Long Dews Poems
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Come Down, For Harold BloomCome Down
by Michael R. Burch
for Harold Bloom
Come down, O, come down
from your high mountain tower.
How coldly the wind blows,
how late this chill hour ...
and I cannot wait
for a meteor shower
to show you the time
must be...
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Categories:
dews, books, culture, discrimination, education, extended metaphor, literature,
Form:
Sonnet
What Good Are Our TearsWhat Good Are Our Tears?
by Michael R. Burch
What good are our tears?
They will not spare the dying their anguish.
What good is our concern
to a child sick of living, waiting to perish?
What good, the warm benevolence...
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Categories:
dews, child, child abuse, children, death, poverty, sick,
Form:
Free verse
This World of DewTHIS WORLD OF DEW
This world?
Moonlit dew
flicked from a crane's bill.
—Eihei Dogen Kigen, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Seventy-one?
How long
can a dewdrop last?
—Eihei Dogen Kigen, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Dewdrops beading grass-blades
die before...
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Categories:
dews, age, art, autumn, bereavement, death, life, time,
Form:
Haiku
Poems About RegretRegret
by Michael R. Burch
Regret,
a bitter
ache to bear . . .
once starlight
languished
in your hair . . .
a shining there
as brief
as rare.
Regret . . .
a pain
I chose to bear . . .
unleash
the torrent
of your hair . ....
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Categories:
dews, memory, pain, remember, sad, sorrow, sorry, sympathy,
Form:
Rhyme
Finally Saved Part 2 - Translation From Rabindranath TagoreThis is the Second Part of the Translation from Rabindranath Tagore, Nobel-Laureate Philosopher Poet from India.
Father only smiled; thought, "women
are emotionally heated balloons!
Life is a difficult salvation, they don't have that knowledge",
After...
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Categories:
dews, father daughter, love, marriage, women,
Form:
Free verse
Love Has a Southern FlavorLove has a Southern flavor: honeydew,
ripe cantaloupe, the honeysuckle’s spout
we tilt to basking faces to breathe out
the ordinary, and inhale perfume ...
Love’s Dixieland-rambunctious: tangled vines,
wild clematis, the gold-brocaded leaves
that will not keep their order in...
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Categories:
dews, desire, longing, love, romance, romantic, romantic love,
Form:
Sonnet
Michelangelo: Modern English TranslationsMICHELANGELO: Modern English Translations
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) is considered by many experts to be the greatest artist and sculptor of all time. These are modern English translations of his poems and epigrams by Michael R. Burch.
SONNET:...
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Categories:
dews, art, beauty, light, love,
Form:
Italian Sonnet
Rainbow GirlI was an irrepressible and happy young woman, and graceful ballet dancer,
Who lived for twirling on a world stage, as red berries are shrub laughter!
I had practiced for so many years, striving to become the...
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Categories:
dews, beautiful, color, depression, fantasy, friendship love, girl,
Form:
Couplet
Ambrosial AphroditeO beloved chevalier,
cloaked in shimmering champagne armor,
tonight I long to feel your sultry skin,
embroidered with emerald embellishments
and twinkling teal topaz,
tailored to tempt,
veiling these tanned desires.
My soul sways to a chained string
of...
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Categories:
dews, devotion,
Form:
Alliteration
Dream Turn NightmareOn a never lonely street was where I grew up
There we played from morning till dusk
Then we woke up neat and free, but back home laced with dust
Slightly dirtier than...
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Categories:
dews, anxiety, child abuse, lonely, memory, slavery, violence,
Form:
Free verse
The Gilt Hours In-BetweenI was a busy archaeologist, who enjoyed interesting and fulfilling work,
And I was very intrigued, with the ancient sites where mystery lurked.
My painstaking work caused me to travel, ofttimes to far distant lands,
As golden...
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Categories:
dews, fantasy, imagery, mystery, nature, places, sunshine, time,
Form:
Couplet
The Earth Is StillPart 01 - The Earth is Still
SURE and so satisfied to be here together again. Let the gardens carry on its song.
i stand around in the peace that comes from the smell of flowers so...
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Categories:
dews, love, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Choreography In a Scene
The stage is set
The audience fixed their eyes
fitted to the scene, to feed
Sun lit the early morning clouds
And It disappeared, gold appears
Spraying warmth fragrance
On dews of still sleeping leaves
To paint them dry awakening the greens
Yet...
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Categories:
dews, beauty, film, independence day, sunshine,
Form:
Free verse
The Village On the Water VShowering white light illuminates
Bright-Moon Bay;
In the overlooking Moon-Inviting Pavilion,
Li Bai had raised his twinkling, rich amber
Coloured wineglass
To invite the same reticent Moon. ...
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Categories:
dews, appreciation, beauty, places,
Form:
Free verse
The Trials of Meretrix Canto ViiMy Lords an adjournment is
Called for...
All my retire;
But holding foremost in your
Thoughts,
I beseech ye,
Thee impudent countenance of
This most ardent denier.
Therefore heed me,
I caution all ye present,
Thou shall not disband;
Moreover, to reassemble at any
Sudden instance...
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Categories:
dews, philosophy,
Form:
Rhyme
AfterglowI was an artistic, floral designer, intoxicated by the sweet-smelling blooms,
Like magenta butterfly swarms, at a standstill, intoxicated by floral fumes.
Gold days were full of my bloom designs, each one so original and unique,
Just as...
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Categories:
dews, beautiful, career, flower, happiness, imagery, memory, nature,
Form:
Couplet
From Livius To Livia(Inspired by the film: 'The Fall of the Roman Empire')
She was with him
in the great gore of battle....
Where skulls legion were cracked
and limbs hewn from sword,
ax...
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Categories:
dews, history, love, war, daffodils,
Form:
Rhyme
Pied PiperessAs Medusa walks in, shuts the door,
caresses precision hand down the mahogany-
and shows one what for.
Senses in starbursts-cloudburst
flavor crystals accenting- your bloom
of predicate corpus, cat claws in my brain,
comes metamorphosis-
Led mushrooming depth of...
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Categories:
dews, beautiful,
Form:
Rhyme
Son of a Womano my dear mother, please do not grieve on this tragic death
the death that your son has to under go
although, as a son, i had a strong affection for you dear mother
i hadn’t even once...
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Categories:
dews, abuse, death, grief, jesus,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Ella Fells A Fella
Ella peripherals the scene,
instantly onboard. (A ship of fool.)
An onlooker,...
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Categories:
dews, art,
Form:
Narrative
All Have Been GoneBased on the famous linguist, poet Humayun Azad Sir's poem "SAB KICHU NOSHTODER ODHIKARE JABE". However, it is not an exact English translation from Bengali. Edited in different places with tense. Apologies for any mistake...
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Categories:
dews, life, world,
Form:
Free verse
InsurrectionInsurrection
by Michael R. Burch
She has become as the night—listening
for rumors of dawn—while the dew, glistening,
reminds me of her, and the wind, whistling,
lashes my cheeks with its soft chastening.
She has become as the lights—flickering
in the distance—till...
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Categories:
dews, allegory, analogy, aubade, break up, desire, extended
Form:
Quatrain
RuinsIt's about time we talk of ruins.
So, let us talk, for you never know,
How long ears of hope will remain receptive.
Your lips are missing, and your kisses fall,
Like ripe plums and tint my confession,
Like coffee...
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Categories:
dews, age, allegory, allusion, angel, anger, angst, april,
Form:
ABC
Daisy DazeI was a successful, fashionable florist, in mild green days of elegant gardens,
When an orange sun beamed its pleasure, like locales where lavender begins.
I formed arrangements for many occasions, drawing beauty lovers from afar,
As pretty...
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Categories:
dews, beautiful, fantasy, flower, imagery, magic, nature, nice,
Form:
Couplet
Heterodox Genesisat the beginning earth was a place uninhabitable
to any living thing, it was nothing but a furiously
burning wandering fireball in an immeasurable open space
while wandering in space,
however, hit by the meteoric showers,...
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Categories:
dews, allegory, creation, earth, life,
Form:
Free verse