Long Concealed Poems
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Fully Employed Now
Humanity keeps looking forward, toward the coming of a birth,
and we’re all deemed as equals on our first day on this earth,
but as the years go quickly by our lives become our own;
we’re seen as...
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Categories:
concealed, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Letters For People Part 4
Dear people,
(Am i?) Mad it’s a conformist state?
A status that perpetuates people to pair, to compare, to prepare,
to perfect, before performance, …?
-sure hard to try...
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Categories:
concealed, america, angst, business, confusion, feelings, poverty,
Form:
Epic
Vacuum
Vacuum
by Michael R. Burch
Over hushed quadrants
forever landlocked in snow,
time’s senseless winds blow...
leaving odd relics of lives half-revealed,
if still mostly concealed...
such are the things we are unable to know
that once intrigued us so.
Come then, let us...
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Categories:
concealed, education, extended metaphor, farewell, first love, graduation,
Form:
Free verse
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:
concealed, animal, bird, flying, nature,
Form:
Free verse
Villanelles
Villanelles
The villanelle is a poetic form based on repetition, with a double refrain.
Villanelle: The Divide
by Michael R. Burch
The sea was not salt the first tide...
was man born to sorrow that first day,
with the...
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Categories:
concealed, moon, repetition, romance, romantic, romantic love, sea,
Form:
Villanelle
Sonnets Xxxiii-Xli
Sonnets XXXIII-XLI
The Folly of Wisdom
by Michael R. Burch
She is wise in the way that children are wise,
looking at me with such knowing, grave eyes
I must bend down to her to understand.
But she only smiles, and...
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Categories:
concealed, child, childhood, children, death, life, time, world,
Form:
Sonnet
Poems About Laughter, Giggles and Smiles
Here and Hereafter
by Michael R. Burch
Life’s saving graces are love, pleasure, laughter ...
wisdom, it seems, is for the Hereafter.
Laughter’s Cry
by Michael R. Burch
Because life is a mystery, we laugh
and do not know the half.
Because death...
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Categories:
concealed, cheer up, children, family, giggle, joy, smile,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Fathers and Grandfathers Iv
Poems about Fathers and Grandfathers IV
Neglect
by Michael R. Burch
What good are your tears?
They will not spare the dying their anguish.
What good is your concern
to a child sick of living, waiting to perish?
What good, the warm...
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Categories:
concealed, family, father, father daughter, father son, fathers
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Children V
Poems about Children V
Pan
by Michael R. Burch
Among the shadows of the groaning elms,
amid the darkening oaks, we fled ourselves
Once there were paths that led to coracles
that clung to piers like loosening barnacles
where we cannot return,...
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Categories:
concealed, autumn, baseball, child, childhood, children, dog, sports,
Form:
Rhyme
Fadwa Tuqan Translations
Fadwa Tuqan has been called the Grand Dame of Palestinian letters and The Poet of Palestine. These are my translations of Fadwa Tuqan poems originally written in Arabic.
Enough for Me
by Fadwa Tuqan
loose translation/interpretation by...
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Categories:
concealed, allah, culture, earth, love, nature, voice, writing,
Form:
Free verse
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:
concealed, car, crush, desire, love, lust, sexy, teen
Form:
Sonnet
Love Poems V
LOVE POEMS V
These are love poems by Michael R. Burch, about life, the dream of love, virtue, a first kiss, a first crush, the birth of a first relationship, the joy of a first love...
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Categories:
concealed, birth, confusion, crush, dream, joy, kiss, longing,
Form:
Rhyme
The Poet of Palestine: Fadwa Tuqan
English translations of Arabic poems by Fadwa Tuqan aka "The Poet of Palestine"
Enough for Me
by Fadwa Tuqan
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Enough for me to lie in the earth,
to be buried in her,
to sink...
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Categories:
concealed, allah, arabic, culture, nature, poetess, poetry, writing,
Form:
Verse
Mexican severe repeat violent offender stabbing five persons with a butcher knife
News release woman gets only
four years for stabbing five people
with a large butcher knife saying
I’m going to Mort you why would
Wisconsin concealed a butcher
knife dangerous weapon out the
hands of...
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Categories:
concealed, allah,
Form:
Kyrielle
Rondels, Roundels and Rondeaux
Rondels, Roundels and Rondeaux
These are poetic forms similar to villanelles, with refrains (repeated lines) and sometimes double refrains.
Rondel: Merciles Beaute ("Merciless Beauty")
by Geoffrey Chaucer
loose translation/interpretation Michael R. Burch
Your eyes slay me suddenly;
their beauty I cannot...
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Categories:
concealed, art, beauty, heart, repetition, romance, romantic, romantic
Form:
Roundel
Slots poker machines unsolved murders Illinois
Lake county music company filled with
slots carney folk real carny folk the little
pete's illegal gambling road show throughout
the Midwest gaming like your idol Frank Peter
Balistreiri the mad bomber stops Metropolis...
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Categories:
concealed, allah,
Form:
Nazm
Finally Saved Part 1 - Translation From Rabindranath Tagore
This is a translation from a Poem (Title - Niskriti) by Rabindranath Tagore, Nobel-Laureate philosopher poet (1861 - 1941) from India. The story successfully depicts the status of women in a patriarchal society of nineteenth...
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Categories:
concealed, father daughter, love, marriage, women,
Form:
Free verse
Milton Creek Election Week
Judge Horne issued a decree that elections take place this week
For the positions of mayor and sheriff in the town of Milton Creek
It had now been nearly four years and was somewhat overdue
Some known names...
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Categories:
concealed, america, conflict, prison,
Form:
Narrative
Modern Sonnets Ii
MODERN SONNETS II
I prefer the original definition of the sonnet as a “little song” of indeterminate form and length. These modern sonnets vary from more-or-less traditional to free verse.
In Praise of Meter
by Michael R. Burch
The...
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Categories:
concealed, art, romance, romantic, romantic love, song, write,
Form:
Sonnet
The Beast of the Cave
When I was young, and adventure routine,
With excitement and newness still unforeseen
I was eager to spread my wings to the world
And seek more adventures as those wings unfurled
Within my long travels I happened to meet
Two...
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Categories:
concealed, adventure, dark, death, evil, scary,
Form:
Rhyme
Kidnapped By Aliens
They had kept me imprisoned there for three full days,
In that sparse, solitary room, of scarce sunshine rays.
Having good food to eat, had never been a problem;
They brought hot meals, but the problem was...
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Categories:
concealed, adventure, earth, fantasy, imagery, space, stars,
Form:
Couplet
The Reflection of Your Crown
Ahhhh ooooh ohhhh mmmm hmmmm
I was Insecure...impure...
Liberty is a miracle cure...
Endure till the end of time
Time with You was so sublime
I'm a sinner, I admit it
I lied to get the truth I can't...
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Categories:
concealed, deep, depression, desire,
Form:
Lyric
Scared of the Dark
I have been scared of the darkness below
The sun glows bright and the wind will blow
I have been unprepared for the worst again
The moonbeams glimmer above like my pen
Was in solitude for hours
Ideas sprouting like...
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Categories:
concealed, angst, confidence, emotions,
Form:
Lyric
Accumulating Anger: My Love Was Serpentine
My love was serpentine to the touch
I can't quite explain it...the love of mine
Had gone away from my sight and such
I can quiz my mind to say otherwise, my bittersweet sugar wine…
Why am I extremely...
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Categories:
concealed, angst, longing, lost love, love, love hurts,
Form:
Rhyme
Visitor - Part 2 - a Collaboration With July Morning
The Story so far continued from 'Visitor'…
An attractive extra-terrestrial female researcher sent to a remote island to observe earth and beam back her findings is struggling with unfamiliar, alien romantic emotions. Even though she is...
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Categories:
concealed, adventure, romance, science fiction, sensual,
Form:
Narrative