFTER ALERTING THE FBI 2003 TAMPA MULES...
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Categories:
cling, allah,
Form:
Naat
Heat Lightening
Heat Lightening
by Michael R. Burch
Each night beneath the elms, we never knew
which lights beyond dark hills might stall, advance,
then lurch into strange headbeams tilted up
like searchlights seeking contact in the distance . . .
Quiescent unions...
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Categories:
cling, car, crush, desire, love, lust, sexy, teen
Form:
Sonnet
Juvenilia: Early Poems Vii
Juvenilia: Early Poems VII
These are early poems I wrote as a boy and as a teenager.
The Leveler
by Michael R. Burch
The nature of Nature
is bitter survival
from Winter’s bleak fury
till Spring’s brief revival.
The weak implore Fate;
bold men...
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cling, boy, child, childhood, fear, high school, poems,
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Rhyme