Long Daring Poems
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I Am My Father's SonThey were gambling in front of the house.
Manservants and pages bustled about
Serving Suitors who just curse and carouse.
Few mix wine with water. I heard one shout,
"Clean down the tables with wet sponges! Rouse
Yourselves! And when...
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Categories:
daring, adventure, anger, anxiety, bullying, father, history, introspection,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Psychologically still thirteenPsychologically still thirteen
Ordinarily meaning pre Internet days
familiarization with me would entail
bringing the avid listener
into my private mancave hideaways
less a physical place than a juncture in relationship,
(whereby one or the other of us)...
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Categories:
daring, 7th grade, age, angst, birth, blue, family,
Form:
Rhyme
Juvenilia: Early Poems ViJuvenilia: Early Poems VI
An Illusion
by Michael R. Burch
The sky was as hushed as the breath of a bee
and the world was bathed in shades of palest gold
when I awoke.
She came to me with the sound...
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Categories:
daring, poetry, poets, teen, teenage, write, writing, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
Whats Behind the CurtainI used to dream of a dark hall. Dim. Empty with thick cheap navy curtains.
The breeze. It felt hot and old. It shivered in the curtains that lined the walls on both sides.
The breeze....
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Categories:
daring, anxiety, dark, dream, imagery, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
BehindI used to dream of a dark hall. Dim. Empty with thick cheap navy curtains.
The breeze. It felt hot and old. It shivered in the curtains that lined the walls on both sides.
The breeze....
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Categories:
daring, anxiety, depression, emo, suicide,
Form:
Blank verse
Nemesis, Confrontation and the Rejoined Battle, Now CompletedNemesis, Confrontation And The Rejoined Battle,
Now Completed
(Nemesis) - Part One
O'lord of blight dare thee to now abide
Leaving thy abode to earthen realm ride
As punisher with dark universal might
As grief bearer, humanity to smite!
Dar'est thee enter,...
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Categories:
daring, art, creation, faith, humanity, light, meaningful, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
Medieval Poems IvMedieval Poems IV
IN LIBRARIOS
by Thomas Campion
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Booksellers laud authors for novel editions
as pimps praise their whores for exotic positions.
Brut (circa 1100 AD, written by Layamon, an excerpt)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R....
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Categories:
daring, angel, mother, romance, romantic, rose, roses are
Form:
Rhyme
Various Heresies 5Various Heresies 5
Tonight, Let's Remember
by Michael R. Burch
July 7,2007 (7-7-7)
Tonight, let's remember the fond ways
our fingers engendered new methods to praise
the gray at my temples, your thinning hair.
Tonight, let's remember, and let us draw near...
Tonight,...
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Categories:
daring, creation, earth, god, heaven, spiritual, wine, women,
Form:
Verse
Visit To AntietamAlone I arrive, walking from Frederick
over the gaps, across gentle hills
out onto a knoll
overlooking this burnished landscape.
Before me I see countless writhing rows
of indiscernible shapes gathered
in terrible rituals mid fire and smoke
darkening the sun.
From distant...
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Categories:
daring, america, conflict, history, together, war,
Form:
Ode
Chapter 18: Dolly Damian Molly and Polly: Love In DegreesDate: April 2026
The 1st degree is unknown
Damian and Polly had planned
The trip to the Copy Cat Club
For weeks with Dolly and Molly
The club was popping when
They hit the scene.
The DJ...
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Categories:
daring, beautiful, culture, fun, good night, hello, integrity,
Form:
Alliteration
Chaucer Translation: RejectionRejection
a roundel by Geoffrey Chaucer
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Your beauty from your heart has so erased
Pity, that it's useless to complain;
For Pride now holds your mercy by a chain.
I'm guiltless, yet my sentence has...
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Categories:
daring, beauty, french, heart, innocence, nature, pride, women,
Form:
Roundel
Medieval Poems VMedieval Poem V
A Proverb from Winfred's Time
anonymous Old English poem, circa 757-786
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
1.
The procrastinator puts off purpose,
never initiates anything marvelous,
never succeeds, and dies alone.
2.
The late-deed-doer delays glory-striving,
never indulges daring dreams,
never succeeds,...
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Categories:
daring, earth, england, love, middle school, poems, poets,
Form:
Rhyme
Oncle Albert - Part 1Here he stands, Edwardian vogue, sometimes with his spats,
sometimes with his brogues below his dungarees. With rounded collar points and tie, and jacket donned below this flying suit, his waste is tied with simple...
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Categories:
daring, flying, history,
Form:
Narrative
Rainer Maria Rilke Translation: the PantherThe Panther
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
His weary vision's so overwhelmed by iron bars,
his exhausted eyes see only blank Oblivion.
His world is not our world. It has no stars.
No light. Ten thousand...
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Categories:
daring, allegory, analogy, animal, cat, extended metaphor, freedom,
Form:
Sonnet
I hanker and pine for wood burning stove weatherI hanker and pine for wood burning stove weather
I haint no spring chicken,
("Buk buk buk buk ba-gawk!")
but in Summer re:
long in tooth sexagenarian
nostalgic for the following imagery
evoked yesterday with very little effort
(aside...
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Categories:
daring, age, allegory, appreciation, celebration, confusion, halloween, natural
Form:
Free verse
Translations of the Oldest Rhyming Poems In the English LanguageTranslations of the Oldest English Rhyming Poems
The Rhymed Poem aka The Rhyming Poem aka The Riming Poem
Old English/Anglo-Saxon poem from the Exeter Book, circa 990 AD
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
(excerpt)
He who granted me life...
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Categories:
daring, england, poems, poetry, poets, words, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
InsecurityA shameful secret that everyone hides behind their fake facades, when we should be honored to wear them and show them off
Why do we hide who we truly are from the strangers that we meet?...
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Categories:
daring, abuse,
Form:
Rhyme
A Free-Verse EpicThus it begins—
A free-verse epic
Into the mind of
A writer and an idiot—
A romantic and,
Often a pessimist
Conjoined in arbitrary glory
Are the thoughts and words
Of one overly-worked mind—
Charismatic and, of course,
On the pushover, pitiful
And usually...
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Categories:
daring, beautiful, confidence, conflict, courage, deep, freedom, love,
Form:
Free verse
Attempts At Lifelong Friendships and Holy MatrimonyIntroduction: once again I incorporate
my trademark penchant
to fabricate fictitiously
portions of the following poetic endeavor
can you care to
discern fact from fiction?
Attempts at lifelong friendships and holy matrimony...
Shot thru with figuratively cankerous nub,
cuz yours...
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Categories:
daring, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure, age, anger,
Form:
Rhyme
A Haunting Wooded Tale,It's like some long lost fairy tale
That's handed down through time
But couldn't be, as you will see
For this strange tale is mine.
I chose to take a country road
I do from time to time
To...
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Categories:
daring, adventure, fantasy,
Form:
Rhyme
Birthday of beloved buxom babe I betrothedBirthday of beloved buxom babe I betrothed
Pardon my hyperbole if in fact such embellishment can be sifted out amidst the pretentious poetry and/or prose NOT aired to appear superior, but more so as passion for...
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Categories:
daring, anniversary, appreciation, birth, birthday, endurance, fear, wife,
Form:
Free verse
In My Beautiful BalloonWith summer nearly gone, we all wanted to do something special,
And decided it should be daring, rather than the usual and dull.
So, we listed the things we desired to do, but hadn't yet tried,
And we...
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Categories:
daring, adventure, beauty, fantasy, lost, miracle, nature, prayer,
Form:
Couplet
Rainer Maria Rilke: First Elegy TranslationThis is my translation of the first of Rilke’s Duino Elegies. Rilke began the first Duino Elegy in 1912, as a guest of Princess Marie von Thurn und Taxis, at Duino Castle, near Trieste on...
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Categories:
daring, angel, beauty, desire, metaphor, universe, visionary, voice,
Form:
Free verse
Appear My Queen At the PierAs the life of the day nears its last breath,
With a glow of crimson, forewarning its death,
Upon its cresting, the reflection, daunting,
The sea sets free a beauty, haunting
The depths of its treasures of unknown span,
The...
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Categories:
daring, beauty, desire, dream, fantasy, inspiration, love, romantic
Form:
Rhyme
Another Cruel Link In Their Chain Another Cruel Link in their Chain
1. Beginnings
Her babe was her joy, such a beautiful boy,
and he suckled her breast till the end.
The slaver sought cash, bestowed mammy a thrash,
sold her...
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Categories:
daring, body, life, men,
Form:
Ballad