Long Dismal Poems
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After All Is Said and DoneI wrote this random rap song just yesterday! Have a blast, reading it! :D
"We shall all be like magnets,
Connecting to God's Laws in perfect symmetry
We shall all shine as the sun,
Glorifying the son of...
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Categories:
dismal, anxiety, deep, depression, desire, emotions, encouraging, hope,
Form:
Lyric
The Breeze at Ease - with hardly any difficultiezDriven insane by sorrow, there’s no tomorrow to cure it…
Honestly, I’m in vain and so guilty…feeling way less than legit…
I’m holding you close in my optimism and its memories along with it
Torn apart by negative...
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Categories:
dismal, angst, beautiful, emotions, encouraging, endurance, hope, how
Form:
Free verse
SnapshotsSnapshots
by Michael R. Burch
Here I scrawl extravagant rainbows.
And there you go, skipping your way to school.
And here we are, drifting apart
like untethered balloons.
Here I am, creating "art,"
chanting in shadows,
pale as the crinoline moon,
ignoring your face.
There...
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Categories:
dismal, divorce,
Form:
Free verse
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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Categories:
dismal, child, childhood, children, daughter, girl, mother, mother
Form:
Tanka
Ono No Komachi Translation: AutumnWatching wan moonlight
illuminate tree limbs,
my heart also brims,
overflowing with autumn.
—Ono no Komachi, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
As I slept in isolation
my desired beloved appeared to me;
therefore, dreams have become my reality
and consolation.
—Ono...
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Categories:
dismal, age, autumn, death, depression, desire, heartbreak, women,
Form:
Tanka
Ono No Komachi TranslationsAs I slept in isolation
my desired beloved appeared to me;
therefore, dreams have become my reality
and consolation.
—Ono no Komachi, translation by Michael R. Burch
Submit to you—is that what you advise?
The way the ripples...
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Categories:
dismal, desire, life, longing, love, nature, woman, women,
Form:
Tanka
EnoughEnough!
by Michael R. Burch
It’s not that I don’t want to die;
I shall be glad to go.
Enough of diabetes pie,
and eating sickly crow!
Enough of win and place and show.
Enough of endless woe!
Enough of suffering and vice!
I’ve...
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Categories:
dismal, body, cancer, death, health, irony, mental illness,
Form:
Light Verse
I Have Labored Sore TranslationI Have Labored Sore
anonymous medieval lyric (circa the fifteenth century)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
I have labored sore / and suffered death,
so now I rest / and catch my breath.
But I shall come /...
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Categories:
dismal, christian, death, earth, heaven, sorrow, sorry, soulmate,
Form:
Rhyme
World War Ii Poems and Holocaust Poems - Iv - Primo LeviWorld War II Poems and Holocaust Poems - IV - Primo Levi
Shema
by Primo Levi
translation by Michael R. Burch
You who live secure
in your comfortable houses,
who return each evening to find
warm food,
welcoming faces...
consider whether this...
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Categories:
dismal, evil, holocaust, race, racism, war, world, world
Form:
Free verse
Pale Though Her Eyes: Vampire PoemVampire Poetry
Pale Though Her Eyes
by Michael R. Burch
Pale though her eyes,
her lips are scarlet
from drinking of blood,
this child, this harlot
born of the night
and her heart, of darkness,
evil incarnate
to dance so reckless,
dreaming of...
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Categories:
dismal, dark, death, desire, evil, gothic, grave, horror,
Form:
Verse
IronbarHe just appeared to me, like wispily curling
Chimney smoke,
One grim and early morning in the very midst of
Decembers briefest days, on the highest slope,
Toiling through my daily round; where, slowly
Driving up...
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Categories:
dismal, nature, universe,
Form:
Rhyme
Vampires Are Such Fragile CreaturesVampires
by Michael R. Burch
Vampires are such fragile creatures;
we fear the dark, but the light destroys them...
sunlight, or a stake, or a cross—such common things.
Still, late at night, when the bat-like vampire sings,
we heed his voice.
Centuries...
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Categories:
dismal, dark, death, gothic, halloween, horror, lust, night,
Form:
Verse
On the Need To Avoid Being Envious: Canto Xvii, K161, K162 of the Thiruk-KuralOn the need to avoid being envious: Canto XVII, K161, K162 of the THIRUK-KURAL, Translation with Commentary
[ ENVY, of course, knows no racial nor ethnic boundaries, but I wouldn't be wrong, I dare say, ...
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Categories:
dismal, evil, hate, jealousy, racism, tamil,
Form:
Couplet
Now and Then and Now Again1
Though still within our infancy,
we strive to thrive, but woefully
we flash and flaunt our 'primacy',
display our trophies pridefully.
Our terra firma ecstasy
destroys survival's harmony,
lays waste to life on land and sea.
Mankind, thy name...
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Categories:
dismal, corruption, culture, environment, money, pollution, racism, religion,
Form:
Monorhyme
Desert, Wilderness, StormTHE DESERT THE WILDERNESS THE STORM
I am parched, my back is arched,
my body racked with pain,
Nothing green in sight,
my thirst, my plight,
eyes playing tricks on me again.
An illusion of rest beside...
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Categories:
dismal, christian, destiny, god, life,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Like No Other{intro}
Come back to me another day
We are walking on thin ice today
You were never so cruel until this hour of shame
You were never so nasty until you hunted me down like game by calling...
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Categories:
dismal, anger, angst, break up, deep, depression, desire,
Form:
Lyric
Cooing Birds Announce It's Timea mere fledgling of twelve, with dreamy eyes, ...
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Categories:
dismal, inspirational, motivation,
Form:
Free verse
A Former Great Nations Squandered Wealth ISwept up into piles; everywhere
Abouts; in collected heaps all
Around.
It is almost as if the drab
Streets were strewn...
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Categories:
dismal, philosophy, senses,
Form:
Rhyme
Remorse With a Touch of Ripened Radiance XdI grieve for your safety, sis, and I pray for you almost every day –
Depression does leave a big impact on us in a negative way
But I think you think I’m crazy…tell me if...
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Categories:
dismal, betrayal, change, freedom, hope, sad, sister, uplifting,
Form:
Verse
More Iffy Coronavirus Haikuyet another iffy coronavirus haiku #1
by michael r. burch
plagued by the Plague
i plague the goldfish
with my verse
yet another iffy coronavirus haiku #2
by michael r. burch
sunflowers
hang their heads
embarrassed by their coronas
I wrote this poem after having...
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Categories:
dismal, america, death, eulogy, health, humanity, natural disasters,
Form:
Haiku
Sometimes I Wish I Was You-In moments of weakness; I look up to you. thinking of the off chance that your situation is better than mine. Now, you must understand that this is only a moment. None the less, it...
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Categories:
dismal, anxiety, deep, imagery, jealousy, judgement, me, wisdom,
Form:
Prose Poetry
An Eternity IStood upright, between two roads,
On a thin metal rail,
A solitary, brown coloured bottle
Of beer, ...
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Categories:
dismal, betrayal,
Form:
Rhyme
At Heaven's Gate - Parts 1 and 2PART 1: THE MEETING
Alone one night neath lantern light, I trudged a weary mile.
Forlorn, I went with shoulders bent (the storms around me howled)
until I met...
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Categories:
dismal, fantasy,
Form:
Ballad
Be Appreciative AlwaysHappy is he who isn’t led astray
He walks in happiness in his stride
Tranquility is in His Word today
Here, I lay in silence in which I hide
Blessed is he who doesn’t speak with ungodly men
Blessed is...
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Categories:
dismal, hope,
Form:
Free verse
Heroic Crown of Sonnets 11.Remembrance
Remembrance of guilt from pages turned brown,
Opened and read inside rooms of my mind.
Written through time with tears sliding down.
I will claim each dung lit cavern I find.
My yesterdays speak of a poignant time.
Holding the...
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Categories:
dismal, poetry,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets