Long Dare to dream Poems

Sonnets LXI-LXX

Erin
by Michael R. Burch

All that’s left of Ireland is her hair?
bright carrot?and her milkmaid-pallid skin,

her brilliant air of cavalier despair,
her train of children?some conceived in sin,

the others to avoid it. For nowhere
is evidence of...

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Poems about Butterflies and Bees



Flight
by Michael R. Burch

It is the nature of loveliness to vanish
as butterfly wings, batting against nothingness
seek transcendence...



Album
by Michael R. Burch

I caress them—trapped in brittle cellophane—
and I see how young they were,...

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Beckoning
by Michael R. Burch 
 
Yesterday the wind whispered my name
while the blazing locks
of her rampant mane
lay heavy on mine.
And yesterday
I saw the way
the wind caressed tall pines
in forests laced by glinting streams
and thick with...

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There was a glimpse of time unknown to man
The things none may ever describe
All wrapped within this wall of thoughts
For if a moment of my thoughts are clear
They are not my thoughts at all
Never again...

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I heard two distinct voices in the night,
Conversing amongst themselves most eagerly
They whispered like children in excitement
Their sardonic mouths sung many savvy tunes
It was Death I could perceive, defending me,
And he, a strange, distant friend
Seemed...

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Afraid To Face The World

You may be the one to help redeem my spirit 
For you seem so incredibly inspiring. 
Anything I create I destroy 
Save me from destroying myself 
Oh potential Muse 
A wild...

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“Whoso List to Hunt” is a famous early English sonnet written by Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542) in the mid-16th century. 

Whoever Longs to Hunt
by Sir Thomas Wyatt
loose translation/interpretation/modernization by Michael R. Burch

Whoever longs to hunt,...

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I progress from my regress far back behind the rest
Steady Improvement is the Chief Aim
So many are the years I wasted trying to be
	...what the society wanted me to be
I?ve retraced my steps to where...

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I knew it soon an intelligence, a beauty, to come to know, the image, the live liver, the sophisticate, the metropolitan.

Years went on, my secret crush, never dare dream, little attention given, why dare to...

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Ill Wind of


It comes replete with verve and belief

Full blown in its gusto and rote of surety 

Yet its goal is to confound and mislead

And bury all the true faces of love

It’s an ill wind...

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Robert Lloyd Sherriff - Australian Poet, Author, Actor, and Model: American Historian.

Robert Lloyd Sherriff - Australian Poet (Born: 8th July 1954)

Robert Lloyd Sherriff - Follow if you want to be a better poet

An Ode to...

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(Dedication: For Ann, who knows.)
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Follow your heart and listen well:
Do what you love and let it show;
All good things start when urge in-dwells;
Your musing dove inspires warm glow.


Go with the flow with inner voice;
Dare to...

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In Dreamland's dazzling domain, where fairytales unfurl, A youth yonder yearned, with heart that hoped to hurl, Himself into the hinterland, a hero's journey to embark, To chase the chimeras of change, to leave a...

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I WAS TALKING TO GOD:
I am a downright failure,
I never get to the point at any time.
I am screwed up,
It’s of no use to try now.
The world, for me, is now above.
 
It’s worthless to...

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Community, what does it mean
And how does it come into being
Well what does the dictionary have to say
“A group of people living together in one place”

I guess that means were all in community
Though if I...

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It doesn't interest me what you do for a living, I want to know what you ache for, and if you 
dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing.
It doesn't interest me how old you...

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Don’t believe what everyone believes
But what you understand
Don’t be part of an entirety
Which is not part of yourself
Dare to dream and to disappoint
Don’t do what is expected from you
But what you don’t even expect from...

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A bright star shimmers over once still seas:
                           ...

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God’s Poetry ‘VS’ Christ’s Grace

Is ‘poetry’ just prejudice, the garbage that we buy,  
a honey all tongues wired for (or Life’s Water for Christ’s loved), (1)
just pretty words our ego threads (or balm that...

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I want to know what you ache 
for
And if you dare to dream of 
meeting your heart’s longing
It doesn’t interest me how old 
you are
I want to know if u'll risk 
looking like a fool...

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The emancipation proclamation of incarceration
 has got me defacing public property, with words like
 don't shoot, or i can't breathe.
     So say can you see by the dawns early blue and...

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I'm not interested in how,
 You make a living?
   I want to know if you have nothing, 
 Are you still giving?

   I want to know if you dare to dream...

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A Resolution for This Time
(Based on Eccl. 3:1-15)
©2011 C. Brent Cloyd

I long to see the beauty of my time
Hear music from eternal bells that chime
Enjoy earth, till this good life I sever
Look toward heaven that...

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My son, 
extraordinary occurrence
coming from the unknown
going toward the unknown,
Perhaps born from the divine predicament
Perhaps from pure coincidence.

My son…
I cannot mention your name
I cannot glance at your face
I cannot kiss your cheek
I cannot smell your...

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Three months went pass uneasy.
My feelings for him has not lessen any.
Never dare to dream of being his bf or gf, 
Just a simple fun loving relationship.
Yet, he was so mean, could not afford it.
One...

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