Long Coldly Poems
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CurrentsCurrents
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:
coldly, assonance, extended metaphor, language, metaphor, music, poetry,
Form:
Verse
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:
coldly, muse, poems, poetry, poets, work, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
State of the Art IiiState of the Art (III)
These are my "ars poetica" poems: the ones about the art and craft of writing poetry in a modern world that doesn't always recognize the artists or their work.
Come Down
by...
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Categories:
coldly, art, muse, poems, poetry, poets, 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:
coldly, death, desire, family, heart, life, longing, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Free Verse ILozenge
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:
coldly, forgiveness, heart, humanity, life, love, relationship, together,
Form:
Free verse
Sonnets Xlii-LiSonnets XLII-LI
Distances
by Michael R. Burch
Moonbeams on water?
the reflected light
of a halcyon star
now drowning in night...
So your memories are.
Footprints on beaches
now flooding with water;
the small, broken ribcage
of some primitive slaughter...
So near, yet so far.
A Surfeit of...
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Categories:
coldly, bereavement, death, death of a friend, funeral,
Form:
Sonnet
Free Verse IiNucleotidings
by Michael R. Burch
“We will walk taller!” said Gupta,
sorta abrupta,
hand-in-hand with his mom,
eyeing the A-bomb.
“Who needs a mahatma
in the aftermath of NAFTA?
Now, that was a disaster,”
cried glib Punjab.
“After Y2k,
time will spin out of control anyway,”
flamed...
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Categories:
coldly, angel, child, childhood, children, family, time, world,
Form:
Free verse
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:
coldly, books, culture, discrimination, education, extended metaphor, literature,
Form:
Sonnet
Reclusive AccountabilitiesI am sick of excuses to avoid responsibility
and I am, today, sick with excuses to avoid responsibility
with "I'm just a mortal human. I make mistakes.
I judge situations and relationships,
assess potential risks to care and nourishing...
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Categories:
coldly, culture, health, humanity, humor, political, race, stress,
Form:
Prose Poetry
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:
coldly, day, love, memory, night, rose, seasons, winter,
Form:
Rhyme
Ecotherapeutic JusticeWhen passion plants a multicultural seed,
then justice flourishes a polypathic trusting flower.
Permaculture and polyculture,
grow holistic cause-effect karmic significance
for our physical, and mental, political and spiritual health.
Permacultural, as I intend it this morning,
refers to...
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Categories:
coldly, blessing, culture, earth, nature, philosophy, political, religion,
Form:
Narrative
Miklos Radnoti Translations of Holocaust PoemsPostcard 1
by Miklós Radnóti
written August 30, 1944
translated by Michael R. Burch
Out of Bulgaria, the great wild roar of the artillery thunders,
resounds on the mountain ridges, rebounds, then ebbs into silence
while here men, beasts, wagons...
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Categories:
coldly, death, grave, holocaust, horror, humanity, memorial, world
Form:
Free verse
Talk To Me Stop TalkingJust a view on the inner critic. Every time I read what I wrote I see a different angle. This person never even opened their eyes. Some day you can't.
The day had begun. Simple. It...
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Categories:
coldly, mental illness,
Form:
Prose
The Splice of Life
“The Splice of Life”
When colour
was to be
washed out
of the world
the evil ones
didn’t care
the Actor led
with his
Dementors
either side of him
Laundry,
they resolved
to be the best
pristine method
for...
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Categories:
coldly, humanity, political, religion, science,
Form:
Free verse
Starlight and MoonlightThese are poems about starlight and moonlight, moons and stars, dreams and visions, illuminations and intimations …
Will There Be Starlight
by Michael R. Burch
Will there be starlight
tonight
while she gathers
damask
and lilac
and sweet-scented heathers?
And will she find...
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Categories:
coldly, dark, dream, love, moon, night, star, stars,
Form:
Rhyme
C T Myers - Both Audio and TextC. T. Myers
Just a couple weeks ago the boss called in an ad, hoping we could find a guy to fill Bill Daly’s shoes.
Bill had fallen victim to the same thing that his dad had,...
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Categories:
coldly, anger, car,
Form:
Verse
Let's Be KinderIn his essay "Let's Be Reasonable"
Rev. Todd Eklof [The Gadfly Papers]
reduces reasonable to logical;
This is a common left-brain dominant error,
confusion between deductive premises
and coldly reductive conclusions
calculated assuming cause v effect linear formulas
more than feedback...
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Categories:
coldly, health, humanity, integrity, math, political, power, relationship,
Form:
Political Verse
Doppler Radar Killed Our Classic Car - 2nd Half As Text Plus Full AudioHere's the deal, folks...
This is, as indicated, the 2nd HALF of this fairly lengthy poem. Due to Poetry Soup's file-size limitations, this piece had to be posted in 2 parts.
...
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Categories:
coldly, car,
Form:
Narrative
My Layover Nightmare - Both Audio and TextYa' gotta feel sorry for this ding-bat -
The clouds were drifting eastward through a cool late-evening sky, as I was barreling down a road in eastern Tennessee.
Whipping through the traffic in a new...
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Categories:
coldly, humor,
Form:
Narrative
Bedlam and Mayhem In the Mistress's BoudoirBedlam and mayhem in the mistress's boudoir
Nsync with variations on a theme:
of drool worthy Reuben Sandwich
(consisting of corned beef,
Swiss cheese, sauerkraut,
Russian dressing between slices
of rye bread that is grilled
until the bread...
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Categories:
coldly, adventure, angel, anxiety, appreciation, beautiful, desire, endurance,
Form:
Free verse
World War Ii Poems and Holocaust Poems - Iii - Miklos RadnotiWorld War II Poems and Holocaust Poems - III - Miklos Radnoti
Miklos Radnoti was one of the greatest of the Jewish Holocaust poets. He died on a Nazi death march, shot to death in cold...
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Categories:
coldly, holocaust, murder, race, racism, war, world, world
Form:
Free verse
Two Dads -- 1st HalfHere's why this was necessary...
This is, as indicated, the 1st HALF of this fairly lengthy poem. The 2nd half had to be posted separately due to Poetry Soup's file-size limitations. No other...
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Categories:
coldly, father son,
Form:
Verse
Embellishing - 1st HalfHere's the scoop, friends...
This is, as indicated, the 1st HALF of this fairly lengthy poem. The 2nd half had to be posted separately due to Poetry Soup's file-size limitations. No other way...
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Categories:
coldly, car, humor,
Form:
Narrative
De'Ja Vu - Wuthering Heights - 1st HalfThis poem was inspired by one of my all time favorite motion picture classics, particularly the 1939 (the 1st) edition, in good old black ad white...
NOTE: This is part 1 of a 2...
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Categories:
coldly, lost love,
Form:
Narrative
Reattaching LibertiesDr. Sue Johnson,
developer of Emotionally Focused Therapy,
rooted in an Attachment Theory
that organic creatures live healthier
more robust
compassionate
and prosperous lives
when their original womb relationship
and earliest parent/child interdependence
is more warmly attached
and less coldly detached,
and certainly not absent,
stolen for...
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Categories:
coldly, anger, anti bullying, destiny, health, humanity, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse