Long Dilettantes Poems
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State of the Art Iii
State of the Art (III)
These are my "ars poetica" poems: the ones about the art and craft of writing poetry in a modern world that doesn't always recognize the artists or their work.
Come Down
by...
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Categories:
dilettantes, art, muse, poems, poetry, poets, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Poems Iv
Poems about Poems IV
The Toast
by Michael R. Burch
For longings warmed by tepid suns
(brief lusts that animated clay),
for passions wilted at the bud
and skies grown desolate and gray,
for stars that fell from tinseled heights
and mountains bleak...
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Categories:
dilettantes, allegory, allusion, appreciation, art, poems, poetry, poets,
Form:
Rhyme
Flickering Reflections-No Place Like Hume
The mind doesn't passively await impressions, no tabula rasa,
The mind is active, understanding, not just a passerby.
He had bete noire towards Christianity, a Scottish Nominalist,
David Hume, born in Edenborough, was a philosophical skeptic.
Born in 1711,...
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Categories:
dilettantes, philosophy,
Form:
Epic
Precious Time
My mother always took the bus. I never understood why. We had a car, but she insisted on taking the bus uptown. I think she did it because father would not let...
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Categories:
dilettantes, growing up, , cute,
Form:
Narrative
Poems For Poets V
PROFESSOR POETS
These are poems about professor poets and other “intellectuals” who miss the main point of poetry, which is to connect with readers via pleasing sounds and the communication of emotion as well as meaning.
Professor...
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Categories:
dilettantes, poems, poetry, poets,
Form:
Rhyme
Erasure
not in the heart again
for chrissakes it's like Swiss cheese
decoffinated please I'm a yet ambulatory zombie
off his medication as usual
alternatives to logic 101 with Prof. Spike
far too much work for a dead end
saw his only...
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Categories:
dilettantes, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
An Obscenity Trial
An Obscenity Trial
by Michael R. Burch
The defendant was a poet held in many iron restraints
against whom several critics cited numerous complaints.
They accused him of trying to reach the "common crowd,"
and they said his poems...
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Categories:
dilettantes, poems, poetry, poets, society, voice, words, writing,
Form:
Verse
Tease For Two
"Tease for Two"
“Ein bisschen Zucker
mit Ihrer Sahne, Sir?“
German accent
smoky toned
she purred
Periwinkles suavely winked,
then played with his -
cufflinks
“Not now Schvee Tart”
he said holding his attache tight
looking across the room
grinning Lupine...
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Categories:
dilettantes, adventure, humor, romance, word play,
Form:
Romanticism
Marching Band
"Marching Band"
Dapper dilettantes take over one hundred yards
Showing their feathers like a cockatoo on pointy shakos
Displaying their talents on grass they are anything but green
Ready to give resplendent resonance through beasts of...
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Categories:
dilettantes, social, time, love, time,
Form:
Free verse
Celestial Masochists
cheer the hell up if you can
nothing cheats the hangman like enthusiasm
since my next act will be
to answer all your questions
as your tenured professor of dyslexia
throw down your eye wear
blurry is the truth
although your blur...
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Categories:
dilettantes, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
Bedlam Tits and Chinese Takeout
beware the enemy who can
fart your national anthem
it was a mob scene at the microphone
kill him kill him they laughed
nobody wanted to miss the show
a perfect blend of pandemonium and bliss
sound bites took their ears...
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Categories:
dilettantes, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
Every Perfect Pin
They came for the Gypsies,
The time tribe Romana's grand Gypsy trust
To manifest in feasts of fear, horrific best,
The Crucifixtion as a culture test
Is sycophanted phallic prophecies;
Mixing spells where river's dwell...
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Categories:
dilettantes, passiondance, dance, power,
Form:
Free verse
Fish out of water
I wonder who I’ll be when alone
A salmon spent on Lagunitas creek
A giving tree robbed of it nuts
A sunset rooster with no eggs
When your chick has flown the nest
Even if for a summer vacation
Who’ll give...
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Categories:
dilettantes, animal, birth, child, death, fish, growth, moving
Form:
Free verse
Poetry Convention
Good morning ladies and gentlemen and welcome to beautiful Zurich Switzerland and the First Annual Poetry Soup Convention. Welcome poets, linguists, scribes, metrists and rhymers. Welcome poets from Canada, the UK, U.S.A., Australia and many...
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Categories:
dilettantes, poetry,
Form:
Prose
The Dour-Glower
The dance of the dilettantes hasn't many steps.
It isn't meant to be remembered, nor to cause upset;
it's simply meant to get us through, like breakfast spent in bed.
It gives us comfort just to know our...
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Categories:
dilettantes, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
Knots Between The Pearls
A strand of pearls not tied with knots;
we’re held together — just a thread.
At times like sticky spider silk
and other times a shred of string
that aches and breaks and throws our pearls across...
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Categories:
dilettantes, angst, life, pain, relationship, sad love, sorrow,
Form:
Free verse
Animal Farm
Animal Farm
The youth of today; the ‘avant-garde’ of new lingo, lost words
‘Ennui’ of wisdom, with a blatant ‘cacophony’ of disrespect
‘Carte blanche’ entitlements pave a highway to absurdity
What once was ‘anomaly’, has become, a ‘bona fide’...
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Categories:
dilettantes, culture, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
Catharsis
Catharsis
You’re my favorite artist
With your magical touch
A petrified leaf becomes a lustrous forest
You speak words that cannot be fathomed by shallow linguists
Your works are filled with overwhelming emotions
Poured out on a plain and boring piece...
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Categories:
dilettantes, angel, beautiful, beauty, cheer up,
Form:
Rhyme
Word Nibbler
A jackdaw is stealing
my tote bag of unused words,
a rodentlike kibitzer, a pecking dictator
of the worthiness of sounds.
If I run out of bullets now
he will take over my range,
blue-pencil my graffiti,
he will denounce me
as a...
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Categories:
dilettantes, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
The Incarcerated Word
What was created to expose,
now a fortress meant to hide
Bastions of higher learning,
masking havens safe for lies
Where discourse once was treasured,
the ivy droops and sighs
With comfort their true measure,
...
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Categories:
dilettantes, education,
Form:
Rhyme
The Incarcerated Word
What was created to expose
is now a fortress just to hide
A bastion of higher learning
within a haven safe for lies
Where discourse once was treasured
the ivy droops and sighs
With comfort...
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Categories:
dilettantes, words,
Form:
Rhyme
Why Do We Question - Why Are We Here
Science
never answers
the primary
questions
it ponders
in circles
deck chairs
rearranged
Reciprocal
theorems
of self
aggrandizement
indentured
to kingdoms
where dilettantes
reign
Why
is there love
why
is there war
why
are we human
why
do we grieve
Why
do we question
why
is there joy
why
are there feelings
that
foster belief
Is
consciousness
timeless
do thoughts ever die
is prescience
a quotient
does truth...
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Categories:
dilettantes, truth,
Form:
Rhyme