Long Coronas Poems

The Original Sin: Rhyming Haiku!
 
Haiku
should never rhyme:
it’s a crime!
-Michael R. Burch
 
The herons stand,
sentry-like, at attention ...
rigid observers of some unknown command.
-Michael R. Burch
 
Late
fall;
all
the golden leaves turn black underfoot:
soot
-Michael R. Burch
 
Dry leaf...

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Poems about the Coronavirus I


yet another iffy coronavirus haiku #1
by michael r. burch

plagued by the Plague
i plague the goldfish
with my verse



yet another iffy coronavirus haiku #2
by michael r. burch

sunflowers
hang their heads
embarrassed by their coronas

I wrote...

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Poems about the Coronavirus II


This World's Joy
(anonymous Middle English lyric, circa early 14th century AD)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Winter awakens all my care
as leafless trees grow bare.
For now my sighs are fraught
whenever it enters...

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yet another iffy coronavirus haiku #1
by michael r. burch

plagued by the Plague
i plague the goldfish
with my verse



yet another iffy coronavirus haiku #2
by michael r. burch

sunflowers
hang their heads
embarrassed by their coronas

I wrote this poem after having...

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An Ode to Femininity and Romance -

The background music of this delicate poetic arrangement is intended to be played softly as you sit back and reminisce on romantic memories while creating new ones - Perhaps...

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Beneath the evening's astral embroidery, the kiss was born timidly,
A spark of hope, golden and gentle, in the fabric of the ephemeral.
A celestial arch, lips slowly bend towards the sea, aspiring to eternity,
And they withdraw...

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Rock-a-bye starlets where the Swan flies.
Like earthly Sun, your day will arise.
Bright shall you reign, before your light dies.
So shine in your cradle high in the skies.

Cygnus OB2, the place you dwell
cozily clustered in cloudy...

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Wind Mill
Mind Will
How I can
I do
Think for myself…

Cinder block burns your heal
Calling out from my heart I steal
Mind of my own I do so will
Soul of my own I grow and build
Blowing in the wind,...

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Yeh dont mess wit me
Got this demon in my head
Better run from me
yea dont mess with me
 Im so drunk wit stress

Need a line Of cocaine to sober  up homie

Yet since this ish ...

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spent my whole life running
like we sometimes do
from what I left behind
never slowing down
tryin to forget you

told myself we weren't real
it was just a dream
my heart put you away
never to be felt again
but fate comes...

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Shadows  9-22-23
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Shadows

Living in ethereal shadows of compassion,
In profiles of grace,
Mercy overshadows stumbling stones
Revealed in a lens of benevolent focus
To eclipse blisters of ebony shades 
With wispy balms of healing from raining penumbras,
No longer shadow...

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The Money Note 
Bad time for shipping and I had no work, slept on the sofa 
in my mother’s small flat, she sat up late drinking coffee,
reading and smoking cigarettes. 
I had a small unemployment...

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I can sing you a lullaby that could comatose an insomniac
Like the landing of a butterfly a rose would welcome this contact
My voice sprinkles her with relaxation the sandman could'nt match
Her eyes twinkle with admiration...

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Digits and Words.
Manuscript page 100, a digit of colossal abstraction,  
standing alone, inconsequential, just another zero.
When I was five I could count to hundred, stood by
the window counting people walking by.
It was a small...

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When home computers made their way
Into our homes, things changed
And desks in dens or bedrooms
Were cleared off and rearranged.

The typewriter was certainly 
The first thing taken out,
Tossed or shelved inside a closet
By all those but...

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Narcissus (Daffodils)

Narcissus has twelve different divisions
All as beautiful as one envisions

From trumpet small-cupped to Jonquilla
Split Corona and the fragrant many cupped Tazetta

With trumpets of yellow, coronas of pink and orange or red
Even the pretty Triandus...

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Showtime for Spring

yellow sprinkles spring
 with daffodils and crocus ~
  sunbeams tickle boughs

pink petal flurries
 spring breathes out apple blossoms ~
  puddles of color

lavender shadows
 splash in a lilac perfume ~
  purple...

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