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Poem Revised Memorial Day May 30th, 2022 At 1500 Hours
Poem revised Memorial Day May 30th, 2022 at 1500 hours
Flagrante delict adulterous sordid behavior
automatically linkedin with Lothario;
an unscrupulous seducer of women,
based upon a character
in The Impertinent Curious Man,
a story within a...
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Categories:
debauched, absence, abuse, adventure, anger, black african american,
Form:
Rhyme
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:
debauched, education, extended metaphor, farewell, first love, graduation,
Form:
Free verse
Poems About Icarus
Southern Icarus
by Michael R. Burch
Windborne, lover of heights,
unspooled from the truck’s wildly lurching embrace,
you climb, skittish kite...
What do you know of the world’s despair,
gliding in vast solitariness there,
so that all that remains is to
fall?
Only a...
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Categories:
debauched, analogy, angel, bird, butterfly, extended metaphor, flying,
Form:
Rhyme
The Making of a Poet
The Making of a Poet
by Michael R. Burch
While I don’t consider “Poetry” to be my best poem—I wrote the first version in my teens—it’s a poem that holds special meaning for me; I call it...
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Categories:
debauched, art, love, poems, poetry, poets, write, writing,
Form:
Verse
State of the Art Ii
State of the Art (II)
These are my "ars poetica" poems about the art and craft of writing poetry.
What the Poet Sees
by Michael R. Burch
What the poet sees,
he sees as a swimmer
~~~~underwater~~~~
watching the shoreline...
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Categories:
debauched, muse, poems, poetess, poetry, poets, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Various Heresies 2
Various Heresies 2
You
by Michael R. Burch
For thirty years You have not spoken to me;
I heard the dull hollow echo of silence
as though strange communion between us.
For thirty years You would not open to me;
You remained...
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Categories:
debauched, atheist, bible, christian, god, jesus, religion, religious,
Form:
Verse
Sonnets X-Xvi
Sonnets X-XVI
Archaischer Torso Apollos (“Archaic Torso of Apollo”)
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
We cannot know the beheaded god
nor his eyes' forfeited visions. But still
the figure's trunk glows with the strange vitality
of a...
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Categories:
debauched, art, body, god, life, romantic, visionary, writing,
Form:
Sonnet
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:
debauched, art, romance, romantic, romantic love, song, write,
Form:
Sonnet
Easter as interpreted by one
Easter as interpreted by one...
rebated, rebelled, rebirthed, rebooted,
and rebuked courtesy
one ill shod Unitarian atheist,
who means NOT to affect
any sacrilegious fallout
nor offend devoutly religious
man, woman, or child,
when the most important
Christian holiday notated,...
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Categories:
debauched, adventure, bible, celebration, christian, easter, family, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Memorial Day May 29th, 2023
silently wailing analogy to Moby Dick
regarding how yesterdays
prurient laced introductions
to rhyme in retrospect embarrassingly blows.
Herewith to enliven anecdote ever further,
I inject humorous tidbit
just gimme moment to unload and reach
into psychological metaphorical knapsack
particularly...
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Categories:
debauched, absence, america, angel, anger, beautiful, bridal shower,
Form:
Free verse
Easter As Interpreted By One
Easter as interpreted by one...
rebated, rebirthed rebooted, and rebuked
ill shod Unitarian atheist
Though avast percentage
of stonehenge temple piloted ghosts,
harking back millennia
constantly zip unseen thru aerospace,
they unwittingly espy
woolly sheep hush fleeced herd
profoundly religious peep pulls
plodding fast as...
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Categories:
debauched, allegory, angel, appreciation, body, celebration, creation, easter,
Form:
Free verse
The Whips of History - 3
We will be the trustees of life's passions...
The villas of villainous Rome are burning behind me
from Capua to the Cisalpine Alps the skyline is smoldering from her savage sins,
monuments of luxury built, furnished, and...
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Categories:
debauched, history, passion, poetry,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
The following fictitious scenario I evoke
The following fictitious scenario I evoke
Analogous to fire breathing
puffed up imaginary dragon
(in a land called Honah Lee)
ye might rightly think
what the deuce
haunting spectre ace of spades
goodfella aiming to be a poet all about,
meaning...
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Categories:
debauched, adventure, age, america, angel, appreciation, blessing, celebration,
Form:
Rhyme
Card Tricks
It was a party like most, I guess
And not a “fun” one, I must confess
But our hostess I adored
And I just couldn’t say: “I’m bored”,
So, I milled around, and said “Hello”
And tried to fake a...
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Categories:
debauched, conflict, dark, evil, horror, magic, scary,
Form:
Rhyme
Tangerine or Tandoori Tan Man - full version
Tandoori or Tangerine Tan?
Mister rich lister Blister
Sinister Mandarin Minister
Sin..Spin & Chagrin Talisman
Jaundice scrotum prejudice totem
Podium pandemonium
Needs Imodium...feeds Opprobrium
As this git did his bit
To ensure the sh*t hit the fan
Satsuma Tumour
Sense of Humour?
That...
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Categories:
debauched, education, political, society,
Form:
Free verse
50 Words For Poe: Foxglove
"50 Words for Poe: Foxglove"
What goes through the mind
of Winter, when you are Autumn
just past Spring
Sometimes you’d squeeze IT
in the hot spaces left-of-centre
with the remnants of the
Summers-In-Between
She liked to keep it real.
She’d escaped
and had...
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Categories:
debauched, dark, gothic, murder, muse, mystery, poets, psychological,
Form:
Free verse
The Devil Went Back To Heaven, Part I
There’s a person who’s been in the news of late,
and he’s been causing great controversy,
goes by the name of Robert Abermarle,
who of late some people line up to see.
But others claim we should all ignore...
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Categories:
debauched, evil, forgiveness, god, heaven, hope, religious, spiritual,
Form:
Epic
The Lady of the Lake Part Ii
Through raven’s eye, viewed I my fate, blood scribed upon the ground,
whilst shadows of the darkwood’s dead, stood solemnly around.
Accusing faces staring down, from purgatory’s stay,
those wraith dead eyes, that froze the soul, will haunt...
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Categories:
debauched, fantasyme, me,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Easter As Interpreted By This Atheist
though avast percentage
of Stone Temple Pilots, she push peep pulls
viz vernacular speaking population
to most pious take as gospel...
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Categories:
debauched, 11th grade, 12th grade, bible, celebration, chocolate,
Form:
Free verse
Envy
She is a popular decadent aura.
Accusatory and crafty beginning with the Torah.
Debauched by nature
consumer of the spiritually immature.
Guided by licentious ways
she tries to plant her foot on the narrow path...
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Categories:
debauched, inspirational, nature, uplifting,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Nope! I haint gonna crack'n on the heat just yet
Nope! I haint gonna crack'n on the heat... just yet
until the cowed chickens come home to roost!
Sunlight streaming thru window
body electric of mine doth whet
begets hardiness to acclimate
against PECO shut off threat
ideal opportunity to spouse
analogous...
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Categories:
debauched, adventure, america, appreciation, beauty, blessing, creation, earth,
Form:
Rhyme
Covid 19 Pandemic Analogous How Indigenous Peoples Got Felled
COVID-19 pandemic analogous how indigenous peoples got felled...
Woebegone, enraged spirits
holographic images taciturn
journeying somberly aghast
at their stolen sacred lands... mourn
dead souls impossible mission
sabotaged aery mission endeavor
happy hunting grounds upheaval
witnessed gaunt bloody sojourn,
perhaps collective aboriginal ghosts return
to...
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Categories:
debauched, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, america,
Form:
Elegy
I Cant Write Nuttin On a Full Stomach
I can't write nuttin' worth a damn on a full stomach!
Hunger pangs fuel mine poetic juices,
yours truly moost best be famished
resembling lovely bag of bones
beyond irreparable damage
wrought courtesy anorexia nervosa
nevertheless literary masterpieces
one written quick succession...
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Categories:
debauched, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, allusion,
Form:
Free verse
America's Apostasy
Exile prophet, seer of Patmos,
peering through a time yet future,
saw your rising, not from waters,
but from the bowels of the earth.
Lamb-like beast adorned with two horns,
destined by God’s grace for greatness.
Chosen while not yet a...
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Categories:
debauched, america, betrayal, culture, god, philosophy, religious, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
Neverwas E.A.P. Part 1
For so long you’ve held the key, the scepter and the crown,
Harrowing the reality, the subconscious, the deep within.
Your voice was deep, poignant, forbidding. Clattering like,
The tumbling down of ancient and spidery bones, swishing
Like the...
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Categories:
debauched, dedication, depression, faith, fantasy, introspection, uplifting
Form:
Free verse