Long Coloration Poems

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.

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Auschwitz Rose
by Michael R. Burch
											
There is a Rose at Auschwitz, in the briar,
a rose like Sharon’s, lovely as her name.
The world forgot her, and is not the same.
I still love her and extend this sacred...

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Sonnets X-XVI


Archaischer Torso Apollos (“Archaic Torso of Apollo”)
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

We cannot know the beheaded god
nor his eyes' forfeited visions. But still
the figure's trunk glows with the strange vitality
of a...

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World War II Poems and Holocaust Poems (I)

These are poems about World War II and the Holocaust, which is also called the Shoah in Hebrew. 



Epitaph for a Child of the Holocaust
by Michael R. Burch

I...

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My most popular poems on the Internet (III)

A number of my poems and translations have gone viral, according to Google, and some have been copied onto hundreds to thousands of web pages. That’s a lot...

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It was just one of those splendid days, which held no excitement;
Moreover it required none, for in its stillness, I was content.

Lying on the forest green grass, luxurious blue skies in my eyes,
Summer winds brought...

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I sat one evening in the park
upon a bench I thought my own
but as the dusk turned into dark,
I realized I was not alone

I hadn't seen from where he'd come
or got a strong look at...

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Author Note: I am not sure this is what you are looking for, I find it difficult to write about 
nature without including all the related elements to the theme. If if does not qualify,...

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Baudrillardian Echo


I awoke this morning with a profound vision of a painting. 
A sort of Baroque ensemble of consequence, still lingering. 
I've put it to pen, since it's quicker than painting.  
The contortion of life...

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The focus in the direction of possibilities and to enter into a bridge of congressional diplomat and to decipher the negative from the positive in all ways of motion and emotional dictation from the view...

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Roses Of The Field

Village square has flowers of rare coloration
Not appearing in nature
Painted, ugly, plastic without a scent
Aromas are condemned, not authorized by local politics
Illegal in the kingdom and the region

To sell or grow or...

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My life spins in tune with yours
twirling and dancing 
through open doors
to think you almost slipped away
missing the mark in the usual way
In life we love one in the same
our minds are cloned
like the visions...

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the dependency that ravels the questions and answers to be direct in the nationality of all that pertains to the moment of course and depends on the instructions of the force that enlightens the fracture...

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I have gained nothing from white supremacy
with singular power, sans The Almighty
My faithful friend with sheets of white
my pal, poised, unpen itself to make things right
How squeaky clean each new beginning?
that borrows from the dead,...

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If I Ruled the World

Populated by sunsets of extraordinary vivid coloration,
Heightened by fires from 
Remote conflagrations in the mountains far away.

Populated by orange hunter’s moons,
Suspended in an autumn cold night sky
Against a shimmering curtain backdrop
Of...

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the step towards values and conditions relate to the opposition in the coloration of the spectrum of a rainbow over the sunny clouds to bright and the percentages are in fact the lethal amount of...

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What color is angry?

Red!

What color is sad?

blueeeee...

What color is nutrient health?

green, like wealth?

What color is hate?

BLACK!!!

What color is happy?

Yellow? Like sun light.

What color is depressed?

Greyscale.

What color is love?

For some white absence,
for others dipolar TransParent,
for others...

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Autumn is partial to October's chill
as Jack frost colors canopies of green.
And you will no longer require sunscreen,
though October's waning warmth lingers still.

Gold, scarlet, and orange dapple the trees 
juxtaposed by scarecrows in muddy fields.
The...

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Summer wearily sighed then softly closed her door.
For three months she lingered, and now she'd slumber
while Fall lays a carpet of leaves upon the forest floor.
Her winds gather them together,  in profuse number,
bronze, russet...

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Flipping through each face, the ghost of my memories and others that came along
The very existence of them all, either torn and worn or fairly pure in my life
 Each unhaunted and hidden away from...

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Summer wearily sighed then softly closed her door.
For three months she lingered, and now she'd slumber
while Fall lays a carpet of leaves upon the forest floor.
Her swirling wind gathers them in abundant number,
bronze, russet and...

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Color me outside the lines,
highlight the parts of me not easily defined

Take a crayon interest in my heart,
give a little more coloration to this innervision numbering chart

Pick a hue of your own choosing,
and princess veil...

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flames in 
the 
   sky
      told
  the
    story
a massive attack
   and thousands 
meet their end
   we live on a small
blue...

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The all too common
American squirrel
can become quite whimsical
in the random coloration
of their normally grayish hides.

Some are attired in formal black,
some in a fetching Albinus white,
and every shade in-between.

Little red,
unlike those rare British squirrels
(which are naturally...

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Unwitting Creator

Three decades of habitats
hacked to the ground
only a stump remaining

You see it was in the way of establishment

Mourning tree's beauty
and lost pairs of visitors in all coloration

It took a while to see

Crying in vain
not...

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