Long Drenched Poems
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We Against the WorldI have this faith deep inside that my Father, my beloved Father, can mend my broken dreams
There's a purpose for us being on Earth
It serves us well to be good examples for the future Kingdom
We...
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Categories:
drenched, deep,
Form:
Lyric
THE LAST GOODBYEThis is for the Contest - 'Titanic - Fare Thee Well' Sponsored by Tom Woody.
...
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Categories:
drenched, death, inspirational, loss, love,
Form:
Narrative
Blue Shotgun Lantana
"As other spirits sail on music, mine, oh my love, swim on your perfume." Charles Baudelaire
"Sometimes you find an old bottle from which the soul returns."
Charles Baudelaire
"Smell is a Word. Perfume is Literature."
"There are...
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Categories:
drenched, muse, mystery, sensual,
Form:
Free verse
The Tender Weight of Her SighsThe Tender Weight of Her Sighs
by Michael R. Burch
The tender weight of her sighs
lies heavily upon my heart;
apart from her, full of doubt,
without her presence to revolve around,
found wanting direction or course,
cursed with the thought...
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Categories:
drenched, creation, depression, divorce, farewell, goodbye, sorrow, sorry,
Form:
Sonnet
This Is Feminist UsIt's peaceful here in my backyard.
The crows sound happy
with warm October sunlight.
I just read about a deadly gathering in Las Vegas.
Absence of sun-drenched peace.
Inconvenient this time of lost loss.
Death is always inconvenient,
even when invited.
A veteran,
about...
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drenched, anger, fear, humor, integrity, mental illness, military,
Form:
Political Verse
As Time Walked ByThese are early poems of mine, written as a high school student in the 10th grade.
as Time walked by
by Michael R. Burch
yesterday i dreamed of us again,
when
the air, like honey,
trickled through cushioning grasses,
softly flowing,...
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Categories:
drenched, 10th grade, boy, child, childhood, first love,
Form:
Free verse
Chapter 73 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: the Historical Hakims' Hit the Road10 o'clock am the morning
Quest: A country side bike ride.
Molly woke Dolly and Damian.
Woke Everyone on that July
Morning of 2038. They had a Bicycle
Expedition to tend to plus a newly
Minted swimming pool...
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Categories:
drenched, cancer, missing you, nonsense, rude, scary, visionary,
Form:
Alliteration
Medieval Poems IiiMedieval Poems
Deor's Lament (Anglo Saxon poem, circa 10th century AD)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Weland knew the agony of exile.
That indomitable smith was wracked by grief.
He endured countless troubles:
sorrows were his only companions
in his frozen...
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Categories:
drenched, england, grief, poems, poetry, poets, sorrow, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Stranger Than Fiction*warning* disturbing lines have been detected - you have been warned, readers. Okay, enjoy this somewhat deep and astounding poem from me that took days to write...>:)
I bet you anything that I'm the laziest guy...
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Categories:
drenched, deep, universe,
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:
drenched, age, art, autumn, bereavement, death, life, time,
Form:
Haiku
Bleeding Before Rome -2Yet at this very moment the cathedral was crumbling
down upon the cries of foresaken refugees,
the monastery's walls wobbling from war's wreckage,
and as the black bursts billowed into sun drenched brutality
with the bodies of...
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Categories:
drenched, culture, heart, war, world war ii,
Form:
Epic
On My Mother PassingON MY MOTHER’S PASSING
i wanted to keep my mother physically with me
but it would be like trying to hold the sun
like in life she still shines brighter than any star
is as gentle as the finest...
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Categories:
drenched, cheer up, mother, mother son,
Form:
Narrative
Sorry I Shied AwayIs it just me or I'm starting to slow down along with the unwinding of time?
Time is running out and oh how I feel sublime
I'm in need of understanding God's Word and Law
I...
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Categories:
drenched, deep, depression, desire, , cute,
Form:
Lyric
My Melodious Muse** I apologize, but if you're viewing this on a phone, it probably wont look right, as the browser page on a phone is not wide enough to indent the right edge properly. It was...
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Categories:
drenched, analogy, inspiration, love, metaphor, muse, music,
Form:
Concrete
The StenchI woke up this morning with courage over my back and wisdom in my hat
I was determined to put an end to the sneaky kangaroo rats
No one had done me anything but I was reeling...
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Categories:
drenched, america, courage, destiny, encouraging, endurance, england, longing,
Form:
Narrative
Listening For FirestormsAlways respect this combination of fire and wind,
she tentatively said,
after having listened for healthy and pathological winds
regenerating and degenerating,
investing in and divesting of,
yeasty flames of fertile dopamine.
They, like you,
co-arise of and from the landscapes
in which...
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Categories:
drenched, absence, blessing, happiness, health, humanity, nature, science,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The White Tomb Trembles* For J.K. Rowling *
~
now, deliberate your hearing
to bring back the pages...
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Categories:
drenched, evil, fantasy, magic,
Form:
Epic
Scared of the DarkI have been scared of the darkness below
The sun glows bright and the wind will blow
I have been unprepared for the worst again
The moonbeams glimmer above like my pen
Was in solitude for hours
Ideas sprouting like...
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Categories:
drenched, angst, confidence, emotions,
Form:
Lyric
Sun God's Original IdeaI'm not much of a writer,
more of an activist,
a doer,
timeless doing.
Anyway, my Yang side,
which you AnthroTribes might recognize as EcoJustice,
emerges from my PositiveYang/NegativeYin Balancing
compassionate/revenge YinFractal-Dialectical DiPolar
appositional
negative co-relational,
co-arising side.
Just as my Yin Compassionate/Immune Empathetic/Aptic Elation
emerges...
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Categories:
drenched, earth, health, sun, time, trust,
Form:
Prose Poetry
A Sustainable SanctuaryI'm in the process of joining a Unitarian Universalist Green Sanctuary
communion of All Souls,
in Connecticut.
This is not my first time joining a new intentional good-faith community,
but it is the first time I have signed a...
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Categories:
drenched, community, destiny, green, health, humanity, integrity, wisdom,
Form:
Political Verse
Deal With ItI don’t know how to feel
And I don’t know how
And I don’t know how to deal
With this shame somehow
I don’t know how to feel
And I don’t know how
And I don’t know how to deal
With this...
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Categories:
drenched, angst, deep, depression, emotions, encouraging, endurance, hope,
Form:
Lyric
Triple WhammyThis is based on a completely true event - and every time someone mentions either of these 2 towns, I get hives -
...
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Categories:
drenched, lost love,
Form:
Narrative
Rabindranath Tagore Translations IiPatience
by Rabindranath Tagore
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
If you refuse to speak, I will fill my heart with your silence and endure it.
I will remain still and wait like the night through its starry vigil
with...
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Categories:
drenched, dark, heart, night, silence, spoken word, stars,
Form:
Free verse
The Cowboy Way - 1st ThirdThis is, as indicated, the 1st THIRD of this lengthy poem. The 2nd and final thirds had to be posted separately due to Poetry Soup's file-size limitations. No other way I could manage to make...
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Categories:
drenched, crush, first love,
Form:
Narrative
My First Love ExperienceIt was in the early days of our lives
We met
She was so beautiful
My eyes could not stop admiring
My heart kept racing
Every time it sensed
her good-looking approaching
But we were too young
To give full...
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Categories:
drenched, lost love, memory, beautiful, me, heart, woman,
Form:
Free verse