Long Discerned Poems
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Poems About FlowersLady’s Favor
by Michael R. Burch
May
spring
fling
her riotous petals
devil-
may-care
into the air,
ignoring the lethal
nettles
and may
May
cry gleeful-
ly Hooray!
as the abundance
settles,
till a sudden June
swoon
leave us out of tune,
torn,
when the last rose is left
inconsolably bereft,
rudely shorn
of every device but her thorn.
The...
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discerned, flower, june, rose, roses are red, spring,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Poems IiPoems about Poems (II)
Kin
by Michael R. Burch
for Richard Moore
1.
Shrill gulls,
how like my thoughts
you, struggling, rise
to distant bliss?
the weightless blue of skies
that are not blue
in any atmosphere,
but closest here...
2.
You seek an air
so clear,
so rarified
the effort leaves...
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Categories:
discerned, muse, poems, poetry, poets, work, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
WonderlandWonderland
by Michael R. Burch
We stood, kids of the Lamb, to put to test
the beatific anthems of the blessed,
the sentence of the martyr, and the pen’s
sincere religion. Magnified, the lens
shot back absurd reflections of each...
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Categories:
discerned, allegory, allusion, analogy, crazy, fantasy, imagination, magic,
Form:
Sonnet
The Making of a PoetThe 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:
discerned, art, love, poems, poetry, poets, write, writing,
Form:
Verse
Sonnets Xxxiii-XliSonnets XXXIII-XLI
The Folly of Wisdom
by Michael R. Burch
She is wise in the way that children are wise,
looking at me with such knowing, grave eyes
I must bend down to her to understand.
But she only smiles, and...
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Categories:
discerned, child, childhood, children, death, life, time, world,
Form:
Sonnet
Otomo No Sakanoue No Iratsume TranslationTo a Daughter More Precious than Gems
by Otomo no Sakanoue no Iratsume
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
Heaven's cold dew has fallen—
and thus another season arrives.
Oh, my child living so far away,
do you pine for me...
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discerned, child, childhood, children, daughter, girl, mother, mother
Form:
Tanka
No MarkNo Mark
by Michael R. Burch
A wave implodes,
impaled upon
impassive rocks...
this evening
the thunder of the sea
is a wild music filling my ear...
you are leaving
and the ungrieving
winds demur...
telling me
that nothing returns
as it was before...
here where you have...
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Categories:
discerned, break up, change, divorce, extended metaphor, farewell,
Form:
Verse
The State of the ArtThe State of the Art (I)
by Michael R. Burch
Has rhyme lost all its reason
and rhythm, renascence?
Are sonnets out of season
and poems but poor pretense?
Are poets lacking fire,
their words too trite and forced?
What happened to desire?
Has...
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discerned, art, muse, poems, poetry, poets, romantic, writing,
Form:
Verse
Modern Sonnets IMODERN SONNETS I
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.
Maker, Fakir, Curer
by Michael R. Burch
A poem...
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Categories:
discerned, art, freedom, romantic, romantic love, song, write,
Form:
Sonnet
Sonnets Lii-LxSonnets LII-LX
The Endeavors of Lips
by Michael R. Burch
How sweet the endeavors of lips: to speak
of the heights of those pleasures which left us weak
in love’s strangely lit beds, where the cold springs creak:
for there is...
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Categories:
discerned, dream, flower, hair, longing, love, pain, sensual,
Form:
Sonnet
A Vain WordA Vain Word
by Michael R. Burch
Oleanders at dawn preen extravagant whorls
as I read in leaves’ Sanskrit brief moments remaining
till sunset implodes, till the moon strands grey pearls
under moss-stubbled oaks, full of whispers, complaining
to the darkening...
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Categories:
discerned, autumn, beauty, extended metaphor, grief, heartbreak, moon,
Form:
Sonnet
Portraits of Racial Politics“It is the custom of scholars when addressing behavior and culture to speak variously of anthropological explanations, psychological explanations, biological explanations, and other explanations appropriate to the perspectives of individual disciplines. I have argued that...
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discerned, culture, earth, health, love, political, race, trust,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Ecotherapeutic JusticeWhen passion plants a multicultural seed,
then justice flourishes a polypathic trusting flower.
Permaculture and polyculture,
grow holistic cause-effect karmic significance
for our physical, and mental, political and spiritual health.
Permacultural, as I intend it this morning,
refers to...
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Categories:
discerned, blessing, culture, earth, nature, philosophy, political, religion,
Form:
Narrative
Early Poems IJuvenilia: Early Poems by Michael R. Burch
Smoke
by Michael R. Burch
The hazy, smoke-filled skies of summer I remember well;
farewell was on my mind, and the thoughts that I can't tell
rang bells within (the din was in)...
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Categories:
discerned, kid, poetry, poets, teen, write, writing, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
Comedy of Impeaching ErrorsThe Republican congressmen,
and I do mean white privileged straight men,
came to their Democratic opposition
concerned about how depressing
December can be,
and all of winter,
come to think and feel
of dark discerning Advent,
So maybe we could stage
a comedic debate
about...
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Categories:
discerned, caregiving, earth, health, humor, integrity, political, trust,
Form:
Political Verse
Poems About Poets IPoems about Poets I
The Wonder Boys
by Michael R. Burch
for Leslie Mellichamp
The stars were always there, too-bright cliches:
scintillant truths the jaded world outgrew
as baffled poets winged keyed kites—amazed,
in dream of shocks that suddenly came true ...
but...
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Categories:
discerned, inspiration, muse, poems, poetry, poets, romantic, writing,
Form:
Verse
A Welcome Intrusion - 2nd HalfThis is, as indicated, the 2nd HALF of this fairly lengthy poem. Due to Poetry Soup's file-size limitations, this piece had to be posted in 2 parts.
The 1st HALF can be...
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Categories:
discerned, father son,
Form:
Narrative
FICTIONAL BIO:FICTIONAL BIO:
The missus asked me
(hitherto known as her bozo)
just mere moments ago
to craft humorous poem to glow
nsync with the shiny nose of Rudolph
keeping syncopated metrical flow
thus methought to crow
about being equally as foolish
streaking naked outside...
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Categories:
discerned, adventure, allegory, courage, cute, hair, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
EzraThis is an unfinished Heroic Crown of Sonnets dedicated to a friend's grandchild who was born with serious lower body issues 3 years ago...but he is so perfect and beautiful in every other way that...
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Categories:
discerned, life,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
King Solomon and JonathonSaid King Solomon to Jonathon,
speculatively,
"Think of helium
as saturating the eggwhite understory
of this immense Earth-atmosphere
egg-incubator sack of hydrogen-saturated
wet air breathing in heat and light co-informing
to breathe out teleological
and permaculturally multisystemic
meaning and purpose
for further co-operative becoming."
Warmly
and...
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Categories:
discerned, beauty, destiny, earth, race, rights, science, wisdom,
Form:
Narrative
Approximately Three Plus Days ElapsedApproximately three plus days elapsed...
without yours truly experiencing urge to defecate
Neither bloating nor constipation
arose, but one nondescript anguished
logophile anticipated intestinal blockage,
hence prophesying worse case scenario
I (predicated in direction for an adult)
ingested three Dulcolax tablets
and subsequently...
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Categories:
discerned, adventure, america, anniversary, beautiful, courage, family, july,
Form:
Free verse
A Can of CoffeeI do not recall telling him how his kindness made a major impression on my life, but I did share the same with his wife and daughter after his demise. Moreover, I suspect that he...
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Categories:
discerned, blessing, care, christian, feelings, social,
Form:
Narrative
Satan Tries To Strike*** Satan Tries to Strike ***
By the house,
By the door
coming in
across the floor
To kneel by my bed,
My guardian angel came
Carrying ways to hold the peace
of our Lord,
To restore the joy in my morn…
And, to wait...
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Categories:
discerned, angel, christian, family, health, imagery, spiritual, truth,
Form:
Rhyme
Organic GratitudeEastern stars light our responsibility
to ease ridiculously democratic suffering of Other.
Western horizons speak not of suffering
much less death as inevitable failure.
Dark horizons speak of pain,
and how to avoid it through Other as ourselves.
Eastern lights speak...
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Categories:
discerned, birth, blessing, culture, health, power, sad love,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Fundamentals RevisitedIf it is a premise of fundamentalists,
whether Christian or Islamic or Devil Worshipers,
that Reason is bad, faith is good,
what could anyone reasonably say
that could not be unfaithful to good?
However, as I recall,
there is that oft-quoted...
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Categories:
discerned, christian, health, islamic, religion,
Form:
Prose Poetry