Long Damsels in distress Poems

Sonnets 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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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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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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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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Unquotable Quotes VIIIL : SEXUAL HARASSMENT* - the feminist kind

(*”aggressive pressure or intimidation”: Is it really “any different” in most cases in the act, judging by Hollywood standards?)

STOP: ARREST ALL GIRLS
 - standing with legs...

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Dried up like a reservoir
In the mid summer heat
The cracks in the ground
Are like
The life lines, upon my face
I have weathered many a storm
As if
I have lived a 100 lifetimes,
Instead of one! 

Bare, rough, dirty...

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He never understands the world though societies eyes,
the pain inside more than he can bear anymore,
just one more broken soldier,
never even seen combat yet, 
yet wanting to go over to distant lands so much,
to escape...

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Redemption Knight

He rode the wind on mighty steed
He drove it fast to gain more speed
To win the maiden: noble deed
As he galloped in the night…

He found his damsel in distress
With dragon claws clutching her dress
Disheveled...

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The old man sat with eyes closed, dozing in his chair
Until a little voice he heard say “Grandpa, are you there”.

He gazed upon a little boy while waking from his nap
Then reached down with a...

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The telly fed me the propaganda. Of princesses and princes.
Damsels in distress. Knights in shining armour. That was
Love. It was always a man and a woman; perfect, no flaws.
In spring, blackbirds sing outside my window;
Males...

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She loved when he read her fairy tales…she’d sit upon his knees
and be amazed how so many fairy tales took place among the trees.

Fairy tales…alive with woes and heartaches…
with battles, and wishes granted,
with damsels in...

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They found an old friend of mine dead today,
    They said he just completely withered away.
He was said to have been a knight in shiny armor and rode a mighty steed,
 ...

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I dreamed of princes and damsels in distress,
While a sleeping giant in a cave does rest.
The dragon slumber with fire at it side,
People are frightened so they run and hide.

With fear in their eyes the...

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At this very moment coolies screamed, ‘train', 
We scampered packing up our bags and bales, 
A long-awaited train’s a certain bane, 
But this one turned a boon, such were the tales, 
An English gentleman hailed...

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Climb those many stairs, up to the stars.
“Cut!” Comes the child, the wee Pinkerton.
Stunt double, doubles down, with plethora of scars.
Fate is what it is, bumps, bruises...sorta fun.

Pinkerton rolls and bounces, ooches and ouches.
Then they...

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Things that live in webbed corners of our mind,
that lurk under our beds or in the closet we soon find,
love the dark of gloom, the delicious smell of fright,
fertile dreams edge into heart-thumping terrors of...

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Inside me is fact 
Poking at imagination 
Teasing fiction 
At war with piles of literature
Angry poems colliding with hospital visits
And funerals 
Inside me are Encyclopedias 
Constant shouting of evidence and actuality 
“ON SEPTEMBER 4TH 1992...

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... 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, because...

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Courtly days of knights so gallant,
And demure damsels in distress;
Hearken ye to this admiring descant,
Of chivalry and sheer noblesse.

Nights of satin and days of adventure,
Of heroes and villains vile,
Of windborne blossoms, dark allure,
Which made the...

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Come, and lay here, on this soft grassy hill

hear stories I'll tell from yesteryear

the sun is setting... the air calm and fair

though a gentle breeze can caress your hair

listen, my dear, about the dragons you...

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I saw a Band of Royal Knights
upon their mighty Steeds
Coat of Arms,  A-gleaming
Herald Heroic Deeds...

One is Valor, One is Truth
Chivalry and Might
Another, Honor, Loyalty
Justice and Light

Charity and Chastity
and Faith, Their Golden Spurs
Those Bold, Polished...

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When your days are numbered
When it's time to pass on
What will be your story
You'll choose to leave the world

Will you leave a romantic novel
With hero's and horses
Rescuing damsels in distress
Fixing hearts that are broken

Will your...

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The knights in shining armor have all died
the damsels in distress are left...distressed
what once was chivalry and manly pride
by silence in the fight is now expressed

Where are the men who knew the right from wrong
who'd...

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In the seat of my soul

There are jellyfish in a rainbow creek

In the seat of my soul sits a little girl

Whose eyes are still full of stars

Who never knew life was hard

Where anything was possible

Knights...

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Sunflowers,
cheddar-cheese petals
surrounding seedy-brown-mustard centers,
stand guard over hot summer pavement
like mighty oaks.
Laughing children
run in and out the yellow forest,
slaying dragons,
rescuing damsels in distress,
then pretending to be astronauts
sailing across space 
to a planet inhabited
by tall, green stalk-like...

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